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What dumb thing has taken you forever to realise?

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muchalover · 26/08/2023 19:45

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.

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Tinytigertail · 27/08/2023 09:54

allthehops · 26/08/2023 19:52

Bloody hell. All these years I've been imagining actual knights, on horseback, dressed in white satin robes 😂😂😂

Me too!

GreenMarigold · 27/08/2023 09:56

I was in my 20s when I realised I’d been mishearing ‘artics’ all my life. I assumed they were refrigerated lorries so called ‘arctics’ - as opposed to articulated.

JoanThursday · 27/08/2023 09:57

Many tubes of cream or gel have a pointy bit in the lid. Flip the lid to pierce the foil on the top of the tube.

Happened to do this in front of my very intelligent, very switched on 75yo old dad. He was amazed.

Tinytigertail · 27/08/2023 09:59

ClaraBourne · 26/08/2023 21:50

That the little piggy going to market wasn't going shopping.😥

Shock
Whatswhatwhichiswhich · 27/08/2023 10:00

That frozen yogurt was actually yogurt that was frozen. The amount of times I ate it and wondered what it was really made of, I thought it was just called frozen yogurt because of the texture. It wasn’t until I froze some frubes that the penny dropped, I was mid 20s 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

dutysuite · 27/08/2023 10:03

Hollyisalrightactuallysorry · 27/08/2023 07:50

Trombolese....

🤣😂

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 27/08/2023 10:03

Redavocadoes · 26/08/2023 21:22

"You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
With 5 hundred children, and a crop in the field"

Eventually I realised it was 5 hungry children...

'......loose heel'!

Makinguseofthethingsthatwefind · 27/08/2023 10:03

Jennatron5000 · 27/08/2023 02:20

Like this

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😳

AInightingale · 27/08/2023 10:04

That recliner sofas have levers that mean they can be broken down easily for removal. Spent hours with my dad once and a box of spanners trying to dismantle one for the council Christ we just needed to slide two things at the back and lift the seats out! Can't believe I was so dense.

Bernadinetta · 27/08/2023 10:09

Threenow · 27/08/2023 09:38

I'm not disputing the use of the word "Great", merely pointing out that you were incorrect when you said the same competition in other countries wouldn’t be the Great Spanish Bake Off or the Great Canadian Bake Off.

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I meant they wouldn’t have been called that if the Great British Bake Off hadn’t come first and they had been imitating it.

ididntwanttodoit · 27/08/2023 10:28

Oh no! I've always thought it was "knights". I always imagined a Crusades-type scenario.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 27/08/2023 10:33

@Highdaysandholidays1 , I can only have been about 6, but I thought what a weird name Peen-lope was, when I saw it in the cloakroom, by a peg for the new intake’s coats. It was ages before I heard it pronounced.

Also as a kid, I really liked the Fucksia fairy in my flower fairies book. Again it was ages before I realised - after an aunt very hastily corrected me. ‘No, dear, it’s called a fyousha.’

lupinlass · 27/08/2023 10:46

I once thought gazebo was pronounced gaze bow.

And Versace was verse ace not ver-sar-chee

Said them out loud too!!

highlandcoo · 27/08/2023 10:48

Just remembered another from when I was very young. We used to play in a park with a statue my mum called the warm emorial. A soldier with a gun on a plinth. I did work it out a couple of years later.

BlinkyTheFish · 27/08/2023 10:54

Mallorca and Majorca are the same place.

😳

BlinkyTheFish · 27/08/2023 11:13

@OriginalAuntViv monopoly is from the Greek meaning “single” and “to sell”

VisionsOfSplendour · 27/08/2023 11:20

JudgeJ · 26/08/2023 22:54

I keep wondering how long it will be before this same topic comes up, must be at least a couple of months since the last one!

More like a couple of weeks and exactly the same posts as all the hundreds of other ones 😀

One day someone might actually post something new, I do wonder though if a lot of these are made up or copied from previous threads

How often do people come across the worf hyperbole written down? Are they really multiple people who dont know how dandelions work 😂

VisionsOfSplendour · 27/08/2023 11:26

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 27/08/2023 08:32

The funniest thing about this thread is it's got exactly the same realisations on it that these threads always have Grin There's one about every 6 months. There are two of the usual things missing from this one though. Where are all the people who thought that the Channel Tunnel went through the water rather than under the ground and the ones who thought that all Centreparks locations were under a big bubble?

You're also forgetting cling film boxes and baby vests 😃

RCOR · 27/08/2023 11:29

I don't think this one has been mentioned.

That it's 'making ends meet', as in stretching your finances and not 'making ends meat' which is some kind of butcher shop cheap offcut as I thought as a child😆

Also, it was only this year I found out that George Michael had "Guilty feet" and not "Guilty feelings".

BaroldandNedmund · 27/08/2023 11:29

WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps · 26/08/2023 22:25

@iwantawisteriathisyear

I only realised recently that thunder and lightning weren't two completely separate things. I didn't know that the thunder was the noise of the lightning. I haven't confessed that to anyone. Until now ...

I must admit that I thought this HAS to be made up ...

But I googled 'is thunder the noise of lightning?' and you are right! Shock What the ever living fuck??? How have I gone nearly 60 years without knowing this??????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of my primary school teachers told me that the lightening split the clouds open and the thunder was them banging back together. And I’m cynical enough to believe that she really thought that. I hope things have improved since the 1970s but I haven’t seen any convincing evidence!

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 27/08/2023 11:33

You're also forgetting cling film boxes and baby vests 😃

Ooh yes, I forgot about those! The 'trombolese' one is always the most popular though!

JamiesTurkeyTwizzler · 27/08/2023 11:34

I also thought Yosemite was Yose - mite. It was a revelation when I heard it pronounced correctly.

Also Bicester being Bister and not Bi-cester

After Peter Kays misheard song lyrics sketch I can't hear 'begging you for mercy' anymore. It's definitely 'begging you for bird seed'

VisionsOfSplendour · 27/08/2023 11:47

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 27/08/2023 11:33

You're also forgetting cling film boxes and baby vests 😃

Ooh yes, I forgot about those! The 'trombolese' one is always the most popular though!

It's a dead heat with Nights in White Satins I'd say. For a song thats well over 50 years old I'm quite surprised so many people even know it nowadays

MNetcurtains · 27/08/2023 12:04

kinderbuenoyum · 26/08/2023 23:26

It is isn't it? Just another name for the Netherlands?

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It's a region in The Netherlands. Like Yorkshire in England for example.

MNetcurtains · 27/08/2023 12:21

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 26/08/2023 23:34

No, it's a region of the Netherlands. Calling the cointry Holland is a bit like calling the UK 'Yorkshire'.

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Oh, gawd. Didn't RTHT before giving my answer🙄

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