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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #1472
    Ihatecuddles-old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    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...

    They give really simple instructions, you obviously liked your own way better :D


  • #1473
    Padkir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭Padkir


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    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...
    Ihatecuddles wrote: »
    They give really simple instructions, you obviously liked your own way better :D



  • #1474
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Ihatecuddles wrote: »
    They give really simple instructions, you obviously liked your own way better :D


    Even more embarrassingly, I remember guffawing at the idea that tampons should come with instructions in the first place - I believe my exact words were "there's only one place to put them!" :o


  • #1475
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


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

    :eek: :(


  • #1476
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    salacious crumb wrote: »
    I would think that it's pretty obvious :D
    I have just never heard people say it before. I often hear people say things like "damn, patricks day/my birthday is on a thursday this year", and if it was well known I would have expected a reply like "well at least next year it'll be a friday so"


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  • #1477
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    rubadub wrote: »
    I have just never heard people say it before. I often hear people say things like "damn, patricks day/my birthday is on a thursday this year", and if it was well known I would have expected a reply like "well at least next year it'll be a friday so"

    I used to visit my parents on a Tuesday after work for Mammy dinner and I remember being really happy the year Pancake Tuesday "fell on a Tuesday" because it meant her making pancakes after dinner :D


  • #1478
    desbrook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭desbrook


    rubadub wrote: »
    I have just never heard people say it before. I often hear people say things like "damn, patricks day/my birthday is on a thursday this year", and if it was well known I would have expected a reply like "well at least next year it'll be a friday so"


    Surely you noticed that Christmas Day "moves along" ??? Jeeezus the "island guy" seems like an egghead now !


  • #1479
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    desbrook wrote: »
    Surely you noticed that Christmas Day "moves along" ???
    I knew it moved alright, just never copped it was to the next day (bar leap years)


  • #1480
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    rubadub wrote: »
    I knew it moved alright, just never copped it was to the next day (bar leap years)

    It's because there's not exactly 52 weeks in a year. There's essentially* 52 + 1 day.

    *Hence the leap years.


  • #1481
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    NiallSparky wrote: »
    It's because there's not exactly 52 weeks in a year. There's essentially* 52 + 1 day.

    *Hence the leap years.
    No the leap years are due to the extra quarter day in each year. ie the sun takes 365.25 days to go around the sun. So 52 weeks + 1 day + 1/4 day


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  • #1482
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    No the leap years are due to the extra quarter day in each year. ie the sun takes 365.25 days to go around the sun. So 52 weeks + 1 day + 1/4 day

    That's exactly what I said, I wouldn't have used the word essentially otherwise...


  • #1483
    jeni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 394 ✭✭jeni


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    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...

    No way. Lol hillarious


  • #1484
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    desbrook wrote: »
    Surely you noticed that Christmas Day "moves along" ??? Jeeezus the "island guy" seems like an egghead now !

    Girl! :D


  • #1485
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    NiallSparky wrote: »
    That's exactly what I said, I wouldn't have used the word essentially otherwise...

    Yes but I had the chance to correct someone on the internet and be a pedant. You gotta seize these moments:D


  • #1486
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    obviously women haven't a clue how to use a tampon.


  • #1487
    Birdie086
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭Birdie086


    That the Dome in tralee where the rose of tralee is held in not the Aquadome,

    I always wondered how they managed to drain the whole place and set up for the rose of tralee. Only figured it out last night while watching it with my friend from kerry. It made her night anyway, she got such a laugh out of it.


  • #1488
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    I used to visit my parents on a Tuesday after work for Mammy dinner and I remember being really happy the year Pancake Tuesday "fell on a Tuesday" because it meant her making pancakes after dinner :D


    My birthday has been on pancake Tuesday twice. Win :pac:


  • #1489
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,869 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    salacious crumb wrote: »
    My birthday has been on pancake Tuesday twice. Win :pac:
    That means you are between the age of 17 and 28 ;)


  • #1490
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    Nope :pac:


  • #1491
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,869 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    salacious crumb wrote: »
    Nope :pac:
    Well then you've had more or less as the turnaround of days is cyclical. it works out at 6-11-11. I suppose technically you could be only 11 and still have lived through two, but you're definitely under 28 if you've only had 2.


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  • #1492
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Well then you've had more or less as the turnaround of days is cyclical. it works out at 6-11-11. I suppose technically you could be only 11 and still have lived through two, but you're definitely under 28 if you've only had 2.

    Must've been three times so. Even better :D


  • #1493
    vitani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    Just found out that there's really an animal called a wolverine! It looks nothing like I'd imagined it would.


  • #1494
    Feathers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Feathers


    vitani wrote: »
    Just found out that there's really an animal called a wolverine! It looks nothing like I'd imagined it would.

    No adamantium claws?


  • #1495
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That "what's app" is a play on wassssaaaaaaap Just figured that out


  • #1496
    jimmymallet
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 11 ✭jimmymallet


    It's cock a snook not snoot even though a nose is a snoot!


  • #1497
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    That the lovely Donna from the local credit union wont be having sex with me any time soon.


  • #1498
    guttenberg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 959 ✭✭✭guttenberg


    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    That the lovely Donna from the local credit union wont be having sex with me any time soon.

    Restraining order in the post is it?


  • #1499
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    vitani wrote: »
    Just found out that there's really an animal called a wolverine! It looks nothing like I'd imagined it would.

    Disappointing, isn't it? :(


  • #1500
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    obviously women haven't a clue how to use a tampon.


    hahaha yack, in my sleepy, post thursday night binge drinking session I read this as "elderly women haven't a clue how to use a tampon" :eek:


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  • #1501
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Even more embarrassingly, I remember guffawing at the idea that tampons should come with instructions in the first place - I believe my exact words were "there's only one place to put them!" :o

    Reminds me of that old joke.
    How can you tell a blonde is having a bad day? She has a tampon behind her ear and she can't find her pen.:D


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