What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

major bill · 24-07-2013 11:06PM

MurdyWurdy wrote: »

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!

Lot of stupid parts in that movie, the bit where she throws the rock/diamond into the sea....she couldve set her grandkids up for life with the money the stone was worth.

mikemac1 · 24-07-2013 11:06PM

Eathrin wrote: »

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

I wonder how it became so famous so

Eathrin · 24-07-2013 11:09PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

I wonder how it became so famous so

Just looked it up and saw it had a population of 55'000 so it is slightly larger than I would have thought but still very small considering Mali's 15m population.

I guess it crept into the language as a metaphor for far away non-specific places.

Canard · 24-07-2013 11:21PM

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

Whaaaaaaat? :eek: I assumed she's just asleep, how can you tell?

mikemac1 wrote: »

I wonder how it became so famous so

Eathrin wrote: »

Just looked it up and saw it had a population of 55'000 so it is slightly larger than I would have thought but still very small considering Mali's 15m population.

I guess it crept into the language as a metaphor for far away non-specific places.

I remember first hearing about it when I was 10ish, because it apparently had a history of alien contact...I assumed that's why it was famous, but I just guessed really.

MickFleetwood · 24-07-2013 11:33PM

therealme wrote: »

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

Really? Have you? Have you personally met every male in existence and pegged them to be assholes? Or are you just somebody distressed and emotional over a bad experience? :pac:

Seems clear to me which one is more likely.

therealme · 24-07-2013 11:39PM

MickFleetwood wrote: »

Really? Have you? Have you personally met every male in existence and pegged them to be assholes? Or are you just somebody distressed and emotional over a bad experience? :pac:

Seems clear to me which one is more likely.

No, not emotional or stressed at all. Have always had a large circle of male relatives and friends from very different backgrounds.
I see how they are with each other, their female friends/relatives/partners etc. and yes, I genuinely do think men are selfish.
The older I get, the more I see it.

The King of Moo · 24-07-2013 11:43PM

therealme wrote: »

No, not emotional or stressed at all. Have always had a large circle of male relatives and friends from very different backgrounds.
I see how they are with each other, their female friends/relatives/partners etc. and yes, I genuinely do think men are selfish.
The older I get, the more I see it.

wats up hun u wanna talk bout it xXx

shruikan2553 · 24-07-2013 11:51PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

wats up hun u wanna talk bout it xXx

dnt wunna tlk bout it, chat?

Capt'n Midnight · 24-07-2013 11:51PM

hatch03 wrote: »

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!!!!

here ya go

http://i.imgur.com/Wm3N0Uk.jpg

Neeson · 25-07-2013 12:03AM

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

How was she dead if she was rescued by the ship and on the boat as a wrinkly old woman a few decades later?

Amirani · 25-07-2013 12:09AM

therealme wrote: »

No, not emotional or stressed at all. Have always had a large circle of male relatives and friends from very different backgrounds.
I see how they are with each other, their female friends/relatives/partners etc. and yes, I genuinely do think men are selfish.
The older I get, the more I see it.

This is embarrassing.

The King of Moo · 25-07-2013 12:32AM

shruikan2553 wrote: »

dnt wunna tlk bout it, chat?

no prob hunni il msg ya xxx

MickFleetwood · 25-07-2013 12:41AM

therealme wrote: »

No, not emotional or stressed at all. Have always had a large circle of male relatives and friends from very different backgrounds.
I see how they are with each other, their female friends/relatives/partners etc. and yes, I genuinely do think men are selfish.
The older I get, the more I see it.

Such a stupid, baseless generalization.

DazMarz · 25-07-2013 12:46AM

When a woman makes such a statement about men, it barely registers...

But:

If a man were to make a similar, disparaging, insulting statement that sweepingly generalised women, he would be a sexist, chauvinistic, misogynist dinosaur; worthy of nothing but utter contempt.

Hypocrisy at its very finest.

Amirani · 25-07-2013 12:59AM

DazMarz wrote: »

When a woman makes such a statement about men, it barely registers...

But:

If a man were to make a similar, disparaging, insulting statement that sweepingly generalised women, he would be a sexist, chauvinistic, misogynist dinosaur; worthy of nothing but utter contempt.

Hypocrisy at its very finest.

I'd use similar terms to describe the above posts. It's not really worth risking any sort of ban for though. Same goes if it had been a man spouting such rubbish about a woman.

MissD93 · 25-07-2013 01:25AM

When i was younger i asked my mam what the uv lights in the toilets of shopping centers were for and she told it was so the cleaning ladies could see and clean all the dirt, so a few weeks ago my older sister, her child and me were in the toilets when my niece asked me what the lights were for. I gave her the same explanation my mam gave me and my sister and asked me did i still believe that, i did and i now feel like a total fool.

