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 had an experience like that this week. A company called Lingopie was coming up on my Facebook (about language learning).

I was reading it as Lingo-pee. Even though the logo split it into Lingo and Pie

I though the 'Rhythm Method' for sex was timing the ..errrmm..thrusts in a rhythm so the man pulled out before ejaculating.

Thought it was it was a bit too much information to be discussed so openly.

Actually had to look on google maps for that one... mind blown

What about the dials on toasters? What did I miss?

Can you tell us how many children you have? 😁👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶

Pineapples?

I am not sure I believe the Ausfahrt thing, after all, it's at every exit, so surely you realise that it means....exit?

And the Einbahn or Einbahnstrasse depending on whether you are in Austria or Germany is pretty obvious too.

"arctus" means bear. Bears live in the arctic. Antarctic means no bears. love this! This wins MN and the internet today!

therapist.com is an unfortunately named legitimate website.

One of our local shopping centres has a unit with a sign that says "Therapy room". I'll be buggered if I'm going in there.

Who became King David of Israel

And Cardiff. Or about the same as Cardiff.

I never realised that segue is the pronounced 'segway'. I thought the word was seeg

Yes I thought people were using segway as well and it kind of made sense because segways are a means of transport! I hadn't actually seen seque written down. It is quite a new thing though, I don't know when people started saying "it's a good [segway] to our next point".

Well, they begin by taking the piss out of it

*I had an experience like that this week. A company called Lingopie was coming up on my Facebook (about language learning).

I was reading it as Lingo-pee. Even though the logo split it into Lingo and Pie*

Sitting on the bus home when I was studying A level physics. It was cold and dark and I was sort of day dreaming (the novelty of the hour long school bus journey had worn off sometime during 5th form) and could not fathom for the life of me why someone would write I love Kilo Electron Volts on the steamy window. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the state of my brain when I realised they were writing about Kev i.e. an actual person.

When I was a kid and we'd ask what day it was my mum would say for example....Wednesday all day so I was confused as to which days was only half days 🤔

It took me until being 19 to realise when she said....6 of one and half a dozen of the other...amounted to the same thing.

I only realised a few years back that the first line of the Carol is God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, and not God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen.

I am not sure I believe the Ausfahrt thing, after all, it's at every exit, so surely you realise that it means....exit?

And the Einbahn or Einbahnstrasse depending on whether you are in Austria or Germany is pretty obvious too.

This is what I was thinking.

Ausfahrt doesn't show on the signs with directions & distances of places.

One way street is the same as England-the word plus arrow direction.

These things are surely said as a joke?

Goodness me! I'd have expected the same, for some reason.

I just had to look up what ‘dress to the left or right’ means as that phrase was new to me. Every day is a school day!

https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-mean-when-the-tailor-asks-me-Do-you-dress-to-the-left-or-right-What-if-I-dont-know-will-my-suit-for-differently

And killer whales are not whales but mega dolphins.

*When i was a kid I was surprised to see all the swearing on the labels of frozen Turkeys.

Ready basted*

It's not just you! I work on a supermarket checkout and a while ago a man at my till told his wife to "go and get one o' them bastard chickens!"
Not altogether an unusual expression in Yorkshire. Besides the 'chicken' bit 😄

high fidelity (you have to be old enough to remember a 'Kids From Fame' song about it).

I don’t believe either of those, either — I think they’re kind of minor urban legend territory, the kind of mildly amusing thing people have just heard repeated around and think they can lay claim to. Like the child called ‘L-a’.

It's making 'ends meet' not 'ends meat'... I was thinking along the lines of daily bread... "not making our ends meat" not enough money for a Sunday Roast. 🙄

When this was my favourite password it caused all sorts of problems on the phone, No that's not what we have as your password. When I spelled it out I often got the reply, Oh is that how you say it. Soon changed it for something more recognisable.
One of my favourite places though.

What???!