AIBU to ask you to tell me things that you learned way too late in life *lighthearted*.

being more common

which side do you dress?
both reasons stated here.embaressment factor for tailer
ANd when they are real tailored trousers and have to "lay" properly some men do need them cut differently/since men have worn baggie pants/shorts for years and few get their trousers to actually fit them the practice is not well known.levi jeans for years(dont know if they still do) had a bit more fabric on the left than the right/left jaying being more common.
a bespoke or made to measure suit is a thing of beauty/thats why all the celebs look so fine in crazy expensive suits
arnoldzwicky.org/2013/03/21/dress-leftright/

Not lighthearted - that sometimes it is necessary to stop beating a dead horse. Let people go.

Punta I've been enlightened! I wondered what this phrase meant,and had assumed that it was to do with adding extra material or cutting the material in a more 'accommodating' way,rather than to do with etiquette when measuring up!

That the hoses on petrol pumps are made to stretch to either side of the car.
Not at all petrol stations. They do at my local Tesco, but not at the Shell service station near me.

I thought the lyrics to Wig Wam Bam were
Wig Wam Bam gonna make you my man
Wam Bam Bam gonna set you on fire
...
as opposed to the totally normal and not psychotic "gonna catch you if I can" .. DP delights in singing this to me when I'm being a bit crazy.

That if weighing out something very messy, like golden syrup, the obvious way is to stick the whole tin on the scales, set the weight to whatever you need, e.g. 100g, and then take out golden syrup until scales are back to zero.
Was like a light bulb moment when this finally dawned on me. Did wonder how thick I must be for it not to have occurred to me before.

One from me - I had lived for at least 3 years, near Paisley in Scotland, before it occurred to me that there might be some connection between the mills in Paisley, and why paisley pattern is called that.

One from dh - I had to tell him that there are not two tubes coming down his penis - one for sperm and the other for urine. I had to find a diagram to show him that they both come down the same tube!

It took me a lot of my 20s to realise what my friends really meant when they said they couldn't afford to do things. I used to pay for them all the time, you know, just before they went travelling / bought a property / got married. (Hand to head.)

It was only recently that DH snapped and said: "FFS, why do you say it like that? In that stupid French fake accent?

I'm not bringing the thread down, promise, but that doesn't sound very nice, to be honest.

if you want to get ahead at work, network, network, network. I have seem some not very bright people soar in workplaces because they smile a lot and they network

I agree completely with this ^^, I've seen it time and time again. However, I've equally learned that way isn't for me. I feel compromised and stressed by that approach, so I've learned that I can reject it and succeed on my own terms.

@Ohyesiam shotsfired I'm intrigued, what did you think the 1st, 2nd thing was about?

I think I just assumed it was some historic thing that just 'was', without any real explanation! Would also occasionally wonder why it wasn't 3st or 14rd

(But conversely, the pineapple thing was never a big deal to me, I always knew, so I don't get why so many people are so utterly amazed by it. I guess we just don't know what we don't know!)

shotsfired I'm intrigued, what did you think the 1st, 2nd thing was about?

And I think the Taylor's, and dressing on one side is about extra fabric.
When I was a child my mother was a dressmaker. She had a curved zip in her work box, and when I asked, she told me it was a taylor's zip, for a gentleman who dressed to the left. ( she was very embarrassed, and referred to a penis as the man's thingy)

@PanPanPanPing Shots. I didn't get it either so I Googled. It appears that it means that the temperature is so hot that the heat from the sun is cracking the flag(stone)s.

Well, we aren't the only ones and I think I prefer the windy version

"Wind scraped the corners
awnings flapped hinges squeaked.
And in the empty air
flags cracked like whips."

books.google.co.uk/books?id=DKDyxjdELaEC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=wind+cracking+flags&source=bl&ots=vpygXIjUkQ&sig=bMLwhWToWPAXEJ-_sv2-0MM6SjE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjr1oGm_8XZAhXOZlAKHe6wBkgQ6AEIPDAC#v=onepage&q=wind%20cracking%20flags&f=false

The Irish equivalent to cracking the flags would be 'the sun is splitting the stones'. Sadly it doesn't get used much.

Shots. I didn't get it either so I Googled. It appears that it means that the temperature is so hot that the heat from the sun is cracking the flag(stone)s.

@HotelEuphoria Not me but some southern friends (I'm northern) announced a week ago that they thought cracking the flags meant getting the flags out and that it was windy.

Am I misunderstanding you? I thought cracking the flags DID mean it was windy - a naval thing possibly - such a stiff breeze the flags were all snapping in it. Certainly that is the context I've always heard it.

That the suffixes on numbers represent the last letters if you spell the full word.

So
1st = First
2nd = Second
3rd = Third
....

That the word alphabet comes from the start of the Greek alphabet... alpha beta etc

That capers aren't seafood.....

Entree is American for main course. I was quite puzzled when I went to the US the first time and restaurant menus had starters, entrees and no main, just desserts.

That the hoses on petrol pumps are made to stretch to either side of the car. I spent - ah - more time queuing than was necessary until I worked that one out!

Lolita, I will need to check if they were.

I've only just discovered the 'scan as you shop' machines. It makes shopping with an almost one year old much easier as you don't have to empty the trolley and bag it all up again.

They were never actually made though were they?

Having two teenagers, I now seem to learn something new every day.

What I learned yesterday is that there is a female condom available that has 'teeth' , in cases of rape the teeth will grip the penis.