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?! 😃

Nor me. It would have been so helpful to know that when they were babies...

Thing makes no sense at all. By the way, what is Flo Rida?

@mnahmnah
It really is THINK which makes no sense to.me at all tbh .
I think.most people have got it wrong just like us.

What!! I wish I had been aware of this an hour ago!

A stones throw away from my house

When parking and it says no return for 2 hours, I used to think you couldn't go back to your car for 2 hours 😂 I only realised it meant you couldn't park again within 2 hours after I asked my husband what happens if it rains and I might need to come back for my umbrella 😂

Me too, I'd have sworn that it was where Fireman Sam is from 🤬.
I'm 58 🙈🙊🙉

That a xylophone isn’t pronounced ex-why-lo-phone. Genuinely thought it was a different instrument!

A stones throw away from my house

@mnahmnah have a look at the link at the top of the screenshot you posted.

“Another thing coming" dates later, which suggests that thing is an eggcorn of think. It probably originated in speech with the misapprehension of the "k" in think as being the "c" in coming, which leaves something that sounds suspiciously like "thing coming."

It may be one of those things where so many people have got it wrong it’s now considered OK, but that doesn’t make it correct!

You're fucking with me surely? Runs to Google..

😂😂😂

I always thought 'pseudo' was pronounced like suede-O.
Not a word I used very often until for work related reasons I had to use the word a lot - in front of senior people - at presentations.
Even after corrected I still forget!

That ABBA are named after the initials of the 4 members of the group - I was genuinely amazed when I realised a few years ago.

Modern British cars the front number plate is white the rear one is yellow.

Narwhals are real?!

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This one made me proper laugh!!! 😂

Thanks @Violashift

@ZooMount Well you've blown my mind. I've done all my covid tests wrong! 😂

Only recently realised that the song C u when u get there by Coolio, which I listened to a lot in the 90s, is the same tune as Pachelbels Canon in D that walked down the aisle to over a decade ago. I don't know how I never connected the two!
I also always thought it was Rodney singing the Only Fools and Horses song.

There's a short story by Sophie Hannah that has this misunderstanding as a starting point...

@IcakethereforeIam
What ! Mind blown. Never realised that until now !!

I am crying reading this, Viola, thank you so much for the laugh! Am imagining MPs contorting their faces en masse every time there’s a vote… 😂

Learnt today Watership Down is an actual place with bunnies!

Yep, 2 big ones (North & South), another smaller Stewart Island then lots of small small islands scattered around - Great Barrier, Waiheke, Chathams etc, etc.
But all good - just dont say we're joined up to or part of Australia haha 🤣🤣

@Hodgepodge211 you’ve just had me laughing for ages at that! I’m imagining someone with a full on cockney accent having a normal conversation and then suddenly going very German for the word “Albeit” mid sentence 😂