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?

@Mydogatemypurse The ingredients for Cobb salad can be remembered with the mnemonic EAT COBB.
Egg
Avocado
Tomato
Chicken
Onion
Bacon
Blue Cheese

I didn't realise that people actually told their chilren that the dog had gone to a farm, I thought that was something made up for comic effect in films and TV programmes.

My mum thought the same thing until I pointed out to her a few months ago that her dog went to the farm when she was a kid.. hmm

I thought the same thing.....until my mother and I were reminiscing about a dog we had when I was a child and she mentioned that it got run over. My response was ‘what, on the farm?’ Nope, by a friend pulling into the driveway too quickly.

I can’t believe that a) they used that excuse and b) I never twigged even though I knew other people used it euphemistically.

I've never had cobb salad but I thought it would have corn (on the cob?) in it?

No corn (on or off the cob) with the traditional recipe. I like the way it is usually served in straight lines rather than mixed.

I always thought the white stringy stuff on an orange was called rind. When I made reference to it to my mum she laughed so hard - apparently it's called 'pith'. I said 'what's rind then?' and she said 'it's what you get on bacon'. I felt like such an idiot. No clue where I got orange rind from!

Also, interesting fact about orange - before the fruit was known in Britain, the colour was called 'yellowred'.

Orange rind does exist! It is the orange skin or peel of the fruit. So you have rind on the outside, then pith and then the flesh of the fruit.

OK question for you all, why put a picture of a petrol pump and an arrow pointing in the wrong direction?

Why? Is it just to mess with us?

Re the finger clicking, I've seen that factoid before and wondered if I click my fingers differently from other people - not sure how anyone could possibly think the sound was their thumb hitting their index finger

I only found out a few years ago how you are meant to open an Oxo cube. I'd always torn the foil off and then crushed it between my fingers

It is the orange skin or peel of the fruit

You’ll notice it in marmalade unless you buy the rindless version

@newrubylane are you taking the pith?

Thought the Eurythmics were singing about sweet dreams being made out of cheese and would sing along as such

I didn't realise that you can get a new mortgage deal when your current one expires. I thought you were stuck with that mortgage for the duration. I think because I'd be watching TV or something and someone would say "They're in a really bad situation, they're having to remortgage their house!" so I thought this was a very difficult decision people would have to make under dire circumstances.

Nobody explained it to me. Then a friend said she was looking for another mortgage deal because her current was ending. I've had the same mortgage since 2007. I'm not sure if my friend gets a new one every few years?

I'm so bad at being an adult.

Getting a new deal and remortgaging aren't the same thing. Getting the best interest rate doesn't involve increasing the size of the mortgage i.e. borrowing more money.

Everyone should be shopping around for the best deal.

I still don't know how electric fences around farmers fields are powered. Surely cables aren't run from the farmhouse, and big batteries in the field would just get nicked. Hurts my head thinking about it everyone I see one on the drive home

They have an energizer box (which contains a back up battery) and this is connected to the mains which is most likely indoors. There will be a connection to at least one point of the fence, but it can power quite a distance by means of a pulse. When that pulse is disrupted, ie something touching it, it gives off a shock.

@KatherineJaneway - how are you meant to open an Oxo cube?

WTF0ver

You should shop around, but beware, some mortgages charge you to take your business elsewhere.

OK question for you all, why put a picture of a petrol pump and an arrow pointing in the wrong direction?

Why? Is it just to mess with us?

After I read this on here for the first time, it bothered me a bit afterwards as I had never thought about it before. But I think the arrow with the little pump picture is to show which gauge is for the fuel, and not the temperature or the revs etc. That is the only reason I can think of. Yes mine points to the side that the tank is NOT on.....

@rosegoldwatcher

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...

OMW.

I now have an excellent something to show off to my teenagers about later. Although they will claim to have known this all along.....

@ismylifenow - I also hadn’t realised different electric fences have different voltages depending on what is being kept out (or in).

I’ve touched two electric fences in my life. The first was a very mild shock. The second...wasn’t.

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.
The first 8 numbers on mine are the same, but the next 8 are different.
The first numbers are telling you type of card and provider, which is why they are the same.

Not all cars are crash tested. I thought they crash tested them all and the ones that did good were sold on.

I used to work at a farming museum where there were a few chickens. Two were known as the velociraptors (sp?) as they would chase and attack people. One day we were told that they'd gone to live in someone's orchard and I assumed this was a variation on 'gone to live on a farm'. The following summer was the 80th of our volunteer chicken keeper. At his party I was chatting to someone who suddenly piped up "We've got two of your chickens in our orchard". I've felt guilty ever since for assuming they'd gone in the pot!

I know of a dog who actually did get sent to live on a farm. The children in the family would tell everyone shortly after the dog was given away, everyone presumed it was just a story their parents had told them and would look at them with a sympathetic look 😂 but the dog actually was and still is living in the farm.