Things I'm embarrassed to have realised so late in life...

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Those ID necklaces? I had absolutely never heard of the word "lanyard" until around 3 years ago. All my friend's children learnt this way before I did. If you had told me "Lanyard" was a European city - I'd have believed you.

That little press send arrow in the top right hand corner? It only occurred to me in my mid 30s that it is in fact a paper aeroplane. I just thought it was a dodgy triangle.

I was absolutely stunned to find out the woman who plays Amanda in Motherland is not Catherine Tate.

Any confessions to console me I'm not the only one failing at life?! 😃

Post modernism is an intellectual construct. Nothing to do with royalty en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism

That if you hold the 0 down on your keyboard it becomes the ° symbol 🙈

The eyes to the right and nose to the left is aye's and no's...? I learned that today age 32

In a similar vein to the German pronunciation of albeit, I had studied French for seven years before I ever came across the English word "travail". My poor brain just couldn't process how on earth this might be said, so I decided it must be the same as in French! This was OK until I had to use it in speech once and someone laughed out loud.

There's an employment company called Travail, and their slogan is "Travail means work." As far as I know it's a UK-only company (may be wrong - could have originated in France, I suppose), but I can only assume that it was originally begun by somebody thinking it would be funky to name it after the French word - a neutral word which just means standard 'work/doing a job' - who didn't have the faintest idea that it is also a lesser-used English word, meaning really unpleasant/upsetting/back-breaking toil. Who in their right mind would want to name an employment agency that: "Come and work with us - it will be an almost intolerable ordeal for you!" ?!

Also that twinkle twinkle, abc and baa baa blsck sheep are all the same tune but with different lyrics.

As well as the beginning to 'Somebody That I Used To Know' by Gotye!

No words 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Just tell your friend that Bristol is east of Edinburgh and watch s/hw implode.

The fuel indicator symbol on a car dashboard has a little arrow pointing to which side the tank is on!

Do you mean Hilborough?

Sorry but 🤣🤣🤣

@LoveLarry
I know I have a very sad and boring life! And I am of an age when it doesn't take much to excite me. 😀
I mostly mean that I am amazed that I have never even noticed before! Makes me wonder what else I am missing !

Dh thought that the isle of Fernando's holiday destination on Take Me Out was real.He still gets the piss took years later for that one.

I didn't know they were real until the London bridge attack.

It's the other way round. Downtown it the town or city centre. Uptown is the (smarter) suburbs. Think of Billy Joel's Uptown Girl, he was a downtown man.

Also, if you change your name on marriage, I thought until recently that you needed to do some formal registration thing. I didn't realise that you can just start calling yourself by your new name (the marriage certificate being the formality!)

Just tell your friend that Bristol is east of Edinburgh and watch s/hw implode.

If you tell people that two of the four UK capitals are virtually on the same line of longitude and ask them which two, they will almost always think of the map we're all used to and say Edinburgh and London. Nope - it's Edinburgh and Cardiff.

i think I was about 30 before I realised that raisins are just dried grapes.

Awwww. I didn't mean it nastily.

I was just wondering if your mind was really blown over number plates 😄

For a long time I thought that e.g. stood for example given, i.e. for in example and NB was Note Beforehand. I think I was in my mid-teens when I learned differently, and in my head I still read it my way.

I think I must have just made mine up? Or asked someone what they mean and been told the gist and not the latin so sort of inferred what they stood for.

And I always thought George bush junior was called Dubya after some Middle Eastern place.

Did you know prunes are dried plums?

Humpty Dumpty wasn't an egg, it was a large gun whose recoil knocked it of its plinth.

@incywincyspidery When I was a young girl I lived in Essex and they did used to grow a lot of mustard where we were. I then assumed for most of my life that all the yellow fields in the UK were also mustard. Mainly just in East Anglia though apparently!

Until a couple of months ago, I thought this was a sign showing a hammer banging the road, with bits of rock jumping off to show how loose it is. Then one day I saw it, and it's like my eyes changed and it suddenly became a car!

Strangely, I find it quite hard to see the hammer myself now!

This keeps reducing me to giggles! It's so lovely!

"I thought that when they said in Parliament eyes to the right and nose to the left. That the MPs had to turn their heads like point their eyes one to the left and tip your nose to the right.

Didn't realise there was separate gates to go through and it was indeed ayes as in yes to the right and Nos as in disagreemen to go through the other gate."

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