Can we have an "OMG I can't believe I never realised that!" thread?

[TwigTheWonderKid]

Mine is Sandie Shaw. I can't believe it had never occurred to me until tonight that her name is a play on Sandy Shore.

Jaffa cakes are cakes:
www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/vat-food/vfood6260

Percentages work if you swap the numbers..... what???? Omg this is life changing!!! How am I a qualified accountant and was never taught this???

It’s because 80x50/100 = 50x80/100.
Substitute any other numbers you care to.
Probably not taught because “obvious”.

@covydleigh - True, but generally we don't spend huge amounts of money on keeping them.

@DrFoxtrot ah yes, I imagine it wouldn’t work in that case.

It's easier to visualise as cakes...

if I have 50 cake tins, and bake 80 times... I get my 4000 cakes. Then share them out with 100 people... 40 cakes each.

But I just made the 50 cakes, shared them out amongst 100 (1/2 cake each) then repeated that 80 times, they'd still end up with 40 cakes.

or 80x50/100 is 80/100x50
I have to relearn every time how to get 80 per cent of 50 rather than 50 per cent of 80. Something broken in there. I will retract the teabag statement and get off this site now I think

with multiplication and division together (no other stuff), just imagine a block of cheese...

You can split it in half (divide), then double them (multiply), or double it, then split it... same result.

14 pages and nobody's mentioned "Jules Rimet still gleaming" yet

I used to think that the Falklands were near Scotland & had no idea why Argentina was interested in them..

Going back to this though:
Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for the movie of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

He also came up with the character of the Childcatcher who wasn't in the original story as the studio thought it needed another baddie...

Feeling a bit shitty at the moment. This thread has cheered me right up. Thank you

So today I have googled where Dunkirk is, the percentages thing, where Hawaii is and a map of the UK showing me Edinburgh in relation to Cardiff.

He also came up with the character of the Childcatcher who wasn't in the original story as the studio thought it needed another baddie

That is by no means the only change to the original story. The movie and musical are only loosely based on the book. There is no Truly Scrumptious in the book although there is a Lord Skrumshus. Grandpa Potts, Vulgaria, Baron Bomburst, Baroness Bomburst and the toymaker don't feature in the book at all.

In the book version, Caractacus Pott (not Potts - another change for the film) is married to Mimsie and the family go to France with Chitty where they catch some gangsters.

I always assumed that 'the immaculate conception' was about the birth of Jesus, until I read on here that it's actually about Mary, his mother's birth.

@synthony can I pm you? I think I know why you keep having to relearn it.

Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for the movie of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

He also wrote the screenplay for James Bond- You only live twice.

I met someone on a train in wales who told me that Wales was in fact an island.

@ivykaty44
I have chickens and have had varying numbers as some have died and I have added others. I have often had an even number and they seem to get on perfectly ok. I currently have 6 and they are very happy together.
Not sure why you should have an odd number.

@Wallywobbles
My chickens are often getting broody. It’s very annoying.

iften I would never have thought that the immaculate conception referred to Mary not Jesus. You truly can learn loads of things on MN!

My friend's DD had been at Cardiff uni for well over a year when her mind was blown upon discovering the weird language appearing on every road sign as they crossed the Severn bridge- was Welsh...

What?! Every single sign at the actual university is in both English and Welsh, what did she think that was?!

I always assumed that 'the immaculate conception' was about the birth of Jesus, until I read on here that it's actually about Mary, his mother's birth.

His mother's conception, not birth.

Unravellingslowly

I was thinking about the apple pips, I had no idea anyone would voluntarily eat cherry stones.

In BSL there are several signs for 'toilet', one is the same as the sign for 'Belgium', aother is the same as the sign for 'telephone'.

Only recently made the link between 'synonyms' and 'synonymous', even though I use both quite regularly!

Surely the immaculate conception refers to when Mary conceived Jesus. She didn’t have sex with anyone, the Angel Gabriel came and told her she would have a child and she did.

Surely the immaculate conception refers to when Mary conceived Jesus. She didn’t have sex with anyone, the Angel Gabriel came and told her she would have a child and she did

No, it refers to Mary being conceived with out the stain of original sin. She was conceived in an immaculate state, by Anne.

Two no it's about when Mary was conceived, she was born free of original sin.