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!

What does it mean? It looks like a donut🤷‍♀️

What is it for?

I've mentioned this one before probably several times, given how often we have threads like this. I was an auditor in my 20s. On one job I had to check a sample of sales invoices, i.e. printed copies of the invoice that would go to the customer, doubling up as the delivery note. Each invoice showed the billing address and the delivery address. As I leafed through, I noticed that although all the customers were different, they all had the same delivery address. Odd, I thought, but maybe it means our client has an arrangement with a delivery firm, so they deliver the goods there and the delivery firm completes the job. Eventually I asked my colleague about this. I still remember vividly the look on his face when I asked him if we knew anything about this other firm, Del Asap.

It's a biscuit. I think it dates back to the time Gordon Brown agreed to do a webchat and got an absolute pasting here, when he'd clearly been expecting a cosy chat about his favourite biscuits. As far as I can make out, is used to indicate something along the lines of 'So what/That's nice, dear/Not interested'.

This is very funny.

(Specifically, it's a jammy dodger, isn't it?)

Louis Armstrong - Its Wonderful World

He sang,
'The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night'

I sang,
The bright blessed day, the dogs say goodnight '

🙁

Breakfast. You sleep 7-8 hours, so you go without food for that long, so you are fasting. And then you wake up and break the fasting when you have your first meal.

😂😂 It definitely is from now on!

@BellePeppa , @WimbyAce - if you type

[ biscuit ]

but without the spaces it will appear as

I think it's a jammy dodger, and I think some MNetters use it as a wordless response to a poster starting a thread which is a bit over-the-top / trying too hard, to say perhaps "calm down" or even "I'm not sure I believe you". But maybe there's someone who can give a more definitive description.

Sometimes they are being moved, they may be going to winter/summer grazing, to the market to be sold and on to their new farm after being sold.

Ah yes had a similar conversation about Bill being short for William.

Poor colleague could not understand why we all called the chap whose email address was William Bill and doggedly continued to call him William. His mind was blown when we explained, and then added Robert/Bob, Henry/Harry, John/Jack, Elizabeth/Betty etc

There is definitely a horse/Knight in the bottom right-hand corner!

🤣🤣🤣🤣

English school year numbering is an odd system, but it helps if you remember that the law says children must be in full-time education from the age of 5, so Year 1 is the first year of compulsory education. The children are 5 when they start on 1st September and will turn 6 before they get to year 2 the following year. Of course, most children actually start school the year before. I don't know why that year is called Reception. That goes back long before the National Curriculum. My mum taught Reception class in the late 70s/early 80s.

If you put your head up you'll be looking up literally and paying attention.

My friend couldn’t understand why her friends and family had taken to calling themselves Lol at the end of texts and messages.

The "watch your six" is just a way to quickly make you look in a direction.

Imagine you are in the centre of a clock:
Look straight ahead- everything you can see in front of you is in your 12 o clock position.
Look to your right - everything you can see to your right is in your 3 o clock position
Look to your left - everything you can see to your left us in your 9 o clock position.
Finally - if you look behind you - eveything that's behind you is in your 6 o clock position.

So, when someone says "watch your six", it is a quick way to say "Watch your six o click position"
Or "remember to check what's behind you"
Or "watch your back"

Have you ever watched war films, and some bloke shouts "ENEMY FIRE, 3 O CLOCK"
They dont mean the enemy is going to turn up in 5 hours.
They mean the enemy position is on thier right. Now everyone can quickly know where the enemy is.

And surely I wasn’t the only person that thought I Claudius was pronounced I Clavdivs 🙊

Something that threw me when visiting Berlin, and I know has confused others, is that West Berlin is an 'island' surrounded by East Germany and when spies were exchanged on Glienicke Bridge (Bridge of Spies) the released western spy was walking east into West Berlin.

I was well into my mid-fifties before I realised that in Asterix, the Druid’s name had been changed, from Getafix to Panoramix, because the former was too obviously drug related!
Also, the leap from Margaret to Meg to Peggy I’ve always thought took a certain oblique mental gymnastics😂
What I’ve been excited to learn today, is that James and Hamish are the same name - especially when linked with the Irish version, Seamus!
… Gustopher😂😂😂😂😂

I'd spend a night in satin sheets with Sean Bean ❤

Me too!

I genuinely don’t know how I have got to nearly 70 years old without realising a number of things on this thread 🫣

I wrote lol to someone once at the end of an email at work and they obvs got the wrong idea and started giving me xxxxx back 😂So awkward