What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

everlast75 · 28-08-2017 01:30PM

The penny just dropped that the start of "All Together Now" by The Farm sampled a piece of classical music. I went looking and found out it was Johann Pachelbel's "Canon in D Major"

R00ster · 06-09-2017 04:03AM

That there are final set tiebreakers at the US Open. Have never watched it due to it not being on BBC or ITV, so I had just presumed a deciding set was played to a conclusion like at the other Grand Slams.

silkey · 06-09-2017 06:20AM

quickbeam wrote: »

The suffix "-ate" means that oxygen is included, eg, sulfate = sulfur + oxygen; phosphate = phosphorus + oxygen.

When we talk about the need to hydrate, we're talking about drinking, or adding moisture or water to something. Hydrate = hydrogen + oxygen, ie, H2O, or water.

Also carbohydrate = carbon + hydrogen + oxygen.

Mind blown!!!

Except for suffocate, Oxygen excluded!

nazzy · 06-09-2017 06:45AM

everlast75 wrote:

The penny just dropped that the start of "All Together Now" by The Farm sampled a piece of classical music. I went looking and found out it was Johann Pachelbel's "Canon in D Major"

Oh my god!

I have that song on so many Spotify play lists and listen to it all the time and never realised. Now it's all I hear!

shaneon77 · 06-09-2017 07:18AM

rizzodun wrote: »

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.

I think they originated in a restaurant called buffalo.??

Outlaw Pete · 06-09-2017 08:50AM

Don King is still alive.

Rubberlegs · 08-09-2017 09:25PM

The runners brand is Asics not Basics. I always thought the squiggle in front of the a was a b.

thesandeman · 09-09-2017 05:37AM

That Tabasco is actually a place.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 09-09-2017 05:41AM

Christians are followers of Jesus Christ and the New Testament.

Jews follow the OT and Torah.

So lay off the Christians lads.

:):)

DEFTLEFTHAND · 09-09-2017 05:45AM

Muslims follow the final and the literal word of God.

Delivered from God to the Prophet via the Angel Gabriel.

obi604 · 09-09-2017 08:16AM

thesandeman wrote: »

That Tabasco is actually a place.

Did you hear this when they were on about a hurricane hitting some place and they mentioned tabasco?

thesandeman · 09-09-2017 06:40PM

obi604 wrote: »

Did you hear this when they were on about a hurricane hitting some place and they mentioned tabasco?

Yip.

obi604 · 09-09-2017 07:16PM

thesandeman wrote: »

Yip.

Ah yeah. Same as meself !

civis_liberalis · 09-09-2017 10:22PM

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Don King is still alive.

Don't forget what a POS **** he is. He stomped an employee to death in the 60s. Plenty of other stellar stuff out there about him too.

thesandeman · 10-09-2017 03:35AM

obi604 wrote: »

Ah yeah. Same as meself !

That report was my sauce for that.

Geddit?

obi604 · 27-09-2017 10:38PM

When I login to Internet banking, I login with my 8 digit registration number, after many years, I have just realised that the first 6 digits are my date of birth - thick or what !!

castletownman · 27-09-2017 10:55PM

Ever walk down Grafton Street, and see a strip of black paving running the length of it? Kind of sticks out amid all the normally coloured slabs.

Well that's a "guide strip" for the visually impaired and is made from a different material to the rest of the paving.

I genuinely thought it was just different for aesthetic purposes.

Ineedaname · 27-09-2017 11:07PM

For the longest time I thought the iron in your blood was named after iron the metal because it's needed to keep you healthy and strong. Never occurred to me they're actually one and the same.

Hammer89 · 28-09-2017 12:30AM

I was looking for this thread recently but couldn't remember what it was called.

Anyways, I never realised The George was (probably) called that because it's on Georges St

valoren · 28-09-2017 09:35AM

Watching the The Story of Only Fools and Horses on UK Gold, I knew that Del Boy and Rodney's business was called Trotters Independent Trader's as it was clearly written on the side of the van, never copped that the acronym of it is TIT.

:pac:

the_pen_turner · 28-09-2017 11:06AM

obi604 wrote: »

When I login to Internet banking, I login with my 8 digit registration number, after many years, I have just realised that the first 6 digits are my date of birth - thick or what !!

mine isnt

RhubarbCrumble · 28-09-2017 11:11AM

valoren wrote: »

Watching the The Story of Only Fools and Horses on UK Gold, I knew that Del Boy and Rodney's business was called Trotters Independent Trader's as it was clearly written on the side of the van, never copped that the acronym of it is TIT.

:pac:

Hence why that college in Kerry calls itself Institute of Technology Tralee and not Tralee Institute of Technology.

sbsquarepants · 28-09-2017 11:31AM

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Hence why that college in Kerry calls itself Institute of Technology Tralee and not Tralee Institute of Technology.

Same thing it Tallaght.

Aglomerado · 28-09-2017 02:52PM

And Galway's college had to rebrand itself as Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, so the acronym wouldn't be GIT.

Worked well for Waterford to leave it as WIT!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 28-09-2017 02:55PM

obi604 wrote: »

When I login to Internet banking, I login with my 8 digit registration number, after many years, I have just realised that the first 6 digits are my date of birth - thick or what !!

If that's the case I'm either three years old or 103...

ohnonotgmail · 28-09-2017 03:41PM

obi604 wrote: »

When I login to Internet banking, I login with my 8 digit registration number, after many years, I have just realised that the first 6 digits are my date of birth - thick or what !!

I think me an you have been using this for a long longer than others as mine is the same. In fact i dont think they even had internet banking back then. it was all phone banking.

New Home · 28-09-2017 03:44PM

Or maybe some banks use your DOB and some others don't.

ohnonotgmail · 28-09-2017 03:45PM

New Home wrote: »

Or maybe some banks use your DOB and some others don't.

Oh Yeah

we're probably both with AIB.

bonzodog2 · 28-09-2017 03:48PM

Mine's like that too, with AIB. I'd say for younger people, there's going to be more than 99 people with the same DOB, so they can't use that format

Ted_YNWA · 28-09-2017 04:10PM

Ulster bank uses that format, AIB don't.

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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