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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #272
    ElleEm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭ElleEm


    I recently found out that Silverback gorillas are named that cos they have silver coloured fur on their backs!

    I always thought it was just their names!


  • #273
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,365 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    For most of my life I have spelt obvious as odvious. Only noticed my mistake three or four years ago.


  • #274
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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

    I've been a member of boards for nearly 6 years. This is, quite probably, the best thing I've ever learned!


  • #275
    JustAddWater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    whoopsadaisydoodles wrote: »

    I've been a member of boards for nearly 7 years. This is, quite probably, the best thing I've ever learned!

    Howie Mandel us the voice of Gizmo in the gremlins movies!

    Mogwai!


  • #276
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    JustAddWater wrote: »
    Howie Mandel us the voice of Gizmo in the gremlins movies!

    Mogwai!

    Googled Howie Mandell, still have no idea who he is..


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  • #277
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    ElleEm wrote: »
    I recently found out that Silverback gorillas are named that cos they have silver coloured fur on their backs!

    I always thought it was just their names!

    What do you mean, like Mr. Silverback? Seamus O' Silverback. That kind of thing? :pac:


  • #278
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I've been a member of boards for nearly 7 years. This is, quite probably, the best thing I've ever learned!

    7 years? ;) hmmmm?


  • #279
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    I only copped on when I was 19 or 20 that when you look at yourself in the mirror, you're not seeing what everyone else sees. Sounds stupid, I mean I knew mirrors were reverse image and all that, but it never occured to me before then that my side-fringe was really on the opposite side to the one I thought it was on... :o


  • #280
    Canard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,572 ✭✭✭Canard


    Is whoopsy about to realize that 12 - 7 = 5? :P
    languagenerd wrote: »
    I only copped on when I was 19 or 20 that when you look at yourself in the mirror, you're not seeing what everyone else sees. Sounds stupid, I mean I knew mirrors were reverse image and all that, but it never occured to me before then that my side-fringe was really on the opposite side to the one I thought it was on...
    oh my GOD, I wasn't alone!! :pac: I dont know how I didnt realize from pictures...I used to get my fringe cut to the side I liked to see it in the mirror, not realizing it didnt look like that to everyone else. I also love languages...maybe you're my long lost twin. :D


  • #281
    Ihatecuddles-old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    I always thought Mexico and Spain were beside each other.


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  • #282
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Chucken wrote: »
    7 years? ;) hmmmm?

    Six/seven Tis all the same
    <.<
    >.>


  • #283
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    PizzamanIRL wrote: »
    When I was a child, I though there was no colour years ago, that everything was in black and white.
    Calvin's dad explains http://i.imgur.com/6pFGe.gif


  • #284
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    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.
    First time I heard 'Fast Car' I thought it was a white guy.
    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:
    I recently discovered that you can carelessly type nearly anything that resembles 'google.com' and it'll work. Fool-proof internetting right there!

    Examples:
    gogle.com
    gooogle.com
    gogole.com
    googl.com
    googel.com

    Probably more.


  • #285
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,196 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    alproctor wrote: »
    :) Glad I'm not the only one....

    The other side ...
    • of the road...
    • "The afterlife"





    EDIT - reading other's posts, maybe I just developed a fantastic new joke!! :pac: :pac:

    Lightbulb moment here... while I was racking my brains to understand it (I'm 36) I figured it could also mean "to annoy the opposition".

    I only realised very recently that this logo (for Carrefour supermarkets) was a capital C.

    http://www.intellego.fr/uploads/1/5/1504/media/images%20communication/logoCARREFOUR.gif

    In my defence, the white bit is usually just empty space on the physical signs.

    http://legavroche.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/carrefour-enseigne-grande-distribution-magasin-hypermarche-2332450_1713.jpg


  • #286
    baalthor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭baalthor


    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.

    What Muslim authorities ??

    It was Bal Thackeray, leader of the right-wing/xenophic Hindu/Marathi Shiv Sena party who had the name changed to Mumbai. He was no friend of the Muslims.

    Also most of the major Indian cities had their names changed during the latter decades of the 20th century.


  • #287
    ViveLaVie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭ViveLaVie


    That ponies are not young horses. Only found this out recently on boards and I still find it hard to accept!


  • #288
    wonderfullife
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭wonderfullife


    That TS on car registration plates is Tipperary South. Used to wreck my head.


  • #289
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    I only figured out a few years ago that t-shirts are so called because they're shaped like the letter "t."

    I also only discovered relatively recently that the arrow in the Amazon logo is meant to be a smile.


  • #290
    typeunegative
    Site Banned Posts: 7 ✭typeunegative


    Grizzly as in a bear means grey not fierce!


  • #291
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭KungPao


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    I only figured out a few years ago that t-shirts are so called because they're shaped like the letter "t."

    I also only discovered relatively recently that the arrow in the Amazon logo is meant to be a smile.

    And I just realised the Amazon logo has an arrow pointing from A to Z, suggesting they have everything!


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  • #292
    miller50841
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭miller50841


    That I am LOST


  • #293
    typeunegative
    Site Banned Posts: 7 ✭typeunegative


    'Just desserts' is always wrong unless the article is about food.


  • #294
    miller50841
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭miller50841


    wonderfullife wrote: »
    That TS on car registration plates is Tipperary South. Used to wreck my head.
    Always though that stood for total ****e


  • #295
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    KungPao wrote: »
    And I just realised the Amazon logo has an arrow pointing from A to Z, suggesting they have everything!

    ZOMG!! :eek:


  • #296
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    miller50841 wrote: »
    Always though that stood for total ****e

    Won't tell you what we thought the D was for then :D


  • #297
    Mountainsandh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,705 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    pickarooney wrote: »

    I only realised very recently that this logo (for Carrefour supermarkets) was a capital C.

    http://www.intellego.fr/uploads/1/5/1504/media/images%20communication/logoCARREFOUR.gif

    Ah ffs, I'm French and never realised ! :eek:

    I think I've a problem with seeing all these "negative" images.
    For years and years and years, all I saw in the Batman logo was an epiglottis and tonsils. I swear even now, I have to do mind gymnastics to see the logo properly, what I first look at is the bloody epiglottis. (in fact, are we all supposed to see an epiglottis ? maybe that's something I hadn't realised ?)

    I've no problem switching from one language to the other, but complicated images are lost on me.

    edit : just looked at it again, I'll grant you it's a very square and shrivelled epiglottis, and enlarged tonsils :P


  • #298
    bleg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,848 ✭✭✭bleg


    Anybody hear of the successful band place-bow? Placebo...


  • #299
    Canard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,572 ✭✭✭Canard


    In the same vein as mountainsandh, I see the 7up logo as this weird symbol. I never realized it's like 7.UP until I was...8? So now I see both. My mind was blown when I realized! :o

    edit: just noticed I didnt realize that til I was over 7...7up :D :P


  • #300
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    There never was a 'Lilt Man'.


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  • #301
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,250 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That Harristown Courthouse is the district court for Castlrea prison - I had always wondered why it seemed to be such a violent place and why I had never heard of it otherwise.


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