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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #1322
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,539 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    Up to just now I thought the ball of your foot was the heel and the heel was just another word for ankle... That explains my confused podiatrist.


  • #1323
    Ihatecuddles-old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    Mr.Prodston wrote: »
    Not particularly obvious, but watching Graham Norton finding out that Hayden Panettiere and the boxer Wladimir Klitchsko are going out :eek:

    I'm not even sure how that would even work :pac:

    Shes his pocket rocket!


  • #1324
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,250 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That my TV can tune to the AV channel (for UPC) automatically when I turn it on.

    I've been turning on the TV and then changing the channel manually for the past two years.


  • #1325
    StickyIcky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 899 ✭✭✭StickyIcky


    Mr.Prodston wrote: »
    Not particularly obvious, but watching Graham Norton finding out that Hayden Panettiere and the boxer Wladimir Klitchsko are going out :eek:

    I'm not even sure how that would even work :pac:

    http://ilovesportsgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Hayden-Wladimir-United-People-Charity-Night-hayden-panettiere-15818620-890-1222.jpg


  • #1326
    Mr.Prodston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    Ihatecuddles wrote: »
    Shes his pocket rocket!

    Wouldn't mind her being my pocket rocket either :pac:


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  • #1327
    maximoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭maximoose


    Not necessarily obvious..

    But I only just realised the phrase "hit the mother load" is actually "hit the mother lode"


  • #1328
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,744 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    maximoose wrote: »
    Not necessarily obvious..

    But I only just realised the phrase "hit the mother load" is actually "hit the mother lode"

    I think we need a thread just for commonly misquoted phrases.

    Like it's 'on tenterhooks', not 'on tender hooks' or 'toe the line' not 'tow the line'.

    Maybe it's just me driven mad by stuff like that though.


  • #1329
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    Swiss cheese isn't low fat because of the holes.


  • #1330
    Blisterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,514 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Only two countries in the world have a name beginning with the word "The":

    The Bahamas and The Gambia.

    So "The United Kingdom", "The Netherlands", "The Ukraine", "The Philippines" etc are actually wrong.

    Check it out for yourself:
    http://www.nationsonline.org/maps/political_world_map3000.jpg


  • #1331
    leewarden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭leewarden


    Blisterman wrote: »
    Only two countries in the world have a name beginning with the word "The":

    The Bahamas and The Gambia.

    So "The United Kingdom", "The Netherlands", "The Ukraine", "The Philippines" etc are actually wrong.

    Check it out for yourself:
    http://www.nationsonline.org/maps/political_world_map3000.jpg

    Now that is cool


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  • #1332
    therealme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭therealme


    Just realised that ALL men really are a selfish crowd of B'%"($^s!

    Deep down I knew I was always right, few more confirmed it recently!


  • #1333
    Mr.Prodston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    therealme wrote: »
    Just realised that ALL men really are a selfish crowd of B'%"($^s!

    Deep down I knew I was always right, few more confirmed it recently!

    Yeah we all really are a selfish crowd of B'%"($^s alright, we all meet on the 3rd Monday of every second month to come up with new ways of fulfilling our selfish needs.


  • #1334
    KKkitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    therealme wrote: »
    Just realised that ALL men really are a selfish crowd of B'%"($^s!

    Deep down I knew I was always right, few more confirmed it recently!

    You couldn't be more wrong. Not all men are bad. Some are actually decent.


  • #1335
    Mr. G
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 4,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. G


    Up until a year ago I only just noticed the I in the G in the Guaranteed Irish logo.

    And until a couple of months ago I never noticed the arrow in the Fedex logo between the e and the x. Ohh and amazon I forgot about the a to z arrow. :o


  • #1336
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Stewie in Family guy can only be heard by Brian the Dog

    :o


  • #1337
    leewarden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭leewarden


    Mr. G wrote: »
    Up until a year ago I only just noticed the I in the G in the Guaranteed Irish logo.

    And until a couple of months ago I never noticed the arrow in the Fedex logo between the e and the x. Ohh and amazon I forgot about the a to z arrow. :o

    Never noticed that till now!


  • #1338
    MickFleetwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭MickFleetwood


    therealme wrote: »
    Just realised that ALL men really are a selfish crowd of B'%"($^s!

    Deep down I knew I was always right, few more confirmed it recently!

    Nobody wants to listen to your whinging.


  • #1339
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    therealme wrote: »
    Just realised that ALL men really are a selfish crowd of B'%"($^s!

    Deep down I knew I was always right, few more confirmed it recently!

    I think you meant to put that into here:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056238863


  • #1340
    Eathrin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    therealme wrote: »
    Just realised that ALL men really are a selfish crowd of B'%"($^s!

    Deep down I knew I was always right, few more confirmed it recently!

    Probably 50% or more but there are a lot of decent people out there :)
    major bill wrote: »
    Stewie in Family guy can only be heard by Brian the Dog

    :o

    There's a few instances where others in the family can hear him.


  • #1341
    Love2love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Love2love


    That Georgian, Victorian, Elizabethan all refer to the period of time that was ruled by that particular monarch.


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  • #1342
    hatch03
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭hatch03


    Not sure if this counts but I remember asking my da "when did the world turn from black and white to colour", I must have been very young at the time, I hope I was anyway!!!!


  • #1343
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Eathrin wrote: »
    Probably 50% or more but there are a lot of decent people out there :)


    There's a few instances where others in the family can hear him.

    Usually in his dreams though??


  • #1344
    therealme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭therealme


    KKkitty wrote: »
    You couldn't be more wrong. Not all men are bad. Some are actually decent.

    I have seen how the ones you think are decent are just as bad.


  • #1345
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Love2love wrote: »
    That Georgian, Victorian, Elizabethan all refer to the period of time that was ruled by that particular monarch.

    I'm interested to hear what you thought they referred to before? :)


  • #1346
    Eathrin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    major bill wrote: »
    Usually in his dreams though??

    I don't think the creators really make a big deal of it when he is able to talk to people for specific episodes or scenes but in general they don't acknowledge him.
    For example there's the musical he did with Olivia and an episode where he is in a panic room with the family and Lois says "I agree with Stewie" I distinctly remember.


  • #1347
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Another one that comes to mind was the end of Titanic where she drifts off and she's dreaming of meeting all the people that were on the ship in the main stairwell

    Only copped it years later that she had actually died at that moment :o


  • #1348
    Love2love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Love2love


    NiallSparky wrote: »
    I'm interested to hear what you thought they referred to before? :)

    Ah I knew they referred to eras but just never made the connection


  • #1349
    MurdyWurdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭MurdyWurdy


    major bill wrote: »
    Another one that comes to mind was the end of Titanic where she drifts off and she's dreaming of meeting all the people that were on the ship in the main stairwell

    Only copped it years later that she had actually died at that moment :o

    I always thought that part was really stupid - she lived for 70 years after the Titanic sunk, married and had a family. Surely she would have seen her dead husband/kids/friends etc.

    I may just be very unromatic but she only knew yer man for a few days, surely all of her life that came after would have been more relevant to her!


  • #1350
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    There is an actual place called Timbucktu

    I thought it was just something you used in a story or to make a point


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  • #1351
    Eathrin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    There is an actual place called Timbucktu

    I thought it was just something you used in a story or to make a point

    And it's not even a major town.
    Just some village in Mali.


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