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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #3722
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    In fairness that version of the ad is rare, I've only ever seen it maybe twice and it was only then that I got it.

    Fair enough


  • #3723
    Lawlesz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Lawlesz


    That it is actually called 'pantomime' and not pantomine, as I had pronounced it all my life.

    Given that I am one of those people who have a smug little snigger when I hear people pronounce words wrong, (for example 'Pacific' in place of 'specific') I got very red in the face when I realised my error, and thought of the people who must have thought 'you idiot' when they heard my pronunciation ...


  • #3724
    Sunflower 27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,955 ✭✭✭Sunflower 27


    Lawlesz wrote: »
    That it is actually called 'pantomime' and not pantomine, as I had pronounced it all my life.

    Given that I am one of those people who have a smug little snigger when I hear people pronounce words wrong, (for example 'Pacific' in place of 'specific') I got very red in the face when I realised my error, and thought of the people who must have thought 'you idiot' when they heard my pronunciation ...

    Unless you are Darren Day, I wouldn't worry too much ;)


  • #3725
    el diablo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,795 ✭✭✭el diablo


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Pop music was better when ugly people were allowed to have hits.

    Ed Sheeran?

    Orange pilled.



  • #3726
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 34,992 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Those holes on top of your shoe that you never put your laces through are actually for better fit and to avoid blisters

    EVENFLOW



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  • #3727
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    That things that other people think are really obvious are not necessarily generally really obvious at all.


  • #3728
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    That not every car has a rear windscreen wiper. :eek:


  • #3729
    sebcity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 546 ✭✭✭sebcity


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    That not every car has a rear windscreen wiper. :eek:

    Hatchbacks would, saloons wouldn't!


  • #3730
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Emoticon is from the word emotion and icon :(


  • #3731
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    That there's a word called emoticon


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  • #3732
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    The_Kew_Tour wrote: »
    Those holes on top of your shoe that you never put your laces through are actually for better fit and to avoid blisters

    Wait til you learn about the 'heel lock' technique.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG_XzEjD9Ls


  • #3733
    Simply Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭Simply Red


    Marky Mark from Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch is Mark Wahlberg?? Mind blown


  • #3734
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,756 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    That not every car has a rear windscreen wiper. :eek:
    You don't need a working rear wiper to pass an NCT.

    And old Fiat's don't have working rear wipers. (no mystery there)


  • #3735
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,959 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    That not every car has a rear windscreen wiper. :eek:

    This has puzzled me for ever.

    Why not :confused:

    Saloon windows get rained on and mucky as much as hatchback ones ......


  • #3736
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,522 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    This has puzzled me for ever.

    Why not :confused:

    Saloon windows get rained on and mucky as much as hatchback ones ......

    The angle of them let's the wind blow the rain off and keeps them relatively clean.


  • #3737
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,959 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    runawaybishop wrote: »
    The angle of them let's the wind blow the rain off and keeps them relatively clean.
    But..... you've practically vertical ones with wipers (eg Mini), and very shallow-angles ones with wipers (eg Mondeo), and equally variously-angled saloon windows with none..... I've long thought that a rear wiper would be an asset on any car.

    Anyway, apologies for dragging things off topic!


  • #3738
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,869 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    But..... you've practically vertical ones with wipers (eg Mini), and very shallow-angles ones with wipers (eg Mondeo), and equally variously-angled saloon windows with none..... I've long thought that a rear wiper would be an asset on any car.

    Anyway, apologies for dragging things off topic!
    Drag on the car brings water and dirt up from the road and dirties the windows on hatchbacks, but on saloons it doesn't because of the boot.


  • #3739
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    Sex

    It's a surname too. I came across (cough) a guy through work called J***** Sex.


  • #3740
    eet fuk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 263 ✭✭eet fuk


    Rounders is called rounders because the aim is to run around the bases.
    I always thought it was such a silly name for the game when I was growing up.


  • #3741
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    There is glass in front of the winning streak wheel so the ball doesn't fall out:eek: Always wondered how it stayed in.


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  • #3742
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    That cutting hair is not a talent I possess. Sorry Junior it'll grow out in a week or 2 :o


  • #3743
    Meanaspie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭Meanaspie


    Dave Grohl was the drummer in Nirvana :confused::eek:


  • #3744
    eet fuk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 263 ✭✭eet fuk


    Meanaspie wrote: »
    Dave Grohl was the drummer in Nirvana :confused::eek:

    If you don't mind me asking, what decade were you born in??!


  • #3745
    Funnyonion79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 569 ✭✭✭Funnyonion79


    I've been watching the Back to the Future films since the first one came out in the 80s and I've only just realised that Marty, George McFly and Lorraine McFly are all roughly the same age in real life!!!

    All this time I thought that the actors playing George and Lorraine McFly were a lot older than Michael J. Fox - like the way they were depicted as his old parents in the first film when we first see them. Then I thought they were made up to look younger, as the film went on.

    How did I think this?? I must be really thick!


  • #3746
    Meanaspie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭Meanaspie


    eet fuk wrote: »
    If you don't mind me asking, what decade were you born in??!

    The 80's, I'm just not really into music at all. I've always just associated him with The Foo Fighters


  • #3747
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Apparently, Hare/Harry Krishna is NOT actually the founder of the religion...?!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #3748
    choons
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 768 ✭✭✭choons


    1. Ireland is a fantastic country

    2. We are extremely lucky to have been born in a stable western country that sends all kids to school etc.


  • #3749
    el diablo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,795 ✭✭✭el diablo


    Till very recently I believed that all dogs were male and all cats were female.

    Orange pilled.



  • #3750
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    el diablo wrote: »
    Till very recently I believed that all dogs were male and all cats were female.

    Seriously?


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  • #3751
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,078 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    S/he probably never heard the term bítch...


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