Things you didn't know that seemed so obvious once you found out..

[Vicky.]

Inspired by my discovery last night.

After making steak I was doing the dishes as you do. The pan was all charcoally and weird, as it usually is. So. I reached for the pack of brillopads my mother got me when I got this place. I was not concentrating and was kind of doing this on autopilot and managed to clean the pan without taking any of the nonestick stuff off it. And with no effort either. And was baffled.

Turns out, I have been scrubbing like hell, as if using sandpaper thinking this would make it work better, when all it does is make it harder to clean and breaks your pans. I have been getting through so so many frying pans because of this issue and just kind of convinced myself that brillopads were crap but dishcloths are no good and also get killed by pans.

So yeah. Light touch with brillopads is what you are meant to do it seems. I cannot understand how I thought it was normal to have a thing that 'helps' you do the dishes but also destroys the dishes, and never questioned this and why anyone would buy such an item if it destroys everything it touches?!

TLDR; I learnt how to correctly use a brillopad. And feel a pleb.

[michael21]

I better then you and you know it

[Niamh.]

Oh that the hole on Saucepans are for hold the wooden spoon (or whatever utensil) so you don't have to lay it down on something

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/nintchdbpict000271062075.jpg?w=620

****Not my Kitchen or Saucepan in picture :laugh:

[Vicky.]

Oh that the hole on Saucepans are for hold the wooden spoon (or whatever utensil) so you don't have to lay it down on something

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/nintchdbpict000271062075.jpg?w=620

****Not my Kitchen or Saucepan in picture :laugh:

What on earth..apparently the hole on the top of chopping boards is to shove the stuff through aswell, so it doesnt go everywhere (though I dont use them so thats useless to me, might help others though)

Life would be so easy if we already knew all of this. I wonder how proper adults feel sometimes :laugh:

[michael21]

Oh as your in the same thread I am looking forward to your meet up will you both get drunk

[Glenn.]

Inspired by my discovery last night.

After making steak I was doing the dishes as you do. The pan was all charcoally and weird, as it usually is. So. I reached for the pack of brillopads my mother got me when I got this place. I was not concentrating and was kind of doing this on autopilot and managed to clean the pan without taking any of the nonestick stuff off it. And with no effort either. And was baffled.

Turns out, I have been scrubbing like hell, as if using sandpaper thinking this would make it work better, when all it does is make it harder to clean and breaks your pans. I have been getting through so so many frying pans because of this issue and just kind of convinced myself that brillopads were crap but dishcloths are no good and also get killed by pans.

So yeah. Light touch with brillopads is what you are meant to do it seems. I cannot understand how I thought it was normal to have a thing that 'helps' you do the dishes but also destroys the dishes, and never questioned this and why anyone would buy such an item if it destroys everything it touches?!

TLDR; I learnt how to correctly use a brillopad. And feel a pleb.

The rough side of a sponge would do the same if used in the same way. The thought of using a Brillo pad to clean a frying pan gave me an anxiety attack.

[Niamh.]

What on earth..apparently the hole on the top of chopping boards is to shove the stuff through aswell, so it doesnt go everywhere (though I dont use them so thats useless to me, might help others though)

Life would be so easy if we already knew all of this. I wonder how proper adults feel sometimes :laugh:

My chopping board doesn't have any hole in it

[michael21]

My chopping board doesn't have any hole in it

Charlotte dose

[Vicky.]

The rough side of a sponge would do the same if used in the same way. The thought of using a Brillo pad to clean a frying pan gave me an anxiety attack.

That seems wrong in some really weird way that I can't explain :suspect:

Also, to try and explain the chopping board thing further as I realise my wording is not the best, I just tried searching this ffs. My google search history would get me sectioned I think if anyone looked too closely..

[Vicky.]

My chopping board doesn't have any hole in it

:bored:

Charlotte dose


:bored: :bored:

[Niamh.]

:bored:




:bored: :bored:

:laugh:

[michael21]

Charlotte has 3 sizes all with holes in I am not sure what the holes are for

Thinking about it not the frist time I had the problem :bawling:

[Cherie]

why is it Charlottes chopping board :suspect:

[Cherie]

What on earth..apparently the hole on the top of chopping boards is to shove the stuff through aswell, so it doesnt go everywhere (though I dont use them so thats useless to me, might help others though)

Life would be so easy if we already knew all of this. I wonder how proper adults feel sometimes :laugh:

I never knew that, what are spoon holders for them, a complete waste :fist:

[Niamh.]

why is it Charlottes chopping board :suspect:

Unless Charlotte is a Chef then Michael better change his attitude quick smart :nono:

[michael21]

It's time like theses that I relase I am tge only male in this thread

[michael21]

why is it Charlottes chopping board :suspect:

I got them as in I paid for them but there were a birthday present so technically there Charlotte

[Vicky.]

