Obvious things that suddenly registered to you.

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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!

Oh dear god that piggy didn't swing into town wearing tweed carrying a whicker basket to collect vegetables did he.

I'm going to confess aswell.....

When posters put "TIA" at the end of thier post, I thought that was thier real name.

I kept thinking: wow so many people called Tia on MN and are happy to out themselves

It took me an embarrassing long time to realise it stands for Thanks in Advance.

Also Barrington I met two as a child junior and senior

That the shop is called "Iceland" because they mostly sell frozen food …. 🥶

I remember explaining to my very bright in some ways friend that the word alphabet comes from alpha beta, the first 2 letters of the Greek alphabet.

Barold had me sniggering but ‘tights that I’ve shat in’ has completely finished me off 😭😭😭😭

I've just been Googling Corinth grapes and my brain has 🤯 again: I've eaten them all my life, as my dad grows them in the back garden!

They taste vastly nicer than 'currants' (weird, gritty little beggars)

Oh this right here was one I only learned last year on mumsnet. Texted my (clever) friends asking if they knew and all of them were mind blown. So apparently our era of schooling was a bit shit.

Barack Obama was called Barry at school and uni.

When in my twenties I thought the footballerVan Njssel Roy (sp ??) was actually called Roy Van Nisssel and it was some cultural reason he was referred to by his surname first

When I saw the new version of jungle book I actually thought they had trained animals to move their mouths to look like they were speaking

Omg this thread has made me realise how thick I actually am!!

Barth (like Garth from Wayne's World, but not Mike Myers)
'ollow (like an 'ollow log)
Mew (like the noise a baby cat would make)

*note to self: Kitten. The word for 'Baby cat' is Kitten.

Whilst discussing holiday destinations at work a young chap asked why Long Haul was so popular, so many people he knew had been 'long haul'

He thought it was an island in Thailand.

Same workplace another guy thought cats were girls and dogs were boys and they got together to make more cats and dogs...he also thought if you cut your nipple off it grew back 'you know, like toes' bless him.

I'll add my own to be fair, I was at university when I discovered, due to a plumbing malfunction, that flushing the toilet doesn't open a hidden valve that the water goes down.

Probably suffered from Brewers droop.

It corresponds to how many years a child has been at school so if they’re in Year 4, they’ve done 4 full years at school.

I'll be honest, until the update I was honestly wondering what was the problem with Dobermans on farms.

Worked for the UK branch of a US company. One summer, told many customers that I'd be on holiday for the next fortnight, but cc'd my American boss to answer any urgent queries.

It wasn't until I got back and saw that a number of "urgent" queries were along the lines of:

Customer: What is a fortnight??
My boss: It's British speak for two weeks...

that I discovered the term just isn't used in the US... I'd worked there about 8 years by then, and had probably used it frequently, given that my job involved scheduling stuff, so can only assume some people had had no idea when their projects were due to complete...

I definitely didn’t pick up on this as a child.

I think I thought 'heads up!' came from when people would throw the contents of chamber pots out the chamber window...

That's where 'loo' for toilet comes from. The people chucking out nightsoil would shout out "Gardez - l'eau!" ("Look out - water!"), which slurred into "Gardy-loo!". Hence we have the loo.

I think I’m one of those people too

WGACA don’t forget the year in reception class, which would make it five years.

Yeah, well, they've got their "quarter of four". Is that a quarter to or a quarter past?

That's not quite accurate by year 1 - some children could have done 1 or 2 years in school (Nursery and Reception)

Adding 4 - gives you the lower age and adding 5 will give you the higher one

So in year 1 - you teach 5 -6 year olds at the other end year 12 - (old school 6th form) the students would be 16-17.

I always picture him toddling off to the market with his wicker basket without a care in the world and refuse to believe otherwise.

Omg

eeyore

of course it is

i am nearly 60…