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Obvious things that suddenly registered to you.

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Soubriquet · 28/01/2023 18:43

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!

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Mannymoomin · 29/01/2023 01:31

FlipFlopBattle · 29/01/2023 01:28

@Mannymoomin 😄 so you spent your childhood thinking you were living right next to a top-secret Disney theme park that your parents for some reason wouldn't take you to?! Can imagine that would cause a level of resentment 😁.

Hope you finally made it to one of the actual ones to make up for those years of disappointment?

Oh I did, but I spent far too many years wondering why I got Sundown adventure land instead of Disney 😂

dysongirl · 29/01/2023 01:32

I'm an intelligent 50 year old lol
But I was 49 years old while watching the voice u.k. and realising Will.i.am was actually short for William 😳

Mañanarama · 29/01/2023 01:32

I was pretty shocked when I saw the Elgin Marbles and they weren’t round.

overtaxedunderling · 29/01/2023 01:34

LipsSoScarlet · 29/01/2023 01:02

Donkeys in France say Colin instead of Eeyore?

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Years ago, in France we bought a stuffed Eeyore for a friend called Colin because that was the name on the box.
Wikipedia (on the internet - so it must be right) tells me it should be Bourriquet - but rather more shockingly that Christopher-Robin is Jean-Christophe and that Hundred Acre Wood is the Forest of Blue Dreams ... I appear to be in an episode of Black Mirror

minou123 · 29/01/2023 01:39

dysongirl · 29/01/2023 01:32

I'm an intelligent 50 year old lol
But I was 49 years old while watching the voice u.k. and realising Will.i.am was actually short for William 😳

I feel you

I've been watching the court case with the rapper Flo Rida. And it's just clicked his name is clearly a play on Florida, because that's where his is from.

I swear I'm not this stupid normally.

Ilovetea33 · 29/01/2023 01:41

I didn't know that about the film Oliver! Reading up on it, I see that it was Kathe Green, the daughter of the musical director Johnny Green, who dubbed all of Mark Lester's singing.

Nicewarmfeet · 29/01/2023 01:49

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.

🤯🤯🤯

Morestrangethings · 29/01/2023 01:52

WeWereInParis · 28/01/2023 20:53

Oh yes I always thought this too!

I also thought the quote "Houston, we have a problem" was them talking to a man with the name Houston, and telling him that there was a problem.

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The ‘Houston, we have a problem.’ Is my favourite one yet. 😄😂

Underminer · 29/01/2023 02:04

Thought of another. My gran used to enjoy watching Western films with cowboys in. She wanted to know why lots of Mexicans were called Amigo. She must’ve been 80 when she realised it isn’t a name!

HabitualVoyeur · 29/01/2023 02:04

I had never heard of narwhals until I played a card game that had them in it. I’m still not 100% convinced they exist but have been assured by DH they do 🤷🏼‍♀️

The Christmas Carol ‘we wish you a merry Christmas’ is to you and your kin, not king (I only realised when DD was singing in a play)!

Nicewarmfeet · 29/01/2023 02:15

I can't find the post again to quote it but the person who wrote about their mate singing "tights that I've shat in" to the tune of nights in white satin - thank you you've given me the first proper belly laugh of 2023 ❤️.

Seiheiki · 29/01/2023 02:33

@mumsnet can I nominate this thread for classics please?

OutForBreakfast · 29/01/2023 02:33

Nicewarmfeet · 29/01/2023 01:49

🤯🤯🤯

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I have gone through this thread thinking - well that is obvious!! Until I got to this one. This is a genuine revelation.

Heathcote294 · 29/01/2023 02:36

I only realised last week that the lyrics to the Annie Lennox song 'no more I love yous' are:

'No more I love yous, the language is leaving me'
NOT
'No more I love yous, the land which is leaving me'

🤯

Mumtobabyhavoc · 29/01/2023 02:36

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.

Ohhhh. So, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc is shorthand....clever. 😁

Mathsisquitehard · 29/01/2023 02:49

Square numbers and triangle/triangular numbers.

sashh · 29/01/2023 02:54

Soubriquet · 28/01/2023 21:27

I’m assuming it means the time take away 10 mins.

So T minus 10 mins right now would be 21.37.

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T is for time, the time of an event. T-10 is useful because the event may change.

So if you are going to raid a drugs gang at 10.00am and you need to be in place 10 mins before you need to be there at 9.50.

But something happens and the raid is changed to 12.00 you need to be in place and 11.50 which is still T-10.

sashh · 29/01/2023 03:01

moonwitchmum · 29/01/2023 01:27

I always thought Disney was Gisnep and it was French way of spelling it. I still can’t not see Gisnep.

I’m baffled by square numbers. Why are they square? I failed maths though so maybe I’m being dense

Square numbers are square.

Get some squared paper and fill in 4 squares next to each other in a square shape.

Then fill in 9 in a square shape. Then 16.

Now look at the square shape, one side is the 'square root' or the square number.

You can do this with counters too, put them into squares, you can only do this with square numbers.

AutumnalLeaves38 · 29/01/2023 03:01

@FarmGirl78
My friend at 12 years old refused to believe me when I had to explain that "Anon" was not a girls name, no matter how many people called that wrote into the Just Seventeen problem page!

Ah, yes, old Anon must've been kept pretty busy, what with her quotations and poetry sideline as well!

Aussiegirl123456 · 29/01/2023 03:01

Caveat this by saying it’s before he was a household name.

Elon Musk is actually a human, not a scent or perfume.

LipsSoScarlet · 29/01/2023 03:09

Aussiegirl123456 · 29/01/2023 03:01

Caveat this by saying it’s before he was a household name.

Elon Musk is actually a human, not a scent or perfume.

Dying 🤣

but is he actually human? Are you sure? I’m not.

Rosiesmydog · 29/01/2023 03:34

My headmistress in infants name was Mystery Wharfer…well that’s what I thought.
I was well over 40 before I realised she was actually Miss Trewartha 😳

mummaxi · 29/01/2023 03:52

TwoMonthsOff · 28/01/2023 21:25

@Soubriquet
gots me thinking….another one I keep hearing is “T minus ten minutes’
I’ve tried to work that one out but I still don’t know what the T means

they’re often saying it in the American nonsense shows I watch

It is literally time - 10 mins

clpsmum · 29/01/2023 03:54

3luckystars · 28/01/2023 23:54

Rainbows are circular. I only found this out a few months ago and have told everyone I have met since, they keep saying ‘yeah I know, everyone knows!’ But I did not know!!! I still can’t quite believe it.

I suppose it’s like a lot of things in life, it’s about perspective and the way you look at them from your little place on the earth.

I didn't know that!

America12 · 29/01/2023 04:01

I thought the person letting off clays (clay pigeon) was called Paul 🙄

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