What things took you far too long to realise was a, erm... "thing"?

[ChippySauce]

Sorry for awkward title!

I never realised until a couple of years ago (I'm 52 😳) that at the ends of the tubes of foil, clingfilm etc, there are two little tabs you push in to "hold" the roll when you pulled it.

What other "things" can you teach this old dog?

No, sorry I didn’t.
I must have had a life that day, along with half a dozen or so others who also missed that particular klaxon.

WHAAAT?

I used to be a tutor and was always telling children this!

I've always said thing...

I found this out in secondary school, in an A level class, because I pronounced it wrong🥺

It means if you think this, you should think again.

Exactly. Thing makes no sense. What thing?! I assume the mistake partly arose from the fact that the word 'think' comes right before a 'c' sound at the beginning of the next word, so people don't tend to clearly pronounce the 'k' on the end of 'think'.

Whereas these days some people have started the very annoying and stupid somethink. It's something you muppet.

Not table salt though as my neighbour found out years ago.

So is Cardiff.

I didn’t realise for many years that soaps such as Neighbours were Australian. I had imagined Australia as a completely different landscape from England (and I suppose it is, outside the cities). And I didn’t know anybody from Australia, so I wasn’t familiar with the accent,

I also thought for a while that a soap opera was, well… an opera with soap.

there was a thread on this that ran to over 1000 posts a few years ago. 'Thing' say-ers just wouldn't believe it was supposed to be 'think' even when provided with entymological articles, proof, explanations, etc.

Exactly as you say, for the threat of another 'thing' to make any sense there would first have to be a reference to an original 'thing,' which there isn't.
You wouldn't say 'If you think I'm going to XXX, thing again,' which is essentially what is being said, just rephrased.

I got the dishwasher salt. But put it in the trap rather than the salt 😂

Cue trying to clean that out. When I googled and freaked my dishwasher would rust. So then cleaned it with washing up liquid. Which resulted in an explosion of bubbles all over the kitchen.

"going for the chop" is slang for getting a short haircut.

"Going for the snip" is the one for getting a vasectomy.

Be careful what you ask for at the hairdressers. 😆

ASsuming you mean you take the poo sample from the toilet paper you've wiped with rather than the poo itself, I wouldn't have thought it was sensible to do that as I'm sure you'd be more likely to get contamination from blood from piles, or bits of paper messing up the sample?

I agree, it sounds a very odd way to go about it to me.

It is a really tiny sample.

It's still not the way you are supposed to do it, tiny or not.

I have only just realised that the microwave packets you buy (such as rice) can be pulled to open up at the bottom so they don’t fall over in the microwave.

Not surprising really since I bought my first microwave last year and managed fine without it until my early 40’s.

It says in the instructions you can catch the poo in a container or on toilet paper, then take the sample from it, so I'm guessing that's what she means.

On my oven, there's two screws at the sides that hold a metal cap that keeps the glass in place. If you look online, you'll find instructions for your model. It's great when the glass is clean!

Oh okay. I'm not in the UK, our instructions have never mentioned toilet paper (or a container).

I'm sorry for the poo derail, just for clarity these are the NHS instructions.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/bowel-cancer-screening-kit-how-to-use/nhs-bowel-cancer-screening-fit-kit-instructions

Until the past few years, I didn't realise Victorians were called that because they were under the rule of queen Victoria. I know, I know...

Australians from the state of Victoria are also Victorians.