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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #2642
    susanlinda823
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 63 ✭✭susanlinda823


    I only realized what a dimmer does.


  • #2643
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Quazzie wrote: »
    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.

    Bull****!! Don't Wendy and the kids return home at the end, and don't their parents adopt the Lost Boys?


  • #2644
    everdead.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,153 ✭✭✭everdead.ie


    Wossack wrote: »
    orange?
    grunge?


  • #2645
    ireland.man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭ireland.man


    Disease. Dis- ease. Am I the only one who never recognised this?


  • #2646
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    reera82 wrote: »
    That Michael Collins was only 32 when he was shot. I feel like such an underachiever.

    Don't feel too bad. I bet he'd love to swap places with you!


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  • #2647
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, cucumbers, eggplant, courgette, peas, beans for example
    edit: also sweetcorn, chili, gherkin

    Mushrooms aren't even a plant, let alone a vegetable. However, some of them are magic!
    J Mysterio wrote: »
    Snort.

    I laughed and actually spat tea all over my desk when I read this - now 1 minute later and I have absolutely no idea why I thought it was funny, or even what you mean. :D:D


  • #2648
    Chocolate Lions
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Chocolate Lions


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    Bull****!! Don't Wendy and the kids return home at the end, and don't their parents adopt the Lost Boys?

    I think it's that Pan kills the kids before they grow old in Neverland.. and the pirates, Hook and the rest, are the kids he didn't manage to bump off. I think that's what was implied in the book.


  • #2649
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Chocolate Lions wrote: »
    I think it's that Pan kills the kids before they grow old in Neverland.. and the pirates, Hook and the rest, are the kids he didn't manage to bump off. I think that's what was implied in the book.

    Ooooooh … I've never actually read the book but I know that Wendy and all get home. Now I'm even more interested in reading it.


  • #2650
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Peter pan was killing kids, and captain hook was the goodie?
    World. Turned. Upside. Down.
    I don't know what to believe any more!


  • #2651
    nelly17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭nelly17


    ireland.man wrote: »
    Disease. Dis- ease. Am I the only one who never recognised this?

    Dis-abled

    Now thats a horrible word


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  • #2652
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,779 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Where's the proof for this Peter Pan bombshell?

    (Obviously I'm not going to read an actual book)


  • #2653
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    Where's the proof for this Peter Pan bombshell?

    (Obviously I'm not going to read an actual book)

    Neverland is an anagram of Vernal End :eek:


  • #2654
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    (Obviously I'm not going to read an actual book)

    Quiet indeed *tips hat*


  • #2655
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    No-one seems to realise the actual name of this country.

    Ire-land.

    'Ire', noun

    Meaning: intense anger; wrath.


  • #2656
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    No-one seems to realise the actual name of this country.

    Ire-land.

    'Ire', noun

    Meaning: intense anger; wrath.

    I did


  • #2657
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    So The British Called us Wrath-Island and it has nothing to do with Eire? :confused:
    Seeing as Ire is a English word
    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ire


  • #2658
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,779 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    Neverland is an anagram of Vernal End :eek:

    Fùckin 'ell!*













    *What's Vernal?


  • #2659
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    Fùckin 'ell!*













    *What's Vernal?

    Its a type of sin:D


  • #2660
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    People who die/get ill from eating peanuts have a bean allergy not a nut one.


  • #2661
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Its a type of sin:D

    No, it means related to spring.

    I learned today that the actor Jason Patric is the real life son of the young priest, Damien, in The Exorcist.


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  • #2662
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Its a type of sin:D

    DarkCrystal, it was a joke.............vernal/venial.


  • #2663
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    DarkCrystal, it was a joke.............vernal/venial.

    Yeah, after I posted that reply, it only occured to me you were probably joking. Now I look like a know-it-all and a silly billy.

    *Gets coat*

    ....Although, it may have been funnier to say it meant a sexual disease....venerial. See, I do have a sense of humour. Really I do!


    *Leaves through the back door*


  • #2664
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,869 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    dark crystal wrote: »
    No, it means related to spring.

    I learned today that the actor Jason Patric is the real life son of the young priest, Damien, in The Exorcist.

    It also means "Fresh, Young, Youthful"

    Source

    So Neverland is an an anagram of a youthful death.


  • #2665
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Just found out tonight that ham is from a pig.always thought it was from a cow, my God how embarrassing :-)


  • #2666
    Autonomous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭Autonomous


    I suspect that I'm slowing going insane...really :-(


  • #2667
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,779 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Autonomous wrote: »
    I suspect that I'm slowing going insane...really :-(

    If it's any help, I realised a few years ago that every single person I know (including myself) is quite mental.

    Seems so obvious to me now.


  • #2668
    franer1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭franer1970


    The spelling of The Beatles, as in probably the most popular and influential musical group of all time, is a pun on "beat".

    The insect/car is spelt beetle.


  • #2669
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    ireland.man wrote: »
    Disease. Dis- ease. Am I the only one who never recognised this?

    upsidedown will blow your mind.


  • #2670
    Chocolate Lions
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Chocolate Lions


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    No-one seems to realise the actual name of this country.

    Ire-land.

    'Ire', noun

    Meaning: intense anger; wrath.



    Eire-land = Ireland.

    Ireland's nickname was once Wolfland though.


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  • #2671
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Autonomous wrote: »
    I suspect that I'm slowing going insane...really :-(

    You're grand. If you we're really going mad you'd think you were fine. It's obviously everyone else - it is in my case anyway:)


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