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!

Reading the problem pages in Mizz etc as a youngster, many were signed off Anon.

I can remember remarking to my sister that it seemed such a common name yet we'd never come across anyone in real life called Anon.

Gulf Stream.

Me too - I assumed it was connected with 'dreidl' which is a spinning top that you play with on Hannukah.

When I was at school and learning French, the teacher went round the class and asked everybody their first name so as to translate to French. Colin, who was quite a well built boy, became known from then on as "Clang". His younger, much slighter, brother was called "Ting". 😂

I heard it was because it stands for North East West South= NEWS = global/ national information

The day after tomorrow is often referred to in Scotland as " the next again day" which i rather like.
Not today,not tomorrow but the next again day.

*I don't understand the expression 'Just giving you a heads up'. Can anyone explain it?

giving you advance notice*

@Family121 she knows it's meaning, she was wondering why it's "heads up" specifically 🙂

I'm guessing you don't know what a learning curve means either 😂

Yes. But there is a film where this is the plot isn't there - presume that's what people are drawing on? Actually I think maybe there are two films with this plot - one where it's explicit that the character is a guardian angel and another where you only realise at the end?

And this is why that term and particularly that (sponsored) thread on a parenting site makes me want to fucking gag.

See also 'play' EURGH

This has only been introduced quite recently, it's not like for years it's been a secret that no one had spotted

My dh just told me this after I read the ops post. Apparently it's a military term, to prepare for combat by having your heads up display up and ready.

Dried currants are tiny grapes. I was almost convinced they were dried black currants from the pp post about it, but Dr Google put me right😆

WHAT?????? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Harry= Hawrence = Harold
Barry = Bawrence = Barold
Larry = Lawrence = Larold
There are also fine new names if you add Bert or Fred to the end as Albert and Alfred.

So you can get Harbert, Harfred, Barbert, Barfred, Larbert and Larfred

🙂

You can safely tell your husband that he's talking bollocks. The term 'heads up' was used years before the first Heads Up Display was in use.

Or Nedward.

Probably the ones that think anchovies are vegetables...

My friend thought that God's name was Harold, because in the Lord's Prayer it said 'Harold be Thy name'.

No indeed. It's nonsense!

Surely the donkey being called Colin is just a name rather than what a donkey "says"?

I read somewhere it's "notable events, weather and sport" but thats probably BS. I think it's just news= "new" and breaking information

No one knows/knew that did they??

Traditionally it's called "over morrow" but nobody uses it, which is a shame! Perhaps we should all try to bring it back....

Heads up = look up. In television studios - look up at the camera (because the VT or commercial break is about to end so you need to be ready)

Sometimes you can see the presenters have been caught out.

Do/did.