What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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I only realised this around Christmas when I rewatched it - Hogwarts as a word was "first" used in Labyrinth, where Jennifer Connelly mistakes the name Hoggle for Hogwart when she meets the creature at first.

764dak

The built-in calculator on my phone has trig but no inverse trig functions.

FunLover18

New Home wrote: »

I only realised this around Christmas when I rewatched it - Hogwarts as a word was "first" used in Labyrinth, where Jennifer Connelly mistakes the name Hoggle for Hogwart when she meets the creature at first.

I vaguely remember JK crediting the name to a plant.

IvyTheTerrible

FunLover18 wrote: »

I vaguely remember JK crediting the name to a plant.

Not deliberately though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croton_capitatus

_Roz_

I only realized recently that the Count in Sesame Street was so-named not just because he's a vampire, but because he counts.

Yep, I'm dumb.

sbsquarepants

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I watched Breaking Bad and never realised the name Saul Goodman is a joke until I started watching Better Call Saul.

A few years back a friend of mine got a solicitors letter from the office of Hugh. J. Ward.
He thought it was a wind up...but no Hugh. J. Ward is an actual solicitors!!

js35

_Roz_ wrote: »

I only realized recently that the Count in Sesame Street was so-named not just because he's a vampire, but because he counts.

Yep, I'm dumb.

That ba$tard used to scare the bejasus out of me when I was little

DarkHoarse

The Fedex logo has an arrow in it

Ciaran_B

In the episode of The Simpsons when Mr. Burns puts on a fake 'tache and tells people his name is Snrub, he is spelling Burns backwards.

Ash.J.Williams

Self Contained Underwater Breathing Aparatus

Katgurl

I don't think most of the things listed above were obvious. Perhaps I am stupider than most though.

Anyway here is mine -

I was shocked at how many fb friends this year suffering from the very rare virus influenza. Then I realised they have a flu.

_Roz_

_Roz_ wrote: »

I only realized recently that the Count in Sesame Street was so-named not just because he's a vampire, but because he counts.

Yep, I'm dumb.

Knex*

Sign language is different in every country. Like, deaf British people can't understand deaf Americans.

This literally only dawned on me as a possibility about 30 minutes ago, prompting a furious google search.

Flincher

The name Tayto comes from the word potato. I had a sudden realisation while stuck behind a Tayto truck last week.

Larbre34

Knex. wrote: »

Sign language is different in every country. Like, deaf British people can't understand deaf Americans.

This literally only dawned on me as a possibility about 30 minutes ago, prompting a furious google search.

I'm 27. And evidently, an idiot.

Doesnt make you an idiot, i only became aware of that in recent years and i thought nothing of it. Its just one of those things that if it doesnt impact of your life then why would you know much about it.

the beer revolu

Katgurl wrote: »

I don't think most of the things listed above were obvious. Perhaps I am stupider than most though.

Anyway here is mine -

I was shocked at how many fb friends this year suffering from the very rare virus influenza. Then I realised they have a flu.

Chances are, most of them had a cold, anyway.

valoren

Ciaran_B wrote: »

In the episode of The Simpsons when Mr. Burns puts on a fake 'tache and tells people his name is Snrub, he is spelling Burns backwards.

"I like the way Snrub thinks..."

Found out last night that the 'Harpo' from Oprah Winfrey's production company Harpo Productions is Oprah spelled backwards.

Capt'n Midnight

Knex. wrote: »

Sign language is different in every country. Like, deaf British people can't understand deaf Americans.

Meanwhile in Northern Ireland ... there's both Irish Sign Language and British Sign Language.


BTW there's also Catholic and Protestant bats, different species live in different churches.

donegaLroad

If your products are too reasonably priced, people think that there is something wrong with them.

SimonTemplar

Oprah's company is called Harpo which I've always known. Just realised it is Oprah spelled backwards.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Ciaran_B wrote: »

In the episode of The Simpsons when Mr. Burns puts on a fake 'tache and tells people his name is Snrub, he is spelling Burns backwards.

21Savage

I know a girl who can't get her head around the fact white Americans are from Europe. She can get it with black people.She also can't comprehend that Mexicans and other central Americans are nothing like Spaniards.



Typical Mexican look. You'd know straight away they weren't Spaniards. She also doesn't see them(Spanish) as 'white'. Really really annoys me. Cesar Azplicueta and Fernando Torres, Dani Rovira all have same complexion as Irish but all look typically Spanish. Torres and Rovira have long faces with close and beady eyes

pickarooney

What's the connection with the topic there?

razorblunt

21Savage wrote: »

I know a girl who can't get her head around the fact white Americans are from Europe. She can get it with black people.She also can't comprehend that Mexicans and other central Americans are nothing like Spaniards.



Typical Mexican look. You'd know straight away they weren't Spaniards. She also doesn't see them(Spanish) as 'white'. Really really annoys me. Cesar Azplicueta and Fernando Torres, Dani Rovira all have same complexion as Irish but all look typically Spanish. Torres and Rovira have long faces with close and beady eyes

Show her the boxer Canelo for Mexicans




And Iniesta for Spanish

Mr.Crinklewood

It's "Phillip Schofield", not "Philip Scholfield"

Bubbaclaus

When I was a kid I used to think the 'No Credit' signs some shops would have up behind the counter meant that they didn't sell phone credit there.

21Savage

razorblunt wrote: »

Show her the boxer Canelo for Mexicans




And Iniesta for Spanish

Canelo's both parents are full Spanish lineage and you can tell. He has no native American indigenous blood in him. I could tell he was Spanish straight away. He's ginger but his features are Spanish.

razorblunt

21Savage wrote: »

Canelo's both parents are full Spanish lineage and you can tell. He has no native American indigenous blood in him. I could tell he was Spanish straight away. He's ginger but his features are Spanish.

