The pronunciation of the word misshapen. I pronounced it miss-hapen until my mid 30's. I'm British.

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I'm not British but I have been in the UK for 24 years, I was 17 when I moved here. I spent my first 10 years saying "stop buggering me" instead of "stop bugging me" and no one bloody corrected me! And my partner back then was British!

Mojofrodo_26@reddit

Haha. Oh dear. I often get sayings mixed up and my partner corrects me. My mum has a fair few odd ones as well, though I cannot think of any at the moment.

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Mackem101@reddit

Hyperbole for me.

I had something very similar until I was in my late 20s with Fist full of Asha.

Or even - Brimful of Asia.

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TransitionNo1797@reddit

I thought Rihanna found love in a homeless place

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FriendshipOk7636@reddit (OP)

It literally is "white bread" though. https://www.billyjoel.com/song/uptown-girl-7/

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Silhouette_Sneezes@reddit

Same

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PipBin@reddit

Same.

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QuantitySharp2662@reddit

White bread is shite lol

I remember my friend would always have brown bread sandwiches at school and I was like "bro why isn't your bread white ?" And he told me his mum hates white bread and says brown is healthier and actually has flavor.

Today I learned!

I always thought he meant her world is bland and boring like white bread.

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DTH2001@reddit

That’s exactly what it does mean. OP was (slightly) more correct in the first instance

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I also very recently learnt "a pickle" is not a small white spherical vegetable, it's what American's call gherkins. I thought American's liked pickled onions on burgers.

And Branston pickle is not made from the aforementioned "pickle", it's made from pickled carrots and onions.

I learnt this because I was confused why a Magic The Gathering card of a cheese and pickle sandwich had cheese and gherkins.

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VividEnthusiasm1414@reddit

And to make it worse. Pickle actually refers to the vinegar. Anything anyone calls a pickle isn't actually a pickle. It's a pickled something because it's an item for pickling vinegar. So what Americans call a pickle is a pickled gherkin. What us brits call pickles are pickled onions. There's actually no such thing as a pickle

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Due_Professor_8736@reddit

I’m decades older and just learnt this now. I always open these thread sure I’m gonna learn lots of new stuff..

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pixeltash@reddit

My husband found this out last year, he was 57.

I'd asked him to get me some gherkins he said they didn't have any, next time we went shopping together I pointed out the shelves and shelves of pickled cucumbers, he was shocked that they were the same thing as gherkins.

To make it worse he worked on a vegetable farm in his youth and has done the household shopping for about 30 years.

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labdweller@reddit

I was nearly 40 when I learnt that today.

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oddjobbodgod@reddit

Let me blow your mind, you know a loofah that you use in a shower or bath to scrub yourself? Those are also in the same family as a cucumber… yes, they come from a plant! It’s also edible when it’s not fully grown.

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Petition to always call pickled eggs gerquacks moving forward 😂

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YearObvious7214@reddit

Gherkins aren't just baby cucumbers. They're not the same type that you'd have in a salad.

But again, does it matter what it's called when it's still obviously LOOKS like the thing. 😅 Like Paprika no longer looks like bell peppers.

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gogoluke@reddit

They are harvested young to ensure thin skins. Left on the vine they would grow larger. They are baby cucumbers. Lots of veg looks like other veg. Is that lettuce or cabbage? Is that an onion or a shallot? Is that a plum or an apricot? A tomato or tomatillo? Is that a rice or wild rice? Is that banana or plantain? Is that sweet potato or a yam? Spinach or methi? White carrots or parsnips? Is that cucamelon a melon or a cucumber? Is that black mulberry a blackberry? Is that red gooseberry or a blackcurrant or a Jostaberry or a chuckle berry? Is that black raspberry a blackberry or a raspberry? Is that white elderberry a white currant?

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YearObvious7214@reddit

They're specifically pickling cucumbers though, or not the same breed you have on a sandwich.

Fair point. Pethaps it's a monolingual issue then.

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IlIIIllIIlIlllII@reddit

Not to be confused with the Gurkhas, that are Nepalese

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Confederate45@reddit

Just learned this now, I'm not big on cooking. I still don't understand what a pickle is though

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AgileInitial5987@reddit

I had an argument with an American once about this. They didn’t believe me and they were convinced that gherkins were pickled dills.

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mdid@reddit

Because they're called "dill pickle"?

Yeah, many women link what is happening down there to what is going on up there.

There is some correlation, but it's also possible to be hony and flaccid, or not hony and hard.

It also affects some men mentally because they think if they want but can't that means there is something wrong with them, when actually this is quite normal.

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

Nearly a quarter century with the same man and it still astounds me how he can be in almost any state of mind and I can be in any state of appearance but he can switch to sex mode should I feel like it… meanwhile, I have to be in the mood for it which seems to even me like a quantum physics level of complicated to try to forecast.

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Prudent-Pressure2146@reddit

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boo23boo@reddit

The number of men who think a period and pee come from the same hole is just terrifying.

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There’s lots of women who don’t know the basics. It’s why female sexual health has to be taught to girls in school. In my school there were girls who thought you could only get pregnant if you fucked lying down.

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sharplight141@reddit

Wait...THERE ARE OTHER POSITIONS!?!?!?

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BenchClamp@reddit

Apparently at least 3.

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nihility24@reddit

Come on….that’s crazy !

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

Normal, sneaky-like & toilet cubicle.

That’s the position names incase you’re wondering.

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nihility24@reddit

Ahhh…I thought the position names are name after the stars…Leo, libra and Capricorn …everyday is a school day !

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pixeltash@reddit

At our school some of the girls thought you couldn't get pregnant if it was your first time with a boy (not just your first time, but first time with a new boyfriend.

They found out how wrong that notion was.

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audigex@reddit

BUT any man that doesn't realise this is objectively stupid.

I'd suggest uneducated, rather than stupid

There's VERY little (shockingly little) education for young men on female anatomy. For us, those lessons involved girls being taken to a separate room and taught about menstruation while we were shown videos about not having sex until we were married. Early 2000s, so not the 60s or something

wtwiwf@reddit

At least he asked. I've seen comments in this thread saying 'men don't know how it works' and then 'men ask stupid questions'. Can't argue it both ways.

I grew up in a household of 3 women and the whole process was taboo and hidden from me and my brother. It was also glossed over at my all male school during biology.

First I really knew about it was when a girl got her period when a bunch of us went to the coast as teenagers.

