What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

10-01-2018 04:17PM

_Roz_ wrote: »

I only realized recently that the Count in Sesame Street was so-named not just because he's a vampire, but because he counts.

Yep, I'm dumb.

Knex* · 11-01-2018 02:17AM

Sign language is different in every country. Like, deaf British people can't understand deaf Americans.

This literally only dawned on me as a possibility about 30 minutes ago, prompting a furious google search.

Flincher · 11-01-2018 02:31AM

The name Tayto comes from the word potato. I had a sudden realisation while stuck behind a Tayto truck last week.

Larbre34 · 11-01-2018 02:34AM

Knex. wrote: »

Sign language is different in every country. Like, deaf British people can't understand deaf Americans.

This literally only dawned on me as a possibility about 30 minutes ago, prompting a furious google search.

I'm 27. And evidently, an idiot.

Doesnt make you an idiot, i only became aware of that in recent years and i thought nothing of it. Its just one of those things that if it doesnt impact of your life then why would you know much about it.

the beer revolu · 11-01-2018 01:27PM

Katgurl wrote: »

I don't think most of the things listed above were obvious. Perhaps I am stupider than most though.

Anyway here is mine -

I was shocked at how many fb friends this year suffering from the very rare virus influenza. Then I realised they have a flu.

Chances are, most of them had a cold, anyway.

valoren · 11-01-2018 01:29PM

Ciaran_B wrote: »

In the episode of The Simpsons when Mr. Burns puts on a fake 'tache and tells people his name is Snrub, he is spelling Burns backwards.

"I like the way Snrub thinks..."

Found out last night that the 'Harpo' from Oprah Winfrey's production company Harpo Productions is Oprah spelled backwards.

Capt'n Midnight · 11-01-2018 09:37PM

Knex. wrote: »

Sign language is different in every country. Like, deaf British people can't understand deaf Americans.

Meanwhile in Northern Ireland ... there's both Irish Sign Language and British Sign Language.

BTW there's also Catholic and Protestant bats, different species live in different churches.

donegaLroad · 12-01-2018 08:05PM

If your products are too reasonably priced, people think that there is something wrong with them.

SimonTemplar · 14-01-2018 01:15AM

Oprah's company is called Harpo which I've always known. Just realised it is Oprah spelled backwards.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 14-01-2018 01:23AM

Ciaran_B wrote: »

In the episode of The Simpsons when Mr. Burns puts on a fake 'tache and tells people his name is Snrub, he is spelling Burns backwards.

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21Savage · 14-01-2018 03:33AM

I know a girl who can't get her head around the fact white Americans are from Europe. She can get it with black people.She also can't comprehend that Mexicans and other central Americans are nothing like Spaniards.

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Typical Mexican look. You'd know straight away they weren't Spaniards. She also doesn't see them(Spanish) as 'white'. Really really annoys me. Cesar Azplicueta and Fernando Torres, Dani Rovira all have same complexion as Irish but all look typically Spanish. Torres and Rovira have long faces with close and beady eyes

pickarooney · 14-01-2018 08:27AM

What's the connection with the topic there?

razorblunt · 14-01-2018 09:38AM

21Savage wrote: »

I know a girl who can't get her head around the fact white Americans are from Europe. She can get it with black people.She also can't comprehend that Mexicans and other central Americans are nothing like Spaniards.

Typical Mexican look. You'd know straight away they weren't Spaniards. She also doesn't see them(Spanish) as 'white'. Really really annoys me. Cesar Azplicueta and Fernando Torres, Dani Rovira all have same complexion as Irish but all look typically Spanish. Torres and Rovira have long faces with close and beady eyes

Show her the boxer Canelo for Mexicans

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And Iniesta for Spanish

Mr.Crinklewood · 14-01-2018 09:43AM

It's "Phillip Schofield", not "Philip Scholfield"

Bubbaclaus · 14-01-2018 09:51AM

When I was a kid I used to think the 'No Credit' signs some shops would have up behind the counter meant that they didn't sell phone credit there.

