What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

skirtgirl · 07-01-2013 12:45AM

I always thought shiitake mushrooms were made out of....well take a guess. I wrote a letter to a magazine who published a shiitake mushroom recipe giving out that they got the name wrong! Took me a few years to realise they are genuine. I cringed. Cringing now. I always wondered why the magazine didn't publish my letter.

muckyhands · 07-01-2013 12:59AM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

would the winks be rapid eye movements ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_eye_movement_sleep

Tis possible...?

I learned a little more than about eye movements in that link.

:pac:

kilkenny12 · 07-01-2013 03:09AM

castletownman wrote: »

That the popular US rapper Flo Rida's stage name is actually a play on words on the state of Florida, his birth place.

MIND. BLOWN

Same idea with Will.i.am... his names William:o

ITS_A_BADGER · 07-01-2013 01:15PM

kilkenny12 wrote: »

Same idea with Will.i.am... his names William:o

yea i only copped that in the pub one night when his music video cam on the tv and a lightbulb went off in my head. o my god will.i.am = william :O my brother said i shouldnt say somethings out loud

old hippy · 07-01-2013 01:35PM

Professor Knowall wrote: »

That Hawaii was once a leper colony..

One of the islands, Molokai

Tony_Yeboah · 07-01-2013 01:38PM

The oul lad who played Mickey in Rocky (Burgess Maeredith) also played The Penguin in the 60's Batman tv series.

A friend of mine told me that a couple of years ago. One of those things that I would have never realised myself but was so obvious once i'd been told.

michellie · 07-01-2013 01:47PM

13spanner wrote: »

There's a bear in the Toblerone logo. Pretty cool

*comes back from Google images...
That is pretty cool!!

Arpa · 07-01-2013 01:57PM

Musefan wrote: »

I never knew that I the song "I saw mommy kissing Santa claus" that Santa claus is actually the father...hence the "if daddy had only seen" line...penny has dropped!!

This one got me too. For years I thought it was something different. Perhaps cynically I believed that Santa Claus was the wife's secret lover dressed as Santa and daddy was still up in bed unaware that his wife was getting it on with some guy in a Santa suit.

There's three possible meanings.

a) It's daddy dressed as Santa Claus
b) It's some secret lover dressed as Santa Claus who has snook in on Christmas Eve to bone Mommy
c) Santa is real and mommy couldn't contain herself when she realised she might have an opportunity to bag the jolly fat man.

Though I know I'm probably wrong I'm sticking with (b) as I like to think of mommy as some sluttish wagon who sleeps around- gives the song a sordid feel when you think about it like that.

Arpa · 07-01-2013 02:12PM

Zillah wrote: »

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

Trivia = tri via
Latin - Three Roads

In ancient Rome the point at which three roads met. At these locations there would be posted the news and bulletins of what was taking place in the Empire.

Loved when I found that out as it is a great bit of trivia.

pickarooney · 07-01-2013 02:16PM

cantdecide wrote: »

You could count sheep. Baa Baa Black Sheep...

Is everyone tone deaf or have you not got an attention span of more than four notes? Or is there an alternative version of BBBS with fewer syllables that goes "Baa baa black sheep have you wool?"

Gambas · 07-01-2013 02:17PM

The reason you allow stuff to cool down before putting it in the fridge is so you don't waste electricity cooling it down to room temperature or raise the temperature of the fridge unnecessarily.

I always thought it messed up the food ion some way.

al28283 · 07-01-2013 02:19PM

Jimi Hendrix wanted to kiss the sky, not this guy

TheNap · 07-01-2013 02:43PM

That without Religion the world would be a much better place

martomcg · 07-01-2013 04:24PM

Realised a while back that the Firefox logo was actually a fox curled around the world!

Was shocked at how obvious it was when I spotted it!

pickarooney · 07-01-2013 05:11PM

martomcg wrote: »

Realised a while back that the Firefox logo was actually a fox curled around the world!

