What daft things have dawned on you later in life?

[gizlaroc]

GNU Network Object Model Environment

[gizlaroc]

Quite A Nice Trip, All Survived

[russ_a]

The metal rings on an electric hob are not electric they simply encase the electric filament that is insulated from the metal.

[dvs_dave]

As a child reading comic books, I always thought it odd that when a character was depicted as sleeping their speech bubble said "NNNNNNN".

Although thinking about it "ZZZZZZ" is equally nonsensical.

[PinkRinse]

I think I was well in to my twenties when I found out "sticky backed plastic" was Sellotape that Blue Peter presenters obviously couldn't say. I always pondered where you could find this mythical sounding stuff... And yes even when I WATCHED it and clearly saw them using frigging Sellotape, I just thought it was something else

[poing]

PinkRinse said:

I think I was well in to my twenties when I found out "sticky backed plastic" was Sellotape that Blue Peter presenters obviously couldn't say. I always pondered where you could find this mythical sounding stuff... And yes even when I WATCHED it and clearly saw them using frigging Sellotape, I just thought it was something else

I didn't know that until now, I'm 40!

[BrassMan]

gizlaroc said:

Quite A Nice Trip, All Survived

Try Walking Across?
And what does GNU stand for?

Slightly more serious. When playing football at junior school (89-91-ish) we used to chant or just make noise to put off whoever was taking a penalty. Many years later, I realised that we were making monkey noises.

[Cliftonite]

PinkRinse said:

I think I was well in to my twenties when I found out "sticky backed plastic" was Sellotape that Blue Peter presenters obviously couldn't say. I always pondered where you could find this mythical sounding stuff... And yes even when I WATCHED it and clearly saw them using frigging Sellotape, I just thought it was something else

I didn't find out until tonight. And i ain't been 20 for quite a while!

Thank you!

[kellys hero]

PinkRinse said:

I think I was well in to my twenties when I found out "sticky backed plastic" was Sellotape that Blue Peter presenters obviously couldn't say. I always pondered where you could find this mythical sounding stuff... And yes even when I WATCHED it and clearly saw them using frigging Sellotape, I just thought it was something else

I feel like I have just taken the red pill..

[nre]

PinkRinse said:

I think I was well in to my twenties when I found out "sticky backed plastic" was Sellotape that Blue Peter presenters obviously couldn't say. I always pondered where you could find this mythical sounding stuff... And yes even when I WATCHED it and clearly saw them using frigging Sellotape, I just thought it was something else

Sticky backed plastic was the sticky vinyl sheets they used to use to cover stuff in, fablon I think was the trade name. they use to call sellotape sticking tape. They also used 'sweet tubes' which everybody knew used to contain smarties.

[Yiliterate]

It wasn't until I was well into my thirties that I found out there was probably a very good reason why The Kinks' 'Lola' walked like a woman and talked like a man...!

[StuntmanMike]

poing said:

PinkRinse said:

I think I was well in to my twenties when I found out "sticky backed plastic" was Sellotape that Blue Peter presenters obviously couldn't say. I always pondered where you could find this mythical sounding stuff... And yes even when I WATCHED it and clearly saw them using frigging Sellotape, I just thought it was something else

I didn't know that until now, I'm 40!

fk me, you live and learn.
I'm 43.

[JimbobVFR]

StuntmanMike said:

poing said:

PinkRinse said:

I think I was well in to my twenties when I found out "sticky backed plastic" was Sellotape that Blue Peter presenters obviously couldn't say. I always pondered where you could find this mythical sounding stuff... And yes even when I WATCHED it and clearly saw them using frigging Sellotape, I just thought it was something else

I didn't know that until now, I'm 40!

fk me, you live and learn.
I'm 43.

But it's not true. As said above Fablon was S.B.P. and sellotape was sticky tape.
If you were posh you used fablon to cover your school books, old wallpaper did then job if you were normal.

[5150]

Ari said:

It creates a gap in a glass bottle..?

How's that work then?

Edited by Ari on Friday 17th October 17:25

Try it!

Obviously not a gap in the glass (!)....same theory when shot-gunning a can of special brew or snorkelling a blue WKD....

[gizlaroc]

BrassMan said:

And what does GNU stand for?

It stands for GNU's Not Unix.

Same as WINE, Wine Is Not an Emulator.

[Cliftonite]

JimbobVFR said:

But it's not true. As said above Fablon was S.B.P. and sellotape was sticky tape.
If you were posh you used fablon to cover your school books, old wallpaper did then job if you were normal.

I used to dream of using wallpaper! All I had was brown paper!

[silverfoxcc]

brown paper???

Luxury

toilet paper we had, even better if it were new

(commencement of Monty Python sketch)

[Funkycoldribena]

Up until twenty something I thought it was an Arctic lorry.

[f1dget]

As a kid it was always mum who had to wire plugs on new electrical items as dad didn't know how to do it,it was only when I was about 25 when it clicked that he was a maintenance engineer on bottling machinery and he probably could've rewired the whole house if he wanted too!

[omgus]

Funkycoldribena said:

Up until twenty something I thought it was an Arctic lorry.

A lot of people on PH still do think it's a very cold lorry and not a lorry that bends.