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!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi5SJKI6RpU
Here it is.

Surely everyone realises that ?

Long time back, an all male team found they were playing St Hilda's (?) all female team and that they (the lads) were to be on the bottom row. As the first question was being asked, they tilted their heads backwards to look up the girls' skirts. 😀

I was the same, but with the original film with Hayley Mills.

Never met one myself, but I've worked with folks who obviously have. They often ended their phone calls with "I'll see you, Anon".

How are puppies born then? Is it one from the left horn, then one from the right? Or all from one side first? Or it does it just depends which gets to the cervix first?

The teams actually did sit one on top of the other for a brief time. Then, the set design was changed to have the teams sittings next to each other, and a split screen technique was used to show one above the other.

Never met one myself, but I've worked with folks who obviously have. They often ended their phone calls with "I'll see you, Anon"

😂😂😂😂😂😂

From Wikipedia, “The split-screen presentation during the starter question phase, which appears to place one team physically above the other. In the final years of the original Bamber Gascoigne era, the studio set genuinely was two-tiered, although the split-screen effect returned for the revived series and has been used ever since”.

Clearly not

The band ABBA. I'm in my 50s n only discovered this a year ago...it's an acronym, referring to first initial of each member. I feel so stupid lol

A gnetha
B ennie
B jorn
A nni-frid

More mis-heard lyric really.. From 'Summer, the first time' I could never understand why anyone would 'slip on a tulip'

Anon means soon as well though. So, I’ll see you soon.

The ads featured a maths problem. Only smarties, (clever people), know the answer.

In German halb vier, translated as half four, means 3.30. half an hour before 4 o'clock which causes some problems occasionally.

I realised just before Christmas that Polly Pockets are Poly Pockets and so called due to the material from which they are made and not named after a toy or a cute nickname

Tell her it comes from the Greek word Histoire - which apparently means ‘to enquire’. They can say the word history now without worrying it’s sexist 😁

That's why the millenium was celebrated a year too early, it would have been the start of 2001, not 2000.

The millennium WAS the start of 2001. People wrongly assumed that it was 2000 because the change from 19.. to 20... If you consider:
first century: year 1 to 100
2nd century: 101 to 200
3rd century: 201 .... etc.

Never knew this 😳

I'm 51 and you've just told me this haha 😄

It's also true that any two consecutive triangle numbers make a square number, eg 1 + 3 = 4 ! You can demonstrate this by using coins although algebra gives the proof!

Growing up and driving near London, I was always amazed at the sheer number of toilet signs all missing the i’s to show where the toilets were….I was probably early teens when I realised they were actually ‘to let’ signs not lots of misspelt toilets

Me too

Oh! Of course