When the penny drops about dumb things that you should have known!

[malificent7]

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.

For years and years I thought our dresser in the hall was called the "addresser".

When I was very little up until was about 6 there were 2 separate framed photos positioned close to each other on the wall of my grandmother and the other one of my grandfather (both dad's side) when they were both young. I thought they were pictures of my mum and dad. I used to stare up at them in my little chair thing thinking they are my parents 😂😂

I thought it was Paper View too! And I thought Don Quixote was something to do with donkeys.

Well. That makes total sense. Every day’s a school day 😊

@TheSilentSister it stands for High Fidelity- I just asked DH

@Kbroughton You just taught me! I thought there was
one called OLD until I read your post!

As a young person I thought Lingerie was pronounced Ling Gerree, only when I was a teenager a posh pal told me incredulously that it was long -jerie French. I was mortified.

This one is pretty grim...I was never taught by my indoor cat owning Mum or shown what the scoop thing for the cat litter tray was for. Some reason did not think logically at all. I used to think you just had to wait for the cat to do lots of poos and wees and then you chuck the whole lot away. I always wondered how people could bear the smell, and had to empty the whole litter daily! (I had owned several cats by this point, both in and outdoor, mainly outdoor)- It was about 5 years ago when I finally twigged. You scoop them out as soon as they do it and flush them down the toilet. D'Oh!!!. Absolutely mind blown by this revelation.
That is so gross and weird, right? I doubt anyone else was this stupid!

I've literally just realised

What have you just realised?

Who?

Yep same until they were in the news recently. I was thinking Lewis Chessmen, set of marbles etc.

Crying at Via Satellite 😂😂😂

I think it does actually mean “without bear” - however it’s not to do with polar bears but the “great bear” constellation I believe - the fact that one has polar bears and the other doesn’t is just a coincidence 😊
I happened to read this to my little boy the other day from his book of facts otherwise I wouldn’t have known!

My son wanted to know why we ate Man-Get-Out

Oh I love this one 😂

As a child a 'soup case' was actually a suit case, not until I was 16 did the penny drop.

I always thought it was a strange name. Who would take soup on holiday?

That "Bluetooth" is named after a tenth century Danish King, whose teeth were blue from eating blueberries. He bought lots of peoples together, so someone at Intel thought it would a great name for a technology for connectiveness. The bluetooth symbol is actually two runes from his initials. Learnt that on QI the other day and for some reason really tickled me!

sorry brought not bought

Which one?

@malificent7 this has been a great thread , can you start a part two and put a link on here before it fills up

It's also mentioned in the second Kingsmen film.

My friend was an adult when we explained to her that the expression is “white as a sheet” and not “white as a sheep”

I've just been told by husband that the numbers on a toaster are time not level of heat! (I told him I was reading this thread).

Except......the rhyme says this little piggy went 'to market' and not 'to the market'........

Apparently this is not true: link "Look at any seed catalogue, and you'll see different seeds for different types of peppers. There are different ones for green, red, yellow, and orange."