Spanish? If he was lining out in a Championship game for Kilmacud I wouldn’t look twice!!

grogi

razorblunt wrote: »

Spanish? If he was lining out in a Championship game for Kilmacud I wouldn’t look twice!!

There is some ginger blood around the southern nations. Remember the Nero Emperor?

Ash.J.Williams

I've just copped after 15 years or more that Tenacious D means a firm grip of a Penis.

pawdee

I was well into my 30s before I realised that misled was pronounced "missled". I thought it was pronounced "myzeld". I was obviously myzeld somewhere along the line. Luckily I never had occasion to read the word publicly. Strange because I've understood and have been using the word misled (and mislead) in conversation for many years.

I was also in my 30s before I realised that Tayto is derived from potato. If you look closely you'll notice that Mr Tayto resembles a peeled potato!

grogi

pawdee wrote: »

I was well into my 30s before I realised that misled was pronounced "missled". I thought it was pronounced "myzeld". I was obviously myzeld somewhere along the line. Luckily I never had occasion to read the word publicly. Strange because I've understood and have been using the word misled (and mislead) in conversation for many years.

I was also in my 30s before I realised that Tayto is derived from potato. If you look closely you'll notice that Mr Tayto resembles a peeled potato!

His full name is Poe Tayto, isn't it?

tracey turnblad

That ad for Allianz with the blind marathon runner girl... I thought it was for Aldi!

sabat

Sarah Palin has the same surname as Michael Palin.

Conall Cernach

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

I've just copped after 15 years or more that Tenacious D means a firm grip of a Penis.

I'm pretty sure they got their name from an American Football commentator who would use the phrase "Tenacious D" when talking about a tenacious defence.

pickarooney

sabat wrote: »

Sarah Palin has the same surname as Michael Palin.

Do you think she measures up? (Or just Palin comparison)

tupenny

I always thought "up the ante" was try harder / put more feckin effort in
Til last weekend playing poker and some1 said "after this round antes are 40/80 "
I was in awe!!

Duckworth_Luas

The same actor, John Rhys-Davies, played the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings



and Indy's larger than life pal Sallah in the Indiana Jones movies.

mikemac2

KraftyKennedy wrote: »

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.

In 2001 Shelbourne played a big UEFA cup game. Stands packed, TV cameras there

Except the game wasn’t real, it was against Harchester United for the British show Dream Team

It was even possible to buy Harchester United jerseys in shops in Dublin but they wouldnt stock League of Ireland jerseys! When a team that doesn’t exist is more popular than you something is going wrong

Video here ,including a young Wes Hoolihan. These days Shels are lucky to get 400-500 at a game

https://youtu.be/gHlLXHphB6Q

Subcomandante Marcos

shaneon77 wrote: »

I think they originated in a restaurant called buffalo.??

Nope. Created in the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.

IvyTheTerrible

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

The same actor, John Rhys-Davies, played the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings.

and Indy's larger than life pal Sallah in the Indiana Jones movies.

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He also voiced Treebird in Lord of the Rings.

Oranage2

mikemac2 wrote: »

In 2001 Shelbourne played a big UEFA cup game. Stands packed, TV cameras there

Except the game wasn’t real, it was against Harchester United for the British show Dream Team

It was even possible to buy Harchester United jerseys in shops in Dublin but they wouldnt stock League of Ireland jerseys! When a team that doesn’t exist is more popular than you something is going wrong

Video here ,including a young Wes Hoolihan. These days Shels are lucky to get 400-500 at a game

https://youtu.be/gHlLXHphB6Q

Went to that, best and only LOI game i ever went to. I still remember the harchester keeper being terrible (Jamie Parker?) Though his on screen wife was gorgeous.

Jakey Rolling

That I get a much more solid and reliable connection if I force my phone to use 3G only, rather than letting it try to connect to flaky 4G signal that we get at our house. Just found this out at the weekend while trying to set up a 4G broadband router, it's actually faster on 3G.

Now I can make and receive calls at home without having to constantly make apologies for the "bad line

Should have been obvious to me given my background in telecomms and RF systems, but i've been putting up with it for years.

grogi

iamwhoiam wrote: »

No . Its been V - fow
And W - vay
for a long long time ! Any German I know who are much older than 35 pronounce it fow and vay

Ash.J.Williams

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I'm pretty sure they got their name from an American Football commentator who would use the phrase "Tenacious D" when talking about a tenacious defence.

I doubt that very much

I mean at face value it's correct but add the concept of duality of meaning and it's probably more accurate

Mysteriouschic

The circle with the arrows on the back of packaging etc is a recycling symbol . I've been looking for the green triangle symbol :pac:

Zwillinge

Will Smith + Jada Pinkett
=>
Willow Smith + Jaden Smith

Conall Cernach

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

I doubt that very much

I mean at face value it's correct but add the concept of duality of meaning and it's probably more accurate

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/movies/08john.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/M/Motion%20Pictures

Mr. Black, 37, formed the musical comedy duo Tenacious D with Kyle Gass, 45, in 1994. Taking its name from the sportscaster Marv Albert’s description of strong defensive positioning on a basketball court — “They’re playing some tenacious dee”

New Home

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

The circle with the arrows on the back of packaging etc is a recycling symbol . I've been looking for the green triangle symbol :pac:

Actually, no, it's not. The triangle means recyclable, the circle (Green Dot) doesn't.

Mysteriouschic

New Home wrote: »

Actually, no, it's not. The triangle means recyclable, the circle (Green Dot) doesn't.

Oh really learn something new everyday