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?

I have found my people 🎉😂 i have moments like this more than i like to admit haha

That the name Corinne is the female form of Corin.

*did you not know that a horse was a real animal? Why would you think that only donkeys were real?
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Yes I've always known horses are real, but when my friend told me how she had a pony as a child, because they're smaller than horses, I (very embarrassingly) presumed she meant a donkey because I thought ponies aren't actually real.

missingmydad i felt like that when i saw my grandpa at the parlour before his crem service. I knew he was grandpa in there but he wasnt MY grandpa. Hardest thing ever saying goodbye to him before the lid shut. Been a year soon and i miss him just as much now as i did the night he died

I was calling cayenne pepper kanye pepper for years until my dp laughed at me about it

The recent realisation that my cat who I loved passionately as a child didn’t just ‘disappear’.
My mother most
Probably had her put down. I cannot get my head around that one.

This talk of animals being taken to farms a.k.a dying prompted me to ask my mum if my old rabbit had actually been sent to live at the lovely local petting zoo when I was 5.

I’ve just been told he was in fact eaten by next doors dog....I think I was happier before I learnt that. Poor flopsy

I have however always put my meals straight in the microwave without a plate, not because I’m clever, because I’m lazy.

In our house, we were always told they had gone to the "dogs' hospital ". Oddly, they never came out....

I'm 41. Until only a few months ago, I thought the Billie Jean song by Michael Jackson said "the Jedi's not my son" and that it was written as some sort of accompanying thing for Star Wars. I'm not a fan of MJ or Star Wars so that's my excuse. Ffs.

I didn't realise until a couple of years ago that 'NEWS' is an acronym for " Notable events, weather and sport" (or similar).

Up until fairly recently I thought dragons and dinosaurs were the same sort of thing. Neither being real. Both fantasy stuff for stories. I’m 45.

@SuntanC

I didn't realise until a couple of years ago that 'NEWS' is an acronym for " Notable events, weather and sport" (or similar).

You didn't realise because it's not true. The word "news" appears in texts from hundreds of years ago, It has nothing to do with the format of TV news.

@youknowwhoo

I didn't realise until a couple of years ago that 'NEWS' is an acronym for " Notable events, weather and sport" (or similar).

Because it isn't. It essentially just means that we're presented with new information.

I can't decide what's more entertaining about these threads - finding the genuinely interesting nuggets of factual information, or seeing just how gullible and unwilling to do basic research some people are.

I thought that a vasectomy meant having his balls chopped off! It wasn’t until I was in my 30s that I found out what really happens, I think it was all the talk about “going for the chop” and all the blokes going going “ooooh, ouch, owww”

Ok, I am 47 years old and up until this thread I thought he trotted off with his wicker basket buying apples and such like....I never realised this little piggy went to market chopped in to pieces
Ps I also never knew about the box of wine either

@coconuttelegraph can't believe anyone could grow up and not know that, did you not know that a horse was a real animal?

A relative of mine truly believed (until last year, when he was 67-years-old) that tigers were baby lions.

Mind you, he also refuses to accept that Russia is only a few miles from Alaska and is convinced that the sun orbits the Earth (and Mars and Venus; fuck knows what he thinks the other planets get up to!)

Everything I make in my kitchen this will contain an oxo cube. Just. Because.

My son saw a BLT in the shop the other day and said in a confused tone 'what's this?'

So I told him 'read the label, it's a BLT' with more confusion he asked 'does that mean I can eat it for breakfast, lunch or tea?'

I was rolling in the aisle 😂 he's only 11 and was totally baffled.

@Itstheprinciple Falkland is the name of a village in Scotland if that makes you feel any better.

I was in my twenties before I realised that a Combine (Harvester) is the same word as combine, just with different emphasis. And I grew up on a farm.

Bejesus just learnt about 'this little piggy' meaning

Oh that must be where I got the connection then! (Honestly!)

@PamPooveysCow oh my god.... I just realised that

Well a lot of these are a flipping revelation to me, I mean...I will never eat a club sandwich again without feeling like an idiot!
Also, and apparently to the whole world completely normal, but until recently I had no clue that the fuel symbol with an arrow on the dashboard indicates the side of the car that the petrol cap is. The amount of cars I've driven and got this wrong, the answer was literally staring me in the face...🙄