What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

keano_afc · 22-05-2013 04:54PM

I had no idea until recently that the Canterbury logo had kiwis in it. Just couldnt see them.

http://bestoflogo.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Canterbury-logo-canterbury-logo.jpg

Allyall · 22-05-2013 07:28PM

I just realised that This Wilton is nothing like This Caffreys was, when i was younger.

I am disappoint.

Also slightly ill.

Agus · 22-05-2013 07:40PM

Canard wrote: »

I never actually thought about that, hahaha. I think cul is more like arse though. :P I guess if you see one from an aerial view it could kinda look like a bag...I wonder where the name came from.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cul-de-sac

1738, as an anatomical term, from French cul-de-sac, literally "bottom of a sack," from Latin culus "bottom" (for second element, see sack (n.1)). Application to streets and alleys is from 1800.

locum-motion · 23-05-2013 02:42AM

French visitors do laugh at it, though. To a modern french person, it means "Arse of bag"

sok2005 wrote: »

I realized the other day that Cul De Sac is French for end of a bag. Strange......

Canard wrote: »

I never actually thought about that, hahaha. I think cul is more like arse though. :P I guess if you see one from an aerial view it could kinda look like a bag...I wonder where the name came from.

Agus wrote: »

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cul-de-sac

1738, as an anatomical term, from French cul-de-sac, literally "bottom of a sack," from Latin culus "bottom" (for second element, see sack (n.1)). Application to streets and alleys is from 1800.

jill_valentine · 23-05-2013 03:04AM

How to reverse image search.

NegativeCreep · 23-05-2013 08:01AM

That "as well" isn't all one word.

Clockwork Owl · 23-05-2013 08:05AM

That Homer Simpson is supposed to have a beard. I actually said out loud, "Oh! That's what that's supposed to be!"

Martyn1989 · 23-05-2013 08:08AM

Clockwork Owl wrote: »

That Homer Simpson is supposed to have a beard. I actually said out loud, "Oh! That's what that's supposed to be!"

No it's just stubble

pogsick · 23-05-2013 08:51AM

that alot isn't a real word, it should be a lot

stateofflux · 29-05-2013 10:13AM

tiger kidnappings have actually nothing to do with tigers

Blisterman · 30-05-2013 08:02AM

Immaculate conception does not actually refer to the virgin Mary getting pregnant.

guttenberg · 30-05-2013 09:52AM

That Biffy Clyro is the name of a band and not some random bloke. Admittedly I know sod all about music so that's my defence.

MJ23 · 30-05-2013 10:19AM

That a circumcised mickey is called a threeskin.

Doubt it's true, but it is funny.

Capt'n Midnight · 30-05-2013 10:53AM

Watching I Claudius and the quite spoken, clean shaven guy playing Augustus looked very familiar. But I couldn't place him.

Until he shouted.

IT WAS BRIAN BLESSED !!! :eek:

artanevilla · 30-05-2013 10:54AM

Prof Nincom Poop Ph.D wrote: »

That a ducks quack does echo and you can't see the Great Wall of China from space.

Their is a few pics where you can see it, not with a naked eye, but only because it was covered in snow on a really clear day.

Hold on now. The first is a spoof, but if it wasn't how is this an obvious thing that you only just realised? Do you walk around caves with ducks all day?
And when did you realise the second? On your second trip to the ISS?

NegativeCreep · 30-05-2013 11:49AM

Blisterman wrote: »

Immaculate conception does not actually refer to the virgin Mary getting pregnant.

What is it then??

smoking_kills · 30-05-2013 11:49AM

Not the most obvious thing in the world, unless your a sailor, but the old Nokia SMS tone, is SMS in morse code.

... -- ... 3 dots= S 2 dashes= M

Also Trebor is Robert backwards, I had a teddy bear as a kid called Trebor and my name is Robert, My mum told me about it a few years back when she found the bear in her attic :)I never knew

She's so clever my Mammy ...:)

seamus · 30-05-2013 11:51AM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

What is it then??

In Catholic mythology it refers to the birth of Mary itself, the belief that Mary was born without original sin and therefore was a holy vessel to carry Jesus.

kiffer · 30-05-2013 12:16PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

What is it then??

It Mary's conception...
'Mary, conceived without sin' is short for
'Mary who was conceived without sin'...
You see because of God's rule that every human had to carry original sin from the whole fruit-gate incident no one was pure enough to carry Jesus... so he let Mary off so the original sin thing so that she could be pure enough to be mother to Christ... so that Christ could be born so that we could kill him so that he could forgive us for original sin which makes none of us worthy to get into heaven.

