What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

languagenerd · 08-10-2016 07:30PM

Feck sake, it's literally just occured to me that the word "month" is related to the word "moon" (because one month is roughly one lunar/moon cycle).

This is like when I realised the word "county" original meant an area ruled by a count. (like king - kingdom)

SimonTemplar · 09-10-2016 08:41PM

I often use a hotel booking website venere.com
I've used it for years and always referred to it with people as pronouncing it ven-ear.

I was looking at a hotel there this evening and wanted to ring them with a question. I rang the number on screen but it was actually venere's own number. They pronounced it ven-er-ray

:eek:

New Home · 09-10-2016 08:44PM

^^^
Venere = Venus

BabyE · 09-10-2016 08:46PM

the amount of irish people ive spoke to who seem to think white americans are either irish or just a monoethnic white people. the whole immigrant thing seems to be hard for them to grasp, maybe because ireland is so different and from the way our media portrays it, irish are the only people who emigrate

also monday= moonday

Hammer89 · 09-10-2016 08:49PM

You know Clint Eastwood, by Gorillaz? I've listened to this about a thousand times and I only just got the Clint Eastwood connection recently. It's the bit at the start which sounds like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly theme

moc moc a moc · 09-10-2016 09:26PM

languagenerd wrote: »

This is like when I realised the word "county" original meant an area ruled by a count. (like king - kingdom)

What does that say about a country! :eek:

Harvey Normal · 10-10-2016 10:15AM

BabyE wrote: »

the amount of irish people ive spoke to who seem to think white americans are either irish or just a monoethnic white people. the whole immigrant thing seems to be hard for them to grasp, maybe because ireland is so different and from the way our media portrays it, irish are the only people who emigrate

also monday= moonday

Who are you talking to? Nobody thinks that.

gramar · 10-10-2016 05:23PM

Nearly 25 years listening to Fairlytale of New York and I just realise thanks to the YLYL thread that the lyric is...

...You're a bum...you're a punk ...you're an old slut on junk! ... Listening to it will never be the same again.

ohnonotgmail · 10-10-2016 05:24PM

gramar wrote: »

Nearly 25 years listening to Fairlytale of New York and I just realise thanks to the YLYL thread that the lyric is...

...You're a bum...you're a punk ...you're an old slut on junk! ... Listening to it will never be the same again.

is it not "you're an old slut AND junk!"

Tilly · 10-10-2016 05:26PM

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

is it not "you're an old slut AND junk!"

you're an old slut AND drunk?

gramar · 10-10-2016 05:27PM

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

is it not "you're an old slut AND junk!"

Lyrics freak begs to differ...just listened and does sound like 'old slut on junk'...dunno what I thought all these years

Kadser · 10-10-2016 05:56PM

South Africa has white slums now.

Your Face · 10-10-2016 06:00PM

That televisions are measured diagonally.

Capt'n Midnight · 10-10-2016 09:14PM

Your Face wrote: »

That televisions are measured diagonally.

In the past the diagonal measurement was the outside of the glass tube. So a 17" CRT monitor had the same size display as a 15" LCD

Subacio · 11-10-2016 09:50AM

I used to think that when the moon was less than full, it meant the earth was causing a partial eclipse. Only took me 45 years to work that one out.

pilly · 11-10-2016 09:52AM

I only realised on Friday night that the evil nordie policeman in Peaky Blinders was Sam O'Neill from Jurassic Park!!

Kadser · 11-10-2016 06:20PM

Ireland's best living poets are all from the North.

FreeFallin · 14-10-2016 09:39PM

It's 'for all intents and purposes' not 'for all intensive purposes'. I had a WOW moment realising that one during the week!

dealhunter1985 · 14-10-2016 09:40PM

That I need to give bus eireann a go because Irish rail is an absolute joke...

livedadream · 16-10-2016 12:33PM

That AM stands for after midnight .... Thank you Simon Cowel...

Quazzie · 16-10-2016 12:35PM

livedadream wrote: »

That AM stands for after midnight .... Thank you Simon Cowel...

Take it as a rough guide that Simon Cowell is a moron and everything he says is designed to generate a society filled with uneducated morons. A.M comes from ante meridiem, where meridiem is midday

livedadream · 16-10-2016 12:41PM

Quazzie wrote: »

livedadream wrote: »

That AM stands for after midnight .... Thank you Simon Cowel...

Take it as a rough guide that Simon Cowell is a moron and everything he says is designed to generate a society filled with uneducated morons. A.M comes from ante meridiem, where meridiem is midday

I feel I should clarify as I am neither a moron, or uneducated moron. There is a band on xfactor called 5 after midnight but they keep calling them 5am.... But thanks for the aggressive pointless insults.

Digital Solitude · 16-10-2016 01:06PM

livedadream wrote: »

I feel I should clarify as I am neither a moron, or uneducated moron. There is a band on xfactor called 5 after midnight but they keep calling them 5am.... But thanks for the aggressive pointless insults.

Not anymore anyways