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!

Well they do say every day's a school day!
What a fab thread
Gustopher, Nedward, Barold...
Fortnight... who knew??? Not me anyway

And as for the Knights in White Satin that is actually Nights.
May I propose Matthew Goode for the remake?

I still can’t get my head around the Arrivals & Departures sign when getting to the airport. I always head to arrivals because I’m arriving at the airport in order to depart.

There was a popular cartoon show many years ago in the USA, "Underdog." One of the villains was named "Simon bar Sinister." It was years later that I realized that "bar sinister" in heraldry was the significator of a bastard line of a family. It was a bit of genius, and certainly went over the head of children watching.

That bathroom literally means the room with a bath in it. Same with bedroom.... BED room because there's a bed in it!

Not really. But that's how some of these are reading to me

That for heart surgery they actually cut through your breastbone and open up your rib cage. This only clicked with me very recently 🤦‍♀️

That you pronounce Miriam Margoyles surname as Mar-go-lees not Mar-goylz.

Not only just occurred to me, luckily I was set straight before I became a fully fledged adult, but it’s a really stupid one, and quite embarrassing. I was obviously quite a sheltered teen…

…I didn’t realise the C word was a swear word. I thought it was the word for a young horse. I was confusing it with Colt.

My first boyfriend had to explain it to me… after he realised I was wasn’t taking the piss.

Crying with laughter 🤣

Some do, some don’t. My last one did, it was pain to change it. Had a new kitchen fitted two years ago with a new cooker hood, this one has a mesh filter that doesn’t need charcoal filters, games changer.

That constellations, like Orion, are not stars that are lined up with each other in the same area or plane of space, but are all at very different sizes and distances from Earth.
they only appear as if they are lined up because we are viewing them from so far away.
Also that some constellations such as Cignus, the faintest star is the closest and the brightest is further away.

This video of star size comparison blows my mind 🤯
m.youtube.com/watch?v=GoW8Tf7hTGA

I almost took my cat to the vet because I'd found a small lump on his belly... to my horror (thinking it was skin cancer) I found more small lumps when I was checking him over, then realised that they were just nipples 🤣

If we're having Barold and the like then I'm chucking Jimothy in the pot

I'm still a bit confused. Who the fuck is Colin in Winnie the Pooh, then? And nobody say Corald or Cawrence.

Is she??? I thought her dad was trying to split her up from her boyfriend and she was being defiant. I've obviously thought this for almost 40 years. Thank you clarifying.

Aah Dahlia...
Somebody - I think it turns out incorrectly - said that in the French version of Winnie the Pooh, eeyore is called Colin. It's a lot of pages ago, so sorry can't reference it more accurately.

I gathered that the assertion was that French donkeys made a 'colin' sound rather than 'eeyore' - much as French cockerels apparently greet the dawn with 'cocorico' instead of 'cock-a-doodle-doo'.

Bytrgrewd Your story of the Doberman that went to live on a farm made me laugh - in a rather sad sort of way. When my neighbour's dog had to be put to sleep, she told her grandchildren that he had gone away on a long holiday. The children, of course, continued to ask when he was coming back from holiday. Goodness knows how long it took before they gave up asking. What a daft thing to do.

Actually this is for deaf people. The blind people can hear the beeps.

French translation of Colin is "clang" (near enough). I can't imagine donkeys clanging. I think what happened was that someone said the French Eeyore was called Colin - someone else then made the parallel that Eeyore was so called because of the the noise donkeys make...

Presumably it would be for people with both hearing and sight impairment. You'd still be able to see the green man if you were just deaf.

Colin the clanging donkey😂

Talk of pedestrian crossings, I was about 40 when I found out that a Pelican crossing is actually Pelicon, from the phrase ‘PEdestrian LIght CONtrolled’.
Toucan crossing is “two can cross”, eg where a pedestrian and bike can cross at the same time.
Puffin crossings are Pedestrian User-Friendly Intelligent Crossings which have sensors to hold the traffic back if someone is walking slowy.

In my thirties before I got the pun in barefoot singer Sandie Shaw's name.

And in my fifties, rainbow -> RAIN BOW!

The sound French donkeys make is described as "iii ahn" or "hihan". I think I'm getting too invested here!

Is 'Hihan' French for 'Colin' maybe?

In my French Secret Seven he's just called Colin!
The others do mostly get adapted. Pierre, Jeanette, Georges, Pam, Babette and Jacques.