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

[Rebeccaslicker]

The piggies? The idea is that:

The first pig is going to the market, ie to be sold for sausages
The second pig is lucky because he isn't, yet
The third pig has been fed so that he can also be sold for sausages
The fourth has not, because he isn't being sold for sausages, yet
And the little piggie escaped his sausagey fate and cried "oui oui oui" or "yes yes yes" as he ran home!

Not quite the picture painted by my childhood nursery rhyme book, which had a picture of a pig with glasses and a smart coat and a basket full of market shopping...

[frenchknitting]

French you are turning your hand which is holding the screwdriver to the right. Or left.

Maybe I'm holding a screwdriver wrong - I'm left handed and it wouldn't be the first time. But I'm imagining turning a screw driver anti clockwise and my thumb is going left but my pinkie is going right.

This doesn't cause me problems in day to day life, by the way :-) If I turn something one way and it doesn't work I try the other. I do understand that it makes sense if you are talking about the point in the circle that it happens to be true for. I just can't let go of the fact that it's not true for the rest.

[MayFayner]

french I understand what you're saying and you're right.

[Biber]

Pubs that are Free Houses ... I did wonder as a child, did you have to pay in them?

[zoobaby]

Can I ask about "sight for sore eyes"?

I always thought it was something pleasant to see... soothing sore eyes. That kind of thing. But once heard a friend use it in the opposite manner, as in.... ahhhh, that's such a horrible sight it's making my eyes sore.

Now I question myself on that one all the time. too much time on my hands obviously

[RaqsMax]

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

Thanks honeylulu. Gave me the best laugh...

[TammySwansonTwo]

Thank you Tango! I felt like I was taking crazy pills there - if you are turning something to the left, it's still being turned to the left even when you get past 180 degrees.

[MadRainbow]

Littleshirt yes as a previous poster pointed out it was a confusing way of saying Sod Off - that and Sex and Travel got me for some time

[Advicewouldbelovelyta]

Left loosy makes sense if you simply stand up and turn left. You turn from the direction you're facing. You don't question whether you should turn from your bum :p
Whichever way we are facing is our "12" and as previously mentioned llrt is 9 to 3 :)
I hope that helps :)

[MiddleClassProblem]

If someone told you to turn a door knob left, you’d know which way to do it, right? It’s funny how brains work differently.

I just learnt is “kin” not “king” so thank you for that!

At primary school we sang a song with “Hallowed be thy name” in it. I was no older than 6 so couldn’t read amazingly so just sang what I heard everyone else was singing. I heard “el-o-m p-9-k” and translated it in my head to being about a dog because I had recently seen the film K9.

[shabbyshibby]

Just a few years ago my 30-something friend realised why an annual is called an annual

[GreenTulips]

"sight for sore eyes"

[GreenTulips]

"sight for sore eyes"?

Does mean a good aoghr to soothe sore eyes

'A blind man would be glad to see that' is more sarcastic - your such a mess that only a blind man would rejoice at the sight!! this was more likely phase I heard as a kid

[GreenTulips]

Only recently I learnt that Mother Teresa is in fact a person and not a 'Job Title' like The Pope

Thought they were very forward in equivalent male/female job titles like king and queen!!

[DiegoMadonna]

Can I ask about "sight for sore eyes"

You are right, your friend was wrong.

[zoobaby]

Cheers, I like to be right.

[GreenTulips]

Cheers, I like to be tighty righty

[TellMeItsNotTrue]

I met up with my friends yesterday and at one point there was just me and one friend sitting there on our phones waiting for the others who were in queue or toilet. She said "oh kill two words with one stone" and carried on looking at her phone. I asked what she meant because I'd expected her to start doing something "oh just this email I've been sent, I didn't want to swear though because there are kids around so I said the stone thing instead..."

Turns out she thought it was kill 2 WORDS (should be birds) with one stone, and she was killing fuck off by saying that instead of the actual words

It took all of us, and Google, to get across what it's supposed to be. She thinks it's an awful saying, why would you want to kill birds? She's 38 and has always said it as words, in situations like that, and nobody has ever corrected her

[MimsyStarr]

I remember being puzzled at primary school as to why Youth in Asia would be a debating topic.

It was not until I saw it written down that the penny dropped.

[MiddleClassProblem]

That’s a brilliant one!

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

Wisteria, Kezia was in the jungle eating kangaroos' unmentionables at the same time, surely that's less dignified than learning to ballroom dance?

[ClementineWardrobe]

Ok the righty tighty lefty loosey questioners, if someone tells you to turn right when driving your car, you know the top point of your steering wheel will go down to the right,so clockwise to go right. Or turning left it will go down to the left, or anticlockwise.....surely?

[minesapintofwine]

I needed this thread today! Have been enlightened on a few things too.

Ds5 often gets the words wrong to songs and won't be told otherwise. The last few weeks he's been singing Silent Night "round your virgin"

[BlueTongueSkink]

Calatonia and Besom I always used to be called "ape-uth" too and I NEVER realised it was ha'porth!! I'm 39!

Can't stop laughing at France is Bacon and Jamaican Head