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.

I thought...(by which i mean- i didni THINK at all0that a "roll top bath" meant -one with a lid(like a rolling shutter)Not only that....i have never seen any such a stupid unecessary useless invention...but when viewing new bathroom n the guy said "Rill top bath" i was like...so wheres the lid? YES.really.

I now know this 😜😂

When I was aged 14 I used to occasionally make lunch for my three younger sisters. An easy pud was Instant Whip (like Angel Delight) & the packet stated "ready to eat in 5 minutes".
I thought this meant it had to be made up & eaten within 5 minutes so I whisked it as fast as I could, served it up & told them to bolt it down!
I was mid thirties when it dawned on me ... 🤣

@Alalalalalongalalalalalonglonglilong thank you re the @ thing. I didn't know either.

It was actually 7 of each😀 we're so used to singing the song that we don't question it.
7 clean
2 unclean

Thank you for this laugh. I heard Via Satellite this morning in the car and literally laughed out loud then had to explain to DS,10 and his friend.

For years (as in a whole 38 of them 🙈) I wouldn't mix milk from one carton with another. So say not enough milk in one so topped up with another because I didn't want milk from one cow mixed with another. Just let that sink in 😂

I haven't heard that song for years!

Loads of roads in Germany called ‘Einbahnstraße’ (One way street) which catches a lot of people out.

Oh no, just realised what you mean - I thought it was in case one died! I’m in my 70s!!

Lament is to moan, grieve, complain etc. If something is lamentable it means you want to moan or complain about it.
Not so different.

As a child who went to a very religious school and spent many assemblies singing "He's got the whole world in his hands", I was very worried when my grandfather dug holes to cement our swing into the ground, incase he dug so far down that he'd reach God's hands. 😂😂😂

Portakabin. Till I was in my mid 30s I pronounced it port aka bin. Only when a work colleague started taking the piss that it dawned on me. Mind you, the same person pronounced Hawkshead Services, Hawk Shed, so pretty even I think.

Germans say ‘vy fee’

The unicorn song was written by Shel Silverstein, who was a New York folk singer who not only ran some childrens programmes on US TV but also wrote some very funny politican and smutty songs. One of my favourite singer songwriters

Learning soooo much it's shameful 😂

Reading this thread, I’ve never overestimated my common sense, but I am realising that I completely understood lots of these things without the need to explain 😱however, colloquialism is a real thing, and there was a time, post degree, when I was trying to find ‘specifically’ under ‘’P’!!!! And you can take the girl out of Portsmouth but ……….

To be fair a lot of the things mentioned on this thread are things that posters have thought/seen as children then not really thought about till they're older, or things that adults have told them when they were young.

For instance I watched Dirty Dancing when I was about 11 and just thought Penny had a stomach illness, it wasn't till I watched it many years later that I clicked. I wouldn't have realised in between those times as hadn't watched it again. I don't lack common sense particularly (I am spectacularly crap at knowing where countries are though)

Why?

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.😁
Really? I didn't know that!

I used to think LinkedIn was link-ee-din. I felt like such a numpty when I realised 🤭

I was reading out to my DH the long list of genders that we seem to have a choice of these days and got to 'bigender' on the list. I pronounced it Big-ender, instead of bi-gender. DH corrected me just as soon as he was able to breathe again!

For quite a long time, I thought ‘mobile traffic cameras’ followed you along the road from some unseen location. It was only when my DH heard me pondering this aloud, as I wondered where they were hiding on one particular occasion, and he started laughing that the penny dropped…

…he still mentions it🙀

I thought I had an unfortunate ability to magnetise screwdrivers, just like my mum.

I was in my late 20s and remarking on this affliction to dh, when he told that me that screwdrivers have an element of magnetism in them, to help keep the screws in place (or whatever).

I was gutted. Felt like the opposite of an x- man.

That was a reasonable mistake. What would be weird would be going into a bank in say, Guildford, looking for visitor information on a Northern Spanish port.

... I bet someone has, though 😏