By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions. We in turn value your personal details in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Please log in or register. Registered visitors get fewer ads.
Every few years I’ve looked up to see the moon up in the blue daytime sky and thought, “How the fck did that happen?” before forgetting all about it until the next time I noticed. It was only a couple of weeks ago that I realised this had happened every month of my life and, indeed, every month before my life. I looked up whether the moon would be out if I went for a night walk in Richmond Park, and found out here https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/uk/london?month=2&year=2023 that it wasn’t making an appearance at all that day, that the time of its rising and setting cycles through the full 24 hours every 29 days (ie the time I takes to go from full to new and back to full), and that the time of its appearance also goes through a full cycle of increase and decrease in that period.
No doubt anyone brought up in the country or on the coast works this out by their seventh birthday and it wouldn’t be news to the people who made Stonehenge, but I was staggered. Anyone else had a “small, far away” learning moment recently?
0
Stuff you learned embarrassingly late in life on 12:27 - Feb 3 with 1727 views
Stuff you learned embarrassingly late in life on 12:06 - Feb 3 by MrSheen
1) Pouring drain cleaner down the shower is much less effective (not to mention infinitely more expensive) than twisting the drain cover off and fishing out the wife's hair with your fingers. It's obviously not mine. 2) Not even baby diarrhoea on the skin matches the tingling horror of holding slimy drain-hair between your fingers.
Our bath and shower was blocked last weekend and the water wasn’t going anywhere.We put a couple of dishwasher tablets in the water and it all disappeared overnight.Just to make sure I dissolved another one in a jug of boiling water and poured that down the plug holes. It went down the plug straight away.We’d already tried Mr Muscle and other drain cleaners with no success.
1
Stuff you learned embarrassingly late in life on 14:04 - Feb 3 with 1548 views
Plumbers laugh at how people try to clear blocked drains. All you need is a King plunger (AKA a master plunger and forget those stupid wooden handled black rubber things). A couple of goes on that will clear pretty much any blocked drain and they cost about a tenner. And that's something I learned embarrasingly late in life... :
Stuff you learned embarrassingly late in life on 19:02 - Feb 2 by stevec
If you hold your index finger in front of you and shut one eye your strongest eye is the one where the finger hasn’t moved but it will also determine whether you are right or left handed.
Didn’t know the latter until recently when having a go at archery.
That's eye dominance rather than handed. They do mostly correlate but Phil Taylor was right handed, left eye dominant which is why he always brought the dart across his face
0
Stuff you learned embarrassingly late in life on 15:29 - Feb 3 with 1460 views
Stuff you learned embarrassingly late in life on 14:04 - Feb 3 by hubble
Plumbers laugh at how people try to clear blocked drains. All you need is a King plunger (AKA a master plunger and forget those stupid wooden handled black rubber things). A couple of goes on that will clear pretty much any blocked drain and they cost about a tenner. And that's something I learned embarrasingly late in life... :
[Post edited 3 Feb 2023 14:06]
Ha, ha; I’m not looking that one up on the internet, no way. Thought you got us then, didnt’cha?
Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?
1
Stuff you learned embarrassingly late in life on 17:14 - Feb 3 with 1335 views
A slightly embarrassing one for me, was how long it took for me to learn that you sit on the toilet seat when having a dump and not directly on the bowl. I must have been well into double figures age before I worked that one out. I even remember trying the seat a few times and thinking that it makes sense but just carried on with the old way just the same.
2
Stuff you learned embarrassingly late in life on 17:46 - Feb 3 with 1254 views
Stuff you learned embarrassingly late in life on 14:06 - Feb 3 by robith
That's eye dominance rather than handed. They do mostly correlate but Phil Taylor was right handed, left eye dominant which is why he always brought the dart across his face
I was pondering on Match82 comments, specifically with Ronnie O’Sullivan in mind and his ability to play snooker left or right handed. I think the correlation between hand and eye does seem sound though, maybe with the very occasional exception.
Interesting to hear about Phil Taylor. Wonder if some people, maybe the ambidextrous, don’t have a big disparity in eye dominance.
0
Stuff you learned embarrassingly late in life on 18:05 - Feb 3 with 1228 views
Stuff you learned embarrassingly late in life on 12:48 - Feb 2 by toboboly
Friend of mine is very clever but geographically a complete fcuking imbecile. She was very surprised a couple of years ago to find out that Alaska isn't attached to mainland USA.
I try and bring it up whenever possible.
Similar. A mate of mine wouldn’t believe Alaska was right next to Russia and that America had bought it from them. He even brought up a picture of a world map on his phone to show me it was on the other side of the world!
Stuff you learned embarrassingly late in life on 18:05 - Feb 3 by Ranger_Things
Similar. A mate of mine wouldn’t believe Alaska was right next to Russia and that America had bought it from them. He even brought up a picture of a world map on his phone to show me it was on the other side of the world!
Two Islands in Two Countries, Two Miles and 21 Hours Apart
By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions.
