[Closed] Things you've just found out...

You can get veggie Worcester Sauce, branded "Life free from".

That the Isle of Fernando's is actually made up and a piece of Tenerife in disguise.
Well, I had to do something while the missus hogged the box. Stroll on BBC4@9 🙂

Better one for you, usually now Grape Lane...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grope****_Lane

Ooh, wonder if this finally solves the mystery of our local [url= http://www.thejollysailorpub.co.uk/snatch-up-alley.html ]Snatchup Alley[/url].

[i]That you can't eat fish if you're a veggie. Who have thunk it???? If chicken isn't allowed either my veggie diet days are ruined [/i]

My mate announced that he didn't eat 'red meat', so I did Pork - its 'white'... He wasn't happy.

Saved myself £240 today by calling my insurance company after broker said the company didn't list the car we are thinking of buying 🙁 Broker called to say that there had been a communication error between them and insurers systems ❓

control + enter on a cell and then double clicking on the same cell auto populates all cells in the column with the same formula.

Quite handy.

a second class stamp is 50p

Just discovered that the reason my record deck has been playing slightly slowly for the last few years was a capacitor that was dying. Eur 1.50 later and it's like new. Happy man

That 45KN needs one hell of a tommy bar to turn against.

That apparently the person who took the hoax phone call pretending to be the Queen has killed herself!! Or did she??!! Seems a little strange to me...

[url= http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/12/07/uk-britain-royals-hospital-idUKBRE8B60T120121207 ]Sad, but true.[/url]

That a raisin is actually a dried grape! Who'd have thought it.

That £10 worth of diesel isn't enough to put the fuel light out on my van....

That a grape is an undried raisin 😮

Today I have discovered that a Floor Standing Loom that is 1.7m wide, 1.75m tall, and 1.4m deep, actually looks rather large in my lounge.

That 'Ctrl, Alt + arrow' = change of screen!

That bestiality is legal in some European countries - dirty Germans!

That it is possible to slide/skate 15 feet in spd shoes with a road bike between your legs and remain upright!
I reckoned I'd used up all my luck for today after that and shortened my ride. Still managed to narrowly avoid being taken out by a van overtaking me on a roundabout and then turning off around me.

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Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.

Have been driving for 27 years and only last week my Dad who is 78 informed that you clear the windows of ice then apply de-icer. All these years i used to spray directly onto the windscreen and thought de-icer was shit

Ummm wut?

[i]Have been driving for 27 years and only last week my Dad who is 78 informed that you clear the windows of ice then apply de-icer. All these years i used to spray directly onto the windscreen and thought de-icer was shit[/i]

You do just spray de-icer onto the windows. It is shit. Your dad has realised it is shit so scrapes the ice off first. Not sure why he then sprays the de-icer, perhaps to discourage it from Freezing again

Lol,you do have a point

Apparently Anal dilation causes vagal stimulation.

Can DrP please confirm.

Why me?
Well, Ok......
[slowly gains conciousness] it's true... [/slowly gains conciousness]

DrP

It is possible for a nerd to have his moment.

While question after question rolls in on this forum about bikes, and stoves, and cars, and stuff, [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/number-of-days-in-a-year-question ]this thread represents the first time[/url] [i]this[/i] particular nerd got to confidently give an answer that was more than just speculation or opinion.

I shall mark my calendar.

Honey Boo Boo is a real thing...

My bank account contains significantly less money than I had hoped.

That there isn't exactly 52 weeks in a year
Fairly obvious if you think about it, I just never did

The location of a chambered cairn about 45 mins ago.. having got lost... and stumbled upon it after reading about it only last month.

...that an old primary school class mate was actually adopted! My mum told me last year (well, she mentioned it in conversation and was more than a little surprised I did not know).

I suppose she would be as I am Dutch, and so are this old class mate's parents. He was adopted from Columbia! His mum does have dark hair...

It honestly had never occured to me.

Cruella De'Ville, as in 101 Dalmations.
Never quite got the significance of that name until recently.

i just finally learnt how to organize my youtube videos into playlists (they were all over the place before 😳

The walk through metal detector machine at the airport beeps randomly, the security bloke told me that when I said it's probably my watch...

