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Things you’ve only just found out

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TheChosenTwo · 24/05/2023 18:35

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

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BrandyandGinger · 25/05/2023 23:54

I knew that Billericay was in Essex because of Gavin and Stacey, the greatest television comedy ever.

Thisistheendof · 25/05/2023 23:57

pinkstripeycat · 25/05/2023 22:39

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

Vanishing pubes are no joke my friend

BenCoopersSupportWren · 26/05/2023 00:06

I was an embarrassingly advanced age when I learned that the word “segway” I heard reasonably often but never seemed to see written down was the word “segue” that I saw written down a lot but never heard.

I thought the same about University Challenge teams until comparatively recently (probably about a year or so before I learned about segue 😂).

And I knew it was Tommy who worked on the docks but I thought he was a “Union City man” until 30 seconds ago when I googled the lyrics because I also thought Gina died of old age 😳

PauliesWalnuts · 26/05/2023 00:07

I always knew that if you planted a seed potato you eventually dug it up in the summer to get eight or nine new potatoes. So I thought carrots were the same - plant a seed and eventually dig up a bunch of carrots. Imagine my disappointment on our new allotment at 45 years of age when I pulled up a carrot plant to find ONE carrot on the end. One seed, one carrot.

Danielle9891 · 26/05/2023 00:10

If you don't have a pound coin for the shopping trolley you can use 2x 20ps on top of each other.

newusernamemumsy · 26/05/2023 00:16

When we sang the kids song in school "dance dance wherever you may be, I am the lord of the dance said he" I always thought it was "the dance settee" (word for couch / sofa) and always pictured Jesus jumping on the couch with a bunch of kids and thought it was great / very irreverent 😂

BensonStabler · 26/05/2023 01:03

Vintagecreamandcottagepie · 24/05/2023 22:17

That the black pupil in your eye is a hole. A HOLE.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh my goodness I am crying laughing from this!! Thank you. lol

I know the pupil is a hole, but the way you wrote that really put across the sheer horror of that fact to you! Brilliant.

JFDIYOLO · 26/05/2023 01:10

It's duck tape, not duct tape. Because duck is a kind of fabric which is the backing to the sticky layer.

Also pterodactyls were not dinosaurs.

RunningUpThatMill · 26/05/2023 01:22

I was in my late 20s when I found out that albeit was pronounced as 3 separate words. I studied German at GCSE and just thought it was pronounced 'albite'. I was also in my late 20s when I was told it wasn't Chester drawers, but a chest of drawers. I'm from Yorkshire, and it honestly sounds like Chester drawers in speech, how embarrassing 🤣

LadyWiddiothethird · 26/05/2023 01:37

I have only just discovered Dale Winton died.

Canthave2manycats · 26/05/2023 01:43

KirstenBlest · 25/05/2023 23:21

@Canthave2manycats , you made those up, surely?

No I really didn't!!😁

BodegaSushi · 26/05/2023 01:43

Daisybridge · 25/05/2023 22:10

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.

It's only just occurred to me that I call them both dandelions, but never really thought about their different-ness to each other 😂

RunningUpThatMill · 26/05/2023 01:45

@JFDIYOLO it is duct tape. Duck tape is just a brand of duct tape 😁

Canthave2manycats · 26/05/2023 01:47

Definitely duct tape! My childminder from years ago used it when shagging my NDN's husband....

Nanaof1 · 26/05/2023 02:04

I am today years old when I learned that Ohio has had sightings, captures and kills of alligators within the state.

My DS is now teasing me saying, "wait until you find out about the bull sharks in the Great Lakes." I am sure he is just teasing. I hope. Maybe. No, I am sure he is.
shaking in my shoes

Nanaof1 · 26/05/2023 02:51

Nothingisblackandwhite · 25/05/2023 20:24

I will , I actually think if it as basic knowledge and everyone should . There is no pride in being dumb

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And pride goeth before a fall when you feel the need to act superior with a false sense of self-righteousness.

Make sure you don't trip.

Mrschristmasqueen · 26/05/2023 02:53

ThisNameIsNotAvailable · 25/05/2023 22:40

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.

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I mean, they're not wrong are they 🤣

WiddlinDiddlin · 26/05/2023 04:51

JFDIYOLO · 26/05/2023 01:10

It's duck tape, not duct tape. Because duck is a kind of fabric which is the backing to the sticky layer.

Also pterodactyls were not dinosaurs.

It is duct tape, a cloth tape for (originally) sealing joins in heating/air ducts.

However you can buy Duck branded duct tape (along with generic duct tape, Gorilla branded duct tape, a billionty other branded duct tapes).

So it can be both Duck tape AND duct tape. But it is never not duct tape.

Catsmere · 26/05/2023 05:36

UrsulaBelle · 25/05/2023 13:27

With Mauritania, maybe people were conflating Moldova and Transylvania? I used to think Moldova was fictional, but that was Moldovia in Dynasty.

Moldova was spelled Moldavia when it was still under Soviet rule, so it’s not far off.

I always think Monrovia (capital of Liberia) sounds like it should be a country, like Moldavia!

Catsmere · 26/05/2023 05:41

newusernamemumsy · 26/05/2023 00:16

When we sang the kids song in school "dance dance wherever you may be, I am the lord of the dance said he" I always thought it was "the dance settee" (word for couch / sofa) and always pictured Jesus jumping on the couch with a bunch of kids and thought it was great / very irreverent 😂

That gives an added twist to the phrase Jumping Jesus! 🤣

Fink · 26/05/2023 07:08

RunningUpThatMill · 26/05/2023 01:22

I was in my late 20s when I found out that albeit was pronounced as 3 separate words. I studied German at GCSE and just thought it was pronounced 'albite'. I was also in my late 20s when I was told it wasn't Chester drawers, but a chest of drawers. I'm from Yorkshire, and it honestly sounds like Chester drawers in speech, how embarrassing 🤣

I'm similar. I was an adult before I found out that albeit (written) and all be it (oral) were the same word. I had thought they were synonyms but in a different register. Same with epitome and epitomy. And I didn't know how to pronounce fatigue until I was 14 (and roundly mocked by my history teacher when reading out loud the poem Dulce et decorum est).

I agree that Monrovia doesn't sound African, it always confuses me.

Juced · 26/05/2023 07:20

It’s only very recently that I thought Dunkirk was in Scotland and not France 😬

LadyEloise1 · 26/05/2023 07:21

Canthave2manycats · 26/05/2023 01:47

Definitely duct tape! My childminder from years ago used it when shagging my NDN's husband....

Intriguing. Smile
Who told you about the duct tape - the childminder, the ndn or the ndn's husband ?
Did you stay in contact with your child minder or your next door neighbour, neither or both ?

Juced · 26/05/2023 07:23

Bull sharks do in fact live in fresh water their livers enable them to survive in both salt and fresh water 😁

TheHandbag · 26/05/2023 07:25

This thread is proof that the British education system is one of the worst in the world!

The Conservatives have a lot to answer for........

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