What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_Britain_Stopped

I literally only discovered now that this didn't actually happen.

I recall watching this mockumentary when it was broadcast. It was done completely in a documentary style - interviews with individuals spliced with "news" and CCTV footage, looked completely authentic. They talk about an air crash and then switch to news footage from a helicopter circling over the destroying tailfin of a BA jet. So it looked absolutely real. I did however miss the first few minutes of it, which is probably key, I imagine it had a big disclaimer saying, "The events portrayed here are entirely fictitious".

But up until now (so that's nearly ten years) I actually thought this happened. Did I wonder why I'd never heard of it before that documentary? Yeah, a bit. But then I was much younger and never really paid much attention to world events in my teenage years. *facepalm*

Though it does say a lot for the quality of the mockumentary.

Blisterman wrote: »

For years I thought the term "expat" only referred to people who left Ireland, and was a slang term for "ex-paddy".

That actually made me laugh :pac:

I don't know if it's that obvious but myself and Mrs idiot both have android phones. Now in the olden days of phones and digital watches you had to set the time yourself and try to be as accurate as you could when pressing 'set'.

Now and again I will set my alarm the same time as herself just to make sure she gets up for an early start. But both our alarms go off simultaneously which got me thinking that either I was very lucky in setting them both, or probably obviously they are synchronised via the massive force of the updates/interweb etc.etc.

My phone constantly sets itself five minutes fast, even though I set it to the correct time over and over again :rolleyes:

mikemac1 wrote: »

You don't need to type www. before many well known websites. Boards is one

I spent years and years typing www. every time

Only copped on this year and was treated like a fool by someone I told :rolleyes:

In around 2001 or 2002 I heard typing www. before websites allows websites to load faster.

2K13
I only realised the other day that the K stands for thousand. I always knew that K meant thousand but I could never figure out 2K13!

that they don't do GCSE or A-Level exams in Scotland

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

That Damo and Ivor are played by the same person

That person is also the brother of Rosanna Davidson's boyfriend.

A. That only a fraction of the people who claim to understand it, actually understand the off-side rule;
B. That the off-side rule is not the only thing keeping the Earth in orbit around the Sun;
C. That, with the exception of the off-side rule, soccer (even if is tediously tedious tedium) is fairly easy to understand. Cricket, on the other hand, mocks any attempt at explanation. They didn't bother making up names for a whole range of items, scores, places, etc., they simply called them all "wickets".