I was today years old when I realised.......

[cwtchesandprosecco]

What have you recently realised that’s made you feel like a bit of an idiot?

Mine is that I didn’t know you shouldn’t flush tampons down the toilet...... I swear I remember my mother telling me I could when I first started using them, and that’s what I’ve done for 14 years! It was only through a conversation with a friend (about whether you empty your bathroom bin before the cleaner comes.....) and subsequent google that I’ve found out you shouldn’t.....

So, what have you have you learnt recently that you definitely should have known before?

@BluTangClan

Page 10 and still no mention of babygros envelope necks!

Oh yes blu I was after-my-first-two-children years old 🤣

That fireflies are real and not some mythical creature!

Took me a very long time to realise how the word albeit is pronounced

Ok...I am the most today years old that ever was apparently...

Found out about the Elgin marbles a day or so ago.

Flushed a tampon ten minutes ago - I thought the point of tampons was that they are discreet and flushable.

I thought The Hague was a building ..

The spoon in microwave thing sounds like insanity though ...

Apart from February, for 27 years i thought each month had alternative days (31,30,31,30) until I found out (or...realised) that the consecutive months July and August both have 31 days.

The toilet seat comes off with the press of one button so you can clean it under the shower.

I thought The Hague was a building ..

To be fair, "The Hague" is often used as shorthand for the International Criminal Court which is based there - eg this headline: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43014215

If you want to save on fireworks on bonfire night, go for it!!

Thumb chop - love it but never heard it before

Stop flushing tampons down the loo!

Re flushing, the waterbirds all say only flush the 3Ps. Pee, poo, (toilet)paper, regardless of what products say on them

@purityjonesrockedmyworld

Thumb chop - love it but never heard it before

You'll never not see a chop there now, sorry not sorry 🤣🤣

@opentheblinds

The toilet seat comes off with the press of one button so you can clean it under the shower.

What does that mean?

Do you mean you have a particular type of toilet seat that does that, I certainly don't and never have done in many toilet years

@WeeFae

I absolutely cannot stand the saying "I was today years old".

I’ve only heard this expression today (on here). Is it regional?

I though it was 'eyes to the right, nose to the left' 😂

I thought The Hague was a building ..

Me too. A very imposing building, but a building.

@PLAYJAJADINGDONG
Oh yeah, I had that a few years ago. Mid thirties. Went to see them in the museum and was like wtf??? That sort of marbles?!? (Not the round sort)
Glad I’m not the only one

To be fair, "The Hague" is often used as shorthand for the International Criminal Court which is based there - eg this headline: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43014215

Well, there you go. 🙂

@EvilOnion

You should put a metal spoon in the microwave if you're heating liquids.

Really? Is that true? You're sure it shouldn't read errr..... "shouldn't"

That there wasn’t a book by Julia Donaldson where “Hairy Mclary was doing a wee, under the shade of a Sycamore tree”

My DH (and MIL) both thought dungarees are called dungareens until we had children together and the conversation came up.

@blackrimmedspecs

I though it was 'eyes to the right, nose to the left' 😂

I am picturing Picasso saying that.

I love that the most contentious thing on here is the thread title

To be fair, it’s not something I’ve said before, think I may have picked it up from a remark someone in work made. Or maybe Instagram.....

I've just found out here about the exploding microwaves!

I was told when younger to flush tampons and pads. I haven't for years (since I had to pay for my own drains)
When I was a child the center carriageways were always covered in rubbish. Everyone threw rubbish out their cars. I think we have come a long way in not littering land or sea, obviously still have a very long way to go!!