Things I’ve just learnt

[hopeful777]

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?

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' .

A kipper is not a breed of fish. I thought they swam in the Irish Sea, off the Isle of Man

@hopeful777

I worked in Portsmouth for a year and I did not know that!

These are absolute class! Really brightening up my lonely Sunday evening 😊

It's Portsea Island 🤓

That programming 3 mins+ 30 secs in a microwave should not be tapped in as 30mins….😱 My sons face was a picture as his lamb dinner quite literally blew up!
Oh God, the mess!!!!

OMG Livebythecoast, like you i've always thought it was 'hard on' too!!

@Jellykat

OMG Livebythecoast, like you i've always thought it was 'hard on' too!!

😂 - it kinda made sense too! - glad I'm not the only one!

@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' .

That one is just you

I’ve only recently learnt that maggots turn into flies much as caterpillars turn into butterflies. I never knew this! There needs to be a book called the very hungry maggot to spread the word, unless it’s just me that didn’t know this!

@SleepingStandingUp - well clearly not cos Jellykat thought the same!

@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

This is why I’m far too scared to get a pressure cooker!

@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' .

🤣🤣🤣

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

@Soubriquet

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

😫oh no he wasn't was he .... I'm 38 🤣

Pole dancing poles can rotate!

Laughing so hard here, thanks MN dwellers 😃

That "the cloud" is not a cloud.
It's a load of servers where the data is stored.
I though our data was floating around in the ether, like a cloud (though now that I write that down, it sounds ridiculous )

If you can't find the little circular but that goes in the middle of the blender lid, it's probably in the blender where you just put your bolognaise

The plural of monkey is NOT monkies.

What a numpty I am.

Pole dancing poles can rotate

I wondered how they avoided friction burn

I also thought it was hard-on 😂

@LyndaSnellsSniff

The plural of monkey is NOT monkies.

What a numpty I am.

Just googled this in a panic and it says monkeys.

I’m alarmed at the number of people blithely singing ‘death row hard-on two minutes too late’ — too late for what? What would be a ‘death row hard-on’ at exactly the right time?

That if you open up the bottom of a stapler it has space to store spare staples - I don't know whether it is all staplers but it's certainly my two I have at home and have used every day for years and had no idea!

That you can't turn wine into Prosecco using a sodastream! Left a very sticky kitchen when it exploded everywhere...