As a result, we have consciously normalised in our household for our kids.

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AdThat328@reddit

I appreciate that and the fact asking about something unknown is a good thing...

...however we HAD done a full Biology module covering the reproductive system. This was another topic that ended up discussing periods. I know you couldn't have known that as I didn't give the detail.

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wtwiwf@reddit

❤️

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Neither_Process_7847@reddit

*blinks* guess some guys don't have sisters or girlfriends or even close enough female friends, but could have sworn this got mentioned at school!

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

I was horrified when I got my first period in the 90s. Had no idea it was coming or even what it was. What a horrible day to have it happen while unprepared and to find out about this (what seemed to me at the time to be a) lifelong condition of inconvenience, pain and embarrassment.

So I totally get how some men might not have learned at the details. My mum failed me even though it would inevitably happen to me.

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Neither_Process_7847@reddit

Ouch - what an awful way to have such a huge life moment happen!

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

Yeah, I was in school at the time as well. Crying in the toilets. Thankfully a kind older girl was the one to find me. She gave me a pad which was huge and felt like I’d a pool noodle in my pants. I was certain that everyone could see it. I was absolutely mortified and in a fair amount of pain.

I have a little bug out bag of period products at the ready for my daughter. It’s got all the sizes of pads, heat pads, new stranger things pants (a helpful red and black colour scheme and totally cool for her), ibuprofen gel & paracetamol. Im currently looking into period pants for her - they seem to be a decent option for kids now.

Neither_Process_7847@reddit

Only so much I could do directly as the dad, of course, but talking about it early, ostentatiously buying them Wellwoman rather than Wellkid (and emphasising the 'woman' part and the fact that iron and folic acid would help) , and being supportive about laundry and the like did seem to really help them take pride in reaching that stage, rather than being embarrassed about it. OK pubertys never going to not suck for anyone - evolution is just mocking us with the sequence in which it happens! - but making them see it as a proud moment of growing up worked well.

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

ostentatiously buying them Wellwoman rather than Wellkid (and emphasising the 'woman' part and the fact that iron and folic acid would help)

Sorry, do you mean you made a big of show of buying supplements for pubescent women in the shop? My daughter would die a thousand deaths if i or her dad did that. Good thing you know your kiddo well. :)

Yeah, cheers, I know. You’d have to be an actual lobotomite to not know this by at least puberty, and anyone you’ve met who didn’t is not worth talking to if they’re that out of touch, that is dangerous levels of stupidity

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

I don’t know if I agree that being uninformed or ignorant is the same as dangerous levels of stupidity. I try to give people the opportunity to learn things first and they often end up being a bit grateful to have misgiving corrected.

If I tell them and they say something like “eww, that’s woman’s problems” then yeah, morons be morons.

And like I said in another comment. I was horrified and totally surprised to learn about periods on the day of my first period. Not everyone gets told what they need to be told.

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RealisticL3af@reddit

well sometimes you can sort of push it out but you cant hold it

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

Sort of being the important part. It’s an explosion from pressure as opposed to a function. I’m probably not using the correct terms but it’s still not really in our control.

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It's not particularly nice having it put in (taken out was fine once I had a second dose of anaesthetic).

There was something quite nice about it, like it just being a load off your mind. I often wake up to piss and just not having that as a concern was relaxing.

But I also had IVs in at the time and when I was sleeping I'd have nightmares. Having stuff pumped into my veins and out through my dick at the same sort of robbed my body of its sense of integrity. I guess I had subconscious distinction between "this bit of the world is me, and that's the rest" and the tubes robbed me of my normal role of gatekeeper as to which is which.

So I guess I'd almost recommended it physically, at least when lying in bed, but not psychologically.

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Free-Monkee@reddit

A possible answer to having a decent night's sleep instead of constantly being woken up by BPH?

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No £200?

There are snakes in uk? 😱 im 40 live in london for last 20 years (im not from uk but migrated here a while ago)

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PipBin@reddit

I get snakes in my garden.

Lots of grass snakes pitch up to use my pond.

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Electrical_Tale_2621@reddit

Horrific news tbh

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E420CDI@reddit

There's a cream for that...with gloves to apply it (available separately):

Also, smooth snakes but they’re very rare.

Some parts of the country there are aesculapian snakes, descendants of escaped animals. There’s populations of them in London and a couple of areas of Wales

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FriendshipOk7636@reddit (OP)

I didn't even know we had fireflies in the UK. I thought they were an exotic thing, but it turns out they're just not in my region

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Unicronium@reddit

Not for long unfortunately, they are dying out and could be gone by the next generation 😢

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grunt1533894@reddit

We don't have fireflies like you might think of, we have glow worms, not quite the same. The glowing females don't fly around, the flying males don't glow.

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cuccir@reddit

A slow worm?

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eyeball-beesting@reddit

Slow worms hiss?

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cuccir@reddit

They do at you

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eyeball-beesting@reddit

Sometimes I find failed attempts at jokes funnier than clever jokes.

Im sorry?? Im in my 40s and this is new knowledge.

What the fuck are ponies then?? A different species?

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BabyBearBennett@reddit

I was actually thinking about this fact this morning. I have always known that the name for a baby horse is a foal. I don't know why I didn't know that a pony is just a smaller full grown horse until a few years ago.

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Gorilla_in_a_gi@reddit

Ponies and horses are measured in hands. There is some argument in equestrian circles, but generally if they are below 15 hands they are a pony and above 15 hands makes them a horse

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Irvysan@reddit

Who's hand though?

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KindOfPoo@reddit

Who's hand though?

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slade364@reddit

A baby horse is called a foal, not a pony.

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Mc_and_SP@reddit

A foal is a baby horse, a pony is just a small horse

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Mr_Biscuits_532@reddit

As other people have already said, they're different breeds.

I can beat that.

I was a teenager when I learned that a hen is a female chicken via a conversation along the lines of “what do you mean chicken egg, we eat hens eggs”

UnfortunatelyAd@reddit

what the fuck is a rice weasel

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E420CDI@reddit

These are small...

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SkyPilotOne@reddit

Your Dad is the GOAT!

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OptimusPrime365@reddit

My stepdad is from Wales and when people visited from England he would tell them that the signs on the road that said “Araf - Slow” meant that you had to look out for miniature Welsh giraffes called Araf’s. It would blow their minds.

