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.

It to me until my late 40s to realise AKA stood for Also known as

Why I hadn't worked this out was beyond me before I worked it out????

Not an adult realisation, but I remember being confused at the age of six about the game “pin the tail on the donkey”, and whoever gets it closest to the right place wins, which I had heard about before the party.

I thought that was it, and it was an easy game to win! 😂Nothing had been said about not being able to see, and I thought it was really unfair when I was blindfolded. (I was first!)

Same. Luckily I'd never said it out loud.

Was also far older than I should have been when I realised where the word "fortnight" came from.

A friend thought gwesty was a really popular hotel chain in Wales until she realised the signs were bilingual and gwesty is hotel

Hang on - where DOES the word fortnight come from?

Now I know I don't know, I really need to know !!!

I’m Welsh and got caught out by this before…when I said I would meet somebody in the car park of Hotel Gwesty. FFS 😂

Fourteen nights. Fortnight.

When I was a kid, my dad made us an amazing wooden sledge which had metal runners with measurements on them.He worked at a place that sold fabric by the metre.
It was only 30+ years later when I bought a sledge for my kids and it had no measurements on the runners did I realised they were never for measuring the distance you went on the sledge.

@Terfosaurus

Doh! Of course!

Thank you - I can relax now lol !!

I was in my 30s when I looked down at my computer keyboard and suddenly realised why it was called a 'qwerty' keyboard. I'd never realised it was just the first 6 letters 😂

Years ago before WiFi was a full blown thing I remember seeing "WiFi lounge" thinking it was pronounced "wiffy".
I remember thinking that place sounds cool, it sounds like a tiki/boho kind of place.

Same for me! I was 28 when I realised that tuna are big fish!
(I got served tuna steak at a dinner party).

My sister always thought a nest of tables were called “ Nescafé tables” because they were coffee tables 🤣

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on pronouncing things wrong - when I was a teenager and Hanson’s first album came out, I thought it was called Middle of Now-here rather no-where 🫣

I was 43 years old when I found out red, yellow and green peppers are only different colours as they are at different stages of ripeness. And not necessarily different types of pepper. Like tomatoes (which I knew ). Hence green peppers are so bitter as they are not ripe.

No way I'm 42 and just found out!

Made me giggle

I didn't realise pull up nappies rip off so every nappy change I was pulling them down. Very messy with a wriggly baby. Couldn't understand why people thought they were so good. Doh!

My friend told me that a friend of hers worked at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. I was not overly interested and thought it was a private financial company in the city. Many Many years later the penny dropped that it was HSBC

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Hm are you sure about that? I'm rethinking the whole rhyme now. I know most nursery rhymes mean something completely obscure but If a little piggy can have roast beef then why can't it go shopping?

😂That's hilarious - you must have been going through some amount of wipes!

When I realised that mascara is made of wax!

I was internally cringing for days!

I only found this out a few months ago (I'm 50) from my 11 year old!

Oh no. Seriously? 😱