I was at the museum in Manchester
and there's a wildlife exhibition type thingy on with loads of stuffed animals (taxidermy, not beanie babies). In the sealife section was a narwhal horn.

Up until that moment I had honestly thought that narwhals were mythical creatures, like a unicorn or a dragon, and the only reference I had seen to them was in an episode of Futurama. When I mentioned this to my friends, they mocked me ceaselessly and even a small (yet probably studious) child nearby who had overheard my confession looked at me with disdainful pity.

Is there anything you have been shockingly ignorant of that you really should have known, or is it just me that's spectacularly retarded?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 15:41, 17 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

How to pleasure a woman,

(PsychoChomp, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 15:43, Reply)

...
I still don't know what the hell proforma invoicing is.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 15:44, Reply)

I know!
It an invoice demanding payment before goods are sent.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 15:45, Reply)

Did you see the mummified penis?

( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 15:44, Reply)

I did!!
it made me laugh because I'm immature. I typed 'wellies' into an email this morning and the autocorrect changed it to willies, so the sentence was "I'll be taking my willies just in case" which made me officelol.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 15:47, Reply)

Lindow Man
Was he still there?
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 15:56, Reply)

I don't recall
anything like that. I was too busy laughing at mummified phalluses, obviously.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 16:09, Reply)

I can understand that
They still make chuckle!

THere should be more mummified willies on public display
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 16:15, Reply)

Hurrah!
My other (significant) was under the same impression until I showed her a video of a narwhal migration.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 15:45, Reply)

I once heard a chap on the radio

telling the DJ that his girlfriend didn't believe in giraffs...but was quite scared of werewolves!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 15:47, Reply)

I saw that episode,
it was good but I wanted to see more footage of them.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 15:48, Reply)

Not quite
In a conversation wiht my ex's sister's boyfirned (complex) who lives in Leeds, he mentioned something like how York United had brown shirts with a big Y on them, making it look like a pair of underpants.

I asked "Why a Y? Why not a W? York's spelt with a W!"
My god. I'm supposed to be intelligent!
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 15:48, Reply)

Damn straight
There's no such team as York United.
(Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 15:56, Reply)

I wasn't aware
of the Oxford tradition of dressing like a homo for exams.

WHAT A FOOL I AM!!!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 16:09, Reply)

I NO!!!!!!

(Bazongaloid, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 16:11, Reply)

HAHAHA!!!
You are a fool on the internet!
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 16:16, Reply)

Check out
Natures Great Events, if its still on the BBC Iplayer

Got to be up there with the weirdest looking animals on earth!


As for things I dont know, theres quite a lot but I have a habit of forgetting new things I learn rather quickly
(Is this a good idea? ... Yes this is definitely a good idea, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 16:26, Reply)