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.

Nope the poster was wrong, it was originally another think coming, the only reason another thing coming is now accepted as being correct is that it's been used incorrectly so many times it's now actually used. Another thing makes absolutely no sense in the context.

Oh yes, and a 60-something colleague once made us laugh telling us how he was always puzzled why there were gorillas fighting in the Vietnam War.

How does that work with hybrid cars?

The Toyota hybrids are rather amazing with a planetary gearbox (you need to find a video showing how this works - honestly it's a thing of beauty ) and frictionless electromagnetic clutch instead of plates. The petrol engine is simpler but more efficient than conventional petrol cars, it can operate more at its optimal rate because there's the motor-generators too.

I didn't have a clue re the pig going to market, who on earth would write that in a kids rhyme!!

Also miniseries, I had not clicked till seeing this thread.

I found out about pineapples not growing on trees on MN a few years back.

@justasoul

I'm Welsh and thought this too
Luckily I'd never said it out loud

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No, automatic PETROL engine cars have gearboxes but ELECTRIC cars don’t as they use a type of direct drive system.

So a Hybrid petrol/electric car will still have a gearbox. 🙂

I'm going to preface this with the fact I had a 1yo, was pregnant, and DH had been away for several months. Despite being educated... my critical thinking was at a low point.

Palm oil and orangutans. I thought they were getting it from the palms I.e. hands of the orangutans. Not killing them, just extracting it. No wonder it was so controversial.
It was many months later when it dawned that it was palms I.e. plants, and destroying the habitats.

I have never admitted this in real life.

That speech always made perfect sense to me! I used to use elements of it when helping pupils plan their revision.

@Utterbunkum

After watching Fawlty Towers for years I still call grapefruit 'gralefrit'

OMG of course it is!! 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

Id got so used to people getting it wrong, and laughing smugly to myself , that I...

Oh god I need another coffee
Ffs....

(Other think well and truly arrived now 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍 👍)

It’s not correct, though. Yes, ‘Arctic’ comes from the Greek for ‘bear’, but it’s in reference to the Ursa Minor constellation and its key star Polaris (crucial for navigation from ancient times because of its visibility to the naked eye, stability in the northern sky, and the fact that it’s very close to the North Pole) — ‘Antarctic’ just means ‘opposite the Bear’, ie at the opposite pole.

Nothing to do with the presence or absence of polar bears!

Back when I was dating my now husband, we used to go to the cinema a lot, and regularly went to a flashbacks screening where they would show old films. The screening schedule was a few weeks in advance so we could see all the films coming up.

One evening I said to my Dh, ooh never heard of that film what's that one about? Title of the film - "the audience decides" 😂not my finest moment!

BF at the time (now DH) said he'd done clay pigeon shooting before. I was horrified, totally prepared to dump him and told him what a horrible cruel sport it was. He was crying with laughter when he explained what clay pigeons were! I thought they were a breed of pigeons; oh the shame. Still laugh about it now.

Also, I never knew what the term 'do you dress to the right or left sir?' meant, when a man was measured for a pair of tailored trousers. I thought it was to do with whether he preferred to do his zip on the right or left...DH still cries laughing when this gets brought up in conversation. 😂

*Einbahnstrasse.

it took me two months of living in Germany to work this out. My German friends found this hilarious.

Yes, I know. I looked it up after i made that post. 😥

I'm holding on to the hope that this is just one random interpretation of it but still I don't think I can ever do 5 little piggies with my little one without thinking and there goes another little piggy...😁

By thr way on the same website I read that ring a ring a roses is about the plague... 😶

Our DD are also born with ova so technically we all carry our DD children.

Also, Greek/Roman statues have small penises because normal sized ones were considered uncouth or animalistic. Small ones were considered arty and refined. It doesn't mean that men's penises were small back then.

OMG - I am 61 years old and just found that out!

There was quite a thread on here a while back calling Paul McCartney a paedophile because I Saw Her Standing There starts 'Well she was just seventeen, you know what I mean'
Not realising that a) it was just to make the line scan/rhyme and b) McCartney was only 21 when he wrote it.

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/French-Cannons-as-Street-Bollards/

There are some slimmer cannon used around Mayfair in London, but this helps.

OMG @Paw2024! My babies are grown now but I always thought envelope necks were because some babies had big heads! Every day is a school day!

One word: Yosemite

My mother used to tell about the night a German pilot parachuted into the park and an officious air raid warden was telling everyone to close the bloody gates, we've got him! He wouldn't listen to those telling him it was pointless as all the railings had been commandeered to make war materials!

@Mapletreelane i was 41, thanks!

That´s really adorable.