Quazzie · 30-05-2013 12:33PM

kiffer wrote: »

It Mary's conception...
'Mary, conceived without sin' is short for
'Mary who was conceived without sin'...
You see because of God's rule that every human had to carry original sin from the whole fruit-gate incident no one was pure enough to carry Jesus... so he let Mary off so the original sin thing so that she could be pure enough to be mother to Christ... so that Christ could be born so that we could kill him so that he could forgive us for original sin which makes none of us worthy to get into heaven.

I thought your baptism/confirmation or something removes original sin in this world or witchcraft?

MJ23 · 30-05-2013 12:35PM

Barry o hanlon, Huey Phelan and Tony Kelly from Fair City, are all in Batman Begins.

Allyall · 30-05-2013 09:41PM

May not be obvious, but I learned today that the prefix "Kil" or "Kill" or "Killy" etc.. Means Church.

It definitely wasn't obvious to me.

After looking it up, It turns out, it could also come from "Coill" from Woodland,
and that is possibly where "Culchie" comes from - "Coillte" (Wood/forest).

cantdecide · 30-05-2013 10:28PM

Allyall wrote: »

After looking it up, It turns out, it could also come from "Coill" from Woodland,
and that is possibly where "Culchie" comes from - "Coillte" (Wood/forest).

I always thought that "Culchie" related to agriculture?? ie Culchie is a derogatory word for a farmer/ bogger?

Hells Belle · 30-05-2013 10:53PM

Just saw the word hang-gliding written, I always thought it was hand-gliding because you hold on to that bar.

--LOS-- · 30-05-2013 11:37PM

The little tab on a coke can is designed so that you press the far side down to make it easier to pull the tab and saving all your precious nails :-o

Capt'n Midnight · 31-05-2013 12:57AM

--LOS-- wrote: »

The little tab on a coke can is designed so that you press the far side down to make it easier to pull the tab and saving all your precious nails :-o

and the hole is for holding a straw

31-05-2013 01:09AM

kiffer wrote: »

It Mary's conception...
'Mary, conceived without sin' is short for
'Mary who was conceived without sin'...
You see because of God's rule that every human had to carry original sin from the whole fruit-gate incident no one was pure enough to carry Jesus... so he let Mary off so the original sin thing so that she could be pure enough to be mother to Christ... so that Christ could be born so that we could kill him so that he could forgive us for original sin which makes none of us worthy to get into heaven.

Seems legit.

elfy4eva · 31-05-2013 01:12AM

That if your food is too hot, you can eat from the edge of the plate as its cooler.

Smidge · 31-05-2013 01:15AM

Allyall wrote: »

May not be obvious, but I learned today that the prefix "Kil" or "Kill" or "Killy" etc.. Means Church.

It definitely wasn't obvious to me.

After looking it up, It turns out, it could also come from "Coill" from Woodland,
and that is possibly where "Culchie" comes from - "Coillte" (Wood/forest).

Culchie comes from "Cul an ti" which relates to the "back of the house"

It was coined in reference to how country people always use the back of the house and not the front, to enter the home

Allyall · 31-05-2013 03:07AM

cantdecide wrote: »

I always thought that "Culchie" related to agriculture?? ie Culchie is a derogatory word for a farmer/ bogger?

I always thought that too.

Smidge wrote: »

Culchie comes from "Cul an ti" which relates to the "back of the house"

It was coined in reference to how country people always use the back of the house and not the front, to enter the home

Possibly true too..

I'm just going by the wiki page.. - I was just referring to "Kil" mostly..

The term is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "One who lives in, or comes from, a rural area; a (simple) countryman (or woman), a provincial, a rustic". It is sometimes said to be a word derived from the remote town of kiltimagh, County Mayo.[1] However the more likely origin of the term is the Irish coillte meaning "the woods",I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"]citation needed[/URL][/I to describe people who lived in the woods. A further, simpler, explanation is that the word derives from the word agriCULTURE, highlighting the industrial/agricultural divide between rural and urban populations.I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"]citation needed[/URL][/I
Another potential derivation is an old Gaelic term "cúl an tí",I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"]citation needed[/URL][/I meaning the back of the house. It was, and still is to a certain extent, common practice in rural areas to enter a neighbour's house through the back door, rather than the front (which is for more formal visits). Thus the term cúl an tí or culchie was applied to these people. Also, many city dwellers from Dublin tenements had to work as servants. The servants were not permitted to enter the house from the front but had to use the back door or servants entrance. It became common practice in Dublin to use the term in a derogatory manner. Over time as the numbers of servants dwindled away the term was still kept in everyday use.

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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