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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #722
    Burky126
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Burky126


    If you double click on a word,it highlights it.


  • #723
    Al Capwned
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭Al Capwned


    Burky126 wrote: »
    If you double click on a word,it highlights it.

    And if you triple click, it highlights the entire paragraph.


  • #724
    fergiesfolly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,525 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    Al Capwned wrote: »
    And if you triple click, it highlights the entire paragraph.

    What happens if you quadruple click?
    Does it blow up the internet?


  • #725
    Burky126
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Burky126


    And if you triple click, it highlights the entire paragraph.

    What happens if you quadruple click?
    Does it blow up the internet?

    Holy arseballs.


  • #726
    Vélo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭Vélo


    I learnt a new word today..... Arseballs!


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  • #727
    Jacob T
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 103 ✭✭Jacob T


    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.
    Oh realgry?


  • #728
    Lionel Messy
    Site Banned Posts: 612 ✭✭✭Lionel Messy


    I have to cheat. It's not a recent thing.

    For years I thought Alex Ferguson and Duncan Ferguson were father and son. Pair of scumbags, same name and both Scots.


  • #729
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Breakfast (literally meaning to break the fasting period of the prior night) is the first meal taken after rising from a night's sleep

    Source.


  • #730
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Lionel Messy wrote: »
    I have to cheat. It's not a recent thing.

    For years I thought Alex Ferguson and Duncan Ferguson were father and son. Pair of scumbags, same name and both Scots.

    What? Aren't they? *Googles furiously*

    EDIT: Darren! http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Ferguson


  • #731
    Mysteriouschic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭Mysteriouschic


    I didn't know disney movies like Cinderella , The Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast , Jungle Book etc. were all based on books always just thought they were movies that Disney made up.


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  • #732
    M.T. Cranium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,187 ✭✭✭✭M.T. Cranium


    Those supermodels who want to meet older men only want to meet very wealthy older men.


  • #733
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    I've just realised you can't report your own post on the touchsite.


  • #734
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Where To wrote: »
    I've just realised you can't report your own post on the touchsite.
    I did it for you there :)


  • #735
    La_Gordy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭La_Gordy


    Lionel Messy wrote: »
    I have to cheat. It's not a recent thing.

    For years I thought Alex Ferguson and Duncan Ferguson were father and son. Pair of scumbags, same name and both Scots.

    Same thing about our own Roy and Robbie.....


  • #736
    happypants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭happypants


    Well this is actually really embarrassing. I recently realised that the month February has two R's. I always thought it was Febuary. My birthday is in February :/


  • #737
    lounakin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 699 ✭✭✭lounakin


    I realised a while ago but it came as a surprise that the juiceboxes 'sqeeze' have the 'u' squeezed out!


  • #738
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    happypants wrote: »
    Well this is actually really embarrassing. I recently realised that the month February has two R's. I always thought it was Febuary. My birthday is in February :/

    Did you write Wedensday too?


  • #739
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,196 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    La_Gordy wrote: »
    Same thing about our own Roy and Robbie.....

    I was sure Bobby and Bryan Robson were father and son up until about the time Sir Bobby died.


  • #740
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    lounakin wrote: »
    I realised a while ago but it came as a surprise that the juiceboxes 'sqeeze' have the 'u' squeezed out!


    *looks at carton of orange juice to verify there's no 'u', can't be right surely!*


    Well, that was a real "when you see it..." moment! :|

    I'd always read it just as "squeeze", squeezed oranges like :o


  • #741
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    I recently had a similar eureka moment regarding the missing e in supervalu!:D


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  • #742
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    I just realised today was Thursday, not Friday. Hate when that happens! :(


  • #743
    MurdyWurdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭MurdyWurdy


    Czarcasm wrote: »


    *looks at carton of orange juice to verify there's no 'u', can't be right surely!*


    Well, that was a real "when you see it..." moment! :|

    I'd always read it just as "squeeze", squeezed oranges like :o

    In our house we call it skeeze!


