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 😂

What everyone needs to know about Kings X, St Pancras, and London Bridge, for that matter is to allow at least ten minutes to get to your platform. And be prepared to sprint last minute as they've just changed it or only just bothered to put it on the board as your train is about to leave. And that in spite of the refurbishment, London Bridge is still a freezing wind tunnel even on a sunny day and a slough of despond where phone signals go to die.

Superbowl is football, the American kind with the brown pigskin spheroid-type ball, not what we call soccer and y'all call football.

Personally, I consider Superbowl as being the "ads of the year premier" and frequently FF through the game to the commercials.

The years they had the Budweiser Clydesdale's and the golden retriever pup were the best ever.

@JudgeJ " Isn't Washington in T & W where the George Washington family originated from and they took the name? "

Yes, that's the case, as far as i've always been led to believe anyway.

@GellerYeller
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@EpicChaos I’m not in West Yorks but family there knew the chap with the last remaining liquorice plant from the Portillo show. Can confirm they believe he/it’s still there! The content of the local soil being well suited to that particular root is how it all started I think.

I found the segment with the liquorice man very interesting to be honest, i have become far too interested in watching Portillo on his train journeys, same applies to that programme about London underground stations - I live nowhere near London and have rarely travelled on the tube :-/
As a kid, my mum used to buy me the roots/twigs from the chemist to chew on, you don't really see it about now though but interesting to find out where it likely came from, i'd never really thought about that before.

" Elder Yorkshire folk often call liquorice ‘Spanish’. "

Yes, i heard it called that throughout my childhood but never knew why, sadly i missed the explanation for it but no doubt i'll catch it on it's next repeat, lol.

Does the Welsh confusion come from Pontypridd perhaps? "

That's always a possibility.
Pontypridd, iirc, is where Tom Jones came from?

the LB refurbishment made it worse. who the hell thought it would be a good idea to have people enter at the top, only to have to go down, then go up again.

i know that you can enter on different levels, but the top entrace level was a whole lot simpler for trains on that level, and getting to the other platforms was simpler as well (via the escaltors by the tube station). At least that's what i thought.

@EpicChaos here you go-details from a Trebor Bassett guy on Spanish here:

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-1661,00.html

Not sure where in Wales Tom Jones is from though!

GOAT and TY. Took an embarrassingly long time for me to figure them out

I can't believe this thread!

I thought darth Vader was called dark Vader until 2 years ago

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I recently found out that Mt everest was in Nepal. I'd got confused with Ben Nevis and thought it was in Scotland. Geography isn't my strong point, haha!

Years ago, I thought Madonna's Papa Don't Preach was Poppaddom Beach. Used to sing it out loud a lot too.

I had a lol with this thread . I admit I’m very surprised , it seems the U.K. education system has a lot to wish for . I’m from abroad but living here for 23 years and knew where every location mentioned here is together with at least 90% of where in the world countries and major cities are . We were made to learn that in school before we were 14 .

You were taught where small towns like Pontefract, Billericay and Skegness were located in the UK?

What subject taught you that, in which country and at what level?

It’s not a pepper baby at all, pepper seeds have a coating over them to protect them from growing until they have been properly put in to grow, however some haven’t got this coating and so grow inside the mother. I only found miracle out in the past fortnight

No that I learned once I moved in the U.K. because makes sense to know the place you live and those are all fairly known places . The point is clearly geography should be taught in U.K. schools lol 😂

I was today years old whe I found this out. Just now. Because of your post 🤣

I went to school in Billericay and it's definitely in Essex. Also, many people from there sailed on The Mayflower (there is a high school in Billericay called Mayflower) to the 'New World', hence a town in Massachusetts called Billerica.

Thank you so much @GellerYeller for going to the trouble of finding that - i am much obliged. Perhaps then, the roots/twigs i used to be given were actually from Spain, not Pontefract? So just when you think a puzzle has been solved, along comes another one.
It was even more confusing for a little kid, when you add in the existence of Spanish Gold, sweet tobacco, which bore no resemblance to liquorice whatsoever.

I'm always amazed that Billericay is on Essex, not Ireland

What purpose is it to know where all the small towns are in the UK?

It's not the schools job to teach general knowledge...

That Bristol isn't a county it's in Devon. Admittedly my geography skills aren't brilliant though

Eh?!?!

So the school you went to taught you the location of all your small towns?

Which country was that?

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Thank GOD this never happened, although it easily could have as I would have died of embarrassment.

It came up because I asked DH whether McDonald's had to cook the hamburgers separately to the beef burgers for Muslims etc. He looked at me as if I'd grown two heads 🤣.

Careful eating those Pontefract cakes, I recently learned that eating too much liquorice is very bad for you (probs learned that on here)
The town of Alnwick has streets named Bondgate within and Bondgate without .
It also has , apparantly. the largest play structure in the world at the newly opened Lilidorei at Alnwick castle gardens.