what stunningly obvious pieces of knowledge escaped you for years and years?

[thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat]

I managed 25 years of life without knowing who Pele was. I managed 36 years without knowing a dodge was a kind of american car. dh managed 25 years without realising that the name The Beatles was a play on the word beat. how do educated well-read people manage stuff like this? and don't you love it when you learn something like that?

if salubrious doesn't mean rough what does it mean

a dn roads approcahign roudnabouts always veer to the left

aslo didnt notice for YEAR that dsses school hags no bell to start shcool - this is on purpose

salubrious measn swanky
"less salubriosu emans shite

oh yes, and i found out that there is an on/off switch to our immersion heater

had been on permanently for 4 years

had no idea it was firing constantly

I am learning many new things tonight

I have an enormous store of particularly useless information in my brain - unfortunately don't seem to have picked up other stuff

Did you know apparently grasshoppers have white blood?

and another

that robbie might not be 100% heterosexual

dh is mortified to find out ih tought in golf they hit a ball on and ononononononono

no apprently they pick it up bewtween holes

I make it my business to avoid even thinking about g--f.

Fraid so moondog
Isn't it so wrong?

(good thread twwtswah)

My geography is so dire that I did think that County Durham might be in Ireland (lots of places there are 'County something or other'). And that when I was at the dentist, just because I had my mouth open didn't mean that I had to breathe through it.

didn't know milk floats are electric until very recently
(I'm doubting this now I type it)

oh yes, and..

that there's a filter in the dishwasher

that has to be cleaned

dh says that at ice hokcey matches they have a bloke who plays the organ
asm still not convinced

Tutter dh has just read yours over my shoulder and muttered that he is very glad he is not married to you.
(Your sentiments also am sure...)

ah cod surely he's pulling yer fin? can't bring myself to believe that one

oooo I've just learnt why parasols are called parasols. and whilst I do know what salubrious means I have always thought it sounds wrong. It sounds like slum and urban and sanitation and eeerrr

detritus pronunciation example
here
I am still in denial and using my original interpretation of how it should sound in my head when reading and just avoiding the use of it verbally as I'm so pissed off with the actual word now as if IT has let me down by having such crappy pronunciation...

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i DO belivet hat they do wee in theirpadded suits htough
he used to play

I thought for ages that fuchsia really ought to be spelled (spelt?) 'fuschia'. And 'restaurateur' I always assumed was a misprint for 'restauranteur'. Call myself a pedant?

car Ads are filmed in mirror image depending on if they are shown here or sur le continent. And number plates are always 'AXH-101-HA' or something that looks the same both ways.

mr and mrs moondog

That situations are always changing! It's helped me get through difficult times especially with the kids. Just to trust that things never stay the same.

"debt rius"
thats yank fgs

Had no idea the reason the light in the kitchen didn't work was because it needed a new thingy (a button sort of thing - not a switch, as such, I don't think) which I could buy for a pound at an electrical shop. Well, I'd never had a fluorescent light before (inherited from previous owners) and I hadn't bothered to get a stool out and look at the darn thing carefully. But I am very grateful to the dishwasher repair man for solving the problem.

I assumed detritus had a short 'i' when I first came across it, too. But long 'i' is correct.