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 think this topic needs to be clarified:
You can warm up unopened tins as long as you put them in the water. Water obviously never gets above 100C. That's how you make dulce de leche, boil an unopened tin of condensed milk for a few hours.
But you have to be really careful not to let the water boil off, because then indeed the tins will explode. Same in the oven.

Sounds like heaven! 😍

And there is no 'p' in hamster.

Me too! Particularly breast enhancement.

Green peppers, red, orange, yellow peppers are the same thing! Just at different stages of ripeness.

Coldstream is a place? Is that where the Coldstream Guards come from?

They stay there, guarding it.

Allergin is gin that has an adverse effect on some of us.

Yes it is, and it is the most underwhelming town I have ever visited. The "high street" has two or three shops, we only saw one open cafe and the place had no atmosphere at all. There is a lovely viewpoint in a park where you can overlook the river Tweed, and an interesting museum which covers the history of the town and the Coldstream guards.

I will never get those few hours back though.

I like the cut of your jib.

How could I forget a tin opener? I use mine at least once a week, how are you opening tins without ring pulls?

I'm pretty sure that's not true, it's always comes up on threads like this and it's not the case for all of the colours

Ah OK, I don't open many tins but I thought they all had ring pulls these days

Don't like spangles or Parma violets but I'd eat anything offered as wasn't fed right or often. You can get something near to Pacers in Poundland so occasionally I get them. I remember the sweet tattoo as well.

Oh God I loved those, the chocolate ones.

Bazooker Joes. The tattoos never worked for me.

It's true

With a tin opener?

Sharpened flint.

Green and red peppers are the same but at various stages of ripeness according to Google, however yellow and orange peppers are different to the green/red ones.

Yes that's it ! Thanks, fellow time traveller. :)

Not according to the BBC

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/glossary/pepper-glossary

Not all of the ones I buy have ring pulls, I opened a tin of chick peas just today with a tin opener

Some still don’t. Bough three tins sweetcorn, needed can opener

We must be the same generation.

My mother dug two triangular holes opposite each other in tins of evaporated milk to pour onto steamed puddings. If you didn't dig two, then they didn't pour properly. I don't think I ever tasted 'fresh' cream til I left home.