Your “how did I not realise that” moments.

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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?

“yes tea bags go off. I drank a cuppa made with an old teabag which had been in our caravan for bit - it hit my stomach and came straight back up!” Oohhh no I feel your pain!

I’d a great auntie that only drank coffee or water herself but kept teabags in for visitors and so her teabags were ancient...not a pleasant experience!

I wondered about the microwaveable plate too, but decided it must be the one already in the microwave. Glad I was right!

Krueger ,

Actually you have two choices . Some , like mine , run off the mains with a transformer unit to drop the voltage to less than lethal and you just use a shitload of connectors so it works all the way round your fields , and the other kind does indeed run off something like a car battery .

Either way , it bloody hurts if you touch it

drop the voltage to less than lethal

Spoilsport!

This is a great thread! I had always wondered why Club sandwiches were called that and I had an image in my mind of an old fashioned gentleman's club where that's what they ate - so pleased I know this now. I'm not sure about the piggy going to market though because of the roast beef.

That frozen yogurt is yogurt that’s been frozen. My mind was blown at 25 when I realised

Surely turquoise is pronounced "turk-woys"; Tur =phonetically
Qu=kw, as in quiet and quick
Oise=oys, as in poise.

Of course this message that my saying "tortuss" for tortoise is incorrect.

This little piggy went to market = sold at market

This little piggy stayed at home = not yet big enough to go to market

This little piggy had roast beef = being fattened up

This little piggy had none = already fat enough

This little piggy went wee wee wee all the way home = went to market but not sold, so squealing with happiness all the way home

This little piggy has reminded me of when I realised how horrible some nursery rhymes actually are like, Rock a bye baby, Jack and Jill. Parents used to sing these to children to help them sleep!

What? Club sandwiches chicken lettuce under bacon ?

I always thought that they were a kind of colonial tradition from the Empire, like all the white people in the Club in Poona would play polo on the maiden and then retire inside for a sundowner and a Club sandwich!

Re pronouncing 'tortoise'. Isn't there some terribly laboured joke in Alice in Wonderland about a teacher being called Mr. Tortoise' because he 'taught us'?

"Club" in "Club Sandwich" does NOT stand for 'chicken and lettuce under bacon'.

This is nonsense that someone has invented because it makes them feel clever to fool everyone.

Everyone who thought it originated from the sandwiches being made in a club is RIGHT.

@Spartonian when DS1 was little I was n a mother & Baby group with another mum who had recently moved to the UK. Her Emglish was excellent but she didnt know any nursery rhymes so asked me to teach her some. I cheerfully launched into Three Blind Mice and then watched her appalled face as I did so. Before that I'd never considered the appropriateness of singing songs about cutting off the tails of small creature with knives.

@wanderings you made me laugh reminding me of my eldest when he was about three. Strangers used to come up to him and say “oh look at your lovely red hair!” And he’d look at them like and say “err it’s ORANGE!”

Another post has reminded me of learning all the words to ‘We didn’t start the fire’ when I was about 10 (I’m now 40 and still know it! ) Billy Joel sings about ‘homeless vets’ and I was very confused about why animal doctors had all become homeless. I can’t remember when the penny dropped!

@MuseumOfYou wtf!!!! Please tell me that’s not true.

Oh, it’s ok @MuseumOfYou It’s not the same thing I’m glad. This would have really bugged me.

What's a cob salad then?
Chicken onion bacon?

I had a new boiler put in a year ago and the engineer put the remote thermostat on top of my bookcase. I wasn't keen on it being there but have never dared moved it as I thought [until my son enlightened me last week] that was the only place it worked from

I only "got" the joke about the chicken crossing the road, last year. I am nearly 40... DH thinks it's highly amusing & teases me regularly about it!

I used to know someone (a long time ago) that pronounced tortoise as "toy-toys". Even though I was a child, I mentally hoiked my judgypants up at that...

I only realised this week when my bank card expired and I got sent a new one it’s the exact same details (card no etc ) only with a new expiry date.
I always thought it was a completely different card and would delete the old card when paying online and put the new one in. Now I realise I only have to change the expiry date.
This has changed my life

Hiddenfigurines I never realised that! I'll have to check when my card expires in a few months.

@highlighta
Billie Jean is not my lover.

I was just coming to reply to say “sticking with the Michael Jackson theme, I always thought the words to his song were we don’t have to keep our clothes ON to have a good time up until about a year ago”, but I just looked it up to double check the lyrics and learnt, this very second, it wasn’t even MJ that sang it 😂

Decades ago, whilst in my 30s, I was leafing through an old cookbook and found a chapter seemingly devoted to food of no value. Eh?! The recipes that followed seemed, to me, to be valid enough.
Several years later the penny dropped, out of nowhere; Invalid Food = meals for sick people. Doh!

If you look at the symbol of a petrol pump on the dashboard of your car, there's an arrow pointing left or right to show you which side of the car is the filler cap. MOH didn't know that and he's been repairing/dealing cars all his life*

This is posted every week when this kind of thread is done and while it might be true for some cars it most definitely isn't true for all. Whoever MOH is he didn't know it because it isn't a fact.

My DD told me recently that when you snap your fingers it's not actually your fingers making the noise, it's your fingers hitting the palm of your hand. How could I have lived this long and not noticed that...