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.

I've just had to Google to find out what the lyric actually is. I've also been singing king.

I thought it was just short for portable cabin

I was in my mid 20's when I twigged that Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh was the phonetic spelling of the sound a donkey makes.

I realised just before this Christmas, driving to Tesco, that Grandma actually died when she got run over by the reindeer. I thought she was in hospital recovering. I am 52.

This is true. But again it’s not from shedding of the endometrial lining as in menses, it’s released from the cervix along with mucous.

I only found this out in the last year or two when Alan Davies said exactly the same on QI, we’re not alone!

Likely answered by now
High fidelity.

High quality reproduction of sound.

"You've got another thing coming".......someone told me it is actually "another think coming". Had no idea.

I was today years old when I found that out!!
Every days a school day

also off topic, but some estates near Borough, London have WW2 stretchers as fencing

My husband was the same! 🤣🤣🤣
Only a few Christmas's ago we were listening to the song and he said, imagine what would have happened if her husband caught her!
Had to explain through my laughter that Santa was her husband 🤣🤣🤣

I'd see HTH at the end of posts here, and, realising these would often be posts with a sarcastic or exasperated tone, was reading it as a sort of "huff" sound intended to convey annoyance. I only found out about 2 years ago, and I still hear the huffing in my head when I read it...

In the past few years I've come to learn that narwhals are real and not mythical creatures.

Birds do not sleep in nests like beds

I just had to look up HTH - hope this helps for anyone else who doesn’t know…

When I was a child I thought the program, the last of the summer wine was actually called the summer wine and by sheer coincidence I kept catching the last episode of the series.

The roast beef eating pig is being fattened up.

@PriOn1 LOL!

High fidelity, faithful reproduction of the original sound (supposedly).

Auntieobem · Today 07:49

This is a bit niche. On the A90 to Aberdeen there's a sign post to the Grassic Gibbon centre. Every time I drove past it I would think how fab it was to have a gibbon centre relatively near us and would plan for when to take the kids there.

Turns out it's not monkeys. Kids would have been very disappointed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Grassic_Gibbon

You obvs never had to do sunset song for English higher!!

The first time I went to Vienna I spent all my time going into the men's toilets.

Because I thought 'Herren' meant 'for her'.

I did German up until year 11 too.

😱 thanks for the nightmares!

My brain was always trying to turn it into something like “HRH” but I just couldn’t get it to work. 😁

High fidelity.

When I was a child we used to go and visit my great aunt who lived near Hampton Court. The girls who she childminded/ babysat told me lots about the maze there, how people got stuck in it, how it was so hard to get out of. And I could only imagine it to be like quicksand. When we eventually went there, the hedges were a sore disappointment

In my first job post-uni in 1989 I couldn’t understand why the computing support guy put colon dash close bracket after his name on emails. :-)

I thought it must be some geeky programming language thing. 🙂