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Soubriquet · 2023-01-28T18:43:23+00:00

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!

TheShellBeach · 29/01/2023 18:39

LuluBlakey1 · 29/01/2023 17:57

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

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I don't understand it either.

teraculum29 · 29/01/2023 18:42

EricNorthmanYesPlease · 28/01/2023 21:17

They use kindle type screens. So they look like printed prices. i only realised because one was flashing as i was stood at the till!
When you look closer, you can see the pixels and theres nowhere to insert a price label! Mind blown

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Not in all Aldis though yet.
In my area there are 2Aldis, 1 old still got the paper labels and newly open Aldi have those electronic ones.

linsey2581 · 29/01/2023 18:42

@Soubriquet I take it you have been watching Blue Bloods . Love that show !!

WiddlinDiddlin · 29/01/2023 18:44

How is 'heads up' difficult?

'Lift your head and therefore gaze, up from what you're focusing on, to something more urgent'... like 'the thing I am about to drop from above you' or 'this heads up display screen' or... anything really.

Spoken to a person concentrating on something else so probably, looking down.

AdditionalCharacter · 29/01/2023 18:45

The tv quiz show Wheel of Fortune, I thought they were saying Arthur Robert, and it was some special code for something. It was only a few years ago when watching it with subtitles (at work) that I realised it was R for Robert 🙄

pigsinoodies · 29/01/2023 18:47

Batiqueattic · 29/01/2023 18:33

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.

Think again. The moon does rotate on its own axis. If it didn't rotate then we would see the other side of it as it orbits the earth.

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 29/01/2023 18:48

At PP: History is not an English word, so all this "his" nonsense is due to not knowing their own language.
It often comes up in social media, which makes me wonder about the education those youngsters received.

Benjispruce4 · 29/01/2023 18:49

Heads up is obvious. Giving someone the latest info. Lift your head up meaning take notice.

TheWordHu88yIsMyPetHate · 29/01/2023 18:49

Sunshineboo · 28/01/2023 20:56

rsvp does not mean reply soon very please

RSVP = Répondez s'il vous plaît

Emiliaswrath · 29/01/2023 18:51

Lovingtheglitter · 29/01/2023 08:40

I found out this year at 51 that hyperbole isn't said like hyper bowl but hi purr bow lee - I still can't say it like it should be said and read hyper bowl in my head!

I'm 45 and only found this out a few months ago. Ever since I keep seeing this word everywhere, but it still doesn't sound right to me 😆

godmum56 · 29/01/2023 18:52

WashAsDelicates · 28/01/2023 20:36

Currants. I thought they were a weird form of raisin, maybe made from smaller, poorer quality grapes. Didn't occur to me until I was in my 40s that they were...currants. Dried currants. Currants just like the ones my dm grew in the garden, which I had been picking and eating pretty much all my life.

Still think they taste weird and nasty.

ummm you were right the first time www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/dried-currants

lifelongrest · 29/01/2023 18:52

StrapOnYourHeroHair · 28/01/2023 21:18

When I was 21 I asked my boyfriend what his dad’s name was short for. His name is Barry.

He looked at me like I was mad and I said ‘well you know, like if Harry is short for Harold…’ With absolute bemusement, he replied ‘so for a year you’ve been thinking my dad’s name is…Barold?’ 😂

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My Dad was called Barry as an abbreviation of Barrington.

Telibarb · 29/01/2023 18:53

😮🤯

ortonym · 29/01/2023 18:54

Emiliaswrath · 29/01/2023 18:51

I'm 45 and only found this out a few months ago. Ever since I keep seeing this word everywhere, but it still doesn't sound right to me 😆

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I used to work with a guy whose favourite adjective was hyperbolic. With the emphasis on bolic.

DogInATent · 29/01/2023 18:54

Batiqueattic · 29/01/2023 18:33

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.

The moon does spin. If it didn't there wouldn't be a dark side. It happens to spin in time with its orbit so always shows the same face.

DogInATent · 29/01/2023 18:55

^ Wouldn't be a persistent dark side.

Carpedimum · 29/01/2023 18:56

I was late 30s until I suddenly realised why the boys at school sniggered about swimming the breast stroke.

ortonym · 29/01/2023 18:58

DogInATent · 29/01/2023 18:54

The moon does spin. If it didn't there wouldn't be a dark side. It happens to spin in time with its orbit so always shows the same face.

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Dark side of the moon is used to describe the side that we never see from Earth. When you think about it, even that side must be lit when it is facing the sun.

godmum56 · 29/01/2023 18:59

Tescoland · 29/01/2023 13:51

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

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mould can grow under there. and limescale defo collects under there.

MissingMoominMamma · 29/01/2023 19:00

ClaraThePigeon · 28/01/2023 20:41

Currants. I thought they were a weird form of raisin, maybe made from smaller, poorer quality grapes. Didn't occur to me until I was in my 40s that they were...currants. Dried currants. Currants just like the ones my dm grew in the garden, which I had been picking and eating pretty much all my life.

Still think they taste weird and nasty.

They are made from grapes. www.sunmaid.com/products/zante-currants/

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zante_currant

They are these days, but they started as dried currants.

Picklewicklepickle · 29/01/2023 19:05

Lovingtheglitter · 29/01/2023 08:40

I found out this year at 51 that hyperbole isn't said like hyper bowl but hi purr bow lee - I still can't say it like it should be said and read hyper bowl in my head!

I wish someone had told Natasha Bedingfield this…

purplevamp · 29/01/2023 19:06

EricNorthmanYesPlease · 28/01/2023 20:56

This thread is amazing, and im embarrassed at how many i only learned this evening.

However... i found out 2 days ago that the price labels on the shelves in Aldi are electronic. Not paper.

I saw this on TikTok, so I got my husband to check the last time he was in Aldi. Our store has paper price labels. I was a bit disappointed when he told me.

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Soubriquet · 29/01/2023 19:07

applepiesandwich · 29/01/2023 18:18

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?

Nope! We have newer ones in here

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Soubriquet · 29/01/2023 19:08

linsey2581 · 29/01/2023 18:42

@Soubriquet I take it you have been watching Blue Bloods . Love that show !!

No. NCIS.

I usually prefer NCIS Los Angeles but I’m getting into this one too

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1stjjohnnymac · 29/01/2023 19:09

Imagine a clock flat in the floor and your in the middle 12 is directly in front of you,
It was used by fighter pilots to warn another pilot what direction danger was coming from so 6 was from behind, now used throughout the military services 🙂