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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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Cosycover · 29/01/2023 08:14

Carl is 100% alive in UP. That's just a crazy fan theory.

Bytrgrewd · 29/01/2023 08:17

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.

Yes my knights were wearing white satin too! I can still picture them clearly…

MyFlagMeansIceCream · 29/01/2023 08:24

minou123 · 29/01/2023 01:39

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.

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Oh god. I thought it was Flow Rider - because he liked surfing or something

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Soubriquet · 29/01/2023 08:24

BorderlineBagpuss · 28/01/2023 23:51

Ricky Gervais said that the duck billed platypus is the only mammal to lay eggs. And he thought that was a good thing because it could make its own custard. I couldn’t stop laughing…

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True but also wrong.

Echidnas are also egg laying mammals

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HadEnoughOfBears · 29/01/2023 08:25

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.

Why did so many of us think this??

Nicewarmfeet · 29/01/2023 08:26

America12 · 29/01/2023 04:01

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

This has properly tickled me!

Paul! 🕊️💥
😂😂😂

(dove emoji replacing the clay pigeon as I can't find a little grey disk emoji - felt I needed to explain that on this thread 😂)

AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair · 29/01/2023 08:28

Seiheiki · 29/01/2023 02:33

@mumsnet can I nominate this thread for classics please?

When youve been on here a while you'll see this thread every few weeks and the things are always the same, I'm surprised noone has mentioned baby vests or the channe l tunnel or portsmouth

Bytrgrewd · 29/01/2023 08:29

OnaBegonia · 28/01/2023 23:23

i only just learned that jim is the shortened version of James
And Jimmy, Jamie, Jaz
Here in Scotland we can shorten/NN anything 🤣

I know a Hamish that is often called Jim (or Jimbo or James!). Same name really of course

Benjispruce4 · 29/01/2023 08:32

One of my very clever friends at school once asked me (in the sixth form common room so at least 16) how wee got through a tampax when we have a period….. when I told her about separate orifices she went very pale.

Dropzonefourpleaseben · 29/01/2023 08:34

I was well into my 40’s before I realised that the USA and Russia are next to each other. They seem so far apart on a flat map of the world!

parababe · 29/01/2023 08:34

bluebeardswife7 · 29/01/2023 00:10

It is now

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Bloody hell.... Up till right now I thought it was 'Stab the bastard ex husband'..... Is it not?? what the blimmin heck does it mean then...???

Benjispruce4 · 29/01/2023 08:35

Soon to be ex husband

PurpleReindeer2 · 29/01/2023 08:36

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 😳

😅😅🤣🤣🤣

Lovingtheglitter · 29/01/2023 08:40

I found out this year at 51 that hyperbole isn't said like hyper bowl but hi purr bow lee - I still can't say it like it should be said and read hyper bowl in my head!

DorisParchment · 29/01/2023 08:41

I was in my 30s when I found out that “ladle” wasn’t a Yiddish word. I’d been calling it a “soup scoop” to non-family, when a friend said “Do you mean the ladle?” In my defence, it sounds like it should be Yiddish…

Benjispruce4 · 29/01/2023 08:42

@Lovingtheglitter I’m a bit like that with the name Hermione .I want to say Hermyown.

borntobequiet · 29/01/2023 08:44

NewBootsAndRanty · 28/01/2023 21:21

Barold Grin

One for Baby Names

NigelHargreaves · 29/01/2023 08:45

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!!??

MistletoeandBaileys · 29/01/2023 08:45

The Abba song Chiquitita, my uncle used to sing that as “Take Your Teeth Out”. Had us all convinced those were the lyrics for years. Me and my cousins were in our late teens and twenties before we realised he had been taking the piss 😂

puttingontheritz · 29/01/2023 08:46

FangsForTheMemory · 29/01/2023 07:35

They’re not peculiar to the U.K. market. People in Germany eat them, for example. They’re called Korinthen.

They eat them in France too, they are called raisins de Corinthe.

GherkOut · 29/01/2023 08:48

America12 · 29/01/2023 04:01

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

It took me a while.
That is actually hilarious.
Paul!

Ourshoddyhouse · 29/01/2023 08:48

Errrrr Carl from UP is not dead, there's Pixar shorts on Disney + (Gisnep / Disney )
Dug Days

Also had no idea about Norton Disney 😱

darjeelingrose · 29/01/2023 08:48

WandaWonder · 29/01/2023 08:12

I thought Bill was short for William

(Could be Harry I suppose 🤣)

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It's like Elizabeth. Beth, Liz etc
Polly for Mary, now that IS confusing.

pristinesurfacesGBTD · 29/01/2023 08:51

DogInATent · 28/01/2023 21:39

No, it's so you don't have to do the maths.

You're storming the cartel hideout at 1600, right now it's 1550. But because you're told that it's T minus 10 minutes (1600 - 10 = 1550) you know straightaway the important information, that its 10 minutes to kickoff.

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So why wouldn't they just say, we're storming the cartel hideout in 10 minutes? 🙄

QOD · 29/01/2023 08:53

StrapOnYourHeroHair · 28/01/2023 21:18

When I was 21 I asked my boyfriend what his dad’s name was short for. His name is Barry.

He looked at me like I was mad and I said ‘well you know, like if Harry is short for Harold…’ With absolute bemusement, he replied ‘so for a year you’ve been thinking my dad’s name is…Barold?’ 😂

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@StrapOnYourHeroHair my American bff told me that when she met her husband Barry she asked the same and it’s been the cause of much hilarity and teasing as Barry is common in the U.K. and very rare in the USA

bit me on the arse tho when I was cackling telling the story to dhs cousin who’s hubby is Barry as I uttered the immortal lin

‘I mean, what the hell can Barry be short for?’

it’s short for Finbarr apparently. Yep.

so now they take the piss out of me

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