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SamAtHomeForNow@reddit

Until my late twenties, I assumed Est. in signs like Est. 1835 meant “estimated.” Like the business was so old but was estimated to have been started sometime around 1835.

But then I started seeing pretentious businesses that would est.2012 or something and got really confused how they couldn’t remember when they started the business when it was just a few years ago.

I'm very into space, always have been, but I was in my mid twenties before I understood the physics behind going into orbit.

I had always just assumed that once you got high enough, you stopped experiencing gravity and started floating around.

It took seeing a launch for me to realise rockets aren't just about going up, all that power is mostly about getting going sideways really really fast. Fast enough that, once you're up there, you're falling around the earth as quickly as you're falling towards it. Otherwise you just fall back.

You're not floating around because there's no gravity in orbit, you're floating around because you're in freefall.

Ah, perhaps not the best example! Bullet don’t travel in straight lines, they follow a curved path…

https://www.britannica.com/science/parabola

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hallerz87@reddit

That’s pretty technical. I don’t blame you for not knowing that

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Glittering_Sunrise12@reddit

What? I don’t get it 😵‍💫

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Nw5gooner@reddit

They're constantly falling towards Earth, they're just also moving around it so fast that they keep missing it. Cool, isn't it?

Check out Newton's Cannonball thought experiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_cannonball

The faster you shoot something sideways, the further it goes before it hits the ground. Shoot it fast enough and it won't.

The ISS is moving sideways fast enough that it's circularised it's orbit. Although even at its current height it still gets a little bit of atmospheric drag, so requires a bit of a boost every now and then.

ibullybillionaires@reddit

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1356/

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Top-Childhood5030@reddit

That's accurate, yes 😅

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Vehlin@reddit

I’ll get you back Jebediah!

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Decirium@reddit

Extending on this, the understanding oh how high a "safe" orbit actually is.

I cried. My milk hadn’t come in as baby was preemy. I came out of surgery having been awake 36hrs, I had to wake baby every 2 hrs and then pump for 30 mins and they sent my husband home at 3am.
So yeah. Like a little I cried and asked “when do I sleep?”. I still feel sorry for new mum me!

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coffeeebucks@reddit

Oh I was delirious by about day 3. Breastfeeding and formula and pumping, and I was also an absolute tyrant about keeping the pump clean and sterile so I wouldn’t let anybody else touch it. And every time a midwife visited I was warned about jaundice and that we might have to go back into hospital. It was wild. I hope things improved for you quickly 💐

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Bhafc1901@reddit

Exactly, the devs fucked up on this one. Really hoping they patch it in the next update

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DuffManMayn@reddit

Second baby arriving in September. No patches planned by the Devs.

I wish I could have gotten away with skipping a few feeds, but our daughter was very premature, born sort of inside out, spent months in the NICU and then was on specialised formula and meds when she came home that absolutely had to be taken...

Only for the meds to be causing her weight loss, which put her back in hospital, and there was also an initial report to social services saying that they thought we were neglecting her even though our kitchen looked like a pharmacy.

We had the same thing.

He’s 13 now and is still the same - just wants to sleep at every opportunity.

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NaomiT29@reddit

That might actually be something you should get checked out. 3 week old babies shouldn't be sleeping for that long without waking up, and while it luckily doesn't sound like it's impacted his development, if he has continued to always want to sleep more than is developmentally appropriate, there could be an underlying issue there.

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BraveLordWilloughby@reddit

It's true, but it's just called heroin withdrawal. Wake up every hour crying and shitting.

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fleurmadelaine@reddit

Ahhh I like to look at this as… when my baby (3months) is asleep nothing will wake her. My dog will bark in her ear, she’ll just sigh and continue snoring.
I drop something loudly, she’ll shudder in her sleep and continue snoring! Light on bright, she’ll turn her head away and continue snoring. Change her nappy, she’ll wake up yell at you for waking her up and go back to sleep as soon as you’re done and continue snoring.

I’m twice a mother & it didn’t stink. Maybe infections are very common but after 12 stitches, I was keen to check all was well and am confident that it didn’t smell disgusting.

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TurbulentLeg1084@reddit

Pleased for you yours didn’t smell, but honestly, it wasn’t infected, spoke to loads of people with the same experience and had no signs or symptoms of infection.

I struggle to remember smells but it was kind of just overpowering mixture of period on steroids and a kind of bleachy smell to it that was different.

My experience with a lot of birth and breastfeeding tbh was a lot of the stuff that was unpleasant or unwanted the internet was telling me was something wrong with my baby, me or my body and the older women in my life telling me was normal. Not having a go at you, just sharing why I’m defensive.

Like when my kid wouldn’t sleep the internet is all “get a paediatrician to check for reflux, maybe they’re not feeding well, maybe you’re not putting them down sleepy but not sleeping, don’t let them cry out, do let them cry it out…etc”, older women in my life just like “yeah, some babies don’t sleep well. You either let them cry it out, or you don’t and you’ll be tired for a while. Sucks that you aren’t allowed to let them sleep on their tummies anymore because some babies don’t sleep well on their backs in a bare cot with nothing in it and no parent next to them”.

No it’s not. You’re favourite pub burns down, that’s a a catastrophic wrong that turns a loved building into ashes. A woman giving birth might gross you out but her body is doing what it’s evolved to do and unless there is an actual medical issue, her body will return to normal function.

You sound like jim Davidson saying what you said.

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Impressive_Chart_153@reddit

Ok, your new car being keyed.

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

If you want to liken it to effect it has on property then I guess it would be more like getting a house extension. It’s an addition that requires some extraordinary measures but in the end you have gained something.

Your new key being keyed is just damage. You know that vaginas go back to their normal size and function after giving birth, right?

The vagina is highly elastic & will stretch during childbirth then contract afterwards, often returning to its previous shape and size within a few weeks

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PrincessStephanieR@reddit

Classic misogynistic line… what next? The extra stitch? 🙄

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purpleduckduckgoose@reddit

Ah. Isn't childbirth such a beautiful thing.

You’re being defensive? Sorry wasn’t meaning to get that reaction, I’m always curious to learn and women’s health is wishy washy so I thought you were saying it always smells & I was just adding my experience and thinking about what might cause the difference?

Infections are common, I didn’t mean to insult you.

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TurbulentLeg1084@reddit

Oh no, you’re absolutely good. Any defensiveness was much more from flashbacks of fighting for my life in beyond the bump than from anything you said, what you said was fine.

