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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #4322
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Is your car one of these

    No, more like this.


  • #4323
    galah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭galah


    Quazzie wrote: »
    The fuel filler is the opposite side of the exhaust exit*.


    *if the car only has one exhause exit

    But also it doesnt matter as the fuel pump hose usually stretches around the car (unless you park miles away from the pump or drive a van or so...) should the tank be on the wrong side...:cool:


  • #4324
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,522 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    It's not entirely true.
    Cars that don't have the arrow have the petrol tank on the drivers side. But if the arrow is there, it points to the side of the car where the pump goes.
    Citroen's or puegots can be either side. It's a myth that the handle shows the side.


  • #4325
    juneg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭juneg


    To my Shame I only realised today what TRUMP PENCE on all the signs was about.
    I thought it was a fundraising slogan ( give donations of pence to Trump, it all adds up or some such motto ) Never took much interest in Trump's campaign, didnt expect he'd win.

    Turns out PENCE is the new vice president...


  • #4326
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    juneg wrote: »
    To my Shame I only realised today what TRUMP PENCE on all the signs was about.
    I thought it was a fundraising slogan ( give donations of pence to Trump, it all adds up or some such motto ) Never took much interest in Trump's campaign, didnt expect he'd win.

    Turns out PENCE is the new vice president...

    What I can't believe is that he's only 57...he looks about 97.


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  • #4327
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,613 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Always thought the tonsils was that dangly bit of tissue at the back of the throat. Turns out it's not.


  • #4328
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,330 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Always thought the tonsils was that dangly bit of tissue at the back of the throat. Turns out it's not.

    I was told when young it was the 'epiglottis', more recently I've been told its the uvula. Who knew?


  • #4329
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,029 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    I was told when young it was the 'epiglottis', more recently I've been told its the uvula. Who knew?

    Not me


  • #4330
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,495 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »
    cars have a handy indicator that shows what side you put the petrol in.


    30 years wasted hopping out of cars to check and then reversing

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1280536/Has-motoring-writer-solved-riddle-plagued-drivers-decades.html

    mind.....blown


  • #4331
    yeppydeppy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭yeppydeppy


    Except for the Honda I drove a few weeks ago.


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  • #4332
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    I thought the song by The Moody Blues was Knights in White Satin rather than nights. It didn't even occur to me that a knight on his horse dressed in white satin would look fairly odd.


  • #4333
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    There's a lyric in the Pretenders brass in pocket....'I gotta have some of your attention give it to me...'
    For years I've been singing 'I've gotta help somebody old...'


  • #4334
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    gramar wrote: »
    There's a lyric in the Pretenders brass in pocket....'I gotta have some of your attention give it to me...'
    For years I've been singing 'I've gotta help somebody old...'

    In The Police's Message In A Bottle, there's a lyric "A year has passed since I wrote my note". Until recently, I thought it was "A year has passed since I broke my nose".


  • #4335
    130Kph
    Closed Accounts Posts: 625 ✭✭✭130Kph


    Not really obvious but snuck up on …

    we’re down to the last person alive (thought) to be born in the 1800’s. (RTE)

    That’s a time marker almost as big as 1/1/2000.
    She had a fairly grim life but sure happiness isn’t everything!!
    Emma Morano, thought to be the world's oldest person and the last to be born in the 1800s, has celebrated her 117th birthday.


  • #4336
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    130Kph wrote: »
    Not really obvious but snuck up on …

    we’re down to the last person alive (thought) to be born in the 1800’s. (RTE)

    That’s a time marker almost as big as 1/1/2000.
    She had a fairly grim life but sure happiness isn’t everything!!

    She was born in November 1899 so she just about makes it. 1900 was the last year of the 19th century so there may be another one or two people alive who were born in the 19th Century.


  • #4337
    dwayneshintzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭dwayneshintzy


    Not super obvious, but only recently enough found out that Soweto is a portmanteau of "Southwestern Township", and not just an African word/name.


  • #4338
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,779 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    dwayneshintzy wrote: »
    Not super obvious, but only recently enough found out that Soweto is a portmanteau of "Southwestern Township", and not just an African word/name.

    Ooh, good one.


  • #4339
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    dwayneshintzy wrote: »
    Not super obvious, but only recently enough found out that Soweto is a portmanteau of "Southwestern Township", and not just an African word/name.


    You might be interested to know that Miwadi, as in the diluted drink, is Mineral Water Distributors.


  • #4340
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭valoren


    Baby On Board.

    Always thought it was to let cars behind you know that you are driving with extreme caution as you have...eh...a baby on board.

    Didn't know it's true purpose was to let Emergency Services know there is a child in the car in the event of an accident, that they should be attended to first.


  • #4341
    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    valoren wrote: »
    Baby On Board.

    Always thought it was to let cars behind you know that you are driving with extreme caution as you have...eh...a baby on board.

    Didn't know it's true purpose was to let Emergency Services know there is a child in the car in the event of an accident, that they should be attended to first.
    If that was the original purpose, than Id say 99.9% of people who have them don't realise.
    Certainly the first time I've heard of it.


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  • #4342
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Is it not just the lyrics of The Simpsons song?


  • #4343
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    valoren wrote: »
    Baby On Board.

    Always thought it was to let cars behind you know that you are driving with extreme caution as you have...eh...a baby on board.

    Didn't know it's true purpose was to let Emergency Services know there is a child in the car in the event of an accident, that they should be attended to first.
    Apparently, that's a myth ( http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/babysign.asp )


  • #4344
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    dwayneshintzy wrote: »
    Not super obvious, but only recently enough found out that Soweto is a portmanteau of "Southwestern Township", and not just an African word/name.
    Also

    BMW is Bavarian Motor Works. Bayerische Motoren Werke

    FIAT is Italian Automobile Factory, Turin. Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino


  • #4345
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    FIAT is Italian Automobile Factory, Turin. Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino

    Any Fiat owner will tell you it's acutally

    Fix It Again Tomorrow


    :D


  • #4346
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,438 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Des Lynam is from Ennis, he lived there until he was 6


  • #4347
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Kite surfers are meant to fly up into the sky. Pointed out to me by my daughter as I nearly had a heart attack thinking I was witnessing a tragedy.


  • #4348
    md23040
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 517 ✭✭✭md23040


    Subacio wrote: »
    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.

    At the time of the first lunar landing an old biddy neighbour thought it was the stupidest thing ever - "you'd think they would have waited for a full moon when it'd be all there"


  • #4349
    daheff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,974 ✭✭✭daheff


    Used to think UPC were the worst IP for stable internet....seems I was wrong..its Virgin media


  • #4350
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    I've changed my car wipers lots of times, but must have always just put them on right first time.
    Today I put them on wrong and only noticed the passenger one is smaller than the drivers side...


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  • #4351
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    Penneys
    Pennies
    Penneys
    Pennies
    Penneys

    Dear cow-tippin' Jesus I'M STOOOOPID!!!


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