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.

*mythical creatures but mysteries creatures too

I thought Arkansas was said 'are-kansas' until my aunt corrected me 🤦🏻‍♀️

There's certain words I have to briefly pause and think about there meaning before saying or using them. I was taught them incorrectly as a child so have moment a having to rethink every use! Such as the pronunciation of banal and hyperbole and the fact there's two interpretations of nonplussed.

Several years ago I discovered some people consider mortified to mean scared. There was a bit of confusion for a while before clearing that one up.

I always have to recall how pineapples actiallu grow, still feel it's slightly unbelievable!!!

Suprised the 'fact' that the toaster dial shows minutes and the 'fact' that the toaster dial is not minutes contradition hasn't turned up yet. Though I think peppers might be replacing it on this thread!!

But how do they get the cow in the cottage, surely it's too big?
Or does the shepherd live in the cottage? I'm confused.
Perhaps it should be called farmers pie. What's a chicken pie called?

hold on did someone say roy orbison wasnt blind....

that the fridge dial isn't the temperature

Eh? What is it then?

Cajones is Spanish for drawers. Cojones are bollocks. For the ^^ pp who thought that about 'kahunas'. Cue me telling a group of my peers that I'd been to IKEA and bought some bollocks, not a chest of drawers

@Ilovetea33 white wine can be made from grapes of any colour. The colour of a grape is only in its skin.

For white wine the skins are removed from the pulp so their colour doesn’t get into the wine.

For rosé wine the skins are left in for a little while.

For red wine they are left in for longer.

I need clarification on things!

schengen I don’t understand this what is schengen?

Can pp come back and explain the pigeon eggs thing? I didn’t think pigeons lay unfertilised eggs like chickens?

Can pp come back and explain why they think goofy is a cow?

The toaster dial, I thought the numbers (1,2,3,4) on the toaster were for the level of toastiness you want, recently found out it's minutes ..... I'm 44

@SlinkyDinkyDoo

that the fridge dial isn't the temperature

Eh? What is it then?

The poster came back to explain her dad told her this. The reasoning being that the higher the number the lower temperature goes in the fridge. (So what he really meant is the numbers on the dial aren't the temperature, rather than it isn't a dial that controls temperature.)

You'd love the Scottish 'outwith'

I was really quite old before I realised this was a Scottish word. I use it a lot in my job and was always confused why people kept changing it.

Oh wow, I never knew that

😁 see the end of my post at 8.07 Boxingmum.

About the peppers I meant

my sister thought that mary had jesus in a stable because all the inns were full of people having christmas partys..... she couldnt belive it when i told her christmas didnt happen till jesus was born.

Don't think I've been patronising not sure that's possible when I've been clear I've had similar misunderstandings myself.

As for if I've said anything that's incorrect happy to be corrected if that's the case I've posted what I genuinely believe to be true and I've checked most of it to be doubly sure

I thought that the name of the philosopher, Socrates was pronounced sock-rates. I was verbally quoting his work in a tutorial in my first year at university at the time

Is everyone on Google double checking lifetime inaccuracies or just me? Gobsmaked at Roy Orbison fact, and my ignorance of toaster minutes rather than browniness.Sticking with fridge dial meaning temp as my ignorance was bliss.Start of a new wiser life today

The toaster dial, I thought the numbers (1,2,3,4) on the toaster were for the level of toastiness you want, recently found out it's minutes ..... I'm 44

Surely that’s the same thing... longer toasted = more toasted

@Jinglejanglefish the Schengen area is the area of free movement in Europe, named after the Schengen agreement, which was named after the town of Schengen in Switzerland :) I think a lot of British people have no idea about it because the UK has opted out of it.

Thanks Almost! I have actually never heard of that

Oh and I thought that the terracotta army was a real army and they wore orange uniforms. Until I was in my mid 30s

The toaster numbers are not minutes. It does however constantly come up on these threads that people never realised they were. It's level of browness (and isn't a set scale; '5' will vary from toaster to toaster (And on how many rounds have already been toasted - think Dualit actually have a second diagram for further rounds in their instructions!!)

takemedowntopotatocity when passing a NG tube, you ask the patient to take a sip of water. This closes the epiglottis over the windpipe, closing it off, so that the tube goes down the food pipe, rather than into the lungs. You then double check the position by X-ray. We used to use litmus paper to check if stomach contents turned it pink but this has stopped being commonplace now. Measuring the tube length means it doesn't get pushed down into the jejenum which causes problems with the absorption of the feed.