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 😂

Didn't Peter Kaye used to do a lot of misheard lyrics?

Sorry to tell you; still wrong. It's chest of drawers......

I thought it was Serrang wrap until about 15 seconds ago!

That Constantinople was a) a real place and b) named for emperor Constantine (just learned that today lol!)

It is in Essex. Not that far from where I live. It is in the South East of England.

I thought it was hot dog, jumping frog, have a cookie until last year

In 80s around age 10 my teacher was doing a geography lesson and a v bright student asked her something about the iron curtain. She totally ridiculed the child telling her to stop being so silly there are no curtains etc. I've often thought of that woman and wondered when she had her d'oh moment

You're asking the wrong person. I do know that, and I can't remember whether I first learned it academically or naturally. I have no idea how other adult women haven't yet figured it out. I have an in-law who's a gay woman and is still pretty clueless about some of this stuff. I tried to persuade her on the Three Holes Theory 😄, but she's a bit squeamish about talking about it. She grew up in care and maybe never had an adult woman she could talk to about it while she was growing up, but she's since slept & lived with enough other women that you'd think the penny would have dropped.

People who go there call it skegvegas the butlins there is brilliant

Whaaat?! Never knew this!

@Fink , . Sacha Distel was on the telly fairly often in the 1970s
You danced like Zizi Jeanmaire!
It reminds me of the local radio station, and the sort of songs they played, Stay in your own back yard, In my Liverpool home, Ferry 'cross the Mersey and that one.

Oh Gawd, I've just listened to Where do you go to my lovely and it's brought back so many memories

Surely this thread is a joke…….isn’t it?

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Called Fev is Shit in this house, because for years that’s what someone wrote on the sign for the town amd no one cleaned it off.

I’m Lovin this thread! Haven’t laughed so much for ages 😂😂😂

I just learned a few days ago, sometime last week, that there is a town in New Foundland, Canada, named "Dildo." It is on the shore of Conception Bay. Wouldn't those two cancel each other out?

@Fink , what I learnt about menstruation was from other kids and from having animals, not from an adult woman meaning you, MummyBlest
We got the 'period talk' in the first year of secondary school.
Jackie magazine was pretty helpful.
I can remember being about 13 and thinking I'd probably get some tampons in case I started getting periods.

I was blown away when I found that out a few years ago. As a fellow Glaswegian I feel your pain.

Wigan Pier isn’t a lovely seaside wooden structure to sit and eat fish and chips on. We actually drove round for ages before Google informed us Wigan is nowhere near the shore.

My friend for years thought that when you go on holiday there is a separate plane that takes the bags and when we were waiting for the bags to arrive she said the bags plane might not have landed yet

Remimnds me of my mad cousin, who thought they dim aircraft cabin lights before landing so as noto to disturb people on the ground

It was his Learjet.

I didn't know it was 'gavotte' either. And I once thought his scarf it was African.

I blame Carly Simon myself. Especially for 'gavotte' ending with an 'i' sound.

TBC, we were just driving through the area and saw the Wigan Pier sign so set off to find it.

I've done this. Drove home ina rahe to be laughed at by DH

I think I learnt about lear jets from Pink Floyd's Money

Bristol is definitely not in Devon