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Things which surprise you, despite being obvious.

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they all feel fear

Wrong.


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 8:42 am
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That a Roadrunner is an actual animal and not a fictional cartoon character.

And that Wily. E Coyote isn't more famous for his artistic flair and speed of landscape painting


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 8:49 am
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Trees don't actually move to tackle you when you pass them biking, orienteering or most often, skiing.


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 8:59 am
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That people I work with, y'know actual grown adults were born after Y2K.


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 9:01 am
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How can your daddy see your mother kissing Santa Claus if they are one and the same? It’s an affair surely?

Yeah, it's like he's expecting his Dad to come in at any moment.


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 9:06 am
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It's more than likely a reference to 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus'; Noddy is addressing a child (or himself, past tense), and trying not to break the illusion that Father Christmas isn't real. It's pretty deep on that level. The fact that it's referencing an old rock'n'roll era track brings it back to the bit about granny dancing away as well.

That people I work with, y’know actual grown adults were born after Y2K

Yep, every day. Yesterday's revelation for them was that Netflix was an actual DVD rental business.


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 9:23 am
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That 25 years ago does not mean the 80s!


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 9:32 am
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Like Peppers – Green and Black Olives are the same thing just different levels of ripeness :o)

Black olives are just dyed green olives, well more reacted with some sort of iron solution. Not more or less ripe olives


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 9:35 am
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That my ear and nose hair waited for decades to even appear and now grows significantly faster* than my head hair. I swear one of the ones poking out of my ear is long enough to be used to run down my sleeve and attach to a mitten.

Also why are nose hairs clearly connected directly to the brain stem?

*not a high bar.


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 9:39 am
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How dark it is at 6am now, walking the dog with with a headtorch (me not the dog!).


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 12:33 pm
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That a Roadrunner is an actual animal and not a fictional cartoon character.

As is a Tasmanian devil - maybe those folk at Looney Tunes wanted to sack off the "new character development" meeting that day.


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 1:23 pm
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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

I had the same thing for years with Yosemite Sam.


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 1:28 pm
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That a nighttime hard-in is there to stop your dick falling off because of a lack of blood running through it.


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 3:59 pm
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That a nighttime hard-in

I'm pretty sure that's not going to be a pleasant experience. Still I guess it meets the "surprise" criteria.

is there to stop your dick falling off

But if that's what the Dr recommends I'll risk it rather than the consequence. I mean, the person who prescribed this was your dr, right?


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 4:11 pm
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That 32t chainrings are the same size as 32t cassette cogs.

How is this surprising?


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 4:20 pm
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When puffer fish are "puffed", they are full of water, not air.


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 4:54 pm
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Trees don’t actually move to tackle you when you pass them... skiing.

This can't be true. Otherwise I'd have to face the very real prospect that it's my fault.


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 5:09 pm
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That my wife still puts up with me. Blows my tiny little mind.


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 6:52 pm
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@nickc

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 believe that the question of how bicycles balance is still an unsolved physics problem?


 
Posted : 03/10/2023 8:42 pm
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