What dumb thing has taken you forever to realise?

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Nights in white satin song was playing in the car today. A favourite song of mine so I was singing along and it dawned on me that the word is "nights," not "knights".

Whole song makes much more sense now 😳

I had a similar issue with "Toyota, the car in front" but it's a Nissan I'm behind (or other car brand).

And in the film Winnie the Pooh where the gopher says "I'm not in the book" and I thought it was the phone book😬 for decades!

I promise I'm intelligent.

I have no idea why dark ages are called that 😗!

There's a difference between articulated (artic) lorries and The Arctic circle ...

Re however many children Lucille had, I was a kid when the song came out.

My Mum used to listen to Radio 2 at the time and I remember Terry Wogan used to play the song a lot.

I'm sure he used to change the lyrics which might be why so many of us misremember them. I think we are remembering Wogan's version instead of the original.

That if someone was ‘helping police with their inquiries’ they are a police suspect. I thought that they were being helpful! 😂

Not always. It can be someone being genuinely helpful.

Jeez. Me too.

Umm…

@Mushroo Haven’t you heard of the mini trombone…the ‘Trombolese’? Similar to a tenor Sax, but slightly less cool 😆

I found out the song was Nights in White Satin when I bought This Is the Moody Blues as a young teen. I was so disappointed I put a K on the label.

It was years before I realised Yosemite doesn't rhyme with Vegemite and that it's the word in the name Yosemite Sam, which I'd only heard on telly.

I didn't realise the Chuckle Brothers were actually brothers. I thought it was just really good casting.

That the Great British Bake Off is called that because it takes place in Great Britain. Not because it is Great (in its meaning of either really good, or very large). So the same competition in other countries wouldn’t be the Great Spanish Bake Off or the Great Canadian Bake Off. The “great” is part of the country name, not part of the competition name (see also other competitions such as Great British Sewing Bee, Great British Menu or other saying such as “Ahh, the Great British summertime!” etc”).

Essentially it's a misnomer for the post-Roman period in Western Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)

@truthhurts23
It's both, the A-Z and a smiley face 😊

No way!! I thought a trombolese was some kind of instrument

So how is it that I am watching The Great Australian Bake Off at the moment?

Yorkshire follk would love that, they genuinely think they’re from God’s own country.

Lol!

In the great British Menu the bit with the judge looking through cards as if they are deciding who gets points are all filmed at the start of the series and just fitted in to the episodes with that chef.

You can tell because sometimes the chef is wearing different clothes, llike short sleeves or a jacket that buttons on the other side.

The pub quiz once was in uproar because the questionner would not allow the Netherlands as a correct answer as his sheet said Holland, took a long time to convince him.

Oh the days before phones and the internet there was uproar when the question asked was, "What year was Elizabeth II crowned?" and then going through the answers asked, "What year did Elizabeth II become queen?"

I never realised that either and I’m in my 60’s.

For years I misheard the Dad's Army theme song, but my words were actually more in keeping with the subject.

Where the songs goes:

Mr. Brown goes off to town on the eight twenty-one,
But he comes home each evening and he's ready with his gun.

...I heard:

Mr. Brown goes off to town and he ain't twenty-one,
But he comes home each evening and he's ready with his gun.

I’m sure they had a video with knights on horseback on it..

Another song lyric one.

The sugababes were not singing, "I'm a hoover in the red dress"

But "cause I'm cooler in the red dress".

Discovered that 3 weeks ago.

Yup, remember the same video. That why we are thinking of knights

So , not until I took the kids to a safari park in my '40's and saw the different enclosures ,did it shamefully dawn on me that a lion and a tiger were actually.............. different animals 😭

I thought all lions were female and had manes and tigers didn't and were male!
Years before ,I'd vaguely mused "Lion King....hmmm,that's a bit odd,why not Lion Queen ?"
Even now,when I hear the Lionesses or see
The Tiger King - I think,well,yeah obviously 🙄

I had a pretty good education so have zero idea how this happened!!!

@Poivresel They are!

Have you never travelled around the Moors and Dales of Yorkshire, or along the coast, even many of the towns and villages are enchanting. Most of all, the people may be a little too direct and honest for todays folk, but the vast majority of them have hearts of gold.

No, I am not from Yorkshire (unfortunately), I am from a county south of the Watford Gap!
IMO the only other place in this World to rival Yorkshire is a Country not very far north of it.
Scotland. When you get to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland you have found Heaven. Unfortunately, the population can be a very mixed bunch, and often not as welcoming to tourists as the Yorkshire people tend to be - well not English tourists anyway!

I await being shot down in flames, but before I am, may I please add an addendum? Once you start having a proper conversation with a Scot you are usually quickly accepted into their fold - but of course not into their Clan...