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?

Did people really think the dishwasher filled up with water?! Have they never accidentally opened it mid-cycle. Bizarre!

@Appalonia - you can’t make prosecco with a Sodastream, but you can with a Bubbliq or Qarbo. (Of course I don’t have one, but I really want one now.)

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

You can with a Drinkmate though! I got one for my birthday this year after much research as to which one could make anything fizzy vs which one was going to give me more cleaning 😂😂

yup I can attest that this works with a Drinkmate, plus you can use it to re fizzy flat soft drinks. The trick is to be cautious

That n block and s block at our school are north and south. 15 years I’ve worked there.

@Time40

I haven't just learned this but did you know that Guterman thread reels open up at one end to store needles?

What? really? Gosh! What's the point, though - who wants to store needles in a cotton reel?

its blooming handy for doing small stuff like sewing on a button

@Esspee bless your heart! That is so cute. Reminds me of my DD, aged about 4 pondering how odd it was that the chickens we see on a farm have the same word as the chicken we eat...

That Mallaguff is actually Magaluf. I thought that there were two similar sounding places up until about five years ago 😆

@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' .

this one belongs here Misheard wtf lyrics www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4499384-misheard-wtf-lyrics

@Nosetickle

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!

We did the life cycle at school

@Soubriquet

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

What???????????????

Do not clean silver dishes with a brillo pad! My dm was remarkably restrained in her criticism of me after that one.

Do not get rid of confidential paperwork by burning in a ceramic mixing bowl. Seemed a really good idea at the time but the bowl thought otherwise.

@Justkeeppedaling

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 )

Did you also think that you clicked things on a computer using a little rodent?

@Squiff70 , I so wish you hadn't posted that.

A friend of mine thought the cloud was environmentally friendly as it didn’t need power. 🙄

@Soubriquet

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

OMG.

When you watch Go Jetters and see this view you realise how close we all must be

Hilarious - endless scientific and geographical data on this but full-grown adults (inc me) are now off to watch the intro to Go-Jetters

If you turn the little pull tab off an olive oil bottle and turn it around and push it half way it, it acts like a stopper that only realises the amount of oil you actually need!

@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

It's always useful to have a very chilled, possibly in the freezer can of drink. It is the perfect thing to sooth burns on the palm or fingers.

I may have found this out when I tried to take something out of the oven without using a glove or cloth.

We have a sprinkling of left handers in my family, you don't need a 'left handed' corkscrew, use a standard one but rotate the bottle and keep the corkscrew still.

We also like drinking in my family.

That raisins are dried grapes.

Funny that, as I love grapes but hate raisins

@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

My god you are so wise😂

Portsmouth isn’t an island, although a large part of it is ON Portsea Island…

I don't believe the "This Little Piggy" one.

It's just a nonsense rhyme told to kids imo.

@Soubriquet

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

This is so strange.

Two of my teens let me in on this fact only last week, I never knew.

And Ring a ring a rosey is about war/ plague and falling down, dying and the daisies growing above you....

Cheerful or what!

That on the weather app, where it has percentages, that’s the chance of rain and not how rainy it’s going to be (ie 100% rainy is very strong torrential rain, 10% rainy is just a bit of a drizzle).