What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

Ted_YNWA · 17-09-2016 11:45AM

Speedwell wrote:

You can drag tabs from one open instance of Chrome to another open instance. Seriously, I've been on the Internet since 1985, and an IT professional since 1998, how did I not know this?

Ctrl, shift & T reopens any closed tabs in that instance of browser

bucketybuck · 17-09-2016 11:51AM

Speedwell wrote: »

Yeah, for sure. I just realised I get paid to dispense the sort of professional knowledge that I am trying to give away for free to someone who doesn't even want it. Bugger that.

Regardless of whether you are right or wrong, I must note that I know lots of people who are bad at their jobs.

Harvey Normal · 17-09-2016 12:09PM

runawaybishop wrote: »

In another language it is not ever, not in English.

I agree. There was never a shortening of not and ever to never but of old English.

SuperS54 · 17-09-2016 01:34PM

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Ctrl, shift & T reopens any closed tabs in that instance of browser

CTRL-H gives the history of all pages opened under the current account, regardless of what device it was on.

Kadser · 17-09-2016 01:54PM

Always thought the 1980's soul band JB Allstars was James Brown but it's one of the Specials.

everlast75 · 18-09-2016 06:44AM

OK I think we have a winner.

*deep breath*

all my life, I've felt the need to open my belt before i pull my fly down in order to go for a wizz.

I only copped the other day that I don't need to open the belt at all - just undo the fly.

Lingua Franca · 20-09-2016 01:13AM

The capsule in a Kinder egg is yellow because that's the yolk.

Hammer89 · 20-09-2016 01:39AM

Few weeks ago I'm watching Halloween H2o. I've seen it a few times since it came out, but this was the first time I'd seen it as an adult I think.

At one stage I say to myself, 'Sorry lads but what the f*ck does this have to do with water?' due to the H2o reference. If it was Halloween He you'd expect some sort of Helium connection, right? Right, so I investigated, and it turns out it's not Halloween H2o, but Halloween H20, as in the number 20. It's a reference to the fact it's 20 years after the original, and not a reference to the chemical symbol for water.

learn_more · 20-09-2016 01:45AM

Speedwell wrote: »

You can drag tabs from one open instance of Chrome to another open instance. Seriously, I've been on the Internet since 1985, and an IT professional since 1998, how did I not know this?

I've just realised that deep clicking on a link with the mouse wheel, will open the link on another page. How wonderful is that.

I would normally right click and select 'open page in new tab'.

Duh.

Mickey H · 20-09-2016 03:32AM

learn_more wrote: »

I've just realised that deep clicking on a link with the mouse wheel, will open the link on another page. How wonderful is that.

I would normally right click and select 'open page in new tab'.

Duh.

That's genius!! I did not know that.

learn_more · 20-09-2016 05:45AM

Mickey H wrote: »

That's genius!! I did not know that.

They don't call me learn_more for nothing you know.

civis_liberalis · 20-09-2016 07:07AM

livedadream wrote: »

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

I play guitar, not piano, but it messes with my head if I look at myself playing. I'm only an intermediate level player and that's being fierce generous.

If I can see the notes my fingers are playing the strum pattern, it's like it conflicts with the muscle memory I've picked up over the years and my brain wants to disengage autopilot or something.

civis_liberalis · 20-09-2016 07:14AM

riclad wrote: »

Hollywood is out of new ideas

I don't think it's quite as black and white as that.

The ones behind the finance for all these big budget films you see every year are incredibly risk averse. They don't like change and like to stick to what they know makes money or at least won't lose money.

Capt'n Midnight · 22-09-2016 06:34PM

civis_liberalis wrote: »

I don't think it's quite as black and white as that.

The ones behind the finance for all these big budget films you see every year are incredibly risk averse. They don't like change and like to stick to what they know makes money or at least won't lose money.

It's like that.
TV Series now have better scripting than Movies. Look at the Star Trek films. Any good episode would have ended with a moral grey area "we won, but at what cost ? / were we more moral ?" That's what made the mirror universe episodes work. The recent films have been shallow action flicks in that regard.

Big films these days fall into one or more of these
- Remakes , including ones done as "reboots"
- based on a book/game that has a captive audience of hundreds of millions
- script by the numbers using the "save the cat" beat sheet
- weak sequels to milk the franchise until the only way out is a reboot a decade later

And here's the rub, the big studios have been releasing turkeys. Lots of executives changing things for the worse.

