What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

cantdecide · 30-12-2012 09:35PM

2 stroke engines simply don't need sophisticated valve timing hardware like cam chains etc. I mean come on, of course they don't. Just think about it!

McChubbin · 30-12-2012 10:13PM

Game of Thrones is quite brilliant.

pangolin · 30-12-2012 11:22PM

when I first moved to Ireland and got the TV connected the Angelus was on (the old still image one they used to have years ago). Thought it was some kind of test card...

movingsucks · 30-12-2012 11:34PM

vitani wrote: »

That 'landlord' comes from the words 'land lord'.

Well, you said really obvious, yes?

That you saw The Lion King 2 too?
Right?

FTA69 · 31-12-2012 12:23AM

Up until last year I thought Tom Jones was black. I mean, I knew he was Welsh and everything but I thought he was mixed-race or something, what with the perma-tan and the curly hair and whatnot. Also his voice and his dancing, he's very soulful and I just assumed he was black, or at least was mixed race.

anirishlad · 31-12-2012 12:38AM

I never used to realise that smiley faces in text actually looked like a smiley face.

eg: : ) i looked at it down to up rather then right to left

Zillah · 31-12-2012 12:40AM

Triangle...triangle...oh my God the name means three angles!

uch · 31-12-2012 12:41AM

If I dont point me Micky, trouble is about to happen

31-12-2012 01:00AM

Irish humour is sometimes just bitter begrudger

shinny · 31-12-2012 01:09AM

FTA69 wrote: »

Up until last year I thought Tom Jones was black. I mean, I knew he was Welsh and everything but I thought he was mixed-race or something, what with the perma-tan and the curly hair and whatnot. Also his voice and his dancing, he's very soulful and I just assumed he was black, or at least was mixed race.

Well....that one's up for debate. Go back far enough and I'd say you'd find some alright.

keithclancy · 31-12-2012 01:23AM

When we first moved to Holland we kept getting letters for this wagon called 'Aan de Bewoners'

Every day I would come home and curse this woman since I was getting all her post.

One day the Water got shut off, so I rang up, they informed me that they sent us 3 letters (I was a bit wet behind the ears then and didn't know you have to pay for water)

I swore blind I never received any letters.

So next day I found out in work that 'Aan de Bewoners' means 'To the residents'

tippspur · 31-12-2012 02:33AM

I've just read through the whole thread and I have been enlightened;)

Eathrin · 31-12-2012 03:27AM

tippspur wrote: »

I've just read through the whole thread and I have been enlightened;)

I've just read through the whole thread and I have been genuinely amazed at some comments.

anirishlad wrote: »

I never used to realise that smiley faces in text actually looked like a smiley face.

eg: : ) i looked at it down to up rather then right to left

I mean, really?

aN.Droid · 31-12-2012 03:28AM

Not just realised it but a few years ago it occurred to me that wheels with hub caps are called hubs :pac:

Capt'n Midnight · 01-01-2013 02:44AM

In Dune Dr Yueh was played by Dean Stockwell. ( Al in Quantum Leap)

BTW: Patrick Stewart was Gurney Halleck right when he stopped ageing http://eatwatchrun.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/patrick-stewart-collage.jpg

Mr. Nice · 01-01-2013 02:45AM

Limericks wrote: »

Not just realised it but a few years ago it occurred to me that wheels with hub caps are called hubs :pac:

Except they're not

ruthloss · 01-01-2013 01:32PM

When I was small I used to pray Our Father who 'worked' in Heaven.:o

mikemac1 · 01-01-2013 01:41PM

I learned that Richard Dean Anderson was still alive

I was a big fan of MacGuyver when I was a young 'un in the 90's.

Several sources informed me that the actor was killed in a premature explosion while filming a scene and so that was the end of MacGuyver
So sad

I asked about this on boards before, I wasn't the only one who heard this story in 1992!

stateofflux · 01-01-2013 02:06PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

I learned that Richard Dean Anderson was still alive

I was a big fan of MacGuyver when I was a young 'un in the 90's.

Several sources informed me that the actor was killed in a premature explosion while filming a scene and so that was the end of MacGuyver
So sad

I asked about this on boards before, I wasn't the only one who heard this story in 1992!

i just realised that guy from stargate is...wait for it..

mcguyver

Czarcasm · 01-01-2013 02:10PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

I learned that Richard Dean Anderson was still alive

I was a big fan of MacGuyver when I was a young 'un in the 90's.

Several sources informed me that the actor was killed in a premature explosion while filming a scene and so that was the end of MacGuyver
So sad

I asked about this on boards before, I wasn't the only one who heard this story in 1992!

Is there any chance you might be mixing him up with this guy-

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum

I remember that was on after the first run of Macgyver (WHO THE FLUCK STARTED SPELLING IT LIKE THAT?? I've only just discovered that now after 30 years of spelling it "mcguyver"

), but yeah, "Cover Up" it was called, (least I could spell that right!)

It's there in the wikipedia link but he died after an on set accident when he shot himself with a 44.

Richard Dean Anderson went off the radar for a while alright but then came back in Stargate SG1.

Celly Smunt · 01-01-2013 02:13PM

Kathy from greystones is a troll :eek:

mikemac1 · 01-01-2013 02:13PM

This must be how the rumour started ^^^^

It was a time before Wikipedia or ready internet access

If you're told RDA is dead in 1992 well you've no reason to doubt it, accidents happen on set and the whole show was about risk.

Never watched Stargate at all

Czarcasm · 01-01-2013 02:24PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

This must be how the rumour started ^^^^

It was a time before Wikipedia or ready internet access

If you're told RDA is dead in 1992 well you've no reason to doubt it, accidents happen on set and the whole show was about risk.

Never watched Stargate at all

Who ya feckin' tellin'?

Great, great show, I spent many hours as a kid holed up in the garage tinkering and putting all sorts of crazy shìt together off the back of that show and the A-Team! That was when I wasn't jumping out of trees to see who could jump from the highest height! :eek:

DazMarz · 01-01-2013 02:29PM

degausserxo wrote: »

Only recently got that Ned Flanders' kids' names rhyme with god. How many years has that show been on?

And his late wife's name also rhymes with God (Maude).

Real holy Joe, is Ned.

01-01-2013 02:31PM

That the movie spaceballs isn't half as funny as I remember

juan.kerr · 01-01-2013 02:32PM

DazMarz wrote: »

And his late wife's name also rhymes with God (Maude).

That's a bit of a stretch...unless you pronounce God as Gaude or Maude as Mod...:o

Larianne · 01-01-2013 02:39PM

RIB stands for rigid inflatable boat!

Dolbert · 01-01-2013 03:07PM

Count Rugen from The Princess Bride is played by Christpher Guest, aka Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap. I seriously never realised this despite having seen both films several times

The guy · 01-01-2013 03:15PM

arse..biscuits wrote: »

You can turn your phone off at night and the alarm will still work.

Not for Sony phones, only nokias in my experience.

Degringola wrote: »

That Arkansas is pronounced Arkansaw and indictment is pronounced inditement.

Never copped that about the chicken before. Who says AH isn't educational?

Because of that I only learned how to spell Indictment last year.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 01-01-2013 03:19PM

That it is possible to eat a large Toblerone for breakfast

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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