What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

Capt'n Midnight

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Platypusses (platypy???) have venom?

Jaysus, is there anything on that god forsaken continent that doesn't want to kill you - even the funny animals are poisonous.
In fact Kylies fanny is probably poisonous (but fúck it what a way to go, beats death by platypus anyway:D)

Technically ever species of octopus is venomous. But there's only one that's dangerous to humans, and by dangerous read 1,200 times worse than cyanide.

Take a wild guess where it lives ?




What's even wilder is that the original inhabitants probably wiped out the big critters. Komodo dragons weighing a tonne. Long legged land crocs.
Kangaroos have a nice way of grabbing you by the shoulders and disembowelling you with the claws on their hind feet , in the past there were bigger ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_megafauna

https://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/discoverycentre/dinosaur-walk/meet-the-skeletons/genyornis/

Genyornis was a large flightless bird, considerably taller and heavier than the modern ostrich or emu. It had powerful legs and tiny wings, and probably most closely resembled its living relatives, ducks and geese. But instead of having webbed feet and a duckbill, Genyornis had large hoof-like claws on its toes and a big beak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalania a monitor lizard the size of a croc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinkana long legged land crocs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonambi giant snakes.


Humans have been the apex predator on this planet for a long time.

Chancer3001

Botox is the most poisonous (toxic?) Substance ever known.

1kg costs a trillion dollars.

If you had 2kg of it youd have enough to kill everybody in the world.

The stuff people inject in their face is diluted to the billionth part and still kills nerves instantly

KKkitty

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Botox is the most poisonous (toxic?) Substance ever known.

1kg costs a trillion dollars.

If you had 2kg of it youd have enough to kill everybody in the world.

The stuff people inject in their face is diluted to the billionth part and still kills nerves instantly

Still don't understand why people want that stuff in their system.

Omackeral

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Botox is the most poisonous (toxic?) Substance ever known.

1kg costs a trillion dollars.

If you had 2kg of it youd have enough to kill everybody in the world.

The stuff people inject in their face is diluted to the billionth part and still kills nerves instantly

This should be in the "I bet you didn't know thread". None of that is obvious but it is very interesting.

sbsquarepants

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Botox is the most poisonous (toxic?) Substance ever known.

1kg costs a trillion dollars.

If you had 2kg of it youd have enough to kill everybody in the world.

The stuff people inject in their face is diluted to the billionth part and still kills nerves instantly

2 trillion to kill the entire world.

How much to just render them all completely expressionless for 6 months?

Botox was actually approved as a treatment for crossed eyes, a fairly niche market you'd have to think. Once approved however, doctors can use it to treat other conditions if they think it will help and so was spawned one of the worlds biggest selling drugs.
Apparently, wrinkles are a medical condition:D

Arbie

Cannabis is measured in ounces but cocaine in grams.

Digital Solitude

Arbie wrote: »

Cannabis is measured in ounces but cocaine in grams.

Small amounts of cannabis are sold in grams, generally its x number of ounces, half ounce, quarter ounce, and everything else in grams.

Over here anyways, I know it goes to eights and 'teenths' stateside

HeidiHeidi

That "Mace" ad on the telly with all the staff pogoing around the aisles in rude good humour (surely cause for a complaint to ASA in itself, they're never that happy in my local one) is not advertising the "Naas" Mace :eek:

I had wondered what was so special about Naas that it deserved its very own telly ad campaign

FunLover18

HeidiHeidi wrote:

I had wondered what was so special about Naas that it deserved its very own telly ad campaign

It's a nice place to shop.

R00ster

Despite having travelled through numerous times, I only copped recently that Holyhead is on an island, and that you passed through another island to get to mainland Wales.

sbsquarepants

Arbie wrote: »

Cannabis is measured in ounces but cocaine in grams.

Speaking as a former cocaine enthusiast - the metric system didn't feature in any of my dealings:)

R00ster wrote: »

Despite having travelled through numerous times, I only copped recently that Holyhead is on an island, and that you passed through another island to get to mainland Wales.

Well you live and learn!

Reminds me of a few years back, driving to achil. Got a bit lost, stopped at a shop and asked "how do I get to achil?", the woman looked at me a bit bemused and said "you're on achil!" "Surely, says I" somewhat puzzled, "I'd have cross water to get on to an island?", "Ay, surely you would!"
I still to this day reckon I was beamed on by aliens, I didn't cross no god damn water!:D

Malari

R00ster wrote: »

Despite having travelled through numerous times, I only copped recently that Holyhead is on an island, and that you passed through another island to get to mainland Wales.

I think there are probably a lot of people in Cork who don't realise it is an island too. :pac:

RoboRat

That Harley Quinn off Batman / Suicide Squad was actually a play on Harlequin.... Doh!

OldNotWIse

That discrete and discreet are two different words.

Ol' Donie

OldNotWIse wrote: »

That discrete and discreet are two different words.

Wait, what??

Ash.J.Williams

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Wait, what??

Yup.... He's right

HeidiHeidi

If only people would realise that wreckless and reckless were different words.... :mad:

(and that one of them doesn't exist!)

bonzodog2

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

If only people would realise that wreckless and reckless were different words.... :mad:

(and that one of them doesn't exist!)

this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreckless_Eric

Jesus Wept

T-shirts are so called because their shape looks like the letter 'T'.
Set your faces to stunned.

pickarooney

OldNotWIse wrote: »

That discrete and discreet are two different words.

Only one of them is two different words.

sbsquarepants

OldNotWIse wrote: »

That discrete and discreet are two different words.

Well that's news to me!

Jesus Wept wrote: »

T-shirts are so called because their shape looks like the letter 'T'.
Set your faces to stunned.

