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

[lasketchup]

Tahitipete

WhyDid you copy that from the Reddit forum? is it some kind of explanation/story/joke I’m missing??

Strange

[Saracen]

The word "perk" as in an employee benefit, is short for perquisite.

I only realised this because I was about to use "perquisite" in an email, decided it sounded too pretentious, and then chose "perk" as a good substitute. I thought what a coincidence it was that the two words were so similar and were synonyms. Penny dropped.

[DaphneCanDoBetterThanFred]

Don't get why you think it's strange lasketchup.
The poster was passing on a funny anecdote they'd heard or read. What's weird about that on a thread where people are sharing funny anecdotes that they've heard or read?

[CheapSausagesAndSpam]

Curly because people like me (and others) struggle to envision the clock and which way the hands go round.

I also struggle with dirctions and maps.

[GhostCurry]

Curly - genuine question - are you on the autistic spectrum? Because this is the kind of thing I struggle with too!

[Agerbilatemycardigan]

I spent my childhood wondering what someone called Ollie Faple had to do with Christmas, as in "Oh Come Ollie Faple, Joyful and Triumphant" 😃

[Splinterz]

Why don’t they just say anti-clockwise?

Because a lot of people cannot read a clock - they are used to digital.

[Rebeccaslicker]

My mother would say hurry up or your dinner will be "clock cold". I never questioned it.

I was about 20 when I suddenly realised she'd been saying "clot cold"!

[ChristmasEnthusiast]

I was leading the school choir last week when I realised it's not
"Onna carry me to Bethlehem"
It's "oh, now carry me to bethlehem"

It was also only last year that I realised Interpol are international police

[AgnesSkinner]

The first time I can across “lefty loosey, righty tighty” was in Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game.

[1sttimeunicorn]

It is ceiling wax tho? It is!

[1sttimeunicorn]

‘Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax, of cabbages and kings!’

[Bearsinmotion]

Sealing wax!

[AnnieOH1]

RebeccaSlicker it's clock cold around Sheffield and Midlands. :)

The most ridiculous for me is when I first started working in a law firm I did some time in personal injury. We kept getting claims for people injuring themselves at Causey Edge (we represented the council). In my greenness I eventually exclaimed "Why do people keep going there if it's so bad?". This was in front of our senior partner who was at least 70 if he was a day, very very old fashioned and very cut glass accent, he turned to me and said "My dear girl, one has to cross the causeway edge to get to one's car" in the most withering Noel Cowardesque fashion. It was the kerb. The pavement edge. SMH. :(

[NotDavidTennant]

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?

The point is it's a memorable rhyme, so if you can't remember which way to turn you repeat the rhyme and it reminds you.

'Clockwise thighty, anti-clockwise loosey' wouldn't really stick in the mind quite so well.

[Parkingwarsaga]

Having not seen it written down I thought that 'on Ilkley Moor bout Hat' was onilkleymoor boutat and thought it was some kind of Latin until I was way too old.
25 dick

[Eolian]

at ceiling wax!

[ofmenandmice]

Lefty loosey righty tighty was the single most useful thing DS learned in his tech lesson at school. I have used it often. Anti clockwise to loosen and clockwise to tighten just isn't as memorable

[LinoleumBlownapart]

Well I've just found out it's not Ceiling wax but sealing wax!! makes sense.
Can't remember how old I was when I found out it was "good tidings we bring for you and your kin" and not "king".

[Rebeccaslicker]

Annie - hahaha! If it makes you feel better, my old firm had speech magic software which one of the partners LOVED.

He didn't love it so much when he sent out a letter referring to a client's "leaky shoes" instead of "legal issues".....!

[Rebeccaslicker]

Oh I was also amazed to learn that it's "spit and image", not "spitting image". Damn you rubber puppets!

[Biber]

France is bacon has had me grinning a lot.

We sang The Ash Grove at school with the words 'where streamlets meander'. I wondered for a long time about a stream letting someone ander

My mother told me about being confused about the words of the hymn saying 'gladly my gladly my cross I'd bear'. She heard it as 'Gladly, my cross eyed bear.'

[LinoleumBlownapart]

Oh I was also amazed to learn that it's "spit and image", not "spitting image". Damn you rubber puppets!

Ok you're just making stuff up!

[Mollie85]

I thought the 7 in 7up was a z...

“I’ll have a can of zup please?”

What now?