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Obvious Things That You Didn't Put Together Until Much Later
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Obligatory "there's a bear in the Toblerone logo" post.
The damn FedEx logo. Someone posted it years ago, but it still blows my mind that I never saw it.
What is the revelation here?
Big simp energy in that slogan
I can snap with both!
I like doing a rolling snap of all the fingers.
...it doesn't really add anything to the conversation, I just think it's neat.
ShangHAI.
HIGH noon.
Shanghai Noon.
I was driving home from work a couple years ago when suddenly it clicked for me. Before that, I hadn't even dwelled on what the title meant. I assumed the 'Shanghai' part was referring to Jackie Chan, but the 'Noon' part barely even registered.
That Mortal Kombat based Raiden's character off of this one.
I didn't realize it until years later, and I was like oh yeah, that's where I remember Raiden from, lol.
While we're at it, you know how Humpty Dumpty is always portrayed as an egg?
The rhyme never says that.
I don't know if the story about it actually being a cannon is true, but I want to believe.
Ok, good. Thought there was something secret with his hand movements or something that I was missing.
I watched Home Improvement live week-to-week when I was a kid. Never thought different of the way any character talked.
Over ten years later I happened to see a clip of an episode and my brain exploded with the realization that Tim's wife had a deeply southern accent.
I looked up other clips just to make sure it wasn't some weird dub, because I never remembered her having that accent.
Over ten years later I happened to see a clip of an episode and my brain exploded with the realization that Tim's wife had a deeply southern accent.
I looked up other clips just to make sure it wasn't some weird dub, because I never remembered her having that accent.
So... she just wanted you to study by yourself at her house? That's dumb
There have been multiple depictions of Humpty as an egg over time but it was probably solidified as an egg through Lewis Carroll's Through the looking glass where Alice says he looks just like an egg.
Yep, it was originally supposed to be a riddle for children to guess. Might even date all the way back to Anglo-Saxon times...
Some (all?) romance Latin languages don't have the "th" sound, so a lot of people who have English as their second language speak the way you described. it takes some effort to nail that proper sound.
Strangely enough, I can snap with my pinky finger alone (too hard to explain how). But the fact that the sound it makes comes from my pinky finger hitting the palm of my hand makes me feel dumb for not realizing it works the same way when using my thumb and middle finger. D'oh!
One of my own late realizations was guitarist Pat Smear from the Foo Fighters. When I randomly realized it one day and told my friends, they looked at me like I was a dumbass (rightfully so).
This is the funniest fucking thing I've heard in a while. I can picture the moment in my head, and it just makes me lose it. I would die.
Was at a funeral and my 1yr son was clinging shyly behind my leg. One of the curators(old man) said "he looks loved".
I thought it was the sweetest thing.
Few years later I took my dog to the vet for shots and one of the staff said "aw, you got a lot of love on you". I realized they were implying we overfeed the dog.
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I thought it was the sweetest thing.
Few years later I took my dog to the vet for shots and one of the staff said "aw, you got a lot of love on you". I realized they were implying we overfeed the dog.
😞
Pupitar has the same shape as Tyranitar's chest.
I never noticed this. Pretty cool detail, even its eye sockets are still there.
But did you know "Florida" means "flowery / full of flowers" in Spanish?
the tune "go straight" from the first level of streets of rage II is almost identical to "good life" by inner city, huge smash hit released a few years earlier.
love the game, love the soundtrack, love the song, but until recently i never put it together more than "hmm yuzo koshiro sure does like detroit techno"
love the game, love the soundtrack, love the song, but until recently i never put it together more than "hmm yuzo koshiro sure does like detroit techno"
? Thought it was just homer calling her by the wrong name.
? Isn't that Raiden from MK in that gif?
That gif is from the movie "Big Trouble in Little China" which I have always believed to be the inspiration for a lot of the original MK cast.
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That's not a joke, it's a pickup line. It's lame and cringey, in the way that pickup lines always are, but what's sexist about it? It works with any configuration of people.
But then who bought the roast beef?!?!1
I didn't know what to answer until I read this.
That the Eminem song "Sing For The Moment" samples "Dream On" by Aerosmith. I always loved that Eminem song and particularly that moment but I only found out early last year when the original came up on a stream I watched on Twitch.
I'm not buying that explanation. It doesn't really make sense in the context of the rest of them, does it?
That when this girl sitting next me on the way back from a field trip in high school commented that I had big feet, then showed me her belly button and asked if I knew what they said about girls with deep belly buttons, my response shouldn't have been to explain the differences between innie and outie belly buttons and why they exist and reasons as to why it may be deep but instead realize she was interested in sex.
For the record that was the only time I've ever heard that question or phrase.
For the record that was the only time I've ever heard that question or phrase.
I literally just now realized that Thanos sacrificing Gamora to obtain the soul stone can be seen as an allusion to Agamemnon sacrificing Iphigenia in order to continue sailing on to Troy...
I just learned that antlers and horns aren't the same thing and antlers mostly fall and regrow again every year.
WHAT THE FUCKObligatory "there's a bear in the Toblerone logo" post.
There are a number of illustrated versions of this, many dating back hundreds of years, that would disagree. The pigs are always anthropomorphised.
EDIT: Of course it could also be a tongue in cheek joke for the adults in the room.
Lots of etymological stuff, for instance it only just dawned on me recently that when you are neutering an animal you are making them Neutral even though looking now they obviously are from the same origin.
That's all I can really think of right now but there are a lot of words like that. Actually, another less obvious is Terrific and Terrifying are of the same origin despite sort of opposite meanings.
Every once in a while I'll say something and have a huge realization and have to look it up.
That's all I can really think of right now but there are a lot of words like that. Actually, another less obvious is Terrific and Terrifying are of the same origin despite sort of opposite meanings.
Every once in a while I'll say something and have a huge realization and have to look it up.
On a related note, the sound from snapping your fingers is caused by your middle finger hitting the palm of your hand, not the tips of your fingers rubbing together. I didn't learn this until college.
what in the fuck?
And a Famous Belgian statue in the camel of a pack of Camels:Obligatory "there's a bear in the Toblerone logo" post.
That's a funny coincidence: I explained this to my son this morning. He was all proud he could snap while having a bandaid on one of his thumb.On a related note, the sound from snapping your fingers is caused by your middle finger hitting the palm of your hand, not the tips of your fingers rubbing together. I didn't learn this until college.
So i told him the sound came from your middle finger hitting your hand. He was flabbergasted.
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I thought the placenta was the same thing as the umbilical cord until I watched an episode of Servant in December and they showed a placenta.
I'm 32 lmao
I'm 32 lmao
