[Closed] Things that didn't dawn on you...

Allinson Wholemeal Bread. "Like the label says, there's nout taken out".

All In Son.

The arrow in the FedEx logo!

I can remember the day I twigged that when you have a piece of meat you're not eating fat, therefore it must be muscle. It's not that I thought it was anything else before, I'd just never thought about it at all.

The pirate one eyed willy in Goonies

I was in Yorkshire yesterday, sorry, T'WAS in Yorkshire, and saw an old fellow in a flat cap with a rolly perched on his bottom lip that stayed there when he talked and commented to my colleague that he looked just like Andy Capp who i used to read about in my granddad's Daily Mirror. I think that's the first time I've said it out loud which is why it occurred to me that Andy Capp = Handicap

I don't remember him being 'disabled' other than being bone idle. Is he still going?

Ah the good old days of northern stereotyping working class men as drinking, fighting wife beaters!!

That the Dance for YMCA was spelling out the letters !

What subtle or even not so subtle things have you missed?

The fact that I was marrying an ****ing psychopath. It was blatantly obvious too.

I don't remember him being 'disabled' other than being bone idle

As slowoldman, I understood his name to be the gambling reference.

The label: "Jonelle"

that bowser is actually a turtle (and not a dragon,as i have been thinking/the giant shell should have been a give away 😳

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Karrimor. 'Cos you can carry more.

Kaffenback, I knew there was some witticism in there but couldn't figure it out.

Allinson Wholemeal Bread. "Like the label says, there's nout taken out".

All In Son.

is it not a reference to the the [u]whole[/u]meal bit?

That part of the reason there are so many golf courses in Surrey is that in large chunks of the county, the soil's not much good for anything else.

No competition for land use - hardly as if they're taking up prime arable land that's been used for millenia, just clearing some trees on sandy, acidic soil.

For years, and I mean well into my early 20's, I assumed that every time someone talked about their 'estranged' husband or wife, that the poor soul had gone bonkers and been committed.

I was honestly worried about the amount of 'estranged' spouses out there and why marriage was driving them over the edge.

Of course, after 20 odd years with Kerry, I understand things better now. 😉

It was only as an adult that I realised that Andy Pandy was a boy. Well, dressed like that, surely anyone could mistake him for a girl? No? Oh...

"Fetid Cheese" is actually spelt Feta and isn't as bad as it sounds, despite me avoiding it for years.

My excuse is that 1970's supermarkets didn't stock this stuff so I'd only ever heard it said, not written down.

YoKaiser - Member
Kaffenback, I knew there was some witticism in there but couldn't figure it out.

Still can't.

Took me a while to twig that Decathlon's bike range "B'Twin" is named as it is so that when said with a French accent it sounds like "between"... as bikes go between your legs...

[i]Still can't. [/i]

"A visit to the local Cafe and return home afterwards"

Still can't.

To the cafe and back

[quote=Onzadog dijo]
Kaffenback
Still can't.

Caff and Back. It's a bike for Sunday morning café runs.

Allinson Wholemeal Bread. "Like the label says, there's nout taken out".
All In Son.

is it not a reference to the the wholemeal bit?

It was started by [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allinson ]Dr Allinson[/url] apparently!

B'Twin

I'm learning a lot from this thread

Pipecleaners are for, well, cleaning pipes, not just art and crafts!

...oh and the letter is "w" is said "double u". Only clocked this one when learning french "doubler-vey"

When I first started mountain biking in 1989 I used to drive around in an empty hatchback with my bike strapped like a trophy on an expensive and fuel-wasting rack on the roof. Then one day I thought: "Why not put the bike safely inside the car? D'Oh!"

Last week I saw a bloke alone in a estate car with the bike on the roof, no kidding.

augustuswindsock - Member

The arrow in the FedEx logo!

Likewise A->Z in the Amazon logo.

Allinson Wholemeal Bread. "Like the label says, there's nout taken out".

Moreover, the slogan was "bread wi' nowt tekken out" - no reference to the label anywhere AFAICR.

That part of the reason there are so many golf courses in Surrey is that in large chunks of the county, the soil's not much good for anything else.

No t necessarily. The one down the end of my road was a top class market garden before the farmer skipped off to Spain to avoid the tax man. There are 4 or 5 near me on similarly good soil. Equally there are a few on sand, but the main reason there are lots of golf courses is because of the proximity to London...

