What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

Ortiz · 18-01-2014 12:57AM

That the Adam and Eve story never happened

wazky · 18-01-2014 12:58AM

That the Harry Potter story never happened.

donegal__road · 18-01-2014 02:20AM

franer1970 wrote: »

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.

There are 365 days in the year because the ancient Egyptians realised that when you put a stick upright in the ground, that the shadow cast by the stick will move slightly each day until it comes back to its point of commencement approx 360 days later. The Mayans also knew this.

Sir Arthur Daley · 18-01-2014 02:32AM

Them Mayans were a clever bunch, if they were around today imagine what technology we would have.

thunderdog · 18-01-2014 03:02AM

For years I thought that the bit of work you did on the side was a 'mixer' not a nixer. I just presumed the logic behind it was that it was a different small bit of work mixed in or added on to your normal day job

Liamalone · 18-01-2014 03:21AM

donegal__road wrote: »

There are 365 days in the year because the ancient Egyptians realised that when you put a stick upright in the ground, that the shadow cast by the stick will move slightly each day until it comes back to its point of commencement approx 360 days later. The Mayans also knew this.

Why not 360 days in a year then?

Xivilai · 18-01-2014 03:22AM

Only realised what "A stitch in time saves nine" meant last week. I used to always wonder what it saves, nine what? :pac:

Flaregon · 18-01-2014 03:30AM

Xivilai wrote: »

Only realised what "A stitch in time saves nine" meant last week. I used to always wonder what it saves, nine what? :pac:

Enlighten us.

Sir Arthur Daley · 18-01-2014 03:33AM

Xivilai wrote: »

Only realised what "A stitch in time saves nine" meant last week. I used to always wonder what it saves, nine what? :pac:

Stiches

D Trent · 18-01-2014 03:36AM

Realised recently that the phrase 'To make end's meat' is actually "To make ends meet"

Wow i feel stupid

Capt'n Midnight · 18-01-2014 11:24AM

D Trent wrote: »

Realised recently that the phrase 'To make end's meat' is actually "To make ends meet"

Wow i feel stupid

Old German joke.
The British make the best bread in the world.
Ja , but why do the call it sausage ?

Or the woman who complains to a butcher about the amount of filling at the end of the sausages, and he tells her that "what with the recession and all it's hard to make both ends meat"

Capt'n Midnight · 18-01-2014 11:34AM

WikiHow wrote: »

Them Mayans were a clever bunch, if they were around today imagine what technology we would have.

This

http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly011212a.htm

gramar · 18-01-2014 12:25PM

David Bowies alter ego Aladdin Sane is a play on words of A lad Insane. Maybe not very obvious but I'd never realised.

aristotleirish · 18-01-2014 09:22PM

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Allyall · 19-01-2014 01:57PM

gramar wrote: »

David Bowies alter ego Aladdin Sane is a play on words of A lad Insane. Maybe not very obvious but I'd never realised.

Apparently a reference to his brother who was diagnosed with Schizophrenia, also the reason for the lightning bolt across his face on the album cover. It was his "mind splitting".

GAAman · 19-01-2014 02:00PM

That dystopia is the opposite of utopia.

Felt like a sap when the penny dropped!

RichTea123 · 19-01-2014 11:10PM

I started watching "The Mentalist" a few weeks ago and for anyone not familiar with the programme, one of the main characters is called Patrick Jane. He is a former psychic who uses his mind-reading abilities to assist the California Bureau of Investigation and FBI in their crime cases,

I was watching it today and bearing in mind what I said about Patrick Jane it suddenly dawned on me that that is why the show is called "The mentalist"...!!

Irish Steve · 20-01-2014 01:01AM

That nothing will change in this country until there is a box on the form at elections that allows me to vote "none of the above"

kylith · 20-01-2014 02:43AM

Irish Steve wrote: »

That nothing will change in this country until there is a box on the form at elections that allows me to vote "none of the above"

How about one marked "Revolution"?

Fandango · 20-01-2014 02:47AM

Allyall wrote: »

Apparently a reference to his brother who was diagnosed with Schizophrenia, also the reason for the lightning bolt across his face on the album cover. It was his "mind splitting".

He actually made up alter-egos in his music as he was worried he could become schizophrenic also and that it might be passed on to him (I dont know how to spell the word! Hereditary?) and thought creating different people in music/theatre etc would keep him safe. Basically rid himself of the disease by putting it into his art.

wretcheddomain · 20-01-2014 02:49AM

That Linda Martin is actually a woman.

Fandango · 20-01-2014 03:02AM

That Maths questions on facebook are divide and conquer! There is no right answer cos the question is always flawed yet people will spill blood over it

gammygils · 20-01-2014 03:06AM

Those women were in the nip!!!!!!!

DavyD_83 · 20-01-2014 06:48PM

RichTea123 wrote: »

I started watching "The Mentalist" a few weeks ago and for anyone not familiar with the programme, one of the main characters is called Patrick Jane. He is a former psychic who uses his mind-reading abilities to assist the California Bureau of Investigation and FBI in their crime cases,

I was watching it today and bearing in mind what I said about Patrick Jane it suddenly dawned on me that that is why the show is called "The mentalist"...!!

Hang on, so what did you think the title referred to up to this point?

Tsipras · 20-01-2014 06:55PM

RichTea123 wrote: »

I started watching "The Mentalist" a few weeks ago and for anyone not familiar with the programme, one of the main characters is called Patrick Jane. He is a former psychic who uses his mind-reading abilities to assist the California Bureau of Investigation and FBI in their crime cases,

I was watching it today and bearing in mind what I said about Patrick Jane it suddenly dawned on me that that is why the show is called "The mentalist"...!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hzpTynpLHw

Always think of this when I flick through The Mentalist

RichTea123 · 20-01-2014 11:37PM

DavyD_83 wrote: »

Hang on, so what did you think the title referred to up to this point?

I didn't think about it to be honest!! But it is glaringly obvious why it is called the Mentalist now and I only randomly realized it yesterday!

major bill · 20-01-2014 11:54PM

Gareth Brooks isn't called Gareth at all :pac:

gramar · 21-01-2014 11:50AM

I only realised a few years ago (and that was when I was told) that Cadbury's cream eggs are only on sale in the run up to Easter. I'd never copped that they weren't on sale the rest of the year.

salacious crumb · 21-01-2014 12:16PM

I realised many, many years ago that Cadbury's cream eggs are sh*t :pac:

K-9 · 21-01-2014 12:19PM

salacious crumb wrote: »

I realised many, many years ago that Cadbury's cream eggs are sh*t :pac:

No, they are salacious.

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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