I cannot imagine the rage I would feel if I was given a chopping board as a birthday present

[michael21]

I cannot imagine the rage I would feel if I was given a chopping board as a birthday present

I was joking :bday:

[Niamh.]

It's time like theses that I relase I am tge only male in this thread

Poor Glenn :nono:

[Vicky.]

He may be glad to not be put in the same category as michael, tbf. Dont speak for him niamh :fist:

[Dogeatdog]

When you turn the ring round on your can of drink so it holds the straw for you.

https://i.ibb.co/qB0Xjv0/A0-C7878-A-BA5-B-43-A4-8-C96-297792-CAC75-A.jpg

[user104658]

You used a Brillopad on a non-stick frying pan?? Vicky this is verging on some sort of sociopathy :worry:.

[Vicky.]

You used a Brillopad on a non-stick frying pan?? Vicky this is verging on some sort of sociopathy :worry:.

I genuinely believed that 'easier cleaning' only happened if you sacrificed your pan every few months ffs. I feel such a twat. Never once questioned it.

[Cherie]

When you turn the ring round on your can of drink so it holds the straw for you.

https://i.ibb.co/qB0Xjv0/A0-C7878-A-BA5-B-43-A4-8-C96-297792-CAC75-A.jpg

Mind blown

this is in the same league as when Niamh showed us how to know which side the petrol cap was on the car :omgno:

[Vicky.]

Mind blown

this is in the same league as when Niamh showed us how to know which side the petrol cap was on the car :omgno:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.memesmonkey.com%2Fimages%2Fme mesmonkey%2F48%2F48eddf178e222ebc402fe559dfb5d8ce. jpeg&f=1&nofb=1

[MTVN]

Mind blown

this is in the same league as when Niamh showed us how to know which side the petrol cap was on the car :omgno:

Ha that was the first thing I thought of seeing this thread

[Cherie]

Ha that was the first thing I thought of seeing this thread

Great minds :hee:

[Cherie]

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.memesmonkey.com%2Fimages%2Fme mesmonkey%2F48%2F48eddf178e222ebc402fe559dfb5d8ce. jpeg&f=1&nofb=1

Niamh show Vicky please

[michael21]

Poor Glenn :nono:

My bad :hehe:

[michael21]

Borris Johnson has no comb

[Vicky.]

Borris Johnson has no comb

Thats surely obvious to everyone who has eyeballs.

That work.

Properly.

[michael21]

Thats surely obvious to everyone who has eyeballs.

That work.

Properly.

I forgot the question :fist:

[michael21]

Vicky sarcastic

[Vicky.]

I forgot the question :fist:

Your memory seems poor. Have you ever accidentally eaten an entire cake as you forgot you ate some?

https://www.rareddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/gkpg2a/aita_for_accidentally_eating_an_entire_cake_that/

:D

[michael21]

Your memory seems poor. Have you ever accidentally eaten an entire cake as you forgot you ate some?

https://www.rareddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/gkpg2a/aita_for_accidentally_eating_an_entire_cake_that/

:D

Well I just posted in my cooker type thread that Charlotte bake a cake today

[Niamh.]

Mind blown

this is in the same league as when Niamh showed us how to know which side the petrol cap was on the car :omgno:

Ha that was the first thing I thought of seeing this thread

You're welcome :douf:

[Niamh.]

Niamh show Vicky please

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/BzMQuJAeiYlwijuMGDqp7Lam6REmsPbpD_TEi3DqOymQylAuU7 2AYPO4gKmnL90orae8_dhpt3Nhbn19E5BKnZEWftK31BBE-_bloMrAN7KkZX4bNSUGurFIYLutbJO-5w

[Vicky.]

What on earth..

[michael21]

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/BzMQuJAeiYlwijuMGDqp7Lam6REmsPbpD_TEi3DqOymQylAuU7 2AYPO4gKmnL90orae8_dhpt3Nhbn19E5BKnZEWftK31BBE-_bloMrAN7KkZX4bNSUGurFIYLutbJO-5w

That really helpful :cheer2:

[Dogeatdog]

What on earth..

I love how you’re just amazed as everyone else was when we found out :laugh:

https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=368223&highlight=fuel+cap

[Crimson Dynamo]

I remember being mindblown when someone told me that the last really thick cylinder shaped bit of the toilet roll you don't have to use, it's just to wrap around
The years I struggled to flatten it out etc

I

[Vicky.]

I remember being mindblown when someone told me that the last really thick cylinder shaped bit of the toilet roll you don't have to use, it's just to wrap around
The years I struggled to flatten it out etc

I

This made me laugh way more than it should have :laugh2:

[Vicky.]

