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!

I confess I had to read, re read and keep reading to get the light bulb 💡 moment omg. I'm on strong meds lol 😆

Not as an adult but when I was a child my favourite comic would give you a brief outline to next week’s story. One week it said ‘so and so gets a taste of her own medicine’. I read and reread the story many times unable to find a reference to medicine. It was some years later I learned what it actually meant.

@overtaxedunderling

Ah, but that's fine.

Anon has two meanings. Short for anonymous, but it also means "soon".

"I'll see you anon" means "I'll see you at an unspecified time, probably quite soon."

Fairly certain that they knew that and that it was intended as a joke.

I recall saying that to some Americans, in the States, who were horrified to realise that from Alaska, an American state, you could almost see Russia, it's less than 60 miles!

I also thought it was knights in white satin, but I swear it was because Yardley, or someone, made a perfume called White Satin and they had an advert with horse riders in billowing shirts. Could be a false memory?

That's interesting - I'm another one who thought the song was Knights in White Satin and pictured the knights riding in white shirts .

I was put right many years ago by my brother laughing hysterically .

One little sod in a Year 8 maths class insisted on pronouncing hypotenuse as Harry Potter's Pubes and every year after I had to stop myself from laughing when I started to teach Pythagoras' Thoerem.

Sorry, I'm pinching soup scoop from now on!

@ortonym you could be right but can't be too sure judging by this thread

I thought Clay pigeons were a kind of pigeon .

Find 9 equal sized coins and lay them out in 3 rows of 3, they make a square. Similarly with 16, 25, 36 etc etc., 4x4, 5x5, 6x6

I'm absolutely certain.

The Kenwood food processor is named after the engineer Ken Wood who invented it!

Russia sold Alaska to the USA, which I expect Putin and other tyrants have regretted since.

It was more when I told him the ops story he mentioned it. I looked it up and told him it came from the 18th century and it was for the troops to keep moral up

I thought that it was offering a biscuit to be kind - like the tea and cake emojis.

I used to think it was a gerbera, or similar flower.

Many people were surprised that Berlin was actually in East Germany and not on the border of East and West.

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Oh my giddy aunt. I'll have to nip out now to look. Thank you.

@FabbyDab @shinynewapple22
The biscuit emoji is used to say no comment
As in I can't even be arsed commenting, you are not worthy of a proper reply 😁
From the days of yore when Gordon Brown came onto here for a webchat and failed to say what his favourite biscuit was. Hence the biscuit emoji

Bartholomew used to be abbreviated to Barty, as fans of Tom's Midnight Garden may remember.

Yes, when my daughter was planning a move from Bristol to Edinburgh she got quote snitty at me when I said she was moving further west! I used to always picture the UK as a bus driver, Cornwall and Devon were his legs, East Anglia his big behind, Scotland and North England the head and shoulders and Ireland the steering wheel! It's surprising how the M 62 runs almost ENE rather than East.

And Inverness is further west than Plymouth.

New York is almost the same latitude as Madird, I had to get the map out years ago when OH said this!

Settle doon Perfect Peter