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That's not a duck talking to a toy clown in my tree.
It's a squirrel.
They don't half make a weird noise for something I always assumed had nothing to say.
gerkins are just pickled cucumbers. I only considered this the other day.
How much patience my partner has with me...
How much patience my partner has with me…
It's not patience, you just can't afford a new patio
It getting dark so early once the clocks have gone back
My sister is nearly 50 and only just realised that Amex was short for American Express.
I was in my 50s before I realised that a sous chef didn't make sous
That the Yamaha logo is three tuning forks.
Daffy
Wotsits are bloody amazing!
You should try eating a bag of Giant Wotsits while driving back from a ride, having run out of drink. The way they gum up your mouth is quite an experience! 😆
Red, green, yellow and orange peppers are the same thing in different states of ripeness.
I felt even more thick than normal when this reality was gifted to me a few years ago.
You should try eating a bag of Giant Wotsits while driving back from a ride, having run out of drink. The way they gum up your mouth is quite an experience! 😆
The giant ones go AMAZING with red wine, but as you've discovered you end up drinking A LOT as they only come in big bags, and who's going to stop part way through one?!
That the Yamaha logo is three tuning forks.
The Garmin logo incorporates an arrow pointing north above the N (representing a compass).
I stopped at a shop to buy a drink and looked in the bag - there were 2 left 😀
Red, green, yellow and orange peppers are the same thing in different states of ripeness.
I felt even more thick than normal when this reality was gifted to me a few years ago
And pink pepper corns aren't really peppercorns. They're berries from a tree as opposed to pepper corns which are drupes from a vine.
Like Peppers - Green and Black Olives are the same thing just different levels of ripeness :o)
That people don't understand that all creatures have senses and emotions, no matter how primitive. We and they all feel fear, desire, jealousy, pain, humility, gratitude etc....
Raisins are grapes...
That people don’t understand that all creatures have senses and emotions, no matter how primitive. We and they all feel fear, desire, jealousy, pain, humility, gratitude etc….
But not Conservatives, right? They definitely don't appear to feel some of those things...
That people vote Tory in spite of Tories being utter ****s.
Red, green, yellow and orange peppers are the same thing in different states of ripeness.
I felt even more thick than normal when this reality was gifted to me a few years ago.
Depends on the type of pepper - orange spice go from green to orange, thats it.
Purple Prince are just purple.
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Although I have just looked futher into this and it seems that bell peppers are a different genus; Piper, and chilli peppers are "Capsicum".
So I am wrong, which came as a supprise.
Aerofoils do not work by increasing the distance and thusly the speed of air (and thereby lowering the pressure) above the shape. The difference in pressure is caused by the curvature itself not the additional distance
That people don’t understand that all creatures have senses and emotions, no matter how primitive. We and they all feel fear, desire, jealousy, pain, humility, gratitude etc….
Have you ever tried humiliating a cat? (I accidentally shoved my finger in my cat's mouth yesterday, as I picked him up. He looked mildly surprised, his standard expression.)
I only realised recently the Breakfast was about Breaking a Fast
I was also well into my 30's before I realised that the person dressed up as Santa at my primary school each Christmas was my Granddad. (obviously I knew he wasn't actual Santa)
Aerofoils do not work by increasing the distance and thusly the speed of air (and thereby lowering the pressure) above the shape. The difference in pressure is caused by the curvature itself not the additional distance
But is it the pressure difference which creates the lift, or is the the vector of the deflected air which causes thrust?
Does anyone else have that occasional -WTF- about balancing on a two wheeled vehicle? You know where you actually start to think about the mechanics of it, about how your body mostly does the actual work of keeping the mass centred on the wheels, while you think about other shit...At the same time!
I was also well into my 30’s before I realised that the person dressed up as Santa at my primary school each Christmas was my Granddad
Worrying that you were still in primary school in your 30s. Surely they could have arranged a bit of learning support so you could pass the end of year exams?
Have you ever tried humiliating a cat? (I accidentally shoved my finger in my cat’s mouth yesterday, as I picked him up. He looked mildly surprised, his standard expression.)
Well I'll be frank, I, like your cat no doubt, was also midly surprised and decidedly happy that the word "mouth" appeared when it did in that paragraph.
gerkins are just pickled cucumbers. I only considered this the other day.
You're a wally
That people don’t understand that all creatures have senses and emotions, no matter how primitive. We and they all feel fear, desire, jealousy, pain, humility, gratitude etc….
I'm all for respecting other creatures and realising that human's aren't necessarily 'special' within nature, but an amoeba feels humility? Are you sure?
The word ‘albeit’.
The word ‘albeit'
This. For years I pronounced it as if it were a French word 😁
That the word spelt Ceilidh is the same word as the one pronounced kayley
Took me decades to work that one out
A return train ticket Derby to London doesn't necessarily return from the same station that you arrived at.
Cue sprint from Euston to kings cross only to narrowly miss my train, after sitting in the bar for an hour as I'd arrived early.
That the Yamaha logo is three tuning forks.
I’ve only just learned this minute tha Yamaha has a logo. Had to look it up ….. never noticed it before.
Does anyone else have that occasional -WTF- about balancing on a two wheeled vehicle? You know where you actually start to think about the mechanics of it, about how your body mostly does the actual work of keeping the mass centred on the wheels, while you think about other shit…At the same time!
Normally shortly before I fall off.
While I’m quite content with the idea that the earth is round I was quite surprised that the solar system is flat. I always assumed that the various planet orbits were depicted as being on the same plane for ease of representation. That an Orrery was a a sort of schematic because the mechanical impracticality of showing orbits in different planes.
so when it became apparent that’s how they actually are all , more or less, on one plane I was really surprised that Flat Earthers don’t make a bigger fuss about it.
