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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #962
    timmaii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭timmaii


    Santa Claus is a version of Saint Nicholas. I just thought it was name from Norway or something!


  • #963
    lounakin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 699 ✭✭✭lounakin


    timmaii wrote: »
    Santa Claus is a version of Saint Nicholas. I just thought it was name from Norway or something!
    Claus is short for Nicholas :)


  • #964
    Joe10000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭Joe10000


    Hot Press, only copped the double meaning in recent years.


  • #965
    DerekDGoldfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭DerekDGoldfish


    Joe10000 wrote: »
    Hot Press, only copped the double meaning in recent years.

    .As in you hide it in there so no one knows you read the rag?


  • #966
    fox_1973
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭fox_1973


    Love2love wrote: »
    That boardsies don't read all the thread....... That Flo Rida / Will.I.AM fact has been mentioned at least 5 times

    time to unfollow im thinking


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  • #967
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    barcode on magazines for mobile phones

    Only found out this morning what they are

    Have been seeing them for a while now in magazines and newspapers and didn't know

    I haven't used one yet though

    Get with the kids they're not bar codes, they're QR Codes:cool:


    In pictures of Adam and Eve, they always have a leaf or their hand place over or something where they're belly button should be. By having a bellybutton, it indicates that they have a human mother, if they have no belly button, it looks weird and un-human. It is a great dilemma for painters.

    Peas also have belly buttons


  • #968
    Arpa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 442 ✭✭Arpa


    Boombastic wrote: »
    Get with the kids they're not bar codes, they're QR Codes:cool:


    In pictures of Adam and Eve, they always have a leaf or their hand place over or something where they're belly button should be. By having a bellybutton, it indicates that they have a human mother, if they have no belly button, it looks weird and un-human. It is a great dilemma for painters.

    Peas also have belly buttons

    Probably the most famous one of Adam is Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam and he has a belly button. Also people say that God is enlosed in a womb of angels...signifying that God is in fact the mother with the fingers almost touching being the umbilical chord therfore justifying the belly button.

    Though I guess that's not a really obvious thing I've just noticed.


  • #969
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    Arpa wrote: »
    Probably the most famous one of Adam is Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam and he has a belly button. Also people say that God is enlosed in a womb of angels...signifying that God is in fact the mother with the fingers almost touching being the umbilical chord therfore justifying the belly button.

    Though I guess that's not a really obvious thing I've just noticed.

    I just googled that picture
    Adam had a very small penis:pac:


  • #970
    Dimithy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭Dimithy


    Boombastic wrote: »
    In pictures of Adam and Eve, they always have a leaf or their hand place over or something where they're belly button should be. By having a bellybutton, it indicates that they have a human mother, if they have no belly button, it looks weird and un-human. It is a great dilemma for painters.

    You should probably look again.
    Or speak to whoever told you what a bellybutton was.


  • #971
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    Dimithy wrote: »
    You should probably look again.
    Or speak to whoever told you what a bellybutton was.

    Damm it!!


    Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button when he died :)


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  • #972
    Dimithy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭Dimithy


    I just realised: Because his sideburns were shaped like stars!


  • #973
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    Dimithy wrote: »
    I just realised: Because his sideburns were shaped like stars!

    :confused:

    Will I send the person round to explain to you what a bellybutton is? :pac:


  • #974
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That Bosco is a word play on "bosca"


  • #975
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Karsini wrote: »
    That Bosco is a word play on "bosca"

    Why bosco had red cheeks ..


  • #976
    Chemical Burn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭Chemical Burn


    That I have been spelling curses wrong all my life :O

    You have to put a fada in them .. fúck, cúnt, bástard, bollócks, shít.


  • #977
    unknowngirl!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭unknowngirl!!


    Until recently I thought numbers on the side of a toaster were a heat setting and not minutes!


  • #978
    Wexfordian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭Wexfordian


    unknowngirl!! wrote: »
    Until recently I thought numbers on the side of a toaster were a heat setting and not minutes!

    Until recently, so did I. Recently being oh about 30 seconds or so...


  • #979
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,154 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    unknowngirl!! wrote: »
    Until recently I thought numbers on the side of a toaster were a heat setting and not minutes!

    This is why I read this thread. I read 50 posts where I think people are idiots, but I get the odd bit of useful info that makes perfect sense like this!


  • #980
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    unknowngirl!! wrote: »
    Until recently I thought numbers on the side of a toaster were a heat setting and not minutes!

    Fcuk, me too!

    But why is there a 10 minute setting? Anything past 6 and toast is bolloxed!

    Actually, I know some people who do waffles in the toaster.


  • #981
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    That's something new I've learned tonight too, thanks unknowngirl!!


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  • #982
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    All rivers flow out to sea. Real epiphany there that day.


  • #983
    blueturnip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166 ✭✭blueturnip


    unknowngirl!! wrote: »
    Until recently I thought numbers on the side of a toaster were a heat setting and not minutes!
    Uh what?? How did I not know this!

    Definitely a most useful thread.


  • #984
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    unknowngirl!! wrote: »
    Until recently I thought numbers on the side of a toaster were a heat setting and not minutes!

    So obvious, yet I never knew it! Thanks for that one.


  • #985
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    unknowngirl!! wrote: »
    Until recently I thought numbers on the side of a toaster were a heat setting and not minutes!

    God Bless you unknowngirl!

    I didn't know that either.


  • #986
    jokettle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,419 ✭✭✭✭jokettle


    That bellyboxing is a euphemism for w@nking.


  • #987
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,154 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »
    Fcuk, me too!

    But why is there a 10 minute setting? Anything past 6 and toast is bolloxed!

    Actually, I know some people who do waffles in the toaster.

    A guy in work had those toaster bags for doing cheese sandwiches and he was putting rashers into them :eek:


  • #988
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Cienciano wrote: »
    A guy in work had those toaster bags for doing cheese sandwiches and he was putting rashers into them :eek:

    Rashers....:eek:

    Promote that genius, did it work ok?


  • #989
    davetherave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭davetherave


    Snickers: Get some nuts ad campaign.

    The female turns back into a male because he gets some nuts by eating a snickers....

    Only twigged this recently :o


  • #990
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,447 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Fcukin toasters!! I never knew. Scheming bastards.


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  • #991
    Cereal Number
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 329 ✭✭Cereal Number


    I realised I am just a tinsy bit racist and a pervert but how do


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