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.

Reading aloud (God knows why) from my colleague's golf magazine and saying double bog eyed. Never lived it down.

half of these are urban myth what happens if you use hot water to dilute bleach? “When using chlorine-based bleaches and certain oxygenated bleaches, warm or hot water can help the cleaning ingredients work faster to remove stains and whiten and brighten clothes,” Johnson explains. This stems from the fact that hot water has more kinetic energy than cold water, meaning the molecules move around more quickly and, in combination with a cleaning agent, can slough away dirt or stains faster. Still, most modern cleaners, including your household bleaching agent, will work in cold water, if cost or energy savings are a factor for you.
Above all else, Johnson says you should abide by the number one rule of fabric care: Always check the label. “To prevent damage to your laundry, it’s important to first check the care label for all garments to determine if the care label advises you not to use chlorine-based bleaches due to colorfastness or other concerns,” she says.
So, there you have it folks. Not only does bleach retain its effectiveness in warm or hot water—it will help it work faster and better as a disinfectant and stain-remover, too.

iroc a car had one in 80s

That the Romans were Italians. Like (largely) from Rome. I’m privately educated and have two feckin degrees 🤦🏻‍♀️

There's a place in Essex called Theydon Bois
There's a place in Essex called Theydon Bois, which I always pronounced Bwa, like the French, only to realise that the locals call it Theydon Boys.

I live in Essex and remember way back in Primary school a little girl in my class was leaving as her family were moving house. I asked her where she was moving to and she replied ‘Theydon Bois’, I replied ‘How can you go there - you’re a girl!’

chorine and ammonia makes gas/ blow up you toilet

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There must be farms out there with more dogs than sheep 😂

A fortnight is two weeks or fourteen nights!

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I only very recently discovered this too! 🤦‍♀️😂

The marketer in me thought it was Return on Investment

I found out recently that "biopic" is short for "biographical picture", so it should be pronounced bio-pick. I was reading it as by-op-ick.

I passed my test first time and had been driving for a number of years with no incident before I realised the signs for a bendy road were supposed to replicate which way the bends went. Now approaching 40 years on the road with no points.

If you've read Gulliver's Travels and/or you're a software type then obviously it's big-ender, like in biggendian and littleendian.

I’m older than 43 and have just learned this! 🤣

Every Christmas I used to stay up until my kids went to sleep so that I could fill their stockings. I used to take all the items into their room and try to stuff them into the stockings, which would normally rustle like crazy, sometimes waking up the kids. It took YEARS before I realised I could have taken the stockings out of their room and done the filling in another room.

Did you miss the bit where they literally sing “paradise by the dashboard light”?😅

So now I know why green are my least favourite and red are so much better (I’m 62😁).

Like when you realise your whole life has been leading up to telling you that it was all AI.

Sister of a Scottish friend used to call the Procurator Fiscal the Prosecutor Physical.

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Or had duplicates of each stocking and switch the empty ones with the full ones (which you have filled at your leisure).

WHAT???

WHY ?

When I rang up an advert and asked how much was their Good sized dog and she replied to you mean German shepherd dog 😂

Genesis 6 says 2 of each, then genesis 7 says Take with you seven pairs - male and female - of each animal I have approved for eating and for sacrifice,and take one pair of each of the others. 3 Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird. There must be a male and a female in each pair to ensure that all life will survive on the earth after the flood.
But then later says 2 of each.

Presumably not all of those extra 6 pairs of the edible animals made it off the ark. Even if you wanted more of those to breed from 6 of the rams, Billy goats, cockerels, bulls etc would have been surplus to requirements.

(More amusingly, the Noah's ark book my dd was given when she was little - ah, everyone's favourite child-friendly tale of genocide - showed 2 bunnies boarding and lots of bunnies disembarking.)