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?

@suggestionsplease1
Hahaha, 41 uses with puff
I’m crying laughing!

@CigarsofthePharoahs

You should also make sure your mug doesn't have a gold rim round it. It's a very loud bang.

I got a very bad burn from the gold rim round my mug when I re heated a cold cuppa, learnt the hard way... ouch

Two here have shocked me.

1. The toilet seat. Is that all toilet seats? Where is this button?

And very sadly

1. The piggy that went to market. I have always imagined a little piggy in a frilly skirt, swinging a wicker basket.

[quote Justkeeprollingalong]@haggistramp All my duvets are stitched in squares so have lines in both directions. (M&S king size feather and down).
One side has 6 squares and the other side 7. I only realised this last time I changed our bed. I've been trying to find out if the long side goes top to bottom or side to side but can't find a definitive answer.
Doesn't seem to make any difference to the fit of the cover![/quote]
So the idea is that the longer side goes across the bed to allow for you in the bed, so it still reaches the sides, ie if flat it hangs over if you in it you take up some of the space ie peaks and troughs and so need the extra horizontal length. Hope that makes sense

So the other day my OH said to me "I don't know why but I feel like someone is moving my rearview mirror while I'm at work" I said "what do you mean" and he said "when I go to work it's in the perfect position but when I leave I have to change it".... I started laughing and told him that's probably because everyone is taller in the morning and shrink throughout the day!
Then when I told my dad and his wife, thinking they'd laugh... turns out they didn't know either...... 🙈

I was today years old when I discovered you can actually lose a fingernail completely if you ping it against a solid object Very Hard. Agony sob

That your big toe SHOULD really be your big toe. I just thought it was irony that it was called that 🙈🙈

That MEN can use pregnancy tests to check for testicular cancer:
blogs.webmd.com/from-our-archives/20121112/pregnancy-test-reveals-testicular-cancer

I remember at uni my flat mate talking about the unicorns she’d seen at Woburn Safari Park. It was pre Google and we went to the library the next day so I could prove that they weren’t real. She was absolutely flummoxed. She took her daughter there a few years ago and said she was still half expecting to see the unicorns again.

@RosemaryShortcake You should be careful and get yourself one of those shielding wallets. I was in a café queuing for the till, and was just getting my card out of my purse, when the woman said "Thanks very much, all done!" My card was at least 2 feet away from the scanner, and not even properly out of my purse! I made the man in front of me wait in case he had paid for my tea!

Earlier this year I discovered that you don’t actually have to plant the whole packet of seeds, that you can just plant a few and save the rest till next year. I used to plant the whole packet and end up throwing loads of the seedlings out! What I melt I am 🤣

@opentheblinds we need a photo of this mythical button!

The Q's in "P's and Q's" are from "Thank you's"

[doh]

I didn't know that clingfilm containers have little tabs on the sides of the box that you push in to hold the roll in place. BLEW MY MIND!

@opentheblinds not all seats have them unfortunately!

We have 1 that does and 1 that doesn't, also the same in work. It really does make cleaning them much easier.

Mind your Ps and Qs come from the days of the printing press. The printing trays had p and q next to each other,

[doh]

Only realised this week[was waiting for one of these types of threads to come along], that "slaw" had anything to do with "coleslaw"!

That there wasn't just one President Bush - I paid so little attention to American politics I just hadn't clocked they were in fact two separate people

I gave myself a huge blister after heating up a cup of tea with a gold handle.

My husband was amazed I'd done it, he thought every knew not too! Showing him this thread to prove its not just me!

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

Eh?

"Today years old" doesn't mean "uninformed"!

I don't understand how anyone today is honestly flushing tampons. I've had periods for 20 years and have always known not to flush. Plus there's signs in public loos?

I remember finding out that you can squash oxo cubes in the silver package to sprinkle them without getting your hands all cubey

[quote EvilOnion]@Timestablesaretables it's to prevent liquids from "superheating", apparently they can occasionally boil from the bottom and as soon as the cup is moved it boils over which would scald you.[/quote]
Many years ago I learned similar, probably on a TV programme like “Myth Busters” their explanation for the explosive boiling over was that a skin (invisible to the naked eye) formed on the top of the liquid that hid the boiling underneath and when the skin was broken it would boil over, a non metal spoon was supposed to prevent the skin forming.🙂

@Moolan what what what?!

Thank god this thread came along to stop people flushing tampons! The only thing that should go down the loo other than the obvious, is toilet paper.