What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

New Home · 30-07-2015 08:28PM

It is a play on words, but if you haven't seen the play/read the book/etc, DO IT NOW, it's superb.

Allyall · 03-08-2015 02:40AM

I just watched 'Gaybo' Interview Cilla Black

I have grown up believing Gay Byrne had some sort of magical Rapport with his guests, and that he was a good interviewer.

Watching that, I realised he was as equally crap as Tubridy, he just maybe, had better guests.

Duddy · 03-08-2015 03:27AM

major bill wrote: »

Roose Bolton warden of the North in Game of Thrones and Rats from the Flats in Paths to Freedom is played by the same actor

Was amazed by this, looked it up and found out that Jeremy (southside guy) is played by Brendan Coyle/Mr. Bates of Downton Abbey!

Adamocovic · 05-08-2015 12:46PM

I've been a member of boards since 2010 (wasn't so active for my first few years) but I only found out today that curse words are automatically censored....

Before I was carefully counting the letters of the curse word I wanted to use and replacing them myself with the stars...needless to say I feel a bit thick since for the last 3 years or so I have been doing this.

Another example from me would be when I was searching for my phone at night...using the light on my phone, took me a few minutes to cop I was holding the thing I was looking for...I'm not exactly painting myself in a good light!

hatrickpatrick · 05-08-2015 12:48PM

The most ridiculous aspect of your mistake was not realising that Boards' "no swearing" rule is incredibly lax, such that only starring out the main vowel is perfectly f*cking fine and doesn't make you a gobsh!te, and that sometimes merely swapping consonants around will also suffice as well, and doesn't make the poster a fcuking cnut.

Peregrine · 05-08-2015 12:52PM

Merged with the "What really obvious thing have you only just realised?" thread.

Adamocovic · 05-08-2015 12:53PM

Peregrine wrote: »

Merged with the "What really obvious thing have you only just realised?" thread.

Thanks. I guess not realising there was a thread already is another for my list :pac:

Tombi! · 05-08-2015 12:55PM

It's a load of bollocks you can'tfucking swear.
Well you can but don't make a habit of it. Even if bollocks isn't part of the censor.

hatrickpatrick · 05-08-2015 12:58PM

Tombi! wrote: »

It's a load of bollocks you can'tfucking swear.
Well you can but don't make a habit of it. Even if bollocks isn't part of the censor.

I think the prevalence of "blast it with piss" when it first went viral should have tipped most people off to the fact that Boards' takes swearing about as seriously as the picnic area in Father Ted.

"This is my fuppin' spot, get the fup off, ya fuppin'... Baxtard!"

Peregrine · 05-08-2015 12:58PM

Adamocovic wrote: »

Thanks. I guess not realising there was a thread already is another for my list :pac:

I wanted to take the piss out of you for it but, lookit, it's a slow week for everyone :pac:

Michael D Not Higgins · 05-08-2015 12:59PM

Sometimes you can fucking swear all you want without changing characters or using italics.

hatrickpatrick · 05-08-2015 01:59PM

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

Sometimes you can fucking swear all you want without changing characters or using italics.

New***s can't triforce :pac:

the purple tin · 05-08-2015 03:06PM

It took me years to realise that Lassie was a bitch despite the huge clue in the name.

For ages I thought the tough mudder challenge was only for mothers, like women who had recently given birth and wanted to lose weight

Mam of 4 · 05-08-2015 03:51PM

the purple tin wrote: »

It took me years to realise that Lassie was a bitch despite the huge clue in the name.:o

Ah , I didn't know that until. ahem , you said it

rubadub · 05-08-2015 04:45PM

the purple tin wrote: »

It took me years to realise that Lassie was a bitch

Yeah, remember the time she told the search party Timmy was in the mineshaft, she knocked him into it, fcuking bitch!

the purple tin · 05-08-2015 05:26PM

rubadub wrote: »

Yeah, remember the time she told the search party Timmy was in the mineshaft, she knocked him into it, fcuking bitch!

Ah here leave her alone. It was her time of the month

the purple tin · 05-08-2015 05:29PM

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Ah , I didn't know that until. ahem , you said it

When they had a male version on the Simpsons called Laddie the penny finally dropped

Frigating · 06-08-2015 12:56AM

the purple tin wrote: »

It took me years to realise that Lassie was a bitch despite the huge clue in the name.

For ages I thought the tough mudder challenge was only for mothers, like women who had recently given birth and wanted to lose weight

Interestingly though, Lassie was always played by male collies because their coat is shinier than the females'.

Hammer89 · 06-08-2015 10:03PM

I figured this gem out all by myself. I should state I always knew that 'hoe' and 'whore' carried the same or similar meaning - but I never realised until a few years ago that the former is actually a poorly-pronounced version of the word.

It's a black person ting. You know the way they pronounce words that end with an 'or' syllable like an 'o' syllable. For example: 'Jamal, open this doe before I put my foot through it.' The same applies to 'hoe' and 'whore'.

I apologise in advance for the feint racism.

justchecked · 06-08-2015 10:21PM

Probably done already but anyway.... Saul Goodman....its all good man.

long_b · 06-08-2015 11:09PM

John Williams - composer of classical music (especially famous for film scores eg Star Wars)
is not
John Williams - classical guitarist

silverharp · 06-08-2015 11:15PM

last year but , that Katey Sagal from Sons of Anarchy was Peggy in Married with Chridren , dont know how I missed it

long_b · 09-08-2015 10:24AM

I always thought that finding things "in the last place I looked I looked" for them just meant that they were somewhere really off the beaten path.
As opposed to where the search for them ended.

09-08-2015 10:27PM

I only realised today, that there are no TS or TN car registration plates anymore. All cars from Tipperary are now just T. Also when I was googling it, there are no longer LK or WD number plates.

New Home · 09-08-2015 10:55PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I only realised today, that there are no TS or TN car registration plates anymore. All cars from Tipperary are now just T. Also when I was googling it, there are no longer LK or WD number plates.

So what are they using now?

09-08-2015 10:57PM

New Home wrote: »

So what are they using now?

Just L for Limerick, W for Waterford and T for Tipperary.
eg no difference between Waterford city and county Waterford.

New Home · 09-08-2015 11:03PM

Won't it get confusing with the other counties beginning with L and with W? Or have those kept the second letter, where they had it before?

dodgygeezer · 09-08-2015 11:03PM

I am a medical doctor and am used to using my noggin to sort out a wide range of scenarios. In the last month I have only realised (after 37 years) that cereal will not spill into the bottom of the box as you pour it - if you simply pull the whole bag slightly out of the box as you pour it.....37 years of daily frustration!!

09-08-2015 11:09PM

New Home wrote: »

Won't it get confusing with the other counties beginning with L and with W? Or have those kept the second letter, where they had it before?

Limerick and Waterford used to have 2 different number plates each, one for the county and one for the city (because they had 2 different councils). While Tipperary was split North and South.
From the beginning of last year, it has been changed so like the rest of the country, each county now has only one number plate.
All the other counties have remained the same.

New Home · 09-08-2015 11:09PM

Cereal - it's not brain surgery... :P

What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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