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HanAVFC@reddit

The beyond the bump sub? I'm in that and I'm a early years professional as well as a mom, those parents are crazy 🤣

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

One of the harshest responses I’ve got to a post was on Mommit. I asked for help regarding armpit hair removal because I’d never been taught, screwed it up & now use chemicals. Too harsh for a young girl so I thought I’d asked for advice on how best to start my daughter off. Jesus wept, the replies circled mainly around the idea of me being a filthy idiot.

If women aren’t allowed to be wrong or different without shame then it makes it hard to learn & teach the next generation.

Sucks that you were made to feel bad, as if we don’t get shit on enough when it comes to women’s health. Glad we straightened this out so you know I wasn’t coming for you. :)

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Shame I didn't have that info 30 years ago after my daughter's birth. I honestly thought something had crept up my tootie and died. Even daily baths, I had to bath daily because I was cut to ribbons by the doctor, did nothing. Nobody mentioned it, talked about it nothing.

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Foxglovenectar@reddit

Eh? Mine didnt stink?

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redlady1991@reddit

I distinctly remember the smell of the sanitary bin in the maternity ward. They emptied it numerous times a day but...it was used by many women.

The first night our baby slept through, I woke up at 5am and asked my partner if he'd been up and fed him yet. He said no, woke him and made him a bottle cos he felt bad.

I was upset at my husband because he didn’t tell me that our newborn baby will need feeding and changing at night 🫢

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himit@reddit

I've never had a baby that fed every 2-3 hours at the newborn stage; it's always been like 45-90minutes!

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LetsAdultTogether@reddit

My friends newborn needs to be woken up after 4 or 5 hours at night as he just sleeps

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Semele5183@reddit

Yeah, I had 2 babies who breastfed literally constantly (other than brief naps) for weeks on end!

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LlamaDrama007@reddit

My first two werent so bad. The third every 45mins for a year, at least. He didnt sleep through he night until about 3 but then it turned into the sleep of the dead (like, in a coma - lots of noise/alarms dont wake him) and he maintains that today as a 16 year old xD

I crazily had another after him. He was similar.

I even tandem fed them for a while. Not sure how I survived, tbh. You just...do?

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mrman08@reddit

This is good to know…but RIP your sleep schedule.

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Neither_Process_7847@reddit

Every parent's dream... (short, and suddenly interrupted by crying. Or by sudden terror that not crying means something awful must have happened and having to check...ah, the fond fuzzy absence of much ability to form clear memories...)

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ancientestKnollys@reddit

Some newborn babies will sleep for 5 hours uninterrupted a night. Unfortunately most people aren't so lucky.

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We had twins the second time around! One much smaller than the other and had to wake him to feed a lot to get his size up. And they were and always have been on totally different schedules. It's tough isn't it but you get it done!

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Rabbit-1989@reddit

Came here to say this too! People think they magically syncopate their feeds. NO IM SLEEPING IN 45MIN SHIFTS 🙃

I find most things about having children are just society gaslighting you enough so you have one.

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KELVALL@reddit

This is why baby books are a must read before the day arrives!

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Front_Scholar9757@reddit

Thats at least.

My son was every 45 mins at times. He was tongue tied though which didnt help... seriously exhausting.

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Particular_Plum_1458@reddit

Bet that was an unwelcome surprise 😂.

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Kabutops67@reddit

😂😂 not going to lie I love this.

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Jack_In_Black89@reddit

Until I did sex ed at school, I genuinely thought women peed out of their rectum. Hear me out: my logic was "I sit on the toilet to poop, while women sit to do both, so it must come out the same end..."

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

Don’t worry, you’re not the only one. When I was a teen, I knew a boy who had the same misgivings & thought we had to take tampons out to poop for a similar reason.

“One hole Harry” was mocked mercilessly poor thing.

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PipBin@reddit

I’ve known women who don’t understand that you don’t need to remove a menstrual cup to pee.

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

I wonder if that’s born of the women who always replace a tampon with every trip to the loo. As a big drinker of water, I pee quite often and I’d get toxic shock if I changed a tampon with every urination, so I just ensure the string stays dry.

Some women can’t deal with that idea and change it. Maybe they morphed into cup removers?

I’ve never found a cup that worked for me so I’m a little ignorant on them.

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1nkSprite@reddit

Women's anatomy also varies quite a bit. For some their urethra is almost inside their vagina. When that's the case it's pretty much impossible not to get the string wet when peeing.

So, yeah, I can understand why they'd need to change a tampon every time, and extrapolate to needing to empty their cup every time.

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

No way, I didn’t realise that. As a swimmer, I used tampons from an early age with no guidance from any older women. Toxic shock really freaked me out so I’m very wary of replacing tampons when they don’t need it.

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Sternschnuppepuppe@reddit

I’ve only ever tried one brand called rubycup. (They donate a cup to African school girls for each one sold). I can’t say, how soft/rigid it is compared to others, but it is also plunger shaped 😂 They do come in different sizes but for women that have given birth, they normally recommend the largest size, so that likely won’t solve your problem.

Maybe give discs a try 🤔 I still want to try them at some point.

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

Good shout. Thanks.

Aye, I took the largest size advice and I think it was my slightly unusual internal layout then because I was close to asking my husband for help removing it and that was NOT something I was cool about. Yeesh. He’d have been fine, I’d have live in that moment for eternity. lol.

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amazingmillipede69@reddit

Yes you're right, it's uncomfortable pulling out a dry tampon but that's basically the only issue as far as I'm aware. TSS 100% comes from leaving in a tampon for too long not from changing it too often.

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gillyc1967@reddit

That's exactly right. When it was first talked about, it seemed to be because some tampon manufacturers started making ones that could be left in longer (more absorbent materials) and that led to a sudden increase in cases of TSS.

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

Thanks for this info. Genuinely.

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Kuddkungen@reddit

Some women might need to! I love the cup as a concept, but with the way my plumbing is routed, the cup presses on my urethra constantly. Which makes it feel like I need to pee constantly, and partially blocks the piss stream. So I'm sticking with tampons.

If its any consolation, until a year ago my friend thought that men had two holes in their penis, one for urine one for semen.

One of my friends didn't pay attention or missed this class at school, because he revealed this knowledge to us at a pub when we were 17 or 18.

Needless to say it still gets an occasional mention 20 years later by the group.

