What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

salacious crumb wrote: »

:eek: You didn't know Steve McQueen was dead??!! :pac:

To be honest I got his era wrong. I thought he was was born twenty years later than he actually was and thus his career was twenty years later. Knew he was a hell-raising actor but genuinely didn't know he was dead until I saw the current one interviewed about 12 years a slave.

Christ sure, they couldn't be any different

that due to my in-abilthy to relate to anyone i am going to die alone

WikiHow wrote: »

That Mario and Luigi are brothers.

That Mario and Luigi are two deadbeat plumbers who do nothing but sit around all day eating shrooms and then have weird hallucinations depicting a magical world in which they are both heroes out to save a princess and defeat an evil reptile.

That three cans of Red Bull in the evening will keep you wide awake until at least 6am.

Worse, being the nice fella and offering to be the designated driver and then drinking 8 cans of red bull over the evening will turn you into a quivering wreck barely able to turn the key, no matter drive. You then get to spend the night studying the ceiling and trying not to puke while your heart tries to batter it's way out of your chest...

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

just like flammable and inflammable

http://chemistry.about.com/od/firecombustionchemistry/f/What-Is-The-Difference-Between-Flammable-And-Inflammable.htm

Flammable and inflammable mean exactly the same thing

Usage, back in the 1920s the National Fire Protection Association urged people to start using the word 'flammable' instead of 'inflammable' (which is the original word) because they were concerned some people might think inflammable meant not-flammable.

That no matter how much money I make it will never be enough.

I'm earning double what I was 3 years ago and it really hasn't made any difference and I don't seem to have much extra cash!! Where's it all going and how did I live 3 years ago!

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Edit: Only recently realised that work also follows this rule too. Ever notice how productive you are when there's a deadline? If we were that productive all the time we'd be machines lol

That is Parkinson's Law.
"work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion".

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Expenses expand to fit the money available. For the first five years of my now 6 years service in my job, I only had rent to pay. Now I have rent, half mortgage and college fees. I'm scratching my head wondering if I can manage now, then what did I do with the money I wasn't paying for the first five years? Why wasn't I saving 9k a year? Fuuck it anyway :eek:

Edit: Only recently realised that work also follows this rule too. Ever notice how productive you are when there's a deadline? If we were that productive all the time we'd be machines lol

Well if only my expenses would expand to the point I could buy a yacht!

There are 360º in a circle because it's a handy rounding down of the number of days in a year.
Handy in the sense of you can divide it by two to get 180, four to get 90 etc.

Not at all obvious: you make a degree symbol on a full size keyboard by holding down the Alt key and typing 0186 on the numeric keypad.

franer1970 wrote: »

"great system, check the quality after you've put it on sale" was what I used to say to myself.

They still do that, but don't even have the decency to employee enough people to do it. Instead they rely on their customers to inform them of the shocking amount of mispriced items. The customer used to get the item free, but now the miserable bastards just give you twice the price difference.

Often its not worth your while queuing up to complain, since again they do not employee enough staff at the customer service desk, and the queues of complainers is very long.

People were moaning about tesco taking on jobbridge employees as shelf stackers, but with this scam they are getting staff (the public) for sweatshop prices.

That the Adam and Eve story was not actually about a piece of fruit