Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[palinurus]

Frank Zappa was his real name.

 

[Punkawallah]

That would allow the far right to hold an anti-immigration protest at Dachau.

I think it’s called ‘free speech’.

 

[Dave7]

Frank Zappa was his real name.

Now I didn't know that.

 

[raleighnut]

Frank Zappa was his real name.

Yep for a time he thought it was 'Francis' but then found out it was always Frank

 

[simonali]

That there was some sort bus crash in Exmoor

 

[Chris S]

That would allow the far right to hold an anti-immigration protest at Dachau.

I think it’s called ‘free speech’.

It's normally severely restricted in Germany when its related to its Nazi past.

 

[Punkawallah]

It's normally severely restricted in Germany when its related to its Nazi past.

Absolutely. However, the word ‘Nazi’ was not used, but ‘far right’, whatever that means.

Fun fact. Nazi was short for ‘National Socialist Workers Party’.

 

[Chris S]

It was actually the 'National Socialist German Workers Party' (NSDAP).

And Dachau was part of Germany's Nazi past. The far right would seem to have a constitutional right to hold a rally there on Hitler's birthday!

 

[Chris S]

I've just learnt the difference between a colon and a semi-colon.

 

[Jenkins]

That I can switch off the rain sensing automatic mode on the intermittent setting of the car's windscreen wipers. It's never worked like it should and always seemed to be at the wrong speed, no matter which of the five positions you selected on the stalk. Also it would occasionally go into constant mode when there were only spots of rain or fail to speed up in spray or as the rain increased.
By accident I found a menu setting to return it to a fixed time between wipes, with the five positions on the stalk actually changing the time gaps.

I've only owned the car for nine years!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

That I can switch off the rain sensing automatic mode on the intermittent setting of the car's windscreen wipers. It's never worked like it should and always seemed to be at the wrong speed, no matter which of the five positions you selected on the stalk. Also it would occasionally go into constant mode when there were only spots of rain or fail to speed up in spray or as the rain increased.
By accident I found a menu setting to return it to a fixed time between wipes, with the five positions on the stalk actually changing the time gaps.

I've only owned the car for nine years!

Wish mine had that setting!
far to many "intelligent" features on this car
and half the time you hear a beep and do not have a clue what it is trying to warn you about

before I went through the setting and turned a load of things off then it beeped every time a car passed you or you passed a car on the motorway!

 

[Dogtrousers]

I just learned that when driving abroad you should take your v5c with you.

I just got back from driving in France. I'd taken my insurance docs but like an eejit I'd forgotten my driving licence. I didn't realise about the v5c. Fortunately nothing untoward happened so I never had to show anything. Could have been rather difficult if anything had happened.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That @Dogtrousers just got back from driving in France

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That the invention of the piano is credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori, in 1694.

 

[Seevio]

After my front light had been playing up for weeks, I finally got round to looking to source replacement batteries. I took the batteries out to look for a generic model type only to find one had been in the wrong way.