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

[RainbowsAndFrogs]

i honestly have just had to google how rice is made. i wasnt sure if it was man made or grown. i know
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!

i've been told by someone in the know that only scotch is whisky.
any other origin, eg irish, american, is whiskey.
only scotch is allowed to spell it whisky.
so you were not incorrect.

Welsh whisky is also spelt whisky.

@SusannaSophia sultanas, raisins and currants are all dried grapes but are made from different varieties. Dried currants aren't related to fresh currants; they're made from a small seedless variety of grapes.

@PlanDeRaccordement
Recently, I thought Groundhog Day was just a silly made up movie. But recently I found out that in the US Groundhog Day is for real. There is an actual groundhog that they monitor and then announce whether winter will be long or short based on what the official groundhog does

Yes! I went to the cinema in 1993 to see this as a teen shows age and was just a good film.
Now know it is an actual tradition from google worm holes over the years lol

The spare tyre thing is ridiculous in this day and age. Does anyone still have a car with a spare tyre??????? Ours don't.

I do know how to change a tyre but last time I got a flat....... no spare tyre.... rang AA, they laughed at me and said... hardly any cars come with spare tyres now. They came and towed me to a garage, and no charge.

@BlackForestCake

Have you not heard of paddy fields?

Was he Gracie's husband?

Always like a topical gag!

My car doesn't have a spare tyre and even if it did I couldn't change it, not because I don't know how but because I don't have the strength, which that dickhead posters Dd doesn't either.

@Lessofallthisunpleasantness

The spare tyre thing is ridiculous in this day and age. Does anyone still have a car with a spare tyre??????? Ours don't.

I do know how to change a tyre but last time I got a flat....... no spare tyre.... rang AA, they laughed at me and said... hardly any cars come with spare tyres now. They came and towed me to a garage, and no charge.

@Lessofallthisunpleasantness ours has a space saver tyre. Think it's the norm now? Think you have to have something?

I genuinely always thought the song was Knights in white satin

But I can see them! In their special Sunday armour with a long white tunic over the top, some holding silk banners, all dressed up for some big event like a royal joust.

So it's just a white nightie and some posh sheets. That's disappointing.

there are children who are unaware chips..are made out potatos

@tobee yes often a can of foam is all you get for a repair in a lot if cars now

The name Pineapple comes from their resemblance to Pine Cones.

My one is, I genuinely always thought the song was Knights in white satin.
Well I just learned a new one right there! Until now I thought that too!!!

Now i know even more about pineapples , I like this thread .
Some of these things have got to come up in a quiz as well , I will get one question right .

Pineapples genus name is ananas, in most languages their name is derived from the genus name. German, French, & Italian.
We confusingly use ananas as the derivation for Banana.

@SilverBirchWithout that one i did know but only because i have drunk one or two pina colada's abroad

Travel and alcohol broadens the mind!
I only discovered this intriguing knowledge about Ananas last week - great chance to show off on this thread.
Although I’m useless at changing car wheels

@fishykettles but...I don’t have a uterus, where would it go???

@SilverBirchWithout wouldn't attempt a tyre change tbh thats why I am in aa
In fact i leave most of car stuff to the garage they know what they are doing,
Im the person that when I first got my car I opened the bonnet and was shocked I could see the floor

@Judashascomeintosomemoney

My one is, I genuinely always thought the song was Knights in white satin. It never occurred to me that satin would be really crap armour. Nights makes so much more sense. 🙄

I thought that too!

@WeatherwaxOn ‘another thing coming’ absolutely makes sense.
If I my 14 up kid told me she was going out drinking til 3am, and I said ‘if you think that’s happening, you’ve got another thing coming young lady!’
The ‘that’ refers to the drinking and the ‘thing’ that’s coming is a very different outcome for her even. Ergo: If you think things are going to work out that way, you're wrong. Things are going to work out differently.
So it totally makes sense.

I’m disappointed about it being Nights In White Satin. Some pervy old dude singing about posh bedsheets and a nightie.

I also believed it was Knights In White Satin, and have a clear image in my head of knights with the ceremonial white satin jousting gear stuck in time galloping on horses (or ponies) forever because of chivalry and love, instead someone is having sexy time in bed. 😤 Much prefer Knights.

Never knew seconds out wasn’t about time being up.

I’m sad about the little piggy off to market. I’m sure nursery rhyme books have this illustrated as a happy little pig skipping off to do some shopping.

How are lentils made?

I didn’t realise until my sister got one that french bulldogs can’t clean themselves
So my sister has to wipe her dogs ass after he’s had a shit 😂
He actually comes over to her and turns around and waits for her to wipe his ass ffs

Hand gliding. - not hang gliding
Pineapple grow in the ground
That toasters have a tray that you pull out to get rid off the crumbs
All learnt on mumsnet😂

I always thought it was knights in white satin!!!

Oh my... I finally 'get' the chicken joke...at 55 years old.
But, why say chicken, why not duck???
Overthinking at 2.25 am.

My 70 Reg car does have a spare tyre though, we had to use it just this week, getting the locking wheel lock off was a ball ache.