What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

silent gav · 13-11-2014 02:36AM

i should be in bed!!

El_Duderino 09 · 13-11-2014 02:38AM

Johngoose wrote: »

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.

Similar to this. I recently realised that whichever party is in power would probably make the same decisions 95%of the time.

Just because they are in opposition and oppose the decision the government has just made, doesn't mean they would have done anything different if they were in government

FloatingVoter · 13-11-2014 02:41AM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Similar to this. I recently realised that whichever party is in power would probably make the same decisions 95%of the time.

Just because they are in opposition and oppose the decision the government has just made, doesn't mean they would have done anything different if they were in government

For living proof of this watch Sinn Fein in action here and over the border. Up north they're in government and implementing cutbacks. Down here they're against everything. This isn't an anti - SF post (I do them too) but its an example of one political party playing two games depending on whether they're in power or not.

Ihatecuddles · 13-11-2014 02:42AM

The guy in the mental floss videos wrote The fault in our stars. not obvious but should have been to me!

kiffer · 13-11-2014 07:36AM

whiskeyman wrote: »

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'.

Also so the car behind you knows that you will be moving towards it... if the lights were just bright red then they might be confused for brake lights or fog lights.
white at the front, red at the back. White lights facing you are moving towards you.

Michael D Not Higgins · 13-11-2014 09:58AM

kiffer wrote: »

Also so the car behind you knows that you will be moving towards it... if the lights were just bright red then they might be confused for brake lights or fog lights.
white at the front, red at the back. White lights facing you are moving towards you.

Except if you're looking at a car reversing away from you.

fiachr_a · 13-11-2014 07:43PM

DMcL1971 wrote: »

Personally, my vote goes to Harold Lloyd.

He was good too and so was Harry Langdon. But Keaton directed most of his own movies, that's what made him so great.

McChubbin · 13-11-2014 08:16PM

Eggnog lattes are amazing. I've never had eggnog in my life but tried one of these godly concoctions yesterday. Lordy, they're good!

FunLover18 · 14-11-2014 10:19AM

fiachr_a wrote: »

He was good too and so was Harry Langdon. But Keaton directed most of his own movies, that's what made him so great.

Didn't Chaplin write and direct his own films as well?

kitten_k · 14-11-2014 10:52AM

McChubbin wrote: »

Eggnog lattes are amazing. I've never had eggnog in my life but tried one of these godly concoctions yesterday. Lordy, they're good!

Where was this?

D-FENS · 14-11-2014 10:57AM

I recently discovered the song “Zoom” by Fat Larry’s band, was not “Soon” by Stevie Wonder, as I thought for over 30 years.

Dial Hard · 14-11-2014 11:28AM

That the Innocent smoothie logo is a face with a halo over it.

I always thought it was a cow's nose. On closer inspection, there would be absolutely no reason for that.

fiachr_a · 15-11-2014 01:56PM

Ireland should have played Georgia in soccer and Scotland in rugby this weekend!

Grayson · 15-11-2014 02:08PM

fiachr_a wrote: »

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

As someone mentioned earlier Harold Lloyd

Edited to add: And he was missing fingers when he did that scene if I remember correctly. plus, no safety wires or nets. Just him on a building.

McChubbin · 15-11-2014 06:49PM

kitten_k wrote: »

Where was this?

Starbucks.
Incidently, t'was the mammy's birthday this week and my stepdad bought her one of those awesome coffee maker machines with the little pods.
Just tried one of the Latte ones. Not bad- a bit bitter for my tastes- but lordy, what a time to be alive!

Aglomerado · 18-11-2014 10:05PM

That Nesquick cereal looks like rabbit shít... and there's a rabbit on the box... :pac:

Steve F · 18-11-2014 10:30PM

Grayson wrote: »

As someone mentioned earlier Harold Lloyd

Edited to add: And he was missing fingers when he did that scene if I remember correctly. plus, no safety wires or nets. Just him on a building.

