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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #2672
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    I've just realised that some useless little curved cubby hole thingies in my kitchen are actually for wine bottles!


  • #2673
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


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

    Ire-land.

    'Ire', noun

    Meaning: intense anger; wrath.


    The way some people pronounce it, (especially on RTE!) its AAAARRRGH land.


    Full of pirates.


  • #2674
    sparkthatbled
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 628 ✭✭✭sparkthatbled


    The only possible reason why Principal Skinner and his mother would have fights over whose turn it is to use the inflatable bath pillow... THEY HAVE THEIR BATHS TOGETHER!


  • #2675
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    Chocolate Lions wrote: »
    Eire-land = Ireland.

    Ireland's nickname was once Wolfland though.

    Don't forget Hibernia.

    Winterland.


  • #2676
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,779 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    The fella who wrote Peter Pan was Scottish, right?

    What I do know is the he invented the name Wendy, it was never seen before that book.

    Now I'm thinking, in a Scottish accent, that could be made to sound like When Die. It's the most sinister book ever written!

    Yikes!

    :-D:-D


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  • #2677
    fergiesfolly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,525 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    The fella who wrote Peter Pan was Scottish, right?

    What I do know is the he invented the name Wendy, it was never seen before that book.

    Now I'm thinking, in a Scottish accent, that could be made to sound like When Die. It's the most sinister book ever written!

    Yikes!

    :-D:-D

    Your Scottish accent is atrocious


  • #2678
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,779 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    fergiesfolly wrote: »
    Your Scottish accent is atrocious

    Ach nooo!

    My point about that name might be a bit of a stretch, mind you.


  • #2679
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    The fella who wrote Peter Pan was Scottish, right?

    What I do know is the he invented the name Wendy, it was never seen before that book.

    He certainly popularised it, but it did in fact exist before Peter Pan - it's a diminutive of Gwendolyn.


  • #2680
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    he invented the name Wendy
    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    He certainly popularised it, but it did in fact exist before Peter Pan - it's a diminutive of Gwendolyn.

    http://www.wendy.com/wendyweb/history.html


  • #2681
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    I had realised this a while ago, but I guess just now I realised the extent..

    Television is killing/killed Christmas.
    Halloween is barely over Sky 1 are showing Miracle on 34th street, adverts are encouraging People to start their Christmas shopping.. :(:mad:
    It's no wonder that by the actual time Christmas arrives, we're either p*ssed of with it and can't wait for it to end, or it no longer "feels like" Christmas, considering all the Christmas spirit has been over abused for nearly two months beforehand.. :(


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  • #2682
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Allyall wrote: »
    I had realised this a while ago, but I guess just now I realised the extent..

    Television is killing/killed Christmas.
    Halloween is barely over Sky 1 are showing Miracle on 34th street, adverts are encouraging People to start their Christmas shopping.. :(:mad:
    It's no wonder that by the actual time Christmas arrives, we're either p*ssed of with it and can't wait for it to end, or it no longer "feels like" Christmas, considering all the Christmas spirit has been over abused for nearly two months beforehand.. :(
    I think there's 2 bigger issues:
    1) You're older than you used to be
    2) People buy things like electronics year-round now. Other than the youngest kids they don't have to wait for Christmas to get new games etc.


  • #2683
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I think there's 2 bigger issues:
    1) You're older than you used to be
    2) People buy things like electronics year-round now. Other than the youngest kids they don't have to wait for Christmas to get new games etc.


    Yeah, but
    1) I still act like I'm 12... :pac:
    2) The Christmas Decorations/music/atmosphere etc. are done to death in adverts and the feeling is well and truly killed by the end of December..


  • #2684
    BuilderPlumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    The IRA have an obsessive hatred for Irish water!


  • #2685
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,517 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    John Cougar Mellencamp has a song called "Rock in the USA".

    I only realised yesterday that the chorus is him spelling out the word Rock followed by the words "in the USA"...

    Never knew what the hell he was saying for years...

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #2686
    ireland.man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭ireland.man


    Ireland doesn't use the pound. Ireland is not in Britain. Ireland and Scotland are different.

    Thanks American media!


  • #2687
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    For anyone who's a fan of old Westerns. A gold-rush movie from the 1930s called Barbary Coast seems to be the reference point for countless titles over the years. Practically every scene in this movie has been used again and again by different Western movies. Can't think of any other Hollywood movie that has been copied so many times by other ones.


  • #2688
    Johngoose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭Johngoose


    That it doesn't really matter who runs this country (into the ground). Political parties are concerned about the salaries they get and staying in power.Politicians don't give a rat's ass about the ordinary person.It has taken me years to realise these things.


  • #2689
    thelad95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    sunshine and showers wrote: »
    That Laya Healthcare actually stands for Looking After You Always.

    Really? It's not like they don't say that in every single ad they have on telly.


  • #2690
    LoganRice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭LoganRice


    that this thread is on page 2 and isn't anymore


  • #2691
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    That Liechtenstein is TINY and in between Switzerland and Austria..
    (I don't think I ever gave it that much thought, but never thought it was that size, or there).

    I also just realised, that if you type in a place name into google, clicking on the 'sample map' on the right hand side of the results brings you to Google Earth. :)


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  • #2692
    Frynge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    I don't like hozzier.


  • #2693
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    quango = quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation.


  • #2694
    Putin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭Putin


    BuilderPlumber wrote: »
    The IRA have an obsessive hatred for Irish water!

    I've learned that some have an unhealthy obsession with The IRA. Seeing conspiracies where there are none.


  • #2695
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    I Never really realised why the reverse light on cars is white...
    it's to help when reversing in the dark most likely so the driver can see what's behind the car.
    sounds silly, but only just realised when reversing and went 'handy that reversing light is on'.


  • #2696
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    The word ambulance is spelled backwards on the front of the vehicle so that the driver in front can read it properly in their rear-view mirror.


  • #2697
    ireland.man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭ireland.man


    That it's called a t-shirt because it's shaped like a T. I'm not very bright.


  • #2698
    reap-a-rat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭reap-a-rat


    The Burger King logo is Burger King written inside a burger bun...


  • #2699
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    Charlie Chaplin was overrated, Buster Keaton was the real genius of silent movie comedy.


  • #2700
    jeanrose770
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭jeanrose770


    That so often people say we are killing time
    ....when however,
    Time is in fact killing us.


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  • #2701
    DMcL1971
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,444 ✭✭✭DMcL1971


    fiachr_a wrote: »
    Charlie Chaplin was overrated, Buster Keaton was the real genius of silent movie comedy.

    Personally, my vote goes to Harold Lloyd.


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