Obvious Things That You Have Just Realised.

Whilat on Irish names it was only last month I discovered that Sile is actually pronounced as Sheila.
 
MikeTheNative said:
I didn't know about Port but there's a number of food and drink items that have to come from a particular place. Tequlia and prosecco are ones people often don't know.
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Technically that’s not quite right. Port is made in Portugal but not actually in Porto, it’s made in towns and cities along the Douro river close to the Spanish border and transported to Porto where it is aged and then transported from there.
 
Skunkworks said:
^That just triggered a memory.

Wasn’t there someone on here who thought a passenger jet was lighter on landing due to people eating the food and going to the toilet?
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This was bugging me for some reason, so I found the post. It was only 12 years ago. :o

callmeBadger said:
As title suggest, what is the most laughable thing your partner has ever said?

Example, on a flight to the Med last summer, I start reading the flight book thing about the plane at the back of the magazine. (now the numbers aren't exactly correct but her response is).

Me "did you know this plane has a maximum taxiing weight of 93500kg"
Me " look it says a maximum take of weight of 93000 kg, half a tone lost just taxxiing to the end of the runway".
Missus still didn't look to impressed.
me "ahh, the maximum landing weight is 78000kg, thats 15 tones we've used in a flight to the med."
Missus. "I dodn't know we would eat that much food"
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andy_mk3 said:
Most airliners can safely land above maximum landing weight, but generally only done in an emergency such as an engine failure or if the aircraft was deemed unfit to fly for whatever reason. Like you say the fuel dump isn't on most passenger jets, so they will usually circle with gear and flaps down for maximum fuel burn (up to 4 tons an hour in something like a 737), then land when safe to do so.
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Yeah its unlikley to collapse but that plane will be out of action for a long time while its chefles everywhere. So they'l avoid it if they can
 
Most of the world has conventional bathroom light switches and power sockets, it's us that are the unusual ones.
 
Oh, and the fuel arrow thing isn't always present and the handle doesn't always indicate the correct side.
 
I fly back and forth between the US quite a lot, usually I buy alcohol on the plane, but on the way back from LA a few months ago I thought I’d buy a bigger drink from the duty free and mix it with soft drinks bought on the plane.

I’d literally never in my life bought duty free alcohol before, and was shocked to discover that it came in a huge bag with “not to be opened until arrival at destination” in huge letters, with the bottle itself wrapped in weird packaging to disguise the brand..
 
I just discovered that my Viglen keyboard does not have a Windows key.

My sister used to pronounce the the name of famous entertainer Liberace, Libber-ayce.

Malevolence said:
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.
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Well tonight I made a plonker of myself.
Sometimes my car key fob doesn't work right and I have to click it a few times so I decided hold the open button on and my car broke.
I called the wife and said I'd buggered my car because all my windows had opened and I don't know if I could get them up again.
I got to gig practise where I told a couple of the band and they just laughed at me :)
I honestly had no idea cars did that.
 
RoyMi6 said:
Let me rock your world... you can also use ctrl+number to switch tabs in chrome, firefox, IE and probably every other browser.
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I'm switching tabs and programs like a crazy person right now.

Everyday I find new things that surprisingly aren't vegetarian. I also never knew reading labels in the supermarket would be so time consuming now I'm also shopping for a vegetarian
 
Lopéz said:
Oh I completely agree it's safer, but definitely not conventional.

I work all over the world and I'm always talking about the amazing British plug design and now safe it is. Without exception, everyone thinks I'm mental.
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Indeed, our sturdy plugs and sockets are a triumph of design and practicality, those spindly, 2 prong things the Americans use are
hopelessly outdated and naff.
 
MissChief said:
The squib in question was the fuse on top of a Cannon in the navy which was lit to make the powder explode, thrusting the cannonball out of the cannon at great velocity. Being in the navy the squib was to be kept dry at all times for a damp squib meant no explosion and no thrusting of cannonballs.
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Yes, a lot of our sayings have military origins, it is a fascinating subject.
Eg, keep ones powder dry, nailing your colours to the mast, three sheets to the wind, avant-garde, facing the music, with flying colours, pull your finger out plus many more
 
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