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!

Does everyone know that Edinburgh is further west than Cardiff? (It's very close).

I only learnt this when I was doing homeschooling during covid 😅

That’s so interesting, thanks.

Hang on, I'm confused, how does this work?

Excellent question 😂

The mother bites each cord off after each pup is born. Same with cats.
I am glad that humans do not do this.

Thank god I am not alone. Took me years 😳

so do puppies come out along with their placenta?

If you watch an animation of the tides, then "slop" isn't a bad description. Although driven by the moon's gravity, the effect of land, channels, islands, estuaries, etc. produces very uneven effects. Not all locations have two high tides per day.

Wait wait… you mean the tide can be out on both sides of the Channel at the same time? How?

@moonwitchmum a Square number is a number multiplied by itself. e.g. 3 x 3
If you make a row of 3 little blocks across (or squares on squared paper) then make 3 rows down of these same blocks /squares .... you get a square... 3 blocks wide by 3 blocks high. 3 x 3 (3 squared) = 9.
And if you count the blocks there are 9.
They are a square shape.

If you did the same for 4 x 2 you would have two rows of four blocks. This would make a rectangle.

(Note: a square is just a rectangle with equal length sides)

😂

I hope nobody on this thread is home schooling their DC.

I'm going to suggest Barence next time I wander on to a baby name thread.

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www.twinkl.co.uk/teaching-wiki/square-number

Already posted this upthread.

Also had a friend who didn’t realise cows can’t produce milk if they haven’t given birth to a calf, and that male cows don’t produce milk 😅

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Britain is as far north as some infamously cold places but is protected from extreme cold by ...I want to say the North Atlantic Drift? Anyway, it's pure luck we're not far more frequently absolute brass monkeys.

I was probably about 25 before I realised that the game ‘Sleeping Lions’ at a kids birthday party wasn’t a challenge to see who could be the stillest. It was so your mum could hide and chill out from 20 screaming kids 😆

yes , sadly only discovered in the last 20 years that cows need to have calfs in order to have, so the calves are taken away and we get the milk and the cheese and whatnot

I'm going to have to go and search the cats for navels. I hope I survive (I did know dogs have them, but dogs are easygoing about belly rubs).

In Rizzoli and Isles the mean scary nun who comes to give the police department support on something or other insists that Barry Frost's real name is Barold and that it is a noble name meaning spear carrier. Barry looks unconvinced but doesn't argue - any more than a friend of mine did when a priest insisted on christening her baby Barry as Barnabas nearly 70 years ago. People really should mind their own business about other people's names, particularly when they're WRONG.

My NCIS/JAG franchise thing is 'clicks' for Kilometers. Why, even?

Does everyone know Liam is the Irish form of William? I have uncles and cousins who get known variously as William, Bill or Liam depending on which friends they're with.

No. The placentae come out after all the pups are born.
It's the same with human twins/triplets.
The placentae are delivered after both/all the babies are delivered.

Does everyone know Liam is the Irish form of William? I have uncles and cousins who get known variously as William, Bill or Liam depending on which friends they're with.
i noticed that just yesterday regarding a Liam (William)

Harry = Harence.