What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

Richard · 29-11-2013 12:53AM

Paulyh wrote: »

I just realised today, when i was checking out a map of Ireland on the wall beside my desk.............in an tour operators office.

That bloody Fermanagh is in Northern Ireland!!!! :o:o When the hell did that happen??

1921?

kiffer · 29-11-2013 05:37PM

How so Joe wrote: »

I think it's that there's only one r in lager, or else no r in the middle. There's quite obviously one r there!

Yeah... that's what I meant. There is no 'r' in the middle of Lager. The post I was replying to was spelling it 'Larger'. There is obviously one at the end.

OldNotWIse · 29-11-2013 05:38PM

mauzo! wrote: »

Putting 2 or more words and their definitions together to make one word.

Smog (smoke and fog) Motel (motor and hotel)

:eek:

maximoose · 29-11-2013 05:45PM

SillyMangoX wrote: »

It just dawned on me that eyelids are called so because they are lids for your eyes... My mother now thinks I'm a complete idiot, and to be honest I agree with her.

Could be worse - my OH thought until recently that when you close your eyelids, your eyes are turning off

Capt'n Midnight · 29-11-2013 08:08PM

That the Late Late Toy Show is on tonight

gw80 · 29-11-2013 08:50PM

ahh, the penny has dropped!

I taught the number plates changing to 131 was just a stupid superstitious gimic, but no, its just another way to fool joe soaps into buying new cars twice a year, keeping up with the jones,s types

am I right in saying that a 132 car will cost more than a 131 car on the second hand market,

And next year cars will be registered 141 and 142! I taught it was just for one year.

rawn · 29-11-2013 08:54PM

I only found out recently that women don't pee out of their vagina.

I am female.

deseil · 29-11-2013 08:58PM

That hip replacements werent donated hip bones from dead people

SV · 29-11-2013 09:00PM

rawn wrote: »

I only found out recently that women don't pee out of their vagina.

I am female.

Lol, everyone knows women pee out their bums.

jeni · 01-12-2013 12:36PM

gw80 wrote: »

ahh, the penny has dropped!

I taught the number plates changing to 131 was just a stupid superstitious gimic, but no, its just another way to fool joe soaps into buying new cars twice a year, keeping up with the jones,s types

am I right in saying that a 132 car will cost more than a 131 car on the second hand market,

And next year cars will be registered 141 and 142! I taught it was just for one year.

I thought this too

01-12-2013 12:42PM

Only last night did I realise the word 'horizontal' comes from horizon, and that horizontal lines are so named because they're parallel to the horizon. Think I'll be asking for a refund on that maths degree I did....

mikemac1 · 01-12-2013 12:45PM

Paulyh wrote: »

I just realised today, when i was checking out a map of Ireland on the wall beside my desk.............in an tour operators office.

That bloody Fermanagh is in Northern Ireland!!!! :o:o When the hell did that happen??

Easy mistake, sure half of it is lakes and other half is Protestant

mikemac1 · 01-12-2013 01:07PM

EPL is English Premier league

Everyone knows the Premier League but I never realised it was English

What do the good folk of Swansea and Cardiff have to say about this? Is there a Welsh Premier League?

Mr.Prodston · 01-12-2013 01:10PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

EPL is English Premier league

Everyone knows the Premier League but I never realised it was English

What do the good folk of Swansea and Cardiff have to say about this? Is there a Welsh Premier League?

Yes there is:

http://www.welsh-premier.com/

I'm pretty sure Cardiff and Swansea are more than happy to receive their tv payments and play competitive football :pac:

Unknown Soldier · 01-12-2013 01:25PM

Maybe not obvious but having been watching The Black List, I was quite surprised last week to learn that James Spader was Dr. Daniel Jackson from the Original Stargate film!

kylith · 01-12-2013 02:36PM

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

Maybe not obvious but having been watching The Black List, I was quite surprised last week to learn that James Spader was Dr. Daniel Jackson from the Original Stargate film!

For a long time I thought that James Spader played Daniel Jackson in the TV series.

The Diabolical Monocle · 01-12-2013 04:17PM

rubadub wrote: »

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".

Your version makes more sense.
"Commander in Chief" sounds like a military based gay porn.

saltyjack silverblade · 02-12-2013 11:38PM

I always thought the comedian Frankie Boyle was a singer in The Proclaimers.

Greenmachine · 02-12-2013 11:44PM

The port tunnel run under my house. Not lived here long. I put my address into google maps and it directed me as if I was in the port tunnel. Not lived here very long.

Al Capwned · 03-12-2013 12:17AM

Greenmachine wrote: »

The port tunnel run under my house. Not lived here long. I put my address into google maps and it directed me as if I was in the port tunnel. Not lived here very long.

How long have you lived here?

Quazzie · 03-12-2013 12:19AM

Al Capwned wrote: »

How long have you lived here?

Not long, I'm guessing :pac:

Greenmachine · 03-12-2013 11:50AM

Al Capwned wrote: »

How long have you lived here?

There 8 months. lol. Not living there when it was being built. I know there was issues with subsidence on parts of the route. When it was being built, the route may as well have been on the moon. I had not even heard of most of the places it passed. My excuse is that strictly speaking I am more culchie than a jackeen.

salacious crumb · 03-12-2013 11:52AM

Greenmachine wrote: »

There 8 months. lol. Not living there when it was being built. I know there was issues with subsidence on parts of the route. When it was being built, the route may as well have been on the moon. I had not even heard of most of the places it passed. My excuse is that strictly speaking I am more culchie than a jackeen.

I would have made a guess based on your username, that it might also have something to do with being stoned? :pac:

Greenmachine · 03-12-2013 03:28PM

salacious crumb wrote: »

I would have made a guess based on your username, that it might also have something to do with being stoned? :pac:

Yeah very easy to paint a picture of someone based on a name. Have used this user name for years and year on different forum. Had to google your name to make sense of it. Though it was a play on a word that rhymes with it but begins with an "m". Your name should come with a "NSFW warning".

whiterob81 · 03-12-2013 03:45PM

Did anyone else used to say Jungle Sale when they were a kid?

Greenmachine · 03-12-2013 03:53PM

whiterob81 wrote: »

Did anyone else used to say Jungle Sale when they were a kid?

How about Spingetti for dinner.

Lucena · 03-12-2013 03:53PM

whiterob81 wrote: »

Did anyone else used to say Jungle Sale when they were a kid?

No, but before I'd ever seen one, I heard of kids going to play on Slop Machines!:D

salacious crumb · 03-12-2013 04:16PM

Greenmachine wrote: »

Yeah very easy to paint a picture of someone based on a name. Have used this user name for years and year on different forum. Had to google your name to make sense of it. Though it was a play on a word that rhymes with it but begins with an "m". Your name should come with a "NSFW warning".

Nah, it's all innocent :pac:

Green Machine is the name of a song by a band called Kyuss, which made me apparently incorrectly assume that's where you got the name from.

gramar · 03-12-2013 04:37PM

We all know the 'don't look a gift horse in the mouth' saying. I've never thought about it much and only today realised the sense behind it when I heard it in Spanish which literally translated is 'never look a gift horse in the teeth' which makes more sense. Looking at a horses teeth you can tell it's age but seeing as it's a gift you shouldn't as you shouldn't criticise something you get for free.

seagull · 03-12-2013 06:39PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Tomato doesn't have an e at the end. How did I get through three levels of education thinking that it does?

You obviously bought the Dan Quayle spell check.

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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