Said this before but the word 'Segue' is the word "segway" I'd been using alongside "seeg" for about 33 years of my life. Like a dick.

Also the word misled is pronounced "miss-led". Not "myz-uld" as I'd been reading it until a few years ago.

Kaffenback - really? I was expecting so much more.

[i]Last week I saw a bloke alone in a estate car with the bike on the roof, no kidding. [/i]

I know people who do this, me on occasion, I have other stuff in my boot.

that every parent is winging it just like you are.

Gary_M - Member

Last week I saw a bloke alone in a estate car with the bike on the roof, no kidding.

I know people who do this, me on occasion, I have other stuff in my boot.

And me. The boot is full of riding kit, if I put the seats flat then the drivers seat needs to go too far forward to get my legs in. Being of normal height, 6'4", this wouldn't be a problem if the world wasn't made for people requiring growth hormones.

Gary_M - Member
Last week I saw a bloke alone in a estate car with the bike on the roof, no kidding.

Mmm, I read somewhere that Kaffenback is something that happens when she doesn't spit, if you get my drift.

Last week I saw a bloke alone in a estate car with the bike on the roof, no kidding.

This is a joke, right? So many reasons why he may have been doing this, all of which you could not possible know about.

oh and the letter is "w" is said "double u".

which leads to the oddity that the abbreviation for world wide web (3 syllables when spoken) is double u double u double u (9)

Last week I saw a bloke alone in a estate car with the bike on the roof, no kidding.

I do this quite often, quicker to stick the tow bar rack on than take out the child seats, remove the parcel shelf, fold down seats, put a cover down to protect car, remove front wheel and put bike in the car. It also means the car doesn't get covered in mud on the way home.

My wide didn't realise Spongebob Squarepants was a sponge...

It's taken ages for it to dawn on me why I don't like newer Alfas (sorry Italian Heritage cars),it's those bleedin off centre number plates.It must set off my OCD pinger.
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Argggggghhh

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I lived in Lyon for two years, where their bike share scheme is called Velov'. I couldn't figure out what the apostrophe was for and it wasn't until after I'd left that a French person informed me that it was supposed to be a pun on the word love. They thought cos you don't pronounce the e you could just get rid of it. Apparently all French people get it instantly.

In the same vein as the fedex logo, I contracted in the same building as these guys for a few months and it took several weeks to twig.

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Also., I corrected someone the other day for suggesting they would give their 'eye' teeth for something. Erm... no, you mean hind teeth. They didn't and I blushed.

My wide didn't realise Spongebob Squarepants was a sponge...

😆 what did she think he was?

I went to Wales for a motorbike weekend. we did about 250 miles in the first day in a big loop and I said afterwards, "crazy that there's so much good riding around that one town." "What do you mean, we've been all over!" "But I kept seeing signs for Araf."

[i]Mmm, I read somewhere that Kaffenback is something that happens when she doesn't spit, if you get my drift. [/i]

Wrong frame.

Prodigy lyrics:

"I'll take your brain to another dimension
I'll take your brain to another dimension
I'll take your brain to another dimension
Then close the kitchen"

..in facts end with "pay close attention".

Too me years to get the Fedex one, which for me makes it crap.

For years I though people in the Costa at work were ordering "Americano with Rhum" ... some sort of poncy flavoured syrup/french for rum... Eventually I thought I'd try it - was disappointed to learn it's americano with room... as in, leave some space to put milk in.

I went to Wales for a motorbike weekend. we did about 250 miles in the first day in a big loop and I said afterwards, "crazy that there's so much good riding around that one town." "What do you mean, we've been all over!" "But I kept seeing signs for Araf."

My sister wondered why there were so many signs for this place called Hotel Gwesty.

i like that Accolade one - nice and subtle.

I remember thinking there were a lot of signs on the German Autobahns for "Ausfahrt".

This:

Took me a while to realise there weren't hundreds of Ysbyty Hospitals in Wales 😳

Kaffenback, I knew there was some witticism in there but couldn't figure it out.

will try to remember that heel lock thing next time I go running (so sometime in winter probably 🙄 )

Ell tell; wow! Never knew that. Always thought those holes were a little far back to be useful...

