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 knew this but I don't understand why! Why are electric cars all automatic? I don't get it

I was surprisingly old when I realised that misled wasn't pronounced “mizzled”.

@Sharontheodopolodous I still have that tiny tooth fairy trunk complete with all my baby teeth inside! I’d forgotten about the Flower Fairies dolls!

I think it’s high fidelity

Same . First 7-8 posts have taught me so much and I am late 50s !!
I thought I was quite well educated and knowledgeable as well 😂

@MistressoftheDarkSide sardines aren’t as tiny - grilled ones are decent size; not tuna size but not tinned sardines size either

Sardines are pilchards once they get to about 6 inches.

Nobody wanted to buy pilchards until some enterprising fish seller renamed them, "Cornish Sardines"

Have we had the Portsmouth/Portsea Island yet? And Gibraltar not bong an island?

Oh. Oh dear. I thought it was going shopping. Makes sense now you've said it. You are (were) not alone.

CBT
My brain jumps to 'cock and ball torcher.' No idea why. I'm really not in to that. But its the first thing enters my brain whenever I see it - which is a lot on MN..

@PorridgeFace I now have 2 adult dc & 1 dgs. Three babies ive used those nappies on & I never knew they ripped off until i read your post! How did I not know after 3 babies 🤔

@Trez1510 I don't get the Roland keyboard players names, could you explain please?
And I'm probably looking dumb for even asking!

mjf981 · Today 03:53

CBT

I always read it as "Compulsory Basic Training," which is what you do before you can ride a motorbike on a provisional licence. I did it 30 years ago...

When I was a kid (roughly 30years ago). Ronald McDonald did show up if you had a McDonalds birthday party.

For the Aussies in the group - adult friend insisted the swagman in Waltzing Matilda was called Andy..

'And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled' etc

That's like taco cat. It is taco cat backwards, too.

I didn’t find this out recently, was 17 at the time. I was told that someone’s female pet had blood stained some soft furnishings/items in their home during heat. It just never occurred to me as someone who never owned pets, that you’d need to consider that they have periods too… then it got me thinking how do pet owners prevent their carpets or sofas from being stained in the same way humans use sanitary towels etc

@ProfessorplumBilliardroomCandlestick i think I love you.

“Arctic” is from the Greek arktos, “bear,” because the constellation Ursa Major, “the greater she-bear” (also known as the Big Dipper), is always visible in the northern polar sky.

“Antarctic,” therefore, literally means “opposite the bear.”

By force of pure serendipity, polar bears reside at the North Pole but not the South, making the Antarctic the land without bears in more ways that one.

That ducks can fly 🙈. Only realised this at around age 39 😂

This really made me

Holy guacamole Batman! I am today years old when I learned this! It does explain why the littlest pig went wee-wee-wee all the home after witnessing what happened to piggy #1! 🐷 I'd have been doing a lot more than wee-weeing! More like 💩💩💩🐖😵

I was 9 when I decided to test the car cigarette lighter to see if it was hot.
On my lip.
It was.

I read a lot of young teen mags as a kid. I could never figure out why so many of the girls writing in to it the agony aunts were named “Anon”
I just thought it was a really popular name in England and pronounced Ann-on 🤣

And he left the unicorns 🦄behind!
There were green alligators🐊 and long-necked geese, some humpty-back camels🐫 and chimpanzees🙈. Some cats🐈 and rats🐀 and elephants 🐘, but sure as you're born; you're never gonna see no unicorns....🦄

And folks, THAT'S what happens when you play silly games. 😉

(Sorry, there was no goose emoji!)

I think Dan got his brains from his mum…