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 😂

How to do this

People in West Yorks often refer to Pontefract and Castleford, which is next door, as Cas Vegas and Ponte Carlo. Pontefract is famous for liquorice and has a (ruined) castle(hence the motif stamped on Pontefract cakes). It’s also in the Wakefield district famous for Yorkshire rhubarb. Hope that helps us remember why it’s not Welsh in future!

There's a Dunkirk in Nottingham too. Industrial suburb between the University and Lenton. Location of the legendary Black Orchid nightclub 😂

Do tell. I've only seen it on this thread. Is it a new thing?

I laughed at my mum and dad when they said they were going on holiday to skegness (nothing against it) in the winter as they love the sun until they said it was a place in the maldives called skegness 🤣🤣

I work in a large city law firm. Until this year, I thought ‘fintech’was something to do with Scandinavia

I think this kind of pedantry misses the point and spirit of the lyrics. At the time the song was released, we'd seen the pictures of places such as Ethiopia of children dying thanks to drought and famine. The point the song was making surely was that (even for those Ethiopians who are Christians) on the 25th December they are hardly looking around at some traditional Christmas scene thinking "great, Santa's been, when's the turkey being served?" It's not that they are ignorant of snow and Christmas, it's just it hardly seems relevant when your child is starving.

Oh and I thought Benidorm was just a to show. I've never seen it, to be fair.

I did, too. That's what happens though when its been sometime.
My mind tends to go to the gutter. 😂

I didn't know that you could get it pre perforated.

Another poster found a little techie quirk to do with 3x ~

I'm pretty sure it'll be killed dead by 09.30 hours

That'll be that Roger Hargreaves fellow, him and his Mister Men books.

Rod Campbell is responsible for three generations thinking that lion and tigers live in the same place as seen in "It's Mine!"

There may be a few Dunkirks, but did no one think it was odd that 300,000 plus allied soldiers had to be evacuated from a home nation?!

I sympathise with the Apennine/Pennine confusion, I did that too, and the Appalachians with the Apennines. Also used to have to think really hard before speaking when talking about the Atlantic or Pacific coast of the USA because I used to confuse them.

@Tirtytreeandaturd

🙌 me too… It’s a whole new world ‘down there’ lately!! 😳

I thought Mount Everest was in England.

Many years ago there was an ad on TV where they sang in a west country accent, 'Coates comes up from Somerset, where the cider apples grow'.

My childhood was spent daydreaming of getting a coach to see the rabbles. It sounded so wonderful.

Apologies I misread your post. I read it as you didn't know where Durham was. And I ended up drunksplaining to you. I'm feeling v embarassed. I think I need to put down the sauce and go to bed now!

This is my favourite 'penny only just dropped' post France is Bacon

Yes, “without” used to be used to mean “opposite to within” quite a lot, but it’s old fashioned now. I think the hymn books were updated!

These days most people are unfamiliar with the old meaning of the word. Unless you live in the town of Beverley which has a road called North Bar Within and North Bar Without, depending on whether you’re inside or outside the North Bar, which is an ancient gate to the town.

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Yep - I assumed it was His official title “Peter God” 😂😂

I also thought Dunkirk was in the UK, couldnt decide on Northern Ireland or Scotland, I was really surprised to see it on Google maps in France!

Me neither. How did I not know this?

Brought is a common one I have at least 3 friends who use it incorrectly 🤣

My heart actually skipped a beat and I had to reread the post because I thought they were saying that the actual meaning referred to sex. And was thinking of the the number of people I've been saying Happy Hump Day! to