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Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2023 7:59 pm**

If you are on a online dating site and the main profile picture has two people in it, the account never belongs to the good looking one.

Posted: **Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:05 am**

Russell Brand did less harm to society when he was addicted to heroin than whatever it is he's doing now.

Posted: **Sun Jul 30, 2023 6:59 pm**

Boomerangs don't come back if they hit something.

Posted: **Sun Jul 30, 2023 9:38 pm**

Mark James wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:05 am Russell Brand did less harm to society when he was addicted to heroin than whatever it is he's doing now.

For those of us who live in an oblivious bubble outside popular culture, what is he doing now?

Posted: **Mon Jul 31, 2023 7:49 am**

Fiona T wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 9:38 pm
Mark James wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:05 am Russell Brand did less harm to society when he was addicted to heroin than whatever it is he's doing now.
For those of us who live in an oblivious bubble outside popular culture, what is he doing now?

Cosying up to right wing ideologues and conspiracy theory wackjobs.

Posted: **Mon Jul 31, 2023 10:02 am**

Mark James wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 7:49 am
Fiona T wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 9:38 pm
Mark James wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:05 am Russell Brand did less harm to society when he was addicted to heroin than whatever it is he's doing now.
For those of us who live in an oblivious bubble outside popular culture, what is he doing now?
Cosying up to right wing ideologues and conspiracy theory wackjobs.

Apropos of nothing in particular, he is good mates with Morrissey

Posted: **Mon Jul 31, 2023 10:26 am**

Most cycle helmets don't protect your head from rain

Posted: **Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:00 am**

"Honk if you like X" bumper stickers are not supposed to illicit fans of X to honk. It's a private joke for the driver that if they make someone mad enough to honk at them they can console themselves that the person isn't mad at them but just really likes X.

Posted: **Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:02 pm**

Mark James wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:00 am "Honk if you like X" bumper stickers are not supposed to illicit fans of X to honk. It's a private joke for the driver that if they make someone mad enough to honk at them they can console themselves that the person isn't mad at them but just really likes X.

Not sure I've ever seen something like this.

It did make me think of the car stickers I often saw when young which said "Follow Me to LEEDS RLFC", which just made me think "why are you going there, there's no match until a week on Sunday?".

Posted: **Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:39 pm**

Car stickers can be misleading I was once cut up by a bloke with a honk if you love Jesus sticker and a fish symbol (mean to symbolise religiousness)
He got out the car and through several punches at me and was swearing profusely.
When I said to him he wasn't being very Christian he pointed out that he'd only bought the car the previous day
End of anecdote

Posted: **Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:29 pm**

The strength of a pair of reading glasses is written on the inside arm of the glasses

Posted: **Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:32 pm**

If you can read that then what do you need the glasses for?

Posted: **Mon Aug 28, 2023 4:58 am**

They should do a Celebrity special version of a gameshow where it's all celebrities who went bankrupt and they are playing for themselves instead of for charity.

Posted: **Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:32 am**

Fred Mumford wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:32 pm If you can read that then what do you need the glasses for?

I ordered 3 different pairs in order to find the correct strength (size 3)
Though I was convinced the ones I lost were a 3.5.
Not sure how exact spectacle strengths are however

Posted: **Fri Sep 01, 2023 6:25 pm**

I haven't died yet. If this trend continues I might be immortal.

Posted: **Fri Sep 01, 2023 6:40 pm**

Mark James wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 6:25 pm I haven't died yet. If this trend continues I might be immortal.

A lot of people think they're immortal but they're mostly deluded. However, existence makes no logical sense without me so I actually am immortal.

Posted: **Fri Sep 01, 2023 7:29 pm**

Our atoms live on forever so we're all immortal. We'll just morph into something else.

Posted: **Wed Sep 06, 2023 4:14 am**

Duck's beaks look like dog's heads.

Posted: **Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:59 pm**

There are some people who, when they hear an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, think that the asteroid actually hit all the dinosaurs.

I'm really hoping this is followed up with a post that says, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs didn't actually hit all of the dinosaurs.

Posted: **Thu Sep 07, 2023 12:26 am**

The mammals etc. all just happened to be standing in exactly the right place to avoid the asteroid, whereas the dinosaurs were all right under it. Maybe one for the coincidences thread.

Posted: **Thu Sep 07, 2023 12:42 pm**

Take a photo of the WiFi code if you are staying at a friend or family members home rather than get on your hands and knees with a pen and paper

Posted: **Thu Sep 07, 2023 3:32 pm**

You can just share it with a QR code these days. (Somewhat obvious things you've not yet realised.)

Posted: **Thu Sep 07, 2023 3:42 pm**

Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 3:32 pm You can just share it with a QR code these days. (Somewhat obvious things you've not yet realised.)

