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

I don't get what's "lighthearted" about declaring how thick you are. "Ooooh look at me! I'm so DITZY and SILLY! Isn't it FUNNY how I didn't know California and New York weren't the same place!!Hahahahah."hmmNot funny. Not lighthearted. Not something to celebrate.

Yeah, because you're so clever, and know absolutely everything about everything, right?! (Nobody knows everything, not even you!)
We all have gaps in our knowledge, and I love these threads as I always inevitably find out something blindingly obvious that I really should have twigged earlier
as well as have a smug ha! I knew that l already! moment at some of them lol
Nothing worse than a smug know it all.

I learned last year the art of not giving a fuck. It is truly liberating and has changed my life

That if men get an erection, they won't be in terrible pain if they don't go on to have an orgasm. Bastard ex

only found out last week that Sandy's surname in Grease is Olsson and not Dee.
What?

Disgrace I used to think that too! It came from spending my childhood in books. I read words and found out what they meant, but didn't know how to pronounce them because people very rarely say them. So I guessed.

Re 'pride in ignorance', people who are too uptight to admit to human foibles are utterly tedious. And dishonest.

Also I bet you there are a fair few Americans who couldn't plot Florida and California correctly on a map...

I think most of us know that as we learn where the states are and their capitols in school. It's the square-ish ones in the middle that are hard to remember where they are.

For me, I always mix up Germany and Poland, thinking the one is where the other is and vice versa. I always surprises me a little to see it on the map.

The figures from Pompeii aren't actually mummified people, they are plaster casts of the voids left in the volcanic debris where the people's remains were. I learned this a few years ago when i went to an exhibition at a museum. I mentioned this to my Dad a couple of days ago and he said it was a few years ago that he learned that as well and he's 70 this year.

Presumably, one was ready for slaughter, so went to market, while others were kept for further feeding, roast beef or not, until it was their turn...

So what about the little piggy that had roast beef?

That the first little piggy wasn't going to the market to do his shopping

that had never occurred to me (and I'm 48!)

OMG - another thing I've learnt today!

That the first little piggy wasn't going to the market to do his shopping I was 22 and it retrospectively ruined my childhood

I've only just learnt the thing about "which side do you dress".

And I'm a man!

And mine sort of dangles down the middle - don't they all?

I thought for a long time that Surrey was south-east of London, because one of the first train journeys I ever made on my own was down from the East Midlands to have a look at Surrey University - via London! It somehow never occurred to me that I could have crossed London and gone out in a different direction from the one that was a direct continuation of the way I'd come down in the first place.

I used to know a teacher who thought a Paediatrician was something to do with feet.

I only found out last week that Sandy's surname in Grease is Olsson and not Dee.

That working hard at projects (not work necessarily) reaps rewards and I can stop pretending not to care. Previously too scared of failing to even try.

I was 37 before I discovered that "misled" was pronounced "miss-led" rather than "mize-uld".

That I can set my own boundaries and it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks of them.
That I’m good at keeping people at a polite distance when I can’t be arsed with them.
That a satisfying life comes in many forms and mine doesn’t have to look like other people’s for me to feel successful.

That Korea isn't an island.
That Beirut is in Lebanon not Iran.

That Middle Earth was not a place near Wellington....I am still embarrassed by that lol

I spent some years as a child thinking that people with glasses slept in them, that old ladies' hatpins went right through their heads, and that people got fat because water went in through the bellybutton when you had a bath ... always tried to keep mine high and dry!

Around age 40 I found out that chicken skin was edible. Before that, I thought it was similar to orange peel; not actually poisonous, but not something you would eat.

That renal failure isn't something to do with bums. I had it confused with anal...

ChickenDinnerChecky - leeks seem to be the answer

And Govey's on here? I read that he spills the gossip after a few drinks. . Mind you, we're definitely watched on here. I once emailed a Tory minister and in his reply he referenced my posts on here (have since n/c but only cos fancied a change). If they're all getting read, I hope he enjoyed my TMI childbirth ones

That I'd forgotten the poster on the wall at school that read:

Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of us who do

until reading this thread.

That some people can't tell the difference between intelligence and knowledge.