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!

But what's that got to do with being given 'a heads up'?

But I'm not saying it, someone else is 'giving me a heads up'. It's nonsense.

Makes no sense to me 😁

Makes no sense to me. I'm sure it's an americanism but it's very opaque.

I thought it was cockney rhyming slang: Six pack = back!

@LuluBlakey1 I think that to give someone a heads up, just means to give them a warning. So in the theatre example, a head up was a warning to look up to check they weren't in the way.

I don't understand the Berkeley Hunt one. The hunt name is pronounced 'barkley' so how can the rhyming slang lead to 'berk'?

‘Played on aggregate’. I always assumed this meant it was raining so they had to play on a hard surface like a playground.

Well I knew full well that Golden Brown wasn't about the optimum colour for a cooked chicken but I always wondered what on earth Hugh Cornwell meant by 'lays me down, with my mancheeros'.

It was originally "berk". Berkshire Hunt/ Berkeley Hunt were pronounced as they were spelled (still are in parts of Lancashire - and America).

He also plays Fat Bastard and Gold Member in the films. Mike Myers is a genius!

Since you’ve fessed up - my ex was in hysterics when I found out why the moon ‘shone’ - I’d just never thought about it, I just presumed it was shiny, like a star! I was at least 20.🤦🏻‍♀️

Barold and Nedmond have me literally crying with laughter.

Has no-one mentioned Portsmouth being on the island of Portsea yet? Or Centre Parcs not being entirely encased in a giant bubble? Or the Channel Tunnel going under the seabed and not actually through the sea?

Me too!

And I thought that the line in 'Groovin''. 'You and me endlessly' was about a threesome between 'You and me and Elsie'.

My friend thought that the line 'You don't have to say you love me; just be close at hand' was 'You don't have to say I'm lovely, just because I am!' I still prefer her version.

Why would centre parcs be in a bubble?

I think maybe because the advertising gave that impression

@WeWereInParis because that's how it looked in all the old tv ads

Because they show the giant bubble on the adverts. I've never been, but seen the adverts with swimming pools and bike riding in forests. Between the advert showcasing the giant bubble and my mind confusing itnwith the idea of the Eden Project I did think the whole thing, forest trails and all, was in a giant covered area.

It does sound silly now but it was only on here I was set straight.

@WeWereInParis
You’re not the only one. I actually originally googled for images of the adverts and this thread came up www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2201729-To-have-genuinely-thought-Center-Parcs-was-enclosed-in-a-giant-bubble
I’m sure there there have been others before and after that one too

Oh I see, thanks. I don't think I've ever seen those adverts.

I used to think there eas a lot of girls called Anon too!

Sorry. Tagged the wrong person then @DappledThings

The hand height press button/light display... not the actual 12ft up in the air bit!

Visually impaired people can press the button and then feel underneath for the cone, when it spins, its safe to cross.

There really is a "dark side of the moon". I always thought that phrase was a joke because of course the moon spins round like the earth does! At the age of 57 found out the moon does not spin round so there genuinely is a dark side that we never see.

I get that you might think a centre Parcs is in a bubble like The Eden Project.