To have just got 'lefty Lucy, tighty righty'?

[passemoilevin]

Lefty LOOSEY! Not Lucy! I say it every time I'm unscrewing a screw. Never understood the whole Lucy thing until I just heard ant or Dec say it on IAC. Lightbulb moment!

Share your last similar ridiculously obvious realisation

[Grimbles]

I often wondered what a bomsitit was whilst growing up.

[Nomorechickens]

What on earth is a bomsitit then?

[DramaAlpaca]

Looks like a bomb's hit it

[Somerford]

What on earth is a bomsitit then?

Bomb's hit it. Something looks like a bomb has hit it when it's damaged or untidy.

[cookielove]

I thought it was a "bomb site" meaning everything is a mess!

And

Lefty loosey righty tighty 😘

[Givemeonereason]

I always thought the phrase was "a campers christmas" instead of "as camp as Christmas"
Never understood it until last year

[MrsFoxPlus4]

My papa used to shout “haw miss” at me when I was missbehaving I started telling people it was my name 😂

[TathitiPete]

DH used to think hunger was the best source

And of course 'knowledge is power, France is bacon' courtesy of Reddit:

When I was young my father said to me:

"Knowledge is Power....Francis Bacon"

I understood it as "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon".

For more than a decade I wondered over the meaning of the second part and what was the surreal linkage between the two? If I said the quote to someone, "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon" they nodded knowingly. Or someone might say, "Knowledge is power" and I'd finish the quote "France is Bacon" and they wouldn't look at me like I'd said something very odd but thoughtfully agree.

I did ask a teacher what did "Knowledge is power, France is bacon" mean and got a full 10 minute explanation of the Knowledge is power bit but nothing on "France is bacon". When I prompted further explanation by saying "France is Bacon?" in a questioning tone I just got a "yes". at 12 I didn't have the confidence to press it further. I just accepted it as something I'd never understand.

It wasn't until years later I saw it written down that the penny dropped.

[honeylulu]

When i was little I wondered what a "butterdream" was (from Row row row the boat). I thought it must be like a butterfly.

[InDubiousBattle]

I thought you had to buy tepid water. I thought it was there with tonic water and sparkling water. I think I was about 22 at the time,

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

I didnt get the lefty loosely righty righty thing on I’m a celeb. I mean, once you get to the half past six position then you’re turning it to the right. Why don’t they just say anti-clockwise?

[ProseccoMamam]

I'd had a bank account and a debit card for 4 years until I realised that I could take money from any cash machine and not just the ones my bank card was from....

I also thought cash machines gave you free money until I was about 10. I thought you just got a card when you were an adult so you could pay your bills, oh I wish.

[InDubiousBattle]

My dc definitely think that now Prosecco!

[DramaAlpaca]

honeylulu same here about 'butterdream'!

My DM used to sing 'life is butterdream' and I didn't realise it was supposed to be 'life is but a dream' until I saw the words written down in a book after I had my own DC.

[OccasionalNachos]

Alice in Wonderland, the Disney film version: “The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of other things...”

I thought the song referred to ‘ceiling wax’ for years. Until I was about 28.

[OccasionalNachos]

It’s why reading is better than TV & film, I suppose. Although conversely there are several words learned from books that I mispronounced spectacularly as well...

[chinam]

France is bacon

[DiegoMadonna]

It's actually righty tighty, not tighty righty.

[LeftyLucy]

Wait, what??

[DiegoMadonna]

I thought it was a "bomb site" meaning everything is a mess

I'm guessing these are two variations on the same idiom. I've heard "like a bombsite" my whole life, and I've never heard anyone say "like a bombs hit it". Maybe it's regional.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombsite

[CheapSausagesAndSpam]

It's righty tighty! Not tighty righty!

Your post has put me at risk of getting it all wrong in future!

[Whatthefucknameisntalreadytake]

It's righty tighty loosey left. Definitely.

[CheapSausagesAndSpam]

Also....it's " lefty loosey"

Not loosey lefty!

[gobster]

Ten Pin Bowling

Not

Tempin Bowling like I thought it was for many many many year, makes sense now there being ten pins and all

[zen1]

Re Row Row Row the Boat, I always thought life is buttercream and had a picture in my head of them rowing the boat on the cream from a fairy cake.