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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #2372
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    Chicken in a tin
    Urrrrgh. Looks like something from a HowToBasic video! Eww. It's putting me right off my lollipop!


  • #2373
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,756 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    the days are getting shorter again :(


  • #2374
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,979 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    the days are getting shorter again :(

    That makes me happy :)


  • #2375
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    Former belief: If we have a bigger house then the clutter won't show up.

    Reality: LETS SEE HOW MUCH SH!T WE CAN CRAM INTO ALL OF THIS SPACE


  • #2376
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    That the stage in the Olympia is closer to Dame St than it is to the Liffey. I always just persumed it was the other way around. Can't believe for all those years I was standing / sitting in there, I was facing in a totally direction than I thought I was. I may need to seek help in order to overcome this mindfcuk.


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  • #2377
    WakeUp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭WakeUp


    mysterious giant holes are most mysterious and are beginning to show up more often. like this one in Russia wonder whats down there maybe some predators or narnia:D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEDReT0WFpk

    http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/large-crater-appears-at-the-end-of-the-world/


  • #2378
    BuilderPlumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    1. That a certain person I know is not a true friend and proved it last week.
    2. That the Israeli and Palestinian governments are as bad as each other.
    3. That the summer is very empty after the world cup is ended.


  • #2379
    franer1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭franer1970


    franer1970 wrote: »
    You won't actually die if you eat something that's a bit past its sell-by date.

    Further to that, you won't actually die if you drink the last bit of milk in the bottle or use the last bit of toilet paper on the roll.
    EVERYONE IN MY WORKPLACE PLEASE NOTE.


  • #2380
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Gamayun wrote: »
    Still available!

    Appetising stuff...

    Yack. It looks like something being born.


  • #2381
    Al Capwned
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭Al Capwned


    That OJ Simpsons lawyer chap that read his apparent 'suicide note' when he was on the run and defended him in his trial was Kim Kardashians father...


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  • #2382
    miss no stars
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭miss no stars


    Only realised a couple of weeks ago that subject to license printed on tickets isn't there to warn "this event serves alcohol so only over 18s will be admitted" but rather "this event may not go ahead because we don't actually have permission for it yet".

    -.-


  • #2383
    CPSW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 274 ✭✭CPSW


    The song "Three little birds" by Bob Marley, is'nt called "Don't worry, about a thing" !


  • #2384
    homewardbound11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 993 ✭✭✭homewardbound11


    FedEx logo has a sign of an arrow in the middle of it.

    Work cup has thought me that people do get offended if I call Netherlands holland.


  • #2385
    Vojera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    homewardbound11 wrote: »
    Work cup has thought me that people do get offended if I call Netherlands holland.

    I've lived with a few Dutch people and every one of them said "Holland" rather than "The Netherlands". I asked them why, because, like yourself, I was always under the impression that Dutch people didn't like it when you said "Holland" and the general response was "Eh, it's shorter". They really didn't seem to care. :confused:


  • #2386
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,923 ✭✭✭Wossack


    wall clock in the kitchen has roman numerals, and only noticed this morning that it reads

    I II III IIII V VI etc

    always thought '4' was 'IV' in RN, but seems exceptions are made in the case of clocks (fair bit of conjecture about the reasoning)

    just never noticed it


  • #2387
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Wossack wrote: »
    wall clock in the kitchen has roman numerals, and only noticed this morning that it reads

    I II III IIII V VI etc

    always thought '4' was 'IV' in RN, but seems exceptions are made in the case of clocks (fair bit of conjecture about the reasoning)

    just never noticed it

    I bet a friend of mine that a few years ago, and another friend "wanted a piece".. I won a bit of cash that day :D.

    Apparently it is believed it was a mistake, and has been kept that way ever since..


  • #2388
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,923 ✭✭✭Wossack


    Allyall wrote: »
    I bet a friend of mine that a few years ago, and another friend "wanted a piece".. I won a bit of cash that day :D.

    Apparently it is believed it was a mistake, and has been kept that way ever since..

    good bet that one :)

    loadsa suspected reasons, quite interesting!


