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.

I don't honestly remember, I was too grossed out to even think about it!! thinking about it now, logically, maybe they were just thick slices of tongue??

or, as you say, the tongue from a much smaller animal, I don't know what? The first time the twins must've been about.15 months old, the tongues were huge, but nothing like an actual cows full size tongue...

We lost touch many years ago, so I can't even ask her, or her children.

I wonder how big a lamb's tongue is? I lived in New Zealand at the time so lamb would seem like a reasonable thing for it to have been.??

LIke Strathaven

Unless you actually took notice of this at school; it’s perfectly reasonable not to know.

I don’t find the workings of a woman’s body all that interesting to be honest. The minute I started my periods I started looking forward to menopause. I was never going to have kids so it didn’t matter how it all worked.

That is another level of mental. Gnaw on a tongue 🪅
But as another poster said, I just thought slices of tongue was just a funny kind of ham as well 🤣.
A little bit of what u don't know, and all that.
Throwing a kid a whole tongue tho, to work away on, that is 🤯🙈🤮

I found out that you don't put your thumb inside your fist when you want to engage in the noble art of pugilism. Or punch somebody.

🤣🤣🤣

she sounds like a right character!!

Yeah, it was all of those emojis!! especially for a very young teen who wanted to be a vegetarian (but parents wouldn't let me) & I went vegetarian as soon as I moved out of home. So it was added.🤢🤮

She is not being awful.
It is hugely worrying that there are adults who do not know this most basicc biological fact.

It opens the airways & gullet.

Back to the bladder/vagina thing. I'm sure that some time ago (years, rather than weeks) we had the same discussion, and a couple of posters asserted that actually they had the medical condition of the urethra discharging into the vagina. Very very rare, they said, but true in their case. Does anyone else remember?

No, but it's a definite thing. Equivalent of hypospadias in boys. Doesn't do any harm but can make infections more likely - and confuse medics!

That when you call a lorry an artic it’s short for articulated it doesn’t mean it drives to North/ South Pole or Greenland to deliver goods 😄

I was in my 40s before I knew narwhals were real, and like you, my children told me they were real. In fairness, I hadn't even heard of them til my late 30s!

She was shaming that poster. It is awful to shame someone for a lack of education, one which a huge number of women have. You want to fix it? Then have these conversations openly with girls when they are young. Don’t shame adults who were not afforded that education.

Oooooh, I've got another one. I thought (and so did my DH and DC) up to about 15 years ago, that Buffalo Wings were made from actual buffalo, (like beef.)

Didn't know they were just chicken, and the Buffalo Wings recipe originated in Buffalo New York, State.

My granny once presented us with a whole cow’s tongue on a platter. With mashed potatoes. It was delicious as long as I didn’t look at it or think about it too much.

I did not know this !I'm always being strangled by seat belt And thought it would probably decapitate me if I was in a crash.

Wait, what?

@FlorenceBlack @fivepastmidnight @Aposterhasnoname I think it very much depends on your vehicle. My dad's car had adjustable seatbelts 20 years ago. My current car does not!

Read Invisible Women for more fun facts like decapitating seatbelts 😭

Just to complete the set, are you a Young Earth Creationist who refutes evolution?

I was nearly 30 when I had a hangover and someone handed me a berrocca. I was in Australia. Never heard of them really. But I took it and put it straight in my mouth....I walked off rather quickly and headed for the bathroom 😄😄. Bloody thing was fizzing up... could have been dangerous if I'd swallowed any I suppose. Hilarious.

But.... you can drink a berroca can't you?

But she didn’t dissolve it. She at the thing and would have had it fizzing all the way down and fizzing in her stomach 😆

I've been a few times, it's fascinating. Any recommendations on novels?

I found this out in my late 40’s when watching the Octonauts with my mindees.