What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 18-01-2013 01:00AM

Dean09 wrote: »

Emily is much hotter than Zooey imo!

jesus christ no

El Guapo! · 18-01-2013 01:03AM

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

jesus christ no

Jesus Christ yes!

And Zooey sounds like kermit the frog. She's still hot though.

Sofaspud · 18-01-2013 01:04AM

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

I just realised that the phrase "strike while the iron is hot", refers to using a weapon that's just been made by the blacksmith (ie, the iron is still hot). I never really put any thought into it and just assumed that it referred to an electric iron...why you'd want to strike someone with an iron right after pressing your clothes never crossed my mind.

Not quite, the thing being struck is the (iron) weapon, as it has to be struck while hot to turn it into a weapon in the first place

Paz-CCFC · 18-01-2013 01:15AM

Sofaspud wrote: »

Not quite, the thing being struck is the (iron) weapon, as it has to be struck while hot to turn it into a weapon in the first place

Ah yes, that makes more sense. I was thinking along the lines of an old weapon being worn down, whereas a new, "hot" weapon would be nice and sharp.

I do quite like the idea of a crazed housewife (or husband) going around branding people by smacking them in the face with an iron, though!

M.T. Cranium · 18-01-2013 04:22AM

pitythefool wrote: »

I just realised that even when people on Boards totally miss the point, people will still thank them for their quote out of neediness

Thanks for posting this. :pac:

Squ · 18-01-2013 11:05AM

Mind you, or mind due

Eg; i used to play soccer, mind you, i wasn't very good.

sbsquarepants · 18-01-2013 11:18AM

Squ wrote: »

Mind you, or mind due

Eg; i used to play soccer, mind you, i wasn't very good.

Mined jew, mind ewe;)

md23040 · 18-01-2013 11:50AM

The earth does not go round the sun in a circular orbit but an elliptical orbit.

Perihelion is when the sun is closest to the earth, and on January 3rd is over 3,500,000 miles closer to us than 3rd July. Yet evenly after the winter solstice on December 23rd, the weather still get colder until 19th of January, being the peak period of coldness, thereafter statistically it gets warmer for us.

So in short from Sunday things brighten up and get better....

.

long range shooter · 18-01-2013 11:55AM

E=mc2

HandsomeJonny · 18-01-2013 12:11PM

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

I see your sky & raise you a rhythm

Sky and rhythm don't have any orthographic vowels but they do have phonetic vowels. Orthographic vowels are letters which we say are vowels opposoed to consonants. Phonetic vowels are where a sound is pronounced as a vowel.

It is virtually impossible(I stand to be corrected by people with a better knowledge of phonetics) to pronouce two consonants in a row without having a vowel sound in between them. This is nearly the functions of vowels.

In Sky there it is pronounce sky it rhymes with buy which contains a vowel.
Rhythm = Rithim. The Rhythm hy is pronounce pretty much like the i in rid.

Another Random fact. English has quite a simple grammar compared to most languages but it is very difficult for a non nativve to know how to pronounce a word without heading somebody say it. English speakers have a good knack for this but we too find it difficult

pitythefool · 18-01-2013 12:20PM

HandsomeJonny wrote: »

Sky and rhythm don't have any orthographic vowels but they do have phonetic vowels. Orthographic vowels are letters which we say are vowels opposoed to consonants. Phonetic vowels are where a sound is pronounced as a vowel.

It is virtually impossible(I stand to be corrected by people with a better knowledge of phonetics) to pronouce two consonants in a row without having a vowel sound in between them. This is nearly the functions of vowels.

In Sky there it is pronounce sky it rhymes with buy which contains a vowel.
Rhythm = Rithim. The Rhythm hy is pronounce pretty much like the i in rid.

Another Random fact. English has quite a simple grammar compared to most languages but it is very difficult for a non nativve to know how to pronounce a word without heading somebody say it. English speakers have a good knack for this but we too find it difficult

I head what your saying but rhythm still contains no vowels

HandsomeJonny · 18-01-2013 12:29PM

pitythefool wrote: »

I head what your saying but rhythm still contains no vowels

IPA for hidden is /ˈhɪd(ə)n/
IPA for rhythm is /ˈɹɪ.ð(ə)m/

The second sound of both words is the same, The i in hidden is a vowel.
The y in rhythm is pronounced as a vowel too. It is just written weird in English.

Also one could argue that the vowels should be a e i o u and y.

If you look at the vowel quadrilateral there is a close relationship between i and y.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPA_vowel_trapezium.svg

pitythefool · 18-01-2013 12:38PM

HandsomeJonny wrote: »

IPA for hidden is /ˈhɪd(ə)n/
IPA for rhythm is /ˈɹɪ.ð(ə)m/

The second sound of both words is the same, The i in hidden is a vowel.
The y in rhythm is pronounced as a vowel too. It is just written weird in English.

Also one could argue that the vowels should be a e i o u and y.

If you look at the vowel quadrilateral there is a close relationship between i and y.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPA_vowel_trapezium.svg

you could argue, but who would listen

OakeyDokey · 18-01-2013 12:39PM

How do we know that Humpty Dumpty was an egg? Where was that ever said?

