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!

So did I! DH explained that one to me.

Yes, dark side of the Moon is something that caught me out, @Batiqueattic . It refers to the unknown side of the Moon, NOT the side that never gets light.

The Moon takes about 29 days to orbit the Earth and takes the same length of time to rotate on its axis (this is not a coincidence, it's a phenomenon of moons, called tidal locking, so the same face is always seen from Earth.

However, the part of the Moon facing the Sun varies over this period, which is why we get the phases of the Moon: full Moon - the Sun is behind the Earth when looking at the Moon, so Moon is fully illuminated and the far side (the "dark" side) is unilluminated; new Moon - the Sun is behind the Moon as viewed from Earth, so the Moon is barely visible to us, but its "dark" side is the bright side!

Why do people keep saying that it would make sense for 'six' to be rhyming slang for 'six-pack' = back?

A six pack isn't on your back.

Unless I've spent my whole life misunderstanding what a six pack is.

I used to think that the word 'turd' meant the same as 'wally' . I found out it didn't when my nan did something silly and I said, "oh, you're such a turd!" and she gave me a terrible telling off. I was about 20 at the time.

@OliveWah , you might show this to your dd - from my big fat Oxford Dictionary.

History
<ORIGIN, late Middle English via Latin from Greek historia, ‘finding out, narrative, history, from histor, ‘learned, wise man’, from an Indo-European root.>

Absolutely nowt to do with his or hers. I had thought that all that ‘herstory’ nonsense had gone out with the dafter aspects of 1970s feminism.

Aplles and pears for stairs - pretty sure mine aren't made of fruit

Many years ago, my mum made a set of felt pigs to illustrate the nursery rhyme. Not a very good picture of them, but you can clearly see that the first little piggy is definitely going off with his shopping basket…

My dad called the News of the World newspaper the News of the Screws and I always wondered why prison officers had their own newspaper. I was in my 30s before I realised why he called it that.

A raspberry tart doesn't come out of your arse either. 😀

Wow they're amazing ! So clever.

When you think about it, it was never going to be 'this little piggy went to be brutally slaughtered' was it?

but actually Ned can be short from Edmund too

Well, it does eventually…

This made me laugh so much, I have never heard of grilled porridge 😂

I’m in my 40’s and only recently realised that lamb (meat) does not only come from baby sheep, i always wondered why farmers kept sheep because they couldn’t possibly make enough money from selling their coats for wool 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

I took my baby to the GP about her xiphisternum. She wasn’t even my first - she was my third!! But it was more pronounced than the other kids’. Shameful.

Cute. But where's the one having roast beef? There are three of them reading papers, so I guess any one of them could be the one not getting any. 🤔

What???
I actually had to Google this as I thought you were wrong! Only 3.8 km between them at their closest point 🤯

Because people generally assume things like this are unlikely to be older than they are by a significant margin. If it's on NCIS it must be modern, that sort of logic.

In the same way that someone suggested that 'heads up' related to a HUD - most online sources suggest 'heads up' originated as a C18 military phrase, but it's evolved and popped up in different circumstances with slightly different meanings ever since. The closest analogy to the usual meaning nowadays on this thread was the mention of meerkats - advance notice of an event or a warning given from someone more alert.

I think the one reading the diet sheet isn’t getting any.

Lamb is only young sheep.

Up to 1yo = lamb
Up to 2yo = hogget
Beyond 2yo = mutton

The older sheep are being kept to produce lambs. But if you can get hogget, it's a much tastier meat than lamb.

the one with the menu is definitely having the beef.

And there’s one reading something that looks like it has ‘meat’ written on the front, so I guess he’s planning what to cook for tea.

The last one’s reading a map and sitting on a rucksack, so I guess he’s going all the way home!

I love them!

aaah. Now I've full-sized the picture I can make that out. Damn clever, you English.

That ABBA stands for the band members names.I didn't realise until this week.The Bs also face the As as they were 2 couples.Thank you Radio 4.

As I said, it’s not a good picture so it’s difficult to see the words on what they are reading - the third one says ‘menu’ and the fourth one says ‘diet sheet’. And the fifth one is reading a map.

AccidentallyFabulous, rhyming slang doesn’t have to make sense - it just has to rhyme, and is often abbreviated.

Let’s have a butcher’s - butcher’s hook, look.

Titfer - tit for tat, hat.

Barnet - Barnet Fair, hair.

Jam - jam jar, car.
Etc.