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.

"Where are all the people who thought that the Channel Tunnel went through the water rather than under the ground"

To be fair, as a child I travelled many times on the train beneath the Mersey, convinced that the water was sloshing around and above us just outside the tunnel. 😳 Well, I did until my mum explained, she thought it was hilarious. 😅

@DavesSpareDeckChair OMG I'm HOWLING at trombo lease 🤣😂🤣 thank you

I was 38 when I discovered it's not illegal to use the toilet when a plane is on the ground or a train is in the station.

That Liam is short for William. I know it’s taken me nearly 50yrs to work that one out. All the Williams I know are either Will, Willy or Bill.

I think you pulled that one out of your simian posterior.

Yes, me too! (Although I always read it as "eppy-tome".)
I also say the word pretty frequently!!

Not forever but several years..... our tin opener..... me and DP have been using it wrong for years! DS14 actually showed us how it worked 😂😂

Song lyrics: Oh a tree in motion instead of poetry in motion.
mizzled instead of misled.

This is my misunderstanding of my DD’s misunderstanding from when she was about 4 up until relatively recently. She’s now 21 and an English graduate (this is relevant!).

For years my DD would say “can I have a No-ville-ity?” (Just spelling it phonetically). And I’d say “what is a No-ville-ity?”. Increasingly frustrated she’s say “you KNOW - a NO-VILLE-ITY!!!”. Every year at Christmas but particularly at birthday times at the age of 4/5/6 she’d plead with me to have a No-ville-ity but be unable to really describe what it was. There were tantrums (not just mine), drama and devastation about the lack of a No-ville-ity. Me and DH puzzled over it and even asked at school if this thing that seemed so important was a school thing we didn’t know about. They were mystified too.

Then years later with the demand having subsided but the mystery still remaining we were in town (when she was about 17) and she suddenly stopped me and grabbed my arm and said “look see - No-ville-ity!” And there on the other side of the street was a shop selling party tat, called “Novelty”, the shop had always been there and she’d seen it as a small child and thought it was a sophisticated word for the sort of party she wanted, an upgrade from the usual pass the parcel. It was at that moment she connected up her “no-ville-ity” with the word novelty.

Honestly we are both quite bright 😬

Wrong! Thunder is the sound created by the lightning bolt. To the observer it seems to follow some time after the lightning flash because the speed of sound is much slower than the speed of light.

@muchalover bloody hell op. Mind blown right now! Makes so much more sense

I totally thought it was Knights in White Satin too. 😳

My-zuhld, surely?

And me.... always thought it was trombolese!!!

I was about to type a smug post about all you idiots saying it is ‘nights in white satin’… then googled it… I CANNOT believe it is not knights 😂😂😂

I also, until this post, said ‘epitomy’ but read ‘epitome’ as it is spelled.

Is my whole life a lie?

Not me; but my friend kept asking why don’t private ambulance’s windows in them we all laughed at her & thought she was going potty but then I was driving her to hospital one day & she said look a bloody private ambulance it has no windows; I roared with laughter so much tears were streaming down my face; I had to explain to her it was an undertakers van that collects the dead bodies & that no patients in there would be worried about the view on their journey; she was mortified that she had never known about it when we met friends later I was in stitches S she tried to explain it to them 😂

We skipped a light fandango. A fandango is a lively Spanish dance.

I thought Hull Kingston Rovers was Hulkingston Rovers as in there was a place called Hulkingston…

Don't leave us all hanging! What sort of tin opener, and how were you using it?

What a laugh! That was exactly me! Knights in shining white satin armour etc!! We were obviously absolutely bonkers 😂

Until recently, I thought the line in Lucille by Kenny Rodgers said:

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
400 children 😮 and a crop in the field

It is: 4 Hungry children 🙈

@cakeorwine but i know quite a few dutch people and they all call their country 'Holland' no matter what part they're from 😵‍💫 I'm confused now

Is "Holland" the Same Place as "the Netherlands"? | Britannica

"People often use the terms "Holland" and "the Netherlands" interchangeably, but they don't match up exactly. The official name of the northwestern European land of tulips and windmills is "Koninkrijk der Nederlanden," or Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was founded in 1579 as a union of various provinces and cities who resisted rule by the Spanish.

One of these provinces was the province of Holland (now divided into Noord [North] Holland and Zuid [South] Holland), which originated in the 12th century as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire.

Even after the provinces of the Netherlands united, Holland was still the dominant region. The cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague are in the Hollands. Thus, a lot of the economic and political dealings outside countries had were with the Hollands, and the name "Holland" continues to be popular with foreigners."

The phrase “ great weather for ducks”:
lots of rain causes duck’s feathers to be heavy making it difficult for them to fly . This means they are easier to shoot!
So the saying actually means it’s good weather for “shooting” ducks. Not that ducks like the rain!

A useful video showing Netherlands vs Holland