Sunrise continues to get later even after winter solstice, sunset gets later first.

Actually my mother found out. That calling friends a ****t is not a term of endearment. This is totally true. 😆

andrewh - Member
Cruella De'Ville, as in 101 Dalmations.
Never quite got the significance of that name until recently.

pedant mode on - it's actually De Vil - pedant mode off

That calling friends a *t is not a term of endearment.

But isn't one of the great things about being British the fact that you can call a mate a * and a ****, mate? (also works for antipodians) 😀

Wharf stands for Warehouse Along River Front.

Got told that while on a Thames RIB experience.

Was amazed!

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That my colleague is actually capable of arriving at her desk before 9am.

She's still a tedious arse though.

that coin one is brilliant! I've been wondering about that for ages..

[i]Things you've just found out...[/i]

Lies, it was all lies.
😐

[i]Wharf stands for Warehouse Along River Front.[/i]

No, it doesn't.

Just like 'Chav' doesn't stand for 'Cheltenham Average', 'posh' doesn't stand for 'port out starboard home' and other such false acronyms.

Wharf is a pretty ancient word:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharf

Have I stumbled on to the Viz B0ll0ck5 page by mistake!!!

In Windows 7, if you hover over the little rectangle in the bottom right of the screen you get a preview of the desktop, if you click it, you go to the desktop...

That my Great Grandmother (little nanny) was Irish.

The Red flecks (I like to call them strawberry blond) in my beard make a bit more sense now!

I've spoken many many times to my mum about our family and after all these years she's only just got around to informing me.

IHN - party pooper.

I prefer my version.

Southern Trains are Shite*

Fact 😆

Hilary Devey off Dragon's Den was born a woman.

You know the British thing of using insults as a term of endearment? Mentioned elsewhere on the forum a little earlier, "hey Brian you ****, how you doing?" sort of thing?

I've just found out, it's called a dysphemistic euphemism.

cougar - it may also be a synecdoche (?sp?), you arse 😉

Wilco.

That Gentleman's Relish isn't what i thought it was 😉

That Bonnie Tyler is from Wales

BigJohn - Member

Hilary Devey off Dragon's Den was born a woman.

'posh' doesn't stand for 'port out starboard home' and other such false acronyms.

What does it stand for then IHN?

Hilary Devey off Dragon's Den was born a woman.

Hilary Devey? I thought it was Jessie J.

What does it stand for then

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It stands for quality and value at a price thats right

That coin one up there was doing the rounds on Twitter and Goggle+ all last night. That was one I knew before the coins even appeared in people's hands (and I don't even reside in the UK any more!).

Is quite clever though.

[quote=kayak23 ]In Windows 7, if you hover over the little rectangle in the bottom right of the screen you get a preview of the desktop, if you click it, you go to the desktop...

One of the most annoying features when you use 2 monitors with a windows virtual machine on the right hand one...

[i]'posh' doesn't stand for 'port out starboard home' and other such false acronyms.

What does it stand for then IHN? [/i]

Nothing, it's just slang.

Pants Off, Scaredy's Home !!

Have been working in the same building as these folk, they have giant logos everywhere.

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Only today did it occur to me that there is a drop of wine and a wine glass built into the logo.

Clever.

Cougar - Member

You know the British thing of using insults as a term of endearment? Mentioned elsewhere on the forum a little earlier, "hey Brian you ****, how you doing?" sort of thing?

I've just found out, it's called a dysphemistic euphemism.

cheers ya ****

We spent an entire weekend away where a group of eight had to use the word **** in every sentence or perform a forfeit, shopping was interesting that weekend..

My cat can't tell the difference between a running machine belt that's stationary and one that has me running at 7mph on it.

I don't think either of us want her to jump onto it whilst it's in motion again...

I don't want her to either, wwaswas. Unless you film it.

How to add a picture from Flickr. Thanks STW.

Erdmännchen is German for Meerkat.