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 😂

I used to think it was Chester drawers up until my mid 20's. I only found out when I read an article about a girl trying to find Chester drawers online and couldn't find them.

As a child I grew up thinking that the piece of furniture you stored your clothes in was called a “chester draws” … it wasn’t until my 20’s when I went to university and most people where distinctly posher that I realised it meant “a chest of draws” 🙄

Supersizers? I think it was called that and I think that they are all on Youtube, at least they used to be. Well worth a watch. The twenties one in particular is gopping......everything in fucking aspic!

Only down side is that you have to eat Giles Coren employ his "shovelling concrete into a mixer" technique of eating...barf.

I only realised narwhales were not mythical creatures after tower bridge.

When I was 18 a boyfriend told me that 'DAF' trucks were Dutch (true) and that the name reflected this because it was an abbreviation of Daffodil. Some considerable years later I was disabused of this long held conviction when I knowledgeably informed my father of the provenance of DAF and he couldn't speak for laughing.

"Its in Essex I think"

So I'm told. I'm not sure I believe it, though.

Are you confusing this with Co Down maybe

@Fink , that is scary. How can they have been so clueless?

While we're on You're So Vain, does anyone know what it is he flew up to Nova Scotia? I always thought it was 'your living', maybe meaning all his family and entourage, but it doesn't make much sense.

That Leominster was pronounced Lempster. I actually called it Leominster

Lol that's so kind of you to give me an easy excuse for getting it wrong @KirstenBlest :-D

In return, i'd posit that it was Carly Simons' American accent that caused you to mishear the lyrics. :-D 😇

My own misheard lyric is from There Must Be An Angel by Eurythmics. The lyric is " I'm thrown and overblown with bliss " .
I always hear it as, ' overgrown with fleas. ' :-/

@Fink
According to the lyrics i've just looked up it says...

" Well I hear you went up to Saratoga
And your horse naturally won
Then you flew your lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun "

Hope that helps :-)

I was shocked to find out (age 45) yellow dandelions and the dandelions you blow to tell the time are the same plant at different stages of its life.

@Fink , it was his lear jet ,to see the total eclipse of the sun

When I was at junior school a boy in my class moved away to Weston Super Mare - I thought it sounded so amazing to be moving abroad to Spain…….was well into my twenties when I realised it’s actually in the UK 😂😂

Please tell me your joking. So I've been saying it wrong the last 5 years, even though I don't live to far away. How embarrassing 😳

@Macinae , I've only ever heard it as Lemster. I remember an ad on the notice board at work offering a Hampster Cage.

@KirstenBlest you're right, it is worrying. In fairness (although I don't want to excuse it), I suppose the urethra is too small to really see/feel, especially if you don't already know it's there. And the idea that a 9lb baby could come out of something as small as a vagina is pretty incredible (I'm guessing they also weren't too hot on how contractions, dilation etc work, given that they hadn't yet mastered the basics of anatomy), although that does leave the question wide open as to where the (presumably massive) baby-exiting hole is. I'm fairly sure that a lot of women never sit down with a mirror and actually look at their own genitalia, so maybe if they weren't paying attention in school either ... honestly, I don't know. Especially the biology student. She was at Oxford, she must have had very good Science A Levels.

I thought Waterloo Station was built on the site of the Battle of Waterloo.

I discovered this was NOT the cast last year. When I was 44.

Well that raises more questions than in answers, though thanks for the help both. Wth is a lear jet?! Was it owned by Edward Lear?!

This is nearly as bad as Where do you go to, My Lovely? A song with so many names I've barely heard of. Juan-les-Pins and Sacha Distel took me years, and I've lived in France.

In my family I’m famous for casually referring to “Leatherhead Airport”. Of course I meant Luton! As an aside, I used to get a right strop on when step dad wouldn’t pick me up from there. It’s only since I drove from Luton to Dartford (in my mid 30s) that I realised why, because it’s such a PIG of a drive.

I was in my late 20s before I realised that a cease fire wasn’t an actual physical fire on the boundary of a war zone. I’d always imagined that once the fire went out they would start shouting again. Never put together the meaning of the word cease!

Also always wanted Pontefract to be in Wales. I worked with someone from there so knew it wasn’t. And drove past signs on road trips. But it definitely sounds like the kind of place they should make Welsh Cakes 😂 which

How to play "rock, paper, scissors."

@Fink , but surely you'd know that where your wee comes out of and where your period comes out of weren't the same?
Thy might have been academically intelligent but were they completely uncurious about their own body?

That Samarkand is in Uzbekistan. It sounds like it should be in Finland.

In my first term a teacher training college we had a placement for a couple of weeks in a school to observe, the teacher whose class I was in wrote The Golden Hampster on the board and I didn't know whether to say something or not. I think I kept quiet!