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

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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?

Oh my goodness, I just thought of one. I was in my late teens getting ready to do a degree in theology when it occurred to me that there was more than one saint with the same name. Like, there's not just the one St Peter. Not just the one St Catherine. Not just the one St John. I'd never really thought about the fact that if there were, it must be a bit rough to be christened Peter and know that no matter how holy you were you could never be a saint because the "Peter" slot had already been taken!! The moment I figured it out, SO MUCH made sense...

@PerspicaciousGreen I was yesterday years old when I discovered that Jesus renamed some of his disciples. Peter was actually a Simon. I read one theory that said it was to differentiate him from another Simon in the group. I can imagine Jesus asking him his name “Simon? We already have a Simon. From now on, you are Peter” 😆

@LemonMeringueThreePointOneFour

Come on, guys! You never know anything's right or wrong until someone tells you, do you?

Well I guess not if you're totally passive about accruing information. On the other hand, you could open a book, Google things, watch informative TV programmes, read a paper, do an on-line quiz, use an encyclopaedia etc., etc....

So do you Google everything you think you know is right just in case you're actually wrong? Like the poster who thought baby elephants were heffalumps. If she thinks she's right she doesn't know she'ss wrong to Google the right answer does she?

I've told this before. And now having a long running thread on ducks I feel even stupidest, but here goes.....

DH used to work in council planning and was working on a new public park. In said park was a big lake. I asked, in all seriousness, if he'd have to specify ducks and swans along with the plants. He thought I was joking. I realised they could fly but didn't realised they just turned up.

Of course then we moved to a house with a pond and I'm inundated with the feathery feckers.

Foals drank from their mother, milk, have never seen udders/ teats on a mare!

I was 23 before I discovered Rotterdam wasn't a Country. But then, I tended to skip more school than I attended as I loathed every minute of it, so a lot passed me by!

So do you Google everything you think you know is right just in case you're actually wrong? Like the poster who thought baby elephants were heffalumps. If she thinks she's right she doesn't know she'ss wrong to Google the right answer does she?

Well no, but you can't deny that if you actively seek knowledge (sorry, I know that sounds poncy) you're more likely to find things out and correct any misapprehensions you might have.

(And how the fuck you can get to be an adult and think there's such a thing as a heffalump outside a Winnie the Pooh book I have no idea...)

@LemonMeringueThreePointOneFour

So do you Google everything you think you know is right just in case you're actually wrong? Like the poster who thought baby elephants were heffalumps. If she thinks she's right she doesn't know she'ss wrong to Google the right answer does she?

Well no, but you can't deny that if you actively seek knowledge (sorry, I know that sounds poncy) you're more likely to find things out and correct any misapprehensions you might have.

(And how the fuck you can get to be an adult and think there's such a thing as a heffalump outside a Winnie the Pooh book I have no idea...)

But everybody doesn't know everything about everything. So the person who doesn't know ducks can fly might be highly educated IIM things you can't even begin to imagine to understand. It doesn't mean they're uneducated pads too lazy to ask Alexa, it just means there's a blip in their knowledge.

I have no idea re baby 🐘, she can defend herself and buy a David Attenborough box set

Prepare to have your MIND BLOWN. Maybe.

I grew up beside the sea in Dublin and spent all holidays on the west coast, always close to the sea. Going 'for a dip' everyday, when not at school, was the norm. So it was important to know when the tide was coming in and when it was full tide. Some of the beaches can be dangerous when the tide is going out.

So of course we had tide tables, which would tell us precisely the tide times and the height. I did wonder who came up with these little booklets and did all the measurements but never asked.

I also knew that the moon influenced the tides and a full moon meant a high tide.

But it was only last summer, when I watched a beautiful full moon rise, that I installed the Daff Moon app on my phone to see what time moon rise would be the next night. I knew it changed, just didn't know how much.

So I had a look at the app, 50 minutes later every day. Moment of revelation. The tides are 50 minutes later every day. I simply had no idea that the moon and the tides corresponded so precisely. I'm still amazed by it.

@CigarsofthePharoahs

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

Or a lot of smoke.

@Naticus

Last week I discovered that Mini babybel are indeed mini versions and you can buy giant Babybels 🤯

Where? I have actually wanted to get one but couldn't find one and assumed they didn't exist.

[quote LB00]@VerityWibbleWobble

I recently upgraded from a king to a super king duvet. Kept putting my duvet in the duvet covers wondering why the duvet doesn’t got properly, only to realise I now have to put the duvet in with the lines going horizontally not vertically. 🤷🏼‍♀️[/quote]
I never look which way it goes and it's always fine.

@nestlestealswater @Therainisback I'm from Buxton, alas left in 1989. 52 now and living in North York's!

I lived in my house for 3 years before I discovered there was (and had been the whole time) an M&S simply food within walking distance

DS removed hi fingerprints with a gold mug in the microwave last month. Hell of a mess and lots of blisters. He's been really lucky it healed as well as it did.

Really? I've always flushed tampons.

@ForeverFaithless

Prepare to have your MIND BLOWN. Maybe.

I grew up beside the sea in Dublin and spent all holidays on the west coast, always close to the sea. Going 'for a dip' everyday, when not at school, was the norm. So it was important to know when the tide was coming in and when it was full tide. Some of the beaches can be dangerous when the tide is going out.

So of course we had tide tables, which would tell us precisely the tide times and the height. I did wonder who came up with these little booklets and did all the measurements but never asked.

I also knew that the moon influenced the tides and a full moon meant a high tide.

But it was only last summer, when I watched a beautiful full moon rise, that I installed the Daff Moon app on my phone to see what time moon rise would be the next night. I knew it changed, just didn't know how much.

So I had a look at the app, 50 minutes later every day. Moment of revelation. The tides are 50 minutes later every day. I simply had no idea that the moon and the tides corresponded so precisely. I'm still amazed by it.

Just to confirm, do you now know that the moon's gravity moving over the earth causes the tides or just think it's a coincidence?

@Staffy1

Really? I've always flushed tampons.

www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/news/a43348/tampon-disposal/

BluTanClan, I always thought Ps and Qs was this.

Another proposed origin is from the English pubs and taverns of the 17th century. Bartenders would keep a watch on the alcohol consumption of the patrons; keeping an eye on the pints and quarts that were consumed. As a reminder to the patrons, the bartender would recommend they "mind their Ps and Qs".[5] This may also have been a reminder to bartenders not to confuse the two units, written as "p" and "q" on the tally slate.[3]

Have none of you read Polly's P's and Q's???? Her mommy pins a cloth p or q to her dress every time she doesn't say please or thank you and she has to go to a party like it and she learns not to be rude so her mommy takes one off every time she says please or thank you until they're all gone and we've all learnt to use our members!!

Manners. Use our manners not our members 😜😜

ForestDad - I knew from very young that the moon controlled the tides, I just didn't realise how precisely timed it is i.e. 50 minutes difference in tide is due to moon orbiting 50 later

@suggestionsplease1 thanks. I thought the same as you - even googled it!!

@Tempusfudgeit, sorry, what is Tombliboos, I have never heard of this before.

He’s still a fictional character though 🤦‍♀️