That the word spelt Ceilidh is the same word as the one pronounced kayley
tchotchke the Yiddish word for a small mantelpiece bric-a-brac is pronounced; chotch-ka
That the dots in a divides sign are holding places for the number of the calculation.
I don't understand that.
Viscount biscuits taste rubbish now they are no longer round but rectangular, then again I like sliced cheddar but don't like the same stuff grated
A return train ticket Derby to London doesn’t necessarily return from the same station that you arrived at.
Cue sprint from Euston to kings cross only to narrowly miss my train, after sitting in the bar for an hour as I’d arrived early.
Even more surprising is that you usually arrive at and depart from St Pancras...
Wotsits are bloody amazing!
I recently discovered they do a Prawn Cocktail flavour, absolutely devoured that pack! The same for Quavers.
All creatures have senses and emotions, no matter how primitive. We and they all feel fear, love, jealousy, pain, humility, gratitude etc….
Bollocks.
If we're talking mammals, yes those two/too. Their senses aren't the same as ours of course (a typical mammal might have worse eyesight, much better smell); and what we'd call emotions - the 'gut feeling' stuff, reflexes when you see your new baby - may not be identical to ours. And they're unlikely to intellectualise, or reflect on the experience of having emotions. But this stuff happens in the hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala, limbic cortex, bits of their brains that are broadly the same as humans.
Whatever, it's a bit arrogantly speciesist (also plain wrong) to think humans are the only creatures to have emotions, we're not that different to other mammals.
While I’m quite content with the idea that the earth is round I was quite surprised that the solar system is flat.
Course it is*. If you have a bunch of stuff in space, stationary, it will all be attracted to the other stuff and collapse into a clump. But if anyone of it is moving, it'll be attracted towards the other stuff but becasue of its motion it'll swing past and keep going but still be attracted, so it'll keep going round and round. Whichever direction has the most stuff in it (it's not evenly distributed) will eventualy become the dominant direction so it'll all start spinning around in a ball. But once you have a direction of spin you must have an axis, so as it spins aroudn this axis it'll form into a disc called an accretion disk. Local points in that disc become more dense and smaller clumps form in the disc which are our planets, all already in circular orbits around the central point in the same plane.
* Pluto is not actually in the same plane (called the ecliptic) as the others. Suggestion is that it's because it's been knocked out of orbit or perturbed by something else at some point.
@slowoldman you swap the dots for the numbers, in that example it becomes 14over7
I was also well into my 30’s before I realised that the person dressed up as Santa at my primary school each Christmas was my Granddad. (obviously I knew he wasn’t actual Santa)
On the Christmas theme, as I'm sure you all know the famous Slade Christmas song contains the lyric:
"What will your daddy do when he sees your mother kissing Santa Claus"
I was probably in my early 40s before I realised that Santa is in fact the dad - I really thought she was having an affair and I never thought that was particularly festive.
That the NHS aren’t getting the £250 million a week everyone voted for…
That the NHS aren’t getting the £250 million a week everyone voted for…
You're a mere £100million out 🙂
Although not getting £350mil works out much the same as not getting £250mil 🙂
Military planes with their below and above camouflage. Surprised because I just realised last week, I'm 54
i’m always surprised by how bloody handsome i am when i catch my reflection in public. which i do at every opportunity.
then again I like sliced cheddar but don’t like the same stuff grated
Yes, that must annoy you
are our planets, all already in circular orbits around the central point in the same plane.
Except they’re not circular… hence the fact that Mercury is on average the closest planet to Earth.
Yeah more or less circular but not exactly.
However the fact that Mercury is on average closest isn't because they're not circular. It's because for half the time other planets are way on the other side of the Sun much further away than Mercury ever is.
That the Microsoft Windows logo is a window.... i win (dow)
Also that my other half really hates my guts. To quote Chissie Hynde its a thin line between love and hate....
However the fact that Mercury is on average closest isn’t because they’re not circular. It’s because for half the time other planets are way on the other side of the Sun much further away than Mercury ever is.
Well it surprises me that I’d fully misunderstood that…
… Everybody always sends emails for urgent tasks when I’m on holiday and am definitely not working.
“What will your daddy do when he sees your mother kissing Santa Claus”
How can your daddy see your mother kissing Santa Claus if they are one and the same? It’s an affair surely?
This is fair enough:
Whatever, it’s a bit arrogantly speciesist (also plain wrong) to think humans are the only creatures to have emotions, we’re not that different to other mammals.
But its a big leap from that to this:
All creatures have senses and emotions, no matter how primitive. We and they all feel fear, love, jealousy, pain, humility, gratitude etc….
And I think its quite unhelpful to give them human emotion labels when we have absolutely no idea what they are like.
That any thread on here that is intended to be whimsical and jolly will always end up being overtaken by pedantry or/and politics.
How can your daddy see your mother kissing Santa Claus if they are one and the same? It’s an affair surely?
Cos its written from the point of that the voyeur doesnt know its his dad
It was only when I watched the film of the same name that it clicked that the us state i believed to be called AR-KANSAS, and some other place in the US called AR-KAN-SAW aee in fact one and the same
That the Yamaha logo is three tuning forks.
Or that Kona's headbadge used to be a stylised anus.
(thanks STW_mag for that gem...)
That the nights are drawing in this time of year. Gets me every time
Cos its written from the point of that the voyeur doesnt know its his dad
Ah yeah. Gotcha 👍 Early morning brain fog!
then again I like sliced cheddar but don’t like the same stuff grated
That's possibly because the grated stuff is coated with anti-caking agents to stop it sticking together. Try actually grating cheddar and see if you still don't like it
That the Bosch logo is a rivet and the BMW logo is a propeller.
That a Roadrunner is an actual animal and not a fictional cartoon character.