What dumb thing has taken you forever to realise?

[muchalover]

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.

Catsmere · Today 12:56

Ye gods, I had to google "spin class" and it sounds atrocious!

It's vigorous cycling, so if you don't like that, I suppose it's horrendous!

It was more the description of blaring music and an instructor shouting that put me off - the worst of all worlds! (Not that I could do any sort of bike exercises, bicycle seats and I do not get along.)

It was more the description of blaring music and an instructor shouting that put me off...

Ah, fair dos!

👍🙂

@GeorgeSpeaks

Jesus - same here with the Flo Rida thingy. Only realised it when he joined in a Eurovision entry! I was thinking Oh there's Flo Rida, Florida Oh!

Golf is an acronym
Gentlemen
Only
Ladies
Forbidden

I was in my 30s before I realised that if you can see white lights on a car then it's coming towards you (either headlights or reversing lights)

This is untrue.

This week on a work trip to Birmingham I was told that canals don't have a current. This is why boats go both ways along them. So many things about canals make more sense to me now!

Love it… I'm a copyeditor and I might start using this example when people try to tell me (as they frequently do) that punctuation doesn't matter. 😄

I think a capital C on 'Common' would be the main clue!

As @VictoriaVenkman says that's not true.

Almost all '[Word] is an acronym' claims are false unless they relate to technology invented after the mid 20th century.

Boats also go both ways on rivers.

Otherwise all rivers would have a massive pile of boats at 1 end.

And canals do have currents - they are just very slow.

But you can't hear the capital C in the song! I refuse to believe I am this dim, even though the evidence clearly points to the contrary! 😂

That we do no have a functioning government, rather it is actually an organised criminal gang.

Not me but my mother - always thought the Abba song Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man After Midnight) was a ladder 'til midnight - and she couldn't understand why they needed one!

Watching the Commonwealth Games last year and I suddenly realised that Commonwealth = common wealth. I am a huge sports fan and have been watching those games since I was 5.

I am worried people think I am more dumb than I actually am! I would like to clarify that I had only ever heard the song, not studied the lyrics. 😂

@LittleGreyGoose me too; I had a bag of marbles and I knew they hadn’t cost very much. I thought Lord Elgin had managed to fool a lot of grownups.

Tanga briefs…

I used to pass the back of a funeral directors every day on my walk to school. They’d often be preparing the hearse for a funeral and there was a little plaque next to where the coffin went with Michael A Laurence on. I would marvel at the fact that in such a small town, so many men with the same name, down to the middle initial were dying. Took too long for me to realise it was the name of the funeral directors, not a plaque with the name of the deceased on!

It's because he pauses as if there's a comma or full stop.

The Wombles of Wimbledon__ Common are we.

Not just 'the Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we.'

I thought for years that the girl's name was pronounced Penehloap, I thought it sounded such a strange name when I encountered it in a book. 😕

That in parliament, ayes to the right and no’s to the left wasn’t actually 👀 to the right and 👃🏻 to left

I thought it was just me!!I thought they were two different types of plant but called dandelions. I was 46 when I learned.