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!

One of my DDs came home from school quite outraged one day a few years ago, having realised that "History" is quite literally "His Story", or the interpretation and recording of an event by a man. There was quite some debate in class over the possibility of rebranding the subject to "Theirstory", which went down like a lead balloon. DD now thinks schools are misogynistic, but "Herstory" (as the girls in her class now call it) is still one of her favourite subjects!

No one knows/knew that did they??

Yes. Why else did people think it was abbreviated in that manner?

DH and I drove past a sign for Therapie clinic and he exclaims what the hell is The-Rapey 🙈

I thought one of the University Challenge teams was actually sitting above the other - like some sort of clever Celebrity Squares!

I recall the same debate during our reading of the handmaids tale at school!

Most of you are just plain obtuse 😆

I recall something similar in (I think) a rag mag. Signwriter has just finished on the entrance door: "J Smith. The rapist"
Smith: "there's no gap there..."

😂

History doesn't come from his story though does it?

Yes, and also Eeyore is the sound a donkey makes! 😳😁

And Tigger is how a child just learning to read would read tiger.

I like those words.

I want 'sennight' to come back. Like fortnight, but seven days. Shame it went out of use.

I'm a nan in my 50s, have raised four children - and have only just realised that it's a KAgool and not a GAgool. I was corrected by a much younger work colleague 😂

It’s for people who shit under the brim. Personally I don’t know anyone who does that, but what do I know?

Me too.

OMG!

This is the thing for blind people.

When I’m bored, I’ll feel around for it and wait. It’s quite fun

Obviously I wouldn’t do it if there was someone who needed it

Your DH should expain it to the scientific comnuity - he could be in for a nobel prize!

www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/

I always thought this too 😃

He plays Fat Bastard and Gold Member too! (there might be others I'm forgetting but that's it to
he top of my head!)

Edinburgh being north of Poland and Germany for example.

It isn't, though. Yes, it made a catchy slogan to highlight how little we learn about women's lives from history books. However, the word history ultimately comes from Ancient Greek where it meant a narrative or something you knew because you witnessed it or enquired into it. It's a complete accident that in English it sounds like his story.

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If it wasn't for the Gulf Stream, we'd be the same temperature and weather as Moscow.

I still refuse to believe that lightening goes up. That just doesn’t make any sense.

that we drive right hand cars on the left side of the road is not a mistake, it’s the side the driver is on

that oblong is a shape and also an adjective. I’m a maths teacher and I’ve always told students there is no such shape as an oblong. Wrong! An oblong is wider than it is tall so landscape is oblong, portrait isn’t, you can have oblong triangles, oblong circles (ovals, not ovoids)

and rainbows can’t be round, surely 🤯🤯🤯. That goes in my lightening box!

@Crumpetdisappointment like in Young Ones parody? Me too!

Have not RTFT so apologies if someone else has already said this one, but mine is

NEWS

Until v recently I never connected the word "news" with, you know, 'new things happening'