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.

WHAT?

Ohhhhh! Didn't think of that before.

Hah, we had a very similar situation with ‘Einbahnstrasse’ in our family!

@JudgeJ TBF I don't think it's the best idea to swallow it, but yes, we used to be told something similar...
When I was at school, home microwaves weren't common. We had one at school, though. Our home ec teacher impressed on us the importance of waiting until the beeps finished before opening the door because we'd get radiation sickness if we opened the door too early.

Driving through Pembrokeshire my husband couldn't get over how much it reminded him of driving through Australia. When I asked him which part, I could hear his mind blowing as he said 'New South Wales' 😁🤯

Surely it depends on which side of the door you are/which side of the doorframe the lock goes into?

I don't know where you can get them in the UK, but I grew up in the tropics and have eaten a cashew fruit once. It was not very exciting, like eating a wet, slightly sweet sponge without much flavour.

Also, on holiday in Canada, we had to collect tickets from a travel agent and were trying to find the most convenient branch. There were a few on the same street and we couldn't work out which way the numbers went so picked one at random on the grounds that the steet 'couldn't be THAT long'. We were so wrong... 😳

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonge_Street#:~:text=Yonge%20Street%20(pronounced%20%22young%22,of%20Canada's%20first%20subway%20line.

Not entirely true. The green peppers are less ripe - but red, orange and yellow peppers are different varieties.

You turn the key away from the lock to open and towards to close. If the lock is the right way up. So it will be different depending on if the lock is on the left or right of the door.

However we have some doors in our house that have been hung upside down (you can read the lock manufacturer's mark and it's upside down) and you literally have to turn it the opposite way to what you'd expect to open/lock it.

Even though I know these doors are upside down I always have to double think to get it right can't wait for the extension and they can go!

When my son was 16 and started work for a company, over the year a few people left and he heard they had gone to "pastures new" he always thought it was a competitor of the company he worked for.

Oh, and Max Factor was a man who made makeup - it doesn't mean 'Maximum Factor' as my husband believed. We discussed what that would actually have meant and it turns out he vaguely thought you might measure makeup coverage in factors but he hadn't thought much beyond that.

Hybrid cars sometimes have a thing called a CVT, continuously variable transmission. Imagine the drive shaft is connected to an elastic band that is wrapped around a cone. The tapered end of the cone is like the lowest gear, the wider end of the cone like high gear. Instead of cogs which have steps between them (where you feel the car change gear) it's seamless. Some have gearboxes.

The toyota hybrids have a much cooler form of CVT than that cone thing, to integrate the electric motor-generators . I think the cones are used in conventional IC automatics?

A few days ago I found out that the first two letters of your number plate is the code of where your car was registered. For example mine is ‘EA’ which shows it was registered in Chelmsford, Essex. I just thought they were random letters😂

Didn't know bananas grew upside down until I visited a plantation. They look as if they ought to hang down.

I always read R&D as rhythm and development. I know what it should be, but that's what my mind goes to.

Oh my word am 40 years of age and only copped this now

Wasn't there a war that started over a game of football?

... googled it:

I grew up in the East End and there were lots of these in the streets.

Thanks to seeing lots of westerns etc growing up, I believed that you were allowed to shoot people in America. Even when I found out the truth, I still couldn't get my head around why a country would let its people have guns but not allow them to shoot each other.

I was older than I care to admit before I realised that gorillas were not highly intelligent animals capable of launching violent attacks armed with guns and bombs. As a child I'd watched several harrowing news reports on the TV and nobody had told me what a guerrilla was.

They aren't very recognisable in most cases though. I much prefer the ones in Germany where you can play let's see where the car is from on the motorway and it gives you an interesting insight into how many cars are local and how many aren't.

Eg, B is Berlin, D is Duesseldorf, FR is Freiburg, PA is Passau. They usually make sense.

Reminds me of a song from Fame 🎵

Oh dear, sorry to have offended your sensibilities, at least the German policeman was pleasant to her and helpful rather than scoring cheap points! I doubt anyone reads through the whole thread to see if something has been already mentioned, hi-fi anyone!

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