What daft things have dawned on you later in life?

What daft things have dawned on you later in life?

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Zwolf

25,867 posts

205 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Shaoxter said:
sidekickdmr said:
I only actually realised TGI in the TGI Friday's stood for anything when someone pointed it out to me a couple of years ago.

Id never heard that expression before (or since)
You clearly don't use Facebook, there's people posting TGIF status updates every Friday.
TFIF more often...

br d

8,388 posts

225 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Can't believe we haven't had this one yet:

If you are browsing a very long thread on PH you can enter any page number you want into the box and jump straight to it.

wibble cb

3,586 posts

206 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Koofler said:
That I've become the 'grown up' in the relationship with my parents.

I mentioned this the other day to a couple of mates who just stared back at me, nodding sagely.
This+1000

My father once sent me a link to a house he was interested in, and asked where Nova Scotia was in relation to my address( for the record, 1700 km east of my house), apparently Google maps doesn't work once you pass 65 years of age

Enricogto

646 posts

144 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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br d said:
Can't believe we haven't had this one yet:

If you are browsing a very long thread on PH you can enter any page number you want into the box and jump straight to it.
Oh God!
I just had a revelation! boxedin

Shaoxter

4,048 posts

123 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Pommygranite said:
Shaoxter said:
Why is the stub end the right way? That way you get banana crap in your fingernails.
No you don't and its much easier.

Try it, it will enhance your banana experience.
Tried it, squeezed all the brown crap out of the bottom.
Think I will stick to the "wrong" method smile

Mr Will

13,719 posts

205 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Not me, but one of my favourites on this subject:

Muppet on the internet said:
When I was young my father said to me: "Knowledge is Power....Francis Bacon"

I understood it as "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon".

For more than a decade I wondered over the meaning of the second part and what was the surreal linkage between the two? If I said the quote to someone, "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon" they nodded knowingly. Or someone might say, "Knowledge is power" and I'd finish the quote "France is Bacon" and they wouldn't look at me like I'd said something very odd but thoughtfully agree. I did ask a teacher what did "Knowledge is power, France is bacon" mean and got a full 10 minute explanation of the Knowledge is power bit but nothing on "France is bacon". When I prompted further explanation by saying "France is Bacon?" in a questioning tone I just got a "yes". at 12 I didn't have the confidence to press it further. I just accepted it as something I'd never understand.

It wasn't until years later I saw it written down that the penny dropped.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

254 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Women are stark, raving mad. Mostly.

And superbly selfish.


which way to the bunker, please?

wolfracesonic

Original Poster:

6,940 posts

126 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Enricogto said:
br d said:
Can't believe we haven't had this one yet:

If you are browsing a very long thread on PH you can enter any page number you want into the box and jump straight to it.
Oh God!
I just had a revelation! boxedin
Me too! How long has it been there? It's like having a time machine.

PHmember

2,487 posts

170 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

254 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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wolfracesonic said:
Enricogto said:
br d said:
Can't believe we haven't had this one yet:

If you are browsing a very long thread on PH you can enter any page number you want into the box and jump straight to it.
Oh God!
I just had a revelation! boxedin
Me too! How long has it been there? It's like having a time machine.
What box is this?

L100NYY

35,075 posts

242 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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mybrainhurts said:
wolfracesonic said:
Enricogto said:
br d said:
Can't believe we haven't had this one yet:

If you are browsing a very long thread on PH you can enter any page number you want into the box and jump straight to it.
Oh God!
I just had a revelation! boxedin
Me too! How long has it been there? It's like having a time machine.
What box is this?
Bottom right of a thread you have the page numbers, the last page number you can highlight, change to the page number you want to see and away it goes.

Caboom. It's black magic I tell thee.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

254 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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L100NYY said:
mybrainhurts said:
wolfracesonic said:
Enricogto said:
br d said:
Can't believe we haven't had this one yet:

If you are browsing a very long thread on PH you can enter any page number you want into the box and jump straight to it.
Oh God!
I just had a revelation! boxedin
Me too! How long has it been there? It's like having a time machine.
What box is this?
Bottom right of a thread you have the page numbers, the last page number you can highlight, change to the page number you want to see and away it goes.

Caboom. It's black magic I tell thee.
Ha, so...thought everybody knew that.

Benengo

647 posts

202 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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That the pistonheads threads "life has been draining lately" and the "cianide and happiness appreciation thread" are quite amusing and not Anything to do with depressed people getting things off their chests!

http://www.pistonheads.com/GASSING/topic.asp?h=0&a...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

omgus

7,305 posts

174 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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olly22n said:
Mr Will said:
Not me, but one of my favourites on this subject:

Muppet on the internet said:
When I was young my father said to me: "Knowledge is Power....Francis Bacon"

I understood it as "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon".

For more than a decade I wondered over the meaning of the second part and what was the surreal linkage between the two? If I said the quote to someone, "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon" they nodded knowingly. Or someone might say, "Knowledge is power" and I'd finish the quote "France is Bacon" and they wouldn't look at me like I'd said something very odd but thoughtfully agree. I did ask a teacher what did "Knowledge is power, France is bacon" mean and got a full 10 minute explanation of the Knowledge is power bit but nothing on "France is bacon". When I prompted further explanation by saying "France is Bacon?" in a questioning tone I just got a "yes". at 12 I didn't have the confidence to press it further. I just accepted it as something I'd never understand.

It wasn't until years later I saw it written down that the penny dropped.
And now one of my favourites.
rofl

France is bacon. Made me genuinely laugh out loud.

Dog Star

16,079 posts

167 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Hoofy said:
You know how they change the clocks back and forward an hour? Only this year have I realised that it's the same weekends each year. biggrin
I'm 46 and that's news to me! It just descends on me as a surprise.

(I'm not kidding)

Dog Star

16,079 posts

167 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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breadvan said:
Oh, another one -

When young, our house used the word 'poh-bot' for a st. Can you possibly image what happen when I stuck my hand up in junior school and asked to go for a 'poh-bot'?
We called them "blops" - looking back on it now: what an excellent word! Diarrhoea was "sick blops". getmecoat

(And whoever said that on page two about tape measures: I never knew that, I just thought I had st ones)

Pit Pony

8,266 posts

120 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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austinsmirk said:
Ditto. Mind blown.
Between the E and the X - look again.

Pit Pony

8,266 posts

120 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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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!

hehe
The nurse helps. It's not the dressing I have a problem with. It's the wiping my arse.

897sma

3,347 posts

143 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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br d said:
Can't believe we haven't had this one yet:

If you are browsing a very long thread on PH you can enter any page number you want into the box and jump straight to it.
The best thing I've learnt all year biggrin

VeeDubBigBird

440 posts

128 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Princess Toadstool wasn't worth the effort really.