Obvious Things That You Have Just Realised.

skaif · 9 May 2018 at 12:41

Sega Mega Dave said:
Also took me a long time to realise pressing the middle mouse button on a link, opens the link. Now i use it constantly.

I realised this a while back and also that middle click is used to close said window! Magic! I now have to use it all the time or else I feel....weird!

Dirk Diggler · 9 May 2018 at 12:45

Merlin5 said:
Took me a while to realise that 'boatswain' is not pronounced as it looks and that a ship's 'bosun' is the aforementioned ship's 'boatswain'.

Just like coxswain.

It was fairly recently that I realised how Yosemite was pronounced.

Dis86 · 9 May 2018 at 13:08

Merlin5 said:
Took me a while to realise that 'boatswain' is not pronounced as it looks and that a ship's 'bosun' is the aforementioned ship's 'boatswain'.

Mind = blown

bledd · 9 May 2018 at 13:38

My wife thought that a fire hydrant was called a 'fire hydrogen'. She was excited to see one when we visited San Fransisco.

When I asked her to explain the name, she paused and said.. "There's a gas supply of hydrogen under the city under high pressure. When they need some water, the release it into a pipe, then it mixes with oxygen in the air to create water."

Terrific explanation, but horribly wrong

Skunkworks · 9 May 2018 at 13:45

^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?

Merlin5 · 9 May 2018 at 13:58

Anyone old enough to remember the kids tv show Captain Pugwash? For years I thought they had actually had characters named with innuendo which wouldn't be understood by kids. Seaman Stains, Master Bates and Roger the cabin boy. Unfortunately it turned out to be an urban myth.

AndyT · 9 May 2018 at 16:12

Freakbro said:
You're not alone there....I only found that out a couple of years ago!

Spit said:
That after 25 years of driving the fuel symbol on the dashboard has an arrow that tells you which side you put the fuel in!

This is amazing information. I have always just made a 50:50 guess when coming up to a petrol station in a hire car for the first time. I'm hiring a car tomorrow, so will ensure that I proudly and smugly use this new information to impress / irritate my long suffering family, as though they would be simpleminded fools not have not already known such a thing.

TacticalFish · 9 May 2018 at 16:24

I have just realised an awful lot of obvious things

On Holiday · 9 May 2018 at 16:25

AndyT said:
This is amazing information. I have always just made a 50:50 guess when coming up to a petrol station in a hire car for the first time. I'm hiring a car tomorrow, so will ensure that I proudly and smugly use this new information to impress / irritate my long suffering family, as though they would be simpleminded fools not have not already known such a thing.

Indeed, I only found out about it a few years ago myself, fortunately BEFORE I started driving many different models of cars!

Spit · 9 May 2018 at 19:49

AndyT said:
This is amazing information. I have always just made a 50:50 guess when coming up to a petrol station in a hire car for the first time. I'm hiring a car tomorrow, so will ensure that I proudly and smugly use this new information to impress / irritate my long suffering family, as though they would be simpleminded fools not have not already known such a thing.

Haha. I know, i can’t stop checking in every car now lol.

Quartz · 9 May 2018 at 21:54

Nick1881 said:
I thought a lot was a word, it's actually a lot.

Actually, just to confuse matters, there is a word 'allot'.

Noxia · 9 May 2018 at 22:35

Port comes from Porto in Portugal.

jimmynaetroots · 9 May 2018 at 22:38

Not me, but when my old school friends and I met up in our local a few years ago (when we were around 30) we discovered that one guy thought a toilet seat was for women only and had been, his entire life, sitting on the ceramic when going for a number 2... Once we had finished laughing, we enlightened him. The next day, we got a group message saying that he had just tried the seat and that he had the most comfortable poo of his life!

banja · 9 May 2018 at 23:59

jimmynaetroots said:
Not me, but when my old school friends and I met up in our local a few years ago (when we were around 30) we discovered that one guy thought a toilet seat was for women only and had been, his entire life, sitting on the ceramic when going for a number 2... Once we had finished laughing, we enlightened him. The next day, we got a group message saying that he had just tried the seat and that he had the most comfortable poo of his life!

Hasn't this guy already posted in this thread? (post #40)

explicit4u · 10 May 2018 at 00:38

Epic if its the same guy!

If not, it makes you wonder how many people believe this?

loltim · 10 May 2018 at 01:38

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

Safe place or not.. come on

neviditelny · 10 May 2018 at 02:41

Skunkworks said:
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?

I came across a chap that was so sure that airplanes did dump all the remaining fuel when landing in case an accident occured...

Merlin5 · 10 May 2018 at 02:52

I always wondered why something was a damp squid when it disappoints or fails to excite. Because clearly a squid is always damp. So this isn't really an obvious realisation but it's not squid, it's actually a damp squib which is a form of firework or explosive.

MissChief · 10 May 2018 at 03:06

Merlin5 said:
I always wondered why something was a damp squid when it disappoints or fails to excite. Because clearly a squid is always damp. So this isn't really an obvious realisation but it's not squid, it's actually a damp squib which is a form of firework or explosive.

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.

Roland Butter · 10 May 2018 at 04:01

neviditelny said:
I came across a chap that was so sure that airplanes did dump all the remaining fuel when landing in case an accident occured...

He's almost right, I think that is true when an airliner is forced to attempt an emergency landing soon after take off, they will dump [ safely obviously ]
the majority of the fuel to prevent a potential fireball.