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 😂

For some reason, as a child, I thought the second line of Onward Christian Soldiers was "Marching up the wall...."

I also thought that the last line of Away In a Manger was "and stay by my bedside " instead of "side."

I am 99% sure we sang “bedside” too. It just scans better!

I always found the image of silent, uncrying newborn baby Jesus very disturbing as well.

That is where Essex, Wessex and Middlesex come from. Fuck knows what happened to Nossex, I assume it was part of the Danelaw and got renamed

@Saschka me too! It was surely 'bedside' at my school and I will continue with that whenever I hear/sing it.

Was also a bit disturbed by the silent baby Jesus! One of my daughters played baby Jesus in a live nativity at 1month old. She was not silent

And so clearly not baby Jesus

omg me too I never new this either every days a school day on mumsnet!
I'm off to the kitchen cupboard now to inspect my foil and clingfilm boxes.
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Let me know how you get on. I have known this for years but still can't get the roll to stay in place!*

Here's one that I can't accept but it's true. Edinburgh is further west than Bristol. It makes me boggle.

Decided recently to look at the lyrics to "Come On Eileen" (random moment when I realised what I was singing made no sense)

So apparently it isn't "Our mothers cried, Sign along wallpaper" but the rather more boring "Our mothers cried, Sang along, who'd blame them"

I cannot sing the correct words after nearly 40 years, my brain won't accept it. Plus they all looked like they lived in a squat and wrote cool stuff on the walls - made sense to me at the time

That people keep millipedes as pets.

Admittedly not recently, but learnt this when I moved to the UK

Norfolk= North Folk
Suffolk= South Folk

😂 I love this. To be honest I didn't know what half the lyrics were either (its one of those songs you just belt out the chorus imo), but I didn't get sign along wallpaper though 😂

I had however, been singing along to Billy Jean wrong for 50 years...

I honestly thought it was Billie Jean is at my door..
When it is in fact Billie Jean is not my lover.

I still cannot sing the correct lyrics. It is not right in my mind either....

No way!? Bleugh! I have a morbid fear of millipedes (and centipedes & earwigs).

You're not James Hacker, are you?

I hate to ask this but.... who is James Hacker? This could be something else I only find out today! 😃

My brother discovered the other day that make kangaroos don't have pouches. He knew the purpose of the pouch, but just presumed male ones were redundant.

that reminds me I want to order Yes Minister dvds!

James Hacker MP was the (fictional) minister in Yes, Minister, and prime minister in Yes, Prime Minister (1908s TV comedy series).

The character of Sir Humphrey Appleby was his very wily Civil Servant assistant in both series.

"Assistant"? Not sure if that's how Jim Hacker would have put it

Very embarrassed about this but only last weekend when we got takeaway from our local Asian place i saw a slow cook option on the menu and thought to myself, how strange when it advertises as pan Asian. The penny eventually dropped. Thank goodness this is anonymous

Was it meant to be 'pan-Asian' with a hyphen?

It did actually have a hyphen. But I still interpreted it as Asian food pan fried as opposed to all- Asian food.

My geography isn't usually too bad, but it blew my mind just a year or two ago to find out that India lies entirely within the Northern Hemisphere 🤯

Exactly, all countries have variations in pronunciation, just like in the UK!