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Obvious things that suddenly registered to you.

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Soubriquet · 28/01/2023 18:43

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!

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JudgeJ · 29/01/2023 16:17

sashh · 29/01/2023 11:16

Square number - I've given one explanation but another is that square numbers have a square root that is an integer ie a whole number.

So 4 is a square number because it has the square root 2.
9 is a square number because it has the square root 3.

If you get some oxo cubes out then you can make squares with them, put 4 together in a square.

Then if you put another 4 on top you have a cube made with 8 cubes so the cube has cube root of 2.

If you look on a calculator the square root symbol has a 2 on it.

Or put it another way if you multiply a whole number by itself you are 'squaring' that number and creating a squared number.

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You're omitting the squares of negative numbers are positives and a negative number can only have a square root in the rarified atmosphere of complex numbers!

CoolShoeshine · 29/01/2023 16:22

JudgeJ · 29/01/2023 16:11

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

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New York also on the same latitude as Rome! I only found that out when I was planning a trip there and Googled to see if it was North or South of London!

Crestaq · 29/01/2023 16:23

I thought Hubelot was a substitute always coming on in the Euros

JudgeJ · 29/01/2023 16:28

OliveWah · 29/01/2023 13:37

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!

Hope the girls weren't hysterical, there's a word to investigate is they enjoy fuming!

pairofrollerskates · 29/01/2023 16:29

TwoMonthsOff · 28/01/2023 21:10

And Garth in Wayne’s World …….’excellent’ 😭😭

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Dana Carvey is Garth

JudgeJ · 29/01/2023 16:30

ortonym · 29/01/2023 13:45

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..."

😂

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Don't know if it's just a myth but apparently a company Pen Island that sold expensive pens wanted a website in that name so they set up penisland.com

Funkyslippers · 29/01/2023 16:36

risefromyourgrave I don't think "not if I see you first" means that. It just means I might see you before you see me

JudgeJ · 29/01/2023 16:40

This afternoon I have learned that if you put something in the oven for 40 minutes then start reading an amusing MN thread it burns! Back to the drawing board for an evening meal now.

Cantthinkofabettername · 29/01/2023 16:44

@JudgeJ 😂😂😂

MsAdoraBelleDearheartVonLipwig · 29/01/2023 16:48

My friend used to sing it as "tights that I've shat in" but that was a joke.

Oh my fucking god.

Crying. 😂

MoleAtTheCounter · 29/01/2023 16:50

Until my 40s I thought that T. Rex had a song about a metal gnu.

Nights in White Satin. I copied this from a YouTube description -

It was written by Justin Hayward at nineteen years old when he was inspired by satin bedsheets a girlfriend had given him. He explained that "it was a very emotional time" as he "was at the end of one big love affair and the start of another."

yodayoga1 · 29/01/2023 16:58

My friend took her very long-haired cat to the vet because it had a tick. She had considered trying to get it out with pliers herself. Thank Christ she didn't. Vet told her it was the cat's nipple.

America12 · 29/01/2023 17:07

RedAndBlueStripedGolfingUmbrella · 29/01/2023 15:59

@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

Oh I thought it was taking the biscuit

MatildaJayne · 29/01/2023 17:13

Funkyslippers · 29/01/2023 16:36

risefromyourgrave I don't think "not if I see you first" means that. It just means I might see you before you see me

It’s a jokey response and really does mean, ‘I’ll avoid you if I see you.’

Bytrgrewd · 29/01/2023 17:25

jaundicedoutlook · 29/01/2023 10:18

Terry = Terence

Therefore Barry = Barence

Garry = Garrence?

America12 · 29/01/2023 17:31

@Nicewarmfeet @GherkOut I thought Paul
must have been bloody busy 😂

lifelongrest · 29/01/2023 17:35

stormelf · 28/01/2023 20:23

I was in my late 20s when I realised Ned was short for Edward. I just assumed it was short for Nedmund

Ha! I used to think the name Paddy was short for Paddington!

y’know, like the bear!

Daleksatemyshed · 29/01/2023 17:36

@BangaloreLulu thank you, I had no idea!

shrunkenhead · 29/01/2023 17:36

What actually IS STBXH? I assumed Stepbrother's ex husband.....

2ndMrsdeWinter · 29/01/2023 17:36

I was deeply shocked (and very amused) when I found out that calling someone a ‘berk’ is short for ‘Berkeley hunt’ - which is Cockney rhyming slang for ‘cunt’.

WeWereInParis · 29/01/2023 17:39

shrunkenhead · 29/01/2023 17:36

What actually IS STBXH? I assumed Stepbrother's ex husband.....

Soon to be ex-husband

Funkyslippers · 29/01/2023 17:41

MatildaJayne oh bloody hell. You are so right. It makes sense when you think about it😂

kafkascastle · 29/01/2023 17:43

I always thought the first line of the song Israelites was 'Get up in the morning, same thing for breakfast...'

It is actually, 'Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir.'

shrunkenhead · 29/01/2023 17:44

@WeWereInParis thank you so much! 14 years I've been on MN!!!! I'm learning so much today!

LuluBlakey1 · 29/01/2023 17:55

longtompot · 29/01/2023 13:10

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😆

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I still don't understand it. 😁Three people have offered different explanations on the thread and I don't understand how any of them make this expression at ll helpful.

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