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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #1442
    shinesun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭shinesun


    Guy that would have met through my ex is a boardsie!, pretty obvious as uses his real name! Ire is a teeny tiny place.:pac:


  • #1443
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    Well I noticed this a few years ago, and coulda slapped myself...

    I was watching the opening titles for The A-Team, and it's Dirk Benedicts bit for his name, and he points at a Cylon, and makes a perplexed face as if he knows him.

    It was only when I seen this as an adult that I realised he was in the original Battlestar Galactica fighting the Cylons. Felt like a eureka moment for me.


  • #1444
    Al Capwned
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭Al Capwned


    RachaelVO wrote: »
    Well I noticed this a few years ago, and coulda slapped myself...

    I was watching the opening titles for The A-Team, and it's Dirk Benedicts bit for his name, and he points at a Cylon, and makes a perplexed face as if he knows him.

    It was only when I seen this as an adult that I realised he was in the original Battlestar Galactica fighting the Cylons. Felt like a eureka moment for me.

    Love BSG new and old, and love the A-team, and I cannot believe i never seen that cylon before!!!!


  • #1445
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    Al Capwned wrote: »
    Love BSG new and old, and love the A-team, and I cannot believe i never seen that cylon before!!!!

    Swear ta god, it's the maddest thing ever

    http://youtu.be/PIfuaUTH9Y4

    Go to 44 seconds on this and you'll see it. Feels like such an eye opener!


  • #1446
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    I recently discovered that islands do not float and are attached to the sea floor, thanks to a reddit thread 'what could you not believe someone didn't know'. The strange thing is, I was brilliant at geography...


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  • #1447
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    Corruptedmorals wrote: »
    I recently discovered that islands do not float and are attached to the sea floor, thanks to a reddit thread 'what could you not believe someone didn't know'. The strange thing is, I was brilliant at geography...

    You thought Ireland was floating in the Atlantic ocean?


  • #1448
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,539 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    Red Pepper wrote: »
    You thought Ireland was floating in the Atlantic ocean?
    Our mythology could have contributed to this, I remember being taught a few stories in school of giants plucking the country from the sea like a lily pad. When you're that age you have the smarts to realise the giant bit is made up but maybe the floating bit isn't as obvious.


  • #1449
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,177 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Ice cream is a solid, yet it's always sold by volume, not by weight. I only recently figured out why: because ice cream contains a lot of air, it weighs less than water, so 500ml looks like "more" than (say) 400g.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #1450
    Padkir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭Padkir


    bnt wrote: »
    Ice cream is a solid, yet it's always sold by volume, not by weight. I only recently figured out why: because ice cream contains a lot of air, it weighs less than water, so 500ml looks like "more" than (say) 400g.

    Probably doesn't count as really obvious, but that's interesting, had never given it much thought before! :-)


  • #1451
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Corruptedmorals wrote: »
    I recently discovered that islands do not float and are attached to the sea floor, thanks to a reddit thread 'what could you not believe someone didn't know'. The strange thing is, I was brilliant at geography...

    If islands float, then could we swim underneath them ?


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  • #1452
    desbrook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭desbrook


    Corruptedmorals wrote: »
    I recently discovered that islands do not float and are attached to the sea floor, thanks to a reddit thread 'what could you not believe someone didn't know'. The strange thing is, I was brilliant at geography...

    Had a day at the beach never made you reconsider? ?


  • #1453
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    Red Pepper wrote: »
    You thought Ireland was floating in the Atlantic ocean?

    I managed to limit this stupidity to really small islands, thankfully..


  • #1454
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    desbrook wrote: »
    Had a day at the beach never made you reconsider? ?

    It was more of a passive thought!


  • #1455
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    If islands float, then could we swim underneath them ?

    Sure but only the small ones like Lambay :)


  • #1456
    diarmuid05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 440 ✭✭diarmuid05


    That the stopper on my bath fits neatly into the overflow thingy...
    I always just wrapped it around the tap...