Yep. I've often looked at them and thought they looked pointless. Quite an enlightening video for me! 🙂

My wife only found out in the last few years that it's
called a 'light sabre' not a 'life saver'

My father and sister in law only just realised the main ingredients to a banoffee pie...

I remember thinking there were a lot of signs on the German Autobahns for "Ausfahrt".

I've never been to Toutes Direction, but it must be huge, the number of signs in France for it 😉

In a previous job we had a company wide forum, partly for work purposes but mainly to build a sense of community etc etc and as it was provided by work it was a very straight-laced place using real names, departments and contact numbers. One of the sports threads was somebody asking if anybody knew of a good badminton club nearby.

A couple of people had replied with some info when somebody else chirped up slagging off all and sundry for being ill-educated, lower class povs who should be ashamed of themselves for not knowing that the word "badminton" was exclusively used by people like her who were involved in the horsey world and that the word the plebs were thinking of for their stupid racquet game was in fact "badmington"...

Needless to say that didn't go well!

That Accolade Wines logo is superb.

which leads to the oddity that the abbreviation for world wide web (3 syllables when spoken) is double u double u double u (9)

I'd shorten it to "wuh-wuh-wuh" (which is marginally less offensive than "dub dub dub dot...")

I went to Wales for a motorbike weekend. we did about 250 miles in the first day in a big loop and I said afterwards, "crazy that there's so much good riding around that one town." "What do you mean, we've been all over!" "But I kept seeing signs for Araf."

Mate of mine on a trip to the Welsh coast, "bloody hell, just how big is Traeth Beach?!"

I always found the Welsh didnt want me to hang around.

Allan

Go on, explain the Accolade Wines thing - I can see a couple of things it could be but nothing I'd put money on.

Edit: Just seen it!

I always found the Welsh didnt want me to hang around.

Allan

I was always quite happy that I had my own special exits to places (even though they'd spelt my name wrong).

Alan.

That the Oscars and academy awards are the same thing.

I had been familiar with the term 'alibi', but the first time I saw it written down was when reading my part in Ali baba and the forty thieves...
And I pronounced it 'aleebee'
Oh the shame 😳

As a little kid being dragged along to church stuff I always misheard the Lord of the Dance lyrics as "And I lead you all in the dance settee" instead of "And I lead you all in the dance, said he".

I'd used to think people were dancing on sofas as a result 😀

As a very young child, when hearing "....is helping police with their enquiries" on TV/radio, I thought that they must be very nice people to volunteer to help the police out and I'd do the same when I was older.

😛

True story!

As a little kid being dragged along to church stuff

"Come by 'yard, my lord, come by 'yard."

I thought it was a song inviting Jesus into our lives via the back gate.

The fact that the Five Ten logo is a 5 or a 10 depending on how you look at it 😳 Always seen it as a stylised 5, then one day glanced down and went "oh, wow, it's also a 10".

And in the interests of full disclosure, I bought my first 5.10 climbing shoes in 1997, and noticed this on my Basics, oooh, last year....

Speaking of Welsh confusion, I thought Abertawe was an area in Swansea, I'm Welsh and have lived here all my life... And I thought that till my 30s.

Also when we were growing up 'Bank Jobs' were still all the rage - so you'd hear the phrase "sawn off shotgun" on the news from time to time - none of my mates or I knew what they were, but they were the favoured weapon in our games of war. Finally there was an old war film on one Saturday afternoon that most of us ended up seeing which featured some old prop plane with machine guns mounted to the body. I don't know how, but our collective 8 year old braintrust decided that a "sawn off" was a gun discovered in the woods attached to a crashed war plane and stolen by sawing it off the plane.

I was well into my late teens when I realised that a cappuccino was not actually a "cup of chino", the chino being the foam on the top ........... yep.

We go to the shops,Yanks go to the Mall.

Shops = Them all!

That plastic tube thing with bottom brackets isn't packaging...

My mate didn't realise that the Herefordshire village of Weobly signposted off the A44 was the same place as the 'Webbly' that the locals would often mention.

dday - Member

Mmm, I read somewhere that Kaffenback is something that happens when she doesn't spit, if you get my drift.

As GaryM said I think that's the [url= http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pompino ]Pompino[/url]

In the Scottish borders, Hawick and 'Hoik' are the same town

and Q8 petrol