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 think 'hi fidelity' is the new 'cancel the cheque'

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

If the lorry was transporting a load of sheds then ...

I always thought 'couldn't make ends meet' was 'couldn't make ends meat' like the people couldn't even afford the rubbish endy bit of meat. Didn't realise until I saw it written down a few years ago.
Still don't know what 'ends' they are and why people need to make them meet.

Actually it is right, because the alphabet started on number 2 on phones. 2=ABC, 3=DEF, 4=GHI, 5=JKL, 6= MNO 7=PQRS, 8=TUV, 9= WXYZ

Bristol used to be 0272, Brighton 0273, Leicester 0533 etc.

As a child, I once commented that this horse called Bar ran in a lot of races.😂

A lorry shed a shedload of sheds and the shed load caused a shedload of queues.

Not quite as hard to say as that Peter Piper thing.

I knew it was pumpkin pie, but also wondered why it's eaten at Christmas.

I've never seen it be used in any other way other than sarcastic 😂

Well the Edinburgh being more west than Bristol and Portsmouth being an island have blown my tiny mind 🤯

Today I have learned about where Polar bears come from and how old style telephone numbers were spelling out the location of the person you were calling.

I already knew HiFi and WiFi but I've missed the toaster dial thing.

Thank you to the posters who have educated me!

Oh I love that last comment. As I child I always had my nose in a book and often mispronounced words - I was laughed at in year 6 as I thought picturesque was pronounced picture skew. I also went around for years thinking that there was this amazing book of facts called ibid......

That in car parks that say “no return 4 hours” that you’re not allowed to leave in your car and come back within 4 hours.

I thought it meant that if you left it there for 4 hours you wouldn’t be allowed to leave (without a fine or something).

The ‘ends’ are the money you have that’s run out,-ends before you get paid again.

My MIL always used to say she had too much week left at the end of her money.

So to make ends meet you would still have money in your purse when you got paid.

I used to work with a woman who thought Illinois started with three L's...

A farmer has jus had a shed load up the road leaving a shed load of muck all over the road

(This is genuinely the local excitement currently)

I thought shed load was just a polite way of saying shit load. Like, there was a shitload of something. E.g "she's got a shitload of money" ie rich.

@HangingOver For some reason my brain cannot read portacabin correctly. It immediate says pour-takka-bin. Every time 😂

No thanks. It was being told to 'open my mind' which led to me driving an automatic car the first time, and 'give it another chance' which led to the second time. There won't be a third time until there is literally no other choice (given that I never buy new cars, that won't be for some time, my current one is 20 years old and seemingly going strong). Several near-accidents over the two drives because I just can't get the hang of not having a clutch. I've have 'opened my mind', very nearly literally. I had to have months of physio.

And I wasn't being ridiculous, I just didn't realise that electric cars don't have an engine. I don't understand the engineering/technology behind either petrol or electric cars, that is not ridiculous it is just that I don't have a very practical-scientific brain and I haven't researched how cars work. I think it's setting quite a low bar for being ridiculous if it's applied to people who use modern technology without understanding the science behind it.

Palindrome . A word that spells the same both forwards and backwards

The numbers are for how dark you want your toast. 1=warm bread 6=charcoal

How are we 26 pages in and no one has mentioned the channel tunnel yet?! That’s normally right up there on these threads

But you realise it's cock & ball torture, not cock and ball torcher, right? That would take pain to a different level!

It is?!! Noooo!

I've always wanted to know why Arkansas is ArkanSAW, but Kansas isn't KanSAW?!

He drives an I roc and he lives on my block