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!

Chopping a carrot is also simple

But the pp are having these checked, they just get someone else to check it

I suppose it depends when they get them checked and how often. It's really easy to just pop the bonnet, check the oil, screen wash and coolant.

A bit harder to do the tyre pressure though. But can be done when you fill up at a garage.

@Eckhart some people but ready sliced veg as they struggle with it due to arthritis etc, it's not always they don't want to do it

Buy

I learned this week that both male AND female reindeer grow antlers, and that male reindeer lose their antlers in the winter but females keep theirs. That means Santa’s reindeer are all female!

*carlaCox But is desert not land?

@carlaCox

It's not all snow covered land, some of it is desert.

The whole of the Antarctic is desert.

It is. I was thinking specifically of the Dry Valleys.

@FudgeBrownie2019

I don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t give their kids these skills.

Time, money, energy, access to a car, not being taught those skills themselves, all of the above? Not everyone has the many advantages you seem to enjoy and rather than be snitty about it perhaps focus some of your unspent rage on making sure your compassion and understanding of others improves whilst your child builds a delorean and mops the bathroom floors, yes?

I can't understand why this has become some kind of competition where anyone who can't do x, y and z is vilified. To be honest if children are kind, compassionate and know how to not be dicks to others, they'll be winning at life.

Also, I didn't know until recently that odds (as in the odds of something happening) are directly correlated with fractions. I thought odds were just numbers pulled out of the air like lucky guesses.

Well said.

@Hurryupbaby11 Yes he's right! As a child it used to make me cry because I felt sorry for my daddy! I was grown up before I realised it was talking about daddy dressed up!

@chomalungma I could of course save £4 by checking my own air pressure at the petrol station. However there are usually two cars in front of me, it's often wet, I don't enjoy it, my hands get dirty and I have arthritic knees and broke my back five years ago so whilst I can do it I chose not to when I can pull into Kwik fit over the road.

For an extra £4 I get a coffee in the warm (pre covid) 10 mins to MNet, and the chap usually measures the threads on the tyres at the same time. Worth every single penny. The fiver is also optional but even when they won't take it I bung it in the charity tin. Funnily enough when I do need a tyre replaced they fit me in really quickly

I went to a site one, thetruesize.com and was AMAZED. Greenland is so much smaller than I thought. All of the countries we see on. Map are out of perspective and on this website you can pick any county, type it in and drag it over your own country to see how it really measures up! Wow. It’s an eye opener

BillMasen

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.

Agree. This is a won’t

No I can't do any of those things. Why are people so insistent that other people can do things. I dont know how and therefore I can't do them.
To say I won't do them makes it sound like I know how and can do it but can't be bothered. That's just not true

I genuinely though babies were born with milk teeth until I had my first

No I can't do any of those things. Why are people so insistent that other people can do things. I dont know how and therefore I can't do them.
To say I won't do them makes it sound like I know how and can do it but can't be bothered. That's just not true

I agree with you - I can do all these things but do so rarely, so it's not can't or even won't - I just don't because someone else will, sometimes end up doing so but not often. I only can because I learned. Just like the posters dd

@RosesAndHellebores

Fair enough.

@NewlyGranny

I thought Cleethorpes was a comedy fictional seaside place because of the funny stories my OH told about going there as a child. Perhaps it is - I've still not been to find out!

My friend and I as kids thought the same and managed to talk her parents into taking us there to prove it was real. We weren't impressed really, was just mud.

I thought Timbuktu was fictional too, until I spent some time in NW Africa.

Raisins and sultanas are dried grapes, it’s true, but currants are dried currants, as in blackcurrants and redcurrants

I think the currants we buy for baking are usually from grapes.

Baking currants are from really small grapes called currant grapes.

[quote 81Byerley]@Hurryupbaby11 Yes he's right! As a child it used to make me cry because I felt sorry for my daddy! I was grown up before I realised it was talking about daddy dressed up![/quote]
I always just thought that Father Christmas didn't really count and it was fine to kiss him regardless of marital status as he's Father Christmas Not going to admit to DH that he's right though....

I used to be able to do everything under a bonnet. Those were the days when you could buy a manual from Halfords. Modern cars you don't have a chance. They need to be diagnosed by a computer and require experts. When I was 17 I changed a tyre for a 25 year old man who didn't k is how to - my dad taught me as soon as I could drive. Now I would call the AA as I have interlocking wheel nuts. I have no idea why a ten year old would ever need to know how to change a tyre.

I'm 33 and didn't know that Bob Geldof was Irish until very recently.

*@DidoLamenting

And the lesser spotted woodpecker probably isn't less spotty than the greater spotted woodpecker

Oh. Is it to do with how often people spot them? I'm having trouble with this.*

Someone may already have responded to this but...It is smaller than the greater one (in Europe they also have a Middle Spotted Woodpecker).

Or maybe it is just spotted by the Middle Classes only....

@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.

@Arthersleep

Mow a meadow is not a place???

No! It's One man went to mow (with a mower or probably a scythe), Went to mow a meadow...