To ask the most basic thing you never knew/misunderstood until adulthood

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I feel like a completely ridiculous excuse for an adult but the other day I found out the difference between cottage pie and shepherds pie.

I am in my 30s and gobsmacked (also feel a bit stupid now it's so obvious). I genuinely thought they were the same thing.

Is there anything you discovered as an adult that was just common knowledge to everyone else? Or perhaps there's a phrase you've found out you have been saying wrong all this time etc...!

Help me feel a bit better.

Ilovebray - glad you said that as my first thought was your name was about Bray from the tribe and I felt silly when PP said about Big bad Bray (don’t know what that is).
Off topic but wonder if the tribe is on prime or Netflix 🤔

Magic cream 😂 I cried actual tears, that's brilliant!

I only recently realised the songs in Bugsy Malone were not the children singing, but were adults!!!

Yep and the songs were written by Paul Williams who also wrote 'We've only just begun' for the Carpenters, 'Someday Man' by the Monkees, the music for the Muppets Christmas Carol and a couple of tracks on the last Daft Punk album.

I know this is a lighthearted thread but some of the ignorance displayed here isn't just embarrassing it's downright atrocious. Africa a country?

There’s always someone who has to ruin it isn’t there

When I was about 8 mum told me to stay in the car whilst she ran into the shop because of traffic wardens. She got a ticket.

I didn't realise I had to run and get her only that because a passenger or driver was in the car then it was ok and you were immune from a fine - poor dm lol.

When i was younger my dad told me that the reason pugs noses are so flat is because when they're born people hit them on walls to make their noses flat.
Believed it until I was late teens

😂 @ “hen’s meat”

I was about 30 when I realised how the word “segue” is pronounced.

One of my ex co workers once asked me for a can of Charlie Sheen. Confused, I asked her what she meant. "You know, Charlie Sheen, a can of polish. Want to clean my desk". Only she pronounced polish as if she was describing a person from Poland. We had a good laugh at that when I told her it was Mr Sheen and she had been pronouncing the word polish wrong all her life.

What? What? chipsandgin it's obvious which way the quilt should lie with the opening but the actual quilt?? Going in the cover there's a particular way?

@WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles You are almost right when you said they were changing the screen, they were actually changing the projector as trailers and adverts are not usually in widescreen like the main film.

That Jesus wasn't a Catholic.

MrsPear
Only got half way through so apologies if this has been said - the reason gas smells in the home is due to chemicals being added. This was done to a help people identify a leak and b to try and stop suicide

You can't commit suicide with modern gas. The smell is only added to avoid the risk of an explosion in the case of a leak (you wouldn't know about it otherwise)

I realise that sounds like they're using a different projector rather changing the lens

OMG I am weeping......’Hen’s meat’

Livpool
Are the Elgin marbles not spheres?!

They're marble statues etc "liberated" from Athens by Lord Elgin.

Greece wants them back (quite right too )

Simon and Garth Funkel

@winterheatwave ...I know, that was my embarrassing revelation, that I hadn't known that previously!

Hang on a minute- coal gas??

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.thisisinsider.com/are-all-peppers-the-same-plant-2018-9

So that's the pepper excitement debunked

My husband asked me the other day if when a cat gives birth to say 8 kittens, does that mean the cat had sex with 8 different male cats
I asked him what on earth he thought humans who gave birth to twins had been upto !

Moose I could be very wrong about this but I think cows were kept in sheds joined to the farm cottage maybe to share warmth....? awaits the embarrassing realisation I am wrong

CarolineForbes

Off topic but wonder if the tribe is on prime or Netflix 🤔

Another Tribe fan! Pleased to meet you

Amazon Prime have started showing it. The episodes are all on YouTube as well!

Reliving my childhood

I used to think that 'jaywalking' was what prostitutes did as opposed to the kerb-crawlers looking for them

Maybe I'm going to regret posting this but I thought jaywalking meant walking on the road not the pavement, what has it got to do with prostitutes?

The Elton John one has just done me in oh my god

i found out last month at 38 that allens keys are actually called that and not alans keys

my parents have stayed at the same house for years with the same neighbors and when i was a child my dad used to say (or ask himself) can you ask alan (next door ) to lend us his tools and he would as he was a self employed builder

last month i found out that they were called allen or hex keys all along
i just never knew their real name as it was allans keys we used to use