Things I’ve just learnt

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I just found out you can’t put a chopping board in the dishwasher unless you want it to break 😕

as my family are now laughing at me, it made me wonder what other things have people learnt in adulthood that maybe others assume should be intrinsically known?

Sobriquet

What now ?do the orca climb out of the water to hunt them or do the moose go paddling ?

The moose are in the water. They dive down to the bottom of the river beds for the river grass. Orcas come inland and swipe them

19:29Soubriquet

When this little piggy went to market, he wasn’t popping off down to the shops

😳😱

@Deadringer

I learned the 'lefty loosey righty tighty' from Phil on Modern Family, it's been very useful.

I learnt it from the Jake in California Dreams so I'm the coolest 😂

That you should not use a chocolate fountain as a cheese fondue machine. We did it with the office chocolate machine for someon’es birthday, as they did not like chocolate very much. It looked like an exploding pimple and the office STANK of cheese for about 6 months. And the chocolate fountain machine was totally fucked.

Little piggy is off to the market to sell home produce (not bacon of course that would be odd) he is probably giving them away

Crumble Oxo before unwrapping!! That's incredible and so obvious now I know it.

@Gwenhwyfar

" Or who confuse capers with a type of fish, which just seems odd?"

It sounds like a fish. Even after finding out what they are, I have still not seen them in a shop.

That's because you were looking at the fish counter :)

They are sold pickled in glass jars or salted, alongside olives, gherkins and other pickled items in pretty much all supermarkets. They are picked as buds, before the flowers open. I love them, always have a jar on the go.

You can also get caper berries from the same plant (much larger).

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Never knew until last year that there was an arrow in the FedEx logo. Once seen you can't un-see it...

My university educated DD thought Robins only came out at Christmas because they appear on Christmas Cards!

@Ddot

godmum56 I meant both grapes but if we are being literal, different grape varieties and one dried in the sun and the other coated and dried with machine. I think 🤣

nope originally all sun dried but to different degrees.

Ddot
They are different types and colours of grapes

That men are generally better liars than women
That men don't wash their hands after going to the toilet
That men are a lot more selfish than women, not wearing masks, not getting jabbed, not socially distancing

@Alyssasbackrolls

The units on your gas meter are not the kW you are charged for on your bill. They are cubic meters or feet and you have to dick around doing sums to convert them. Note: and they end up being a MUCH MUCH bigger number. Basically that you can not just work out the increase in your gas bill by comparing old and new readings and timesing by your unit cost + standing charge like you can with the leccy.

This! It rreally is not clear enough on the bills - with BG anyway. Essentially,the units need to be multiplied by about 11.16 (metric meter) to give the kWh, which is how the price is shown on the tariff info, and on the bill (and of course, the prices are sometimes net of and sometimes with VAT included). It make me so mad that something as important as that is not in big bold letters, especially now.

I have spreadsheets and notes going back to year 2000 and recently created a small one for the phone so that once kWh cost and st. charge are known, a simple input of current meter reading will calculate upcoming charges. It is MY version of a smart meter, which I refuse to have.

@vipersnest1

Aged 15, I found out it was not a good idea to pick up a heat mat from a tripod in science without letting it cool down. The room was filled with the smell of burning flesh and I was left with a criss-cross imprint of the mat on my index fingers and thumbs...

I'm a first sided at a secondary school. The amount of kids who come and see me after doing that very thing

@heronsinflight

The piece that everyone thinks of as "the clown music" from circuses is actually called The Entry of the Gladiators Into Rome and was intended to be awe-inspiring.

I couldn’t think what this sounded like so I listened to it on YouTube, and the first comment was ‘all the gladiators tumbling out of the tiny chariot’, and now I am crying 😂😂

Re PPs saying upthread about how you can't make chips/pancakes/whatever at home, I've just been teaching my 81 year old neighbour how to make bone stock for home made gravy. It was a revelation to her and she's all excited.

@Livebythecoast

That the lyrics in the song 'Ironic' by Alanis Morissette are 'it's a death row 'pardon' two minutes too late' - not 'it's a death row 'hard on' two minutes too late' .

Ah yes, it was only a few years ago I realised that in Driving Home For Christmas, Chris Rea wasn't expecting a 3 way...it's Freeway! I had thought it was a bit raunchy for a Christmas song

That Berlin isn’t located on the boundary of what was West Germany and East Germany. It’s actually in the middle of what was East Germany.

I’d always thought the Berlin Wall divided East and West Berlin, but no - turns out it was a wall that encircled West Berlin.

@DimebagDarrell

That Berlin isn’t located on the boundary of what was West Germany and East Germany. It’s actually in the middle of what was East Germany.

I’d always thought the Berlin Wall divided East and West Berlin, but no - turns out it was a wall that encircled West Berlin.

I didn't know this until I went to Berlin. I'd always thought the same as you. Mind-blowing.

@Harls 1969

so what did you make of "top to toe in tailbacks, I got red lights all around" "

@AnchorWHAT

1. That split peas cooked in a pressure cooker take a lot less time than i thought to cook

1. That overfilling a pressure cooker can cause it to malfunction
2. That wearing split peas is not a great look
3. That cleaning split peas off the ceiling -and every other bastard surface in a kitchen- is bloody hard work

I feel bad about this but you made me laugh so much in a tea spitting out way.

@meow1989

I learnt in recent weeks that if you put a mug with a metallic handle in the microwave to reheat your coffee, then pick it up by said handle, you will burn through several layers of skin on your fingers in places you will recurrently catch/rub on things whilst undertaking every day tasks. I swear I heard a sizzle when I did it

I did that recently! Yeeeeooooooowch. Never felt a burn quite like it.

Lid on juice bottle before you shake the juice bottle.

This is very important.

I was 51 years old when I just learnt what "watermelon sugar" is. Do all those teenage girls who love Harry Styles know? My friend just told me!