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!

@Hurryupbaby11

Still not sure about this one - last Christmas DH told me that in the song 'I saw Mummy kissing Santa Claus' - Santa Claus is actually the dad dressed up as Santa. Is this right??!

Well technically speaking it could be anybody really :)

Anyone ever gone to Stilton to look for the place where the cheese is made? Melton Mowbray apparently... although the pub I asked in did us a nice plowmans involving white Stilton.

@Feminist10101

Really? Your 10 year old can change a tyre?

With someone finishing the tightening, yes.

I changed the oil in my dad’s car aged 6.

These are excellent life skills to have and the sooner the better.

(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. See also cooking, cleaning....)

Can't wait to see you walk on water

I had to google where carrot seeds come from.

"So what is a Shetland pony when it gets a bit older called ? I'm baffled now"

It's called a shetland pony. When it's a baby it's a shetland pony foal.

@pylongazer

I only realised a few years ago that Richard Attenborough and David Attenborough are not the same person.

Are they brothers ?

@moreofaslummythanyummy

A few months ago I found out mayonnaise wasnt a dairy product, I am mud 30's

I smiled at this. Not the mayo bit either :)

@Snowman2020 but why? Why don't they take them out, it's weird like having a hysterectomy but they just kind of unplug the essentials and leave it in place?

Does this happen with all transplants or just kidneys?

They were. Richard Attenborough died some years ago.

I do love some of these confessions! Not too sure if this counts as I don't have one of my own yet (until one pops up in my head) but a niece in her 30's laughed out loud when the word "airspace" was in the news, also the current fishing rights being discussed re Brexit and she was absolutely gobsmacked that a country not only owns the land but the sky above it and the waters around it. I don't like to call a family member a thicko but she is one big one!

@AddictedToCrisps

My dad rarely wears his hearing aids but many years ago we invited him to church to hear our banns being read. At the point in the service where you shake hands with each other saying “Peace be with you”, he walked around shaking hands, responding to everyone with “Pleased to meet you”. He thought everyone was very welcoming to him!!

This is adorable!

@IHaveBrilloHair

With sudocreme, or was that just mine?

Mine too

@blahblahblaaa

Feminist is SENIOR twat HR. Doncha know.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Because it felt like it

I thought Andrew and Freddie Flintoff were cricket playing brothers.

They are the same person

@CutToChase

Mine are quite dangerous ones! Until I was about 28 I didnt realise that:

Sticking a knife in the toaster can electrocute you
You DO NOT pour water on an electrical fire!

Glad you survived

@CardoMondo

Oh ... I’ve got one.

Until I was in my 30s I thought Sinn Fein was the name of the guy in glasses (Later known as Gerry Adams) and that he was the leader of the IRA.

I am educated to degree level 😂

That's a killer. I sniggered when I read this

@testing987654321

I definitely imagine knights on white horses wearing a weird combination of a kind of satin onesie with armour on top, kind of like a knight crossed with a power ranger. It's a much nicer image than some bloke singing about having sex in satin sheets.

It's about him lying in bed without her for endless nights though not having sex

@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.

Well, that is and is not true, actually. If a purebred, registered horse gives birth to a foal who does not reach normal size, that offspring is not considered a (for instance) Thoroughbred pony, it is a Thoroughbred horse that does not conform to breed standards. Just as a Welsh pony who grows to be 16 hands tall is not a Welsh horse, it is, again, a Welsh pony that does not conform to breed standards.

Not only are ponies shorter than horses, they are proportioned differently. They have shorter legs, wider barrels, and a thicker neck. Most of them have a heavier head, as well. However, that said, a pony and a horse can breed and produce fertile offspring, unlike horses (or ponies) and donkeys. So, while not precisely the same animal, they are very, very close.

@Blondiney

Who the hell moved Pontefract???

I think it was the chicken :)

[quote icedaisy]@00100001 my friend thought Bulls and cows were different animals. Like Bulls make Bulls and cows make cows. [/quote]
are bulls always black? or do you get black and white friesian males

Last week my youngest dd and I were talking about granny and granddad (my parents) and I was showing her pictures my dad had sent of him and mum in the early 70s. They were all black and white (colour was available I think but it cost more). Dd suddenly asked “it’s so weird to think of everything in black and white. When did the world go colour? Did everyone just wake up and it was colour all over the world?” Dd is 9. Her sisters were crying with laughter when they realised she genuinely thought the world used to be black and white!

More of a misheard lyrics one that I've held on to for several decades.

The Oasis song 'Stop crying your heart out' has nautical references.

It goes

Hold up
Hold on
Don't be scared
You'll never change my spinnaker.

Oh wait. Apparently (as my DH delighted in telling me recently) it's

You'll never change what's been and gone

My version is definitely better. It means staying your course and not being buffeted around by the opinion of another person.

@landofgiants

The Elgin Marbles are not round!

I am over 40 and only found this out a few weeks ago when they were in the news for something. I was imagining giant marble spheres and I'm not gonna lie, I'm disappointed.

I always thought 'elbow grease' was something you bought and applied to the elbow to help you work faster.

I also thought 'mutton jeff' was a stew

Ages ago somebody was giving out Mince pies at the hospital where I work. One of my colleagues (who may or may not have been a doctor) refused his ‘because I don’t eat beef’

Do I win??!