You don't remember the fruit of the loom adds then "these t shirts stay t shaped"

Pyr0

D'ya know when you're watching a film in the cinema and the a age rating appears before it starts? Well I always noticed the Director listed in the corner was always the same chap and I was thinking

"Jaysus this lad is directing everything these days, how come I've never heard of him?!"

Turns out it's the director of the irish film rating company

OldNotWIse

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Wait, what??

Discrete means something is apart from others or distinct.



Discreet (which is the one I didn't believe existed) means to be sensitive in dealing with something.

OldNotWIse

Jesus Wept wrote: »

T-shirts are so called because their shape looks like the letter 'T'.
Set your faces to stunned.

I didn't know this!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

That guide dogs can't read the bus number for their human

Juran

That LOL stands for 'Laughing Out Loud' .... up until a year ago, I thought it stood for 'Lots Of Love' and always thought it was strange that a work colleague in our US office sometimes added LOL to the end of her emails  ...  and here was me thinking she really liked me ... blush ...

Juran

That LOL stands for 'Laughing Out Loud' .... up until a year ago, I thought it stood for 'Lots Of Love' and always thought it was strange that a work colleague in our US office sometimes added LOL to the end of her emails  ...  and here was me thinking she really liked me ... blush ...

everlast75

Juran wrote: »

That LOL stands for 'Laughing Out Loud' .... up until a year ago, I thought it stood for 'Lots Of Love' and always thought it was strange that a work colleague in our US office sometimes added LOL to the end of her emails  ...  and here was me thinking she really liked me ... blush ...

Juran wrote: »

That LOL stands for 'Laughing Out Loud' .... up until a year ago, I thought it stood for 'Lots Of Love' and always thought it was strange that a work colleague in our US office sometimes added LOL to the end of her emails  ...  and here was me thinking she really liked me ... blush ...

I always wondered what happened to Juran Juran...

Brendan Bendar

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Well that's news to me!



You don't remember the fruit of the loom adds then "these t shirts stay t shaped"

What did they add?

sbsquarepants

Fruit I pressume:D

sbsquarepants

Juran wrote: »

That LOL stands for 'Laughing Out Loud' .... up until a year ago, I thought it stood for 'Lots Of Love' and always thought it was strange that a work colleague in our US office sometimes added LOL to the end of her emails ... and here was me thinking she really liked me ... blush ...

I remember reading something before (I think on boards) about someone who thought it meant the same thing texting their friend "heard your granny died LOL"
Oops!:D

Brendan Bendar

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Fruit I pressume:D

Eh.right..ok...added an 's' did they, good for them...right ? :pac:

annascott

...that up until last year I had been opening bananas upside down.

Frynge

Pyr0 wrote: »

D'ya know when you're watching a film in the cinema and the a age rating appears before it starts? Well I always noticed the Director listed in the corner was always the same chap and I was thinking

"Jaysus this lad is directing everything these days, how come I've never heard of him?!"

Turns out it's the director of the irish film rating company

Gerard Connelly is no longer "Acting Director" of the IFCO.

sbsquarepants

annascott wrote: »

...that up until last year I had been opening bananas upside down.

I seen that god damn smart arse monkey too.:mad:

It is so much easier to open them monkey style though, I used to occasionally resort to using a knife on the particularly awkward ones!

FunLover18

Californication is fornication with 'cali' at the front. I always thought it was a cool word for a vacation in California.

retalivity

Xico, that mexican club on baggot st in dublin, is 'mexico' without the 'me'.

I thought it was some weird aztec cultural appropriation sh1te

Ipso

FunLover18 wrote: »

Californication is fornication with 'cali' at the front. I always thought it was a cool word for a vacation in California.

It has to do with California people moving to Oregon, and people moaning about the changes.

Capt'n Midnight

AzcuzCoz

I only just realised that the Clooney guy from the Mace in Clones had twins! Congrats!

Elemonator

I thought a porcupine was a fish in an instance of confusion!!!!!!!!!

Lady is a tramp

Elemonator wrote: »

I thought a porcupine was a fish in an instance of confusion!!!!!!!!!

Porpoise?

Blackhorse Slim

No, it was an accident

Arbie

Talking to an Australian friend about Home & Away, I mentioned the town near to Summer Bay called "Abbey Creek".

She thought this was hilarious as the name is actually Yabbie Creek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Bay#Yabbie_Creek), apparently Yabbie/Yabby is a type of Australian shellfish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_yabby).

Not obvious to me, but apparently it is to Australians.

VandC

The restaurant "the happy pear"....is referring to its two happy owners, "the happy pair"

Pinch Flat

Some countries in Europe have exclaves - sovereign territory of one nation contained entirely within an other.

https://www.google.ie/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/articles/quirky-european-enclaves-where-cultures-collide/amp/

Exeggcute

annascott wrote: »

That Axl Rose was born a woman

eh...what?

On a side note his name is an anagram of oral sex.

His real name is William Bruce Rose Jr. but he was raised as William Bruce Bailey

Michael D Not Higgins

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Some countries in Europe have exclaves - sovereign territory of one nation contained entirely within an other.

https://www.google.ie/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/articles/quirky-european-enclaves-where-cultures-collide/amp/

Even better, for the first one, Baarle-Nassau, if you look at the map there's double enclaves. There's Dutch enclaves within the Belgian enclaves.

Quazzie

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

Even better, for the first one, Baarle-Nassau, if you look at the map there's double enclaves. There's Dutch enclaves within the Belgian enclaves.

It used to be the case that a lot of the shops had two doors, one in each country, and whichever countries tax regimes were better decided what door was open.

annascott

Exeggcute wrote: »

eh...what?

On a side note his name is an anagram of oral sex.

His real name is William Bruce Rose Jr. but he was raised as William Bruce Bailey

https://www.ncscooper.com/axl-rose-reveals-he-is-transgender/