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?! 😃

I was over 30 before I found out that loofahs grow on trees, and are not dredged up from the seabed.

I’m from stoke on Trent where they’re made and have done the same!

Ha, I was just about to post the same!

The confusion may have come from you knowing or hearing of the French pronunciation.
Bis= twice, cuit= cooked. Cuit sounds a bit like 'quee' in the English accent and then you've popped the 't' on the end. 😃

I often switch between driving mine or dh car, fuel flap is on a different side.

So on arriving to fill up, on the wrong side, I annoyingly had to manoeuvre to the correct pump. Paying no attention to the long hoses!

An elderly gent at the next pump proceeds to tell me that that there is a little arrow next to pump symbol on the dash fuel gauge, indicting which side the fuel goes in.

Got in my car to realise it is in fact true, took me 15 years of driving 300 miles a week before learning that!

While travelling across Germany on the motorway, I kept seeing signs for 'Ausfahrt'.
'This Ausfahrt must be a major city' I thought, having seen signs for it across the entire country. 'I can't believe I've never heard of it.'
It was only later that I realised Ausfahrt is German for 'exit.'

Ditto 'danke' written on all the bins. I didn't twig that 'danke' was German for 'thank you', and not bin!

DH was explaining to young DD how banoffee pie got its name. I had no idea! Since then every revelation in our house is known as a 'banoffee' moment.

I also thought albeit was pronounced as a german word until relatively recently. I am the wrong side of 50! I thought it was just me but so pleased I have found my people!

I’ve only just learned the pronunciation of Aloysius although I first read it in a book half a century ago.

Hillsborough definitely (also) Sheffield. I can see it from my window & hear when Wednesday are playing.

I’d been living in Germany six months when I realised that all the arrows pointing to Einbahnstaße were in fact indicating the direction of a one-way street!

It’s another THING coming

Jesus that didn't take long.

The North of Ireland if you're being pedantic 😆

You mean it isn’t?!?!!? Mind. Blown.

I found out in my 30s that French toast is not a secret family recipe as my lying grandmother had told me.

It absolutely is not. "Another thing" makes no sense. The correct expression is "you've got another think coming"

(Because the thought you've just had is so wrong)

Are you making this up???? No way!!!

It was not that long ago that I realised Silicon Valley was named that due to tech companies rather than plastic surgery....

My Dad thought these 2 corkers...

That "Gun Point" was a physical place that criminals would often take their victims to "He held her at gunpoint".

That "Random" was a organisation near London that TV shows such a Blue Peter that held competitions would go to to pick the names out of a hat. "The winners names will be drawn at random".

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FYI: The hoses at the petrol pumps are all long enough to reach around the back of your car and into the petrol tank opening on the other side in case you can't get a pump on the correct side or you just don't know what side it's on.

@inmyslippers YES! WILLIAM!! I didn’t know this was will.I.am name either.

I also didn’t know SpongeBob square pants was a sponge. I thought he was a bit of Edam cheese.

I used to think wales was a separate island like Ireland.

I thought a shed load of something was an amount that would fill a shed.

Also I thought a lesser spotted woodpecker was so called because you don't spot them very often.

Why did the chicken cross the road @Baggingarea ?

No it’s not. It’s ‘think’.

It's due to mumsnet, that I learnt the meaning of Oxbridge.

I was a child in fairness but I got really upset when I was secretly adding sugar to my cereal, thinking I’d be breaking a law of some kind, as it said on the packaging “no added salt or sugar”

My family thought it was brilliantly funny when I “confessed” my sins!