Simple things you never knew...

[alock]

I was in my late 30s and having a chat with a friend when I finally thought about why my dad put a lock of the living room door 30 years earlier.

[Yipper]

Education in Jamaica is only compulsory up to the age of 11. You must pay for your own education after aged 12 and above.

[Johnnytheboy]

Yipper said:

Education in Jamaica is only compulsory up to the age of 11. You must pay for your own education after aged 12 and above.

That's not so much simple as utterly irrelevant.

[john2443]

Johnnytheboy said:

on any of these locks you can punch the digits in any order, and it will still work.

Checked this today and it is true. Why did none of us know before!

[Cliftonite]

I was well into my working life before I learned how to spell "supersede" !

(Admit it; you are going to look it up, aren't you?!)

[wildcat45]

Shakermaker said:

See, that's the kind of thing I had envisioned being possible in other cars. I'm not going to go and buy an MGF just for that reason as it would be a compromise on too many other things... maybe I could just buy the sun visor from one

The downside is that they can rattle. But so does most of the interior.

My CX-7 has extensions that fill in the gap behind the rear view mirror.

[Cold]

HOGEPH said:

Rude-boy said:

Considering I have an A level in English (yeah i know!) It took until i was 23 to realise that the word schedule is pronounced Shed-yule, not Sked-yule.

Bloody Americanisms sneaking in where you don't spot them!

I pronounce it Sked-yule.

I also spent my early life at a school, rather than a shool....

Were you a scholar at this school?

[davhill]

Cold said:

Were you a scholar at this school?

Well, I wasn't. And when I was buying a VW Scirocco, the dealer didn't have any shissors.

[motco]

davhill said:

Cold said:

Were you a scholar at this school?

Well, I wasn't. And when I was buying a VW Scirocco, the dealer didn't have any shissors.

and it must have been too much of a schlep to go home for some?

[Moonhawk]

md4776 said:

Me neither, I checked and of my 3 cars, 1 has an arrow and the other 2 do not. Interestingly the one that does the fuel cap is on the passenger side, whereas the other 2 they are on the drivers side.

Both our cars have arrows pointing to the side the filler cap is on - one car it's on the drivers side, the other it's on the passengers.

[schmunk]

motco said:

davhill said:

Cold said:

Were you a scholar at this school?

Well, I wasn't. And when I was buying a VW Scirocco, the dealer didn't have any shissors.

and it must have been too much of a schlep to go home for some?

This thread draws me in...

Schmalex...?

[andy-xr]

Johnnytheboy said:

. on any of these locks you can punch the digits in any order, and it will still work.

You can also press all the buttons for the code at the same time and it'll still work.

[Animal]

I've been tying my shoes the wrong way...

https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_y...

[Rawwr]

DRFC1879 said:

Rawwr said:

Crab sticks do not actually contain any crab and, from 1993, manufacturers have been legally obliged to label them 'crab-flavoured sticks'.

[pedant]Crab flavour sticks. They're not flavoured with crab therefore can not be called crab flavoured sticks. that goes for all foods. If it says "flavoured", it gets some flavour from the thing it's meant to taste like. If it says "flavour" it can be any old approximation.[/pedant]

[john2443]

designforlife said:

Until the age of 22, i thought the written word albeit was pronounced "al-bite"

I know...I know!!!

A friend in his 50s told me last week he'd only just discovered that segue was pronounced segway, he'd always read it as seeg-oo.

(He knew about the motorized ride on lawn roller things but hadn't connected the two!)

[GloverMart]

A chap the same age as me was recently talking to me about his holiday and he described the countryside around his hotel as "picture-skoo".

Took me a minute or two to work out he meant picturesque, which led to several seconds of controlled mirth among our mates who had heard him.

[DRFC1879]

Rawwr said:

DRFC1879 said:

Rawwr said:

Crab sticks do not actually contain any crab and, from 1993, manufacturers have been legally obliged to label them 'crab-flavoured sticks'.

[pedant]Crab flavour sticks. They're not flavoured with crab therefore can not be called crab flavoured sticks. that goes for all foods. If it says "flavoured", it gets some flavour from the thing it's meant to taste like. If it says "flavour" it can be any old approximation.[/pedant]

No, I get the whole "They don't contain crab so need to be called something else" but. It's just that they are "crab flavour," not "crab flavoured."

About-turn, moggie...

[Rawwr]

DRFC1879 said:

No, I get the whole "They don't contain crab so need to be called something else" but. It's just that they are "crab flavour," not "crab flavoured."

About-turn, moggie...

No no, you've gone too far. It was an Alan Partridge quote

[Einion Yrth]

GloverMart said:

A chap the same age as me was recently talking to me about his holiday and he described the countryside around his hotel as "picture-skoo".

Took me a minute or two to work out he meant picturesque, which led to several seconds of controlled mirth among our mates who had heard him.

When I was a kid this mispronunciation was a family joke, along with "panache" pronounced "pan - ake".

(How the long winter evenings must simply fly by, etc, etc...)

[Jaroon]

GloverMart said:

A chap the same age as me was recently talking to me about his holiday and he described the countryside around his hotel as "picture-skoo".

Took me a minute or two to work out he meant picturesque, which led to several seconds of controlled mirth among our mates who had heard him.

A couple of decades ago I was building flying hours in light aircraft in the USA. Local to my airfield I needed permission to enter Yosemite airspace. I'm dyslexic anyway but combined with youthful ignorance it took minutes followed by uncontrolled laughter for ATC to understand my request to enter "Yoos ee mite airspace"