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?

Until well into adult life I thought all owls went ‘t’wit twoo’. Mind completely blown when I realised that it’s male calling to female

But wine boxes though.....clearly never been in a student household if you don’t know that you hack off the cardboard and squeeze every last drop out of the bag inside

The worst one for me is probably realising at age 28 that you can put the dishwasher tablets in the dishwasher like a normal person because my parents always used to say as a child 'careful!! Don't touch anything but the wrapper' it made me think they were made of acid or something but it was probably just because i used to touch everything and put stuff in my mouth 🤦‍♀️

Not something I've discovered but something I've wondered is why does corned beef in a tin have a little key thing to open it? Why isn't it like other tinned foods needing a can opener or a ring pull? (Maybe some do now but when I was young it was always this key thing)

So instead of opening the little packet and then putting the tablet in the machine like a normal human being I use to undo the wrapper and squeezed it into the dishwasher tablet bit without touching and it wasn't until DH caught me last week and asked me wtf I was doing that it hit me it was probably to stop me from taking the red ball off the tablet and eating it

Until recently, I thought graphic novels were really raunchy books with graphic (to the mind) sex scenes, when in fact everyone knows they are comic books like Batman.

@ALemonyPea really? I didn't know that

Single I'm like that with bleach even now. It's as if I expect my flesh to melt off with just a drop of it or something.

Re the wine box, if you tip the box upside down, press the nozzle in like you're pouring it and blow into it to inflate it, you can get loads more wine out, no need to cut it open.

Driven an automatic for years. Only realised last year there was a switch and little levers to operate it manually.

Dontsayyouloveme

You have blown my mind with the microwaveable plate, how did I never realise that

Single 'tis true! I only twigged when I heard my friends husband talking about buying some graphic novels from Forbidden Planet.

That pineapples don’t grow on trees. They grow on stalks, like this. Mind blowing.

These are hilarious. I was in my thirties before I realised that cayenne pepper isn’t said “canine pepper”- another oblivious sod made the mistake in front of me and several others. I also never knew that a CLUB sandwich is chicken and lettuce over bacon, I’d always check the ingredients in case it was different in different places.

@peakygal Horses is pjs. That's SO cute :)

I’m a primary school teacher and it took one of my five year olds to point out that kanga and roo put together made kangaroo, tigger sounded like tiger and Eeyore was the sound a donkey made when reading Winnie the Pooh one day.

No idea how I got to 27 without the penny dropping 😂

My dh nearly 60 only realised a few years ago that his dog as a youngster didn’t really go to live on a farm

Just to reassure everyone, I am now fully au fait with how to squeeze every last drop from my wine box but am also learning other things I really should have known from this thread!

My DC was reading a book in the library yesterday. It had a chapter on Nelson Mandela and mentioned the Apartheid regime. It suddenky dawned on me that the "Apart" bit was literal.

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

Wait... what??

That's not what the pictures in MY book implied!

I didn’t know either ALemonyPea

I totally thought that RTFT was read the fucking thread not read the full thread. Duh

Wait, what? Actually in a forum I used to frequent, it was read the fucking thread, so that's what my brain translates it as.

I also never knew that a CLUB sandwich is chicken and lettuce over bacon

Isn’t that UNDER bacon hence the CLUB

DingoDing glad to be of service! 😁