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.

There are usually at least a dozen posters who've just discovered they are not just off the Scottish coast.

It’s because it’s always a cartoon picture of him shopping in kids books. I’m glad they don’t draw the real reason!

When I saw sheep being moved in big trucks on motorways I genuinely thought they were going on holiday.

Which - my own penny drop moment - quite possibly means they are being misled by Falkirk.

A dishwasher is basically a heated lawn sprinkler in a box with racks to hold the dishes at the correct angle for the spray to blast the food off.

Mine has a window in the door so I will tell you what I see happening.

Water goes into just the very bottom of the dishwasher and then the pump starts pushing the water into the rotors, which have angled holes in so the water sprays upwards and the rotors spin around. The water falls back into the bottom to be pumped back through the rotors again.

Orkneys, Shetlands, Falklands, yes I can see how that would happen.

Now that really made me chuckle 🤣

rotors

Apparently the rest of the world calls this component a "spray arm" and no one has put on YouTube a video of one in action.

A second look with different search terms found this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VSnWellK2XM

Go to 9:20.

Stars are there.ALL the time....even in the daytime
YOU only see them,when its dark.
(ds2 crushed me with this_on way home from school,he was 6)
i was not

Dammit, I was literally just about to smugly point out that EVs technically do have a gear. Pipped at the post.

And yes, they are absolute heaven to drive. But that's not the point.

Yep. MN has the facility where you can select the how many posts you want to see per page.

I'm.on an android, but if you go to:
Settings - more settings - Talk settings

Then under the heading On threads show messages per page:, you can select how many posts you want per page: 25, 50, 100 or all

So if you select 25, then 1000 posts would be 40 pages long
I have it in 50 posts per page, so a full.thread of 1000 posts is only 20 pages.

So, when posters say "my comment is on page 4", it's not super helpful as everyone can have different page settings on MN.

Probably not something I should have known but certainly explains it.

Last summer I visited a national trust property;in it there was a raised area over the main living area that was a "sleeping shelf".

Apparently the unmarried women and older girls in a household were supposed to sleep there together to protect their virtue.

The term "left on the shelf" comes from when they were married later than normal or not at all therefore they were still on the sleeping shelf.

When I was a kid growing up in Scotland I asked my mum what McJagger’s first name was. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Had no idea what all the laughing was for! She still reminds me about it!

And Eve wasn't Adam's first wife.

When I first watched the Friends episode where Chandler goes to Yemen, I thought it was actually made up. I was a teenager but still!

Actually, no, I haven't. I also haven't heard of piggies eating roast beef and then being so mean as to not share. I don't think they would have thought it's appropriate to have a double entendre with the "little piggie who went to market" either. 🙄

I thought that the Falkland Islands were on the West Coast of Scotland, when they were invaded, but I was 11 at the time. Most people hadn't heard of them at the time and they are named after Falkland.

How is it said? I was taught to pronounce it like you thought.

By-op-ick

I think it’s bio-pic because it’s a biographical film. But think there’s dissenting opinions sometimes. I didn’t realise the origin either though at the time!

Me too, annoyed the hell out of me when all of a sudden it was laugh out loud 🤨

Exactly the same.... I said it out loud to my husband and he stared at me and then it dawned on me 😂😂

Yes, I know.

What???!!! Had no idea. 🙈

That is fabulous!

Never ever knew this and neither did my husband. 🙈