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

[pancreas]

How about a fight in a bookies?

Well, I don't know about the others, but I'm game. Paddy Power and knives?

[Buelligan]

The bulkhead of Now that stands between the desperate damaged past and Hope is paper-thin.

[Isnt Anything]

hugs

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NOW

THAT'S WHAT I CALL HOPEFUL

1998

[manticore]

The bulkhead of Now that stands between the desperate damaged past and Hope is paper-thin.

That's beautiful and true.

[a duncandisorderly]

How about a fight in a bookies?

oh, that sort of box... right....

[DistressedArea]

The tiny pens they have in bookies are designed for Jockeys.

[Hobo With A Shit Pun]

The tiny pens they have in bookies are designed for Jockeys.

...Rounded up by tiny sheepdogs...

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, not Glasgow. Mothercunting hell.

[checkoutgirl]

...Rounded up by tiny sheepdogs...

Rounded up by the artist formerly known as Prince.

[olliebean]

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, not Glasgow. Mothercunting hell.

What on earth made you think Edinburgh was the capital city of Glasgow?

[Hobo With A Shit Pun]

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, not Glasgow. Mothercunting hell.

Since the  Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, Glasgow has been its own unitary authority, though before  that it did indeed fall within Mothercunting Hell.

[DistressedArea]

Rounded up by the artist formerly known as Prince.

If you want to round up a flock of dogs, then you use a dogsheep.

[Steven]

If you want to round up a flock of dogs, then you use a dogsheep.

'Flock' of dogs? I think everybody knows the collective noun for Dogs is a Twenty-Fifteen.

[DistressedArea]

An aisle of dogs, surely?

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An aisle of dogs, surely?

Or a window of them, depending on preference.

[thecuriousorange]

The vocalist in Let Forever Be by the Chemical Brothers is none other than Noel Gallagher.

[itsfredtitmus]

"para" as in paramedic doesn't mean "fast medic"

[solidified gruel merchant]

A book of six first class stamps is over £4.
Whaaaaaa?
Somehow in my brain they're still about tuppence each.

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"para" as in paramedic doesn't mean "fast medic"

Parallel-chuting.

[up_the_hampipe]

Rednecks are called rednecks because they have red necks.

[QDRPHNC]

Rednecks are called rednecks because they have red necks.

Related, the term Hillbilly originally referred to the Protestant Northern Irish who settled in the Tennessee Appalachians, the billy part of it meaning William of Orange. Or that's one of the theories anyway.

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They were originally called The Orange Organics.

[olliebean]

Rednecks are called rednecks because they have red necks.

The American equivalent of gammon, presumably.

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I like to eat my rednecks with a slice of pineapple.

[Cuntbeaks]

Ready Salted = Already Salted

[manticore]

QI once told me that the reason you shouldn't stand under a tree in a thunderstorm is that when lightning strikes the tree it causes the sap to boil and sprays it out onto you to scald you to death.

This is NOT TRUE.

The actual reason is the kind of obvious one that the lightning travels down the tall tree and sees you, a better conductor, and transfers its attentions to the frazzling of your unguarded corpus.

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I've never heard the boiling sap might land on you one, and the one about being electrocuted due to it taking the least resistant path is the one I always knew.

That's the thing about QI though; it sneers at you for accepting what are commonly accepted truths but about 60% of the time it can't be trusted.  If you ask me it is just a cunt of a programme that should have been axed before children got their grown up teeth.

[Dex Sawash]

I thought it was because most trees are outdoors

[Sebastian Cobb]

I've seen trees struck by lightning, sometimes they snap. Even if you avoid getting zapped you wouldn't want that falling on you.