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?

@Absolutepowercorrupts the pig was going in the chiller? My god

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.

My local Chinese supermarket sells them in massive catering packs ready to steam. That was a dangerous discovery for me.

@bananamonkey ooo that sounds right up my street. Adding that to my list right now😊

I feel like a right idiot but in another thread about errors in language and grammar that annoy people, one poster said when people say "off your own back" instead of the correct phrase "off your own bat" is very annoying.

What! This was news to me!! Everyone I know I'm sure says the former. I am normally good at this stuff too! Had to lol it up to check it was right. Who knew! Well not me obviously!

That the word SKY in the sky remote is an actual button not just the branding on the remote.

It takes you back to the sky if you have been on Netflix or whatever

I didn't realise that olive oil is literally the oil from olives. And I like to think I'm fairly intelligent usually

Few years ago I discovered Zebras actually exist..When I was younger my parents told me they were Horses in their Pjs ready for bed...Not my finest moment

We got an email at work making a fuss about how our company was all about being bold, British and creative, and there was a survey asking us when we had been bold etc etc. I couldn't understand it, what a weird combination of things to come up with to define a company. Then I remembered I worked for the BBC. Still stupid though.

Catkin "I didn't realise that olive oil is literally the oil from olives."

I saw this pic shared as a meme about trying to make up the word count on an essay

@thequeenbeyondthewall ‘ That the word SKY in the sky remote is an actual button not just the branding on the remote.’

Me: Well that’s obviously not the case with the SkyQ remote (picks it up and presses) Oh...

@Absolutepowercorrupts nooooo!!! I thought that one went shopping

For 30 years of my life I thought it was called a
SUMBERINE
even to the point I would sing “we all live in a yellow sumberine, a yellow sumberine, a yellow sumberine”

It wasn’t until, whilst viewing a toddlers first world a book I noticed it said SUBMARINE and then the penny dropped.

Oh yeah.. SUB - MARINE.

I am quite sure I will be the only person on the planet who got this wrong

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)

It isn't?!!

That you had to pull the elastic band on adjustable kids trousers to reveal the excess holes for the button. I could never understand how they worked until recently.

@Absolutepowercorrupts oh dear, how did I not realise that! I'm 38!

Few years ago I discovered Zebras actually exist
Don’t worry, a couple of months ago Jeremy Vine actually said, on air, ’are Reindeers a real thing? Or is it just what normal deer are called at Christmas?’.

DH’s mind was blown when I told him marzipan was made from almonds.

@BalloonSlayer are you a fan of Hercule poirot?

I was corrected in my professional Job in my twenties over the word skellington. Bloody mother.

I was shocked to see my boss drinking a take away coffee without taking the lid off. Properly shocked and thought what is she doing?!?! I didnt realise you could drink them without taking the lid off. (I was well into my 30’s at that point)

Balloonslayer you could have been thinking of Veridian which is a green and does sound like Vermilion.

I didn't realise that olive oil is literally the oil from olives. And I like to think I'm fairly intelligent usually

I never considered where OO came from, but the penny has just dropped for me too. (I honestly never thought about it!)

I know it's shocking, but true. I was very ancient when I realised. I love bacon though so I'm not too traumatised.

Not me but 23 year old DS yesterday. i was having a bit of a rant about how unsustainable cotton was due to using huge amounts of water etc and ds said "I don't think its unsustainable, the sheep just grow more". He was gobsmacked when I explained to him that cotton came from.plants not sheep. Turns out he thought cotton was made out of cotton wool and that the wool came from.sheep......

I thought you also couldn't drive with the light on!

It wasn't long ago, when the couple got captured by somali pirates and it was all over the news that I found out pirates were actually real. Well into my 30s.

I had to explain to my husband that, yes there are carrots in carrot cake. Also yes, there is cheese in cheesecake.

That when ready meals say on the cooking instructions, ‘put on a microwaveable plate’, the plate that comes with the microwave IS the microwaveable plate and that you don’t have to put the meal on another one!!

I’m loving these, makes me not feel so bad about the wine! Although I can relate to a lot of the examples so I am clearly not as intelligent as I thought I was