  • #1457
    neuvoculchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭neuvoculchie


    That Australia and the rest of the southern hemisphere have opposite seasons (winter here is summer there) to us an I got a B1 in leaving cert honors geography


  • #1458
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Until about a year ago, I thought all my jean/trouser zips were defective and needed a little safety pin to stay up. A friend pulled me aside and explained how the zip needs to be turned down after it's pulled up :D Then again, his one was not knowing how to blow his nose until he was 15 (he didn't realise you had to close your mouth at the same time) :)


  • #1459
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    diarmuid05 wrote: »
    That the stopper on my bath fits neatly into the overflow thingy...
    I always just wrapped it around the tap...

    :eek: :pac:


  • #1460
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    neuvoculchie wrote: »
    That Australia and the rest of the southern hemisphere have opposite seasons (winter here is summer there) to us an I got a B1 in leaving cert honors geography

    That's a fairly huge one. How did you come to realise it out of interest?


  • #1461
    neuvoculchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭neuvoculchie


    Iv no idea someone just happened to mention it one day recently and i was like WTF, I have loads of cousins there and friends who went travelling there aswell


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  • #1462
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Malteasers, like "Malt" "teasers" and Tayto/potato :mad:

    Contact lenses because the lens makes contact with your eye

    I've had loads of these ones. It's like you know the words for things but if you dont think about it too much, you just dont realise!


  • #1463
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    Had to explain to an otherwise very clever friend that (apart from in the case of leap years) your birthday (or any other date) falls on the next day the following year....


  • #1464
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    I only figured out tampon applictors a short while ago. I always thought the glitzy packaging and extra plastic was an unnecessary use of resources :(


  • #1465
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    his one was not knowing how to blow his nose until he was 15 (he didn't realise you had to close your mouth at the same time) :)

    Just laughed out loud at my desk on this one.:D

    I recently explained to a trained/qualified accountant why a year has 365 days???


  • #1466
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    salacious crumb wrote: »
    Had to explain to an otherwise very clever friend that (apart from in the case of leap years) your birthday (or any other date) falls on the next day the following year....
    I never copped that, wouldn't think its obvious.

    I had to explain to my friend that I didn't know what date easter sunday was going to be one year. I was saying the date changes each year and was to do with moons etc. He thought I was taking the piss, which might be understandable, about the moons etc. He did think it would be like "the last sunday in april" or something, like public holidays, now this is forgivable.

    But it turned out he thought every date would be on the same day each year. I was saying things like "sure paddys day lands on a different day each year" and he was having none of it. I picked some date to question him about, think I said "right, so what day is your birthday on each year", he had a hard think and says "thursday!" as though he was putting me in my place.


  • #1467
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    rubadub wrote: »
    I never copped that, wouldn't think its obvious.

    I had to explain to my friend that I didn't know what date easter sunday was going to be one year. I was saying the date changes each year and was to do with moons etc. He thought I was taking the piss, which might be understandable, about the moons etc. He did think it would be like "the last sunday in april" or something, like public holidays, now this is forgivable.

    But it turned out he thought every date would be on the same day each year. I was saying things like "sure paddys day lands on a different day each year" and he was having none of it. I picked some date to question him about, think I said "right, so what day is your birthday on each year", he had a hard think and says "thursday!" as though he was putting me in my place.

    I would think that it's pretty obvious :D


  • #1468
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Just laughed out loud at my desk on this one.:D

    I recently explained to a trained/qualified accountant why a year has 365 days???[/QUOTE]


    um......


  • #1469
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Just laughed out loud at my desk on this one.:D

    I recently explained to a trained/qualified accountant why a year has 365 days???[/QUOTE]

    um......

    The amount of time it takes the Earth to complete a full revolution around the Sun.


  • #1470
    Ihatecuddles-old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    I only figured out tampon applictors a short while ago. I always thought the glitzy packaging and extra plastic was an unnecessary use of resources :(

    The amount of times I've left the plastic bit in accidentally :o 2 hours later, ah that's why I couldn't walk!


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  • #1471
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Ihatecuddles wrote: »
    The amount of times I've left the plastic bit in accidentally :o 2 hours later, ah that's why I couldn't walk!

    ha :D You did better than me, I didn't even realise the plastic bit went anywhere. I used to just...you know..."park" it outside and use the main bit. Never really knew what function it actually served :eek: I'm actually in awe of my own stupidity...


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