DyldeBrill · 18-01-2013 12:40PM

There are no vowels in the word rhythm....

fasttalkerchat · 18-01-2013 12:48PM

HandsomeJonny wrote: »

It is virtually impossible(I stand to be corrected by people with a better knowledge of phonetics) to pronouce two consonants in a row without having a vowel sound in between them. This is nearly the functions of vowels.

Its difficult for English speakers apart from sounds like "ch" where the pronunciation changes.
In Polish you have words like przyjaciel. Most English speakers leave a space between the consonants because we struggle to pronounce them together.

miamee · 18-01-2013 12:58PM

In those words, the 'y' is considered a vowel.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/is-the-letter-y-a-vowel-or-a-consonant

Sorry, I know that is off-topic.

The really obvious thing I have realised reading this thread is that the standard of English being taught in schools these days has obviously slipped. I am surprised by the amount of people who didn't know that fortnight = fourteen nights or that breakfast = breaking of fast or that 'no one' or 'a lot' or 'as well' are two words, etc. That's not to say I haven't learned a few things in here myself

Squ · 18-01-2013 01:53PM

Omackeral wrote: »

looks at join date

A year to the day.

Time I wasn't here.

cgarrad · 18-01-2013 01:57PM

My girlfriend was STUNNED to be told that the food you eat becomes your body.

She assumed that it was just for energy.

Said she never thought about it....

Tisserand · 18-01-2013 01:58PM

That Elvis Presley never made an album (apart from greatest hits or compilation albums).

donalg1 · 18-01-2013 02:01PM

HandsomeJonny wrote: »

Sky and rhythm don't have any orthographic vowels but they do have phonetic vowels. Orthographic vowels are letters which we say are vowels opposoed to consonants. Phonetic vowels are where a sound is pronounced as a vowel.

It is virtually impossible(I stand to be corrected by people with a better knowledge of phonetics) to pronouce two consonants in a row without having a vowel sound in between them. This is nearly the functions of vowels.

In Sky there it is pronounce sky it rhymes with buy which contains a vowel.
Rhythm = Rithim. The Rhythm hy is pronounce pretty much like the i in rid.

Another Random fact. English has quite a simple grammar compared to most languages but it is very difficult for a non nativve to know how to pronounce a word without heading somebody say it. English speakers have a good knack for this but we too find it difficult

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Pawwed Rig · 18-01-2013 02:01PM

cgarrad wrote: »

My girlfriend was STUNNED to be told that the food you eat becomes your body.

You are what you eat...........literally

On QI they said that noone in the world is more than 10 years old as that is the length of time taken for your body to completely replenish/replace all of it's cells.

pitythefool · 18-01-2013 02:04PM

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

You are what you eat...........literally

On QI they said that noone in the world is more than 10 years old as that is the length of time taken for your body to completely replenish/replace all of it's cells.

does that mean im a paedophile, my girlfriend told me she was 31

cgarrad · 18-01-2013 02:09PM

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

You are what you eat...........literally

On QI they said that noone in the world is more than 10 years old as that is the length of time taken for your body to completely replenish/replace all of it's cells.

Heard that as well, is it true for teeth though?

Pawwed Rig · 18-01-2013 02:30PM

pitythefool wrote: »

does that mean im a paedophile, my girlfriend told me she was 31

Yes but it is ok as you will be tried as a minor.

cgarrad wrote: »

Heard that as well, is it true for teeth though?

I dunno. Are teeth living cells? I think they are dead like hair so are not replaced. A few on my 'teeth' are less than 3 years old:P

It does make you wonder though if through stem cell research they figured out a way to copy cells exactly rather than the way they currently degrade then it could prolong life almost indefinitely (ignoring disease and accidental death of course)

pitythefool · 18-01-2013 02:35PM

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Yes but it is ok as you will be tried as a minor.

I dunno. Are teeth living cells? I think they are dead like hair so are not replaced. A few on my 'teeth' are less than 3 years old:P

It does make you wonder though if through stem cell research they figured out a way to copy cells exactly rather than the way they currently degrade then it could prolong life almost indefinitely (ignoring disease and accidental death of course)

im cutting her off

daveyeh · 18-01-2013 02:42PM

People are generally just ar$eholes

sbsquarepants · 18-01-2013 02:43PM

Tisserand wrote: »

That Elvis Presley never made an album (apart from greatest hits or compilation albums).

According to wikipedia he made 22 studio albums, 6 live albums, 19 soundtrack albums and 13 compilations. Also 30 Ep's

lounakin · 18-01-2013 02:44PM

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Its difficult for English speakers apart from sounds like "ch" where the pronunciation changes.
In Polish you have words like przyjaciel. Most English speakers leave a space between the consonants because we struggle to pronounce them together.

I don't know if you and the poster you quoted actually realise what you're saying is ridiculous, here are some words with clusters of consonants that no one has ANY difficulty saying:

Cream (c+r)
Try
Star
Spit
Pronounce
Struggle.. need I go on?

dickwod1 · 18-01-2013 02:44PM

In Tina Turner's song What's love got to do with it -
Where she sing's It's just just a second hand emotion
I thought for donkeys years it was It's just a second handy motion

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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