Lots of sequels are softer and fluffier to appeal to younglings. Hint - if you have a hit with a 15's film and you release a sequel three years later then the people who it was a hit with will now be able to watch an 18's film instead they'll be offered something that's 12's. Yeah.

micar · 23-09-2016 08:38PM

When people say......he started racing from the get go.......I alway thought that they said....he started racing from the gecko.

dinneenp · 26-09-2016 12:24PM

civis_liberalis wrote: »

I don't think it's quite as black and white as that.

The ones behind the finance for all these big budget films you see every year are incredibly risk averse. They don't like change and like to stick to what they know makes money or at least won't lose money.

In general they are out of ideas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots

But there's always variations....

Mollyb60 · 26-09-2016 07:58PM

When Mary Fitzgerald used 'pipe cleaners' in her projects I always thought they were specific arts and crafts things. My husband just informed me that they're actual things that people use to clean out pipes. Not household pipes, but smoking pipes. MIND BLOWN.

quickbeam · 26-09-2016 08:00PM

Mollyb60 wrote: »

When Mary Fitzgerald used 'pipe cleaners' in her projects I always thought they were specific arts and crafts things. My husband just informed me that they're actual things that people use to clean out pipes. Not household pipes, but smoking pipes. MIND BLOWN.

Ah yes I remember them. I knew they weren't arts & crafts things, but for most of my childhood I did think they were for cleaning the household pipes. Couldn't really understand why something so thin would be used for cleaning something quite thick.

Mollyb60 · 26-09-2016 08:02PM

I could never work out why they were called pipe cleaners. I think I originally thought the same as you QB, that they were for plumbing but then my 7 year old brain said that was stupid coz they're so small so obviously it's just a silly name for them.

Subacio · 30-09-2016 10:06AM

Dreams don't come true.

Speedwell · 30-09-2016 10:07AM

Subacio wrote: »

Dreams don't come true.

Some of the dreams I've been having lately, I am glad that's so.

everlast75 · 30-09-2016 11:13AM

Subacio wrote: »

Dreams don't come true.

Gabrielle disagrees....

Speedwell · 01-10-2016 05:32AM

If something is "the truth that nobody dares speak", odds are that you saying it is not transgressive and revolutionary, it's just you being a mistaken assh0le.

Shint0 · 01-10-2016 07:13AM

I just realised recently that Lahinch in Clare is also called Lehinch or that's just going by the signs in the town. Maybe there has always been a double spelling but I always thought it was just Lahinch. When I was there recently all the signs spelled it with an 'e' but I saw one sign where it looked like somebody had stuck an 'a' over the 'e' so maybe there's a local disagreement about the proper spelling.

Quazzie · 01-10-2016 02:31PM

Shint0 wrote: »

I just realised recently that Lahinch in Clare is also called Lehinch or that's just going by the signs in the town. Maybe there has always been a double spelling but I always thought it was just Lahinch. When I was there recently all the signs spelled it with an 'e' but I saw one sign where it looked like somebody had stuck an 'a' over the 'e' so maybe there's a local disagreement about the proper spelling.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/lehinch-ennistimon-and-corrofin-vote-on-misspelt-signs-1.2625638

Speedwell · 01-10-2016 03:24PM

Shint0 wrote: »

I just realised recently that Lahinch in Clare is also called Lehinch or that's just going by the signs in the town. Maybe there has always been a double spelling but I always thought it was just Lahinch. When I was there recently all the signs spelled it with an 'e' but I saw one sign where it looked like somebody had stuck an 'a' over the 'e' so maybe there's a local disagreement about the proper spelling.

Then again there's "Ballisodare" down the road, also known as "Ballysadare", and nobody appears to even notice the difference. It's Baile Easa Dara, of course. If you do a Google search on Ballisodare Ballysadare, you get well over seven thousand hits, which shows that where you find one, you mostly find the other anyway!

Shint0 · 01-10-2016 04:47PM

Quazzie wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/lehinch-ennistimon-and-corrofin-vote-on-misspelt-signs-1.2625638

Aaah, so that explains it! I was really confused driving through it last weekend and thought how was I so wrong all these years. Thanks for clearing it up.

rabwaygal · 01-10-2016 11:09PM

The site Linkedin is not pronounced Lin-ked-in! Mind blown!!

Speedwell · 02-10-2016 06:13AM

It's Rosh Hashanah. ✡ L’shanah tovah, everyone.

Diairist · 05-10-2016 08:17PM

Who said 'omnia dicta sunt' ?

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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