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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #242
    GreeBo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,488 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    lachin wrote: »
    That there's no mince meat in mince pies!!!!
    Getting destroyed over it!!!

    Yes there is!
    However, there is no minced meat in them aka no meat.

    Minced meat is what you get when you start with meat and you mince it.
    Mince meat/mincemeat is the stuff in the mince pies.


  • #243
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    GreeBo wrote: »
    Yes there is!
    However, there is no minced meat in them aka no meat.

    Minced meat is what you get when you start with meat and you mince it.
    Mince meat/mincemeat is the stuff in the mince pies.

    There originally was meat in mince pies.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mince_pie

    Adding heavy sugars (honey) and dried fruit disguised the poor almost rotten taste of meat kept without refrigeration.


  • #244
    The Big Red Button
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,390 ✭✭✭The Big Red Button


    lachin wrote: »
    That there's no mince meat in mince pies!!!!
    Getting destroyed over it!!!

    Until a couple of years ago, I always thought that battered sausages were sausages that had been ... well, battered ... as in, hammered flat with one of those little mallet yokes that chefs use. :o

    In my defence, I'd never tried one (still haven't!), and had never seen one. I guess I assumed that 'battering' them with a hammer improved the taste ... somehow ...


  • #245
    Macker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 900 ✭✭✭Macker


    If you think that you have another Think coming


  • #246
    mr kr0nik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭mr kr0nik


    chatterpillar wrote: »
    Until a couple of years ago, I always thought that battered sausages were sausages that had been ... well, battered ... as in, hammered flat with one of those little mallet yokes that chefs use. :o

    In my defence, I'd never tried one (still haven't!), and had never seen one. I guess I assumed that 'battering' them with a hammer improved the taste ... somehow ...

    That only happens when you beat eggs.


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  • #247
    thomur
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 279 ✭✭thomur


    Maybe not too obvious but that pepper sauce was originally used to cover the taste of meat that had gone off


  • #248
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,151 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    For many years I thought Tracy Chapman was a man :o

    In my defense this was pre-youtube days and I didn't have ready access to the internet.

    In fairness, even with access youtube videos I'm not 100% sure


  • #249
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    Shryke wrote: »
    Muslim authorities giving 2 fingers to antiquity and anyone and everyone else. That's what the Mum is for. I call it Bombay.

    India is not a Muslim country....


  • #250
    Max Power
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭Max Power


    I always thought Sydney was the capital of Australia up until a few years ago.


  • #251
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    You don't need to type www. before many well known websites. Boards is one

    I spent years and years typing www. every time

    Only copped on this year and was treated like a fool by someone I told :rolleyes:

    If only people on tv and radio would realise you don't have to say "www" while reading out a web address. Just saying "boards.ie" is fine, people know what it is. It's happening less, but still a lot.


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  • #252
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    If only people on tv and radio would realise you don't have to say "www" while reading out a web address. Just saying "boards.ie" is fine, people know what it is. It's happening less, but still a lot.

    Got to love the cringe when presenters say "H T T P Colon forward slash, forward slash, W W W dot"...etc etc


  • #253
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    I never realised until this Christmas, that its Alan Hughes (off TV3) that's the young lad on that old ESB ad, that they play every year,about coming home for Christmas.


  • #254
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    When I was a child, I though there was no colour years ago, that everything was in black and white.


  • #255
    face1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭face1990


    corktina wrote: »
    India is not a Muslim country....

    It has a large muslim population. Mumbai/Bombay has had quite a lot of violence between Hindus and Muslims over the last decade.


  • #256
    TimmyoTooleI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭TimmyoTooleI


    That Dire Straits sang "get your money for nothing and your chIcks for free" not "get your money for nothing and your chips for free". I like chips


  • #257
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    The shop "Born" isnt called Boren. My excuse is im male.
    Until my late teens i though duct tape was duck tape


  • #258
    UglyBolloxFace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭UglyBolloxFace


    What have I just realised?

    ...that due to all my weirdness etc, it actually would be better off just to get it over and done with.


  • #259
    ITS_A_BADGER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭ITS_A_BADGER


    shruikan2553 wrote: »
    The shop "Born" isnt called Boren. My excuse is im male.
    Until my late teens i though duct tape was duck tape

    Same as that man!
    UglyBolloxFace wrote: »
    What have I just realised?

    ...that due to all my weirdness etc, it actually would be better off just to get it over and done with.

    we all have a little weirdness in us man, that whats make you, you! that let anyone tell you or make you feel otherwise, you are unique!


  • #260
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    shruikan2553 wrote: »
    The shop "Born" isnt called Boren. My excuse is im male.
    Until my late teens i though duct tape was duck tape

    Same, and I always called Dock Leaves "Dog leaves".


  • #261
    Daniel S
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭Daniel S


    Duck tape and Duct tape are both acceptable and correct, Google it! :)


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  • #262
    Caveman1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Caveman1


    Ive only just realised its Thursday


  • #263
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    GreeBo wrote: »
    Nice!

    How about that the original incoming SMS tone is actually the morse code for the letters SMS!

    ... _ _ ... ;)


  • #264
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    On realised recently why the Mince meat in Mince pies didn't taste like beef.


  • #265
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,979 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Same, and I always called Dock Leaves "Dog leaves".

    I used to think they were "duck leaves"


  • #266
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    hattoncracker wrote: »
    That Uncle Phil in Fresh Prince does the voice of Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

    Ah, I found that out years ago, was delighted to see the looks on peoples faces when I told them. The surprise, the recognition, followed by the "Oh my God, how did I not know that?" - and me sitting there like a smug pr1ck :D


  • #267
    who_me
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭who_me


    md23040 wrote: »
    Only realised Freddie Mercury was gay after he died.

    Fairly sure he was gay before he died..

    Otherwise it's a bit... .....euuuuuuh!

    ;)


  • #268
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/229868_472421496139093_201043630_n.jpg

    :eek:


  • #269
    LiffeyValleyB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭LiffeyValleyB


    That Tulisa Contostavlos is actually an incredibly attractive woman


  • #270
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Daniel S wrote: »
    Duck tape and Duct tape are both acceptable and correct, Google it! :)

    I just realised that duct tape used to be called duck tape tape due to it being waterproof but after the war it started being used for ducts in buildings.


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  • #271
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    MadameGascar wrote: »
    Why Dr. Hibbert always laughs

    Why? :confused:


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