What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

Skill Magill

Chucken wrote: »

I cant see it?!:(

see it now

Chucken

eoing1 wrote: »

see it now

Yes :eek:

Mal-Adjusted

Seaneh wrote: »

You don't get out much, do you?

Zaytoon (Dublin), Al Kebabish or King Kebab (Athlone). Infinitely better. Anywhere what serves Kebabs in pita bread should be shut down and the owners deported.

I don't dirty myself by going to Athlone and iv'e never heard of the other one so it must not be that good.

not much for kebabs. i go to Charcoal grill for the burgers. superb

Degringola

That Arkansas is pronounced Arkansaw and indictment is pronounced inditement.

Never copped that about the chicken before. Who says AH isn't educational?

juan.kerr

It's not smart to piss into the wind.

mikemac1

movingsucks wrote: »

That Iceland the supermarket is all frozen stuff...

Mind blown :eek:

Was never in our local Iceland before today

Went in and you're right!

juan.kerr

movingsucks wrote: »

That Iceland the supermarket is all frozen stuff...

Strange that they would sell frozen cans of Coke and sweets. Take's all sorts, I suppose.

cazzzzz

ROFLCOPTER actually means something (cannot operate properly til eyes refocus) who knew!

washiskin

"Turning Japanese" by The Vapors is about having a hand shandy. :eek:

Skill Magill

washiskin wrote: »

"Turning Japanese" by The Vapors is about having a hand shandy. :eek:

I did not know that :eek: Wouldn't say its obvious though

juan.kerr

washiskin wrote: »

"Turning Japanese" by The Vapors is about having a hand shandy. :eek:

I've heard of Rock Shandy and Orange Shandy, but hand shandy?

Allyall

washiskin wrote: »

"Turning Japanese" by The Vapors is about having a hand shandy. :eek:

'Tisn't. Also, it's not the lyrics that caused the rumour (Well, not most of them), which would be a more believable rumour. It was that "squinting" like Japanese person is the same face you make when you are about to ejaculate..

Daftest rumour i ever heard.

Shryke

The fine ass blond baddie in Blades of Glory is Leslie Knope from parks and recreation!

shalalala

I always thought the saying was the best thing since life spread...

md23040

Splelchcek is a wsate of tmie bceuase the hamun eye olny lokos at the fisrtand lsat letetr of ecah wrod and is albe to dechpier sub -concsoiusly

md23040

Racecar is a Palindrome...

md23040

Only realised Freddie Mercury was gay after he died.

Jonah42

The aliens put the figs in the fig rolls because they got more arms and they can do it quicklier.

TheChizler

Never realised that the Roches Stores logo was an R. Always looked like a squiggle.http://eurografx.com/sitebuilder/images/RochesStoresLogoPhilipO-249x74.png

Also never realised the first symbol in the Disney logo was a D. I still have to force myself to see it!

Omackeral

That Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Baa Baa Black Sheep are the exact same tune.


So is the alphabet song. A-B-C-D-E-F-G....

FairytaleGirl

^ as is the intro to Gotye`s
Somebody that I used to know.

Musefan

I never knew that I the song "I saw mommy kissing Santa claus" that Santa claus is actually the father...hence the "if daddy had only seen" line...penny has dropped!!

lounakin

After 15 pages of this I'm thinking the moral of this thread is: think before you speak!

Wabbit Ears

I though that the signs at islandbridge were pop art no tie-fighter signs put there by some unknown awesome person, Then one day I copped it was no 5 axle trucks and a bit of me died inside.

Tar.Aldarion

GreeBo wrote: »

Yes you do, it depends on how the domain was registered/setup!

Technically they can just type the ip and he was right :pac:

Mostly I just type a couple of letters and hit enter, good old chrome

MadameGascar

Why Dr. Hibbert always laughs

Joekers

No cheese in a cheese cake

pookiesboo

That Tayto is taken from the word potato

Clondalphian

Joekers wrote: »

No cheese in a cheese cake

Yes there is

Czarcasm

You can't get cidona or red lemonade in England?? Say it ain't so! :eek:

DerekDGoldfish

Czarcasm wrote: »

You can't get cidona or red lemonade in England?? Say it ain't so! :eek:

You can certain stores in areas with a large Irish populations have Irish sections with Club Orange, Red Lemonade and other Irish things.

