What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Muslims follow the final and the literal word of God.

Delivered from God to the Prophet via the Angel Gabriel.

obi604

thesandeman wrote: »

That Tabasco is actually a place.

Did you hear this when they were on about a hurricane hitting some place and they mentioned tabasco?

thesandeman

obi604 wrote: »

Did you hear this when they were on about a hurricane hitting some place and they mentioned tabasco?

Yip.

obi604

thesandeman wrote: »

Yip.

Ah yeah. Same as meself !

civis_liberalis

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Don King is still alive.

Don't forget what a POS **** he is. He stomped an employee to death in the 60s. Plenty of other stellar stuff out there about him too.

thesandeman

obi604 wrote: »

Ah yeah. Same as meself !

That report was my sauce for that.

Geddit?

obi604

When I login to Internet banking, I login with my 8 digit registration number, after many years, I have just realised that the first 6 digits are my date of birth - thick or what !!

castletownman

Ever walk down Grafton Street, and see a strip of black paving running the length of it? Kind of sticks out amid all the normally coloured slabs.

Well that's a "guide strip" for the visually impaired and is made from a different material to the rest of the paving.

I genuinely thought it was just different for aesthetic purposes.

Ineedaname

For the longest time I thought the iron in your blood was named after iron the metal because it's needed to keep you healthy and strong. Never occurred to me they're actually one and the same.

Hammer89

I was looking for this thread recently but couldn't remember what it was called.

Anyways, I never realised The George was (probably) called that because it's on Georges St

valoren

Watching the The Story of Only Fools and Horses on UK Gold, I knew that Del Boy and Rodney's business was called Trotters Independent Trader's as it was clearly written on the side of the van, never copped that the acronym of it is TIT.

:pac:

the_pen_turner

obi604 wrote: »

When I login to Internet banking, I login with my 8 digit registration number, after many years, I have just realised that the first 6 digits are my date of birth - thick or what !!

mine isnt

RhubarbCrumble

valoren wrote: »

Watching the The Story of Only Fools and Horses on UK Gold, I knew that Del Boy and Rodney's business was called Trotters Independent Trader's as it was clearly written on the side of the van, never copped that the acronym of it is TIT.

:pac:

Hence why that college in Kerry calls itself Institute of Technology Tralee and not Tralee Institute of Technology.

sbsquarepants

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Hence why that college in Kerry calls itself Institute of Technology Tralee and not Tralee Institute of Technology.

Same thing it Tallaght.

Aglomerado

And Galway's college had to rebrand itself as Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, so the acronym wouldn't be GIT.

Worked well for Waterford to leave it as WIT!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

obi604 wrote: »

When I login to Internet banking, I login with my 8 digit registration number, after many years, I have just realised that the first 6 digits are my date of birth - thick or what !!

If that's the case I'm either three years old or 103...

ohnonotgmail

obi604 wrote: »

When I login to Internet banking, I login with my 8 digit registration number, after many years, I have just realised that the first 6 digits are my date of birth - thick or what !!

I think me an you have been using this for a long longer than others as mine is the same. In fact i dont think they even had internet banking back then. it was all phone banking.

New Home

Or maybe some banks use your DOB and some others don't.

ohnonotgmail

New Home wrote: »

Or maybe some banks use your DOB and some others don't.

Oh Yeah we're probably both with AIB.

bonzodog2

Mine's like that too, with AIB. I'd say for younger people, there's going to be more than 99 people with the same DOB, so they can't use that format

Ted_YNWA

Ulster bank uses that format, AIB don't.

ohnonotgmail

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Ulster bank uses that format, AIB don't.

the format with your date of birth as the first 6 digits? AIB definitely use that format.

quickbeam

I'm with AIB and it's only the first four digits that are my DOB (date and month, but not the year).

Ted_YNWA

ohnonotgmail wrote:

the format with your date of birth as the first 6 digits? AIB definitely use that format.

This is becoming a fraudster paradise.

ohnonotgmail

quickbeam wrote: »

I'm with AIB and it's only the first four digits that are my DOB (date and month, but not the year).

You're just too young then

ohnonotgmail

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

This is becoming a fraudster paradise.

not really. you dont know my date of birth. or the other digits. or the pin code.

sbsquarepants

quickbeam wrote: »

I'm with AIB and it's only the first four digits that are my DOB (date and month, but not the year).

