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 😂

The names come from The folk North of the river and The folk South of the river.

Two series that seem as true today as when they were first shown!

I recall a few years ago being amazed to find that Derek Fowlds who played Sir Humphrey's assistant also played Oscat in Heartbeat, he looked so different, and was also a part of the Basil Briush act. Boom boom (for the oldies among us)!

Yes Minister/Prime Minister was definitely a prediction of the Boris era

Ah. I had a kid's globe of the world which was made in two halves, northern and southern hemispheres, so with a kind of lip or rim for the equator, and I remember the southern tip of India being a bit above it.

I put a post earlier about how amusing I found this thread, but with all the extra additions , I have to say I have never laughed so much !! in factlaughing out loud at 12am . I am glad to say I am on my own! My husband is away. Otherwise if I laughed this hard at this time in the morning he would think I had lost the plot!! Thank you ladies for keeping me so so amused. And for the genuine confessions xxx

I found out a week.ago that there is an upper
button above the on/off button on the side of my mobile with which I can adjust the volume. Before I learned this, I thought you had to go into settings to adjust it. I have been carrying a mobile since 1998. For those of you who think I must be really thick not to have realised this was a.volume controller, the truth is I had never noticed it was even a button.

Only recently found out that Cambodia isn't in Africa 🤦🏼‍♀️ I've been to Skegness AND Dunkirk but still think they sound like they should be in Scotland!

@JudgeJ , Italy is a fairly new country and there are various italian dialects and languages.

Cambodia was on the news a lot during the Vietnam war, being right next door to that country. Also later with the murderous Pol Pot dictatorship.

The US pulled out 48 years ago, so mere striplings can be forgiven for not remembering the coverage. Sadly, I'm with you.

This is not a genuine confession as such but a vicarious thingy which made me laugh in the same way as @Greenly3@Greenly3@Greenly3 I found out yesterday by listening to the Jane Garvey and Fi Glover 'Fortunately' podcast on BBC Sounds on catch up that a good friend of Jane Garvey (JG is a former presenter of Woman's Hour) only just discovered that the Battle of Trafalgar was not fought in Trafalgar Square.

(The podcast was first broadcast in July 2020 btw and it's interesting listening to the week by week reality of that terrible year as it unfolded, all in a mostly lighthearted way. Light and dark sort of thing. It feels cathartic in a strange way.)

Ps I have just found out that if you put a fullstop after the person named in an MN post it adds the name again and it is impossible to delete it! Sorry @Greenly3

Chatting to an Indian man the other day about the weather (as you do) and he mentioned he doesn't miss the cold winters at home. I was thinking WTF but apparently Northern India has very cold winters much colder than here and extremely hot summers. In my head it's a hot country, I was very taken aback

I think the ships that took part in the battle of Trafalgar would have needed wheels fitted to get to central London. When the battle of Waterloo happened, trains from Guildford and Staines were suspended for several hours. Queen Victoria got her name because her parents went on their honeymoon from that station, and Paddington was named after a bear in a popular children's book.

@CharlottenBurger , and King's Cross was named after the monarch's bad mood.

As for Saint Pancreas, let's not go there! Too gross. And didn't the Romans name London Bridge after the handily nearby station?

@CharlottenBurger , isn't St Pancreas the station that you use to get to the Isles of Langerhaus?

It may be apocryphal, but during a World Cup recently I saw some stuff on Twitter about someone wondering aloud if the Swedish team were sponsored by IKEA, because they were dressed in the IKEA logo colours.

@JudgeJ Indeed. And I also learnt from an anthropologist who was also a linguist that the broader, flatter vowel sounds in all Latinate languages - including English - reflect the broader, flatter, generally emptier of people landscapes of various countries worldwide and vice versa re vowel sounds.

I noticed it even when living in Australia for a while, obviously much emptier of people than the UK in general terms.

I have read that climate and vegetation may influence language styles, e.g. consonant-thick languages are more likely to develop in open, temperate environments, while consonant-light languages are more likely to be found in lush, hot ecologies.

And more than that, many Italians didn't speak anything like any "standard" form of Italian until after ww2 and the arrival of TV when they learned the language from an American TV host called Mike buongiorno.

Peter O Toilet isn't Irish. He's a bloody Yorkshireman.

Toole, not toilet.

I think I prefer Peter O'Toilet. hasn't he been dead for 10 years?

Loved the Napolitano dialogue in the Netflix adaptations of Elena Ferrante.

Someone please tell me if there's a way to rapidly re-edit mistypings. Anyways
Lawrence of Arabia is a masterpiece
And I don't blame myself for my ignorance, put it down to the glorification of oirishness which o toole clearly tapped into. Surprised he didn't open one of those godawful fake oirish bars in the 80/90s.