I love how you’re just amazed as everyone else was when we found out :laugh:

https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=368223&highlight=fuel+cap

Well all hail niamh the all knowing jedi eh :eek:

I cant believe this exists. I should have told my dad before he left mine just now. In the hope he would buy a car to check, or in excitement at the new information. As he currently does not have one and its so inconvenient for everyone but him :laugh:

[Beso]

Poor Glenn :nono:

:joker:

[Niamh.]

Well all hail niamh the all knowing jedi eh :eek:

I cant believe this exists. I should have told my dad before he left mine just now. In the hope he would buy a car to check, or in excitement at the new information. As he currently does not have one and its so inconvenient for everyone but him :laugh:

https://c.tenor.com/zCJeYYjW-E4AAAAC/baby-yoda.gif

[Beso]

I used to be afraid of Virginia Wolfe, until I saw the film.

I ended up shouting nobody at the screen.

[Withano]

I only learnt that cheesecake was made out of cheese two years ago. I was furious that nobody told me sooner. It’s delicious.

[LaLaLand]

One I found out recently that took me by surprise…

Woolly Mammoths were still very much alive and roaming the earth when the Ancient Egyptians were building the Pyramids.

“In fact, the Great Pyramid of Giza had existed for 1,000 years by the time the last woolly mammoth died.” :omgno:

[Vicky.]

I only learnt that cheesecake was made out of cheese two years ago. I was furious that nobody told me sooner. It’s delicious.

What..I was always told that despite the name, they were not made of cheese. So wondered why the **** they were called cheesecake. Same with carrot cake.
One I found out recently that took me by surprise…

Woolly Mammoths were still very much alive and roaming the earth when the Ancient Egyptians were building the Pyramids.

“In fact, the Great Pyramid of Giza had existed for 1,000 years by the time the last woolly mammoth died.” :omgno:

My brain makes me now imagine woolly mammoths trudging through a desert in Egypt which is a bit of a weird one :D

[Zizu]

The word NEWS comes from

North
East
West
South


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

[Zizu]

Who knew that tongue butties were sandwiches with actual TONGUE !!

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211021/2ef2af533acd86fed16682376705dafc.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211021/488e9c5391b22552e0c78154886ae14b.jpg


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

[Vicky.]

The word NEWS comes from

North
East
West
South


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

:eek: this seems logical now..

Who knew that tongue butties were sandwiches with actual TONGUE !!

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211021/2ef2af533acd86fed16682376705dafc.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211021/488e9c5391b22552e0c78154886ae14b.jpg


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
I would expect something labelled tongue to be tongue really. What did you think it was?! :D

[Niamh.]

I only learnt that cheesecake was made out of cheese two years ago. I was furious that nobody told me sooner. It’s delicious.

I mean it's literally in the name :laugh2:

[Niamh.]

The word NEWS comes from

North
East
West
South


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

No it doesn't, that's one of those fake FB claims


https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/sep/18/facebook-posts/no-newspaper-isnt-acronym-north-east-west-south-pa/

[Niamh.]

What..I was always told that despite the name, they were not made of cheese. So wondered why the **** they were called cheesecake. Same with carrot cake.


My brain makes me now imagine woolly mammoths trudging through a desert in Egypt which is a bit of a weird one :D

carrot cake has carrot in it :laugh:

[Vicky.]

https://i.imgflip.com/5r9miz.jpg

[GoldHeart]

I mean it's literally in the name :laugh2:

Yeah how can they not know Lol :rolleyes:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Ever wondered why the alphabet is called the alphabet?

[Crimson Dynamo]

The division symbol ÷ is just a fraction. The two dots represent numbers

[Zizu]

No it doesn't, that's one of those fake FB claims


https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/sep/18/facebook-posts/no-newspaper-isnt-acronym-north-east-west-south-pa/


Mmmmmm..

Several critics have argued that whilst PolitiFact’s style of “fact-checking” purports to adjudicate whether a particular statement is factually true or false it instead launders biased opinion analysis by making non-factual interpretive and judgment calls


Either way .. I rather like the idea .

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

[Niamh.]

Mmmmmm..

Several critics have argued that whilst PolitiFact’s style of “fact-checking” purports to adjudicate whether a particular statement is factually true or false it instead launders biased opinion analysis by making non-factual interpretive and judgment calls


Either way .. I rather like the idea .

