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Soubriquet · 2023-01-28T18:43:23+00:00

I like watching things like NCIS. Over the years, I’ve heard the phrase watch your six and just let it fly over my head expecting not to understand it. Literally the other day, it suddenly occurred to me…it means watch your back!! Of course it does!

lovelilies · 28/01/2023 23:00

It amazes me that double decker buses don't fall over when taking corners.

FangsForTheMemory · 28/01/2023 23:01

They’re buds off a plant. Big export in Sicily and the Aeolian Islands.

threecupsofteaminimum · 28/01/2023 23:01

@Overreactionpossibly
We have the exact same visual image of that song, I think we need to re record a new version with extended video.

clpsmum · 28/01/2023 23:02

Coffeesnob11 · 28/01/2023 21:59

It was only recently that I realised the main chap in UP was dead all along and the scout was a guardian angel trying to earn his wings.

Whaaaaaat????

itsnotmeitisactuallyyou · 28/01/2023 23:02

I have learnt more on this thread in fifteen mins than i have ever learnt before,mind blowing some of these

PuttingDownRoots · 28/01/2023 23:03

I had to explain to my 11yo that penguins are birds, not amphibians.

Her logic... they live both in water and on land. Plus they can't fly.

Elsanore · 28/01/2023 23:03

Overreactionpossibly · 28/01/2023 22:40

I love this thread.
Mine usually comes up on these but I vividly remember as a child, listening to the Moody Blues song and thinking that satin was a bit flimsy for armour and feeling sad that they never got to their destination.
I was 30 when I finally realised that 'nights in white satin, never reaching the end' is not about King Arthur and his knights of the round table.

Omg!

Totally thought that was knights.

clpsmum · 28/01/2023 23:04

Mirabai · 28/01/2023 22:13

I’m just waiting for the people who thought capers were small fish.

Your wait is over 🤦‍♀️

shard5 · 28/01/2023 23:04

TwoMonthsOff · 28/01/2023 21:30

@Soubriquet
So not only are they meant to be storming some drug cartels operational headquarters with unknown personnel and their firepower….you have to work out time minus something ?? It’s lucky I’m not in the elite forces obviously everyone would have to have my six at all times 😭

I always thought the t was for take off so t minus 10 was ten minutes to take off.

BangaloreLulu · 28/01/2023 23:05

I've never admitted this to anyone before, and never will again, but I only realised last year that the two letters in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. are the last two letters in each word if you write it down as first, second, third, fourth. I apologise unreservedly for my ignorance.

Overreactionpossibly · 28/01/2023 23:06

threecupsofteaminimum · 28/01/2023 23:01

@Overreactionpossibly
We have the exact same visual image of that song, I think we need to re record a new version with extended video.

@threecupsofteaminimum
Yes. This could be amazing!
We need to choose some knights. Sean Bean and Richard Armitage are my first thoughts.
I also agree with you on the need for plenty of tea (and I think that Sean would too) so this could be a match made in heaven. 😂

BananaHamhock · 28/01/2023 23:07

Random facts I've known for quite a while, but perhaps may be news to some of you:

The term 'riding shotgun' (aka: riding in the front passenger seat) stems from the early 1900's in North America when a man carrying a gun used to sit upfront alongside the driver of a stagecoach to help protect him and act as a bodyguard warding off and shooting any bandits etc.

The British driving on the left hand side of the road because stems from the Middle Ages where people riding on horseback would ride on the left holding the reigns with their left hand, keeping their right hand free to shake with fellow passers by or draw a sort or joust to their enemies.

IheartBTS · 28/01/2023 23:08

TherebytheGraceofGodgoI · 28/01/2023 20:14

Heard on the radio this week where we get the word raspberries from, as in blowing raspberries.
It’s Cockney rhyming! Raspberry tart! Never realised!

My husband came home from work and proudly announced this fact to us, having also heard it on the radio 😁.

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FangsForTheMemory · 28/01/2023 23:08

Hillrunning · 28/01/2023 22:09

Husband and I learnt this the hard way when we took our first cat to the vet, scrabbled around in his fur for 5 mins to find the 'concerning patch' only to the the vet look at us pityingly and say 'it is his belly button' still had to pay the £25 fee!

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I was on a forum somewhere and there was a guy insisting that male cats can’t have nipples ‘because they’re boys’.

Just take your shirt off a moment, mate.

Elsanore · 28/01/2023 23:08

Not me but another poster on MN a few years ago confessed she had assumed for ages that DH stands for Dick Head, not Dear/darling Husband.

My fave post on Mn ever!!

Iamnemesis · 28/01/2023 23:08

Octopuses have six legs and two arms!!

DappledThings · 28/01/2023 23:09

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Nah, that's bollocks.

StrapOnYourHeroHair · 28/01/2023 23:10

TheFifthTellytubby · 28/01/2023 22:02

Benry? 😁

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😂 Another solid suggestion.

MakingTheVeganYorkshirePud · 28/01/2023 23:10

When I had my first dog pts we did it at home, she hated going to the vets. Whilst I was saying goodbye to her, I realised my love for her extended to all animals and I immediately became vegetarian. I couldn't pretend to be an animal lover anymore and still eat them. I became vegan 6 months later when I learned about the dairy and egg industry. My sweet dog was 16 hsn she went, and she changed me for the better.

DysmalRadius · 28/01/2023 23:10

Similar to Barold, I thought that Gus was short for Gustopher until I was in my 20s.

BananaHamhock · 28/01/2023 23:10

BananaHamhock · 28/01/2023 23:07

Random facts I've known for quite a while, but perhaps may be news to some of you:

The term 'riding shotgun' (aka: riding in the front passenger seat) stems from the early 1900's in North America when a man carrying a gun used to sit upfront alongside the driver of a stagecoach to help protect him and act as a bodyguard warding off and shooting any bandits etc.

The British driving on the left hand side of the road because stems from the Middle Ages where people riding on horseback would ride on the left holding the reigns with their left hand, keeping their right hand free to shake with fellow passers by or draw a sort or joust to their enemies.

Sorry lots of autocorrected typos in my post! 🤦🏼‍♀️

RosesAndHellebores · 28/01/2023 23:11

DH just asked why I was laughing.

"Barold, Benry and Nedmund"

Brilliant thread.

Please can someone explain nights in white satin.

MustBeThursday · 28/01/2023 23:13

@00100001 funnily enough my friend said exactly the same about "Disnep" when we were talking about it once

FarmGirl78 · 28/01/2023 23:13

birdling · 28/01/2023 19:36

Do you remember the smarties adverts from the 80's and 90's.
A few years ago, I suddenly understood why 'only smarties have the answer'.
😂

I came here to say the exact same thing!

Smarties/Smarties. Not Smarties, but smarties. Yeah probably in my late 30s!