  • #2389
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    In the classic A Land Before Time- the young triceratops is called Sarah cuase is in middle of "tri-cera-tops".

    Always wondered why she had normal name when rest had names like Little Foot and Spike


  • #2390
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Supermarkets here do not have own brand versions of kit-kats.

    You commonly get own-brand twix, bounty, mars, snickers, even milky way, but no kitkats I can think of.


  • #2391
    Eeden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,915 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    rubadub wrote: »
    Supermarkets here do not have own brand versions of kit-kats.

    You commonly get own-brand twix, bounty, mars, snickers, even milky way, but no kitkats I can think of.

    I think Aldi do an own-brand version of kit kats. Can't think what they're called at the moment.


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  • #2392
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Eeden wrote: »
    I think Aldi do an own-brand version of kit kats.
    Right, I rarely am in there.

    Seems its a trademark thing, I heard the bounty shape is protected somehow too, might be the sort of swirly design of the chocolate on top.

    http://www.pof.com.au/aldi-gives-kit-kat-shape-mark-a-break/
    Aldi gives Kit Kat shape mark a break
    Posted March 23, 2010 by POF

    Kit Kat’s chocolate wafer biscuit is set to become a registered trade mark, after Nestle and Aldi agreed to resolve an appeal from a decision of the Trade Marks Office not register the confectionery’s finger shape as a trade mark.
    Aldi had initially given Nestle ‘the big finger’, successfully opposing registration of the shape mark on the basis it was not capable of distinguishing the food giant’s chocolate-coated wafer biscuits. Nestle appealed the decision but the parties asked the Federal Court of Australia to allow Nestle’s appeal so the trade mark could be registered (Societe Des Produits Nestle S.A. v Aldi Stores (A Limited Partnership) [2010] FCA 218).
    It will be interesting to see if Nestle enforces its shape trade mark registration, which has a priority date of 9 Febuary 2000, against others using a similar shape trade mark and if so, the outcome of any infringement action.

    The aldi one seems to be called super knicks, in germany anyway

    http://www.ciao.de/opinion_images_view.php/OpinionId/2873671/Img/88651


  • #2393
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,497 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    old hippy wrote: »
    Up until a few years back, I had no idea that there are deserts in Europe!

    And Sahara means desert....so its incorrectly called the desert desert!


  • #2394
    Emmacash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭Emmacash


    What the Hell? Eric Clapton is English??!!


  • #2395
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Vojera wrote: »
    I've lived with a few Dutch people and every one of them said "Holland" rather than "The Netherlands".

    I've found that as well. Did they say "Holland" when speaking English, but Nederland when speaking Dutch?

    I always thought they were doing it as a concession to English speakers, who tend to say Holland - they'll explain that "Holland" is not the same as The Netherlands, but once they've made their point they're happy to go along with "Holland".


  • #2396
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    He did kick me up the arse!


  • #2397
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    And Sahara means desert....so its incorrectly called the desert desert!

    That's a good one, oft overlooked.

    See also River Avon, PIN number and HIV virus.


  • #2398
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,979 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Emmacash wrote: »
    What the Hell? Eric Clapton is English??!!

    When I was little, I thought Iron Maiden, The Rolling Stones and Black Sabbath were all American.


  • #2399
    muddypaws
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    homewardbound11 wrote: »
    FedEx logo has a sign of an arrow in the middle of it.

    I just googled it, and couldn't see the arrow until an image came up with it in grey instead of white :rolleyes:


  • #2400
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    franer1970 wrote: »
    You won't actually die if you eat something that's a bit past its sell-by date.
    You won't die if you use milk a day or two past it's sell by date but you are in danger of dying if you use the last of the milk and put the carton back in the fridge. Seriously, I want to kill you :mad:


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  • #2401
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,438 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Emmacash wrote: »
    What the Hell? Eric Clapton is English??!!

    I take it you never heard him speaking.

    Saying that, until recently I didn't know Richard Marx is American. For some reason I always thought he was from one of the Scandinavian countries.


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