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.

@VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia So you can pull them down rather than up over the head when there's been an explosive nappy.

But that is what it means...isn't it?

I think it's enough to fill a lorry, shedding its load. Like you know how on the traffic news they say "there's a shed load blocking a lane".

@TheSilentSister it stands for High Fidelity.

When I was young (many many years ago) houses were heated by coal, delivered to your house and stored in a special cupboard called the bunker. I could never understand why Hitler climbed into his bunker to commit suicide.

🤮 This isn't selling me on the idea of kids.

Even Google seems to think it's a load large enough to fill a shed, but your explanation of a lorry shedding its load makes sense too.

Somehow I managed to raise two children and didn’t know about the envelope baby vests, often times having to cut off the vest to avoid smearing poo everywhere. I was the first in my friend group to have children and my Mum can’t have known this as she never told me

I also did not know pull up nappies ripped off.

Also I always thought miniseries was some sort of specialist story telling, min ISER ees Perhaps relating to some sort of religious weeping At unfortunate “misery” events.

I read epitome and Eppy Tome which meant the same thin as Epitome, but I was 30 something before I understood I was pronouncing it incorrectly in my head

London St. Pancreas...

Eat & mess.

Even Google seems to think it's a load large enough to fill a shed, but your explanation of a lorry shedding its load makes sense too

I figure you can get more I'm a lorry than a shed ☺️

But maybe it's like the "dull as dishwater/ditchwater" thing and no one can agree on it

I say ditchwater, fight me

Michelangelo's David statue isn't some random muscular dude called David, but is David from. 'David and Goliath'.

Actually, the linguistics graduate in me suspects you can direct the listener to your own chosen interpretation using emphasis

A SHED load 🏚️
A shed LOAD 🚛🎁🎁🎁

Dishwashers are rather dull too.

I was in my thirties when I found out that Arkansas is pronounced ARR-can-saw and not arr-CAN-zas.

I was also in my thirties when I found out that a lorry's fifth wheel doesn't involve a tyre in contact with the tarmac.

Edinburgh is more west than Bristol.

I have a friend who despite travelling across the US thought Arkansas was the way Kansas natives referred to their state, as in 'Our Kansas'.

When I was a kid my parents wouldn't let me eat fast food, so I never set foot in anywhere like McDonalds. It only made me want to go there more, so imagine my disappointment when I finally visited as a teenager and Ronald McDonald was nowhere to be found.

I thought everyone knew that when you tilt the windscreen mirror it dims the bright headlights of the car behind until I realised that a boy racer guy at work had no idea that the mirror could be moved!

That the wrapper from a sanitary towel can be kept to wrap it up into a nice little tidy parcel once you're done with it (and it sticks down!).

A Computing one. It took me years - probably over 10 - to fathom that a todo list, didn’t rhyme with dodo. I had always wondered what this strangely named list was. I felt reallydumb when I twigged.

My lovely15 year old recently proudly announced he was excited to be starting the first of his English GCSE set tests: a Gothic tale of horror: Jaqueline Hyde. 🤣

When I got my first office job we had a whiteboard updated daily with the whereabouts of staff who were frequently out on site visits.

It took me a while before the penny dropped that 'TOIL' wasn't a commentary on the arduous nature of their appointments and actually stood for 'time off in lieu'.

To-do lists aren't computer-specific. You can also write them on paper. You can even buy pads of to-do list templates.

Last year I realised “race car” backwards is “race car”. My mind was blown