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

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Airconfan · 21/09/2026 00:36

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.

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ArcangelaTarabotti · Today 15:50

JeatherLacket · Today 14:39

I've googled and it seems that it's only a universal feature on newer cars, it will be a few years before i can afford one that comes with it as standard but thanks for explaining

Mine is 2018 model - will be getting rid of it soon and will definitely want that feature. I live in an area where they regularly reduce the spas limit for spurious reasons eg 40 to 30 on a dual carriageway and make the new signs deliberately tiny.

ArcangelaTarabotti · Today 15:51

TessTickle0 · Today 15:16

Reminds me of a poster on the door of the toilets in my local pub many years ago.
"The best blow job in town"
It was advertising a hair salon.
My mum made us all laugh one christmas when she was fussing about finding some batteries for her vibrator (turned out she meant a vibrating chair that she put the grandkids in whilst babysitting )

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😂😂😂😂

GarlicSomething · Today 15:51

That it's Her-my-own-ee and not
Hermy-own.

Banjas · Today 16:19

JeatherLacket · 21/09/2026 07:00

What is a UV light supper? And what is turning lights upside down?

Whatever this is is totally unknown to me even now I've read your post😁

You ate not alone 😂

Takethehuntingquiche · Today 16:22

iloveanearlynight · Today 13:36

No, they're wider than long. You're wrong there

Someone further up the thread already corrected me. Still, mind blown

rbe78 · Today 16:30

MagpiePi · 21/09/2026 04:28

Having had to self-catheterise for a while, I realised my urethra is not where I thought it was. The fact that you can get a UTI from PIV sex makes so much more sense now!

Where did you think it was?

quantumbutterfly · Today 16:42

TwinklySquid · Today 08:00

My geography is bad but I thought Budapest and Bucharest were the same place. I thought people just pronounced it differently 🙃

Buda and Pest are the two parts of Budapest, separated by the Danube.

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