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 believe the water stays put as the earth revolves, so it is not the water rising when the flood comes in and out but the technically the land moving in under the water "bulge".

After years of storing onions and potatoes together in the garage, I’ve recently discovered that you shouldn’t, onions make the potatoes sprout sooner than they should.

In some areas it has a B as well; chimbley

Not me,but my ex

He really thought we peed from our vaginas and asked 'why don't you women just clamp it shut while on your period?'

He genuinely couldn't understand why we used any form of san-pro

He didn't know what a cervix was and didn't 'get' the connection was between giving birth and a woman's milk kicking in

At the time,he was 34 and a father!

I had to give him a birds and bees talk and then he got his mother to finish us because I told him to pay for his dd who wasn't his bio dd but she had called him dad almost from birth

I asked if he'd paid any attention to sex ed at school and got grunted at

My (now adult) dd thought that if you gave a lad a blow job and actually blew,you could get pregnant

I did put her right (and explained how to give a bj!)

She was only 13 at the time and had read about it and got a bit confused (which was fine)

As a child,if you asked my mother where she was going,you'd get 'to hell and back to see how fair it is'

I thought she really was going to hell and was a teen when I worked out it meant 'keep your nose out'

I did not know that about rainbows-everydays a school day

The dentist told me this years ago & I do try but always go back to rinsing!

She meant not wordly wise, or well travelled, nothing to do with intelligence.

But what are you supposed to do with all the froth?

I only found out fairly recently that the term blow job is a shortened version of below job ie b'low job!

This is embarrassing but I never knew bed bugs were real till I was an adult and only a few years ago. I thought it was just something people said to scare kids.

I was an adult when I found out narwhals are real and not a mythical creature in the same category as fairies, mermaids and unicorns 😂

That raisins are dehydrated grapes.

You did not understand my answer.

or - the sun?

No, that is still shaming others. For instance, those people could think the uterus is at the top of the vagina and the urethra could be near the entrance of the vagina. You would be more honest just putting the laughing emoji, rather than this fake 'puzzlement'.

Well i didnt know that i thought they all slept nice and cosy in their nest with their chicks
I blame a childhood picture book.

And me. And I'm considerably older than 40!

The tides are dependent on the moon, not the rotation of the earth.

About 5 years ago I discovered that if you cut a worm in half it doesn't make independent worms...apparently. I still don't really believe it tbh 😂

Oo is that what it is? I just thought I was "a bit" ambidextrous - I can play tennis or use chopsticks with both hands. But prefer my left for some things and right for others x

I wonder how many people think that limes are unripe lemons? I saw an advertising campaign in a Belgian supermarket quite recently aimed at dispelling that (though it might be more understandable in French given that they are called citrons verts).

both, i think - the sun and the moon both exert a gravitational pull and the earth rotates into one and out of the other.

I heard that was a common misconception at the time.

When I first got my tortoise, I had a very long and confusing conversation with my mother who had evidently believed the cartoons and thought that the shell was detachable. She was scared of my holding up on a video call in case he slid right out…

How much froth is there? Are you wetting your toothbrush before applying toothpaste?

I thought Arkansas was pronounced ar-Kansas. I wondered where ar- kinsaw was on the map of the USA!!