When the penny drops about dumb things that you should have known!

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For ages I thought there was a poster called Tia. I always used to think it was a bit weird that they would sign their name....not very anonymous. Now I realise it means thanks in advance.
I am 45.

"This little piggy went to market", it wasn't going shopping...

Driving through ROI and wondering why there were SO many roads leading to 'Amach', thought this town must be pretty accessible from everywhere before copping on that 'amach' in Irish means 'exit' 🤣 ( I am Irish which makes this worse 🙈😆)

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Tuna are really big fish, not tin sized. Was in my 30s when I realised this, in a restaurant when someone ordered a tuns steak. I mean, I know you don't get intact whole tunas in tins, but my brain went "Sardines in a tin - small fish" ergo all fish in tins is small - other than salmon of course - I'd seen salmon. Never seen a whole tuna.

I am a card carrying numpty.

When foot and mouth disease hit when I was a child my mum told me the local sheep in a small hold near us were going ‘to the farm’ to be safer, I later heard this again when our local vicars pet swans disappeared, that they had gone to the farm for more space.

As an adult my husband broke it to me that ‘the farm’ was not a real place and I couldn’t believe I’d been that stupid for that long 😶

I remember thinking that 'situation comedy' was a mouthful and pondered what it could be shortened to. Felt like a right muppet when I realised that's what sitcom was

Also pineapples don’t grow on trees, but I don’t feel so stupid because most people are surprised when they google that one.

I just realised last week that to reply to a PP you type @ and a list of posters on the thread is prompted. I thought you had to go to their post and copy and paste their name.

I know this is extremely silly but I only recently realised polar bears name literally means bears that live in the North Pole / polar area.

@Alalalalalongalalalalalonglonglilong can't help but add to this - "arctus" means bear. Bears live in the arctic. Antarctic means no bears.

Well I have learned quite a lot from this thread already.

I have three degrees and usually win when playing general knowledge games.

I always thought you searched for something with a fine toothcomb. Thought a toothcomb was some ancient implement.

About 2 years ago it dawned on me, out of nowhere, that it's a fine-tooth(ed) comb, ie a comb with very close, fine teeth so nothing much could get thru it unseen💡

There is a chap on a local group I'm in that communicates by email and his email address is 'Welsh The Rapist @ XXXXX.com' which I thought was pretty obnoxious although he seems a very nice man.

One day I realised it was
'Welsh Therapist @XXXXX.com' 😩

Thank goodness I never said anything as he would have thought I was mad!

Many moons ago,I used to live with my grandad

When I was about 8/9 my mother bought me some dolls-flower fairies (same doll,blonde/dark hair and different outfits)

Anyway,If you collected tokens from the packet,you could send off for a small plastic box to store teeth (this was the 80's)

She sent off and a small,purple box showed up a month later

A few months later,the box came into its own when a tooth fell out

Tooth was put inside it and stuffed under my pillow

Next morning there was the 10p from the fairy but the tooth was still in the box

Quick as a flash,my grandad told me that the tooth fairy had arthritis in her fingers and couldn't open it

Took me longer than I care to admit for the penny to drop,that it wasn't the tooth fairy that had arthritis...

That's an unfortunate email address😆🤣😆🤣

That recycled toilet paper is made from paper that we put in our blue wheely bin for recycling.

For some reason i was convinced the manufacturers were down in the sewers collecting clumps of soggy used toilet paper to recycle into new rolls.

Im all for the environment and being green but for years i avoided recycled toilet paper. Shudder.

Ohh this mistake was in a film or a tv show too but in reverse!!

Googled, and it’s called Inside Man on Netflix with Stanley Tucci, was brilliant! X

I found out recently that electric cars are automatic rather than manual as they don't have gear boxes. Makes sense when you think about it... which I hadn't really. I've never driven an electric car. The closest I've come was we had a hybrid hire car once...

It took me a while to realise that a 'miniseries' is a mini series. I was pronouncing it in my head as 'min-is-eries' and thinking 'what the hell is that?'.

BadNewsBelle · Today 22:09

Driving through ROI and wondering why there were SO many roads leading to 'Amach', thought this town must be pretty accessible from everywhere before copping on that 'amach' in Irish means 'exit'

Similarly, I drove from Berlin up to the Baltic coast and wondered where the huge town of Ausfahrt was and why I'd never heard of it.

And a colleague, who asked for help from a copper. He couldn't find his car abut it was on Eingangstrasse.

.... One way street!

I was in my late 20's before realising why Noah took two of every animal into the arc ☺️

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@RobertaFirmino me too, I was thinking it was pronounced like miseries

Why would he (or anyone) have thought you were mad? Seriously, half the people looking at the website name are likely to have thought the same. It’s the Welsh therapist who was a bit dim not to have noticed it himself.

@Daisypod actually there were seven pairs of some types of animals despite this never being depicted in children's books or wooden play sets!

I knew this as a result of my strange childhood obsession with Elvis and Blue Hawaii.