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?

This is a fascinating thread!

Ugh...this has been answered at least twice. Use your eyes and look.

That holding the shift key whilst hitting a letter on the keyboard makes it a capital letter. I've literally been hitting caps for years and have also worked in Admin for years and got higher Admin.

Have to say that as an observer to your back-and-forth with @DappledThings there you are the one who appears to be getting uptight. Looks like you are a little embarrassed at having your mistake pointed out to you 🤣

I had 3 DC and didn't know this until I became a grandparent.

Lost property...

That the velux sky light windows flip all the way round and then have a little catch to hold it in place so you can clean the outside! Had no idea til seeing a TikTok.

It is in Latin, though. It comes from ‘munera’ which means (amongst other things) a gift or recompense.

That Eeyore in Winne the Pooh is the sound a donkey makes.

I'm sitting here rather amused that so many MNers don't actually know where NZ is 😃Maybe it's because it's not uncommon for us to be left completely off maps!

I was about 40 before I realised that. I considered myself well read! And I was, really, I just hardly ever saw that word written down anywere and if I saw it in a work document or something assumed it was a typo. I still secretly think it's a typo from waaayy back, which has somehow stuck. 😆Because numeral, numerator, numeracy. I mean, stand to reason the letters got switched round, right?!

oh, just seen other posts discussing this. Interesting!

Excuse me, they do!

Whaaaaaaat?

This!!

Late summer is not usually chilly in NZ, you must have been here in a bad year (although this year summer is a write-off altogether in some parts of the country, unfortunately including where I am).

OH DEAR, 😷

I did that. Not for the faint hearted and especially if you throw away a lot of cold black coffee.

By who? the Chuckle Brothers?

When I was a kid I thought you couldn't go back to your car before 2 hours. I thought it was to stop all the inconvenience of the to-ing and fro-ing! 😆

Surely this cannot be true?

They definitely do!

the one that blows my mind( and I only realised my mistake when I was on a similar thread ) but when you say something like " if you think.i am going to do that you have another THINK coming ".
All my life I have said you have another THING coming.
I still can't say it right and it won't compute in my brain at all.

That you don't peel the foil off Oxo cubes and crumble it with your fingers.

You pull out the corner flaps then flatten it with your thumb whilst in the foil so it becomes 'pillow' shaped. You then squidge the sides. You then tear off a small corner and pour the granules in.

Years getting it under fingernails until I learnt that one 😂

Edited to add - it's basically a pourable pouch

I don't think this has always been a thing. I first heard of this when Ant and Dec said it a few years back on I'm a Celeb. It's pretty stupid, because if it's something which goes in a full circle, as soon as you're looking at it from quarter past three (or 90 degrees) it's moving left. But it's tightening it. It's only when you start at 12 o'clock position that the lefty lucy crap works.

I don't know what's wrong with clockwise and anti clockwise, but then I suppose this marks me out as old and understanding what analogue clocks are, as opposed to having only been brought up with digital.

Sorry that was about the lefty lucy righty tighty thing.