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.

Not a million miles away from the place where time stands still ..... the roadsign that reads "Happas .. 1"
Not something I never knew, more something that makes me smile every time I'm on that road!

I'm nearly 70 but I only discovered last week that bleach doesn't work if you add it to hot water.

My little boy asks me if I can “put this outside out” when something is inside out 😂

Same I'm also 45

Ah, you're not alone. I was in my thirties when it dawned on me that our childhood dog hadn't just decided one day he wanted to go and live on a farm. 😳 😔 I grew up not liking dog stealing farms!

Left wing guerrillas

me aged 15 = gorillas with wings on the left hand side instead of arms

I thought narwols were something made up on futurama like a unicorn whale until I saw one on a wildlife program never lived it down😆

I found out on here that Watford and the Watford Gap are two totally different places.

Reminds me of when Susan Boyle's album was released after she won Britain's got talent and her PR team used the Twitter hashtag #susanalbumparty. Still makes me chuckle

And I thought I was the only one stupid enough to think that (about miniseries)! Nice to meet you!

The line is..
'He drives an Iroc'

Judging by baffled responses online to the man who tried to fight a terrorist during the London Bridge attack in 2019 using a narwhal tusk from Fishmongers’ Hall as a weapon, you are far from alone.

Fuck me that's hilarious. Great idea for a thread OP, I'm trying to think of something, I know there are SO many as I feel stupid more than I should 😂

There are a lot of US Americans who don't know Spain is a country in Europe, Spanish is a real nationality, and its people speak Spanish.

Source: Twittex, of course: "You mean Latin-American / Latinx/o/a" - to Spaniards, telling them they've got their own nationality wrong 👀

I've met a few people who think Latin means "Spanish-speaking American", no idea about an ancient Roman language. ("Wait, there's a Rome in Europe?" - Also Twittex.)

Claiming no superiority. I still have to look up Eastern European countries, despite having travelled through some of them and lived through all the reshuffles. And American states, for that matter!

As a teenager, I was probably 17, I was looking under “M” in the bookshop for the Secret diary of Adrian Mole. Very nearly asked a member of staff!

Er ok then. 55 and had no idea 😂

Dogs do

In Wales you might think Allan on roadsigns was about a very popular guy called Allan. Except it is Welsh for out.

A couple of mild ones but I know I can think of worse..

I used to pronounce Carbonara as CarBONara with the stress on the middle syllable instead of CarbonARA. I still think my way is better and I have heard just one or two people pronounce it my way.

Also the same with KazAKHstan which it SHOULD be if it follows it's local counterparts i.e AfgHANistan. But I sort of gave it an extra a to make it fit like KazAKHastan.

I used to think the theme song to Malcolm in the middle said "My fears aren't fair" instead of "life isn't fair". There are loads of songs where I've thought they were saying something else for years.

Please tell me why 😂

Red peppers are the healthiest apparently (depending on what vitamins you need of course - but it is the best all-rounder.)

And it might kill you. Bleach and hot water creates chlorine gas which is deadly. Only ever use it with cold water.

Who the fuck calls it that though tbf? 😂

@ForTonightGodisaDJ

There are loads of songs where I've thought they were saying something else for years.

These are known as mondegreens. Have a Google and you’ll find thousands of them!

*That Winston Churchill was re-elected as PM in 1951.
*That humidity can also be a problem in winter.
*That school categories are based on who funds it, not who attends it. State schools are funded by the state. Public schools are funded by the public (parents) paying fees.
*That the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle is not the same design as the Sydney Harbour Bridge.