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Jack_In_Black89@reddit

I'm glad I'm not the only one with thought this 😅

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blackcurrantcat@reddit

I mean it is the same end

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LynxEqual9518@reddit

Do you mean area rather than "same end"?

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ICantBelieveItsNotEC@reddit

She's still generally rated as the most popular postwar PM whenever there's a poll.

The mining industry employed about 1% of all UK employees in the 70s. Miners were a tiny but incredibly concentrated and vocal community. That's kind of why many people look back fondly on Thatcher tbh - it's utterly insane that 1% of employees were able to essentially hold the entire country hostage before her.

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shawdowmen@reddit

Revisionist pish.

What's your source for that 1%? Even if it is 1% as you claim, there were entire communities built around particular industries decimated without any thought or consideration to alternative employment or support.

People hated her for other policies too, such as the poll tax.

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This tells you how many people worked in mining and quarrying in 1980s https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/timeseries/jwr6/lms

This one tells you number of people in employment in 1980s https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/timeseries/mgrz/lms

AuroraDF@reddit

I'm not sure why you're making this point to me.

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Jonny_rhodes@reddit

Well known public figure that you thought everybody hated for very well known public information that in fact some people like despite the awful things they’ve done ?

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AuroraDF@reddit

Mmm. I I'm no fan of Thatcher, but I'm not sure I'd put her in the same category as Saville, and nor would I put people who respect her in the same category as people defending Saville.

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Jonny_rhodes@reddit

So defending Savile is worse ?
In that case it’s answering the original question

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AuroraDF@reddit

Except in that case the thing we learned later in life is that Saville was a paedophile and a necrophiliac, not just a creepy guy.

Although maybe that depends how old you are.

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Jonny_rhodes@reddit

Yeah defending him 14 years after while knowing the stuff he’s done is a level of ignorance I cannot fathom
Also I only learned of thatchers doings in my early 20’s as it was all before I was born

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Lyscart@reddit

It wasn't just mining. She and her cronies were more than happy to let a city and a region die.

"Sir Geoffrey was effectively advocating [...] autotomy – the conscious abandonment of a damaged or diseased part of the body politic in order to preserve the healthy remainder."

Large swathes of industrial UK were of no longer profitable and so of no interest to the Thatcher government, so she was more than happy to leave them behind.

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SoggyWotsits@reddit

I think that’s surprisingly common these days, due to the internet and the echo chambers that people comfort themselves in. When you can pick the forum of your choice and it’s filled with likeminded people, it’s easy to forget that there are a lot of others who have very different views.

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AuroraDF@reddit

I think I find the opposite for me personally, having lived before social media, and after. I was so into twitter (not now) and honestly I learned things about the world, and other cultures, and real people's habits and worries and needs etc because I was surrounded by people on twitter who weren't like me.

OkPosition20@reddit

I can definitely identify with this one coming from a northern working class home.

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apple_kicks@reddit

Police loved her because they got their mortgage paid off with overtime beating up miners. People got rewarded for following her inhumanity

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himit@reddit

My grandparents were armed forces. I remember being very little (3 or 4?) and Thatcher came to a park near my house, and my grandma being very excited and took me to meet her. All I remember is they sent up a tent thing.

chartupdate@reddit

Can you smell gas?

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E420CDI@reddit

But Americans apparently don’t ever “have a think”

chartupdate@reddit

Mavis Beacon wasn't a real typing tutor either.

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DameKumquat@reddit

Betty Crocker was never a real person either, despite her photo on her cookbooks and cake mixes.

Carolyne Keene, Franklin W Dixon and many other teen authors were actually committees.

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FizzyLaces91@reddit

🤣🤣

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JennyW93@reddit

I had a teacher in primary school who apparently only discovered sea horses are real, and not mythical like unicorns, on our school trip to an aquarium.

It began to spray it's scent on everyone at the fence. Like a pressure hose, this stinky bum juice hit children and adults alike before they could fully understand what was going on.

My dad and I, back from the casual horror unfolding, couldn't help ourselves. We burst out laughing. Minutes later the rest of the family come back. Toddler is screaming, my sister is disgusted and twitchy and talking at light speed, and my mother was already reaching for her box of Benson and Hedges as if the smoke would remove the scent of Eau du Tigre Arse.

Not going to lie, I still feel smug that I avoided that particular moment of indignity.

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My wife (who's a PhD) spent months feeding our dog the raisins from her granola that she didn't want, before either of us clocked on to them being poisonous to them. He's a big boy so hopefully it didn't harm him (it was a few years ago and he's still in good health).

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TurbulentLeg1084@reddit

Oh, TIL!!

Nope. Read the article below:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-59408339

By your reasoning the headline doesn't make any sense.

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Nice-Rack-XxX@reddit

Wrong. The dictionary disagrees with you: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/shedload

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True-Register-9403@reddit

I'm not disagreeing that shed load can mean "lots" (although I maintain that this is an informal use resulting from its original meaning).

What I'm disagreeing with is your assertion that that is the only meaning.

Shed is both a verb and a noun: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/shed

Load: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/load

So shed load literally means something carried that has now fallen.

The BBC article uses it in this form, and the BBC are known to explicity consider the meaning and usage of words and phrases:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsstyleguide/

I'm quite happy for you to continue being confidently wrong if you wish though.

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Nice-Rack-XxX@reddit

Wrong again. They’re two completely unrelated things.

When referring to a lot of something, it’s a single word, not two: shedload.

When referring to the lorry event it’s two separate words, because verb + noun.

So OP’s gone all his life correctly using the term “shedload” to mean a lot of. Then thought he was wrong because he realised that a word combination of “shed load” also exists.

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True-Register-9403@reddit

The more you argue this the worse it gets...

I am the OP and I'm my initial post I explained how I'd never realised that there were two different meanings for the homophone shed load/shedload. At no point did I think I was using it wrong (I wasn't) I just realised there was another meaning that could be used.

Your now arguing that shed load means something that fell off a lorry (which was what I said) and contradicting your initial comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/s/2e12OnaCSG

Lobster? 10 legs of which 6 have claws. The front two are big enough yo usually be counted as arms.

Octopus? 8 limbs, either considered all arms or 6 arms, 2 legs.

