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?

I didn’t realise San Marino was a country. I thought it was just the name of a football team.

@MangoSeason

DH was reading in bed a few months ago and turned to me and grabbed my arm. He said he had just read the most amazing thing about cuckoos and proceeded to tell me how they lay their eggs in other birds’ nests. I burst out laughing and told him that was the only thing anyone knows about cuckoos.

You also get to tell him what the term cuckold means.

I was about 28 when I learnt the inside out- duvet cover method to put it on. I mentioned it to my mother who was in her 60s and had never realised that was the trick.

@WeeFae

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

Where you today years old when you found that out @WeeFae?

[quote WestendVBroadway]@BluTangClan, thanks I never realised that.
I only recently found out that the up and down arrows on the outside of a lift (elevator) are for which direction you wish to travel when it arrives. I always thought they were for summoning the lift to tell it if you wanted it to come down to your floor, or up to it.[/quote]
I knew that one. I remember that when I was a child there were brass plates by the lift in our local department store that were engraved with "Press to Ascend" above the button with the up arrow, and "Press to Descend" above the down arrow. I was that annoying child who then never went up or down stairs, I always ascended or descended
However my favourite was the lift in an old building - one of those old fashioned metal trellis lifts and that just had a single "Press to Call Lift" button.

That Aldi has nothing to do with Lidl and that the name comes from putting together Albrecht Diskont. Albrecht is the surname of the brothers and diskont is discount in German.

The only things that should go down the loo are the three p’s. Pee, poop and paper

Definitely no baby wipes

I was astonished to discover that Uxbridge is an actual place and not a joke place invented by I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

Only a couple of days ago any one with baggy pants I call "baggy bridges" often I say it to my son in a particularly baggy pair of joggers he owns. I always said "baggy bridges" never been questioned by anyone this whole time I've used this expression, what I'm on about. Until just the other day DH says "why do you say baggy bridges, what's that?? Me thinking I'm educating him "Oh it's an old fashioned word for pants/trousers ds has baggy bridges on ...." Ummm it's not bridges it's **Breeches! Had to Google that I must admit

That apparently deer are not vegetarians and will eat birds, other deer carcasses etc. I thought they were lovely gentle herbivores!

@Sparrowfeeder

That apparently deer are not vegetarians and will eat birds, other deer carcasses etc. I thought they were lovely gentle herbivores!

What??!

@nestlestealswater

I also recently discovered when you snap your fingers, it's not the "snap" of your fingers that makes the noise. It's your middle finger hitting your palm.

When I read this I literally didn't believe you now I'm sat watching my fingers snap like a total twat!

Me too!!

@UnderHisAye

It was only when I was learning French and realised that they call the news 'les nouvelles', that 'news' in English is just the plural of new.

I am dying laughing at 41 uses with puff

What is the 41 uses with puff?

I can't believe no one has mentioned Portsmouth and Gibraltar yet. Clue - one is an island.

Did you know that the cream filling in Kit Kats, between the wafers is liquidised Kit Kats, Mis shapes, broken bars etc that were rejected by the Machine that checks every bar for appearance?

@NoProblem123

Not today but recently (and I’m proper old)

Chimney is not pronounced chimley

No - it's pronounced chim-chiminey...

@HopingForOurRainbowBaby
Pores don't open or close. It's a myth. It's also a myth that you can shrink pores too.

That a year isn't exactly 52 weeks long.

It's 52 weeks and 1 day. That blew my mind when I found out!

@Sgtmajormummy

I found out that it’s possible to make perfectly acceptable mayonnaise in 10 seconds with a stick blender (1 large egg, 250ml oil, plus mustard, lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste). I thought it was some arcane art and had been avoiding it for thirty years...

15yoDD recently informed me that, as I’m blonde, my mascara “needs” eyebrow pencil to balance it out. She was right.

Eh? That's literally the recipe to make it. People were eating mayonnaise long before mass food production was a thing.

Googling suggests it was first made in the 1750s, but has only been made commercially for a hundred years or so.

On the 'I was today years old' thing, is this actually something that people say and what does it mean? I've never heard it and thought it was a typo or autocorrect.

@Mosaic123

I thought that betting shops were some kind of sex shops until I was about 13 and asked my Mum. Dodgy men went in and out, always on their own and you couldn't see inside the shop from the outside.

I'm not sure I quite believe that, what kind of 13 year knows that kind of detail about sex shops but not betting shops?

@trebleclef101

That a year isn't exactly 52 weeks long.

It's 52 weeks and 1 day. That blew my mind when I found out!

How did you not know that your birthday wasn't always on the same day of the week

@GaryUnicorn

Did you know that the cream filling in Kit Kats, between the wafers is liquidised Kit Kats, Mis shapes, broken bars etc that were rejected by the Machine that checks every bar for appearance?

How did they make the first one then?

What came first, the Kit Kat or the broken pieces

@FromDespairToHere

I appear to be today years old finding out that segue isn't pronounced "seeeg" then! How is it pronounced?

Seg way!

@sashh

I can't believe no one has mentioned Portsmouth and Gibraltar yet. Clue - one is an island.

@Fossie, I also thought that the Wombles were 'unrefined',and would never admit to watching the program incase my friends thought I was also 'common'!