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.

user1495884620

Indeed 😊

DadDadDad

We flew with an American airline which flew out of Gatwick

Fair enough, @ivykaty44. I think after an exhaustive discussion, we've established that January was a helpful detail to your story (explained why so many were carrying skis) but your going to Australia was a red herring that just confused your readers!

I think it was in my mind important- I was flying to warmer temperatures therefore all these people with “fish rods” were also going somewhere warm - I’d not thought it through that people may go to the colder places for holidays in the winter 🤣

Mine is that when I first moved to this country I thought Del Boy and Inspector Frost were played by two different actors

I think there's about 25 years between the two series. That would explain it.

There is permanent snow in Australia in the aptly named 'Snowy Mountains'!

No there isn't, why do people keep saying this?

No there isn't, why do people keep saying this?

Lol, you are right actually!

Another poster has said this a few times on here and she is quite a respectable poster so I just believed it! In fact they said that Australia has the largest area of permanent snow in the world! Must fact check next time!

Must fact check next time!

As when @SchadenfreudePersonified claims there's 25 years between Only Fools and Horses and A Touch of Frost when in fact:

OF&H - "Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until the end of the show in 2003."

ATOF - "from 6 December 1992 until 5 April 2010"

I think it's part of David Jason's skill that he is so physically different in OF&H or Frost or as Granville in Open All Hours.

Although the make-up was good, he looked really old as "Blanco" in Porridge.

I thought Mark Labett from The Chase got his nickname of The Beast because he is big. Turns out it’s nothing of the sort. It’s a play on his name. La bête in French is the beast.

The Kardasians are not aliens from Star Trek.

Michael Douglas is Kirk Douglas' son.

Injecting bleach can cure coronavirus (lol)

The Kardashians are not aliens from Star Trek.

That IS indeed a shock. I find it hard to believe myself.

DadDadDad

I stand corrected!

It must have just felt like 25 years of David Jason (whom I LOVED in OFAH, in Open All Hours - ut only the originals with Ronnie Barker - and in Porridge, but can't stand the sight of in anything else for some reason). I loved him as Blanco in Porridge - as sueelleker says - his make-up was excellent.

Injectin bleach can cure coronavirus, as Newdad says, but isn't nearly so effective as batting at the virus with a tennis racquet*

*squash and badminton rackets are equally as effective, but lacrosse sticks are useless.

Injectin bleach can cure coronavirus

At least you can make sure you won't die from it.

I'm almost too embarrassed to write this. It was only whilst carrying out a home test for covid 19 that I realised I didn't know where my tonsils are. I thought I only had 1 until I googled and found out that wasn't my tonsil but is my uvula!! Please tell me I'm not alone

@heartsetonthisone

Don't feel too bad that's fairly common

I'm an ex nurse, during nurse training this was a common misconception that was a revelation to several students along with several others!

Eg urethra and vagina same orifice, that vitamin supplements were harmless and more than recommended would be good for you, a shocking number of mostly women were clueless as to how ovulation and menstrual cycles worked, thought you could catch stds from toilet seats, men can't get breast cancer...

I think it's part of David Jason's skill that he is so physically different in OF&H or Frost or as Granville in Open All Hours
He really isn't physically different, at all. No matter how many years it's been!!

In the little metal tubes of cream you buy (eg hydrocortisone), there's a metal seal that you need to pierce before you can squeeze out the cream. Spent years hunting for scissors to pierce them each time, until someone told me there's actually a little pointy bit inset in the lid, designed for that very purpose...

Thanks for a throughly entertaining read everyone :)

After enjoying the thread so much, I wanted to contribute myself.

Apparently the average weight of a cumulus cloud is over 1 million pounds :) and a human could swim through the veins of a blue whale

That silly Twix advert where the brothers fell out and built 2 factories one making the left twix and one making the right twix is actually loosely based on a true story.

Puma and Adidas? Or another true story?

Yes thats the one, based loosely but the same sort of thing!

A loofah is actually a large, dried 'cucumber'.

There's a fascinating video on YouTube called 'how to grow loofah for sponges'. I don't know how I thought loofahs were made but never imagined like this!!

The National Trust are growing their own; www.nationaltrust.org.uk/knightshayes/features/grow-your-own-kitchen-sponges-loofahs

Crikey, Apple

This is a revelation for me - I knew loofahs had been alive (and therefore "grew"), but I always thought they were the "skeletons" of a sort of sea creature.

Thank gawd I've never publicly spoken about this (embarrassed myself in many other ways, but not about loofahs.)