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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #3272
    ArtyC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭ArtyC


    That corn flakes are made from corn, watched food unwrapped. I feel so stupid


  • #3273
    Into The Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    Prison is called The Slammer due to the noise of the cell door slamming closed..


  • #3274
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    ArtyC wrote: »
    That corn flakes are made from corn, watched food unwrapped. I feel so stupid

    The iron added looks delic.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #3275
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ArtyC wrote: »
    That corn flakes are made from corn, watched food unwrapped. I feel so stupid


    I think I have something to tell you about Rice Krispies...



    ...that's right, they're made from crisps.


  • #3276
    thelad95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    franer1970 wrote: »
    Modern Family is done mockumentary style, but there's not even the pretence that a fly-on-the-wall documentary is being made (unlike The Office for example).
    I suppose the format is so familiar by now that no explanation is needed.

    I wouldn't agree with you there. There's often individual 'interviews' with characters and they're often seen glancing at the camera similar to the office, especially Phil Dunphy. I'd imagine when Modern Family eventually comes to an end we'll see them all sitting down to watch the 'documentary' similar to the Office.

    Edit: it was never explicitly mentioned that a documentary is being filmed but it wasn't really in the Office until the last series either was it?


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  • #3277
    DavyD_83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,991 ✭✭✭DavyD_83


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I think I have something to tell you about Rice Krispies...



    ...that's right, they're made from crisps.

    Krisps surely


  • #3278
    Overflow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,266 ✭✭✭Overflow


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I think I have something to tell you about Rice Krispies...



    ...that's right, they're made from crisps.

    ..ah right, so then Corn Flakes are actually made from Flakes ?


  • #3279
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Don't know how obvious this is but I always thought something was a 'shoe-in' as in they had one shoe in the door but apparently it's a 'shoo-in' which derives from horse racing and the verb 'to shoo' where racehorses would fall back and allow a chosen rider to win a fixed race.


  • #3280
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,078 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I always imagined an old-fashioned door-to-door salesman sticking his foot out to stop people from closing the door on his face...


  • #3281
    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    Mother's Day is 9 months after Father's Day.

    I heard that on the radio just now.


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  • #3282
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,078 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    DareGod wrote: »
    Father's Day is 9 months after Mother's Day.

    I heard that on the radio just now.

    Father's Day and Mother's Day are celebrated on dates that vary from country to country, i.e., in some places Father's Day falls on the 19th of March - the Feast of St. Joseph, whereas Mother's Day falls on the first Sunday in May, month dedicated to Mary.


  • #3283
    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    New Home wrote: »
    Father's Day and Mother's Day are celebrated on dates that vary from country to country, i.e., in some places Father's Day falls on the 19th of March - the Feast of St. Joseph, whereas Mother's Day falls on the first Sunday in May, month dedicated to Mary.

    Let me specify, then.

    In Ireland and the UK, Mothers day is 9 months after Fathers day.


  • #3284
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,078 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Fair enough :)


  • #3285
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    New Home wrote: »
    Father's Day and Mother's Day are celebrated on dates that vary from country to country, i.e., in some places Father's Day falls on the 19th of March - the Feast of St. Joseph, whereas Mother's Day falls on the first Sunday in May, month dedicated to Mary.

    Sure he wasn't even the real Da!


  • #3286
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley




    The singer "Hozier" is Andrew from Anúna.

    I didn't even know this Hozier chap was Irish


  • #3287
    Eeden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,915 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    ^^^ Not really obvious, but good to know, thanks :)


  • #3288
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Eeden wrote: »
    ^^^ Not really obvious, but good to know, thanks :)

    Well it depends on how you see it; I had no idea who this Hozier chap was but I knew Andrew from Anuna very well, I'm a fan of anuna


  • #3289
    Into The Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    Well it depends on how you see it; I had no idea who this Hozier chap was but I knew Andrew from Anuna very well, I'm a fan of anuna

    Never heard of anuna.. Every day is a school day!


  • #3290
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Never heard of anuna


  • #3291
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,078 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Please tell me you're kidding... Ever heard of Riverdance? The singing bit at the beginning was Anúna too...


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  • #3292
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Heard of riverdance, never heard of anuna.
    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    The singer "Hozier" is Andrew from Anúna.

    I didn't even know this Hozier chap was Irish
    If anybody thinks that sound familiar it was in a carling black label advert, sung by the balfa brothers.

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


    full version below
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr_HcNzNBXg


  • #3293
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    There are 2 referendums???


  • #3294
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Motown. Never realised where the music label name came from until very recently
    .
    Detroit
    .
    Motor City
    .
    Motor town

    Well d'uh


  • #3295
    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    So apparently there was a Prince only down the road from me all day...


  • #3296
    Asarlai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    wil wrote: »
    Motown. Never realised where the music label name came from until very recently
    .
    Detroit
    .
    Motor City
    .
    Motor town

    Well d'uh

    I've lived in the Metro Detroit area for 19 years, and I just realised it last year....:eek:


  • #3297
    yeppydeppy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭yeppydeppy


    A cigarette is a diminutive cigar.


  • #3298
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    On the boards app you can swipe from page to page. Used to annoy the hell out of me that if I was on the last page I'd have to scroll through all the numbers at the bottom to get to the second last page.


  • #3299
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,979 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Probably not that obvious but I only found out that Michael McKean, who plays Chuck on Better Call Saul, also played the lead singer in Spinal tap.


  • #3300
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    And Harry Shearer, of Simpsons-voice fame, was their bassist.


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  • #3301
    Asarlai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    quickbeam wrote: »
    And Harry Shearer, of Simpsons-voice fame, was their bassist.

    Yep, and the other guy (can't remember his name now), he's a regular on Game of Thrones.

    It's amazing when you think about it, isn't it?


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