Eathrin · 25-07-2013 01:32AM

MissD93 wrote: »

When i was younger i asked my mam what the uv lights in the toilets of shopping centers were for and she told it was so the cleaning ladies could see and clean all the dirt, so a few weeks ago my older sister, her child and me were in the toilets when my niece asked me what the lights were for. I gave her the same explanation my mam gave me and my sister and asked me did i still believe that, i did and i now feel like a total fool.

I had to use Google to find the real reason myself. Apparently it's to stop junkies finding their veins? Is that really common knowledge? I didn't even know they used UV lights in public bathrooms!

kiffer · 25-07-2013 01:51AM

Eathrin wrote: »

I had to use Google to find the real reason myself. Apparently it's to stop junkies finding their veins? Is that really common knowledge? I didn't even know they used UV lights in public bathrooms!

They just draw over the vains with a pen before they go into the bathroom so that they can see them... simple solution.

Canard · 25-07-2013 01:54AM

I remember being told that when I was quite young, always stuck with me because of the images of McDonalds managers being like "okay guys, we need to install these lights" "why?" "to stop junkies finding their veins" :pac: Kinda grossed me out too.

MissD93 · 25-07-2013 01:58AM

i prefer my mams explanation , it's much more innocent and who knows maybe shes right

Jesus Wept · 25-07-2013 01:59AM

That peppers all start out the same colour and change colour as they ripen...

Only dawned on me one day in Aldi when I saw a green pepper with hints of yellow on it, lightbulb moment.

peewee_44 · 25-07-2013 02:16AM

Not recently but a few years back I was listening to I saw mommy kissing santa clause and suddenly the penny dropped lol

The King of Moo · 25-07-2013 02:22AM

DazMarz wrote: »

When a woman makes such a statement about men, it barely registers...

But:

If a man were to make a similar, disparaging, insulting statement that sweepingly generalised women, he would be a sexist, chauvinistic, misogynist dinosaur; worthy of nothing but utter contempt.

Hypocrisy at its very finest.

In fairness, I think everyone agrees that that post is childish, sexist drivel. I can't imagine anyone defending such claptrap, and a few people have pointed out how ridiculous it is.

rubadub · 25-07-2013 10:12AM

maximoose wrote: »

Not necessarily obvious..

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

I learned this from discovery channel. The other one I got off discovery, also not obvious to be was the term "Commander in Chief", I always heard it as "Commander and Chief".

And still "mother load" and "commander & chief" make more sense to me.

leewarden · 25-07-2013 10:17AM

hatch03 wrote: »

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!!!!

The world turned from black and white to colour when Dorthy came out of the house and into Munchkin land

FueledByAisling · 25-07-2013 10:56AM

maximoose wrote: »

Not necessarily obvious..

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

Oh wow, up until this post I always thought it was a reference to cheat motherload in sims.:o I clearly spent way too much time playing that game!

FueledByAisling · 25-07-2013 11:18AM

amtw wrote: »

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

A couple of years ago I had to get my nose cauterized, I was about 15 and had never been to a hospital before in Ireland. I was given the address of the place but couldn't find the 'Ioneer' hospital so I waltzed in to the Eye and Ear to ask for directions after walking around for 2 hours in the rain. Queue the nurses dying with laughter for about 30 minutes after explaining the story to them

major bill · 25-07-2013 03:08PM

Neeson wrote: »

How was she dead if she was rescued by the ship and on the boat as a wrinkly old woman a few decades later?

She died in the end as an old woman not on the boat, when she drifts off into a deep sleep you see a young her back on the titanic, all the people that greet her were the same people that didnt make it off the boat, She was dead.

Neeson · 25-07-2013 04:24PM

major bill wrote: »

She died in the end as an old woman not on the boat, when she drifts off into a deep sleep you see a young her back on the titanic, all the people that greet her were the same people that didnt make it off the boat, She was dead.

Yeah but not many did make it off the boat. She was the only major character or one that had any good bit of screen time to make it off.

Therefore all the people she sees standing on the staircase are all people who died. This doesn't mean she was just after dying. What other characters got off the boat that they could have shown? Maybe your man who was a cu.nt. he had a good bit in the film.

But I assumed they wouldn't show him on the staircase because he was a bastard and Rose didn't like him. She wouldn't want to be thinking about him.

So maybe she was just dreaming about the nice people and not that fella is was a bad man.

rubadub · 25-07-2013 04:37PM

FueledByAisling wrote: »

I was given the address of the place but couldn't find the 'Ioneer' hospital so I waltzed in to the Eye and Ear

I used to think this too, my mates mother was always on about it if we were messing "I'm not bring yous to the Ioneer", definitely rolled it all into one.

It is still a very odd name to have IMO, so was never obvious to me, if it was suggested as a name for a new hospital I would think people would laugh at the suggestion.

Are there any other hospitals called after what they treat, with no other name tagged on, other than hospital, which I do not even hear tagged onto "the eye & ear".

-"I got a kick in the groin in soccer, I had to go to the Cock & Balls to get it sorted"

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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