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

[Blue Hills]

I tend to think of myself as a huge Geography buff and there's usually no obscure part of the world that I'm not well up on. It's a large part of my job (and a busman's hobby) to know the world and all its cities, regions, counties and geopolitics.

Then a question came up on Pointless the other night asking for the capital of Liberia. My wife said "isn't it Monrovia?" to which I confidently (and wrongly) replied "nah, Monrovia is a little country in its own right I think".

Mrs C was right of course, she scored 6 points, and I've temporarily lost my Geography Expert badge, replaced with the Dunce hat for at least a week I reckon.

One from Mrs c to restore balance?

 

[ColinJ]

They'd have recorded it sooner had some stupid not burned the place to the ground

Thankfully, the Rolling truck Stones was available!

 

[biggs682]

More people are @ick heads than i realised yesterday and everyday is a learning day

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

That it's ok to not be ok, and perfectly ok to just be yourself and do what makes you happy. Anyone in your life who has a problem with that should no longer be in it

 

[FishFright]

Xanadu is in Yorkshire, not as I had previously thought, in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's opium-induced visions.

Everything, sooner or later, is in Yorkshire.

 

[Blue Hills]

Everything, sooner or later, is in Yorkshire.

Something like a black hole?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Everything, sooner or later, is in Yorkshire.

Usually later as it’s still cobblestones and horse and cart in Yorkshire.

 

[Cycleops]

I was amazed to find out something I had misheard for close on sixty years and it was on here in the 'Friday night music' thread.
I posted the Johnny Horton classic 'North to Alaska' from YouTube which came with the lyrics about the gold rush. After listening to it through and seeing the lyrics I couldn't believe.
All these years I thought he was singing 'North to Alaska I'm going north to Russia zone'.
In fact it was 'I'm going north to Alaska I'm going north the rush is on'.

View: https://youtu.be/FYFm0RgRkks

 

[cheys03]

Not a recent ignorance, but still hurts. I didn’t know how ice cube bags worked, and better yet cursed the moron who had designed them.
But it was I who was the moron.

View: https://youtu.be/_Dj0hwUTKE0

 

[SpokeyDokey]

By proxy:

A very intelligent friend, in their 60's, did not know that the moon shone due to reflected sunlight.

 

[Cerdic]

Not a recent ignorance, but still hurts. I didn’t know how ice cube bags worked, and better yet cursed the moron who had designed them.
But it was I who was the moron.

View: https://youtu.be/_Dj0hwUTKE0

OH F…!!!!!!!

 

[swee'pea99]

That the label at bottom of my t shirts is always on the left hand side. Making it easier to work out which way round to put them on. Only realised about a month ago, doh!

Hah! I figured that out a year ago.

 

[Chromatic]

By proxy:

A very intelligent friend, in their 60's, did not know that the moon shone due to reflected sunlight.

How did they think it shone?

 

[Bimble]

I've been driving for more years than I care to remember, but it was only last year someone pointed out to me that the fuel pump symbol on your dashboard has a little arrow to indicate which side of the vehicle the fuel filler is on - DOH!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Sid Charise was a woman apparently.