Yes indeed Lloyd was a genius.However, you do realize that Harold is not dangling hundreds of feet above the street but just out of shot is a safety stage they built for these scenes? I saw a great 2 part documentary about Harold Lloyd years ago and it showed how this sequence was shot.Oh and the long shots are a stunt man not HL

sbsquarepants · 20-11-2014 10:49AM

fiachr_a wrote: »

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

Bit of Buster Keaton trivia for you.
The actor Michael Keaton - his real name is Michael Douglas, but when he tried to register that name with the actors union it had already been taken, so he chose Michael Keaton in honour of his hero Buster.

messrs · 20-11-2014 10:55AM

Dial Hard wrote: »

That the Innocent smoothie logo is a face with a halo over it.

I always thought it was a cow's nose. On closer inspection, there would be absolutely no reason for that.

had to google the logo to see it , I also always thought it was a cows nose!!

FionnK86 · 20-11-2014 12:37PM

I panicked for a while when I realised the letter "a" is typed differently as to how it is written.For a brief moment I thought that everyone was writing the letter "a" like computers/typewriters do and I was writing it wrong for 20 years....then I saw my brother writing it like me and calmed down

Breffnigolfer · 20-11-2014 12:40PM

fiachr_a wrote: »

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

Was the title only allowed to be bestowed on one?

Allyall · 20-11-2014 01:07PM

Breffnigolfer wrote: »

Was the title only allowed to be bestowed on one?

Coincidentally, I just found out last week that Beyoncé was called the Queen of Pop, I always thought it was Madonna who held that title. I didn't realise that it obviously gets passed on like every other Royal title.
After a bit more looking

Horrific Nicknames in Popular Music

It seems that there has been quite a few, including Janet Jackson, Celine Dion, Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears and more..

You may not agree with them all, But they have all held that title at one stage.

yeppydeppy · 20-11-2014 02:18PM

They have all used that title or more likely their marketing record label has used it for them.

Anyway, I recently realised that brae is another word for hill and that's why Bra y in Wicklow is called that.

To Elland Back · 20-11-2014 10:33PM

That if you touch the number of the post in a thread that it opens it up as a single post in a separate window.

NIMAN · 21-11-2014 06:25AM

That the shop is actually called EASON and not EASON'S.

Heard them mentioned on the radio, not sure if it was an advert or someone talking about them, and they said "now available at Eason", and although it sounded strange, its still sounded right.

To Elland Back · 21-11-2014 08:54AM

NIMAN wrote: »

That the shop is actually called EASON and not EASON'S.

Heard them mentioned on the radio, not sure if it was an advert or someone talking about them, and they said "now available at Eason", and although it sounded strange, its still sounded right.

In the same way that the majority of people think the football club is called Bohemians, when it is actually Bohemian FC

danrua01 · 21-11-2014 10:08AM

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

The guy in the mental floss videos wrote The fault in our stars. not obvious but should have been to me!

Holy lord... this blew my mind!

ongarboy · 21-11-2014 10:39AM

NIMAN wrote: »

That the shop is actually called EASON and not EASON'S.

Heard them mentioned on the radio, not sure if it was an advert or someone talking about them, and they said "now available at Eason", and although it sounded strange, its still sounded right.

Likewise Tesco. I should put that in the trivial things that annoy me thread. Hearing people saying Tesco's irritates me for some odd reason. Although I am guilty of saying Easons.

mikemac1 · 21-11-2014 10:42AM

Could never get my head around top of Grafton St. If I'm supposed to meet somewhere there I'll have to ask more questions

A taximan explained it to me, taximen know everything!

Lower is always closest to the river. For example Lower Dorset St is closer to the Liffey then Upper. Lower Ballyfermot is the same

Top of Grafton St is the side that's farthest from the river.

messrs · 21-11-2014 10:49AM

ongarboy wrote: »

Likewise Tesco. I should put that in the trivial things that annoy me thread. Hearing people saying Tesco's irritates me for some odd reason. Although I am guilty of saying Easons.

omg, likewise! when people say Aldi's and Lidl's that wrecks my head so much :mad::mad::mad:

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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