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

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RainbowsAndFrogs · 05/12/2020 18:31

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

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Anordinarymum · 06/12/2020 23:33

I genuinely thought 'slim shady' was a friend of Eminem and told somebody this. I said I liked them both. I have never lived it down

kaleishorrid · 06/12/2020 23:43

@JaquiMcquacky

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??!

Smile

Could it because of beef duet in the mincemeat? Now I'm wondering if mince pies have suet in - like Christmas pudding
kaleishorrid · 06/12/2020 23:44

Suet- not a beef duet - sorry

AnnaSW1 · 06/12/2020 23:45

@ramblingsonthego my OH is educated to phd level and did not know those two things were both dandelions until we were on a lockdown walk and he realised when I was telling our toddlers Grin

cariadlet · 06/12/2020 23:45

To give your colleague the benefit of the doubt, mince pies did originally contain meat.

EBearhug · 06/12/2020 23:46

Some mincemeat recipes do include suet, but these days, many don't. Plus pastry can be made with lard - my mother's pastry was usually half lard, half butter for the fat. So it's not an unreasonable comment.

Twiddlet · 06/12/2020 23:50

I learned a coconut is not brown and hairy its whole life, but starts off green and smooth. I always thought it started out looking a bit like a kiwi and just grew. The person who told me told me asked ‘are you stupid?’ which made me feel extremely embarrassed to not have known.

Brickdon · 06/12/2020 23:51

Someone mentioned REM song Sidewinder earlier.

All my life I've wondered why the singer would be "Calling Cheryl Baker".

I've just googled and discovered he wasn't!

JaquiMcquacky · 06/12/2020 23:56

No, he thought they were made with minced beef...same as cottage pie.

MissWritenow · 07/12/2020 00:01

I knew it was Nights but see the word Knights in my head and the flowy riders.

After some thought I have a question: Is it just me, or does anyone have a reeaaally dim memory of a chocolate advert (or maybe liquor or perfume?) in the 80s or very early 90s with a knight on a horse and some silk - well, I guess satin! Possibly purple which would I assume be Cadbury-related? I'm sure there's a subliminal link like that from an ad with that song...

Spooky if there is and we've all been brainwashed by it, despite the fact that the word 'Knights' makes zero sense to any of us!

It's going to turn out to be true, isn't it.

Twillow · 07/12/2020 00:03

I still thought it was Knights in White Satin!

Twillow · 07/12/2020 00:08

So many people that think fish and insects aren't animals just cos they're not furry...what the heck are they then?

BluePeterVag · 07/12/2020 00:09

Nights in White Satin was the soundtrack to a tv advert for White Satin perfume in 1987. I wonder if that had actual knights in it? Haven’t been able to find out.

SleepingStandingUp · 07/12/2020 00:10

@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.

There's no reason anyone on here can't know the things they didn't know until they did, that's kind of the point.
BluePeterVag · 07/12/2020 00:10

@MissWritenow yes! I bet it was the White Satin advert. The box had a pink ribbon on it.

alexdgr8 · 07/12/2020 00:12

@Kalula

I didn't know that facade is pronounced fahsard. I always read it as fackaide. Blush
i actually heard an interview this year on radio between two headmasters, one from a high-achieving comprehensive and one from an independent school. they were talking about problems during covid, and the comprehensive one said about having to keep the fackade in place at school. i assumed it was some social distancing measure, akin to a stockade. then it became obvious he meant facade, but didn't know how to pronounce it. i was so embarrassed for him.
ILoveYoga · 07/12/2020 00:13

Wow! Some things I learned from this thread!

I too thought pontefract was in Wales. It just sounded Welsh to me

Didn’t make the connection between ABC and twinkle twinkle little star

For me - When the the song Poker Face came out, I thought lady gaga sang “cherry pie, cherry pie” and it was years before I learned it was “can’t read my, can’t read my”. Why did I think that?

DixieLandReject · 07/12/2020 00:14

@satnighttakeaway

I think it's because my husband is Irish and he laughed when I said I didn't know he was Irish! I assumed everyone must have known but maybe not!

alexdgr8 · 07/12/2020 00:16

@FelicisNox

Not one to brag but I'm feeling really intelligent right now.

Tis a new concept for me.

but did you know about the seconds, be honest now.
Diamondsandjems · 07/12/2020 00:19

You are absolutely not alone in the rice thing. Going away to google 🙈

BigCityLife · 07/12/2020 00:31

I always thought it was
'Breaking an Enrty' until a few years ago.

Also thought it was 'Chester draws' until I was 20 and saw it written down!!

I also found out when I was about 20 that you have little holes in your bottom eye lids that you cry out of. You can actually see them. I still sometimes look at them in the mirror!!

alexdgr8 · 07/12/2020 00:33

@JaquiMcquacky

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??!

Smile

i can understand that, it is confusing. i think originally they did contain meat, with spices etc. just like the word sweetmeats, now would mean just sweets. meat used to be used just to mean food, sustenance, as in OT : my tears have been my meat, day and night; while they daily say unto me, where is now the god .
alexdgr8 · 07/12/2020 00:34

thy god.

MissWritenow · 07/12/2020 00:34

@BluePeterVag No way, I knew it was there somewhere! A previous poster said she saw the words and the floaty business when she heard the music and I sort of remembered.. but not quite.. I feel dirty and used! How dare you, 80s adverts?!

alexdgr8 · 07/12/2020 00:40

@Twiddlet

I learned a coconut is not brown and hairy its whole life, but starts off green and smooth. I always thought it started out looking a bit like a kiwi and just grew. The person who told me told me asked ‘are you stupid?’ which made me feel extremely embarrassed to not have known.
was she a person who has senior position in HR. perhaps it should be a hiring question, along with stripping down an engine, changing a wheel, and re-decorating the board room in a timed test. (they've had to leave out the electrics element, due to those namby-pamby safety regulators).