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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #4142
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    The word for the money someone gets paid as their salary/wages is remuneration not renumeration.

    Looks like I've been getting that one wrong for years :o


  • #4143
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,438 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Bristish summer time lasts roughly 7 months. Don't know why, but I always assumed BST and GMT were 6 months each.


  • #4144
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    That Jno. stands for Jonathan.


  • #4145
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,829 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    I've just realised that PAYE is a mug's game


  • #4146
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,957 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Widdershins wrote: »
    That Jno. stands for Jonathan.

    Does it? :confused:

    I have never seen that as an abbreviation ( of Jonathan, or anything else!)


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  • #4147
    Speedwell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Does it? :confused:

    I have never seen that as an abbreviation ( of Jonathan, or anything else!)

    It's an obsolete abbreviation for John, actually, and sometimes used in error for Jonathan. Why people saw fit to abbreviate a four-letter name to three letters and transpose two of the letters to boot is not well understood, but there you go. http://hughw36.blogspot.ie/2006/03/what-is-jno-short-for.html


  • #4148
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,971 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    I used to think there was a set of red and white striped chimneys on the southside of Dublin that could be seen from Sandymount Strand and another set of chimneys on the northside that could be seen from Dollymount strand.

    It wasn't until there was talk of demolishing the Poolbeg Chimneys on the news recently that I realised they are actually the same chimneys.


  • #4149
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Posy wrote: »
    I used to think there was a set of red and white striped chimneys on the southside of Dublin that could be seen from Sandymount Strand and another set of chimneys on the northside that could be seen from Dollymount strand.
    I was up near Drogheda years ago and saw the tops of a pair of red and white stripped chimneys at the right angle through the trees. Major double take



    It was the cement works


  • #4150
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,284 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Kolido wrote: »
    Bristish summer time lasts roughly 7 months. Don't know why, but I always assumed BST and GMT were 6 months each.

    I always thought GMT was a year-round thing. Oh, wait... :)

    Not your ornery onager



  • #4151
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,196 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Speedwell wrote: »
    Speaking of lyrics, here's one. You know that song "Piano in the Dark", that has the lyrics, "...I cry just a little/when he plays piano in the dark"?

    I'm sure I would cry too, if I had to listen to someone try to play the piano when there wasn't enough light to see it by. ;)

    Let me introduce you to the music of Ray Charles


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  • #4152
    livedadream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,455 ✭✭✭livedadream


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Let me introduce you to the music of Ray Charles

    and stevie wonder


  • #4153
    Speedwell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    Yes, yes, I've been playing piano for 45+ years myself. She didn't sing "when the blind guy plays the piano".


  • #4154
    livedadream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,455 ✭✭✭livedadream


    Speedwell wrote: »
    Yes, yes, I've been playing piano for 45+ years myself. She didn't sing "when the blind guy plays the piano".

    the brenda russell song?

    its that song kinda like that scene from 50 shades, where he plays this sad lament in the dark in the middle of the night because he's so tormented?

    and after 45 year im sure you can play in the dark... you know where the keys are ...

    edit: from her website:

    Russell was not initially sure what Piano in the Dark meant, but when she started writing lyrics, the story began to evolve. Says Russell, "I love it when it happens like that. You're not putting any rigid restrictions on how it's coming, you know, it's just boom - let's try that. Go for it, you know?" According to Russell, the song tells the story of a woman whose lover plays piano. "She wants to leave him, because she's really kind of bored. But every time she does that, he sits down and starts playing. And it sucks her right back in. She's so in love with the way he plays. And he plays in the dark, theoretically. It's not that literal, necessarily. But that's what keeps her to him, basically, is his music. And I just found that was an interesting story to write about."


  • #4155
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Tidal waves, as in tsunamis, are not tidal.


  • #4156
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    I recently found out that a manger was a kind of trough for feeding animals.
    So that is what the baby Jesus was away in.


  • #4157
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,779 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    gramar wrote: »
    I recently found out that a manger was a kind of trough for feeding animals.
    So that is what the baby Jesus was away in.

    To be fair, it does sound better than "Away in a trough".


  • #4158
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    To be fair, it does sound better than "Away in a trough".

    Indeed it does. Our lord deserved that dignity at least.


  • #4159
    Speedwell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    Because there is no such thing as free will, we are forced to act as though there is.


  • #4160
    Arbie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Arbie


    That Athenians come from Athens...


  • #4161
    irelandrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,008 ✭✭✭irelandrover


    Arbie wrote: »
    That Athenians come from Athens...

    This thread makes me feel like an idiot at times for not realising stuff sooner.


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  • #4162
    Speedwell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    To be fair, it does sound better than "Away in a trough".

    I suppose it's better than laying him in a garde manger, too.


  • #4163
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,252 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    Whoppi Goldberg has no eyebrows...


  • #4164
    galah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭galah


    That you don't upset the apple Tart but the apple Cart.

    Just hit me out of the blue.:o


  • #4165
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,438 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Been watching Only fools and horses for years and only noticed the opening and closing theme tunes are different (or different part of same song)


  • #4166
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,957 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    galah wrote: »
    That you don't upset the apple Tart but the apple Cart.

    Just hit me out of the blue.:o

    Bertie Ahern has a lot to answer for.....


  • #4167
    sReq | uTeK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,049 ✭✭✭sReq | uTeK


    That you can use the inside tags on the left hand side of t-shirts to know which way they go on if there is no tag at the top.


  • #4168
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    galah wrote: »
    That you don't upset the apple Tart but the apple Cart.

    Just hit me out of the blue.:o

    What are you on about? Why would you upset a Tart or a Cart?


  • #4169
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Kolido wrote: »
    Been watching Only fools and horses for years and only noticed the opening and closing theme tunes are different (or different part of same song)

    No way, are they?

    I never copped that, suppose I must just stop paying any attention once the credits roll!


  • #4170
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,825 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    What are you on about? Why would you upset a Tart or a Cart?

    If you have a cart full of apples you don't want to upset them, they will hold a grudge no doubt


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  • #4171
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    What are you on about? Why would you upset a Tart or a Cart?
    An apple cart requires apples to be nicely balanced so they don't fall off. An apple that falls off the cart is effectively ruined and unsellable.

    So if you "upset" the cart by knocking it over or stacking it in an unbalanced way, you will potentially ruin all of the apples.


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