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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #2822
    NoMore MrNiceGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭NoMore MrNiceGuy


    I used to think the numbers on the toaster were minutes because I can't count minutes or use a watch now I realise it's just a "browning factor".


  • #2823
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    GhostInTheRuins wrote:
    My logic was that the 'pat' part was short for Paddy and if you were an expat you were in fact an 'ex-paddy', and no longer Irish. 

    When I was young I used to think the word 'expat' referred exclusively to Irish people.

    Same here, although I still don't know where it actually comes from. Never been bothered Googling. is I t ex-patriot or something like that?


  • #2824
    JaseBelleVie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 936 ✭✭✭JaseBelleVie


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    Same here, although I still don't know where it actually comes from. Never been bothered Googling. is I t ex-patriot or something like that?

    Comes from Latin, actually.

    Ex - meaning "out of"

    patria - meaning "country"

    so basically, just means a person who's out of their own country (be it permanently or temporarily)


  • #2825
    gillymuffins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭gillymuffins


    That Liam is a shortened form of William.


  • #2826
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,458 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    It's the Irish for William, no?


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  • #2827
    gillymuffins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭gillymuffins


    J Mysterio wrote: »
    It's the Irish for William, no?

    Yeah, I think so. It only dawned on me and never noticed that Liam is actually in William.


  • #2828
    JaseBelleVie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 936 ✭✭✭JaseBelleVie


    *Tinfoil hat on*

    C.I.A. does not stand for "Central Intelligence Agency". Rather, it stands for "Capitalism's Invisible Army". At least it did during the Cold War. :P


  • #2829
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    gillymuffins wrote: »
    Yeah, I think so. It only dawned on me and never noticed that Liam is actually in William.

    I bet it dawned on William fairly lively:eek:


  • #2830
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    On Sunday I realised that the hit song from Frozen is actually not Let Her Go by Passenger :(


  • #2831
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,108 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    On Sunday I realised that the hit song from Frozen is actually not Let Her Go by Passenger :(


    That song is just as bloody annoying, took me a while too before I realised there was another version of the Let it Go song besides the Demi Lovato version :o


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  • #2832
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    That song is just as bloody annoying, took me a while too before I realised there was another version of the Let it Go song besides the Demi Lovato version :o

    Indeed. Him, Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran are the most overplayed singers of 2014.


  • #2833
    Mrs Fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭Mrs Fox


    13spanner wrote: »
    There's a bear in the Toblerone logo. Pretty cool.

    Also, The Alphabet song and Twinkle Twinkle Little Start have the same tune.

    Thanks for that. I've just enlightened the husband too when he picked up a giant toblerone last night.


  • #2834
    Salvation Tambourine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 957 ✭✭✭Salvation Tambourine


    Summer officially starts in June and not May as I and many others were seemingly led to believe.

    ww.met.ie/education/pdfs_eng/YP%20Fun%20Facts%20Seasons.pdf

    I think we were taught it was May in school, as it is in the Gaelic/Irish Calendar

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_calendar

    I don't have enough posts to put up proper links :(


  • #2835
    jonnyfingers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭jonnyfingers


    Not entirely obvious but when I realised it it now seems obvious.

    If there's an arrow on the fuel icon on a car's fuel gauge it points to the side of the car where the fuel cap is.

    fuel_gauge_analog.jpg


  • #2836
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    jonnyfingers wrote: »
    Not entirely obvious but when I realised it it now seems obvious.

    If there's an arrow on the fuel icon on a car's fuel gauge it points to the side of the car where the fuel cap is.

    fuel_gauge_analog.jpg

    I discovered it in this very thread and have telling anyone who will listen ever since.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=82755785&postcount=815


  • #2837
    mr.anonymous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 481 ✭✭mr.anonymous


    Grapes and raisins are the same thing :O


  • #2838
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    mr.anonymous wrote: »
    Grapes and raisins are the same thing :O

    What.

    The world as I know it no longer exists.


  • #2839
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    mr.anonymous wrote:
    Grapes and raisins are the same thing 


    So are plums and prunes


  • #2840
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,108 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    So are plums and prunes


    Holy... what are dates then?


