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?! 😃

When people use the word "easter eggs" when they are talking about hidden spoilers in films. I actually used to genuinely think films had hidden little easter eggs in films like some sort of Where's wolly!

I work with teens aswell and It was one of them that finally explained what it meant.

I thought Vin Diesel was Dutch or something and called him Van Diesel.

@Twawmyarse
look it up it was originally THINK.. I kid you not !
And how did I never realise the names from Frozen make Hans Christian Anderson??
Feeling v thick all of a sudden .

Niamh is an Irish name. Irish has its own alphabet, which is different to the English one and doesn’t have all the same letters or sounds. That’s why it doesn’t sound how you expect it to.

That Sinn Fein/ Gerry Adams one is hilarious.
I didn’t know that about email symbol though, that’s cool.

There's a now-extinct species of penguin that was 5'11"

www.ranker.com/list/list-of-extinct-penguins/ranker-science

Well there we go. I’ve just learned something new.

It's actually way more common than you think.

What? There is an Irish alphabet? Fuck me. How did anyone ever employ me

I used to think Nice was in Italy too - it just sounds so Italian!

Another...

Is it... beckoned call? Or beck and call?

😂😂😂

Amazing!!! @MelonMojito This has trumped the eyes and nose one!!!!!

Sorry @Violashift

I thought that until one minute ago😳

I thought catseyes on the road had light bulbs in them and only found out they didn’t when I (embarrassingly) asked someone what time they were switched on. I was in my late twenties!!!!

Yep a good part of Alaska is actually a temperate rainforest. I went to Juneau a few years ago in the summer and people were shocked when I came home with a tan as they thought it would be all ice and snow and freezing cold. (The amount of American tourists leaving cruise ships in massive padded coats shows they thought the same thing though!)

I did go up a mountain on a cable car and wandered around in a snowy patch in flip-flops while the sun was beating down on me, which wasn't as cold as you'd think on the feet either. I also held part of a glacier that had floated off but that WAS cold.

Beck and call!

In the rhyme, it never mentions that Humpty Dumpty was an egg.

But the word beck does mean "beckon"

What?
It's in France

But this doesn't seem to work for all Monarchs name- what will we be called now in the reign of Charles? or Anne? Maybe in the future we will be collectively called the 'The Windsors' or 'The Windsor Period'.

Completely different parts of the US in fact.

That ‘Bluey’ is a girl 🤯

Or maybe we will be 'The Charlotons?"

Years ago I thought lol meant lots of love.

I really struggled with abbreviations. Took me ages to get used to DD DS MIL etc.
Then when I did get used to them I became too comfortable with them, so when making a phone call to child benefit to inform them that my daughter would be staying in education I began with "I'm just informing you that Darling Daughter 1 will be staying in education"!!! 😳

@mnahmnah no it isn't ! It means you need to think again .

These threads are very useful for learning useful information I find.