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What were you shamefully old when you first realised . . .

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McGoohan Oct 2020 5:29pm, 14 Oct 2020 47,061 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan Well it is in Leeds, only it's the village of Leeds, Kent
Badger Oct 2020 5:29pm, 14 Oct 2020 12,899 posts	Quote Pin Badger I was fortysomething when I discovered that I was tying my shoes wrongly, so the lace sat badly and came undone easily. Turning one left over to a left under made for nice neat bows which stay tied until you unlace them.
WA Oct 2020 5:32pm, 14 Oct 2020 7,595 posts	Quote Pin WA Today I learnt there are 2 places called Leeds in the UK!
Sigh Oct 2020 7:17pm, 14 Oct 2020 7,550 posts	Quote Pin Sigh I'd never heard of the World Trade Centre until the day the planes hit it.
cackleberry Oct 2020 7:32pm, 14 Oct 2020 1,889 posts	Quote Pin cackleberry (I'm enjoying these, similarly astounded by Billericay being in Essex. I'm sure I've got some...)
Nellers Oct 2020 7:50pm, 14 Oct 2020 37,363 posts	Quote Pin Nellers I only know Billericay is in Essex because 20 years ago I moved about 8 miles from Billericay. It sounds Irish to me. Ought to be in Tipperary.
Badger Oct 2020 7:58pm, 14 Oct 2020 12,902 posts	Quote Pin Badger Not many Ian Dury fans here by the look of it.
Lizzie W Oct 2020 8:18pm, 14 Oct 2020 23,935 posts	Quote Pin Lizzie W I was the same with awry, see also misled (mizzled, obvs)
Margarita Oct 2020 8:38pm, 14 Oct 2020 865 posts	Quote Pin Margarita I was in my 20s when I realised I'd confused nettles for thistles and vice versa. In my head "nettles" is a harsher word and real thistles (what I called nettles) look meaner!
Seratonin Oct 2020 8:41pm, 14 Oct 2020 31,160 posts	Quote Pin Seratonin I didn't realise until my 20's (and had spent a good 5+ years dealing with medical records) that the name Siobhan was pronounced Shiv-awn rather then my assumption of Sigh-O-ban.