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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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comfyshoelady · 10/10/2017 19:18

A trip to France last year informed me to my surprise that Dunkirk is not in Scotland. And yy to lots of these - 'mizulled' (I thought it meant confused), instead of misled. And capers - if not little fish then what are they?

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 19:13

I’ve never actually tried a caper, but I do know they’re not little fish.

Actually I have another...it was only earlier this year that I discovered the phrase ‘to make ends meet’ was not ‘to make ends meat’ - I thought it was an old saying for money or something Hmm

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 19:10

@xqwertyx are you serious? Grin

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BeeFarseer · 10/10/2017 19:08

I also thought capers were tiny fish.

I also once went hunting for conkers... in the pine woods. Took me far too long to realise why I wasn't finding any.

xqwertyx · 10/10/2017 19:01

How to spell my middle name.

I think i was about 20 Blush

MollyHuaCha · 10/10/2017 18:55

Capers are one of my three all time favourite foods! Getting excited because this is the first time I’ve ever heard them mentioned on MN.

x2boys · 10/10/2017 18:46

Are so is that te lemon and caper thing?Blush

Hugomcwooferton · 10/10/2017 18:45

@x2boys I think tartare sauce is made from capers?

x2boys · 10/10/2017 18:43

But apparently you can eat fish with a lemon and caper sauce so Google informs me I think i might have mixed capers up with anchoviesConfused

Hugomcwooferton · 10/10/2017 18:34

I only know that capers aren’t fish because in pitch perfect 2 bumper sets out a fancy picnic for fat Amy and says ‘I ordered capers didn’t know what they were but apparently they’re like salty peas’..

MoodyMumOfOne · 10/10/2017 18:25

Portsmouth an island? Eh what??!!

SteamingPistons · 10/10/2017 18:24

Omg I thought capers were tiny fish!!!

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 18:11

I don’t know if this counts because DS is only 6 but he asked if the worms came already in our new turf or whether we had to go to Tesco to get them Smile

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 18:10

And @MiddlingMum I want to live in your world GrinWink

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MrsJayy · 10/10/2017 18:10

Google Benedict cumberbatch saying penguin it is funny

MrsJayy · 10/10/2017 18:08

AWW bless middlin

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 18:08

@CakeyHoohaa whaaaa???

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 18:07

‘Pinguin’ sounds vair vair posh!

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MrsJayy · 10/10/2017 18:07

Batty me too up until freddie started appearing on telly programmes I thought Freddie &Andrew were brothers 😀 tbf I don't follow cricket but still what a numpty

MiddlingMum · 10/10/2017 18:05

I was well into my teens before I realised that unicorns weren't simply extinct Blush

Battytwatty · 10/10/2017 18:04

I thought Freddy Flintoff and Andrew Flintoff were brothers, or cousins. I actually thought one was better looking than the other. My cricket loving DH was astonished

EdmundCleverClogs · 10/10/2017 17:59

Oh, I know someone who thought broccoli grew on actual trees. Not a child, an adult in their 20's.

Not really another 'didn't know', more a silly 'didn't connect' one. I completely missed in Game of Thrones that Bran is probably called what he is, because it's Welsh for raven. Read all the books and watch up to about series 3 until the dots connected Hmm.

LonginesPrime · 10/10/2017 17:49

Also my sister only realised when she called my grandma worthless that it’s not the same thing as priceless!

Brilliant! Grin

And MissFlashpants - I'm curious: what did you think 'misled' meant then?

Soubriquet · 10/10/2017 17:38

The following always comes up

Pineapples grow on the ground in big fields

It's hang gliding NOT hand gliding

allegretto · 10/10/2017 17:36

I used to think capers were fish too!

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