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!

The Shaun the Sheep is the Uncle of Timmy.

I didn't know until I picked up a Timmy the Sheep book for DS

I have posted this before but I was well into adulthood and thought that it was someone's job to turn on a town's street lights at dusk from a central location. My ex husband informed me there is a sensor on the top of every lamppost😂
In my defence, I definitely knew that Pontefract is in Yorkshire and I am old enough to know it's Nights in White Satin, never even thought of Knights!

@alexdgr8 hang on, I thought seconds out was a traditional countdown,times up kinda thing

@AgentJohnson

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.

The thing is, that out of the population of The Netherlands, a huge percentage live in Holland.

So when you meet most Dutch people out of The Netherlands, thye ar elikely to be from Holland.

People from Holland don't mind the country and people being called Hollanders.
But Dutch people from outside Holland and much less happy about htis, and get quite irritated if you refer to theri country as Holland.

Just like Welsh and Scottish people really.

(My dh is Dutch, he is from Holland, he doesn't care and struggles to care on behalf of the people not from Holland. Hmm reminds me of the English attitude to rest of Uk then!)

But Dutch people from outside Holland and much less happy about htis, and get quite irritated if you refer to theri country as Holland

Just checking a map now as have been to the Netherlands quite a bit and might have said Holland at the wrong moment.

Honestly, guys, I am Dutch and a Dutch people do not care!

At all

We are not an easily offended people

It’s such a myth

... and I am from “outside Holland”, ie Groningen

@pinkbalconyrailing

wrt kidneys - if you have seen a butcher removing the kidneys from a carcass you can see that they are nestled in a big area of fat (in a cow it would be the lard) and quite hard to get to.

The fat around kidneys is suet. Lard is rendered fat.

@Castiel07

Until a few months ago my husband thought the ozone layer was a nightclub ffs.

Brilliant

Speaking of languages I don't know how true it is but I read that 4 times more people speak English as a second language than as a native one

Until someone heard me singing that Duck Sauce song I thought it was Barbra Streisland not Barbra Streisand.

As a teenager I also thought 'use sparingly' meant as if you have loads to spare. Cue very embarrassing school sports day with Donald-Trump coloured knees and elbows.

I have a degree, clearly not in common sense.

I read that 4 times more people speak English as a second language than as a native one

Something like 1 in 6 people in the world have English as a second language, but I don't know if they count a minimum level of fluency, or if just the ability to say hello, goodbye please, thank you, yes, no, okay and no more would count.

@Judashascomeintosomemoney

My one is, I genuinely always thought the song was Knights in white satin. It never occurred to me that satin would be really crap armour. Nights makes so much more sense. 🙄

What 🤯🤯 I’m going to have to go back and listen again

@fishykettles @Bikingbear

It most definitely and absolutely is not the Shetlands! It is Shetland, plain and simple. If you come here and say the Shetlands, we will correct you en masse. You’ll be surrounded by choruses of “it’s Shetland” wherever you go!

[quote HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee]@alexdgr8 hang on, I thought seconds out was a traditional countdown,times up kinda thing[/quote]
that's the point.
it is not.
it is an order for sponge man whispering in fighter's ear
to get out of the ring,
next round begins.

i guess you all know that venue is where,
throwing in the towel, meaning to give up,
comes from. to save further injury, sponge man throws the towel into the ring to signal to referee that's enough punishment, we concede.

not that i'm disagreeing with previous answers or anything...
but feel for the sake of completeness we ought to remember that
Holland is one of the parts of Lincolnshire,
the others being lindsey and kesteven.

@Judashascomeintosomemoney I thought that too! I still did until a minute ago 😂😂 I was about six when the song was popular, so there’s my excuse. Oh wow! It makes total sense now! Thank you 😊

@alexdgr8

not that i'm disagreeing with previous answers or anything... but feel for the sake of completeness we ought to remember that Holland is one of the parts of Lincolnshire, the others being lindsey and kesteven.

And Wales is in Yorkshire but not the bit with pontefract in it. Pennsylvania is also in Devon.

@CornwallLass

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side. It will be run over so die ie pass over, get to the other side.

😱

As a teenager I also thought 'use sparingly' meant as if you have loads to spare. Cue very embarrassing school sports day with Donald-Trump coloured knees and elbows. I have a degree, clearly not in common sense

Me too!!
Always have to check myself as to which way it is before carrying out said action

@RosesAndHellebores

There's an arrow next to the petrol sign in cars which points to which side the filler cap is on.

Having driven an automatic for 20 years I only realised there was a lever to over-ride the auto feature and change the gears manually.

Which cars can you over ride the automatic gear box?

"Blood is thicker than water" actually means the complete opposite of what everyone uses it for. It means that the blood spilt between soldiers in battle is thicker than the water of the womb, so basically friends who stand by you are more important than those you're related to.

Only learnt this recently after my grandpa kept saying it and I googled its origin. I love telling people now that I know!

There's Pennsylvania Castle on Portland, too.

I used to work for a company based in Central London but with warehouses in Billericay. For some reason I thought Billericay was a South Sea Island and was very jealous of colleagues who got to go there for site visits. I was also bewildered that they could be in London in the morning, leave for Billericay at lunchtime and be back at their desks the following morning. It mystified me that they could fly there and back so quickly. At some point the penny dropped and I realised that Billericay was only about 35 miles away in Essex. Luckily I was very junior and very shy so had never expressed my amazement out loud.

Years later my sister and her husband were on a long round the world trip and we were making plans for me to join them for a holiday. When I told her the dates I could travel she told me they would be in Patagonia. I enthusiastically agreed to look into flights and meet them there. When I hung up the phone I had to google Patagonia to find out where it was. Until that point I had thought it was a mythical place like Atlantis. I now know it's Southern Argentina and can thoroughly recommend it as a place to visit.

You know the pants and socks hangers- not the socktopus ones from IKEA, the oval ones with a big hook on the top and a smaller hook behind it? Used them for years and it was only recently I found out you hook the little hook over the washing line, put the big over ( bit of a twist to do that) and it stops it whizzing up and down the line or being blown off.