    Says me with the Internet in front of me, turns out dates are just dates :rolleyes:


  • #2841
    JaseBelleVie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 936 ✭✭✭JaseBelleVie


    Sun-dried tomatoes are tomatoes!!!!!! JESUS!!!

    :P


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  • #2842
    BuilderPlumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    Nokotan wrote: »
    Summer officially starts in June and not May as I and many others were seemingly led to believe.

    ww.met.ie/education/pdfs_eng/YP%20Fun%20Facts%20Seasons.pdf

    I think we were taught it was May in school, as it is in the Gaelic/Irish Calendar

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_calendar

    I don't have enough posts to put up proper links :(

    I think the start of seasons and indeed 'new years' often vary from place to place. TRADITIONALLY, Spring started in February, summer in May, Autumn in August and winter in November in Ireland. It is different in some European countries where spring starts in March and the rest follows from that (Czech Republic for sure has this arrangement). With Ireland being in Europe, we commonly interchange the two systems and mix them up. Also, what category is a month like August? Still feels very summer but officially autumn Irishwise!


  • #2843
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Nokotan wrote:
    Summer officially starts in June and not May as I and many others were seemingly led to believe.


    I don't care about the "official" calender. In Ireland May is clearly a summer month and February is spring, not winter. November in autumn? Don't be daft.


  • #2844
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,223 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    I don't care about the "official" calender. In Ireland May is clearly a summer month and February is spring, not winter. November in autumn? Don't be daft.

    Coldest month in Ireland is always February therefore it's still winter!


  • #2845
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,869 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Gloomtastic! wrote: »
    Coldest month in Ireland is always February therefore it's still winter!
    Mid summer is in June so that means the month before and after are also summer. This is decided by the summer solstice. The same goes for winter. This isn't decided by some n00b with a calendar. It's decided by our cyclical orbit of the Sun.

    Talk all you like, but you can't deny that.


  • #2846
    Paz-CCFC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭Paz-CCFC


    gillymuffins wrote: »
    Yeah, I think so. It only dawned on me and never noticed that Liam is actually in William.

    It's the same with Colm and Malcolm.


  • #2847
    BuilderPlumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    Gloomtastic! wrote: »
    Coldest month in Ireland is always February therefore it's still winter!

    Yes. February can often be very cold. And March. Even early April. Sometimes, the line between winter and spring is so blurred.


  • #2848
    Triboro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭Triboro


    jonnyfingers wrote: »
    Not entirely obvious but when I realised it it now seems obvious.

    If there's an arrow on the fuel icon on a car's fuel gauge it points to the side of the car where the fuel cap is.

    fuel_gauge_analog.jpg

    Driving 30+ years and never knew this one!!!
    Every day is a school day.


  • #2849
    GerB40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    I recently found out that 'irregardless' is in fact a word. If a few of my friends found this out I'll be down a shít load of money...


  • #2850
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    GerB40 wrote: »
    I recently found out that 'irregardless' is in fact a word. If a few of my friends found this out I'll be down a shít load of money...

    It's a word by definition, but it's still wrong.


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  • #2851
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,804 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    BuilderPlumber wrote: »
    I think the start of seasons and indeed 'new years' often vary from place to place. TRADITIONALLY, Spring started in February, summer in May, Autumn in August and winter in November in Ireland. It is different in some European countries where spring starts in March and the rest follows from that (Czech Republic for sure has this arrangement). With Ireland being in Europe, we commonly interchange the two systems and mix them up. Also, what category is a month like August? Still feels very summer but officially autumn Irishwise!
    FunLover18 wrote: »
    I don't care about the "official" calender. In Ireland May is clearly a summer month and February is spring, not winter. November in autumn? Don't be daft.


    People in Ireland are always confusing Calendar seasons based on old pagan events to Meterological seasons which run as below as explained by Met Eireann on their website. I assume we'd all accept their opinion on it.
    Seasons
    The change from winter to spring or from summer to autumn is gradual and the general trend is subject to reversals which may last for a week or more. For Climatological purposes, on the basis of air temperature, seasons are regarded as three-month periods as follows: December to February - winter, March to May - spring, June to August- summer and September to November - autumn. This is a common grouping in the meteorological practice of many countries in the middle and northern latitudes.

    Link

    Also, you can't really believe that August, the height of the Summer holiday season and hottest month of the year is Autumn.


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