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.

CAT scans 🐈‍⬛

Reindeers are real.

OMG, I remember my sister doing this too! She’ll be so happy she wasn’t the only one! I absolutely did not relentlessly take the piss out of her about it

I thought Davidoff ‘cool water’ aftershave was aftershave by David Hasselhoff. I did not realise it is an old brand and only found out relatively recently….. It was advertised on tv at the same time Baywatch was on.

When I was about 18 and at University, I asked (whilst sitting in a group of friends) “why is a pig called a porker but pork comes from a chicken?”

The difference in colour between pinky bacon and the whiter “pork” made me think they came from different animals. Friends still say things like “she’ll have the breast of pork” when we go out for dinner some 40 years later!!

Thats not true.

That is fabulous!

So had you eaten both & couldn't tell the difference?

I don't think his email address actually was Welsh The Rapist, not least because email addresses don't have spaces. I suspect that's just how @Falkenburg initially read it.

I suspect I will never, ever be able to read or hear that word without mentally adding 'Rodney'. I have a similar problem with 'flash'. Ah Ah, saviour of the universe...

Sorry, this has made me howl so much. I think it is a great new name for them.

That reminded me (also off topic)… I live in a 1910 red brick terraced house with an oddly low red brick wall in our front garden. Apparently the iron railings that should have been above the wall were removed during the war. Don’t know how true that is though?

It’s hang gliding not hand gliding.

learnt that a couple of years go on one of these threads

Sorry, I don’t for a moment believe the vast majority of posts on these threads.

Absolutely, the ones that involve childhood misunderstandings or mispronunciations, or misheard song lyrics, or minor things you’ve simply not happened to come across like seeing how pineapples grow — but I simply don’t believe that any reasonably literate adult of anywhere near normal intelligence would refuse to fill out a TOIL form because they thought it meant specifying to employers when you went to the loo, or thinking that ‘time-served’ tradesmen were advertising their status as ex-cons! 😀

I thought identical twins meant their faces looked very similar. Hence the look of confusion when I asked a friend if her male and female twins were identical 🤦🏻‍♀️.

I didn't know that either

DH and I were having a conversation about birds yesterday and I said something about them going back to their nests. DH looked at me incredulously and said ‘It’s not breeding season, they only raise their babies in nests, did you really think the birds were all going home to a nest?’… yes! Yes I did!

I once had an ebay parcel to send to an Ian The Butt, took some googling to realise her name was Ianthe, I'd never heard it before!

What!!?? Where do they go to get snuggly for the night then!?

True. Lots of metal railings, gates etc were requisitioned for wartime munitions, ship-building etc. However, it seems much of it went unused, and there are various stories about why and what may have been done with the huge amount of metal resulting, whether there was an official cover-up so as not to destroy civilian morale etc!

https://www.londongardenstrust.org/features/railings3.htm

I thought the sign 'HAZCHEM!' was a German word meaning danger.

Hazardous chemicals. Yeah... makes sense I guess.

My husband was gobsmacked when I did exactly this a week or so ago.

He's 70 and very technically minded. He was so impressed with me.

I actually learned it myself on MN a few years back.

How does that work with hybrid cars?

That's going to be true isn't it? Everyone was asked to give them up to make weapons etc. My grandparents did it.

Is it high definition?

When the pilot says "We're experiencing some turbulence" I thought there were sort of rough hard clouds in the sky called turbulents (noun) that we the plane was bumping against.

@TheSilentSister Never mind it's high fidelty sound