One would hope that most people who collect skulls would either be going out to find animals that have already died, or have hunting licences and are doing so responsibly. We also have a lot of deer in parks where they do have to cull them from time to time, like Richmond. Wouldn't be surprised if they sell the carcasses afterwards. There are also still enough places that sell venison that there should be a fairly plentiful supply of inedible carcass remains that the butchers might sell on if there's a market for them.

My daughter was ASTOUNDED when we saw bats flying up and down a river under a bridge. It was like seeing a field of unicorns because she thought they were part of Halloween make believe.

She was very young but it was funny. I’d been so busy assuring her that Halloween is about made up creatures, I’d never stopped to think she’d categorise bats in with vampires, mummy’s etc.

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Qabbalah@reddit

Next up, introduce her to spiders.

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

Spiders you see in house, during the day. But bats are only out after what had been her bedtime then. It wasn’t particularly daft when you think about how bats are all over Halloween stuff but then not hardly ever featured in other kids stuff.

I immediately verified that werewolves are made up but wolves are real.

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Qabbalah@reddit

Frequent-You369@reddit

Originally - say, for the first few hundred years that golf was played - there were no fairways or greens, you simply dropped the ball on the ground and hit it towards the hole. This kinda explains why the whole hole is called the 'hole'.

In fact, many of the terms used in golf to this day originate from the Old Course at St. Andrews. For example, the Old Course originally had only 11 holes - nothing but holes in the ground; players played them heading out from the accepted starting point, then turned and played the same holes back in. Hence we still refer to playing the 'out' and 'in' halves of a course, even if that course's holes go in all sorts of directions. We also still refer to 'the turn' as the halfway point.

At some point, after greens came into existence, it was decided that the Old Course should have pairs of holes on each green so that golfers could play from both directions at the same time (the course was getting crowded). To distinguish which hole was which, the outward holes had poles with, I think, yellow feathers, and the inward holes had red feathers. It's still common to find yellow flags and red flags on golf courses today. (Players used to pick the ball out of the hole, drop it right there, and hit towards the next hole. Tees were a later addition to protect the greens - and probably to speed up play by getting those golfers out of the way of incoming balls.)

It was then decided to merge two holes into one, and then some time later they repeated this, which meant that the Old Course then had 9 holes in each direction. This has been repeated on golf courses across the world ever since.

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Amazing_Goal_8003@reddit

No interest in golf whatsoever but I’m flabberghasted. Excellent bit of trivia.

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Weird-Knee-3464@reddit

it's not really trivia

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Fizzy_Can_Of_Vimto@reddit

The phrase famous holes just conjures up images of some 80s celebrity upskirt magazine

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The hole will always be on the "green" - but that bit itself can be massive, so they move the hole around it, could be on the left then on the right, or nearer the middle etc.

You are allowed to vacuum your kitchen. Growing up, cleaning the kitchen was a big thing. First you had to clean down the surfaces, then you had to sweep the floor, then you mopped the floor. Then waited 4 hours for it to dry. The kitchen was out of bounds (even to water) for 6 hours.

ibullybillionaires@reddit

He also though seahorses were the size of horses.

Well, duh!

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joereadsstuff@reddit

When I was a kid and English wasn’t my primary language, I thought it was “Whoa! What is it good for?”, and that “god-fearing” meant that you didn’t like god, since why would you like something that you fear.

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LeftyTimStoutheart@reddit

That Scampi is a type of lobster

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Agitated_Display7573@reddit

What? They’re not prawns?

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mooongate@reddit

i was shocked by this so had to look it up but apparently the dish scampi can be made of shrimp/prawns or langoustine. or sometimes reformed with fish added.

i did not know scampi could be made of langoustine, i did not know the langoustine was also called the scampi and that the dish was named for it, and i did not know that the dish scampi is not necessarily the breaded chipshop scampi we have here and is usually just like sautéed.

im especially glad i learned that last one. i'd be well pissed off if i ordered scampi and just got sauteed prawns. i mean i'd still eat it and enjoy it but it's just a whole different mindset

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LeftyTimStoutheart@reddit

That's what I'd always kinda assumed but nope.

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GuiltyCredit@reddit

I used to think it was just like fish nuggets and was stunned they were wee crustaceans. However, Monkfish chunks were also used historically as a cheaper substitute but still called scampi.

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SmartaHari@reddit

Just yesterday I learnt that I’ve been saying the Poke bit of Poke Bowl wrong. I just assumed it was a one syllable thang and it was all about poking your chopsticks in the bowl. I am a moron.

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

For anyone else that’s unsure :

A poke bowl (pronounced poh-kay) is a traditional Hawaiian dish that typically features diced raw fish—most commonly tuna or salmon—marinated in soy sauce and sesame oil and served over a bed of rice with various toppings.

same with lizards. Yes there are lizards in Britain, not just in the Mediterranean countries.

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lindsaychild@reddit

We found a slow worm at the park a couple of weeks ago, used to find them all the time as a kid but hadn't seen one in ages. Sorry the picture is crap :)

What might really give you pause is that they moult outside of their breeding season. They go out to sea and become quite solitary. They will spend up to 8 months away from land.

I blame this book cover

I’m into taxidermy and for about 6 years I had a taxidermy puffin in a beautiful glass cloche until I ran into some hard times and had to sell it (about 5 years ago).

And yet, I read your comment and thought ‘what are you talking about, they’re massive’ despite having spent 6 years with that bloody bird in my eyeline and never actually realising they are indeed fucking tiny.

Honestly what a hernia is.

I was always under the impression it was a pulled muscle, or some sort of impact Injury because you hear about a "herniated disc"

I was very shocked to learn it's your INTESTINE moving out of place.

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No_Actuary9100@reddit

That the large white screens at the boundary of cricket pitches are not to stop folks being hit by the ball.

When I was very young and couldn't read the words on the OHP in the school hall I thought the words to "Lord of the dance" were "dance then wherever you may be, I am the lord of the dance settee" and I pictured a group of people in someone's living room dancing around with Jesus dancing on the settee.

Can't remember how old I was before I realised that was wrong, probably when I could actually read the words in a hymn book.

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Sad_Spread_9883@reddit

We mine Gold and silver in the UK and even pan for gold in Scotland.

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fourlegsfaster@reddit

A serious answer is that more of us are urban these days, there are fewer snakes in the countryside. It's sad that some children in primary school aren't being taught about British wildlife. Did you know that rabbits are technically not a native animal?