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Etymology
The English word "news" developed in the 14th century as a special use of the plural form of "new". In Middle English, the equivalent word was newes, like the French nouvelles and the German Neues. Similar developments are found in the Slavic languages – namely the Czech and Slovak noviny (from nový, "new"), the cognate Polish nowiny, the Bulgarian novini, and Russian novosti – and in the Celtic languages: the Welsh newyddion (from newydd) and the Cornish nowodhow (from nowydh).[1][2]

The beliefs that "news" is derived from an acronym of the phrase “Notable Events, Weather, and Sports”, or that it is formed from the first letters of the compass (North, East, West, South) are incorrect.[3]

Jessica Garretson Finch is credited with coining the phrase "current events" while teaching at Barnard College in the 1890s.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News

[Zizu]

Etymology
The English word "news" developed in the 14th century as a special use of the plural form of "new". In Middle English, the equivalent word was newes, like the French nouvelles and the German Neues. Similar developments are found in the Slavic languages – namely the Czech and Slovak noviny (from nový, "new"), the cognate Polish nowiny, the Bulgarian novini, and Russian novosti – and in the Celtic languages: the Welsh newyddion (from newydd) and the Cornish nowodhow (from nowydh).[1][2]

The beliefs that "news" is derived from an acronym of the phrase “Notable Events, Weather, and Sports”, or that it is formed from the first letters of the compass (North, East, West, South) are incorrect.[3]

Jessica Garretson Finch is credited with coining the phrase "current events" while teaching at Barnard College in the 1890s.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News


Convincing stuff admittedly ... it doesn’t quite slip off the end of your tongue like my explanation though :)


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

[Vicky.]

Convincing stuff admittedly ... it doesn’t quite slip off the end of your tongue like my explanation though :)


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Must agree :D

[Vicky.]

So my sister just informed me that chip shop sausage is not real sausage, its chicken sausage and I always wondered why it tasted like not sausage but never questioned it any further just assumed chip shop sausage was different but still sausage :bored:

[Niamh.]

So my sister just informed me that chip shop sausage is not real sausage, its chicken sausage and I always wondered why it tasted like not sausage but never questioned it any further just assumed chip shop sausage was different but still sausage :bored:I did not know this either [emoji33]

[Crimson Dynamo]

Ducks can walk on land, swim and fly

the ultimate animal

[Vicky.]

https://i.imgflip.com/5rq4fp.jpg

[bots]

Who knew that tongue butties were sandwiches with actual TONGUE !!

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211021/2ef2af533acd86fed16682376705dafc.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211021/488e9c5391b22552e0c78154886ae14b.jpg


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

i was given tongue on a plate as a kid and it was only in my teens that it clicked that it was a cows sliced tongue :umm2:

[thesheriff443]

If you turned a woman upside down in the seventies you could see how you would look with a beard

[Niamh.]

If you turned a woman upside down in the seventies you could see how you would look with a beardWhy? Would her whole torso disappear [emoji848]

[thesheriff443]

Why? Would her whole torso disappear [emoji848]

I take it you have never heard the joke?

[Denver]

What..I was always told that despite the name, they were not made of cheese. So wondered why the **** they were called cheesecake. Same with carrot cake.


My brain makes me now imagine woolly mammoths trudging through a desert in Egypt which is a bit of a weird one :D
Carrot cake is made with carrots unless your lazy and use essence flavouring

Cheese cake is made with cream cheese so it not actually made from like a block of cheese

[Crimson Dynamo]

Abbreviate Neil Armstrong's (man on moon) name as Neil A. and then say it backward.

:shocked:

[Niamh.]

Abbreviate Neil Armstrong's (man on moon) name as Neil A. and then say it backward.



:shocked:[emoji50][emoji38]

[Crimson Dynamo]

A mattress doubles its weight after 10 years of usage, collecting dust and dust
mites. Throughout this time, vermin eat tiny parts of our skin, which fall down
into the mattress folds.

https://wl-brightside.cf.tsp.li/resize/728x/jpg/38e/a9d/2582fe52a88b7c955502d5d653.jpg

[Vicky.]

Cheese cake is made with cream cheese so it not actually made from like a block of cheese

But still cheese. Unless cream cheese is not cheese but then why would it be called that :suspect:

[Vicky.]

A mattress doubles its weight after 10 years of usage, collecting dust and dust
mites. Throughout this time, vermin eat tiny parts of our skin, which fall down
into the mattress folds.

https://wl-brightside.cf.tsp.li/resize/728x/jpg/38e/a9d/2582fe52a88b7c955502d5d653.jpg

5 years for me I reckon.

[Crimson Dynamo]

5 years for me I reckon.

:joker:

[Zizu]

i was given tongue on a plate as a kid and it was only in my teens that it clicked that it was a cows sliced tongue :umm2:


Same. !!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

[Zizu]

Abbreviate Neil Armstrong's (man on moon) name as Neil A. and then say it backward.

:shocked:

Millions paying good money for water :)



https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211025/e09555c8fe7060268fc5906f487f2e78.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211025/cb5abf4606f59d5d8517acdc45d4f4a2.jpg


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

[bots]

cheesecake is boak with a crumbly crust