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.

When my brother and I were young children one year we drove down to the South West for a holiday.All the way there my brother kept asking when we were going to meet Jesus. This completely freaked out my mother who thought it meant we were all going to die in a car crash 😳
We were actually going to Devon which my brother had confused with Heaven!

I've only just discovered that Les Mills is actually a person. For some reason I thought it was a French brand name as in 'les' meaning the feminine 'the'

Electric cars don't have gears because they don't need them. A petrol engine can only generate power when running at certain speeds (shown on the rev counter) so the car has gears which change the ratio of the engine speed to the speed of the wheels as the car speeds up. If you've ever ridden a bicycle with gears, it's a similar principle - so you don't have to pedal at a furious pace to go fast.

Electric motors can generate full power from a standstill and up to a very high RPM. So in an electric car the motor is just connected directly to the wheels with no clutch or gears. Strictly speaking there is one gear, which is a reduction gear because the motor actually spins faster than you want the wheels to spin.

But from a driving point of view, it's like driving an automatic, but there's no gear changes. And this is why electric motors are a far superior way to power a car and EVs are lovely to drive, but I digress... 😀

@jwilf

Ahhhhh

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That was mine! Can't understand why I ever thought you could or would comb your teeth!!! I had to have someone explain it to me though 🙃

Bloody hell, 40% of this thread is people telling a PP that HiFi stands for High Fidelity. WE KNOW: IT WAS ANSWERED ON THE FIRST PAGE.

Thank you!

Despite having used a restored and updated 1940's phone for years, I had never noticed that.

Yes! Also waiting for the people who think/thought Country Durham is in Northern Ireland and Center Parcs is actually under a giant perspex dome.

So did I for many years. I thought that it was a very casual phrase to use on a traffic bulletin.

No, it means that a lorry has shed its load of tins for example, on the motorway.

I only realised that recently too.

Apologies I’ve only got to page 12 so not sure if it’s been mentioned yet.

I started a thread a few years ago because I hadn’t realised that the letter W isn’t a letter sound in its own right, like the sound of the letter T or S when you say them for example.

W is basically a just a double U.

And I wasn’t the only one who didn’t know 🙈

Not dumb as I was a kid, but the first time I heard of oral sex I thought it was talking about it!

And that still makes no sense to me!

I don't think anyone has answered this...

It's High Fidelity

IT'S HIGH FIDELITY for those at the back

Yeah, definitely high fidelity

Sorry, I’m rubbish at explaining! If you say the letter W out loud it is basically a double U.

@ifIwerenotanandroid
I know!!!
Poor horse must have been knackered running all those races 🤣

Shout out to the A52! Brian Clough Way!

Love this.

I spent years thinking it was public hair and not pubic. I have no idea why other than my hearing is a bit shite!

Thank you to everyone who has shared their experience on knowledge on cashew fruits. Most interesting. Not sure I am quite convinced yet.

I thought a handbag was a hambag until I was about 20!! Why on earth would I think it was that?? 🤔🤔😀

I remember my mum asking me what oral sex was ? I remember just thinking tell me this is not happening. I was in my twenties her in her forties.

Yeah I had the same with glory hole after my mum had been to a comedy club with her much younger and wilder sister. Ground swallow me up (no pun intended)

A classic case was our music teacher who ranted at us about Scottish independence.

Another teacher read Old Testament passages to us eight-year olds. I thought the Children of Israel were a bunch of children, roaming about in the desert.

When I was a young child. I loved eating salad and told my mum to cook these most days. I think she was soon fed up and she told me that if I don't stop eating salad, then I would turn into a tree. I believed her and didn't eat any type of salad in that year. I was 7.