21Savage · 14-01-2018 04:50PM

razorblunt wrote: »

Show her the boxer Canelo for Mexicans

And Iniesta for Spanish

Canelo's both parents are full Spanish lineage and you can tell. He has no native American indigenous blood in him. I could tell he was Spanish straight away. He's ginger but his features are Spanish.

razorblunt · 14-01-2018 08:27PM

21Savage wrote: »

Canelo's both parents are full Spanish lineage and you can tell. He has no native American indigenous blood in him. I could tell he was Spanish straight away. He's ginger but his features are Spanish.

Spanish? If he was lining out in a Championship game for Kilmacud I wouldn’t look twice!!

grogi · 14-01-2018 08:30PM

razorblunt wrote: »

Spanish? If he was lining out in a Championship game for Kilmacud I wouldn’t look twice!!

There is some ginger blood around the southern nations. Remember the Nero Emperor?

Ash.J.Williams · 17-01-2018 05:05PM

I've just copped after 15 years or more that Tenacious D means a firm grip of a Penis.

pawdee · 17-01-2018 05:33PM

I was well into my 30s before I realised that misled was pronounced "missled". I thought it was pronounced "myzeld". I was obviously myzeld somewhere along the line. Luckily I never had occasion to read the word publicly. Strange because I've understood and have been using the word misled (and mislead) in conversation for many years.

I was also in my 30s before I realised that Tayto is derived from potato. If you look closely you'll notice that Mr Tayto resembles a peeled potato!

grogi · 17-01-2018 05:34PM

pawdee wrote: »

I was well into my 30s before I realised that misled was pronounced "missled". I thought it was pronounced "myzeld". I was obviously myzeld somewhere along the line. Luckily I never had occasion to read the word publicly. Strange because I've understood and have been using the word misled (and mislead) in conversation for many years.

I was also in my 30s before I realised that Tayto is derived from potato. If you look closely you'll notice that Mr Tayto resembles a peeled potato!

His full name is Poe Tayto, isn't it?

tracey turnblad · 20-01-2018 12:27PM

That ad for Allianz with the blind marathon runner girl... I thought it was for Aldi!

sabat · 20-01-2018 01:57PM

Sarah Palin has the same surname as Michael Palin.

Conall Cernach · 20-01-2018 02:28PM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

I've just copped after 15 years or more that Tenacious D means a firm grip of a Penis.

I'm pretty sure they got their name from an American Football commentator who would use the phrase "Tenacious D" when talking about a tenacious defence.

pickarooney · 22-01-2018 01:59PM

sabat wrote: »

Sarah Palin has the same surname as Michael Palin.

Do you think she measures up? (Or just Palin comparison)

tupenny · 23-01-2018 02:39AM

I always thought "up the ante" was try harder / put more feckin effort in
Til last weekend playing poker and some1 said "after this round antes are 40/80 "
I was in awe!!

Duckworth_Luas · 23-01-2018 05:26AM

The same actor, John Rhys-Davies, played the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings

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and Indy's larger than life pal Sallah in the Indiana Jones movies.

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mikemac2 · 23-01-2018 05:49AM

KraftyKennedy wrote: »

I'd always thought Shelbourne F.C was a premier league UK team and assumed that there was a city called Shelbourne in the UK.

In 2001 Shelbourne played a big UEFA cup game. Stands packed, TV cameras there

Except the game wasn’t real, it was against Harchester United for the British show Dream Team

It was even possible to buy Harchester United jerseys in shops in Dublin but they wouldnt stock League of Ireland jerseys! When a team that doesn’t exist is more popular than you something is going wrong

Video here ,including a young Wes Hoolihan. These days Shels are lucky to get 400-500 at a game

https://youtu.be/gHlLXHphB6Q

Subcomandante Marcos · 23-01-2018 06:03AM

shaneon77 wrote: »

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

Nope. Created in the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.

IvyTheTerrible · 23-01-2018 07:30AM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

The same actor, John Rhys-Davies, played the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings.

and Indy's larger than life pal Sallah in the Indiana Jones movies.

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He also voiced Treebird in Lord of the Rings.

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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