And that way you don't have to take in the film and wait for it to be developed. Plus if it's the first photo on the film it might be ages before you get through it.

Posted: **Thu Sep 07, 2023 4:32 pm**

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 3:42 pm
Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 3:32 pm You can just share it with a QR code these days. (Somewhat obvious things you've not yet realised.)
And that way you don't have to take in the film and wait for it to be developed. Plus if it's the first photo on the film it might be ages before you get through it.

Do people still have photos developed?
You'll be telling me next that people still write letters and post them.

I know I grew up when wireless meant a thing you listened to radio 1 on and Bluetooth was what you got from chewing your fountain pen at school but I am kinda getting the hang of modern technology even though I still have about 80 tabs open on my phone at the same time

Posted: **Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:31 pm**

Everyone at the (Last Night of the) Proms is white. Performers, audience, everyone. Watched about half an hour and must have seen 400 different faces, maybe 6 weren't white*. Ironically the conductor was talking about diversity and inclusion.

*I know that 394/400 is not equivalent to "everyone", but a slight exaggeration seemed to make a stronger point here.

Posted: **Tue Sep 26, 2023 6:06 pm**

All crisps and confectionary are suffering from shrinkation, the price may stay the same but what's inside the packaging is getting smaller year on year.

Posted: **Tue Sep 26, 2023 9:06 pm**

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 6:06 pm All crisps and confectionary are suffering from shrinkation, the price may stay the same but what's inside the packaging is getting smaller year on year.

Terrible. But I'm not sure it can completely follow inflation because over time everything would have shrunk away to basically nothing. Inflation is an ongoing process. Using this calculator, stuff is over three times the price from 40 years ago, so crisp packets and chocolate bars should be about a third of the size.

Posted: **Tue Sep 26, 2023 9:42 pm**

It's up and down. Mars bars suddenly got bigger, then got smaller again.

According to google "In the 1980s, a standard Mars bar weighed 49g, increased to 65g in the 1990s and dropped to 51g today."

Of course there's the sugar tax too now...

Posted: **Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:05 am**

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 9:06 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 6:06 pm All crisps and confectionary are suffering from shrinkation, the price may stay the same but what's inside the packaging is getting smaller year on year.
Terrible. But I'm not sure it can completely follow inflation because over time everything would have shrunk away to basically nothing. Inflation is an ongoing process. Using this calculator, stuff is over three times the price from 40 years ago, so crisp packets and chocolate bars should be about a third of the size.

This would only be the case if the price had stayed the same over the 40 years. It hasn't - they've got both smaller _and_ more expensive.

Posted: **Wed Sep 27, 2023 4:33 pm**

Yogi Bear was named after the baseball player Yogi Berra

Posted: **Thu Sep 28, 2023 5:11 pm**

Really fucking obvious Marc, I mean, come on.

Posted: **Thu Sep 28, 2023 6:03 pm**

Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 5:11 pm Really fucking obvious Marc, I mean, come on.

To be fair I thought Yogi Bear predated Yogi Berra and it was just a coincidence or Mrs Berra had seen the Cartoon bear first
Im not really a Baseball fan tbh
But I'm fully aware of Scooby Dos origins

Posted: **Sat Oct 07, 2023 11:03 am**

A friend of mine learned sign language and he was talking to a deaf guy and the deaf guy let a fart and my friend signed "that was loud". And that was the first time the deaf guy realised that farts make noise. So he just realised that and I just realised that deaf people wouldn't know that farts make noise. A nice double whammy.

Posted: **Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:44 pm**

Mark James wrote: ↑Sat Oct 07, 2023 11:03 am A friend of mine learned sign language and he was talking to a deaf guy and the deaf guy let a fart and my friend signed "that was loud". And that was the first time the deaf guy realised that farts make noise. So he just realised that and I just realised that deaf people wouldn't know that farts make noise. A nice double whammy.

One of the reasons I don't fart on a train anymore when I have my earpods in

Posted: **Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:57 pm**

I'm not sure this is that obvious, but "swing" in elections doesn't mean what I thought it did. If a constituency goes from e.g. 40% Tory and 20% Labour to the opposite, I always thought that was a swing of 40%, but actually it's not that.

Edit - It seems the swing is half what I thought it was, but I think my meaning is a more intuitive use of the word.

Posted: **Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:11 pm**

Not obvious I suppose, but apparently the word Tory for Conservatives comes from an old Irish word for criminal. If the shoe fits.

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2023 12:07 pm**

I feel that some people need to look at the title of this thread, and maybe disappear off to the "interesting things that aren't necessarily completely obvious" thread.

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2023 1:00 pm**

Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 12:07 pm I feel that some people need to look at the title of this thread, and maybe disappear off to the "interesting things that aren't necessarily completely obvious" thread.

