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!

StrapOnYourHeroHair · Today 11:08

People really should mind their own business about other people's names, particularly when they're WRONG.

Oh behave. What a ridiculous post.

Not ridiculous. Maybe inadequately contextualised. My friend's baby had developmental issues, she wanted him to have a family name, and the priest's attitude still caused her distress sixty years after the event, decades after Barry's death. Particularly since Barry is a saint's name so quite unexceptionable.

Maybe you should behave. Or are you an actual prefect?

Darth Vader's real name is Dartholomew SpaceInvader. Fact.

(not really )

I’m not reading 26 pages but I didn’t understand the ‘to get to the other side’ chicken joke until a couple of years ago.

Ian is of Scot’s origin.
There’s many versions of John; Ieuan, Ivan, Juan etc

I learned this about male dogs having nipples, one of which (without my glasses) I had mistaken for a tick. Fortunately I had only showed DH, who looked at me like I was a lunatic and told me what I was looking at, and not tried to remove it. 😮I was like, but he's a MALE, why does he have NIPPLES?! To which DH replied, well I'm a male and I have them too!

@ Lizzy,Off topic a bit but I recently found out that the day after tomorrow is called ‘overmorrow’

Me too! I am doing my best to resurrect it, I think it's a lovely word ( though I have had weird looks from family and friends) I will persevere😆

Nights in White Satin......

Surely this is about letters he wrote but didn't send.

That's the second line of the song!

Now I'm wondering whether I confused that with an advert for writing paper from my childhood?

I heard a chap on the radio talking about numbers.

He said it would take 11 days to count to a million.

Then asked how long to count to a billion?

32 years!!!

My mind was blown, I sat there thinking 11 thousand days... blimey that is 32 years. When you hear about the government waiting or over spending by 4 billion, it makes you realise that is a lot of £1 coins!

We had children before DH realised there's no pink in a rainbow. He was singing 'Sing A Rainbow' and stopped dead after the first line as it dawned on him

WHAT.

I was in my 40's before I realised that when Larry Grayson referred to his friend Everard it was meant to be suggestive.
As a teen I just thought it was a funny name and that's why my dp's laughed.

My dd aged 5 used to sing
Away in a manger
No crisp for a bed.

No - I’m the person who wrote the Barold post. And it was a harmless event so I have nothing to feel bad about.

I was talking to my boyfriend about his dad’s name - who I knew, liked and spent a lot of time with. I wasn’t enforcing what I thought it should be but rather asking/wondering aloud whether it was short for something.

If I’d said it to his dad directly, he’d have laughed and thought I was daft.

Fufulina
Wow.
I thought the well known and respected eyewear designer Ray Ban was responsible for ray bans.
Imagine my disappointment.

It took me a long time to realise that when - in reply to “see you later” -people say “not if I see you first” it insinuates that they’ll hide from you! 😂

The gravitational pull of the moon is pulling the water towards it, like a bulge in the middle.

If you laid a towel on the floor and picked it up in the middle the sides would draw in.

I only recently twigged that Peppa and her family like jumping in muddy puddle’s because they’re pigs, not just because it’s fun*. My eldest is 6.

*to be fair all the other animals join in too!

You can dry blackcurrants, but they are not the same fruit as currants. Currants are the same as raisins and sultanas, all of those are dried grapes, just varying levels of plump/juiciness .

OH MY GOD.
I realised it wasn't 'knights' in my twenties.
But I've only just now realised that the male singer isn't wearing white satin. Maybe some kind of robe?
I did think it was quite.. bold of him to mention it - but the Seventies were very relaxed about that kind of thing.

Husband and I learnt this the hard way when we took our first cat to the vet, scrabbled around in his fur for 5 mins to find the 'concerning patch' only to the the vet look at us pityingly and say 'it is his belly button' still had to pay the £25 fee!

The equivalent human version is when people go to their GP after discovering their xiphisternum or occiput!

No. There is a set time eg the operation is starting at 11:25, so T minus 10 means that it will start in 10 minutes. Then T minus 5 minutes, get your socks on, etc.

I’ve learnt so much from this thread. I’m still amazed by the crossing cone for blind people though! Where is this? I want to find it and have a go.

I only found out a year ago that the band ABBA gets its name from the first initial of each band member
Agatha
Bjorn
Bennie
Annie

I'm in my fifties.....how did I not know this!

Am a bit mind blown that I never realised that about Everard!

When Michael Eavis decided to change the name of the Pilton Pop festival he decided on Glastonbury because he didn't like how locals referred to the town it's actually nearest to. That town is Shepton Mallet, known locally as "Shit 'n' smell it".

I was in my 30s before an incredulous dh informed me that no, I did not have the magical ability to magnetise screwdrivers, but that they are all like that, to make screwing little screws easier.

Damn. Dartholomew is a fantastic name!