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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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FabbyDab · 29/01/2023 08:54

I thought this emojiBiscuit was used on MN to call someone an asshole.

pristinesurfacesGBTD · 29/01/2023 08:54

Soubriquet · 28/01/2023 21:54

Oh, it wasn’t until I was late teens that I worked out that Lindsey Lohan played both twins in Parent Trap and she didn’t have a twin sister in real life

Hayley Mills did the same in the original movie, in the 60's?

LakieLady · 29/01/2023 08:55

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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That's not so daft.

I once knew a Barry, and it was only when we went to France and he asked me to look after his passport that I found out his first name was actually Barrington.

ThisIsTotallyNewInformation · 29/01/2023 08:57

FabbyDab · 29/01/2023 08:54

I thought this emojiBiscuit was used on MN to call someone an asshole.

🤣🤣 I think I prefer that meaning, brilliant 😆

Benjispruce4 · 29/01/2023 08:57

@FabbyDab 😂

pristinesurfacesGBTD · 29/01/2023 08:57

BettyBoozer · 28/01/2023 22:21

I learnt from watching number blocks last week with my 5 year old that square numbers were called that because they made a square shape.

I am 41 with an A at GCSE maths. Never once did this come up at school. Husband looked at me like I was mental when I excitedly told him...

I don't understand any of this🙄 can you please give an example?

FabFitFifties · 29/01/2023 08:59

I have, until this day, imagined Knights galloping along with white satin flowing in the wind behind them, in a romantic fashion. Ruined.

Benjispruce4 · 29/01/2023 08:59

@MistletoeandBaileys he got that from Terry Wogan. He always played and joked ‘Take your teeth out’ on his breakfast show.

pristinesurfacesGBTD · 29/01/2023 09:00

SnackyOnassis · 28/01/2023 22:36

I didn't go to school in the UK and have always struggled with what ages correspond to year groups at school - for over a decade I've nodded and smiled when colleagues said they had a year 4 or a year 9 child and been none the wiser about whether they were in nappies or due to graduate soon.

I have just worked out in the last month that if I add 4 (the typical age a child starts school) to the year group in question, I can ballpark the age of the child. I wish I'd known this years ago!

Yep, same here. Had no idea how old kids were🤣

Crayfishforyou · 29/01/2023 09:00

The characters in Frozen spell out Hans Christian Anderson.
Hans, Christian, Anna, Sven.
I had to spend three years of my life watching that at least twice a day, and never realised it.

Crayfishforyou · 29/01/2023 09:01

Christoff rather

ComeTheSpringLobelia · 29/01/2023 09:02

I am 50 and literally it registered this weekend that if you want to be fit and healthy you have to actually do something about it.

I joined a gym yesterday and i have my first class tomorrow.

Crumpetdisappointment · 29/01/2023 09:02

still dont understand the six

and interesting about the raspberry, tart

when i was a child we had a cat that ran away to get married

Benjispruce4 · 29/01/2023 09:03

www.twinkl.co.uk/teaching-wiki/square-number
Here you go @pristinesurfacesGBTD

GrumpySausage · 29/01/2023 09:04

CrystalCoco · 28/01/2023 21:28

That cats and dogs have belly buttons - unless you're hatched out of an egg, you've got a belly button...(might not be visible due to fur, and maybe not a deep button like a human, but umbilical = belly button

How many people immediately flipped their dog over to check? 🙋🏻‍♀️

Loveisinthehair · 29/01/2023 09:04

That the cars, lorries and vans are not all reversing up my street.

Instead, I've been scrolling through
the video on my new Ring doorbell backwards! Blush

(When I looked closely, all the schoolchildren were walking backwards to school, too)

Benjispruce4 · 29/01/2023 09:06

Some of these are hilarious!

FarmGirl78 · 29/01/2023 09:06

In Silent Night, round yon virgin was not, as I heard and sang, “Round John Virgin”

This reminds me of the friend who thought God's first name was Peter.

"Thanks be to God".

Benjispruce4 · 29/01/2023 09:07

Peter God!!!! Hahahhahaha

Corgiowner · 29/01/2023 09:08

Puffalicious · 28/01/2023 22:43

It took my 13 year old DS , some 5 years ago, to explain to me how the tides are controlled by the pull of the moon. Before then I just thought they slopped around according to the seasons/ time or something.

I an a very well travelled teacher 😳

I live by the sea and we have a huge tidal range, a friend in her 50's came to stay and said "wheres the sea gone?' I jokingly said "someones pulled the plug out" she then in all seriousness asked "when would it be it be back"? She was absolutely amazed when I said we had a high tide/low tide x 2 roughly twice a stay and just kept saying "who manages it" she laughed and thought I was winding her up when I said its primarily to do with the gravitational pull of the moon? She's also widely travelled.

Benjispruce4 · 29/01/2023 09:08

I thought that Neil Diamond was singing about a very cool vicar when he wrote Reverend Blue Jeans…….😳

DeoForty · 29/01/2023 09:09

Only recently someone told me that a Baker's Dozen is a concept and doesn't mean that when I go to a bakery and ask for a dozen rolls, I'll get 13.

DappledThings · 29/01/2023 09:10

Crayfishforyou · 29/01/2023 09:00

The characters in Frozen spell out Hans Christian Anderson.
Hans, Christian, Anna, Sven.
I had to spend three years of my life watching that at least twice a day, and never realised it.

I'm not buying that anymore than the idea that the old man in Up is dead or that the chicken crossing the road joke is about death.

They are all just ideas someone has had based on a pattern/interpretation they have come up with. Not fact.

FarmGirl78 · 29/01/2023 09:11

And the friend's Daughter who's surname was 'Watt', and she thought Jesus was related to her. She was wearing a badge saying 'Jesus saves' and proudly showed her Gran and said "It says Jesus" and Gran replied "Jesus what?" and child thrilled that Jesus was obviously a relative 🤣

Kitcaterpillar · 29/01/2023 09:11

pristinesurfacesGBTD · 29/01/2023 08:51

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

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My husband makes me practice radio comms with him when he's on courses so I know the answer...

  1. Speed
  2. Clarity - bad radio lines, easier to understand if you know what someone is going to say
  3. Men take themselves very seriously
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