Your “how did I not realise that” moments.

[Meruem]

I am getting too involved in the corona virus threads so wanted to start something lighthearted!

Went to visit DSis recently. She bought a wine box. I have bought the odd one in the past and once the little tap stopped producing wine just threw it out. I did not realise that there is nearly a whole bottle of wine left in the bag at that point! I felt really stupid but now view it as “free” wine given I would have thrown it away!

What silly things didn’t you realise until someone pointed it out to you?

When I moved in with dp I didn't put food near the light in the fridge in case it got warm and made the food go bad 🤯. Nearly ten years later he still teases me about it.

I’m not even joking when I say I read your OP and got to the part where you threw the box out with the bag and my mouth dropped open like this

I thought until fairly recently it was illegal to drive with the inside car light on. Apparently that’s common though (unless I was just told that to make me feel better lol)

I won’t lie, I felt like an idiot over the wine! I didn’t buy wine boxes often as I didn’t think they were great value! But now I realise how much I was throwing away

I always thought that Vermillion. the colour, was green. It is actually red.

I think I might be forgiven because vert is green in French Giuseppe Verdi (the composer) would have been called Joe Green had he been English,* verdant means lush with greenery. But still . . .

• And Giacomo Casanova would have been Jim Newhouse. Not quite so sexy . . .

I thought until fairly recently it was illegal to drive with the inside car light on. Apparently that’s common though (unless I was just told that to make me feel better lol)

I think it was at one point, but either way it's inadvisable.

I only learnt last night that teabags have a best before date on the box.

That diseases have to start from somewhere.
Where did the first measle come from?
The first flu?
Polio?

When I, as an adult, realised that my childhood dog didn’t really go and live on a farm.

When I first moved in to my own home I tried to vacuum spilled milk and wondered why my vacuum broke.

When this little piggy went to market, he didn't pop off there with a shopping basket. He went there as pork chops, tenderloin and all other parts of pig meat.

@NailsNeedDoing me too...

Tea bags cant really go off can they?

When I moved in with dp I didn't put food near the light in the fridge in case it got warm and made the food go bad

My first fridge was a third-hand hand me down from family and the bulb in that got really bloody hot if you left the door ajar by accident (which was easy to do). It melted an entire pack of butter!

That was when I bit the bullet and got a new one.

I'm Sainsbury's yesterday I saw the book "Spot goes to the farm".... I assume it's the last in the series

I threw out a few sets of cordless phones over the years before I realised that that you can just put in new rechargeable batteries in to them.

When I started a thread about not being able to get Sui mais outside of Liverpool and everyone can get them all over the place.

I have lived all over the uk and no Chinese takeaway has ever had them apart from Liverpool.

I'm still thinking how the actual fuck I have managed to go into Chinese takeaways for the last twenty years that consistently don't know what I'm in about.

That for the last 35 years I thought the last Radio Ga Ga in the chorus is a Ga Ga when it is actually Radio Blah Blah.

One of my DC didn’t realise you had to stop and wait at a zebra crossing. She thought you just walked across!!!

How she hadn’t been run over I have no idea - she’s nearly 18

I remember thinking 'situation comedy' was a mouthful and maybe they should shorten it to 'sitcom'. Then realising that must be what a sitcom was lol.

I couldn't understand why the Cold War was such a big deal given that the USA and USSR are on opposite sides of the map...

Yeah, the same map that joins together at the back to form a globe.

I would have thrown the wine box out too 😬. Why does the tap stop working when there's loads left in it?

Why does the tap stop working when there's loads left in it?

Pressure I think - and the level drops below the valve.

@MyNameHasBeenTaken if you like podcasts then This Podcast Will Kill You is great for covering both the biology and history of diseases

@meow1989 @DobbyTheHouseElk
Best before dates don't mean something is off, it just means that the food might not taste quite as good after the best before date. They are still perfectly edible and shouldn't be thrown away as this would be a contribute to food waste problem.

Yes took me a good few years to realise that one @Absolutepowercorrupts, I always imagined him trotting around with a little wicker basket.