Simple things you never knew...

[DRFC1879]

Rawwr said:

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

Aw, fksticks. Of course it is. Alan's fact of the day IIRC. I'll have that cat back please.

[Mr Pointy]

Further to the door lock issue in the first post most of the locks we call combination locks are not, they are permutation locks. However the door lock already posted is a combination lock.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/18/common_ana...

[davhill]

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.

That's 'picture - skwee', or 'picture - s - queue'.

[LordGrover]

Mr Pointy said:

Further to the door lock issue in the first post most of the locks we call combination locks are not, they are permutation locks. However the door lock already posted is a combination lock.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/18/common_ana...

Interesting.

[waynedear]

I only found out last year that the fish on the back of many cars is not a dealer symbol

[MartG]

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....

Do you have a garden sked ?

[Exige77]

waynedear said:

I only found out last year that the fish on the back of many cars is not a dealer symbol

Their not Guy Salmon supplied then

[SpeckledJim]

waynedear said:

I only found out last year that the fish on the back of many cars is not a dealer symbol

More a manufacturer logo.

[blindswelledrat]

Mr Pointy said:

Further to the door lock issue in the first post most of the locks we call combination locks are not, they are permutation locks. However the door lock already posted is a combination lock.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/18/common_ana...

The cold winter nights must fly by in your house.

[boyse7en]

SpeckledJim said:

98elise said:

Not me but my wife.

Driving along the motorway over the weekend the sun was low in the sky, and streaming in through my side window, so I pulled the visor around to that window to block it.

My wife said it would be handy if all cars had that!

I don't think I've ever owned a car that you couldn't move the visor to the side window.

E-Classes have two visors each side, so you can have one at the side and one at the front, for those times when the sun is either one side of the pillar or the other.

Nice.

For another £30,000 on top of an E-Class, the S-Class only has one. Pants.

My £400 Saab has twin visors too

[Einion Yrth]

MartG said:

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....

Do you have a garden sked ?

Does "shed" have a "c" in it?

[SpeckledJim]

Einion Yrth said:

Does "shed" have a "c" in it?

It does when I'm potting plants

[sinbaddio]

Only recently found out that tin foil/clingfilm boxes have tabs on each end to push into the cardboard roll.

[Rawwr]

I saw 'push to secure roll' on my box of cling film, so I talked to it and eventually encouraged it to find a job in the public sector.

[SpeckledJim]

Rawwr said:

I saw 'push to secure roll' on my box of cling film, so I talked to it and eventually encouraged it to find a job in the public sector.

You silly billy.


(nice one)

[sinbaddio]

Rawwr said:

I saw 'push to secure roll' on my box of cling film, so I talked to it and eventually encouraged it to find a job in the public sector.

[motco]

SpeckledJim said:

waynedear said:

I only found out last year that the fish on the back of many cars is not a dealer symbol

More a manufacturer logo.

Very good!

[anonymous-user]

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 friend of a friend recently spelled tarpaulin as “tar pooling”.

[bernhund]

I'm 50 and just two years ago I found out that Good King Wenceless didn't last look out on the feast of Stephen and that his name was Wenceslas!

[595Heaven]

I didn’t believe it when someone at work was talking about their new bedroom furniture and mentioned Chester Draws. Absolutely refuses to believe it’s incorrect

Ebay is full of listings for them though...