What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

Potential Underachiever · 01-03-2015 12:29AM

LizT wrote: »

Hard to tell with the accent.

Yes it sure is (I'm doing a Hawking impression)

XxMCRxBabyxX · 01-03-2015 12:33AM

LizT wrote: »

Hard to tell with the accent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIqiOt_9XJ8

InTheTrees · 02-03-2015 05:23AM

I just noticed today watching Ireland against England, Rugby players don't have their names on the back of their shirts.

Hmm.

Rosie Rant · 02-03-2015 11:28AM

I only realised last night that Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh is so called because his name sounds like the sound a donkey makes! Duh!

murpho999 · 02-03-2015 11:38AM

Rosie Rant wrote: »

I only realised last night that Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh is so called because his name sounds like the sound a donkey makes! Duh!

So Winnie was having a crap when named?

unfortunately · 02-03-2015 11:57AM

seamus wrote: »

You know the company, Adshel, who manage all the bus shelters in Dublin?

Advertise + Shelter = Adshel.

Only copped it this morning.

Ha, when I first came to Dublin found myself in Dublin 4 somewhere at a bus shelter - trying to work out where I was and I though I was at "Adshel".

Maglight · 02-03-2015 12:01PM

InTheTrees wrote: »

I just noticed today watching Ireland against England, Rugby players don't have their names on the back of their shirts.

Hmm.

Having watched and enjoyed the six nations championship all my life and yesterday's match was a cracker. I realized that a good Gaelic Football match is actually more entertaining.

Rosie Rant · 02-03-2015 12:04PM

murpho999 wrote: »

So Winnie was having a crap when named?

Possibly!

FunLover18 · 02-03-2015 12:08PM

murpho999 wrote: »

So Winnie was having a crap when named?

It could be an urban legend but I think 'Winnie the Pooh Bear' comes from the real Christopher Robin (AA Milne's son) childish inability to properly say 'Isn't he the poor bear'.

Bassfish · 02-03-2015 12:16PM

InTheTrees wrote: »

I just noticed today watching Ireland against England, Rugby players don't have their names on the back of their shirts.

Hmm.

Not at international level but they do in some leagues, the English rugby premiership for example. Not done in the pro 12 though so you wont see Munster or Leinster with it.

FunLover18 · 02-03-2015 12:20PM

Bassfish wrote: »

Not at international level but they do in some leagues, the English rugby premiership for example. Not done in the pro 12 though so you wont see Munster or Leinster with it.

I presume it's related to the fact that the number is assigned to the position rather than the player and harks back to when they wouldn't have had a brand new jersey for every match.

Bassfish · 02-03-2015 12:29PM

FunLover18 wrote: »

I presume it's related to the fact that the number is assigned to the position rather than the player and harks back to when they wouldn't have had a brand new jersey for every match.

Shpot on boy!

Potential Underachiever · 02-03-2015 01:02PM

HugsiePie wrote: »

Staying on the "are they American or English" theme, it turns out Sacha Baron Cohen is not American as I always thought, but in fact English

Yeah Borat is English.....and a Cambridge graduate too :P

Now I would have thought that was obvious considering his Ali G character!

fruttituttii · 02-03-2015 01:11PM

Realised after pancake Tuesday, a pancake recipe is a cake recipe, just the difference being cooking the cake mixture on the pan. Was mindblown

Allyall · 02-03-2015 02:36PM

Potential Underachiever wrote: »

Now I would have thought that was obvious considering his Ali G character!

..as is the thread title

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Love2love · 02-03-2015 02:55PM

gramar wrote: »

We all know the 'don't look a gift horse in the mouth' saying. I've never thought about it much and only today realised the sense behind it when I heard it in Spanish which literally translated is 'never look a gift horse in the teeth' which makes more sense. Looking at a horses teeth you can tell it's age but seeing as it's a gift you shouldn't as you shouldn't criticise something you get for free.

Wow! I always thought this was because of the Wooden Horse of Troy as it was a gift.... In fact, I thought it was meaning was don't be fooled by someone who gives gifts.

fruttituttii · 02-03-2015 03:47PM

Dunno if this has been posted before but the saying 'Be there or be a square' because you wont be a-round.

Shannon757 · 02-03-2015 03:50PM

fruttituttii wrote: »

Dunno if this has been posted before but the saying 'Be there or be a square' because you wont be a-round.

Has been posted before

fruttituttii · 02-03-2015 03:52PM

Shannon757 wrote: »

Has been posted before

Oh well, Thought I discovered something new

rubadub · 02-03-2015 03:57PM

fruttituttii wrote: »

Dunno if this has been posted before but the saying 'Be there or be a square' because you wont be a-round.

I never heard this. I took a square is a "uncool" person, like ned flanders would be called square. So if you are not going to the event you must be a square

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_%28slang%29

In the parlance of jazz, a square was a person who failed to appreciate the medium, or, more broadly, someone who was out of date or out of touch, hence the saying "be there or be square". In the counterculture movements that started in the 1940s and took momentum in the 1960s a "square" referred to someone who clung to repressive, traditional, stereotypical, one-sided, or "in the box" ways of thinking. The term was used by hipsters in the 1940s, beatniks in the 1950s, hippies in the 1960s, yippies in the 1970s, and other individuals who took part in the movements which emerged to contest the more conservative national, political, religious, philosophical, musical, and social trends.

aunty kitty · 02-03-2015 03:58PM

Love2love wrote: »

Wow! I always thought this was because of the Wooden Horse of Troy as it was a gift.... In fact, I thought it was meaning was don't be fooled by someone who gives gifts.

I always took it as, if something good happens, don't look at the negative.

Allyall · 02-03-2015 04:06PM

yippies?

Dickerty · 02-03-2015 04:20PM

Allyall wrote: »

yippies?

Opposite of yuppies?

Quazzie · 02-03-2015 09:53PM

HugsiePie wrote: »

Staying on the "are they American or English" theme, it turns out Sacha Baron Cohen is not American as I always thought, but in fact English

Yeah Borat is English.....and a Cambridge graduate too :P

Did you think Ali G was american too?

Voodoomelon · 03-03-2015 02:15PM

Until recently, I always thought the end claw piece on a measuring tape was loose due to wearing out or poor manufacture. But its designed to move in and out by exactly the width of the metal on the claw itself.

This gives accurate measurements when measuring up against a wall for example, or when clawed over the edge of a table.

Ken Shamrock · 03-03-2015 02:18PM

The Home button on Twitter is a Bird's nest, and your default logo when you make an account is an egg.

Gloomtastic! · 05-03-2015 09:28PM

With thanks to the fantastic Little Museum of Dublin.

Why are they called One-armed bandits?

Because they have one arm and they rob you of your money!