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'm intrigued by those who regularly change their own wheels (let's assume it's not the actual tyres). For a while I lived in a country with no breakdown services and mostly unpaved roads, so I had to be able to change a wheel. It takes a good bit of strength - I had a 3 foot long spanner which I'd fit to the nut, then have to literally jump on to get it to move (the vehicle had an external roll cage, which gave lots of bits to grab hold of). I could barely lift the wheel, and had an enormous jack which took ages to use, but again, I could at least do it.

Now I'm in the UK, we have breakdown cover - although our car is a bit smaller, there's no way I'd be able to change the wheel with the tools provided. Also, I've never needed to - paved roads and roadsweepers mean punctures are really rare here.

@Palatka

Currants are grapes, not blackcurrants!

@bathorshower

I'm intrigued by those who regularly change their own wheels (let's assume it's not the actual tyres). For a while I lived in a country with no breakdown services and mostly unpaved roads, so I had to be able to change a wheel. It takes a good bit of strength - I had a 3 foot long spanner which I'd fit to the nut, then have to literally jump on to get it to move (the vehicle had an external roll cage, which gave lots of bits to grab hold of). I could barely lift the wheel, and had an enormous jack which took ages to use, but again, I could at least do it.

Now I'm in the UK, we have breakdown cover - although our car is a bit smaller, there's no way I'd be able to change the wheel with the tools provided. Also, I've never needed to - paved roads and roadsweepers mean punctures are really rare here.

Tbf I’d probably get breakdown out nowadays but that’s not because I don’t know how.

It was more the whole “I can’t even pop a bonnet” deliberate helplessness that I found annoying. Like it’s a mans job so why should I.

I grew up vegetarian, veggie family and veggie partner so my understanding of meat is pretty much zero. I'm constantly embarrassing myself with my lack of knowledge to the extent that people think I'm taking the piss. Pork chops, rump steak, lamb shank. I've heard these words before but have only the vaguest idea of what they mean. I heard a new one the other day - "turkey crown". Not a clue.

@SendHelp30

Bet *@Feminist10101* is a right laugh at parties!

I remember Tomasz Schafernaker, the weatherman confessing that he didn't realise lambs were baby sheep until he was in his 30s. I wasn't sure whether to believe it. FFS the man is a scientist!

Regarding Nights in White Satin- I asked dh what sort of nights/ knights it was about, got him to answer without thinking first, he thought it was knights, as in jousty knights, not nights as in night nights. (Good description there!) His reasoning was knights wore silk/ satin tunics under their armour but also they wore white over- tunics over them sometimes, like the Knights Templar.

I actually reckon @Feminist10101would be very interesting at a party
I’d happily chat away on the basis of the name alone

@Curlygirl06

Regarding Nights in White Satin- I asked dh what sort of nights/ knights it was about, got him to answer without thinking first, he thought it was knights, as in jousty knights, not nights as in night nights. (Good description there!) His reasoning was knights wore silk/ satin tunics under their armour but also they wore white over- tunics over them sometimes, like the Knights Templar.

I thought it was Knights !

@Letsskidaddle I have memories of that too!

@FudgeBrownie2019 😂 "whilst your child builds a delorean" cracking up 😆

Until I was 12 I thought if you had no siblings you were a lonely child. I was mortified at school when a friend laughed and told me it was only child.

It made sense to me. I'd have been lonely without any brothers and sisters.

@CounsellorTroi

I remember Tomasz Schafernaker, the weatherman confessing that he didn't realise lambs were baby sheep until he was in his 30s. I wasn't sure whether to believe it. FFS the man is a scientist!

My Brother (in 40s) thought that the lamb eat was adult sheep and mutton was the very old sheep.

I am in no position to laugh at him as have only just worked out the chicken joke, along with DH and thought the Manic Street Preachers was a place.

@habibihabibi

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

Sorry but what? Had you never seen a baby til you gave birth?!

@CounsellorTroi my daughter when she was very small was marvelling at the sheep on hillsides in North Wales as we drove through, and then remarked "but they're not real are they?" She thought they were all little model sheep placed there for decoration. And if you look at animals in distant fields, she had a point!

@carlaCox

I grew up vegetarian, veggie family and veggie partner so my understanding of meat is pretty much zero. I'm constantly embarrassing myself with my lack of knowledge to the extent that people think I'm taking the piss. Pork chops, rump steak, lamb shank. I've heard these words before but have only the vaguest idea of what they mean. I heard a new one the other day - "turkey crown". Not a clue.

It's the tinsel hat that the Christmas turkey wears, as an emblem of its importance on Christmas day...

I thought robins were just winter birds, thought they died off in summer.

It's the tinsel hat that the Christmas turkey wears, as an emblem of its importance on Christmas day...

Ah I should have guessed! Thanks!

I had a friend when we were 18 who thought Paco Rabanne was an islan in the Med.

Island...flaming iPad.

Oh I also had a Japanese student who thought women were pregnant for 12 months not 9 . I was never sure if this was a translation difficulty.

[quote Nanny0gg]@Palatka

Currants are grapes, not blackcurrants![/quote]
I knew that! I don't know why I agreed they came from black/red currants

actually I do know why. I'd had a long work day followed by one too many glasses of cider

A turkey crown isn't that when you buy it rolled and boneless ?

I thought a turkey crown was just the top of the bird minus the legs?

james wong on raisins, currants and sultanas

and to add to the confusion you can get dried currants in health food stores as well...