What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

amtw · 26-02-2013 12:55AM

The hospital on Adelaide Road in Dublin is known as the "eye and ear" hospital not the "Ioneer" hospital.

Capt'n Midnight · 26-02-2013 02:10AM

Augmerson wrote: »

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

Actually that's not true
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorheic_basin

The dark bits on this map

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ocean_drainage.png

Ihatecuddles-old · 26-02-2013 02:54AM

I don't even own a toaster and that still blew my mind.

I will be telling everyone I know about that!

Where To · 26-02-2013 02:57AM

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

I don't even own a toaster and that still blew my mind.

I will be telling everyone I know about that!

It even has it's own facebook page with 227000 likes.:eek:

We're all stupid and we didn't even know it.

Ihatecuddles-old · 26-02-2013 03:42AM

Where To wrote: »

It even has it's own facebook page with 227000 likes.:eek:

We're all stupid and we didn't even know it.

I knew you were...I'm still shocked that I am

Westsbest · 26-02-2013 03:49AM

To Trust no one.I realise this regularly,I guess I'm too optimistic in regard to humanity.

im invisible · 26-02-2013 08:02AM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Actually that's not true
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorheic_basin

The dark bits on this map

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ocean_drainage.png

you got there before me, I was going to mention the Okavango river and delta in africa, and the Jordan river/ dead sea. Never realised the Caspian sea doesn't have any outlet though

Flutterby80 · 26-02-2013 08:56AM

That escalators in shops are so called because they escalate you to a higher level , I'm so proud of myself

ScummyMan · 26-02-2013 09:18AM

That my post will by the 1000th in this thread!

pickarooney · 26-02-2013 09:25AM

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

That my post will by the 1000th in this thread!

so close...

Kolido · 26-02-2013 09:36AM

unknowngirl!! wrote: »

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

I'm surprised that this is news to so many. Did ye not realise it takes longer for the toast to pop up on a higher number?

knucklehead6 · 26-02-2013 09:40AM

Kolido wrote: »

I'm surprised that this is news to so many. Did ye not realise it takes longer for the toast to pop up on a higher number?

Higher number and higher heat setting...

I have to confess to being unaware of the timer thing too!

Capt'n Midnight · 26-02-2013 10:41AM

unknowngirl!! wrote: »

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

I've always thought of it as a temperature switch

used to have the toaster set half way
everyone else liked golden brown bread
I liked it done twice, just before it reached the carbonite state

but you had to run the toaster once , because the first time took longest and the toast would always burn if done twice in a cold toaster

Danonino. · 27-02-2013 04:39AM

My toaster just took 2 minutes and 26 seconds to pop after been set to close to 4 minutes...

I call shenanigans.

oldyouth · 27-02-2013 02:38PM

Joe10000 wrote: »

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

I was hoping someone else would ask by now, so as not to appear stupid

. What is the other meaning??

seamus · 27-02-2013 02:46PM

I always wondered why Tallaght hospital was called the "Adelaide and Meath" until I heard someone earlier this week refer to the "old hospital building on Adelaide road". Then it twigged that Tallaght was built to replace the Adelaide and Meath hospitals, but retained the names...

seamus · 27-02-2013 02:48PM

oldyouth wrote: »

I was hoping someone else would ask by now, so as not to appear stupid . What is the other meaning??

Well there's the hot press, as in the place where you store your towels and hemp.

There's also then "hot off the press" or "hot press" to refer to brand new information.

oldyouth · 27-02-2013 02:53PM

seamus wrote: »

Well there's the hot press, as in the place where you store your towels and hemp.
.

Cheers, it thought it would be something like that but couldn't figure it out

SuperGrover · 27-02-2013 04:15PM

Just noticed the other day that I don't need to go to the pause/play 'button' on YouTube to, well, pause/play.

Just click on the screen area and hey presto.

You all know this all along, right?

qwert2 · 27-02-2013 04:17PM

Gangnam style on Monday

Kolido · 27-02-2013 04:20PM

SuperGrover wrote: »

Just noticed the other day that I don't need to go to the pause/play 'button' on YouTube to, well, pause/play.

Just click on the screen area and hey presto.

You all know this all along, right?

you can just press spacebar also

SuperGrover · 27-02-2013 04:27PM

Kolido wrote: »

you can just press spacebar also

This is all too much to take in.

NegativeCreep · 27-02-2013 04:46PM

qwert2 wrote: »

Gangnam style on Monday

Same.

qwert2 · 27-02-2013 04:59PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Same.

Phew, I thought I was the only one

1ZRed · 27-02-2013 05:02PM

Always thought people who spelled affect were spelling effect wrong and I didn't know they had different meanings.

Dolbert · 27-02-2013 05:12PM

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.

There's another theory that Michelangelo depicted God as being enclosed in a brain - perhaps his way of suggesting that the idea of God came from man? Even cooler when you realise that he regularly dissected human bodies and organs before most people would have known what they looked like.

DavyD_83 · 27-02-2013 06:20PM

1ZRed wrote: »

Always thought people who spelled affect were spelling effect wrong and I didn't know they had different meanings.

Up until last year i thought seperate and separate were two different words.
Always thought the verb was to seperate, and that gave you 2 separate pieces.

Turns out there's only one word, inexplicably pronounced differently to give differnet meanings.

I still prefer my way

donvito99 · 27-02-2013 06:48PM

I used to think the following line from the Friends theme song;

"When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year.."

was

When it hasn't been your day, come on - or even your year.

My sister laughed at me for 5 straight minutes when I was caught out singing along watching today.

humbert · 27-02-2013 07:40PM

donvito99 wrote: »

I used to think the following line from the Friends theme song;

"When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year.."

was

When it hasn't been your day, come on - or even your year.

My sister laughed at me for 5 straight minutes when I was caught out singing along watching today.

Not convinced that had anything to do with the words.

Capt'n Midnight · 27-02-2013 10:47PM

seamus wrote: »

Well there's the hot press, as in the place where you store your towels and hemp.

There's also then "hot off the press" or "hot press" to refer to brand new information.

so nothing to do with the journalists being shít hot then ?

then again after the fluoride article I guess not

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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