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.

Why is it silly?

"A shed lorry in Shadwell shed a shedload of sheds"

Say that 10 times after a pint of guinness!

Roland is the make of the keyboard. They thought it was the keyboard player's name.

OMG. I didn’t get it before now!

I turn my key clockwise to lock it. I'd have thought they'd all be that way..

I assume that is one of the reasons that they get them spayed.

My son calls them hambags. He knows they are handbags but got it wrong as a child. He's 17.
If we are going out he'll say "have you got your hambag? Your bag of ham?"

I didn’t realise that the correct name was “chest of drawers”. I’ve been calling them “Chester drawers”. It was brought to my attention when I was explaining I love “Chester” furniture! Chesterfield sofas, Chester drawers…🤦‍♀️

The normal thing is to have the top of the key turn away from the closest doorframe, so if the lock is on the left of the door it goes clockwise, and if it's on the right of the door you go anticlockwise (has to be the opposite way on opposite sides of the same door, right?)

Our front door goes the wrong way, so when you're outside and the lock is on the left of the door it goes anticlockwise. Took me a very long time to get used to it.

Absolutely this. So many of these posts fall into the 'urban myth' category.

People can't know everything..

Yes, those signs puzzled me as a child!

@Luddite26
Think of the Latin word "equus", which means horse, and is pronounced "ek-wus", and how the "double U" gives it the "W" sound. The Roman U was originally written V (the rounded U came later), so it would have been written EQVVS. And there is the W, in sight and sound.

It used to be also that J was not a letter in its own right; it was seen as a variant of I. "Jupiter" would have been written "Iupiter".

I was much older when I realised the same thing in recipes, add salt to taste. I often thought surely it's not so bland that they need to add salt just to be able to taste a flavour!

God Almighty.

Until I was in my teens I thought how stupid it was to put ‘dilute to taste’ on orange squash bottles. Any idiot would know that you could taste it without diluting it!
I thought this when l was young as well! Thought it was so daft!

A personal one for me. I used to enjoy looking at my parents photo albums when little, all the family I’d never met. Anyway, I found out when I was about 12 that my parents had both been married before and my sister was actually my half sister. It didn’t hit me for a few years that I’d been looking at their wedding photo for years and my sister was a bridesmaid.

And baa baa black sheep, there is only one note different.

I thought Disney was spelled Disnep, I knew it was pronounced Disney but I just thought it was a silent letter or something. I found out I was wrong when I corrected one of my classmates spelling very loudly and was laughed at by about 30 11 year olds 😳

I only came across MN about a year ago but yeah must have missed the 2023 version 🤣

I thought the brand Lululemon was Lulumelon and the chocolate bar was Tony's Chocolooney not Tony's Chocolonely.

Another "I didn't know it was a real place!" one: Hamelin, as in the Pied Piper of Hamelin: it's a real town in Germany. I visited it a few years ago: there are many statues of rats, and people dressing up as the Pied Piper. There are beliefs that the legend of the pied piper was based on lots of children suddenly disappearing a few centuries ago, perhaps due to illness.

Between the ages of 10-12 , spent summer holidays playing tennis with a cousin and thought his declaring "love" after each point was a term of endearment.

What? On all machines? Bloody hell

No, not all models have the little hose - some just have the lid that twists off & is a bit of a pain to drain.

I'm amazed some people don't know the filters exist though. Ever since university days I've been draining them, there were always haha clips & mislaid bank cards preventing the machine draining.

You should be cleaning them every few months to remove any debris & ensure full draining.

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

You won't have heard 'shedload' in a traffic bulletin. It is a colloquial expression meaning 'a lot'.

On traffic bulletins you'll have heard 'a lorry has shed its load' meaning what its carrying has come loose from the lorry.