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 refuse to believe it’s nights in white satin! It’s always been this image in my head, never even occurred to me it was anything other than knights jousting in fancy robes! Why have we all thought the same thing? mind officially blown.

@Scautish

On the only horse thing, a mule is a cross between a donkey and a horse.

what about an ass

isn't an ass another name for a donkey ?
i'm not sure of anything much now.

it was years after larry grayson, whom i liked, that i heard another younger comedian alluding to why the name everard was so funny. it was something i'd never thought of; and rather wish i had not heard it explained.
a bit like max miller, he would say such clever things, the audience would anticipate, and then he'd say they had dirty minds. you could take children because nothing was explicit, and that made it all the funnier.

Feminist is SENIOR twat HR. Doncha know.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Thousands. And as a senior HR professional I despair at a large percentage of them.

It doesn't surprise me that you have difficulty relating to others ...

My ex used to think the colour khaki was a shade of silvery grey like a car key 😣

@Feminist10101

Blimey, way to ruin the spirit of the thread!

Let’s celebrate stupidity/lack of basic awareness/learned helplessness?

I see you call yourself "Feminist10101"- are you trying to prove the slur that feminists are really humourless killjoys is true?

that made me laugh out loud. khaki = car key colour !

@BonnieDundee At school we were all DEFINITELY singing “I am the lord of the dance settee”

But if pineapples grow in the ground, why do the Agadoo lyrics say 'shake the tree'??

When your phone autocorrects to ducking, it has nothing to do with ducks but the physical movement of ducking (to duck).

@AthelstaneTheUnready

That Pontefract isn't in Wales.

Oh come on - it must be. And if it isn't it should be physically moved there.

I knew it was Nights in White Satin but for a very long time my brain processed the name "The Manic Street Preachers" as preachers who lived on Manic Street- not street preachers who were manic.

@grassisjeweled

How are lentils made?

Good question. I've never thought about it and I don't know.

I'm also learning about pineapples.

I knew it was Nights in White Satin but for a very long time my brain processed the name "The Manic Street Preachers" as preachers who lived on Manic Street- not street preachers who were manic.

😱😱😱 Why has this never occurred to me!?

@CloudyGladys In 1994, I decided I wanted to go on Junior MasterChef. I was actually a pretty decent cook for a 10 year old, but while poring over my Mum’s recipe books I got confused and had to ask her where it tells you what season to taste each dish in. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Bless her, she tried so hard to keep a straight face.

I also have a relative who REFUSES to believe that the chorus in REM’s The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight is anything but “Calling John Major” and has been singing it thus since 1992.

[quote OwlBeThere]@YesPleaseMary because it’s the one connected to the bladder 😂😂😂😂

@Eckhart I had a hysterectomy and they left my ovaries in, some years later I had some stomach issues and they sent me for a scan and well, let’s just say ovaries that are not connected to anything don’t stay put, one was right down in my pelvis, the other somewhere higher up but ON THE SAME SIDE!
They also told me that day that even thoughit wasn’t likely it was ‘theoretically’ possible for an egg from those ovaries to be fertilised and start developing. I sent my then husband off to get the snip three weeks later I was so freaked out! I’m still not sure if he was serious![/quote]
You what now! I have had a hysterectomy and kept my ovaries. Wonder where they are located now!

@Diversion

That Knotty Ash is actually a real place and not a fictional place made up by Ken Dodd. That it is "fire in the hole" and not "fire in the hold"

It can be fire in the hold. The "hold" on a ship is the storage area and in warship would have contained the gun powder for cannons. A "fire in the hold" would be disastrous.

@anameIcallmyself Yes, New Zealand is named after Zeeland

@Feminist10101

Anything to do with cars. Can't change tyres, check oil or even pop the bonnet!

Can’t? My 10 year old DD can do those things. She can also identify all of the warning lights on the dash, knows most of the rules of the road and different speed limits and the basics of how the engine, clutch and brakes work.

There’s absolutely no reason anyone old enough to drive can’t do the things you’ve listed.

I guess you win then. Not sure what you win but still.

@Feminist10101 now you've taught your child how to fix a car, maybe teach her how to not try and demean other people and be a nicer human being. Life's a learning journey you can learn something new every day, we should encourage people to grow not make them feel stupid because you know something they don't!

Oh my... I finally 'get' the chicken joke...at 55 years old

I'm I missing something?

I thought Dubai was a country even tho I had been numerous times. Only just realised it's UAE and that Dubai is a city there.

@frayday well said! I had to read that post twice as thought surely no one is that horrible for no reason!!

If the poster amicissimma who originally posted the post below about countries not being where you thought they were is still here I kept your post because it was so funny. It deserves an outing here.

When I am Queen of the World there is going to be some serious Tidying Up.

For starters Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana are going to be in Africa; South America can have Senegal and Somalia

Djibouti is going to be where it belongs with the UAE, Bahrain and Qatar, and Kuwait can move down to be with them

Burundi is going into SE Asia with Brunei

All the Guineas are going to be together - they can choose whether the African ones join the Papua New one, or they all get together in West Africa

The Gambia's in the wrong place, but I'm not quite sure where it should be. Off the coast of Scotland, perhaps

The Falklands and the Faeroes can swap

Israel needs an island to itself; maybe it can have the Falklands, but that leaves the Faeroes homeless, unless they fancy the Middle East?

Georgia goes to Europe proper, maybe the French could spare a bit of Normandy so we could keep the St George's flags together

A bit of land-dragging will be needed to put Hawaii just off the USA and Bermuda and The Bahamas together

After that I'll need a little lie-down, so other people can have a go ...

Nearly forgot the Most Important:

The isthmus of Panama is going to get put right: there is no way that Colòn, on the Caribbean side of the canal, should be to the northwest of Panama, on the Pacific side. Panama west of Colòn. If You Please

saying holland is the netherlands is like saying england is the uk...

It really isn’t, that might have been a thing back in the day but now, when people say Holland it is always in reference to the Netherlands as a whole and not just the province’s of South and North Holland.

In all my years in the Netherlands I have never referred to it as Holland. The confusion is totally understandable because internationally Netherlanders call themselves Hollanders.