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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #2612
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    Most of these Anti-Guard videos are bull$hit


  • #2613
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,758 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Deathwish4 wrote: »
    That colour existed long before colour television.
    actually colour was invented in the 1930's :D
    http://calvin-and-hobbes-comic-strips.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/calvin-asks-dad-about-old-black-and.html


  • #2614
    bilbot79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭bilbot79


    I has thought up until last month that Washington, D.C. Was in the centre of America nowhere near the coast


  • #2615
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    bilbot79 wrote: »
    I has thought up until last month that Washington, D.C. Was in the centre of America nowhere near the coast

    And Washington state is on the other side of the country … stupid America


  • #2616
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    Most vegetables on sale in the shops are actually fruits.


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  • #2617
    Fiolina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 623 ✭✭✭Fiolina


    fiachr_a wrote: »
    Most vegetables on sale in the shops are actually fruits.

    Whaaaa??????

    Explain...


  • #2618
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,330 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Fiolina wrote: »
    Whaaaa??????

    Explain...

    Tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, cucumbers, eggplant, courgette, peas, beans for example
    edit: also sweetcorn, chili, gherkin


  • #2619
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, cucumbers, eggplant, courgette, peas, beans for example

    Mushrooms are a fungus, and therefore not technically vegetable or fruit


  • #2620
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,330 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    But they are the fruiting body of the mycelium beneath the soil...


  • #2621
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, cucumbers, eggplant, courgette, peas, beans for example

    Fruits grow from the flowering part of the plant, vegetables do not. The above do this.


    'Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad'


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  • #2622
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    But they are the fruiting body of the mycelium beneath the soil...

    Yes it's a fruiting body. It's not a fruit.


  • #2623
    Planemo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Planemo


    The fada is so called because it elongates the vowel sound (the irish for 'long' is 'fada').


  • #2624
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Vitamin = vital amine.


  • #2625
    civis_liberalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    Planemo wrote: »
    The fada is so called because it elongates the vowel sound (the irish for 'long' is 'fada').

    You're ****ing joking me. Irish is my first language and I didn't twig it.


  • #2626
    LoganRice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭LoganRice


    No word in the English language rhymes with the word mouth


  • #2627
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    LoganRice wrote: »
    No word in the English language rhymes with the word mouth

    South


  • #2628
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    If you pout with your mouth
    So you look like a duck
    May you suffer a drought
    And never get to fcuk


  • #2629
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,923 ✭✭✭Wossack


    LoganRice wrote: »
    No word in the English language rhymes with the word mouth

    orange?


  • #2630
    Porkpie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭Porkpie


    Any time I passed by a building under repair with a 'business as usual' sign outside, I used to think the sign was the builder's way of saying 'ah don't mind us, just a bit of renovation going on here, this is what we usually do'.

    It was only a few years back that it dawned on me what it really meant.


  • #2631
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    That song Never Ever by All Saints is Amazing Grace.


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  • #2632
    BigBrownBear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 284 ✭✭BigBrownBear


    fiachr_a wrote: »
    That song Never Ever by All Saints is Amazing Grace.

    Whatcha mean:confused:


  • #2633
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    BigBrownBear wrote: »
    Whatcha mean:confused:

    I was trying to figure it out also, so after a quick google..
    The music of the song is based upon an overlay of Amazing Grace which according to Ger Tillekens is the reason why it became so successful. Even though the lyrics are very different and the music sounds different, it is based on a familiar and popular song.[12]


  • #2634
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    I take my tshirt off by just pulling it over my head: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc4dwvVVFN1qf2apao1_500.gif
    But I always wondered about how girls in films took it off by crossing arms and pulling it up, it made no sense, are they just trying to be sexy?:
    http://stream1.gifyo.com/pictures/261/large/1284bcbe59eab75af2c4fb8ff2307e95-548259613.gif

    But no, I have realised that it's the easiest way to get it off, especially if you are sweating in any way and also is inside out and ready to be washed.
    And it doesn't mess your hair up. Also still looks sexy, see: http://mrwgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Aubrey-Plaza-No-Reaction-Gif-Parks-Reaction.gif


  • #2635
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    I take my tshirt off by just pulling it over my head: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc4dwvVVFN1qf2apao1_500.gif
    But I always wondered about how girls in films took it off by crossing arms and pulling it up, it made no sense, are they just trying to be sexy?:
    http://stream1.gifyo.com/pictures/261/large/1284bcbe59eab75af2c4fb8ff2307e95-548259613.gif
    T-shirts for guys are straight down and a bit baggy, so it's easy to pull them off. Girl's t-shirts are concave and more body fitting to suit the female shapre, so they're harder to pull off.

    Male vs female t-shirts


  • #2636
    thee glitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭thee glitz


    fiachr_a wrote: »
    Most vegetables on sale in the shops are actually fruits.

    Not obvious, but related - Bananas are a herb.


  • #2637
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,458 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Snort.


  • #2638
    chrysagon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭chrysagon


    thee glitz wrote: »
    Not obvious, but related - Bananas are a herb.


    Bananas are naturally slightly radioactive, more so than most other fruits, because of their potassium content .


  • #2639
    The other fella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭The other fella


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Peter Pan was actually killing them kids, and the Neverland he promised them, where they never grow old, was actually the afterlife. :eek:

    Good God!!


  • #2640
    reera82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭reera82


    That Michael Collins was only 32 when he was shot. I feel like such an underachiever.


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  • #2641
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,869 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    The other fella wrote: »
    Good God!!

    Yip. He used to come at night and persuaded them to come out the window where he convinced them they could fly, but really they fell to their deaths.

    Neverland was somewhere they never grew old, and the reason for that was because they died young.


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