What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

Ash.J.Williams · 16-10-2016 05:38PM

the bee gees ....brothers gibb

Rubberlegs · 16-10-2016 06:48PM

Up until the other day I thought a coot was a furry thing like a weasel and could never understand how someone could be as bald as a coot. It's a frickin bird! Similarly until I saw the new kids programme Grizzy and the Lemmings, I thought a lemming was a bird.

paleoperson · 17-10-2016 10:01PM

The Fall actress is the same Gillian Anderson that used to be in The X-Files?!

AvBBrother · 17-10-2016 10:17PM

Yeah, but she's had a major facelift since her X-Files days.

sbsquarepants · 19-10-2016 10:16AM

Do you think?

I think she's just aged very well and looks amazing still, but then I did think she was basically gods gift to men back in the day so I could be slightly biased:D

Chancer3001 · 19-10-2016 10:25AM

That alterior motive isnt a thing.

Ulterior is correct.

Alterior isnt even a word

valoren · 19-10-2016 11:27AM

Chancer3001 wrote: »

That alterior motive isnt a thing.

Ulterior is correct.

Alterior isnt even a word

Sounds perfectly cromulent to me.

20-10-2016 07:32PM

Probably only news to me, but...my friend just told me that it's called Tinder because you get matches.

Oh.My.God.

Butters1979 · 20-10-2016 07:35PM

SuperS54 wrote: »

And PM stands for Pefore Midnight?

I thought it was Past Midday?

Pinch Flat · 20-10-2016 07:36PM

Maybe it's been posted previously, but the actor Harry Shearer who played the bass player out of Spinal Tap also does voice overs for the simpsons - mr burns, Smithers, rev lovejoy and mr skinner

Mr.Crinklewood · 21-10-2016 07:15AM

Bear Grylls is nothing to do with cooking.

Mr.Crinklewood · 21-10-2016 07:15AM

Bear Grylls is nothing to do with cooking.

pickarooney · 21-10-2016 07:23AM

Candie wrote: »

Probably only news to me, but...my friend just told me that it's called Tinder because you get matches.

Oh.My.God.

And there might be a spark, or you could meet an old flame.

Rubberlegs · 21-10-2016 10:34AM

If you pull the inner bag up out of the cereal box slightly before pouring it prevents cereal from falling down the sides of the bag and ending up in the bottom of the box. Years of stale cereal in the end of the box later I finally realise this:(

Kotek Besar · 21-10-2016 10:49AM

brummytom wrote: »

'To get to the other side'. 'Other side' = afterlife. Why did he cross the road? Gets hit by a car. Bam. Dead chicken.

So is it really a harrowing tale of a suicidal bird?

Well, glad I came on boards today. I'm 34. I never knew about this second meaning to the "to get to the other side" punchline. I suddenly feel liberated and enlightened! F*ck me, I'm on top of the world right now!

whiskeyman · 21-10-2016 11:45AM

Kotek Besar wrote: »

Well, glad I came on boards today. I'm 34. I never knew about this second meaning to the "to get to the other side" punchline. I suddenly feel liberated and enlightened! F*ck me, I'm on top of the world right now!

I'm joining you there!

fiachraX · 21-10-2016 11:55AM

Butters1979 wrote: »

I thought it was Past Midday?

am = ante meridiem (before midday)
pm = post meridiem (after midday)
Six years of Latin in school not entirely wasted!

OldNotWIse · 21-10-2016 11:59AM

whiskeyman wrote: »

I'm joining you there!

Me too!

The Mulk · 21-10-2016 12:04PM

Candie wrote: »

Probably only news to me, but...my friend just told me that it's called Tinder because you get matches.

Oh.My.God.

It's original name was Matchbox, but they had to change it

HeidiHeidi · 21-10-2016 12:05PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Me too!

Room for one more???

mackeire · 21-10-2016 12:31PM

73Cat wrote: »

Up until the other day I thought a coot was a furry thing like a weasel and could never understand how someone could be as bald as a coot. It's a frickin bird! Similarly until I saw the new kids programme Grizzy and the Lemmings, I thought a lemming was a bird.

A lemming is a fruit. It grows on a lemming tree!

kingtut · 21-10-2016 04:50PM

Self-service checkout machines have a volume button and as a result can be silenced woohoo!

FunLover18 · 21-10-2016 04:50PM

kingtut wrote:

Self-service checkout machines have a volume button and as a result can be silenced woohoo!

Where!?

kingtut · 21-10-2016 04:52PM

FunLover18 wrote: »

kingtut wrote:

Self-service checkout machines have a volume button and as a result can be silenced woohoo!

Where!?

Tesco and Dunnes for definite, in Tesco it's at the bottom of the screen, can't remember the exact location in Dunnes

kingtut · 21-10-2016 05:08PM

In relation to muting the self service till I just found an article from the sun paper:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1755312/unexpected-item-in-the-bagging-area-how-to-silence-the-supermarket-self-service-checkout/

entropi · 21-10-2016 05:20PM

Quazzie wrote: »

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 thanked this, unthanked it, then thanked it again. Its the only way I'm allowed to do it twice.

Rubberlegs · 22-10-2016 07:43PM

It's not hand gliding, it's hang gliding. WTF??:)

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 22-10-2016 07:44PM

What starts out as a favour becomes a task

diomed · 22-10-2016 09:22PM

I've been wearing my gardening boots for the last five hours at the computer ever since I came in from the garden.

Capt'n Midnight · 22-10-2016 11:42PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

What starts out as a favour becomes a task

A good deed never goes unpunished.

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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