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Things you only figured out after all these years.

Scottie_ukScottie_uk
edited February 2015 in Chit chat
Its funny isn't it when for almost all your life you believe something to be true, and then after all these years realize it's not true, or never happened.

Recently I'd been listening to the Album Frankie Goes to Hollywood a lot and it got me thinking 'You know after all these years and all the hype I've still never watched that Frankie Goes to Hollywood film'. I now find out there never was one was there?

I think I assumed this because there was a video game and if there was one of them there surely must have been the film it was based off.

Silly me. Anyone else have anything similar happen to them?
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  • zx1zx1
    edited November 2014
    Took me 9 years to figure out an ex had cheated on me when we were together......it's a long story.
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  • ArjunArjun
    edited November 2014
    Pissed me right off that we never did a moon landing! What a bunch of twats!*






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  • Antiriad2097Antiriad2097
    edited November 2014
    The first proper single I bought when I was 8 was Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick.

    It only clicked a couple of years ago that it's a blatant euphemism.
  • fogfog
    edited November 2014
    there are loads of em, and they normally use them as trick questions in quiz shows that catch out even brainy folk, who misremembered.

    the smoke n mirrors side of thing , I guess for me.

    visiting a friend at DMS (colditz on amiga etc) and system 3, seeing how they made games in a boring office. same goes with music production in ways, if you do something and know what goes into it or the formula's etc.

    one bloke at work I discuss this sorta thing with, he comes out with very random stuff e.g. adverts from the past , music and tv shows.. there was a question about mick "rono" ronson that I knew on a quiz due to him, for example.

    scottie , take a listen to this you might like it.
    http://www.lbc.co.uk/james-obriens-mystery-hour-podcast---free-54729

    I don't listen to that presenter otherwise, but do for that weekly.
  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited November 2014
    Antiriad2097 wrote: »
    The first proper single I bought when I was 8 was Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick.

    It only clicked a couple of years ago that it's a blatant euphemism.

    It's a whaaaaaaat?!!???!!1 I thought it was about playing the drums! :o :D

    Similarly I only found out the true meaning of Peter Gabriel's song Sledgehammer a few months ago (it's another "song about ****ing", to paraphrase Steve Albini)
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  • Dave FountainDave Fountain
    edited November 2014
    I never knew Cliff Richard was gay. In my defence I never gave it much thought, but should have spotted the clues to be honest.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited November 2014
    Since I was a kid, I always thought Paula Abdul was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's daughter. Someone pointed out to me recently that they're not at all related. She was a cheerleader at the Lakers while he played there though, so that's obviously where I made the connection (I was a huge fan of basketball back in the day, they were my favourite team).
  • joefishjoefish
    edited November 2014
    That the phrases 'scarper', 'cobblers' and 'berk' were rhyming slang.
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  • VampyreVampyre
    edited November 2014
    As a young kid (about 7 or 8 ) I asked my dad if David and Richard Attenborough were related only to be told that they shared a surname is all. Didn't find out the truth until the mid-2000's.
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  • fogfog
    edited November 2014
    Vampyre wrote: »
    As a young kid (about 7 or 8 ) I asked my dad if David and Richard Attenborough were related only to be told that they shared a surname is all. Didn't find out the truth until the mid-2000's.

    what would have been cool is if david had done a cameo (not word up) in Jurassic park.
  • slenkarslenkar
    edited November 2014
    I had never heard of the Sinclair QL until a year ago.

    I was too young when it was being talked about. After it had been released and failed no one ever seemed to talk about it, so I never heard about it.

    when I found out about it, it seemed quite awesome.
  • zx1zx1
    edited November 2014
    What you do with the 3 seashells in Demolition Man......
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  • Maroc's Other ProjectionMaroc's Other Projection
    edited November 2014
    It was murtceps' birthday recently and only on his birthday thread did I realise what his username was backwards.

    True story, folks! I've seen his username plenty of times before (and sometimes thought 'I wonder what that refers to?') but only twigged when I saw Greencard's comment.

    :oops:
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  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited November 2014
    joefish wrote: »
    That the phrases 'scarper', 'cobblers' and 'berk' were rhyming slang.

    'Cobblers' and 'berk' I know about (and 'charlie' - same meaning as 'berk') but 'scarper'? Wossat then?
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    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited November 2014
    Maroc's Other Projection wrote: »
    It was murtceps' birthday recently and only on his birthday thread did I realise what his username was backwards.

    True story, folks! I've seen his username plenty of times before (and sometimes thought 'I wonder what that refers to?') but only twigged when I saw Greencard's comment.