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PipBin@reddit

I’ve found it hard to find resources for teaching children about British wildlife. Most picture books feature bears or other non native animals and it’s hard to get toys of British wildlife.

When I showed my class a picture of a badger they thought it was a skunk.

I’m a teacher and I’ve named the tables in my class after the wildlife in the local area.

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SaltyLilSelkie@reddit

Animals of farthing wood was my education as a kid. Just make sure you show them pictures of real animals alongside the books because I had no idea how tiny weasels really are until I saw one in real life!

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maccharliedennisdee@reddit

Or the children of cherry tree farm! I read that as a kid and it taught me so much about uk wildlife, it's a lovely children's book

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rdu3y6@reddit

Foxes are a lot smaller than you expect them to be as well.

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DameKumquat@reddit

Foxes are bigger than I always expected, possibly that fried chicken diet.

Most_Moose_2637@reddit

See this is something I feel was missed in the debate about replacing Winston Churchill with a badger. Our native wildlife is really important!

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PipBin@reddit

In fairness children almost never see cash either

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This one took me too long, and watching Shrek on repeat with my daughter for a full week...

the mob at the beginning of the film that were after shrek, weren't just after him cause he's an ogre... they are after him because he is a fairy tale creature and they'd get a reward for his capture.

they would also capture him, only for him to be placed back in his own swamp with the other creatures, which would make his capture irrelevant but the film could still take the same course

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ThunderChild247@reddit

That the “Honk if you love …” bumper stickers are not literal invitations to signal your mutual enjoyment of something with other drivers.

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noradosmith@reddit

I only realised this about a month ago when I saw a video from an autistic guy talking about common misunderstandings.

Bad_UsernameJoke94@reddit

Wait, they're not? I assumed (Granted I don't drive) that they were!

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undercovergloss@reddit

I didn’t know reindeers were real animals

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In the days before throwaway plastic and even manufactured paper ones... A straw was (dare I even say literally?) an actual piece of straw.

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DrClarkeMontgomery@reddit

I always thought the saying was a "hare's breath" rather than a "hair's bredth" until my wife corrected me one day.

I thought it made sense as a breath from a small prey animal must be very short as they are always on edge for predators, so I got by for 30 years not being corrected as I was using it in the correct context and it sounds kind of similar to the correct phrase.

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TurbulentLeg1084@reddit

“Mind your Ps and Qs”… the Qs are “thanK U”

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Nw5gooner@reddit

I can see this happening, especially if you went karting as a kid and then got straight into an automatic car.

Most of us older generation types learned in manual cars and switched to automatic at some point but they're so much more common these days I bet you're not alone.

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goddesscleo94@reddit

Boys have nipples because they grow before their x and Y chromosomes have been established and every embryo starts as a girl so they develop.

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Gloomy_Bonus_2215@reddit

The life cycle of a dandelion.

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Draw_the_Stars@reddit

Have you heard of Slow-worms? They look like snakes and can be found in the UK - my parents have found loads whilst cleaning their pond in the past

I thought cats were female dogs when I was little

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HungryFinding7089@reddit

It's a hangover from when nouns had gender like in French and German. You see it in old books that cats are referred to as she or her, a very old turn of phrase.

My dad was 80 years old, father of one, grandfather of 5, and great grandfather of 4.

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Unicronium@reddit

Wow! I didn't know this! 🤯

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anthriani@reddit

I feel like I have so many questions, but I don't know what they are

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boroxine@reddit

And the figure dash is different again, right?

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AvidCoco@reddit

I actually don’t know about that one!

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Unhappy-Refuse-3682@reddit

This is one of those things that gets conflated and confused a lot, and I suspect a lot of sources about it are wrong. The em-dash is one em wide, and there are lots of sources claiming historically that the em (and em quad) were defined in terms of the letter M, but there are also lots of [historical] sources using different measurements.

Hear me out…I assumed it was a diss based on the awful haircut trend of curtains. I’d mainly heard the phrase in Stone Roses Elizabeth My Dear and unknowingly decided that the phrase meant “these are going to look so bad Lizzie, you’re done for socially”.

impossiblejane@reddit

You wouldn't order a "fried Sunnyside down". You just order a Sunnyside down.

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b0dyr0ck2006@reddit

To be fair, this is r/AskUK. People usually just ask for a fried egg, over the many years as a chef in my younger days it was very rare to be asked for a sunnyside down.

gogosomewhere@reddit

This is awesome. Thank you

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KibbleCrashout@reddit

i thought spaghetti junction was in italy 😞

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E420CDI@reddit

Penne for the guy?

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SarahHamstera@reddit

Buongiorno from Birmingham sciocchino.

I live 10 mins away from it and had no idea that it has two canals, a river and a railway passing through it.

mightlisten@reddit

😂

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cloudswalking@reddit

To be fair all the illustrations show badger at least as double the size of mole

Errm.. We do. Wired doorbells are the minority as far as new doorbells go.

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cognitiveglitch@reddit

Not sure I believe that. Otherwise you could ring the bell on the bus nearby. And they would need batteries changing.

Someone was pulling your leg.

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HarketSavoy@reddit

Hang on, what?!!!

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AdThat328@reddit

I was still a kid when I found out, but too old for it...

WrongExplanation1065@reddit

In year 6 I was called out and shamed by my teacher and class when I said that they don't grow on trees and on top of a stalk in a bush.

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ForwardImagination71@reddit

They say kids can be cruel, but some teachers are bloody horrible.

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Astropoppet@reddit

Yeah, a growing pineapple looks like a a lil person with a crown

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I’m totally with you. Even though this revelation happened to me years ago, it still sits awkwardly in my head like the spelling of colonel being pronounced “cur-nal”. I know it’s true but I have to remember it every single time like a patch update. Hahha

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heroics-delta8s@reddit

I only knew it wasn’t what you might think it was, even then I was struck by it.

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rdu3y6@reddit

They grow in big bunches curving upwards like fingers.

Astropoppet@reddit

That the "electric" or "clicky" lighter creates a spark by compressing a sliver of quartz

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aimeetozer@reddit

Did you know we have lizards too?

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Training-Trifle-2572@reddit

Also legless ones that look like tiny snakes...

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ShortDevelopment905@reddit

I've said this one before and have been told 'that's impossible' and that I was lying. But it really happened to me likely as I grew up in an abusive home where neglect was normal.

I didn't know the foreskin was supposed to retract until well into my twenties. I had been with girls at 16, 19 and 22 and thought they were all trying to hurt me. I just didn't get it.

