Obvious things you've only just realised (2018 Thread )

[NurseNugent]

S Club 7 and Steps aren't the same band.

I've only just realised that too.

[Replies From View]

See also: The Corrs and All Saints.

[Vodka Margarine]

See also: The Corrs and All Saints.

So which one's the man one in All Saints?

[Dr Syntax Head]

So which one's the man one in All Saints?

The manager that put them together?

[checkoutgirl]

Did I miss one out?

Yeah, the bit where you use your brain. You really are a dickshocker.

[Replies From View]

Yeah, the bit where you use your brain. You really are a dickshocker.

Oh yeah I forgot to mention that Take That is your sixth favourite.  Sorry!


1) Boyzone
2) Bros
3) Blue
4) 2Unlimited (he only knows the No Limit tune, but he listens to it so often that it comes at number 4)
5) The male half of ABBA (he has custom-made mixes with the women faded out)
6) Take That


There you go.  Please accept my most heartfelt apologies for omitting Take That.

[thecuriousorange]

Mini Me in Austin Powers was at least partially inspired by Nick Nack from The Man With The Golden Gun.

[Brundle-Fly]

Mini Me in Austin Powers was at least partially inspired by Nick Nack from The Man With The Golden Gun.

Or possibly this infamous film made a year earlier?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEP-e6Dynsw

[Cerys]

Copenhagen is not halfway down the west coast of Denmark.  I am forty-five and just a bit embarrassed.

[Vodka Margarine]

Perry Farrell is a) not his real name and b) a play on the word 'peripheral'. Peri-pheral.

[Famous Mortimer]

The "CaB Men" thread is a play on words of "Mad Men". Never realised until just now.

[rapid relief]

The "CaB Men" thread is a play on words of "Mad Men". Never realised until just now.

...and i've only just realised that 'mad men' is a play on 'ad men'.

[bgmnts]

I've had 90 seconds of sex in the past 12 months.

[Icehaven]

The "CaB Men" thread is a play on words of "Mad Men". Never realised until just now.

...and i've only just realised that 'mad men' is a play on 'ad men'.

You two are going to shit brix when you find out where the original term Mad Men comes from...

[non capisco]

^ I'm still not over you pointing out that Megan from Mad Men looks like Freddie Mercury.

[Shit Good Nose]

I've had 90 seconds of sex in the past 12 months.

Jealous.

[Icehaven]

^ I'm still not over you pointing out that Megan from Mad Men looks like Freddie Mercury.

And that wasn't even bitchery, they'd make a fine couple (of Siamese Twins).

[non capisco]

Zoobie zoobie zoo......dayyyyyyyyy-oh!

[Icehaven]

I see a little silhouetto of a Don.

[gib]

when the telly shows the word ENDEMOL at the end of Black Mirror or Deal or No Deal, it is NOT an a sort of anagram of NOEL EDMONDS.

[zomgmouse]

Bad News Bears is, I'm almost certain, a reference to the phrase "bearer/s of bad news".

[Hobo With A Shit Pun]

when the telly shows the word ENDEMOL at the end of Black Mirror or Deal or No Deal, it is NOT an a sort of anagram of NOEL EDMONDS.

It stands for END 'EM ALL, and it's what Neol hears the voices say, these days.

[Serge]

ENDEMOL sounds like a haemorrhoid ointment.

[a duncandisorderly]

I was a long way into adulthood before I was disabused of the notion that a pony was a baby horse. I mean, it sort of is, in a manner of speaking, but I thought they were /foals/, you see?

[Cerys]

You disgust me.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I was a long way into adulthood before I was disabused of the notion that a pony was a baby horse. I mean, it sort of is, in a manner of speaking, but I thought they were /foals/, you see?

It's alright mate, I was in my late 20's before I realised goats were not male versions of sheep.

[Gregory Torso]

I was a long way into adulthood before I was disabused of the notion that a pony was a baby horse. I mean, it sort of is, in a manner of speaking, but I thought they were /foals/, you see?

When a horse first hatches it is called a "foal". Pony is the next stage, think of it as a horse toddler. Then you have the "horse". And finally the "big horse".

It's alright mate, I was in my late 20's before I realised goats were not male versions of sheep.

In Chinese, "goat" and "sheep" use the same word. Same with "rat" and "mouse". They don't bother to make a distinction. Economical language in some ways.

[thecuriousorange]

Bad News Bears is, I'm almost certain, a reference to the phrase "bearer/s of bad news".

Nothing to do with Bad News Brown?

[Cerys]

When a horse first hatches it is called a "foal". Pony is the next stage, think of it as a horse toddler. Then you have the "horse". And finally the "big horse".

This is all true, as illustrated by this retired horse:

[Icehaven]

Gus is short for Augustus.