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

[ShakeShakeTheMuffin]

However I still think of this as turning right.

[LittleWingSoul]

Mine was whilst watching 'Better Call Saul' the other night, I twigged his name 'Saul Goodman' is 'it's all good, man'. Got through watching Breaking Bad TWICE without hearing it!

And I'm always looking for motifs and symbolism and clever tricks in film and TV!

[AgnesSkinner]

Lefty loosey means that you rotate the screw anti-clockwise (to the left) to unscrew it.

Except for bike pedals apparently

[HappenstanceMarmite]

Friend of mine thought it was "Wolves have ears" (walls have ears). She was confused because, obviously, wolves have ears! 😂

[HappenstanceMarmite]

France is bacon

what should it be then?

[Whitegrenache]

We say "it looks like a bombs gone off" or "when did the bomb go off" when there is a mess!

[AgnesSkinner]

France is bacon

It’s Francis Bacon.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon

[TheLittleShirt]

I think we all know that now Agnes!

[highwoodwitch]

When marking a pub quiz - the answer was Garibaldi (Italian General, not the biscuit) do I mark the other team's answer correct when it was written Gary Baldy?

[blue2014]

@Mollie85 - j genuinely just woke the baby from laughing

[NeverUseThisName]

I thought that Marmite and marmalade were the same thing

Well, they begin and end the same way. And I was a very fast reader. I just accepted Paddington's diet without query, because I, too, loved Marmite, and would happily have eaten Marmite sandwiches for breakfast, lunch and supper. And we never had marmalade at home.

Then I went to uni, and my flatmate opened a jar of Robinson's marmalade and gave me some on toast. My mind was well and truly blown.

[noodlesandtomatoes]

How do marmite and marmalade end the same way?

[passemoilevin]

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".

No fucking way!!

And Interpol

[Mollie85]

blue2014

Even now I’ll ask for a Sprite... just ‘cause it’s safer

[DiegoMadonna]

How do marmite and marmalade end the same way?

They both end with an e.

[DiegoMadonna]

Spitting image vs. spit and image doesn't really count IMO. It's not a "ridiculously obvious realisation" because the former is by far the most commonly used and has been for decades.

[SergeantFredColon]

I also thought that "Good King Wensas last looked out" until recently. Id seen it written down, but just assumed it was one of those pronunciations like Mainwaring or Cholmondeley or Featherstonehaugh.

I thought this until 1 minute ago.

[SergeantFredColon]

TheLittleShirt I used to think the wombles were common too, but I thought it meant there were loads of them.

Also thought it was 'you and your king'.

[Ohyesiam]

When I was about 6 in the 70s, there was a schmaltzy Christmas song called Walking in a Winter Wonderland. In the verse they do some snowy stuff outside, and it continues "later on we'll conspire, as we dream beside the fire".
I heard it as " perspire "( thought it was an odd lyric, but thought it made sense as fires do heat you up.).
Anyway, I was singing along, and my mum spat her tea out as she laughed her head off at me.

[B0033]

France is bacon.

Nods sagely

[Haffiana]

Tree and bicycle both end with an 'e'. I am not having that as a similarity.

[Ohyesiam]

@allertse Loosey lefty righty tighty was such a life changing moment for me that I have to enlighten you.
If you turn the top of the screw ( 12 o'clock position) to the left you loosen it, and if you turn it to the right.....etc

[Frogletmamma]

My in laws refer to horses doovers. It took me forever to work out what they were on about.

[GissASquizz]

I always thought my dad was saying 'Jesus swept' when showing dismay. Like Jesus was above housework.

If I asked my mum what was for dinner she always said 'bread and pullit '. I thought pullit was like lard.

[TrickyD]

Our father Witchart .... Harold be thy name. God's callled Harold Witchart