REALLY obvious things you've just realised

[Mark James]

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.

[Mark James]

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

[Gavin Chipper]

Boomerangs don't come back if they hit something.

[Fiona T]

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?

[Mark James]

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.

[Marc Meakin]

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

[Marc Meakin]

Most cycle helmets don't protect your head from rain

[Mark James]

"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.

[Ian Volante]

"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?".

[Marc Meakin]

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

[Marc Meakin]

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

[Fred Mumford]

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

[Mark James]

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.

[Marc Meakin]

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

[Mark James]

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

[Gavin Chipper]

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.

[Fiona T]

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

[Mark Deeks]

Duck's beaks look like dog's heads.

[Mark James]

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.

[Gavin Chipper]

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.

[Marc Meakin]

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

[Matt Morrison]

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

[Gavin Chipper]

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.

[Marc Meakin]

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

[Adam Gillard]

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.

[Marc Meakin]

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.

[Gavin Chipper]

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.

[Fiona T]

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...

[Sam Cappleman-Lynes]

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.

[Marc Meakin]

Yogi Bear was named after the baseball player Yogi Berra

[Matt Morrison]

Really fucking obvious Marc, I mean, come on.

[Marc Meakin]

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

[Mark James]

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.

[Marc Meakin]

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

[Gavin Chipper]

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.

[Mark James]

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

[Ian Volante]

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.

[Marc Meakin]

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

[Paul Worsley]

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.

[Marc Meakin]

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

[Johnny Canuck]

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?

[Adam Gillard]

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".

[Marc Meakin]

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

[Mark Deeks]

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

[Sam Cappleman-Lynes]

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

[Ian Volante]

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

We have a winner!

[Marc Meakin]

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

[Marc Meakin]

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

[Gavin Chipper]

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

[Marc Meakin]

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

I've edited my post for clarity.

[Jon O'Neill]

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.

[Marc Meakin]

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

[Fiona T]

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!

[Marc Meakin]

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

[Marc Meakin]

I've always pronounced LinkedIn as Linkydin

[Gavin Chipper]

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.

[Marc Meakin]

Snakes can't blink

[Marc Meakin]

Russia still use the Julian Calendar

[Marc Meakin]

Russia still use the Julian Calendar

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

[Jon O'Neill]

Christian Bale is English.