What obvious adult discoveries made you feel a bit of a plonker?

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What’s something you learnt as an adult that made you think that’s completely obvious and yet I have never considered that….i feel like a bit of a plonker?

Mine was when taking tablets, the more you drink with it the better it will dissolve. I think alot of tablets are testing with the assumption people will drink 250ml alongside it.

When you realise that the slices of tongue you got in a salad in the 70s & 80s were in fact slices of tongue 🤨
Ignorance is bliss as they say

Holland's a geographical region and former province of the Netherlands.

Holland is just one part of the Netherlands.

Well yes, me too, but I was replying to the poster who said it's a good thing that we are more open about women's bodies these days, as if we weren't taught it in school

You should tell him that the injury you can cause if one gets stuck can be catastrophic. Burning a hole in your oesophagus will change his life, and not for the better. He really shouldn't risk it, all works OK,.. until it doesn't

I have heard the expression used jokingly to describe a surgically enhanced cleavage to be fair!

Anyone interested in this might want to read: https://www.csun.edu/~vcgeo005/bogus.html

Isn't it the opposite, though? Animal rights campaigners put out the message that cows have to keep on having calves continuously, with all of the calves being destroyed so that the milk that was meant for them is available for humans - when in reality, after having just one calf (which, granted, may well not have a very nice future ahead of it, especially if male), a cow can keep on giving milk indefinitely as long as she keeps being milked?

I knew because my mum explained things when I was pretty young. But playground talk was quite confusing and it was definitely not covered in biology class in my school in the 70s & 80s.

When I found out that all cows are female.

And more recently all chickens🤣

So how come it smells the same when you turn on a tap or shower in Egypt (where the water is heavily chlorinated to sterilize it)? (Other places too no doubt, but I've been to Egypt).

I did not know that you lean forward and hold your nose when you have a nose bleed, not backwards.

I have been cleaning my teeth using a method which has been out of date for 20 years, and rinsing my teeth.

I thought my local laundrette was called Dr Clean for many years before they finally redid the lettering.

That cous cous isn't a grain, it's a type of pasta.

So why do supermarkets always shelve it with the grains and pulses?!

As in the 80s band Sig-way Sig-way Sputnik

I only found out fairly recently that when a woman squirts when aroused it's mainly diluted urine...😳

Me too. Never heard this before and I’m old

Sorry, that must have been terrifying and - I hope - nobody was hurt... but the mental picture of the oven door being blown off is hilarious! Like something out of Wallace & Gromit!

Oh right - so my grandad's story about the oxen wagging their tails in buckets of water was a complete fabrication then! (No wonder I didn't like the soup - used to wonder what else they might have wagged in it.)

What was the laundrette called then?

What??!

Just to say that chewing and swallowing aspirin is not the correct thing for a heart attack. You need 75mg soluble aspirin under the tongue. That way, it is absorbed by the blood vessels there very much more efficiently that anything via the stomach.

Why do they always put the jaffa cakes with the biscuits and not with the other cakes?!

Talking of which, I only found out relatively recently that, apparently, you're meant to eat jaffa cakes with the chocolate side down... it had never occurred to me not to eat it with the chocolate side on top!

I'm assuming it was Dry Clean.
(Am I right @Mouldemort ?)😊

I assumed it just said 'Dry Clean' but the 'y' had fallen off?!

Used to think that people having their eyebrows blown off when the gas oven explodes was acting seen in comic films, until my husband tried to light our ancient gas cooker, in a rental in Spain years ago. The bang brought forth many curious neighbours!