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

[Micksee15]

obviously songs are my thing.....

"Concrete jungles wet dreams and mayo...."
New York!!!!

"later we'll have some fkn pie and we''ll do some caroling "
Rocking Around the Christmas Tree!!

and when my socks were wrinkled at my ankles as teenage,( having been the fashion)my mother's neighbour used to remark " No rabbatti lives" I thought he was an extremist until I heard who Nora Batty was!!

[duckydafuzz]

It’s really not that hard. If you turn left in a car, you turn the wheel anti-clockwise and vice versa. I don’t understand how anyone can’t see this?

However, I have most definitely not just discovered there’s no such thing as ‘ceiling wax’...nope!

[girlingerrupting]

Do you remember that song....
'...and I'll miss you at the devils masquerade...'

[girlingerrupting]

By everything but the girl

[TheLittleShirt]

@ MadRainbow
Mine was "soddusoffus" until I was about 25.......Please enlighten me?

[UterusUterusGhali]

Jim Aitkenhead!

[AskingForAnEnemy]

France is bacon made me laugh out loud

[Mupflup]

DH only found out the other week that blackcurrants and blackberries are not the same thing. He was ASTOUNDED. I had to show him pictures of the 2 different fruits to make him believe it.

[3out]

To those who think the left-loose right-tight thing doesn’t make sense, and refer to the diagram, you are correct - if you are referring to the screw itself. If you think of it in relation to the hand though, then even a double jointed soul like myself doesn’t turn their hand entirely clockwise/anticlockwise. I turn my hand 180deg to the right, and then return my hand to the ‘12’ position and then turn right again.

I always thought a finger of fudge was full of sugary goodness! And I ordered a zup when I was young (so traumatised by my mistake that I never drank it again). I thought sumbarines were called sumbarines for years, until I learned the prefix sub and then had a lightbulb moment. The name suddenly made perfect sense!

[Terrylene]

Henry Gibson did not write 'A Doll's House', apparently .

[MinkowskisButterfly]

I have just been mocked by my teenager for not realising until just now on this thread that it is kin and not king.....

[Rugratwrangler]

@TheLittleShirt possibly I'm wrong but I see it as (sod)dus(off)uss. Sod off. That's what my dad always used to say

[MumsTheWordYouKnow]

It is not spit and image. It is spitting image. I.e. the spitting image of...

[Eolian]

It is not spit and image. It is spitting image. I.e. the spitting image of...

Nope. Well, that is the accepted usage nowadays, but it wasn't originally. Saying "Yeah of course, because of 'it's the spitting image of'"doesn't make it true!

"Spitting image is the usual modern form of the idiom meaning exact likeness, duplicate, or counterpart. The original phrase was spit and image, inspired by the Biblical God‘s use of spit and mud to create Adam in his image. But spitting image has been far more common than spit and image for over a century.

A few writers still use spit and image, but trying to keep the original idiom alive is probably a lost cause. Though it is older and makes more logical sense, it can also be distracting to readers who have been hearing spitting image their whole lives."

From the Grammarist website.

[limitedscreentime]

Star Wars. Yes!!! Between 9 and 3 not 12 and 6!!!

Although I had never considered the LLRT thing as incorrect before reading this post. The 12/6 thing really confused me.

[Cindie943811A]

Had a manager once who was prone to malapropism — pompous little man who gave us a lot of amusement in meetings. One of his favourite sayings was Let’s get down to the Pacific’s” (specifics).

[Wisteriastreet]

I’m a bit up myself about current affairs and politics and was therefore mortified to have it expressly pointed out that Ruth Davidson and Susan Calman are not The Same. I was happily yammering on about how undignified I felt Susan Calman was for a woman in her position and suddenly had my arse handed to me.

[Bouncingbelle]

I found out about a week ago that when "this little piggy went to market" he wasnt going shopping. Im 42

[Wisteriastreet]

Er where was he going? And why did one of them have roast beef? And wee?

[AtSea1979]

Wait what? Who is Francis Bacon?

[Dottydoll]

Bouncingbelle

You’ve just enlightened me too!! I’m nearly 47!!

[simiisme]

My own personal shame was singing, at full blast:
'Take me down to the very nice city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.....'

[shorty6768]

Of course righty tighty lefty loosely works. There is no 6 o clock or 12 o clock position. The only position is from the Center. If you stood with your right arm out and spun right, from the Center you are only spinning right. Not right and left simultaneously

[Etymology23]

My mum always says clockwise and anticlockwise are confusing as well: because you could be looking from above or below!

[3out]

I always felt sorry for the little piggie, so I convinced myself that a children’s rhyme couldn’t possibly be so macabre and that, of course, he was merely having a trip to town.

I also didn’t think that a children’s programme and book would be so rude as to have a Fat Controller, and that he must be called the Fact Controller (despite there also being a Thin Controller in the neighbouring town). I was an adult before I realised he truly was called the Fat Controller. (Still think it’s pretty cruel though)