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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,548 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Fruit I pressume:D

    Eh.right..ok...added an 's' did they, good for them...right ? :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭annascott


    ...that up until last year I had been opening bananas upside down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    Pyr0 wrote: »
    D'ya know when you're watching a film in the cinema and the a age rating appears before it starts? Well I always noticed the Director listed in the corner was always the same chap and I was thinking

    "Jaysus this lad is directing everything these days, how come I've never heard of him?!"

    Turns out it's the director of the irish film rating company :o

    Gerard Connelly is no longer "Acting Director" of the IFCO.


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


    annascott wrote: »
    ...that up until last year I had been opening bananas upside down.

    I seen that god damn smart arse monkey too.:mad:

    It is so much easier to open them monkey style though, I used to occasionally resort to using a knife on the particularly awkward ones!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Californication is fornication with 'cali' at the front. I always thought it was a cool word for a vacation in California.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,164 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Xico, that mexican club on baggot st in dublin, is 'mexico' without the 'me'.

    I thought it was some weird aztec cultural appropriation sh1te


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    Californication is fornication with 'cali' at the front. I always thought it was a cool word for a vacation in California.

    It has to do with California people moving to Oregon, and people moaning about the changes.


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


    0649_6e01_500.jpeg


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 97 ✭✭AzcuzCoz


    I only just realised that the Clooney guy from the Mace in Clones had twins! Congrats!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭Elemonator


    I thought a porcupine was a fish in an instance of confusion!!!!!!!!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭Lady is a tramp


    Elemonator wrote: »
    I thought a porcupine was a fish in an instance of confusion!!!!!!!!!

    Porpoise?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Blackhorse Slim


    No, it was an accident


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Arbie


    Talking to an Australian friend about Home & Away, I mentioned the town near to Summer Bay called "Abbey Creek".

    She thought this was hilarious as the name is actually Yabbie Creek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Bay#Yabbie_Creek), apparently Yabbie/Yabby is a type of Australian shellfish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_yabby).

    Not obvious to me, but apparently it is to Australians.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭VandC


    The restaurant "the happy pear"....is referring to its two happy owners, "the happy pair"


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


    Some countries in Europe have exclaves - sovereign territory of one nation contained entirely within an other.

    https://www.google.ie/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/articles/quirky-european-enclaves-where-cultures-collide/amp/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 402 ✭✭Exeggcute


    annascott wrote: »
    That Axl Rose was born a woman

    eh...what?

    On a side note his name is an anagram of oral sex.

    His real name is William Bruce Rose Jr. but he was raised as William Bruce Bailey


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


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Some countries in Europe have exclaves - sovereign territory of one nation contained entirely within an other.

    https://www.google.ie/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/articles/quirky-european-enclaves-where-cultures-collide/amp/

    Even better, for the first one, Baarle-Nassau, if you look at the map there's double enclaves. There's Dutch enclaves within the Belgian enclaves.

    365px-Baarle-Nassau_-_Baarle-Hertog-en.svg.png


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,863 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Even better, for the first one, Baarle-Nassau, if you look at the map there's double enclaves. There's Dutch enclaves within the Belgian enclaves.

    365px-Baarle-Nassau_-_Baarle-Hertog-en.svg.png
    It used to be the case that a lot of the shops had two doors, one in each country, and whichever countries tax regimes were better decided what door was open.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭annascott


    Exeggcute wrote: »
    eh...what?

    On a side note his name is an anagram of oral sex.

    His real name is William Bruce Rose Jr. but he was raised as William Bruce Bailey



    https://www.ncscooper.com/axl-rose-reveals-he-is-transgender/


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


    annascott wrote: »

    Have you looked at the other stories on that website?


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


    That Axl Rose was born a woman

    I don't think so.

    He did however, slowly but surely turn in to one, sometime between use your illusion and the spaghetti incident:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭Ms. Captain M


    Was watching the film Noah last night, he mentioned something about survival of all species, complete light bulb moment for me......."ah THAT'S why there was 2 of every animal on the arc". Suppose I haven't thought about that story since I was very young!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭Alanhooly


    I just recently that figured out that breakfast is 'a break from fasting'. I wasn't even thinking about it, it just randomely popped in my head when I was driving haha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭Alanhooly


    I just recently that figured out that breakfast is 'a break from fasting'. I wasn't even thinking about it, it just randomely popped in my head when I was driving haha


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


    Hamburgers are made from ham.
    Beefburgers are made from beef.

    I thought they were just different names for the same thing :/

    *scratch that - I've been misinformed :(

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    I've never had a hamburger made of ham though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭rizzodun


    Hamburgers are said to have originated in Hamburg, Germany, a beef steak between two slices of bread.

    Buffalo wings from Buffalo, New York, they're chicken, of course.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Alanhooly wrote:
    I just recently that figured out that breakfast is 'a break from fasting'. I wasn't even thinking about it, it just randomely popped in my head when I was driving haha

    More so that in the morning you break the fast you've been on while sleeping but yeh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    That Indian takeaways don't do beef because the cow is sacred :o


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


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    That Indian takeaways don't do beef because the cow is sacred :o


    sacred to Hindus. Not all indian restaurants are run by hindus. Plenty of indian restaurants do beef dishes.


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