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.

@minou123 thank you, I thought it was the difference between posters using different devices so they saw the display differently.
I also use a android and mine is set to display 100 post per page.

I was mid 30's before I realised Majorca and Mallorca were the same place

But but... why would anyone think Argentina felt they had a claim to some islands of the coast of Scotland?

Watching Wimbledon on TV as a child I thought that when the umpire called out deuce he was calling for juice, ie the Robinsons barley water as the game was nearing its end.

Arktos is the Greek, Ursa the Latin.

Well, why would anyone think the U.K. felt they had a claim to some islands near Argentina?

I thought the same about 'Araf' in Wales it means 'SLOW'

I only learnt how to say ‘unfathomable’ a few years back and that it wasn’t ‘un - fat - hom - able’! It was a word I’d read but not heard 🤦‍♀️

Ha me too. Always pronounced it min-is-eries. I don't know why, but I always assumed it meant it was a dark, intense, miserable programme and avoided them like the plague......until the penny dropped!

I once ran out of dishwasher tablets so put washing up liquid in instead, the kitchen was covered in bubbles!

Well that's a fair point! Though easier to imagine explorers laying claim to uninhabited islands in the 1700s, than during the war in the 1980s.

I just realised cherry tomatoes are named because they resemble cherries 🍒

Depends very much on whether you paid attention to the history.

I mean, I knew where they were because my brother was in the RAF so I was paying attention. If you do know something it is very hard to imagine how someone could not have known it too. I bet there are ordinary things that others know which you don't. I'd never noticed the petrol arrow before reading it on MN a few years ago (both my last 2 cars have had it - useful as my current car has it on the other side to the old one!)

How interesting, didn't know that!

This unfact, which has been corrected several times on the thread, is clearly going to be repeated every time there’s a new one of these threads.🙄

And the French say "double-vay", which is "double V".

Wha...? It's not?

It was only from mn a couple of years ago that I found out you could actually open the dishwasher while in use, to add things. I too, assumed that it was like a washing machine.

Not really any more illogical than thinking the UK should have a claim to islands off the coast of Argentina, surely? (And yes, I know the history of the settlement of the Falkland Islands.)

Well, why would anyone think the U.K. felt they had a claim to some islands near Argentina?

Er, a long history of exploration and colonisation? Whereas I can't imagine why anyone would think it more likely that Argentina would lay claim to some islands off the Scottish coast in the late 20th century.

Well, that's how you think. Not everyone is the same.

Er, a long history of exploration and colonisation? Whereas I can't imagine why anyone would think it more likely that Argentina would lay claim to some islands off the Scottish coast in the late 20th century.

Presumably, they were identifying as Vikings.

Lmao turns out I also never made the connection, so thank you

Bi o pic

Yes, but there are suds! And hot water! It just doesn't fill up (or how would you be able to open mid-cycle?!).

But at the bottom, you'll see the suds, and the water fills to a certain level, created from the water coming from the blades.

Has no-one ever seen the inside of a dishwasher during a cycle?