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

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

For a long time this thought went through my mind every New Year's Eve:

Why are singing about some old man and his eye?

Greybeard - Member

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

Milngavie is going to blow your mind.

I was alway astounded how many vehicles carrying stationery were crashed into.
Eg,

[i]a car hit a stationery van[/i]

one of the jobs I didn't want to do as a kid was delivering stationery.

Milngavie is going to blow your mind.

Its all terrorists these days but for longer than I should I believed there were literally gorillas battling government forces around the world.

I grew up in a small town in Holland, the son of our GP was in my class. A few years ago my mum was talking about him and mentioned the fact he was adopted. I never realised! The GP was white Dutch, and the son adopted from South America!

I had been around his house and everything..... I suppose I am truly colourblind.

Simone

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....

Just nearly strained my neck looking at my 5-10's to get what you mean, I'm never going to look at them the same again.....

As a kid my mum always said " I'm struggling to make ends meet " mean money was tight. For years I thought she was saying " I'm struggling to make hens meat " 😳 wondered why it didn't make sense.

Rachael
Emma
Claire
Karen
Louise
Fiona

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

On a motorbike tour, slightly lost, three of us spent a long time trying to figure out where we were by trying to find the clearly signposted town of 'Lavado Automatico'[1] on a map of northern Spain 😳

[1] Lavado automatico = 'car wash'

anything a girl/woman said to me between 1996 and 2003, had a brief few years of clarity then married in 2006 and not had a clue what was going on since