Czarcasm

DerekDGoldfish wrote: »

You can certain stores in areas with a large Irish populations have Irish sections with Club Orange, Red Lemonade and other Irish things.

Phew! Brother in law is home from London and he mentioned it when he asked did I take a dash of red in my whiskey. Then he went on to state the above. He lives in Kensington? He's passed out now, I'll ask him later! :pac:

Al Capwned

mikemac1 wrote: »

There's a poster here called juan kerr

I read their posts for months and months, probably over a year before I copped what it was about

Only realised a few weeks ago about The_Kew_Tour - same thing....

Ando's Saggy Bottom

Less thzn 24 hours home for Christmas and I just realised why I left in the first place. :pac:

lachin

That there's no mince meat in mince pies!!!!
Getting destroyed over it!!!

JohnMearsheimer

Paul Simon is the same Simon from Simon & Garfunkel.

Shryke

MadameGascar wrote: »

Why Dr. Hibbert always laughs

Am I being slow? Why?!

mikemac1

A few years back there were shootings in Mumbai, all over the news
And I hear about Mumbai now and again, mainly something to do with businesss stories

Never put any thought about where in India it was

Then I learn it's the new name for Bombay, when did that happen? :eek:

I went to school in the nineties, we always said Bombay

Feeling old

George Huxley 1983

I was in love with someone I broke up with

Shryke

mikemac1 wrote: »

A few years back there were shootings in Mumbai, all over the news
And I hear about Mumbai now and again, mainly something to do with businesss stories

Never put any thought about where in India it was

Then I learn it's the new name for Bombay, when did that happen? :eek:

I went to school in the nineties, we always said Bombay

Feeling old

Muslim authorities giving 2 fingers to antiquity and anyone and everyone else. That's what the Mum is for. I call it Bombay.

GreeBo

lachin wrote: »

That there's no mince meat in mince pies!!!!
Getting destroyed over it!!!

Yes there is!
However, there is no minced meat in them aka no meat.

Minced meat is what you get when you start with meat and you mince it.
Mince meat/mincemeat is the stuff in the mince pies.

MadsL

GreeBo wrote: »

Yes there is!
However, there is no minced meat in them aka no meat.

Minced meat is what you get when you start with meat and you mince it.
Mince meat/mincemeat is the stuff in the mince pies.

There originally was meat in mince pies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mince_pie

Adding heavy sugars (honey) and dried fruit disguised the poor almost rotten taste of meat kept without refrigeration.

The Big Red Button

lachin wrote: »

That there's no mince meat in mince pies!!!!
Getting destroyed over it!!!

Until a couple of years ago, I always thought that battered sausages were sausages that had been ... well, battered ... as in, hammered flat with one of those little mallet yokes that chefs use.

In my defence, I'd never tried one (still haven't!), and had never seen one. I guess I assumed that 'battering' them with a hammer improved the taste ... somehow ...

Macker

If you think that you have another Think coming

mr kr0nik

chatterpillar wrote: »

Until a couple of years ago, I always thought that battered sausages were sausages that had been ... well, battered ... as in, hammered flat with one of those little mallet yokes that chefs use.

In my defence, I'd never tried one (still haven't!), and had never seen one. I guess I assumed that 'battering' them with a hammer improved the taste ... somehow ...

That only happens when you beat eggs.

thomur

Maybe not too obvious but that pepper sauce was originally used to cover the taste of meat that had gone off

Cienciano

mikemac1 wrote: »

For many years I thought Tracy Chapman was a man

In my defense this was pre-youtube days and I didn't have ready access to the internet.

In fairness, even with access youtube videos I'm not 100% sure

corktina

Shryke wrote: »

Muslim authorities giving 2 fingers to antiquity and anyone and everyone else. That's what the Mum is for. I call it Bombay.

India is not a Muslim country....

Max Power

I always thought Sydney was the capital of Australia up until a few years ago.

Guy:Incognito

mikemac1 wrote: »

You don't need to type www. before many well known websites. Boards is one

I spent years and years typing www. every time

Only copped on this year and was treated like a fool by someone I told :rolleyes:

If only people on tv and radio would realise you don't have to say "www" while reading out a web address. Just saying "boards.ie" is fine, people know what it is. It's happening less, but still a lot.