  • #744
    jd007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭jd007


    fergiesfolly wrote: »
    Does it blow up the internet?

    No that happens if you type google into google


  • #745
    irish_stevo815
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,609 ✭✭✭irish_stevo815


    Not really that obvious but was interesting all the same........Just watched an episode of Friends where they come back from Barbados, Mike & phoebe get back together. But Mike decides to break it off with his current girlfriend, Precious, who ends up at his apartment with Phoebe, who tells Precious that her & Mike are back together and engaged........Precious breaks down and says "This is the worst birthday ever".

    Forward on years later to another sitcom, How I Met Your Mother.......Ted breaks up with a girl, Natalie, over her answering machine...on her birthday. But gets back with her a few years later only to realise shes not right for him and breaks up with her in a Restaurant....on her BIRTHDAY again, where she proceeds to kick his ass.

    Both Natalie from HIMYM and Precious form Friends are played by the same person, Anne Dudek .
    Surely thats not just a coincidence :P


  • #746
    SoapMcTavish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭SoapMcTavish


    I had thought that MILF was an acronym for Middle Income Large Family.
    Seems applicable for those ladies I've seen on the interwebs .... :p


  • #747
    curlzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭curlzy


    That by holding down ctrl and selecting several sheets you can amend several Excel spread-sheets all at once. Horrified to think of the hours I wasted going into each sheet and changing each sheet individually. : (


  • #748
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    irish_stevo815 wrote: »
    Not really that obvious but was interesting all the same........Just watched an episode of Friends where they come back from Barbados, Mike & phoebe get back together. But Mike decides to break it off with his current girlfriend, Precious, who ends up at his apartment with Phoebe, who tells Precious that her & Mike are back together and engaged........Precious breaks down and says "This is the worst birthday ever".

    Forward on years later to another sitcom, How I Met Your Mother.......Ted breaks up with a girl, Natalie, over her answering machine...on her birthday. But gets back with her a few years later only to realise shes not right for him and breaks up with her in a Restaurant....on her BIRTHDAY again, where she proceeds to kick his ass.

    Both Natalie from HIMYM and Precious form Friends are played by the same person, Anne Dudek .
    Surely thats not just a coincidence :P

    That reminds me, didn't Phoebe have a twin sister who also played the same character in another sitcom?


  • #749
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,989 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    old hippy wrote: »
    That reminds me, didn't Phoebe have a twin sister who also played the same character in another sitcom?

    Yep, she was the ditzy waitress in Mad About You - also called Ursula Buffay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_About_You#Regular_guests


  • #750
    ITS_A_BADGER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭ITS_A_BADGER


    SoapMcTavish wrote: »
    I had thought that MILF was an acronym for Middle Income Large Family.
    Seems applicable for those ladies I've seen on the interwebs .... :p

    Time to fap what will i look at today hmmmm. i feel like looking at middle income large family porn LOL


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  • #751
    nicklauski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭nicklauski


    irish_stevo815 wrote: »
    Not really that obvious but was interesting all the same........Just watched an episode of Friends where they come back from Barbados, Mike & phoebe get back together. But Mike decides to break it off with his current girlfriend, Precious, who ends up at his apartment with Phoebe, who tells Precious that her & Mike are back together and engaged........Precious breaks down and says "This is the worst birthday ever".

    Forward on years later to another sitcom, How I Met Your Mother.......Ted breaks up with a girl, Natalie, over her answering machine...on her birthday. But gets back with her a few years later only to realise shes not right for him and breaks up with her in a Restaurant....on her BIRTHDAY again, where she proceeds to kick his ass.

    Both Natalie from HIMYM and Precious form Friends are played by the same person, Anne Dudek .
    Surely thats not just a coincidence :P

    Bunch of friends from New York, aslways hang out at the same place (mc Clarens/Central Perk), ones a ladies man (Joey/Barney), the other has a fairly boring job by their standards (Ross/Ted), 2 of them get married (Chandler Monica/potentially Barney & Robin)
    I'm sure there is way more coincidental incidents :)


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