Realising Obvious Things (that Blow Your Mind)

I've long been able to wire a plug but it was only when my wife said the blue wire goes bottom left because it starts bl, the brown bottom right because it starts br and what left goes in the middle.
I have no idea if this was deliberately done but it did blown my little mind :D
 
Mr.Cookie said:
I've long been able to wire a plug but it was only when my wife said the blue wire goes bottom left because it starts bl, the brown bottom right because it starts br and what left goes in the middle.
I have no idea if this was deliberately done but it did blown my little mind :D
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I've never thought of that:cry:.
 
I've a couple, obvious when you think about them but I'd never given them much thought;

When you go to an audition and someone says "Break a leg" they are wishing that you end up in a cast.

When someone says "Hold your horses" they are telling you to be stable.
 
Crizzy said:
I've a couple, obvious when you think about them but I'd never given them much thought;

When you go to an audition and someone says "Break a leg" they are wishing that you end up in a cast.

When someone says "Hold your horses" they are telling you to be stable.
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I’m not sure if either of those are historically true, but I like them! :)
 
Crizzy said:
I've a couple, obvious when you think about them but I'd never given them much thought;

When you go to an audition and someone says "Break a leg" they are wishing that you end up in a cast.

When someone says "Hold your horses" they are telling you to be stable.
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this thread is more like 'things that are obviously not true' :)
 
Crizzy said:
I've a couple, obvious when you think about them but I'd never given them much thought;

When you go to an audition and someone says "Break a leg" they are wishing that you end up in a cast.

When someone says "Hold your horses" they are telling you to be stable.
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Haha, they’re definitely not true :p
 
Dirk Diggler said:
It's more relevant in notation i.e. No one would refer to an F key as E# but it could be written as E# in the context of a key change and then later referred to as natural if it reverts back. Essentially, # means raised by a semi-tone and b means lowered by a semi-tone. The actual note name is irrelevant within notation.
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I'm not a real musician but have performed for 51 years and I've never come across anybody ever calling them the names I'm not used to.

On a light note we have a band in Stoke called the Dirk Digglers Blues Band named after the drummer who was named after you know who and he was called that because of you know what and I saw it one night in a dressing room :)
He is a drummer so he doesn't know about notes and stuff and just hits things.
 
Dup said:
There's a Tom Scott video that tests this. The answer is dependent on the toaster and they don't really correlate with each other.
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I was just about to post something similar but I realised that he's actually correct. It's not correct to say the numbers are minutes (as Tom Scott showed) but it does relate to "duration"
 
The toaster works on a timer. Similarly, an electric shower works differently from how it may appear. The number on the heat setting doesn't change how hot the water is, it actually changes how long the water spends on the heat source i.e. how fast the water flows.

That's why it has numbers 1-10 as opposed to degrees Celsius.
 
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