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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #4442
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    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.

    This is backronym.
    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    I thought it was some throwback to Oxbridge students wearing old clothes for the week or some such.

    A little closer to the truth.

    The Oxford English Dictionary states that the origin of the word "Rag" is from "An act of ragging; esp. an extensive display of noisy disorderly conduct, carried on in defiance of authority or discipline", and provides a citation from 1864, noting that the word was known in Oxford before this date.[1] Early Rag collectors may have ragged passers-by until they made a donation.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag_(student_society)#Rag_Week


  • #4443
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    This is backronym.



    A little closer to the truth.

    The Oxford English Dictionary states that the origin of the word "Rag" is from "An act of ragging; esp. an extensive display of noisy disorderly conduct, carried on in defiance of authority or discipline", and provides a citation from 1864, noting that the word was known in Oxford before this date.[1] Early Rag collectors may have ragged passers-by until they made a donation.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag_(student_society)#Rag_Week

    And people collected rags to make paper...most paper was made from fabric until relatively recently.


  • #4444
    Sands1981
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭Sands1981


    That even though people did wrong by you, and it takes time and learning to realise that they were damaged too....You can still come back to them and forgive, even though they caused you suffering. Mostly because you know you caused suffering too....


  • #4445
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,507 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    That the word "pac" is there to describe a smiley, its a reference to pacman...

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #4446
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    everlast75 wrote: »
    That the word "pac" is there to describe a smiley, its a reference to pacman...

    :pac:


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  • #4447
    eyerer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭eyerer


    The part in Predator where Mac keeps saying "Gonna have me some fun" is from the song they played earlier on the chopper.. Long tall Sally :pac:


  • #4448
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    It turns out "vin diesel" and "the rock" are actually different people.

    Who knew...


  • #4449
    Deise Vu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭Deise Vu


    Not quiet realised recently but one obvious thing very few people know about their car (including a car dealer I asked) is that the little Petrol Pump symbol on your dashboard has an arrow on the left or right which points to the side of the car where the fuel tank is. Very handy if you find yourself driving into a petrol station in a hire car.


  • #4450
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,029 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Deise Vu wrote: »
    Not quiet realised recently but one obvious thing very few people know about their car (including a car dealer I asked) is that the little Petrol Pump symbol on your dashboard has an arrow on the left or right which points to the side of the car where the fuel tank is. Very handy if you find yourself driving into a petrol station in a hire car.


    except when they dont.


  • #4451
    PMBC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭PMBC


    Just yesterday, as I read, I discovered that the universe is full of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence; and scientists maintain that therefore they come from Nothing. That is used (at least by Lawrence Krauss) as their argument that something can come from nothing!


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  • #4452
    Deise Vu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭Deise Vu


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    except when they dont.

    On every car I have ever driven into a petrol station since it has been correct.


  • #4453
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,029 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Deise Vu wrote: »
    On every car I have ever driven into a petrol station since it has been correct.

    Not every car has it. Mine doesnt. Neither did the hire car i had last week. It is not universal.


  • #4454
    Deise Vu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭Deise Vu


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Not every car has it. Mine doesnt. Neither did the hire car i had last week. It is not universal.

    If the Daily Mail says its correct it mus be written in stone.:D:D

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


  • #4455
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    I am driving the same car for 5 yrs. There is a little screen between the speedometer and the other clock thing that tells you how many miles worth of petrol you have left. I had set it to tell me how many minutes my journey was instead by mistake for awhile. The OH borrowed my car and the beep went off to warn him it needed petrol. When he came back he asked me did I not keep an eye on the petrol and I said that I had had it set to time the journey instead. He asked me did it not occur to me to look at the petrol gauge. I never even noticed there was one, thought it was only the other thing to tell how many miles I had left. Morto !


  • #4456
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,223 ✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    It turns out "vin diesel" and "the rock" are actually different people.

    Who knew...

    Non-racists knew :pac:


  • #4457
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,066 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »
    Non-racists knew :pac:

    You imply he is a racist because he didn't differentiate between the two...


  • #4458
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,926 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    I remember, as a kid, drawing cartoons and having trouble making the speech fit into the speech bubbles - I'd always draw them too small and have to make the print tiny so it would all fit.

    Then I saw my friend do it and he just wrote the text he wanted, and when that was finished, just draw the speech bubble around it.

    It was one of those MIND BLOWN!! moments there are now memes for.


  • #4459
    WoolyJumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 849 ✭✭✭WoolyJumper


    That Penney's/Primark is an Irish company. I always thought it was a British company


  • #4460
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    That the Outlook icon in the desktop taskbar has a little envelope icon on it when there's unread emails.
    I always knew about the unread mail icon on the bottom right of the screen, but never in the pinned to desktop icon itself!


  • #4461
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    PMBC wrote: »
    Just yesterday, as I read, I discovered that the universe is full of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence; and scientists maintain that therefore they come from Nothing. That is used (at least by Lawrence Krauss) as their argument that something can come from nothing!
    They don't come out of nothing , there has to be some energy there. Doesn't need to be much because if the virtual particles only last a very, very, very, very short time then the average energy is still pretty close to zero.


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  • #4462
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    The RTÉ choice music prize rewards banality.


  • #4463
    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    That shrimps as in Bubba Gumps shrimps, are prawns.


  • #4464
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    If you're bitten by a poisonous pet snake in Ireland you're seriously f--ked as we have no anti-venom.


  • #4465
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Sands1981 wrote: »
    That even though people did wrong by you, and it takes time and learning to realise that they were damaged too....You can still come back to them and forgive, even though they caused you suffering. Mostly because you know you caused suffering too....

    Meh - give them a box and feel better instantly:D
    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    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.

    For years I held a grudge against these blinds because when they are partially closed people can still see through them - refused to have them in my own house. When I finally explained my issue to the missus, she gave me one her famous "you fúcking imbecile" looks and explained that all these years I'd been tilting them the wrong way.
    Tilt them down towards the floor and you can see through them from outside, tilt them up towards the ceiling and you can't.
    Needless to say, I refused to believe her, but a quick test revealed her nonsense to hold true!


  • #4466
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,522 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    Deise Vu wrote: »
    If the Daily Mail says its correct it mus be written in stone.:D:D

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

    That article also says not every manufacturer does it.

    Audis and BMWs do not have an indicator as standard, but again say it is always on the driver’s side - except in BMW Minis.
    Citroen and Peugeot do not have a graphic, and the cap can be found on either side of their cars.


  • #4467
    Geuze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,529 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    WoolyJumper wrote: »
    That Penney's/Primark is an Irish company. I always thought it was a British company

    Its parent company, Associated British Foods, is British.


  • #4468
    tomwaits48
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭tomwaits48


    fiachr_a wrote: »
    The RTÉ choice music prize rewards banality.

    Oh the bitterness on this one. What failed band are you in?


  • #4469
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    If I was in a failed band you would have heard about it because we would have gotten a Choice nomination.


  • #4470
    tomwaits48
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭tomwaits48


    fiachr_a wrote: »
    If I was in a failed band you would have heard about it because we would have gotten a Choice nomination.

    Excellent retort, genuine lol from me there


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  • #4471
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    That when viewing a thread on Boards if you press Ctrl+W you can change to a Widescreen format which places users avatars above their posts rather than to the left hand side of them.

    Neat.


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