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 was far too old before I realised a liquid lunch didn’t mean soup.

I've just had the same conversation with an Indian friend of mine - we're really not poor at all and she was very confused when I turned down her offer of food!

However, iphones never let you type in ill - weirdly.

@underneaththeash I know please can someone find out why with the I phone you cannot type ill it drives me insane🤬 thank you for posting about it!!!

Also thank you to everyone who has written on this thread as I have just had the best time re reading all of these, I am wetting myself with laughter 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Because Apple are evil and smell of poo.

Um .... me too!! 🤣

It took me till middle age to realise that the line 'Can't do this to me baby' in Bohemian Rhapsody wasn't 'Can't you listen to me baby'.

They often have other markings on them too if they've been scanned. Different marks in different areas could mean single lamb/twins/triplets and will differ depending on what the farmer prefers.

That Strictly Come Dancing The Resukts is filmed on Saturday, not live on the Sunday.

And the same with Jools Holland's Hootanany!

That buttermilk does not contain butter!

It took a while bu I was eventually sort of okay with Hootenanny not being live on New Year’s Eve. Then I realised the countdown was probably at some random time in the afternoon. I have never got over that.

However, iphones never let you type in ill - weirdly.

Do they let you type "were", or do they always change it to "we're"?

I have to type the phrase "your A-Levels" quite often. I keep having to change settings on Word on every device to stop it changing "your" to "you're" as soon as I type the "a".

However, iphones never let you type in ill - weirdly.

Ooh, that grinds my gears. When would anyone ever want to type 'He's not coming, he's I'll' or whatever? So illogical.

I've also noticed that whenever I type 'shame' (which I use quite a lot in the context of 'oh, that's a shame' for example), it autocorrects to Shane. There is literally no one in my address book with that name so it's clearly a generic autocorrect, always irritates me.

First-world problems or what, though 😄

I always thought he says 'with my mancheeros' which in my mind is a South American pipe. Obvs not 🤣

I often find out from subtitles that I've been getting song lyrics wrong. Literally for decades I thought the line in Bohemian Rhapsody that goes 'Can't do this to me baby' was 'Can't you listen to me, baby?' (Which also, in my defence, sort of works. 😄)

Just asked DH what he thought Nights in White Satin meant. He also had visions of a guy in chain mail with a white tabard, on a horse 🤣🤣🤣

That artic lorries is just short for articulated lorries and not a term for lorries that only drive on ice and snow

It took me ages to realise that paisley pattern is named after the town of Paisley in Scotland. I have lived near Paisley since 2008.

He's not the only one... 😂

That the holes in the handles of saucepans are for resting cooking spoons/utensils in. I did not know this until my son's HE teacher told him.

I didn't know that! 😂

Like the KKK?

Eh.. they're not. They are for hanging up your sauce pans, if you want to. This is one of those dumb modern 'I was today years old when I learned...' made up bullshit, like the hole in the tab on a can of pop is for holding a straw (nope it just means the metal can be formed back around to strengthen the tab, cheaper way to produce them)... or the gusset lining in knickers is loose so you can hide things between the inner and outer layers... nope, just easier to make them that way

What Widdlin said.

A lot of utensils won't fit in the hole in the handles. If you do get one to fit it's likely to get in the way of other burners on the hob, make the pan unstable, and increase your risk of knocking threpan over. It's not true, and it's an unsafe practice for HE teachers to be suggesting.

No they're not. They're simply for hanging the pan up.