What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

Markcheese · 10-10-2014 08:07PM

sunshine and showers wrote: »

I distinctly remember the day I realised what email stood for.

So do I .. It was in summer 94 , I was hitching and the guy I got a lift from was in a business handling SMS messages, I asked, oh is that e-mail so... Que withering pause .... Incidentally in spring 95 there were 2 access points to the web in Nz... 12 months later every hostel had dial up ,

Philo Beddoe · 10-10-2014 08:42PM

It just occurred to me today that almost-Time Magazine Man of the Century Ronnie O'Brien is not going to fulfill his potential and become a star for Juventus and Ireland.

Voodoomelon · 10-10-2014 08:50PM

A 12" pizza, whilst only 4" wider than an 8" pizza, is actually 2.3 times bigger. Madness.

gormdubhgorm · 10-10-2014 08:59PM

The Beach Boys "Surfing USA" was a tribute to Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little 16". But Berry didn't get credited so sued. It's obvious now when you hear it!

sunshine and showers · 10-10-2014 09:17PM

The Nokia text tone is SMS in morse code.

Esel · 11-10-2014 03:24AM

Voodoomelon wrote: »

A 12" pizza, whilst only 4" wider than an 8" pizza, is actually 2.3 times bigger. Madness.

Haven't checked your maths, because it's all about pi in the end. Deep crust - even better.

NewWorldLeader · 11-10-2014 06:24AM

pineapples don't grow from trees.. only realised this when I saw a pineapple farm a few months back

FunLover18 · 11-10-2014 06:26AM

NewWorldLeader wrote: »

pineapples don't grow from trees.. only realised this when I saw a pineapple farm a few months back

:eek:

What do they grow from?

EDIT: I just Googled it. The world just seems wrong now

NewWorldLeader · 11-10-2014 06:31AM

FunLover18 wrote: »

:eek:

What do they grow from?

EDIT: I just Googled it. The world just seems wrong now

Exactly.. I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw it,I always imagined they grew from a tree that looked similar to a coconut tree I have no idea where I got that idea from though

miss no stars · 11-10-2014 10:40AM

NewWorldLeader wrote: »

Exactly.. I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw it,I always imagined they grew from a tree that looked similar to a coconut tree I have no idea where I got that idea from though

Me too.

Looks kinda cool though, the plant is holding the fruit up like Rafiki holding Simba up or something. It's like "here, this is so wonderful, take it, eat it, you know you want to".

Frynge · 11-10-2014 10:49AM

I also imagined a coconutesque origins of pineapples years ago and was amazed when we started selling pineapple plants in work. Where does the idea of a pineapple tree come from.

Larianne · 11-10-2014 04:42PM

Kodaline is this decade's Travis.

Liamalone · 11-10-2014 05:01PM

That Kodaline isn't a headache tablet.

Ash.J.Williams · 11-10-2014 05:04PM

Fr. Ned wrote: »

That Liverpool FC are sh1te this season.....

Larianne wrote: »

Kodaline is this decade's Travis.

Kodaline are this years the script

Paddy Cow · 11-10-2014 05:47PM

NewWorldLeader wrote: »

pineapples don't grow from trees.. only realised this when I saw a pineapple farm a few months back

Reminds me of when I discovered monkey nuts grow underground. I thought they grew like bunches of grapes

wiseoldelf34 · 11-10-2014 05:53PM

two of the most deadliest virus of the last 50 years have come from Africa ..natural selection at work?

cactuspaw · 11-10-2014 08:23PM

x factor is muck

J Mysterio · 12-10-2014 12:04AM

wiseoldelf34 wrote: »

two of the most deadliest virus of the last 50 years have come from Africa ..natural selection at work?

Wow.

swiftblade · 12-10-2014 12:48AM

That Paul Simon is the same Simon out of "Simon and Garfunkel"

NIMAN · 12-10-2014 09:41AM

That Billie Barry isn't Billy Barry and is actually a woman.

Gloomtastic! · 12-10-2014 12:45PM

NIMAN wrote: »

That Billie Barry isn't Billy Barry and is actually a woman.

Change to the past tense. She died a couple of weeks ago.

Xivilai · 12-10-2014 02:01PM

That "pastime" stems from "Pass the time" :eek:

NewWorldLeader · 12-10-2014 04:20PM

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Reminds me of when I discovered monkey nuts grow underground. I thought they grew like bunches of grapes

Well that's it, it's official, I know nothing

onlyrocknroll · 12-10-2014 04:37PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

But...but...but intents and purposes makes no sense - its saying the same thing twice...at least "intensive purposes" makes sense because it is describing the purposes as being very important and you know...intense....:(

(Excitedly grabs opportunity to demonstrate nerd-knowledge:D)

That's pretty common in English for legal expressions. eg. cease and desist, will and testament, wrack and ruin. It started as a way to avoid ambiguity when two words existed (one from French and one from Old English) with a similar meaning. Eventually it just became a standard feature of legal English which we use very naturally (e.g. both cease and desist are from French.)

(Edit, ahh! that post was from a year ago, will read more carefully next time)

Ice Storm · 12-10-2014 04:44PM

For a long time I didn't know that monkey nuts were peanuts in shells. I thought that monkey nuts and peanuts were different nuts!

As a child I liked peanuts but I didn't like monkey nuts even though they were kind of fun to shell.

Apparently I'm not the only one who was confused as I found an article about a supermarket that had to withdraw monkey nuts from sale as the packaging didn't state that they contained peanuts! :pac:

Nowadays, I love roasted monkey nuts. They're really tasty without the all the salt that's added to packaged peanuts.

NewWorldLeader · 12-10-2014 04:50PM

Ice Storm wrote: »

For a long time I didn't know that monkey nuts were peanuts in shells. I thought that monkey nuts and peanuts were different nuts!

As a child I liked peanuts but I didn't like monkey nuts even though they were kind of fun to shell.

Apparently I'm not the only one who was confused as I found an article about a supermarket that had to withdraw monkey nuts from sale as the packaging didn't state that they contained peanuts! :pac:

Nowadays, I love roasted monkey nuts. They're really tasty without the all the salt that's added to packaged peanuts.

Hahaha that's brilliant

Muff_Daddy · 12-10-2014 07:15PM

The eldest child in Into The West is called Tito.

I always thought his name was Tayto!!!!

12-10-2014 07:18PM

I thought Sinéad O'Connor was the lead singer of the Cranberries and then did a solo career afterwards. I completely fabricated this narrative apparently. I've been listening to both for decades.