    :oops:

    Well bloody hell! You learn something new every day. Never twigged with me either :-)
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  • paranoid marvinparanoid marvin
    edited November 2014
    Took til RG to find out that Op Wolf wasn't a light-gun game. Was it compulsory back in the day for all Op Wolf games to come with a fag stub in the muzzle of the uzi?
  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited November 2014
    Only a few years ago did I find out that Lloyd Mangram in Crash wasn't even a real person.
  • MatGubbinsMatGubbins
    edited November 2014
    Z80 machine code is not a scary monster that sits at the foot of the bed.
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  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited November 2014
    The Starglider wrote: »
    Only a few years ago did I find out that Lloyd Mangram in Crash wasn't even a real person.

    Me too... I also didn't realise that about Gwyn Hughes and Rachael Smith in YS.
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    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • milemile
    edited November 2014
    Found out that Kubricks movie the shinning was about the decimation of the American Indians, the holocaust, an admission that Kubrick fabricated the moon landing footage and a whole bunch of other stuff not related to Stephen kings novel.
  • GReWGReW
    edited November 2014
    leespoons wrote: »
    'Cobblers' and 'berk' I know about (and 'charlie' - same meaning as 'berk') but 'scarper'? Wossat then?

    Scarper ==> Scapa Flow ==> go.

    Bizzarely, scappare is also Italian for escape. Government conspiracy? Aliens? Co-incidence? Poorly researched dictionary? You decide.
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited November 2014
    I never knew Frobush was the man behind all those great games and sound until a few months before the sad day.
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  • ccowleyccowley
    edited November 2014
    GReW wrote: »
    Scarper ==> Scapa Flow ==> go.

    Bizzarely, scappare is also Italian for escape. Government conspiracy? Aliens? Co-incidence? Poorly researched dictionary? You decide.
    Heh, Yep... I'm not buying Scapa flow as rhyming slang. Not for 1 second. It's b*llocks. Although berk and cobblers deffo are rhyming slang.

    Scarper clearly comes from scappere, escarperre, escarpar, etc.
  • GrunakiGrunaki
    edited November 2014
    GReW wrote: »
    Scarper ==> Scapa Flow ==> go.

    Bizzarely, scappare is also Italian for escape. Government conspiracy? Aliens? Co-incidence? Poorly researched dictionary? You decide.

    The German for 'slut' is 'schlampe', which, when spoken by a German, sounds exactly like 'slapper'.

    (For an example, see the 'bar standoff' scene in 'Inglourious Basterds' when the German guy realizes that the movie actress is a spy who is working with the British.)

    Edit - jump to 12:20 to see what I mean..

  • milemile
    edited November 2014
    ccowley wrote: »
    Heh, Yep... I'm not buying Scapa flow as rhyming slang. Not for 1 second. It's b*llocks. Although berk and cobblers deffo are rhyming slang.

    Scarper clearly comes from scappere, escarperre, escarpar, etc.

    But cockney criminals invented all slang words because they are lovable rogues. :-D
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited November 2014
    mile wrote: »
    But cockney criminals invented all slang words because they are lovable rogues. :-D

    My dad had a mate from London who knew so many that he swore we was making most of them up.

    "If you buying I'll have rinky of the olde Georgy gas."
    "Aye?"
    "aaah wow, rinky dink = drink, George best, gas fitter = bitter, drink a best bitter please me olde pedagree."
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  • GrunakiGrunaki
    edited November 2014
    I figured out that I get all nostalgic for things like regional TV closedowns and find myself watching them on YouTube.

  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited November 2014
    Grunaki wrote: »
    I figured out that I get all nostalgic for things like regional TV closedowns and find myself watching them on YouTube.


    Me too. I Get lost for hours on Youtube watching life wasting stuff such as that. I think it's particularly interesting how the channels faced with C4's brilliant rendered ident, all try to compete with some often gawdy, overdone or just slightly crap ident graphics. I did like Central's pie, but is was an obvious knock of of the C4 flying blocks. Hang on a minute, isn't he that Rich bloke that marries Madge in the sit com Benidorm.
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  • joefishjoefish
    edited November 2014
    GReW wrote: »
    Scarper ==> Scapa Flow ==> go.
    Also, 'Taking the Mickey'.
    ('Mickey Bliss', i.e. Taking the p*ss).
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  • morphmorph
    edited November 2014
    The Starglider wrote: »
    Only a few years ago did I find out that Lloyd Mangram in Crash wasn't even a real person.

    I was shocked when I found that out too. I wrote to Jim'll Fix It once asking to meet him and write for Crash. That was a lucky escape.

    Also, I always made sure that the shiny surface of tinfoil was on the inside any anything I put in the over. It turns out there is no difference between the shiny and dull side, its just how it comes out of the machine.
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