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to have only just realised that the logo...

143 replies

postmanpatscat · 30/06/2013 11:40

for BlackBerry is actually two overlapping Bs and not the cluster of dots I've assumed it to be for the past five years of BlackBerry ownership?!

What blindingly obvious things have you failed to notice?

OP posts:
CuppaSarah · 30/06/2013 11:55

I thought it was a cluster of berries. Shock

Bowlersarm · 30/06/2013 12:00

I knew that!

What I didn't know until yesterday after years of driving, is that the roundabout road sign isn't a closed circle-there is a gap in it.

OwlinaTree · 30/06/2013 12:03

I thought sprouts grew individually like cabbages in rows. My dad pointed out a sprout bush in the garden and i was...oh.

picnicbasketcase · 30/06/2013 12:11

It blew my mind when I saw pictures of pineapples growing, and then I felt very silly that I didn't know before that they don't grow on trees like coconuts.

CrowsLanding · 30/06/2013 12:15

Pineapples don't grow on trees? Shock

SmiteYouWithThunderbolts · 30/06/2013 12:15

Where do pineapples grow then?! Confused

catgirl1976 · 30/06/2013 12:17

Totally gobsmacked about the pineapples

StealthPolarBear · 30/06/2013 12:18

"What I didn't know until yesterday after years of driving, is that the roundabout road sign isn't a closed circle-there is a gap in it."

Sometimes, sometimes not. They mean different things.

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 30/06/2013 12:19

Pineapples grow in the ground.

I know this from Bob the Builder Hmm

mrsjay · 30/06/2013 12:23

eh what I thougt pineapples grew on pineapple trees do they not , Shock

DowntonTrout · 30/06/2013 12:25

That a dual carriageway is defined by a road that has a physical barrier separating the two opposing flows of traffic, be this a grass verge, railings, a kerbed pavement down the centre etc. thereby meaning two separated carriageways and not just two lanes of traffic in each direction.

picnicbasketcase · 30/06/2013 12:26

Google images of growing pineapples, they don't look how you'd imagine at all.

Auntlinny · 30/06/2013 12:26

Pineapples grow like cabbages. Have seen fields and fields of them in Queensland. I always thought that the kiwi (bird) was the same size as a kiwifruit. Really surprised when i saw one - big fluffy thing.

mrsjay · 30/06/2013 12:27

I thought A kiwi bird was named after the fruit apparently it is a mowri word Blush

RinkyDinkyDoo · 30/06/2013 12:28

Omg,just googled pineapples. Wow,we'll that's something myself and DH have learned today,they don't grow on trees.

mrsjay · 30/06/2013 12:28

I didnt know the Nile went all through a lot of Africa I assumed it was just in Egypt

Auntlinny · 30/06/2013 12:30

Yep - the kiwi fruit was named as some sort of marketing ploy by the growers/ exporters. Used to be called Chinese gooseberries apparently.

MorrisZapp · 30/06/2013 12:31

It's not that obvious I suppose but here goes. Martin Short the American actor is the cousin of Claire Short the UK politician.

Hashtagwhatever · 30/06/2013 12:32

I still cannot see the b's

Nerfmother · 30/06/2013 12:32

I knew about pineapples from being obsessed with Elvis and Blue Hawaii when I was little.

LongGoneBeforeDaylight · 30/06/2013 12:35

I thought the batman logo was a yellow mouth with big teeth. Only realised it was a bat last year. Confused

workhouse · 30/06/2013 12:41

Iv'e just recently found out, from a thread on Mumsnet, that a fortnight is a shortened version of fourteen nights. How did I get to fifty five without realising this!

DowntonTrout · 30/06/2013 12:45

Most things we call nuts are not nuts. They are either legumes or drupes.

So peanuts, walnuts, cashew, brazil nuts etc are not nuts.

Hazelnuts, Acorns and chestnuts are nuts.

MrsCosmopilite · 30/06/2013 12:47

Does nobody watch QI?! :)

mrsjay · 30/06/2013 12:47

. Used to be called Chinese gooseberries apparently.

is chinese goosberries not those little orange things you get at the side of ice creams or cake in restaurants ?

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