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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #692
    Dietsquirt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 676 ✭✭✭Dietsquirt


    Jason Statham finished 12th in the Diving World Championships in 1992


  • #693
    Eathrin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    Dietsquirt wrote: »
    Jason Statham finished 12th in the Diving World Championships in 1992

    I feel so stupid now, knowing that I did not know this obvious fact :D


  • #694
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    HMV have the logo of a dog beside a record player
    pic

    Never knew until yesterday that HMV is "His Masters Voice"

    It's not obvious, just something I never realy thought about


  • #695
    Mahogany
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭Mahogany


    That "As Well" are two seperate words and not one whole word.

    lolz


  • #696
    irish_stevo815
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,609 ✭✭✭irish_stevo815


    I only copped on the other day that Saorview is in fact the same as the UK'S "Freeview".........Saor is Free in Irish.

    Also I was kinda baffled when I learned that Ralph Fienes is actually pronounced RAY Fienes.


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  • #697
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    That cheap burgers are cheap for a reason

    :eek:


  • #698
    Swampy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭Swampy


    irish_stevo815 wrote: »

    Also I was kinda baffled when I learned that Ralph Fienes is actually pronounced RAY Fienes.

    It's actually pronounced "Rafe".


  • #699
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    Mahogany wrote: »
    That "As Well" are two seperate words and not one whole word. lolz

    I was very surprised to find out the phrase is spelt "No one"... NOT!!

    When will people stop spelling it "Noone"?!!


  • #700
    MurdyWurdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭MurdyWurdy


    For years I thought the word unshed (as in unshed tears) was pronounced unchd, like all one syllable - then I realised it was actually un-shed.

    Felt a bit thick after that one!

    Also, when i was younger I thought that in Police Academy the Chief dude was getting tickled by that nice woman under the lectern and that's why he was making those noises and looked happy. Then I watched it again when I was 16/17 and my innocence was gone! :)


  • #701
    housetypeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    Up til I was 15-16,because I had only ever read the word and never heard it spoken,I though that photographer was pronounced Photo grapher.


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  • #702
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    The word "indictment" is not pronounced fo-net-ik-lee


  • #703
    pitythefool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭pitythefool


    After watching the brilliant Animaniacs segment "GoodFeathers" for years I finally saw GoodFellas

    Fell around the place laughing at the dinner table scene when it all clicked

    What a cartoon


  • #704
    irish_stevo815
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,609 ✭✭✭irish_stevo815


    A few years ago one of the lads had the game Monopoly on his phone. Another friend was looking through it ans came across thus game. He stopped and blurted out: "MONO POLY. What the hell is MONO POLY" . We stood staring at him for about 30 seconds before the penny dropped......


  • #705
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    cantdecide wrote: »
    I was very surprised to find out the phrase is spelt "No one"... NOT!!

    When will people stop spelling it "Noone"?!!
    Ditto with "alot". Ick.


  • #706
    pitythefool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭pitythefool


    housetypeb wrote: »
    Up til I was 15-16,because I had only ever read the word and never heard it spoken,I though that photographer was pronounced Photo grapher.

    yet you can use the internet


  • #707
    housetypeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    pitythefool wrote: »
    yet you can use the internet

    This was long before the internet and mobile phones,back in the days of one channel black and white televisions.


  • #708
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    When i was a kid, similarly, i thought "Antiques" wuz pronounced Anti-Cue's.

    Watching the Anti-cues Roadshow with my mother one sunday i said it aloud.
    I was 12ish.


  • #709
    Squ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Squ


    Some Folk in work pronounce manometer as mano meter, and odometer as odo meter. Doesn't seem to bother anyone else, but grinds my gears!


  • #710
    reap-a-rat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭reap-a-rat


    I was having some mangetout peas the other day and I realised - mange-tout - mange(r) means to eat en francais and tout means all - eat-all - mangetout... D'oh!


  • #711
    pitythefool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭pitythefool


    housetypeb wrote: »
    This was long before the internet and mobile phones,back in the days of one channel black and white televisions.

    you might get sarcasm next


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  • #712
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Reading through this thread ......... idiots hows did you not know that......... idiots hows did you not know that......... idiots hows did you not know that....
    ............

    I never knew that .........


  • #713
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    I don't know how obvious this was to anyone else but I heard on tv earlier that there are only two words in the english language that end in "gry" -

    angry and hungry.


  • #714
    Canard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,572 ✭✭✭Canard


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    I don't know how obvious this was to anyone else but I heard on tv earlier that there are only two words in the english language that end in "gry" -

    angry and hungry.
    You could kinda do that with anything though - e.g. when people are like "omg, underground is the ONLY word that starts and ends with und!". Like, fridge is the only word that begins with fri and ends with dge...:pac: The one that always got me is that EVERY word has a vowel pretty much, except for sky.

    Also, an obvious realization: your username is pronounced like sarcasm. :o


  • #715
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    Patchy~ wrote: »
    The one that always got me is that EVERY word has a vowel pretty much, except for sky.

    Spy. Fly. Dry. Crypt. Nymph. etc...


  • #716
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Patchy~ wrote: »
    You could kinda do that with anything though - e.g. when people are like "omg, underground is the ONLY word that starts and ends with und!". Like, fridge is the only word that begins with fri and ends with dge...:pac: The one that always got me is that EVERY word has a vowel pretty much, except for sky.

    Also, an obvious realization: your username is pronounced like sarcasm. :o

    I see your sky & raise you a rhythm


  • #717
    Canard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,572 ✭✭✭Canard


    Lingua Franca wrote: »
    Spy. Fly. Dry. Crypt. etc...
    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    I see your sky & raise you a rhythm
    It seems the mind-blowing realizations never end! :pac:


  • #718
    Eathrin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    Any without the "y"?
    It is essentially a vowel sound


  • #719
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    I see your sky & raise you a rhythm


    I'll see your Rhythym and raise you a twyndyllyng :p


  • #720
    Eathrin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    Allyall wrote: »
    I'll see your Rhythym and raise you a twyndyllyng :p

    I'll see your twyndyllyng and raise you a twyndyllyngs :pac:


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  • #721
    thee glitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭thee glitz


    Fortnight is a contraction of fourteen nights.


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