You've got me doubting myself on this next one :
Apparently I have been pronouncing (Martin) Scorcese wrong all this time.
Its not Score-Say zee it's Score-sessy

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2023 11:29 pm**

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 1:00 pm
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 12:07 pm I feel that some people need to look at the title of this thread, and maybe disappear off to the "interesting things that aren't necessarily completely obvious" thread.
You've got me doubting myself on this next one :
Apparently I have been pronouncing (Martin) Scorcese wrong all this time.
Its not Score-Say zee it's Score-sessy

You've been spelling it wrong too.

Posted: **Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:28 am**

Paul Worsley wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 11:29 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 1:00 pm
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 12:07 pm I feel that some people need to look at the title of this thread, and maybe disappear off to the "interesting things that aren't necessarily completely obvious" thread.
You've got me doubting myself on this next one :
Apparently I have been pronouncing (Martin) Scorcese wrong all this time.
Its not Score-Say zee it's Score-sessy
You've been spelling it wrong too.

Obviously, I did that for comic effect

Posted: **Tue Oct 24, 2023 10:12 pm**

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:57 pm I'm not sure this is that obvious, but "swing" in elections doesn't mean what I thought it did. If a constituency goes from e.g. 40% Tory and 20% Labour to the opposite, I always thought that was a swing of 40%, but actually it's not that.

Edit - It seems the swing is half what I thought it was, but I think my meaning is a more intuitive use of the word.

What about the swong? Is that still in the box?

Posted: **Sat Nov 04, 2023 11:01 pm**

1) "Outside in" is not the opposite of "inside out".
2) "Match of the Day" is (likely) a play on words based on "Catch of the Day".

Posted: **Sun Nov 05, 2023 11:12 am**

Adam Gillard wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 11:01 pm 1) "Outside in" is not the opposite of "inside out".
2) "Match of the Day" is (likely) a play on words based on "Catch of the Day".

Also match of the day was used for Wimbledon highlights before the football highlights began

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2023 10:35 am**

The Bakerloo line is so named as a portmanteau of Baker Street and Waterloo.

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2023 11:07 am**

This is the sort of content I like to see in this thread.

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2023 12:56 pm**

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 10:35 am The Bakerloo line is so named as a portmanteau of Baker Street and Waterloo.

We have a winner!

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2023 2:39 pm**

This is probably ONLY me.
You don't need WiFi to connect devices via bluetooth

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:52 pm**

The redeye as in a flight from an airline refers to the colour of the plane lights at night rather than your eyes being red because of tiredness

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:59 pm**

I thought red eye was what happened in photographs when your eyes come out red.

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2023 5:11 pm**

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:59 pm I thought red eye was what happened in photographs when your eyes come out red.

I've edited my post for clarity.

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2023 5:50 pm**

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:52 pm The redeye as in a flight from an airline refers to the colour of the plane lights at night rather than your eyes being red because of tiredness

Does it? That doesn't make sense. The tiredness one does make sense.

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2023 6:57 pm**

Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 5:50 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:52 pm The redeye as in a flight from an airline refers to the colour of the plane lights at night rather than your eyes being red because of tiredness
Does it? That doesn't make sense. The tiredness one does make sense.

On reflexion, yes it does mean tiredness as the flight isn't long enough for a night's kip, I was misinformed 30 years ago and haven't checked since

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2023 7:14 pm**

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 6:57 pm
Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 5:50 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:52 pm The redeye as in a flight from an airline refers to the colour of the plane lights at night rather than your eyes being red because of tiredness
Does it? That doesn't make sense. The tiredness one does make sense.
On reflexion, yes it does mean tiredness as the flight isn't long enough for a night's kip, I was misinformed 30 years ago and haven't checked since

Ah you want the "incorrect things you realised 30 years ago" thread!

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2023 8:40 pm**

Fiona T wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 7:14 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 6:57 pm
Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 5:50 pm

Does it? That doesn't make sense. The tiredness one does make sense.
On reflexion, yes it does mean tiredness as the flight isn't long enough for a night's kip, I was misinformed 30 years ago and haven't checked since
Ah you want the "incorrect things you realised 30 years ago" thread!

For most people on here that would be under things you believed as a child

Posted: **Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:25 pm**

I've always pronounced LinkedIn as Linkydin

Posted: **Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:26 pm**

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:25 pm I've always pronounced LinkedIn as Linkydin

We've discussed this before but I pronounce it Linked Ln because that's what it deserves to be called given how they present it.

Posted: **Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:14 pm**

Snakes can't blink

Posted: **Mon Dec 25, 2023 8:23 am**

Russia still use the Julian Calendar

Posted: **Mon Dec 25, 2023 10:31 am**

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 8:23 am Russia still use the Julian Calendar

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67816987

Posted: **Sun Jan 07, 2024 8:39 pm**

Christian Bale is English.

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