Obvious Things That You Have Just Realised.

[Roland Butter]

This is a safe place where no rolling of eyes, forehead smacking or tooth sucking will be tolerated, unburden yourself of your ignorance and expose your bloomers .

I just twigged that Spag Bol is just short for spaghetti bolognaise rather than a trendy Swedish herring dish.

I used to read the word " Misled " as miss-eld rather than miss-led.

The annoying pimples on pavement edges are an aid to blind people rather than an anti-slip surface.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

There were several words that I had misspelt for a long time (talking aged 20s / 30s) before realising how they were meant to be spelt:

Ignore - I was spelling it as ignor (losing the e)
Awful - I was spelling it as aweful (so kinda opposite by adding the e)
Margin - I was spelling it as margain
Archive - I was spelling it as archieve
Century - I was spelling it as centuary
Postponed - I was adding an h, as postphoned

It took me until age 8 before I realised that a day was 24 hours (I thought it was 12 hours).

Again aged 8, I knew the numbers from 1 to 99, pulled out a tape measure and asked Mum what is 100 and she said it was a hundred.

I didn't know the alphabet until I was 12

Yeah I had mild learning disability, but still. 'Twas a bit stupid in hindsight!

 

[fatiain]

It was only last year that I realised that Miles "Tails" Prower from Sonic the Hedgehog = Miles Prower - Miles per hour.

I was 45. :/

 

[Malevolence]

I recently discovered that, despite me using computers since the ZX80 and every Microsoft OS from DOS 3.0 upwards, pressing the Windows Key + (1-0) will open the corresponding application from the taskbar.

 

[rexehuk]

Realised raisins are dried grapes.

 

[BaamDaad]

well i realized how overpriced intel is here in my country for dumb reasons

 

[saayinla]

That my car had cruise control and a potential buyer was the first to user it after owning the car for 3 years..

 

[malachi]

It was only last year that I realised that Miles "Tails" Prower from Sonic the Hedgehog = Miles Prower - Miles per hour.

I was 45. :/

You not alone in that one. People working in the games industry since the 80's and only found this out recently.

 

[Nitefly]

I realised yesterday that the Disney song “The Bear Necessities” is a play on words. My god.

 

[Zatoichi.uK]

For years I thought mandatory and compulsory were opposites and I'd get confused about which was which.

 

[DoneADougalOnSofa]

As a youngster, I thought a police escort was relevant to the brand of car.

It confused me when I saw a Vauxhall jam sandwich. Didn't work it out for an embarrassingly long time...

 

[Orionaut]

When I was younger, I was puzzled as to why "Portakabins" were called "Por-Takabins"

 

[stopper]

Couple years ago I realized that the "rule of law" is a choice, and if enough people decided they didn't want it, the whole government system (police, courts, councils, etc) would break down and cease to exist.

 

[danoliver1]

As a kid I thought oral sex meant talking about sex.

 

[Digital X]

I realised yesterday that the Disney song “The Bear Necessities” is a play on words. My god.

Well that's new to me..

 

[Chojin]

Not too recent but it was only in my mid 20s when I realised the label inside a jumper is 99% of the time on the left-hand side.

 

[TheVoice]

The children's TV show Brum was set in Birmingham.

 

[Jean-F]

Not too recent but it was only in my mid 20s when I realised the label inside a jumper is 99% of the time on the left-hand side.

Thanks for that, now I can sleep at night.

As a kid I thought oral sex meant talking about sex.

You are my wife, and I claim the £5.

 

[aardvark]

It was only last year that I realised that Miles "Tails" Prower from Sonic the Hedgehog = Miles Prower - Miles per hour.

I was 45. :/

i now know this and i am 45.

 

[MissChief]

As a kid I thought oral sex meant talking about sex.

That's aural sex.