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

[ColinJ]

I was shamefully ignorant of the fact that I had just plugged my headphones into my laptop. Fortunately, Windows 10 came to my rescue, informing me in a notification that that was what those naughty hands of mine had been up to...

 

[cougie uk]

What about Ukraine flags?

My cycling friend was fined for displaying an A frame board for his tyre business ... By a council that fails to protect young children....

What about young blind children though? They were protecting them against advertising boards left all over the pavements surely?

 

[presta]

That wood pellets absorb oxygen from the air.

I've just watched safety inspectors on a ship carrying a cargo of wood pellets explaining that if there isn't adequate ventilation and oxygen monitoring, the crew can die of hypoxia.

 

[Dogtrousers]

That wood pellets absorb oxygen from the air.

I've just watched safety inspectors on a ship carrying a cargo of wood pellets explaining that if there isn't adequate ventilation and oxygen monitoring, the crew can die of hypoxia.

Turns out they also emit carbon monoxide.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2413103/

You've just taken up space in my head that could be taken by something useful like - the location of my other glasses

 

[Threevok]

Turns out they also emit carbon monoxide.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2413103/

You've just taken up space in my head that could be taken by something useful like - the location of my other glasses

Check above your brow. They may be taking space ON your head

 

[ColinJ]

I recently found out that courgettes grow into marrows if you delay picking them.

(I was given a giant courgette/small marrow from a friend's allotment.)

 

[Dogtrousers]

I recently found out that courgettes grow into marrows if you delay picking them.

(I was given a giant courgette/small marrow from a friend's allotment.)

Yeah but rather watery marrows. Much nicer if you get them in time. But the buggers tend to hide among the leaves.

 

[ColinJ]

The intermediate-stage giant courgette was rather nice in my spicy veg soup.

In that I wasn't concerned about veg wateriness because the soup went through a blender anway. I thickened it with sweet potato.

 

[lazybloke]

I recently found out that courgettes grow into marrows if you delay picking them.

(I was given a giant courgette/small marrow from a friend's allotment.)

i think they are usually different varieties, selected for different properties. Eg you can make a potato salad from your bag of baking spuds, but Anya might taste nicer.

I didnt realise that cross pollination of plants had zero impact on on the current fruit crop, but instead created Frankenseeds within.

Hence the warning that seeds you collect don't always grow 'true'.

My better half ignored that warning and ended up with a crop of large round green marrows with lovely bright orange flesh inside.
They were a hybrid of courgettes and giant pumpkins!
They were discussed on another thread.

 

[presta]

I recently found out that courgettes grow into marrows if you delay picking them.

(I was given a giant courgette/small marrow from a friend's allotment.)

Isn't that the case with peppers too? I think green ones are just unripe red ones.

(I don't think eggs are unripe aubergines though.)

 

[ColinJ]

Isn't that the case with peppers too? I think green ones are just unripe red ones.

I wondered about that too. Sometimes I see ones that appear to be transitioning...

Ah, yes - that appears to be the case - Wikipedia article.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I did some long range rifle shooting with 303 ammunition when I was a teenager, the same stuff that the Spitfire's eight machine guns had. The thought of 160 rounds a second from a Spitfire coming at you is pretty horrendous.

So did I. I was quite small as a kid and the recoil was that big an adult had to sit on me while I shot. That was using a Lee Enfield.

Strangely when I used a Bren the recoil on that was nothing, though I might have had a growth spurt by the time I used one of those.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

So did I. I was quite small as a kid and the recoil was that big an adult had to sit on me while I shot. That was using a Lee Enfield.

Strangely when I used a Bren the recoil on that was nothing, though I might have had a growth spurt by the time I used one of those.

The Bren pulled you forward, you had to dig in with your toes to stop being dragged.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

The Bren pulled you forward, you had to dig in with your toes to stop being dragged.

Was a long time ago and only once, but now you mention it.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

That it rains in July