I'm with AIB - either the DOB thing is a coincidence or they think I was born the 84th day of the 17th month.

ludite

slim223 wrote: »

I still don't get it :rolleyes:

To get to the other side could mean death. So the chicken crossed the road so that it would die when it was hit by a car

yeppydeppy

Kisser is a slang term for mouth - because it's the part of the body that does the kissing - D'oh!

civis_liberalis

quickbeam wrote: »

I'm with AIB and it's only the first four digits that are my DOB (date and month, but not the year).

Mine has full DOB.

DDMMYY, then two numbers.

New Home

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

not really. you dont know my date of birth. or the other digits. or the pin code.

...or DOES he?! :eek:

civis_liberalis

Obvious thing I realised the other day, the wireless logitech mice that a lot of people have for their laptops have a slot for the little usb receiver inside the mouse, so you don't lose it if you have to take it out of the laptop. I've had them for over 10 years and never noticed.

Ted_YNWA

civis_liberalis wrote:

Obvious thing I realised the other day, the wireless logitech mice that a lot of people have for their laptops have a slot for the little usb receiver inside the mouse, so you don't lose it if you have to take it out of the laptop. I've had them for over 10 years and never noticed.

:eek:


I've just checked mine & found it too.

Pyr0

I never knew until recently that a pickle was simply a "pickled" cucumber, a cucumber soaked in brine or vinegar. I always thought a pickle was a seperate vegetable!

Capt'n Midnight

yeppydeppy wrote: »

Kisser is a slang term for mouth - because it's the part of the body that does the kissing - D'oh!

Like when you trip on your laces and fall on your snot.

Ineedaname

civis_liberalis wrote: »

Obvious thing I realised the other day, the wireless logitech mice that a lot of people have for their laptops have a slot for the little usb receiver inside the mouse, so you don't lose it if you have to take it out of the laptop. I've had them for over 10 years and never noticed.

Holy **** there is and all:eek:

KraftyKennedy

I'd always thought Shelbourne F.C was a premier league UK team and assumed that there was a city called Shelbourne in the UK.

TotalReality

Pyr0 wrote: »

I never knew until recently that a pickle was simply a "pickled" cucumber, a cucumber soaked in brine or vinegar. I always thought a pickle was a seperate vegetable!

Is it not a pickled gherkin,or are they the same thing??

New Home

They're still cucumbers.

Rubberlegs

Stephen Hawking is English, WTF?? Just watched The Theory of Everything, and it was clearly his voice generator's accent that had me assuming he was American.

noveltea

civis_liberalis wrote:

Mine has full DOB.

civis_liberalis wrote:

DDMMYY, then two numbers.

Are the two numbers your house number as mine are and it's the same for other people I know.

OldNotWIse

That the song lyrics are not "homer has a lonely heart" but in fact "owner of a lonely heart" :P

NIMAN

I always thought it was a hand glider.
Only discovered its a hang glider.

7 Seconds...

The TV show Murder, she wrote is called that because she wrote about murder. The penny has been waiting a very long time to finally drop for that one:D.

368100

Can I come too... wrote: »

The TV show Murder, she wrote is called that because she wrote about murder. The penny has been waiting a very long time to finally drop for that one:D.

Wow ;-)

valoren

Some recent ones. Was bored and reading wiki and ended up reading about physics.

'Ray' of light. It's called that because it's from the source of a circular sphere and so is the distance from the centre to the perimeter of that circle i.e. the radius. Interesting. Then it hit me. Radius. Knowing light is an electromagnetic wave my mind is blown when I thought.....Radiation!!! Electromagnetic radiation. FFS! How did I never get that??

Also, reading about kinematics the branch of physics regarding motion.
Motion. Motion Pictures? Kinematics? Cinema!!!! My god!!!

Ol' Donie

Can I come too... wrote: »

The TV show Murder, she wrote is called that because she wrote about murder. The penny has been waiting a very long time to finally drop for that one:D.

Sooo...what did you think it meant?

New Home

Can I come too... wrote: »

The TV show Murder, she wrote is called that because she wrote about murder. The penny has been waiting a very long time to finally drop for that one:D.

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Sooo...what did you think it meant?

I'm pretty sure there's a book by Agatha Christie called "Murder, she said", too.

7 Seconds...

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Sooo...what did you think it meant?

As silly as it sounds, I just never gave it any thought & it recently just registered in my head.

Ash.J.Williams

Biggest lickspittle on boardz wrote: »

The henchmen in the Indiana Jones series is played by the same actor, Pat Roach. He actually has 4 parts in the 3 older movies:


http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Pat_Roach

Omg... It's only the bleedin bomber!!!