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.

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

It can still be that and pronounced 'bi-o pic'!

Have heard both, quite regularly.

You definitely didn't.

Who would ask anyone if their toe was better?

I've just had to ask DH to explain this to me.
Then I asked why the littlest piggy said Wee Wee Wee and he pointed out it was happy, so was saying Whee Whee Whee.

Why wouldn't you?

Not as reasonable a question, no.

That a lot of the posters on here think the REPLY button quotes the post they're responding to.

You see this all the time in threads. It's especially annoying when it's the OP doing it.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Agreed. I wouldn't think twice about asking how someone's foot or toe was. I might take the precaution of looking up a medical condition I hadn't heard of, though - e.g. camel toe.

Well it certainly is pronounced that way by some people, but it's still wrong!

I used to pronounce the word 'hyperbole' as 'hyper-bowl' and I've heard other people do it too, does that mean that I was actually right all along? Of course not.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+pronounce+biopic&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&scaesv=598169731&sxsrf=ACQVn095SsXEscUw3C28gGe8TcJskJDNQ%3A1705160850039&ei=krCiZeKDAs22hbIP7faF8Ao&oq=how+to+pronounce+biopic&gslp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIhdob3cgdG8gcHJvbm91bmNlIGJpb3BpYzILEAAYgAQYigUYkQIyBRAAGIAEMgYQABgWGB4yCBAAGBYYHhgPMgYQABgWGB4yCBAAGBYYHhgPMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHkjgJFCcEFieHnACeAGQAQCYAbQBoAG5A6oBAzMuMbgBA8gBAPgBAcICChAAGEcY1gQYsAPCAgcQABiABBgNwgIIEAAYCBgeGA3CAgsQABiABBiKBRiGA8ICBRAhGJ8F4gMEGAAgQYgGAZAGCA&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp

That a lot of the posters on here think the REPLY button quotes the post they're responding to.

You see this all the time in threads. It's especially annoying when it's the OP doing it.

Yes it can certainly make a thread very confusing, but I don't blame people for making that assumption - why that button is at the bottom of every post, I do not know!

That's funny! I had no idea that he sang "billy boiled"

And the poster who said someone thought Celine Dion's name was Via Satellite 🤣🤣🤣

Funkyslippers Yes. Here's the first verse. A billy was a billycan Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a Coolibah tree
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
"You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me".

Yes it can certainly make a thread very confusing, but I don't blame people for making that assumption - why that button is at the bottom of every post, I do not know!

Because that's where it's always been, I think? - it predates the quote function which people (I assume newer users) are now confusing it with.

It might be better if 'reply' was just labelled 'post' imho.

Or if they just put Quote back where it used to be (where Reply now is).

Gosh I've had 4 dc and didn't know that! I thought they just gave more space to get the head through easier.

That's what I thought.

I don’t get the ‘miniseries’ one. I could believe it if one person was thrown by that term, but how are so many people so mystified by it when it was routinely written as ‘mini-series’ for many, many years? It’s not much of a leap (though it compounds my belief that the gradual removal of hyphens does no one any favours). And where are you seeing it written down so often?!

Do not get the point a pp was making about the letter w though? I know they didn’t have a w in Latin, but the Latin word ‘equus’ doesn’t take its ‘w’ sound from the double u; it takes it from the q (pronounced ‘kw’).

I just made a thread in Site Stuff about the reply thing.

Jekyll and Hyde 🙂

The realisation as to why mummy bear's porridge was cold.

25 years ago we caught the overnight nightmarish ferry to Santander in Northern Spain, and I thought the shop named 'Santander' in the high street was tourist information 😂

Why was it cold?

Blimey! Same here! Just learned that. Had to google to check as just didn't believe you!

I'm nearly 60 and a vociferous reader!

Another lightbulb moment was on again on here, when I found out registration numbers are different colours depending whether they're the front or back of the car. My god what a pile on I got for not knowing that!!

Guessing you meant ‘voracious’ reader 😂(sorry!)

Same reason our teas/coffees go cold - running around after everyone else!!
I have just realised this as @RheaRend posted.