What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

Moll'll fix it · 20-01-2013 10:14PM

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

I just realized that the medical ship from the end of Empire Strikes Back is shaped like Offaly

That the shape of Iraq is the same as the shape of Co Monaghan....wasn't there some palaver a number of years ago at the Paddy's Day parade in New York with a group of Monaghan-Irish people in the parade carrying flags with the Monaghan flag on it, they were mistaken for maps of Iraq!

Collie D · 20-01-2013 10:22PM

That Andrea Bocelli is blind. Only realised over Xmas when I watched a concert of his on TV where he had someone guide him to the mike as he came on stage.

That was a long running argument with an ex of mine and I was adamant she was wrong when she said he was blind.

knucklehead6 · 20-01-2013 10:24PM

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Good shout all the same.
Am I the only one who had no clue what shape Offaly was?

Total nerd here, cos I had the picture of a nebulon b class ship in my head before the shape of Offaly!!

Cienciano · 20-01-2013 10:40PM

maximoose wrote: »

I have only just realised that Cypher in the Matrix/Ralph in Sopranos is also

this guy

So obvious now

Blood hell! Never would have noticed that one.
Ralph is a prick, but he's a good earner :pac:

mikemac1 · 20-01-2013 10:45PM

I watched Game of Thrones but I wouldn't be huge into it, not read all the books

Looking at the map, by God that's Ireland!

And sure enough there's a map to prove it
map

Book readers probably copped onto this years ago, it's all new to me

Quazzie · 20-01-2013 11:16PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

I watched Game of Thrones but I wouldn't be huge into it, not read all the books

Looking at the map, by God that's Ireland!

And sure enough there's a map to prove it
map

Book readers probably copped onto this years ago, it's all new to me

Kings Landing is Galway

Allyall · 22-01-2013 09:55PM

That Squirrels in Ireland don't hibernate..

I thought that's why they gathered their nuts.. One of the more obvious hibernators i would've bet .. and lost.

How i found that fact out reading about Atari I don't know. I followed some of the stories behind the games..

Squeaky the Squirrel · 22-01-2013 10:01PM

Allyall wrote: »

That Squirrels in Ireland don't hibernate..

It's true.

SillyIrish · 22-01-2013 10:07PM

How seriously disgraceful this country really is

Sofiztikated · 22-01-2013 10:10PM

That comic, The Other Side? Features chickens a lot?

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the Other Side.

Completely lost on me until yesterday, for some reason.

mossy2 · 22-01-2013 11:21PM

I only realized recently that the name, the Bee Gees was an abbreviation of the Brothers Gibb. The BG's.

juan.kerr · 22-01-2013 11:22PM

Aidan Miles > Nadia Selim

23-01-2013 01:32AM

That this Simpsons skit was a parody of Soviet Russia... the workers buying back their own produce from the "parasite" boss.

Sinfonia · 23-01-2013 01:50AM

Sofiztikated wrote: »

That comic, The Other Side? Features chickens a lot?

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the Other Side.

Completely lost on me until yesterday, for some reason.

The Far Side?

Canard · 23-01-2013 02:36AM

As if this isn't bad enough, I didn't realise it at all - my dad told me. I deserve an award!

I had left my cup upside down on the draining board. He explained that I should leave it on the bumpy part because that's what it's for and otherwise it pools...I never even questioned why it was slightly raised.

Which begs the question: what do you do with the flat part? :P

Eathrin · 23-01-2013 02:55AM

Patchy~ wrote: »

As if this isn't bad enough, I didn't realise it at all - my dad told me. I deserve an award!

I had left my cup upside down on the draining board. He explained that I should leave it on the bumpy part because that's what it's for and otherwise it pools...I never even questioned why it was slightly raised.

Which begs the question: what do you do with the flat part? :P

The hint was in the word "draining" :P

1ZRed · 23-01-2013 03:13AM

Quazzie wrote: »

Kings Landing is Galway

I'm the real life version of Joffrey.

Yup. I'm a dick

pickarooney · 23-01-2013 11:59AM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Xylophone. Not that difficult?

This one, and your name, are decent examples actually. The X is just pronounced like a Z in English whereas it's a KS or GZ combination elsewhere, including the Greek.

'Czar' it usually pronounced with a 'z' sound in English as opposed to the TS combination elsewhere.

Time for a thread split, methinks.

Czarcasm · 23-01-2013 12:19PM

pickarooney wrote: »

This one, and your name, are decent examples actually. The X is just pronounced like a Z in English whereas it's a KS or GZ combination elsewhere, including the Greek.

'Czar' it usually pronounced with a 'z' sound in English as opposed to the TS combination elsewhere.

Time for a thread split, methinks.

Slow day in the creative writing forum methinks!

Christ I really am a czarcastic bastard!

See what I did there? :pac:

The Cool · 23-01-2013 12:57PM

I only just the other day made the connection between the word "annihilated" written and said. It's one of those words you hear in movies all the time and I always wondered how to spell it, and lately I saw it written a few times and wondered how it was pronounced. I only just clicked that it's the same word!

johnwest288 · 23-01-2013 12:59PM

I allways thought Neil Diamond was singing "reverand blue jeans" its "for ever in blue jeans"

pitythefool · 23-01-2013 01:30PM

johnwest288 wrote: »

I allways thought Neil Diamond was singing "reverand blue jeans"

King of Queens?

johnwest288 · 23-01-2013 01:46PM

pitythefool wrote: »

King of Queens?

I allways thought Neil Diamond was singing "reverand blue jeans" its "for ever in blue jeans"

miamee · 23-01-2013 01:52PM

johnwest288 wrote: »

I allways thought Neil Diamond was singing "reverand blue jeans" its "for ever in blue jeans"

Me too

jester77 · 23-01-2013 01:57PM

That the first letters in the words Penis, Boobs and Vagina look like what they are.

Lingua Franca · 23-01-2013 02:02PM

pickarooney wrote: »

This one, and your name, are decent examples actually. The X is just pronounced like a Z in English whereas it's a KS or GZ combination elsewhere, including the Greek.

'Czar' it usually pronounced with a 'z' sound in English as opposed to the TS combination elsewhere.

Time for a thread split, methinks.

Add "thwart" to the thread split!

pitythefool · 23-01-2013 02:08PM

johnwest288 wrote: »

I allways thought Neil Diamond was singing "reverand blue jeans" its "for ever in blue jeans"

yes

its came up on an episode of "King od Queens"

pickarooney · 23-01-2013 03:12PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Slow day in the creative writing forum methinks!

Just getting a competition together if you want to drop by :pac:

Czarcasm · 23-01-2013 03:20PM

pickarooney wrote: »

Just getting a competition together if you want to drop by :pac:

On a serious note, I might just do actually, it's my wife that does all the creative writing nowadays with her short stories, and I've mentioned it to her that she should join up and have a look at the creative writing forum if she wants an unbiased and proper critique of her work, now might be the perfect time to mention it again!

Or I could just plagarise and not share the spoils! hmm...

Czarcasm · 23-01-2013 03:22PM

miamee wrote: »

Me too

Me three

Even now it doesn't "sound right" in my head

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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