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.

Haven’t read full thread yet so this may have come up.

I taught dh yesterday, 2 kids with him, how to take off the vests if the baby has a poo explosion. The shoulder tabs around the neck are widened so the vest can pull downwards over the shoulders and off the body that way to save poo from getting in the hair taking it upwards.

I then watched dh continue to do it this way no matter whether it was poo or not. I asked him why he was taking every vest off downwards and he said he thought I meant he was meant to do them all this way! 😂

I'm not convinced that works.

On the old dial phones, each number was used for 2 or 3 different letters; 1 = a, b, & c, 2 = d,e, & f, etc.

The code for Brighton should therefore be 1 (b) 6 (r), but it's 01273. Redhill is 01737, when it should start 0162... .

I loved some of the old exchange names. Sutton was "Vigilant", and no-one has ever been able to explain why afaik. Maybe they thought it would get confused with Sutton Coldfield.

So as mascara is wax, when it dries out (I don’t wear it frequently) could you revive it by heating it up?

When I was younger and heard people say to pregnant women "how far or long are you?" I thought it was a weird question to ask them... I think I was about 18 when I realised people were saying "how far ALONG are you"

Rats! I thought I’d quoted an earlier poster.

Also pineapples don’t grow on trees

In particular, they don't grow on pine trees.

It also took me decades to work out why none of the lime trees I saw ever had limes growing on them.

Some people think it's the number of minutes the bread is toasted for. It's just a variable dial though...

"Surbiton" has reminded me that "I didn't realise Timbuktu was a real place" usually pops up on these too... (threads, not toasters! )

Where I come from there's a number of fun recipes that require liquor and so always call for ALCOOL. Everyone knows that this is a clear drink like vodka which no one but the cheapest drunks would actually drink as is but it's great if you are making a homemade Baileys or cherry liqueur etc. I mean literally everyone would say for Baileys "you need 1 bottle of coffee essence, 1 cup of sugar and 2 bottles of ALCOOL". If you go to the shops that sell this you ask for ALCOOL. And the person selling in the shop gives you a bottle labelled ALCOOL.

I am of course from a bilingual country. English and French. I started learning French when I was 8 years old. And it wasn't until I was nearly 30 that I realised that ALCOOL is French for alcohol. But for anyone who speaks English this is like the brand name. Because labels legally must be bilingual so every bottle has a label saying ALCOOL ALCOHOL.

It is sort true but it's not always the place name, it's the name of the exchange. My childhood number was 337 which represented Derwent, despite being Worcester Park.

The capital of Scotland is also further north than the capital of Denmark

I suspect your name is a lie.

Musicians have been using this since time immemorial - if you see it in an orchestral part it means 'go straight into the next movement/piece, don't feel you can sit back and have a rest'.

I never knew for years what it meant if a chap said he dresses left or dresses right. Obviously not an issue when one is buying off the rack but important when talking to one's tailor about a bespoke pair of trousers.

That special bathroom plugs are not in fact slightly misshapen European plugs, and I was a bit silly to shove it in an EU-UK adapter (and EU-US, and just plain euro wall plugs) for 2 or 3 years until realising.

The Christmas song "I saw mummy kissing Santa clause" and Santa was the dad dressed up 🤦‍♀️😂

DJs have been segueing from one piece of music to the next for decades, nay, almost a century!

I’ve been listening to the same podcast for years (My Favourite Murder) and every few episodes they do a ‘hometown’ segment where people send it crime stories from
their home town.

They read the story out and the persons name and a lot of women had the surname Sheher. So they’ll say that’s Jane sheher from New York. For ages (well over 2 years) I’ve thought it was a REALLY common surname in the USA but one day not so long ago clicked its She/Her and they’re reading out their pronouns!

For years I cut crosses into the bottom of sprouts because my grandmother, mother and home economics teacher told me to. All that effort and then someone like Nigella Lawson said don't bother with that old nonsense on tv one night, and they just tasted exactly the same. I have no idea where or why that ridiculous practice came about. Does anyone even do it anymore?

I got through the first 4 pages and didn't see a response to this, so apologies if it was later on. The piggy who had roast beef was being fattened up, the piggy who had none didn't need it. All 5 piggies are for slaughter, eventually, not just the first one.

I'm really disappointed to hear that all electric cars are automatic. I was hoping to change over to electric or hybrid when I next change cars, but I hate automatics with a passion so I guess it's another petrol for me. I hope they find some way to make manual electrics by the time that's all they sell.

That the alphabet song and twinkle twinkle little star are sang to the same tune.

Ohh...

IKYFL

You can see where they weee sawn off on ours. I’m saving the pennies to have some railings put back. Some of the neighbours have done it and it looks much better.

I'm really disappointed to hear that all electric cars are automatic. I was hoping to change over to electric or hybrid when I next change cars, but I hate automatics with a passion so I guess it's another petrol for me. I hope they find some way to make manual electrics by the time that's all they sell.

Sorry, but the electric cars simply don't have gears, they don't need them. It'd be insane to put in a completely unnecessary mechanical contraption.
And it'd be a nonsense to change gears manually in a proper hybrid too.

Don’t be ridiculous- you can’t have gears without an engine!!

Driving an EV is not like driving an ICE automatic- just go on a test drive. They are great fun to drive with regen braking etc. Open your mind!