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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #2732
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    I always thought the top of Grafton St thing was related to the fact that Grafton is on a slight incline


  • #2733
    Beano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    I always thought the top of Grafton St thing was related to the fact that Grafton is on a slight incline

    Me too. the stephens green end is definitely higher than the nassau street end.


  • #2734
    bren2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,652 ✭✭✭bren2001


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    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.

    It seems to flip on the northside. Upper dorset street is closer to the Liffey than lower. Equally the top of Fairview is the town side, the bottom is the Clontarf side, top of O'Connell street at the Liffey, bottom at Parnell street.


  • #2735
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    bren2001 wrote: »
    It seems to flip on the northside. Upper dorset street is closer to the Liffey than lower. Equally the top of Fairview is the town side, the bottom is the Clontarf side, top of O'Connell street at the Liffey, bottom at Parnell street.

    I think I would have always said the top of O'Connell St was at Parnell, but it's one of those situations where now I'm conscious of it so I'm not too sure


  • #2736
    Vojera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    I think I would have always said the top of O'Connell St was at Parnell, but it's one of those situations where now I'm conscious of it so I'm not too sure
    I definitely say the top of O'Connell street is the Parnell Street side. I would pinpoint it as being where the Ambassador is.


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  • #2737
    seventeen sheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭seventeen sheep


    Bottom of O'Connell St is definitely at the Liffey.


  • #2738
    bren2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,652 ✭✭✭bren2001


    I've learned my obvious fact about O'Connell street then :(

    It does disregard what the Taxi driver said none the less.


  • #2739
    seagull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭seagull


    bren2001 wrote: »
    I've learned my obvious fact about O'Connell street then :(

    It does disregard what the Taxi driver said none the less.

    Which means you have another entry for this thread.

    Taxi drivers often talk very confidently about things they know very little about.


  • #2740
    Ankhyu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,313 ✭✭✭Ankhyu


    Only recently realised what someone means when they call someone a "see you next Tuesday"!


  • #2741
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Been pronouncing Yosemite "yoss-eh-mite" for years


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  • #2742
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Luther is Stringer Bell!!!


  • #2743
    paulbok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,203 ✭✭✭paulbok


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    I think I would have always said the top of O'Connell St was at Parnell, but it's one of those situations where now I'm conscious of it so I'm not too sure


    All based on on where water would flow to the river/sea.
    Streets running towards the Liffey (or any river) have the bottom closest to the river.
    Streets running parallel to the river, like Abbey St, are lower closest to the sea, they follow the direction of the water.

    There's bound to be an exception to this in paces like Cork.


  • #2744
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    That cups can go in on either side of the dishwasher, not just the side my mam uses for them. There was loads of room on 'glasses-side' and I was still trying to jam cups in on the cup-side. Had a matrix moment 'there is no cup-side!'


  • #2745
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,063 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    messrs wrote: »
    had to google the logo to see it , I also always thought it was a cows nose!!
    I always thought the Innocent logo was a person with a halo over them, hence the innocence.


  • #2746
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    I always thought the Innocent logo was a person with a halo over them, hence the innocence.

    It's not? :confused:/:eek:


  • #2747
    Nerdlingr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭Nerdlingr


    Innocent smoothie logo

    http://www.logodesignlove.com/innocent-logo


  • #2748
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Ankhyu wrote: »
    Only recently realised what someone means when they call someone a "see you next Tuesday"!


    lol, my Brazilian OH picked up on this and in a mood one day giving out about someone she comes out with, "she is such a see you on Tuesday".... took me a while to figure out what was wrong with her sentence :p


  • #2749
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    I noticed this on my plane this morning so I presume it's on all planes. There's no row 13


  • #2750
    Misty Moon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 294 ✭✭Misty Moon


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Catchy song, ye all know it :)
    A man looking back at his youth and random memories like his first real six string.
    1969
    Sure we do that over in All Things Retro forum

    Bless my innocent soul.
    Heard that song hundreds of times over the years and I never ever picked up the meaning.
    Was about 1969, no? :o
    Love this thread and now have to spend hours going back through all the old stuff. It was always a mystery to me how Bryan Adams would have been doing all that stuff in 1969 because I didn't think he was old enough to have been a teenager then. Makes so much more sense now.

    My realisation of something totally obvious is when I was in my late twenties and spending lots of time with my nieces and nephews. For some reason I twigged that when I was six or seven and showed my mum once what a good job I had done brushing my teeth that she hadn't actually really been nearly blinded by how sparkly they were. :rolleyes:


  • #2751
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Misty Moon wrote: »
    It was always a mystery to me how Bryan Adams would have been doing all that stuff in 1969 because I didn't think he was old enough to have been a teenager then. Makes so much more sense now.

    I don't get it... :confused:
    I googled him, and he was born in 1959, so he only would've been 10. Am I missing the bit that make more sense now? :o

    Ah crap...
    When Adams appeared on The Early Show in 2008, he was asked about "Summer of '69" and its lyrical meaning. Adams confirmed the song was about sex and making love in the summertime. "69" is a reference to the sexual position, 69.[3] Vallance however has gone for the more conventional interpretation of the title being a reference to a year. He notes Jackson Browne's "Running on Empty", which contains references to 1965 and 1969, as his own influence, and recalls Adams citing the film Summer of '42 as his.[2] However the song bears no references to anything in 1969.

    Still don't think it was obvious.. :o


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  • #2752
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Allyall wrote: »
    I don't get it... :confused:
    I googled him, and he was born in 1959, so he only would've been 10. Am I missing the bit that make more sense now? :o

    Apart from the year what do you think of when you hear the number 69 ;)


  • #2753
    Misty Moon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 294 ✭✭Misty Moon


    Allyall wrote: »
    I don't get it... :confused:
    I googled him, and he was born in 1959, so he only would've been 10. Am I missing the bit that make more sense now?
    Sorry, just realised the quote I quoted wasn't complete - I was referring to this post from the early days of this thread. Which has the stuff you've since found out anyway. :)


  • #2754
    IsaacWunder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭IsaacWunder


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Been pronouncing Yosemite "yoss-eh-mite" for years

    I've been pronouncing it "you's might" in a thick Dublin accent.


  • #2755
    IsaacWunder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭IsaacWunder


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

    The one that always blew my mind was nowhere, meaning not being in a place, or a compound of no where.

    But it's also a compound word of now and here.

    So even though you're no where, you're now here :confused:

    Now I just say I'm lost :pac:


  • #2756
    messrs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭messrs


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    Apart from the year what do you think of when you hear the number 69 ;)

    The bus I get home from work :rolleyes:


  • #2757
    triple nipple
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭triple nipple


    That having steel bars over all your windows isnt normal. Only realised it the other day when I was telling the missus about one of the houses I grew up in.


  • #2758
    ConstantJoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 360 ✭✭ConstantJoe


    It's always in the last place you look... because when you find it you stop looking.


  • #2759
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Only this morning did I realise 'a stitch in time saves nine' means literally just that. I never took it literally, just thought it was some sh1te people say. :/


  • #2760
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,456 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    What?


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  • #2761
    Frynge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    ConstantJoe wrote: »
    It's always in the last place you look... because when you find it you stop looking.

    No quiet true, many times I've been looking for my mobile to make a call and then when talking to someone I continue looking for my phone and even get pissed off that I can't find it.



    Maybe I should see someone!


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