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Things you really should have known sooner...

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 12:50

I’ve just learned that Casablanca is not in South America at all and is, in fact in Morocco! Who knew 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️
Anyone else got any tidbits they learned far too late in life?

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BewareOfTheToddler · 10/10/2017 21:48

I once worked with someone who thought Pakistan was the capital of India. No joke. Of all the two to confuse....

Mind you, I'm in no position to judge. I had to ask DP whether an owl was a bird a few months ago you can imagine the look on his face. My misidentification of animals in children's books is legendary but this was apparently a new low even by my standards.Blush

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 21:48

Stealth has hit the nail on the head “Please get him a live one as a pet”

You could put it on a lead through the hole in the base and he could pull it around behind him.

Does he know now that terracotta isn’t murdered tortoise or did you leave him in the dark?

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RJnomore1 · 10/10/2017 21:48

No...

Champagne is fizzy wine made in France, moet is a brand of champagne, Brut is adescription meaning dry wine and cava is made in Spain.

AmazingGrace16 · 10/10/2017 21:44

Is champagne, moet, brut and cava all the same thing?

Sunbeam18 · 10/10/2017 21:43

The terracotta revelation is GOLD

StealthPolarBear · 10/10/2017 21:41

That is even better
Please get him a live one as a pet

UnicornsandRainbows1 · 10/10/2017 21:41

There are no true words to describe how brilliant the terracotta thing is

OhOurBilly · 10/10/2017 21:38

To add a bit of context. We were in a B&M bargains, looking at gardening stuff, and he goes "so are these fake ones, then?" about some clearly plastic, lurid orange, shrubbery tubs.

Which led to a whole "what are you on about dh?" conversation, as I was mystified. "Fake what? They're made from plastic." "So not real terracotta then? Good, I wouldn't buy them, poor things, and I'm surprised at you not being bothered!" (I once made him boycott Nandos for about six months on the pretext that they were cruel to chickens, when really I was just sick of going to Nandos.) So he was shocked that I didn't seem to care about the poor little terracottas.

#stopharvestingtheterracotta #justiceforterracotta

Bananasandchocolatecustard · 10/10/2017 21:30

Thanks for the explanation of Andrew and Freddie.

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 21:25

Still laughing at those poor tortoises-like-creatures murdered for nothing more than to become terracotta pots at your friendly local garden centre 😂😂

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StealthPolarBear · 10/10/2017 21:22

SAVE THE TERRACOTTAE

MrsJayy · 10/10/2017 21:20

Or paddleboat Grin

MrsJayy · 10/10/2017 21:20

Soo im assuming you enter portsmouth over a bridge?

mrsRosaPimento · 10/10/2017 21:18

Gingerlemontea, the sun is the only dark object in our solar system as all the other contents reflect light and it doesn't. I hope I got that right. Ds1 watches a lot documentaries.

OttilieKnackered · 10/10/2017 21:15

Portsmouth is absolutely a real island. There's not a huge expanse of water between it and the mainland, but water there is, all the way round. You have to cross water in one way or another to get here.

x2boys · 10/10/2017 21:15

I found out just the other week when I stayed there that holyhead is an island of the the island of Anglesey (although they are connected now) so there you go 🙄

slimyslitheryslug · 10/10/2017 21:14

I always have to think hard if County Durham comes up in conversation as, like a previous poster, I think it should be in Ireland.

When Russia invaded Ukraine a few years ago I was a bit surprised at them "taking back" the Crimea as I had never realised it was no longer part of Russia. It certainly had been in whatever period of history I have studied for A level.

LouiseBrooks · 10/10/2017 21:14

When. I was a kid I thought the Lake District was in Wales because it was called Cumbria and I knew that my dad came from a place in Wales near the Cambrian mountains. I was amazed when I saw the lakes on a map and they were nowhere near Wales. Of course they both come from the same root word.

My geography teacher was terrifying but from the age of 11 (at which age I was asked to place London on a map and put it where Bristol is!) I learned a lot of old fashioned geography and am very glad.

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 21:11

@bridgetjonesmassivepants didn’t your parents ever correct you? Wink

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Prictoriafeckam · 10/10/2017 21:10

Andrew Flintoff/Flintstone thus Fred/Freddie. There's a Penryn in Cornwall, RJ.

bridgetjonesmassivepants · 10/10/2017 21:09

Until I was sixteen and we found my birth certificate during a rummage at home, I spelt my name wrong. It's a very common name but with lots of variations. I had been using the wrong version for 16 years.

Lweji · 10/10/2017 21:06

Wikipedia says they were joined over 100 years ago, although I'm sure they still retain some distinctions.

UnicornsandRainbows1 · 10/10/2017 21:05

@RJnomore1 Oh Grin

Damn you, UK!

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 21:03

@Lweji Buda and Pest are still two separate places though, aren’t they?

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RJnomore1 · 10/10/2017 21:03

No unicorns - it's in Cumbria.

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