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?

I was in my early 40s when I found out fauna meant animals. I thought flora and fauna were flowering and non-flowering plants. I think I conflated fauna and fern 🤷‍♀️🙄

re: Gutermann thread. I've just taken one apart , but it can't hold needles because I used it on the machine & that's punctured the paper on both ends. How is this supposed to work?

Gutermann Sew-All 100m reel

I'd never noticed the two ends are different.

Never to put kiwi in jelly. I spent hours waiting for the blasted thing to set and it never did.

I learnt in January that weather warnings in Florida of falling iguanas are not a joke. When it is really cold in Florida (and other warmer places), Iguanas become immobile and fall out of trees. Most of the time the iguanas will be fine once it warms up, but some could get hurt from the fall.

The little extra part attached to one of the little tomato/strawberry pincushions contains a kind of grit or sand that will sharpen pins.

Also misheard Alanis morrisette lyrics but from You Oughta Know. Instead of "the cross i bear that you gave to me" I thought it was "the cross eyed bear that you gave to me"

I thought it was like a secret relationship in joke

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.

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

You can do it .. just leave it to settle for a few minutes before unscrewing the bottle.

My thing I learnt was that jars of herbs have two ways of opening, one to sprinkle a little bit and the other to pour lots out. I realised this last year. I've been a chef for 30 years....

Seems obvious because it is right there, in the name, but I didn't know, until a couple of years ago (I am 54) that bone china had actual animal bone in it!

My 13 year old learnt today how to shut the kitchen blinds which were put up when she was 3!

The Death Row hard on - that's actually a thing for men, usually after hanging. 😱

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 always assumed it was 'death-throe' pardon - which sort of makes sense, but sort of doesn't really without the context of being on death row!

Russia and the USA are not just 'near neighbours' - there's actually a (tiny little) island that is split down the middle, with half of it being Russian and half being American. Unsurprisingly, it's a heavily-monitored militarised zone.

I read somebody online (might even have been an American, iirc!) saying that nuclear weapons released by the USA against Russia would be even more dangerous (like they aren't enough already), with them having to cross so much of the Earth (i.e. the Atlantic and Europe) to get there.

My first thought was that they would surely send them 'around the back of the map' as it were - but then again, Russia's land mass is so vast, it might be that their major cities are actually a further distance away than by going via Europe.

@BigRedDuck I’ve spent 30 odd years trying to puzzle those lyrics out 😂😂

One of my 6th formers taught me that I can scroll down on my laptop using two fingers. I thought only Macs did that. I’ve been teaching at this school for 17 years with similar laptops. She said, “Miss, I think you’ve learned more this lesson than I have.” I think she has a point.

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.

It probably also depends on the type and number of instruments used and the pomp of the occasion. I bet you could make a musical fanfare of 'The Marrow Song' terrifying with the right arrangement

@doodlejump1980

I was 35 when I found out that capers are not tiny fish. 35.

Oh - what are they,? I'm I'm off to Google....

@NewYearEveryYear

Russia and the USA are practically neighbours...despite being on opposite sides of the map.

I swear I knew the earth wasn't flat. But it hadn't occurred to me that a map joins up at the back.

I love this! Really made me chuckle.

One of my 6th formers taught me that I can scroll down on my laptop using two fingers.

Pah! I'VE known that since.... 20 seconds ago when I just read your post and tried it

Butterflies breathe through their feet

@LoveMyPiano

A map of the world will have the country it is produced in/for in the centre. It is not GMT or date line oriented. I was watching some US film and someone had a map on the world, and the theory was proved correct....

This has blown my tiny mind!

Sorry!!! That should say butterflies taste with their feet!!!

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

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 always assumed it was 'death-throe' pardon - which sort of makes sense, but sort of doesn't really without the context of being on death row!

Russia and the USA are not just 'near neighbours' - there's actually a (tiny little) island that is split down the middle, with half of it being Russian and half being American. Unsurprisingly, it's a heavily-monitored militarised zone.

I read somebody online (might even have been an American, iirc!) saying that nuclear weapons released by the USA against Russia would be even more dangerous (like they aren't enough already), with them having to cross so much of the Earth (i.e. the Atlantic and Europe) to get there.

My first thought was that they would surely send them 'around the back of the map' as it were - but then again, Russia's land mass is so vast, it might be that their major cities are actually a further distance away than by going via Europe.

The quickest way would be over the top, not round sideways.

[quote Pumpernickelsoup]@LoveMyPiano plants actually do scream, when they are thirsty, when they are not cared for properly and when they are cut! They also make noises when they’ve been watered.
My 15 year old son thought I was mad when he asked what the popping noise was in the lounge a few nights ago and I told him that it was the big corner plant making noises as it’d just had a drink![/quote]
Was it burping?

[quote MyFieldOfFucksIsBarren]That you should break up an OXO cube still in the foil (doesn't work with the bustard chicken ones for me though)

www.smoothradio.com/news/quirky/how-to-unwrap-oxo-cubes-hack/[/quote]
I can never crumble the chicken ones....

@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

🤣🤣🤣