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?! 😃

It was only a couple of years ago I learned Greenland is much colder than Iceland. In fact it’s about 80 percent of Greenland covered in ice v 11 percent of Iceland.

Iceland is actually very green and Greenland has very little green,it’s covered in ice.

You're in good company - recently Nadim Zahawi pronounced it as hyper-bowl!

But to be fair, English is not his first language.

You can count on us we're the numberblocks

Just cottoned on recently that they mean you can use them as a counting aid . . .

@Dou8hnuts 10 minutes from me! Hello, fellow Sheffielder.

I would have thought so but I had a colleague who has never left the UK and had absolutely no idea where Bristol was. Just didn't know which general area it was. I find that level of lack of basic geographical knowledge extraordinary.

It does make sense @flapjackfairy - see previous posts where we’ve explained the full saying

@saveforthat
Flo Rida is a singer

When they had 50,374 votes about different stuff for Brexit if the vote was in favour of the Tory’s a Tory man read the result, if it was a No (against what Tory’s wanted) a Labour person read the result

omg me too

😂

@mrsjackrussell @ImAvingOops how. gutted. must. you. feel. I realised after 2 kids...
smug 😏

I thought Cavalier King Charles spaniels were so called because they looked like King Charles (a previous one!) with floppy hair/ears not because he had some 🤣

It’s like ‘Dull as dishwater’ was originally ‘Dull as ditchwater’, but both now seem acceptable.

Within the last 5 years that I realised that Washington DC wasn’t in Washington state.

God yes, this!

I had four dc's and didn't realise that til I read it years later on here ffs!!

That it’s gerrymandering… not a man called Jerry Mandarin.

@squirrelfan I decided to research what you have said, and sure enough you are correct.

Then I thought I would google to see where I have heard the Aeneas thing . . . the only thing I found was a thread from 2011 !!! with me saying exactly the same thing and someone saying "no, it's Enos."

Perhaps I can claim that as my embarrassing revelation instead!

Also... the (beautiful) name Niamh... Neeve? I'll never get it 🤯

Don't feel bad - I think they were originally designed to easily go over a baby's head, until some bright spark realised that you could take them off in the other direction to assist with an explosive poo!

Sorry, but that’s so bloody ridiculous that’s it’s actually marvellous 🤩. I’ll definitely smile and remember this when I hear it in future. 😁😁

picturing you with shopping bags guiltily looking ground for the meter man 1.5 hours in to your stay!

When I first joined Mumsnet, I kept seeing posts ending in TIA. I though to myself, "This woman Tia creates a lot of threads."

It took me a long while to realise it was not someone called TIA.

I've only just realised that Neil Diamond isn't singing about The Reverend Blue Jeans.

Another one. Unbreak My Heart. For 20 years I thought Toni Braxton just really liked Sage and Onion.

Apparently it's going to be known as the Carolean era as Charles is the male version of Caroline or something to do with Latin - or something! I think it should be the Charleston era!