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things you didnt know, but should... mine is rice :/

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RainbowsAndFrogs · 05/12/2020 18:31

i honestly have just had to google how rice is made. i wasnt sure if it was man made or grown. i know Blush
i knew but wasnt 100%

honestly i have A levels and generally educated, although apparently not as much as i thought?

please tell me im not alone!

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Curlygirl06 · 05/12/2020 22:11

@m0therofdragons

I refurbished a house - including plastering and replacing electrics at 18. I’ve fitted and tiled all 4 bathrooms in this house including the slate floors, fitted the wooden flooring throughout the downstairs myself. I learned from my dad and DD is learning from me. I don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t give their kids these skills.

Good for you. I earn enough to pay someone with the relevant experience and skills so my house looks good rather than a diy bodge job because I know I’m not a natural at diy. Doing most things well takes practice. I’m always nervous I’ll drill through a pipe like my dad did one Sunday. He taught me the art of recognising my limitations.

I always assumed Richard E Grant and Hugh Grant were brothers. Turns out they’re not and I was the only person who thought this.

Re the Grant brothers- no you're not the only one! I thought they were related in some way too.
JanewaysBun · 05/12/2020 22:11

@formerbabe I totally used to sing chooruuuuus at school too 🤣
I am chosing to ignore the potty going to market and believe he is simply off to purchase cabbages!

SendHelp30 · 05/12/2020 22:12

Anton deck hahahaha love this

Apileofballyhoo · 05/12/2020 22:15

Whales are mammals though.

TheFormerPorpentinaScamander · 05/12/2020 22:15

@SendHelp30

Bet *@Feminist10101* is a right laugh at parties!
I can't imagine she gets invited to many!
Ariela · 05/12/2020 22:15

@00100001

I didn't know that a pony is just a small horse until a year ago or so.

I thought ponies were different animals, a bit like a donkey is different, but similar to the horse.

Quite common. we had a 28 year old pony and a slightly bigger 10 year old one. We'd had them for a few years. People would ask 'when the smaller one grows up, will he be bigger than the other one?' By 'people' I mean quite intelligent people with degrees and well paid jobs that use their knowledge and intelligence.
Vivi0 · 05/12/2020 22:15

Before a ski trip to Austria, it took me longer than it should have to realise why I couldn’t find an Austrian phrase book anywhere.

alexdgr8 · 05/12/2020 22:16

@Naughtylittleflea

People used to think that instead of migrating birds just buried themselves in the mud (despite never being stood on) Edward Jenner (of small pox vaccine fame) discovered they actually flew away with the seasons.
i am so glad that he didn't spend all his time discovering birds' habits...
Quillink · 05/12/2020 22:16

Nights not knights Shock

00100001 · 05/12/2020 22:16

@SendHelp30

Bet *@Feminist10101* is a right laugh at parties!
She wouldn't go to a party. She's too busy teaching her ten year old how to get a superiority complex.
drtyminded · 05/12/2020 22:17

how can anyone not do the car stuff - can't means can't be arsed.
Add to that the people who CAN'T cook, CAN'T paint a wall/fence.

drtyminded · 05/12/2020 22:19

had a heated discussion at work when i said that sultanas, currants, and raisins are all dried grapes

Curlygirl06 · 05/12/2020 22:20

Now I know it's nights not knights, I can't remember which version I thought it was before I knew what it actually was! Confused?

00100001 · 05/12/2020 22:21

@drtyminded

how can anyone not do the car stuff - can't means can't be arsed. Add to that the people who CAN'T cook, CAN'T paint a wall/fence.
Well... I'm gonna just say that some people CANNOT paint a wall. Because some people don't have hands or arms or are blind or are in some way mentally or physically unable to do so.

Go tell the paraplegic they shouldn't stop being a lazy twat. Or go and tell that 99 year old, they can change a car wheel...if only they could be bothered too...

chomalungma · 05/12/2020 22:21

how can anyone not do the car stuff - can't means can't be arsed

I could possibly change the oil. But I would prefer to leave that to experts.

There are lots of things I could learn - but if they go wrong, then it would cost a lot / be dangerous - so I leave them to experts.

Haribo1985 · 05/12/2020 22:21

I thought Narwhals were fictional, as if they were the 'Unicorns of the sea' until a very recent Documentary...!!

BalloonSlayer · 05/12/2020 22:22

DH when playing educational Hmm games with the DC about animals and their young, would say "and a baby horse is called . . . a pony."

When I pointed out it was actually: a foal, his reaction was "yeah, so what, same difference."

I eventually got it into his thick skull explained using the example of the offence that would be caused by referring to an adult human of small stature as a child.

EveryoneHatesKVN · 05/12/2020 22:22

I thought narwhals were mythical until two years ago...I’m a teacher!

Al1langdownthecleghole · 05/12/2020 22:23

Guilty of thinking it was knights in white satin too.

Then again, it took me a good long while to discover that summer of 69 wasn't about the year....

Kidney transplants are interesting. The first heart transplant operations also left the old heart in situ, but that was partly for legal reasons. The legal definition of death at the time was based upon the heart ceasing to beat, so the original heart had to remain.

The definition was later changed to brain death.

81Byerley · 05/12/2020 22:24

@formerbabe

Just waiting for someone to come on to say their two year old changed the brake pads on their car...
When my eldest son was two I used to say that if I ever got a flat tyre I hoped he'd be with me. My husband had called me out to watch him. My son obviously didn't have the strength to do it himself, but my husband changed the tyre following the instructions my son was giving him, including telling him where the jacking point was! He has grandchildren of his own now, and one of them is just the same as he was.
goingtotown · 05/12/2020 22:27

Moody Blues Justin Haywood wrote Nights in White Satin after breaking up with his girl friend who has given him a present of white satin sheets.

alexdgr8 · 05/12/2020 22:28

@YellowEllis

It always blows my mind that when you have a kidney transplant they leave your original kidneys where they are and put the new one in your pelvis. I thought my husband was having me on but it's true.
eh ? but wouldn't the original one sort of degrade in situ and cause trouble. esp since it's non-functioning. and how do they connect the replacement one if the original one is still there. best i don't know. 
am enjoying this thread.  mostly.
dingit · 05/12/2020 22:28

When I first went through the channel tunnel I genuinely thought I would see fishes swimming over my head like at an aquarium Grin
Fil couldn't stop laughing.

TheFormerPorpentinaScamander · 05/12/2020 22:29

@drtyminded

how can anyone not do the car stuff - can't means can't be arsed. Add to that the people who CAN'T cook, CAN'T paint a wall/fence.
I've never needed to do the car stuff. Therefore don't know how and have never tried.
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