Specifically they are dried red grapes.

Black grapes make currants. White grapes make sultanas.

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-pixie-ninja-@reddit

Wait what I thought currants were dried blackcurrants!

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chartupdate@reddit

Every day is a school day.

Frantastic79@reddit

I had a friend who thought the phrase was "waste, not want." She thought it meant you should waste things instead of wanting them.

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emchocolat@reddit

You're a hilarious one, at any rate. That's high praise.

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What does it mean though? I always look at that slogan with absolute bafflement!

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Complex_Excuse490@reddit

I took it to mean that if they become aware of the same product being sold for cheaper elsewhere then they'd reduce their price to that amount or lower, a bit like a price match.

Within the Donald Duck universe, the clan is related to the American Duck family through the marriage of Hortense McDuck and Quackmore Duck, Donald and Della Duck's parents, giving both of them partial Scottish ancestry.

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abyssal-isopod86@reddit

How tf do different species of birds that aren't related have off spring with each other?

That's just awesome.

Who even made that?!

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

I got it on wiki & there is a Family tree by Carl Bark & one by Don Rosa

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bunnyflowerpink@reddit

Hold on. What about Daisy Duck ?!

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Jemima_puddledook678@reddit

Fortunately, she isn’t related. Otherwise their relationship would be a bit weird.

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cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit

Della is Donald twin sister & mother of the triplets. Daisy isn’t on the family tree but she is Donald long term girlfriend.

Cloughiepig@reddit

TIL there are no moles in Ireland

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-myeyeshaveseenyou-@reddit

We also don’t have weasels, polecats and snakes. Just looked up why and it’s apparently due to Ireland being isolated by the last ice age before the uk was.

solar1ze@reddit

I used to think that generic soap killed germs.

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LordGeni@reddit

You were right. It's also more effective at it than sanitiser.

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solar1ze@reddit

Not if it’s not antibacterial.

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togtogtog@reddit

It breaks apart their lipid membranes and kills them.

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LordGeni@reddit

No. Soap destroys cell walls of bacteria and viruses.

Interesting-Echo-986@reddit

We live with the illusion of free will.

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Hanathepanda@reddit

My dad was about 45 when I told him there are no moles in Ireland. He had asked what the mounds of earth were that were dotted around my uni campus. He hadn't seen molehills before, because... no moles in Ireland. Told him not to feel too bad though, Homebase and B&Q both tried to sell mole repellent here.

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togtogtog@reddit

Homebase and B&Q both tried to sell mole repellent here.

Well, it was 100% effective.

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pinklewickers@reddit

I'm not sure how I feel about this.

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Tonybeetswannabe@reddit

Don’t stick a knife into a toaster to get your toast out

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Next-Reality-9032@reddit

Health really is wealth, I don’t think it’s possible to fully comprehend how true this until you get really sick, at 35 I was diagnosed with cancer a couple of years ago and it just made all these cliches you hear older people say ring so true

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ibullybillionaires@reddit

I also recently learned the pronounciation of the word awry.
Another word I've been pronouncing incorrectly was albeit. I knew what it meant but somehow just assumed how it should be pronounced. Only a month or so ago I heard the word in a youtube video with correct (albeit Canadian) pronounciation. In my defense: I'm German and 90 percent of my English vocab comes from reading.

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Intrepid-Hornet@reddit

Same, and I read this backwards!

Even though I must have heard people pronounce it a-wry, that knowledge immediately abandoned me, and I started going 'damn it, another one? Okay memorise this so you don't sound like a twat the next time you say it' so I'm glad I reread your comment before I got too far in. And also that no one was in the room for me whispering 'orry' to myself.

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Jumpy-Jello-@reddit

One day I'm going to slip up and say Illinois out loud the way I do in my head.

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Dizmondmon@reddit

Ee-lee-nwahh?

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The numbers are neither minutes or temperature, but the electrical resistance it takes to charge the capacitors.

That’s why it’s pops up quicker for the second round of toast put in straight after. As the capacitors are still partially charged.

It isn’t! They do it sometimes to stretch. I used to have one as a pet :) he was very smart.

It isn’t nice for them to do it out of water as they can get air trapped, then they float and are vulnerable.

In my twenties I discovered that seasons were due to the earths tilt in relation to the sun meaning hemispheres vary in proximity at either end of year.

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LordGeni@reddit

The entire earth is closer or farther away from the sun at different times of year due to the elliptical orbit.

Which is why the summers in australia can be so dangerous. Not only are they tilted to get more direct sunlight, they are approx 3 million miles closer to the sun at that point of the orbit.

Getting the lyrics wrong in old songs.

‘Club Tropicana drinks are free, fun and sunshine ‘dancing up for everyone’. When it’s always been ‘there’s enough for everyone.

True by Spandau Ballet ‘I know this munchies True’.

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wasdice@reddit

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly The girl with colitis goes by

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W51976@reddit

lol

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ItAintNoUse@reddit

Not me, but my mum only learned that "approximately" does not mean "exactly" (as she had mistakenly thought) when she was in her late fifties.

We had an argument because I was asking her "approximately" what time something would happen and to which she became increasingly agitated saying that she didn't know. I said "I don't see what the issue is I just want an estimate" to which she replied "but you said approximately!"

AbhorrantApparition@reddit

On the snakes thing I've lived in the countryside my entire life and spent 6 ish years in the woods.

I've seen 2

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BiteSnap@reddit

My 71 year old mate (after having to have a catheter fitted for an op) has only just realised that her clit and urethra are two different things

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Bobjob_The3rd@reddit

25 years old at a poker night with the boys. That night I finally learned that tigers and lions weren't male and female versions of the same species.

I swore they were having me on, they swore I was having them on.

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NothingIsReal6@reddit

I thought Narwhals were fictional until I was about 23

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Mickleborough@reddit

Not me, but a well-known BBC weatherman didn’t realise, until his mid-30s, that lambs were baby sheep.

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DarthScabies@reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/s/WOe0nmzLPd

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BastardsCryinInnit@reddit

Cos you can go your whole life in the UK without seeing a snake, or knowing anyone who has seen a snake.*

Im same age from the uk and didnt know there were wild snakes. Ive seen a snake come into my garden betore but that was my neighbours pet who got loose. And of course in zoos.

Guess i now have a new research topic to delve into.

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