What daft things have dawned on you later in life?

[ATTAK Z]

omgus said:

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.

Not a lorry people know that

[STURBO]

That Q8 petrol is related to Kuwait.

[Mercury00]

I only just found out that Jimmy Choo is a brand of shoe rather than cockney rhyming slang for shoes

[JungleJim]

In a similar blue peter vein, it was years before I realised what sort of pipe pipe cleaners are actually for.

[jet_noise]

kowalski655 said:

You DONT have to do what the women in your life tell you to do! Wish I knew that when younger

And it was a good few years into adulthood that I finally twigged Portakabin,the mobile office people,wasnt pronounced Port-Acker-bin

Me too. The portakabin thing. Women still mystify me.

Another one.
Bath stone is sandstone isn't it? On account of its sandy colour. No, it's limestone. Doh,

regards,
Jet

[NRS]

silverfoxcc said:

brown paper???

Luxury

toilet paper we had, even better if it were new

(commencement of Monty Python sketch)

You lucky. Wolves eat paper. Wolves eat potato. Starving.

[Ari]

olly22n said:

Nope, still don't get this one

Nope, me neither. It's now written on the internet though, so has become fact.

[Pommygranite]

That I've been opening bananas the wrong way my whole life - should be the stub end (pinch it) not the stem end.

[Shaoxter]

Pommygranite said:

That I've been opening bananas the wrong way my whole life - should be the stub end (pinch it) not the stem end.

Why is the stub end the right way? That way you get banana crap in your fingernails.

[ATTAK Z]

Shaoxter said:

Pommygranite said:

That I've been opening bananas the wrong way my whole life - should be the stub end (pinch it) not the stem end.

Why is the stub end the right way? That way you get banana crap in your fingernails.

Monkeys do it that way so it must be right

[LiamB]

omgus said:

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.

Ah.. I see..

[p4cks]

JimbobVFR said:

QANTAS I know, GNOME I presume you mean as in the Linux desktop, so what does it mean? I also thought it was a random name.

Nope, these...

Guarding Naturally Over Mother Earth

[dazwalsh]

I only found out at the ripe old age of 29 that yogurt didn't have a H in there (yoghurt)

[smegmore]

gizlaroc said:

Quite A Nice Trip, All Survived

Queensland
And
Northern
Territories
Air
Service

Is it not?

[Cliftonite]

dibbers006 said:

There is a worryingly high percentage of muppetry in this Thread.

How do you people manage to get yourselves dressed in the mornings!

Dress oneself? The very idea! This is what one's valet is for!

[Shaoxter]

dazwalsh said:

I only found out at the ripe old age of 29 that yogurt didn't have a H in there (yoghurt)

Erm yes it does

[dazwalsh]

Just looked into it, fecking yanks screwing around with our beautiful language.

Yoghurt it is then

[Impasse]

ATTAK Z said:

Shaoxter said:

Pommygranite said:

That I've been opening bananas the wrong way my whole life - should be the stub end (pinch it) not the stem end.

Why is the stub end the right way? That way you get banana crap in your fingernails.

Monkeys do it that way so it must be right

Monkeys? They have no idea how to make a cup of tea, so why should we believe their way of opening a banana is the correct way?

[InfoRetrieval]

Chocolate digestive biscuits have chocolate on the bottom, not the top.

[williredale]

gizlaroc said:

BrassMan said:

And what does GNU stand for?

It stands for GNU's Not Unix.

Same as WINE, Wine Is Not an Emulator.

And PINE. Pine Is Not Elm...