Was shocked at how obvious it was when I spotted it!

Did you know a firefox was a red panda?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda

bigbudda · 07-01-2013 09:23PM

Just heard properly that song "Tiny Dancer" ....aways thought it was "hold me close I'm trying to dance here"

Gah!

LeinsterDub · 08-01-2013 12:54AM

That watling street use to be called twatling street as it was where young ladies of the night were to be

fasttalkerchat · 08-01-2013 01:00AM

bigbudda wrote: »

Just heard properly that song "Tiny Dancer" ....aways thought it was "hold me close I'm trying to dance here"

Gah!

My cousins discovered it sounded like Shiny Panda.
They called me in and played it and I thought it was Shiny Panther.

fasttalkerchat · 08-01-2013 01:03AM

And now there's the sexy elephant song:
I'm living with a sexy elephant...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_lVOTPRGnw

Squ · 08-01-2013 01:07AM

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

And now there's the sexy elephant song:
I'm living with a sexy elephant...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_lVOTPRGnw

Sexy broadband in our house.

fasttalkerchat · 08-01-2013 01:19AM

Gambas wrote: »

The reason you allow stuff to cool down before putting it in the fridge is so you don't waste electricity cooling it down to room temperature or raise the temperature of the fridge unnecessarily.

I always thought it messed up the food ion some way.

It could warm up other food. A hot lasagne could melt your butter.

ruserious · 08-01-2013 01:28AM

That Captain Hadley in Shawshank does the voice of Mr.Krabs.

That Twelve hundred people in Limerick don't actually live in a Hospital.

puddles and umbrellas · 08-01-2013 01:29AM

ruserious wrote: »

That Twelve hundred people in Limerick don't actually live in a Hospital.

Ha!

NegativeCreep · 08-01-2013 01:57AM

wobzilla1 wrote: »

The one who played Niamh Connolly in Father Ted was Kochanski in Red Dwarf.

Last night listening to a few songs on youtube. I put on a few Michael Jackson songs because my girlfriends a big fan.
She's singing along with "Liberian girl"
She asks me where Libraria is.
She thought the song is called librarian girl

Best Song everrrrr!

I just realised that Dogs sweat through their footpads and not their tongues. (It's not obvious but I have it in my notes since September and have only learned it now

)

Also, Why are people so surprised when actors from films turn up in other films?? Like, they're actors, that's what they do!

Chuck Stone · 08-01-2013 03:03AM

Didn't just realise it but something I remind myself of now-and-again is that what we see in front of us is not us looking out through our eyes as if they are windows. What we see is an image that's projected upside onto our retinas that our brains interpret and correct.

Too obvious?

The_Kew_Tour · 08-01-2013 03:09AM

ruserious wrote: »

That Twelve hundred people in Limerick don't actually live in a Hospital.

Only took me about 7 seconds to get that one:p

IvySlayer · 08-01-2013 03:17AM

biko wrote: »

That never is just short for "not ever"

The King of Moo wrote: »

Similarly, I discovered not too long ago that "none" is short for "not one" and thus, strictly, it's a singular word, e.g "None of you is as cool or handsome as me."

You wanna sit down for this one

Fortnight is short for fourteen nights!

monkeysnapper · 08-01-2013 05:25AM

mine is.....

A dead cert in a horse race doesnt always win.

Sinfonia · 08-01-2013 05:38AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Is everyone tone deaf or have you not got an attention span of more than four notes? Or is there an alternative version of BBBS with fewer syllables that goes "Baa baa black sheep have you wool?"

It's a variation on the original theme (which is from "Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman", incidentally).

mikemac1 · 08-01-2013 06:43AM

Anyone watch Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy?

Ridicoulsly catchy song by Julio Inglesias near the end

Only copped this week that Beyond the Sea by Frank Sinatra is actually the exact same song, just English lyrics.
Kevin Spacey did a film with that song title a few years back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vO3jJpoNY4

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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