Knowledge/Ignorance amnesty.

[fleckneymike]

This is the thread for all those things you've never admitted you don't know or flat out never got the chance to learn. I'm not talking existential crap just simple day to day stuff.

For example, until recently I didn't know that everyone else knew where knots in wood came from. I'd always assumed it was jolly bad luck if you had one in a door or some such thing but there was nothing to be done. Turns out they are branches on trees and that's what makes the funny pattern in the wood. Now I protested that how was I suppose to know that, I'm sure it never came up at school but everyone else was adamant that's it's the sort of thing people know.

I never knew there were two posts, growing up in a village the post came and that was it, took until second year Uni for someone to say they were waiting for the second post for me to discover it existed.

Any other stuff out there that people didn't know?

[MPH]

My mates all used to live around the Thurlaston area and surrounding villages. They kept on telling me about this great place they used to play at when they were kids called the bum hole. Fine .. I thought weird name but whatever floats your boat.  They told me about it for years. All grown up now and in late 30's they decided to have a get together and all went back to some places they went to as kids so I asked them if they made it back to the bum hole.. They all literally collapsed to the floor laughing for about 5 minutes. .

 

 

 

Apparently its called the Bomb Hole.

[Raw Dykes]

I didn't get pepperami's 'it's a bit of an animal' slogan until I was about 20. Shameful.

[fleckneymike]

A few years ago I finally realised why toilet roll ran out quicker at the end of the roll rather than the start.

[Tielemans63]

I didn't get pepperami's 'it's a bit of an animal' slogan until I was about 20. Shameful.

I didn't get that until you just posted this. That's even more shameful.

[Kyle_Le_Don]

I didn't get that until you just posted this. That's even more shameful.

I still don't get it... Haha

[Babylon]

I didn't know what a Yorkshire Pudding was until I was about 20... as a child I just asked for the "crunchy" stuff at home and the name stuck without anyone ever correcting me until the first time I went for Sunday dinner with my ex to a restaurant and asked the waiter whether it came with "crunchy".

 

Shameful.

I still don't get it... Haha

Imagine the part of the animal it comes from.

[Finnegan]

I didn't know what a Yorkshire Pudding was until I was about 20... as a child I just asked for the "crunchy" stuff at home and the name stuck without anyone ever correcting me until the first time I went for Sunday dinner with my ex to a restaurant and asked the waiter whether it came with "crunchy".

Shameful.

Imagine the part of the animal it comes from.

This is amazing !

[Babylon]

This is amazing !

 

I have never let my parents forget the shame they brought on me.

[Guest]

I have never understood how fans turn on their team so quickly (in whatever sport) when it loses.

[Saxondale]

I didn't get that until you just posted this. That's even more shameful.

And neither did I until you just posted that.

 

I share your shame.

[Saxondale]

For years, I genuinely thought Sandi Toksvig was blind.

 

Turns out she just has a posh, squinty face.

[Zingari]

Nobody owning up to not knowing what/where the clitoris is then ?

 

 

 

 

OK I was 58 when I found it .

[Trav Le Bleu]

This thread is a bit of a damp squid.

[Guest MattP]

I didn't know what a Yorkshire Pudding was until I was about 20... as a child I just asked for the "crunchy" stuff at home and the name stuck without anyone ever correcting me until the first time I went for Sunday dinner with my ex to a restaurant and asked the waiter whether it came with "crunchy".

 

Shameful.

Imagine the part of the animal it comes from.

 

That is fantastic

[Webbo]

The first time I ate King prawns at a restaurant I ate the first one with the shell on. I didn't know you had to peel them. I was in my 20s at the time. 

[Tom17LCFC]

This thread is a bit of a damp squid.

 

Very clever

[FoxesAreBlue]

I have just learnt the pepperoni thing too. Glad I hate them.

[cambridgefox]

I used to ask my mum if I could have a "six cherry bakewell"

My brother still takes the piss...the cvnt.

[SystonFox]

My work colleagues go on about snakes and motorbikes a lot? I know very little on either so just sit there smiling, nodding and occasionally saying "yeah?" In a surprised sort of manner.

[Rocket-Ron]

I always thought the meaning of the word VIVID was the exact opposite of what it means.

Very confusing..

[cambridgefox]

Perhaps we should start a song lyrics amnesty.

I worked with a bloke who was terrible.

Chumbawamba."I get knocked down,like a lumberjack"( like that made sense.are there not H&S rules in place to stop accidents)

Bob Marley." No woman,no child"(this makes more sense ,his mrs as left him and taken the child)

[RobHawk]

Perhaps we should start a song lyrics amnesty.

I worked with a bloke who was terrible.

Chumbawamba."I get knocked down,like a lumberjack"( like that made sense.are there not H&S rules in place to stop accidents)

Bob Marley." No woman,no child"(this makes more sense ,his mrs as left him and taken the child)

Until very recently when i called her up on it, my Mrs sang, "i fought the lord and the Lord won!"

 

Imagine the Jam being a christian rock band! 

[ealingfox]

Until very recently when i called her up on it, my Mrs sang, "i fought the lord and the Lord won!"

 

Imagine the Jam being a christian rock band! 

 

[RobHawk]

Yesssssssssssssssss??????????

 

Edit: Its early! I get it! Clash not Jam!