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.

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That is something I had to 'learn' as an adult, in a conversation like this one.

Ah come on. Where would you think they'd be?

Oh ok. That wasn't my error, I was just bad at Geography (and Irish, so the Falklands war wasn't as pertinent) but I never thought they were near Scotland.

I've heard 'biopic' pronounced both ways.

My mother was called Ursula & her best friend used to call her "Little Bear"

My sister thought that in the picture 'The Scream', that it was the person in the picture screaming, not that they have heard the scream. She took some convincing.😁

I had a friend who thought the word for biopsy was actually autopsy. Only discovered this when she had a suspicious lump, the doctor referred her for more tests and she told me she 'had to have an autopsy'.

I started giggling thinking she was joking but she was serious. When I explained she was a bit mortified as she'd thought that for years.

As an Irish ten year old, the Falklands War was chiefly significant for featuring in the very beginning of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, where his father leaps out of bed at news of the invasion, thinking the Falklands were off the coast of Scotland, and the Moles look them up on a map and can’t find them until they’re discovered under a crumb of fruitcake (I think).

I’ve never quite managed to take them out of the mental category of ‘literary reference’, like Frank Bough, Selina Scott and other unfamiliar British references.

Well, quite!
I wonder do people also struggle to understand why Spanish is the language spoken in so much of South America!
(claiming no superiority; I've been educated about lots of things on this thread. But some things you can work out with a bit of logic).

Falkland is in Scotland. It is about 20 miles from Dunfermline.

The islands were named after Lord Falkland, who was prominent in the government or the navy or something at the time.

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

Clearly.
And a lot of the time with some of these misconceptions - well, there are the 'unknown unknowns', but a lot of the time people (myself included) just haven't really thought about it.

I didn't know that!

I don't think it is widely known.

You wouldn't guess it from the picture and title.

It's definitely 'bio-pic'. It's a contraction of 'biographical picture'.

I only realised last week that Roxanne (the song) is about sex workers 🙈

I’m 41 🤣

I only found that out fairly recently too - in a NT property in Tintagel. IIRC it was The Old Post Office.

I've just seen I've got a brand new combine harvester by the Wurzels on Mtv this morning. It's taken me until the grand old age of 59 to realise what the opening line "I drove my tractor through your haystack last night" probably meant 😅

Ooh-err missus!

I overheard a colleague A say another colleague B had camel toe. I asked colleague B if her foot was any better? I can't say anymore as it makes me cringe so bad.

Oh I didn't spot that one either.

Eh?

@Rockybooboo

I overheard a colleague A say another colleague B had camel toe. I asked colleague B if her foot was any better? I can't say anymore as it makes me cringe so bad.

Oh come on, do tell😁🤣

I am crying reading this thread! TIA x

If you didn't know the history, you would just as reasonably ask why the UK claims some islands of the coast of Argentina.

Eh?