What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

Gwynplaine · 02-02-2017 11:41PM

Hans_Memling wrote: »

You'll never win an argument with a woman.

"You may be right, but I'm not wrong"
Try that one next time, watch the steam come out of her ears.

Wheety · 02-02-2017 11:56PM

Not just now, but I realised far too late in my life that baked beans weren't made from pasta. I think it's because they were always sold beside spaghetti hoops etc. and they come in the same sauce, and as a kid I made the connection.

Gwynplaine · 03-02-2017 12:00AM

valoren wrote: »

That the Oval office is called that because the shape of the room is oval.
It never clicked.

Have you ever seen 'The Cube' ?

everlast75 · 03-02-2017 06:22PM

that when you click on the number, beside your name up the top right there, it will list the threads you have unread posts on.
I knew that you could see all the threads you posted on in list format by placing the mouse cursor over your name and scrolling down, but never just the ones with unread posts with one click!

whoopsadoodles · 03-02-2017 09:58PM

Oh my god!

Dodgems.

Because you dodge 'em.

I just got that now :pac: :pac: :pac:

Scarleh for me ma :pac:

RiderOnTheStorm · 03-02-2017 10:08PM

Comedy gets funnier if you laugh out loud.

peasant · 03-02-2017 10:48PM

Avocados grow on trees.

Thought they were some kind of ground hogging vegetables until somebody showed me a tree recently...an avocado tree obviously.

No avocados when (where) I grew up (if that counts as an excuse)

muddypaws · 03-02-2017 11:14PM

everlast75 wrote: »

that when you click on the number, beside your name up the top right there, it will list the threads you have unread posts on.
I knew that you could see all the threads you posted on in list format by placing the mouse cursor over your name and scrolling down, but never just the ones with unread posts with one click!

I don't appear to have a number beside my name.

Ted_YNWA · 03-02-2017 11:18PM

muddypaws wrote: »

I don't appear to have a number beside my name.

Should be up on top right.

Digital Solitude · 03-02-2017 11:27PM

peasant wrote: »

Avocados grow on trees.

Thought they were some kind of ground hogging vegetables until somebody showed me a tree recently...an avocado tree obviously.

No avocados when (where) I grew up (if that counts as an excuse)

Have you seen how pineapples grow?

Caught me off guard, I was expecting something like a palm tree

muddypaws · 03-02-2017 11:31PM

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Should be up on top right.

Ah, I thought that was unread private messages, so it must be all notifications, and I don't have any at the moment.

New Home · 03-02-2017 11:35PM

That number includes unread PMs, unread followed threads, unread visitor messages, and pending friend requests.

sbsquarepants · 06-02-2017 02:21PM

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

Oh my god!

Dodgems.

Because you dodge 'em.

I just got that now :pac: :pac: :pac:

Scarleh for me ma :pac:

I dodge nothing.......bumpers:cool:

Noddyholder · 13-02-2017 12:04AM

Initially after independence the United Kingdom insisted on using only the name "Eire" and refused to accept the name "Ireland". It adopted the Eire (Confirmation of Agreements) Act 1938 putting in law that position.

At the 1948 Summer Olympics the organisers insisted that the Irish team march under the banner "Eire" notwithstanding that every other team was marching according to what their name was in English.[6]

The UK Government used what some Irish politicians stated were "sneering titles such as Eirish".[7] The UK Government would refer to "Eire Ministers" and the "Eireann Army" and generally avoid all reference to "Ireland" in connection with the state.

The Ireland Act 1949 changed this to "Republic of Ireland". It was not until after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that the UK government accepted the preferred name of simply "Ireland", at the same time as Ireland dropped its territorial claim over Northern Ireland.

Subacio · 18-02-2017 06:13PM

My can of Sure armpit spray promises 48 hour protection.

I used to dose myself every morning, but now only every second day.

Last time I went shopping, I bought 2 for the price of one, so my anti-perspirant costs have been reduced by 75%.

thee glitz · 21-02-2017 09:21PM

When the fresh prince "pulled up to a house about 7 or 8", that was the time and not him just guessing the correct place.

Pinch Flat · 24-02-2017 02:45PM

RAG week stands for "Raise and Give". Always thought it referred to the rag order you'd be in after a week on buckfast.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 24-02-2017 03:34PM

Pinch Flat wrote: »

RAG week stands for "Raise and Give". Always thought it referred to the rag order you'd be in after a week on buckfast.

Raising and Giving to the publicans and off licence proprietors.

Conall Cernach · 24-02-2017 03:34PM

Pinch Flat wrote: »

RAG week stands for "Raise and Give". Always thought it referred to the rag order you'd be in after a week on buckfast.

I thought it was some throwback to Oxbridge students wearing old clothes for the week or some such.

fiachr_a · 24-02-2017 04:01PM

Noddyholder wrote: »

Initially after independence the United Kingdom insisted on using only the name "Eire"

Instead of Éire because it means burden.

Porkpie · 24-02-2017 04:45PM

My brother used to think when he was younger that the lyric in the Wham song Last Christmas was 'This year...the semi frontiers'.

Kolido · 25-02-2017 08:35AM

On the TV quiz show The Chase, the chaser walks through a gaint C on their way to the chair.

fiachr_a · 28-02-2017 08:20PM

If you want fresh fries in McDonalds ask for no salt.

juneg · 01-03-2017 07:00PM

In the Ed Sheeran video of "Castle on the hill" younger Ed is not actually Ed but a young teenage actor who is the head off him.

http://www.mtv.co.uk/ed-sheeran/news/ed-sheeran-castle-on-the-hill-teenage-actor-interview

DanielODonnell · 01-03-2017 07:52PM

It isn't really obvious but I just found a couple of weeks ago that semen doesn't come from the testicles, I was never taught that at school and I studied Biology until aged 19 at school

PARlance · 01-03-2017 07:55PM

DanielODonnell wrote: »

It isn't really obvious but I just found a couple of weeks ago that semen doesn't come from the testicles, I was never taught that at school and I studied Biology until aged 19 at school

It comes from the tip of your willy Daniel.

5rtytry56 · 03-03-2017 12:53PM

How completely corny the whole "STAR WARS" saga is canonically.

annascott · 04-03-2017 11:25PM

That the film Manchester by the sea is set in New England, USA. I thought it was about a guy sent to miserable Manchester U.K. and was confused about the 'sea' reference.

everlast75 · 18-03-2017 10:37AM

Burgess Meredith, Rocky's coach, was also The Penguin in the original Batman TV show.

It's so obvious but the penny only dropped for me recently

Professor Moriarty · 27-03-2017 12:15AM

This is true: After decades, I finally figured how to drop a set of blinds so that they remain horizontal. I didn't realise that if you just snap the strings to the left then the whole mechanism releases. It used to take me ages to align them by pulling the left one and then the right one. I never asked anyone how to do it because I thought that was the way everyone did it. You can't fix stupid.

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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