What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

You can use your credit card at any unmanned toll station. In and out, no pin required and off you go, it's incredibly convenient and you don't need to stress about dropping coins

Not really realised, but for the first time I used an express checkout correctly.

I set up the plastic bag on the those little rails and packed as i scanned.
Usually I just scan everything and then spend the best part of a minute trying to seperate the plastic bag, increasingly conscious of the people behind me looking on and then end up lobbing the items in arseways.

Works out a lot quicker the right way.

rubadub wrote: »

If you turn subtitles on for films/programs you can see how things are spelt.

I remember some lad in a thread about shutter island

he was saying how it was obvious that Leo's characters name was an anagram, like he was great for copping on, but moreso making out others should have copped it too, and stupid not to. After further questioning it turns out his parents were hard of hearing and so he watched all films with subtitles! so had this weird surname spelt out fully constantly in front of him and didn't bother to mention it!

Why is that spoilered? Even knowing it's an anagram, people aren't going to understand the relevance of it until they watch the film.
Unless you don't want people knowing that some lad in a thread has parents that can't hear

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

In the UK you can donate blood even if you've lived in the UK before.

Got really excited about that last year, then realised I don't actually weigh enough to donate blood. Bah.

On the flipside, being already perpetually excluded for having living in the UK, I had this conversation with a friend of mine before I weighed myself:

Me: I'm thinking about donating blood over here, because I can!
Him: If you donate in the UK, you'll be perpetually excluded from donating in Ireland
Me: I'm already perpetually excluded from donating in Ireland
Him: Yes, but perpetually excluded from donating in Ireland
Me: *waits for him to think about what he just said*
Him: Riiiiiight.

MY CUP OF TEA wrote: »

When I was younger I used to think someone "on the dole" was an irish phrase for on the beer.. My uncle was drunk at a party one night and I announced to everyone.."sure tis hardly a suprise..he's been on the dole all day"

I was twelve

Ive never lived it down

My brother thought the same, he was 13 when it was pointed out to him.

He took it from dole sounding like D'ol, as in 'to drink' as gaelige

Los Lobos wrote: »

That 'open sesame' is actually 'open says a me'. I'm thirty fcukin six for gods sake.

wikipedia says otherwise... it is sesame the seed....

Periwinkle is not just a small sea creature. But also the name of a colour.

There should be an age limit on here, if I wanted to listen to teenage drivel I would log off and talk to my own lot.

The icon for the Clock App on my iPhone shows the correct time. Its a tiny working clock.

I just realised that the much loathed facebook timeline that everyone was forced to endure a few years back, it's gone! And now that I think about it, I haven't noticed it in a very long time.
Maybe it's just mine?