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.

Also “in the jungle,the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight”

wrong. Lions don’t live in the jungle.

Teenage me was embarrassed to realise that a "shed load" in traffic bulletins wasn't an approximate unit of volume but a load which had literally been shed all over the road

(My logic: an average garden shed's capacity to store goods was a decent descriptive comparison like "size of Wales", "size of three double-decker buses"...etc).

I haven't RTFT, so apologies if that's already been mentioned. I suspect I'm not alone!

@Lurkingandlearning , yes, you can pop the tightly done up whole tube in a mug of hot water and it will loosen up. However, depending how old it is, probably out of date (cosmetics have a "use by x months after first opening " symbol) and you need to be careful with stuff around your eyes.

The artist didn't call them 'Untitled'. They're listed as 'Untitled' because the artist didn't get round to giving them a title.

Same confusion as when people wonder why someone called Anonymous is such a prolific source of poetry, quotes etc.

Now you've said that I do remember seeing it on scores.

But probably never heard the word said out loud.

My dad (83) still will if I don't watch him. To be fair my baby Brussels sprouts from Tesco's are nothing like the enormous tough garden grown ones we had forty plus years ago. They definitely needed some help or they would be soggy on the outside and hard at the root.

That has never occurred to me either

Well. This has just ruined this song for me.

I thought it was because the bases of sprouts are denser and it was believed to help them cook more evenly, but it actually didn't make much difference.

I've always added a tiny drop of hot water to my mascara tube to get at least another week's worth out of it. I didn't know it was wax but that makes sense.

Ah I learned something today! It makes sense because sheds are large and can fit a lot of something...

Same. I frequently bring it up too. It's the gift that keeps on giving.

Sometimes it is. Then some random bastard isn't and cuts your hand. I usually use scissors too.

You could, but I wouldn’t advise it. You could singe your eyelashes right off.

@GothConversionTherapy
Glad I'm not alone!

I thought it was Happy to Help and always sarcastic 😂

Someone can be intelligent and ignorant at the same time. Not knowing something doesn't make someone stupid.

I had a colleague of a similar age who also didn't know this. He also pronounced it as "acker" to rhyme with hacker.

that is fabulous.

A shedload IS a lot of something, you were right.

Traffic bulletins might talk about a shed load, but it would be used differently -
a lorry has shed its load on the A52

You could then say "a lorry has shed its load on the A52 which is causing a shedload of traffic to build up"

True. It's like plastic tags that hold the price label on clothes. 90% snap no problem, but 10% will slice your finger half off and leave blood all over your brand new white shirt.

it finally makes sense!!

I have also always read it as Hit the Hay!

I’m going to bring the tone right down with this but hey, sharing’s caring. I’d never heard of anal sex until I was at uni and I went as a mature student (I was about 26 when I found out) My mouth just went 😮 😮 And no, someone didn’t just spring it on me unawares before anyone asks 😆

Exactly.

I got told on MN once that I had no excuse for not knowing something because I could have googled it at some point in the last however many years.
Only I didn't know that I didn't know so it wouldn't have occurred to me to have googled it.

Hi Fidelity