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?

Oops! Should have RTFT! Ignore me, as you were

Because the tap is a little bit up the box

The most recent thing that blew my mind was when I found out that Washington in USA is not the same as Washington DC, and they are in fact quite far away from each other. I only found this out about a yr ago, at the age of 29!!!
Also, I was 18/19 before I realised that ponies were real animals, thanks to My Little Pony I just always thought they were mythical creatures like unicorns. It was only when I was in uni and a friend was telling me how she had a pony as a child, I laughed and told her I think she means donkey, nobody let me live that one down for the entire time at uni.

I know that it is submarine Itchy but I always say sumbarine. It just flows more easily like that.

Macdonald's paper sauce pots: you are supposed to flatten them out, same with other cardboard take out cartons. Flatten them like a plate.

Also: you can pick out the pineapple chunks straight from a ripe pineapple rather than going to the trouble of coring it but it does have to be quite ripe.

Also, I was 18/19 before I realised that ponies were real animals

That can't be true, I can't believe anyone could grow up and not know that, did you not know that a horse was a real animal? Why would you think that only donkeys were real?

That if you lift up the folded corners on an oxo cube you can then crush the cube inside the packet and then open it and sprinkle instead of taking it out of the foil packet and breaking it up between your fingers lol

Apologies if anyone has already said this one (no time to RTFT ) but my son was way past babygrow age by the time I found out the folds on the shoulders are so you can remove it downwards if they've megapooped & overflowed, rather than hefting half a ton of green shit over their heads & risking shitty hair. Needless to say, my son suffered many a shit streaked bonce.

Sorry realised this has already been said, still mind blown when I found out lol

I always thought that the song playing during the pancake scene in Matilda was saying "omelette". I always thought it was odd to have a song playing omelette when she was making pancakes and then found out a couple of weeks ago that it's actually saying "on my way" not "omelette"

That the Falklands are not, in actual fact, anywhere near Scotland.

My DH takes the piss regularly. In my defence I was only a baby during the Falkland War. I'd always just imagined them as near the Orkneys.

Taught-us
As in Alice in Wonderland: it’s what the tortoise taught us.
What’s the porpoise of that?

I attended a friend's kid's birthday last year, and it finally hit me that in pass the parcel, the music doesn't randomly stop - it's all engineered by the parent! So that every kid gets a turn! Holy fuck. I felt like I was just lied to my entire childhood.

When I realised as a 10 year old that the tasty cold meat from Tesco called 'Tung' was, actually 'tongue' 😨

I was at uni when I realised that the vitamin d you get from the sun doesn't count to one of your 5 a day

Turquoise is French

And means Turkish [blue] and refers to the colour of the sea around Turkey (med or Aegean )
Quoise means ‘ish’
French = wuz
English derivation = oys.
But in English it is def . Tort-us!

I believed unicorns were real and was arguing my case;
Me: "They are only horses with horns"
Friend "and wings?!"

I had a real DOH moment.

@AntsDeck yes I realised the irony of me describing my “duh” moment and then writing the wrong thing. There’s another post in their somewhere.

@Chocolateandchats so sorry

That when you see a dead body they don't look like the person you knew and loved.

Until quite recently I didn't realise Louis Theroux was an actual journalist. I thought he was a made-up spoof. .

I avoided his programmes in the 90s and only now watching them.

D'oh.

@coconuttelegraph
She didn’t know ponies were a real thing. She didn’t mention horses.

21:49Absolutepowercorrupts

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.
I have only just learnt this now!!😳(I'm 56!!)

I never realised that The Beatles were called that because of the word ‘beat’ in it. I know how to spell beetles, it just never occurred to me that the two words are different!

Some microwaves don’t have a turntable or plate. A microwaveable plate is an inert plate. Ie one that does not get hot.