Things you’ve only just found out

[TheChosenTwo]

About 2 days ago I discovered that Skegness isn’t in Scotland 😳 How did I never know this before? Embarrassingly, I’m 38 😂

Up with a teething toddler but am very tempted to waste precious sleep time popping out to see if this is the same on my car!

The lens is behind the pupil not in front of it

Or was that what you meant that it's covered on either side?

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I believed this for years too. I also thought Singapore was in China.

Mauritania always sounds to me like it should be in Eastern Europe.

Dubai and Abu Dhabi are cities, not countries.

Until I was an adult I didn’t know Southport was up north. I assumed it would be in the south…..and I have a degree in geography 😬

Hoping there is an amusing story behind how you discovered that it's not Cheshire Cat:?

You know the plastic netting which often covers punnets of fruit? Until recently, I’d find a pair of scissors and cut it open. Until the day I saw a colleague open it easily with her bare hands. The amount of time I’ve wasted over the years hunting for scissors. 🤦‍♀️

It is not Grasp the Mettle, it is Grasp the Nettle.

Imagine my surprise when SiL said they were moving to Hollywood.
The Hollywood that is just south of Birmingham.

Yes, this is what I meant.

More on Pontefract, lol.
We all know about Pontefract cakes but I didn't know until recently, ( thanks to watching a repeat of Portillo's train programme ) that in that old Charlie Chaplin film, where he eats his boot, it was made of licorice from Pontefract.
There is apparently, only one farm that still grows the licorice root there, iirc.
Maybe the poster/s that live there can confirm?

Also, thanks to a repeat of Dine With, i now know that beetroot is an
aphrodisiac :-/

Our former neighbour's son when he was young thought it was Gordon Jesus up in heaven instead of God and Jesus.

I recently learned that there's a place in Fife called Newcastle. DH is a bus driver and was showing me various routes and I commented how there were a lot of Fife buses going down to England. He had to tell me about the Fife one which tbh when you think about it definitely makes a lot more sense.

Welcome to the dark side 😂

Oh holy fuck that's so funny, corpsing here

Whenever this comes up on these threads it makes me crave liquorice in general and Pomfret cakes in particular.

Pretty much this. I think it’s very easy to criticise the song nowadays. Am sure no one at the time would even have thought about it still being around now.

It was written very quickly. There was no internet with immediate access to information (ie for the general public to look up and criticise).

It was a short, sharp decision and it should be viewed as “of its time”. It is vastly different to some of the crap that is put out nowadays with the vast awareness of social media and what creates viral content.

I don’t use pastry very often. On the very odd occasions over the years when I do, I tend to have been lazy and have bought the ready-rolled sheets.

I have always lined my tray with grease-proof paper, gently unrolled the sheet of pastry and placed it on the tray.

It was only last week that I realised that the sheet it’s rolled in can be used as the base-sheet. I always thought that it was a wax-type paper to stop the pastry from sticking to itself when rolled up in the box. Muppet!

In this context tidbit is correct

My daughter thought one of the reindeers was called Olive. She was so convinced and we couldn't work out why. Turns out 'all of' the other reindeer is where it sprang from 🤣😂🤣

Actually it’s grasp the mettle 😂

Unfortunately this is not true as I found out to my embarrassment when once using a hire car 😳😂

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