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.

That the line from the song teenage dirtbag "he drives a Nyroc(?)" Is actually "he drives and I rock!" For years I wondered what kind of car a Nyroc was! 🤣🤣🤣

Remember the tutor scoffing at me in a history seminar once because I pronounced 'Tonypandy' wrong. As in Andy Pandy.

I recall people standing to one side as they opened the door for the same reason.

My late MIL, born 1910, wouldn't have a socket switched on without a plug in it as all the electricity would leak out.

No, there’s a Chevrolet called an IROC! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Camaro_(third_generation)

Bless him! That'll soon right itself, once he has actually started reading the novella. One of my favourites to teach, but it is really tricky.

🙄....DONT!!
It doesn't, mean?
33- always thought it was what piggies were doing with their day? ...aww. no.

Ditto.

See also the Star Wars programme (Reagan’s era) in the US. Couldn’t fathom why that was always in the news either 😂

It"s "he drives an IROC". At least it is according to all the online lyric things. It's a Chevy.

Afternoon is after noon. 20 before I twigged that...

@CharlotteBog Ha ha! You've reminded me of my physics teacher at school who was mystified for months as to why all the girls were drawing capacitor symbols all over their books and scratching it into the desks. Eventually she realised it was Take That's logo 😅

There is a very archaic word forenoon. If that were still in use, we'd probably make the connection with midday a bit more readily!

Breakfast is the meal with which we break our overnight fast.

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.

Definitely happened when my brother came out to see us, it took him 30km or so to realise!
Off topic but asking those who live outside the UK, do you find that km go quicker that miles? I would think at 100km we were nearly home but 60 miles seemed far away!

Surely it's clockwise to lock it, anti-clockwise to unlock ?

All the people who didn't know that This little Piggy wasn't going shopping - I thought he was shopping too for quite a long time - I can't help feeling the people who sang it to us did a really great job to not scar and scare us!!

I took a selfie next to 'misc exotic plant' and excitedly showed my new colleagues on my first trip to our Hong Kong office.
Yeah....banana buds about to fruit.
🙂🍌

@diddl

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

Yes you are correct!

It depends if you are locking it from the inside or outside and what side the lock is on. This is going to melt some brains but I lock my front door by turning the key anticlockwise when I'm inside the house but I have to turn it clockwise when I'm outside.

I depends what side the handle is on.
You turn the key the way you want the lock to turn inside the mechanism.

If you stand on your head you won't have this complicated set up.

Oh @DysmalRadius , you poor buggers! Yonge Street is legendary, it goes on forever.

Oh dear god that's even worse! 🤣🤣

My kids used to take the piss out of me over this ...and I was right all along! 🤣🤣

I have just now realised this from your post. I am 59. My mother did that rhyme with me and I did it with both my DC and never twigged.

@WalkingThroughTreacle @CharlotteBog

I've already realised after @diddl 's post. Was thinking of outside my house - but yep - the opposite way indoors .

Glad you posted this I was so confused by @MoleAtTheCounter as my doors all unlock anti clockwise.