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!

Eeyore's in the Secret Seven?

What blows my mind?

The idiocy of everyone else.

Really.

Completely right. Sorry, I came back to edit (can we do that?) but for some reason couldn't find my own post!

@NigelHargreaves
So are sultanas and currants. All grapes at different stages of dehydration.

Not fish, I thought it was fish eggs.

That world maps are different depending on which country you're in. In Australia our world map has Australia centred and UK shunted off to the LHS and USA to the RHS. The British world map has UK in the centre and Australia shunted off to the RHS. (And if it's the oval shaped map Australia looks angled and stretched). The American has the Americas centred.

On the Australian map it's hard to see just how close the UK and USA are to each other as they are on the opposite sides of the maps, and I had never realised just how close eastern Russia was to Alaska, suddenly made a whole lot of the Cold War make so much more sense!!

What!!?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_never_married

I'm obviously more naive than I thought I was.

Alliteration in Marvel Characters:DC Comics

• Beast Boy


• Billy Batson (Captain Marvel)


• Blue Beetle


• Captain Cold


• Captain Comet


• Clark Kent (Superman)


• Gorilla Grodd


• Guy Gardner


• J’onn J’onzz


• Lana Lang


• Lex Luthor


• Lois Lane


• Mary Marvel


• Mirror Master


• Mister Mxyzptlk


• Rachel Roth (Raven)


• Silk Spectre


• Suicide Squad


• Teen Titans


• Vicky Vale


• Wally West


• Wonder Woman


• Zatanna Zatara

Marvel Comics

• Black Bolt


• Bruce Banner


• Bucky Barnes


• Cletus Cassidy


• ‘Crusher’ Creel


• Curt Connors


• Doctor Doom


• Dread Dormammu


• Fin Fang Foom


• Green Goblin


• Happy Hogan


• J. Jonah Jameson


• Jessica Jones


• Kamala Khan


• Loki Laufeyson


• Matt Murdock


• Michael Morbius


• Miles Morales


• Moira MacTaggert


• Otto Octavius


• Pepper Potts


• Peter Parker


• Reed Richards


• Richard Rider (Nova)


• Robbie Reyes


• Robbie Robertson


• Rocket Raccoon


• Sebastian Shaw


• Scott Summers


• Silver Surfer


• Steven Strange (Dr. Strange)


• Sue Storm


• Victor Von Doom (Doctor Doom)


• Wade Wilson


• Warren Worthington III

'Clark Kent' isn't alliteration.

Alliteration refers to sound, so Clark Kent counts.

It can also be short for Finbar - it’s used a lot in Ireland like this.

@Ppbbww9 me too! I called everyone twats until then boyfriend told me what it meant (I had a very sheltered childhood) I just thought it was a mixture of twit and prat = twat.
spelt February wrong all life until I Recently noticed the first r.

As a student I would go to the loos in the library and there was graffiti - "sometimes I just sit here and thinks ...".and that was that and it stuck in my mind. Roll on forty years and for no apparent reason the answer came to me in a flash. Rather like Proust's madeleines.

Written in Proust's rich prose, the narrator sips on tea with crumbs from a madeleine cake and childhood memories come flooding back: “No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me

Well that'll teach me not to rely on my Latin then! 🤣

I've never looked at the actual meaning of 'alliteration' - assuming that my understanding of it and the word itself was clear. Obviously not. That's totally in keeping with the point of the thread. 🤣

The British 'World map' does not have the UK in the centre.

Have you never seen a globe?

'He never married' I always assumed that meant he was homosexual.

What's the 'point' with Marvel and DC and alliteration? I always just thought that was a comic thing, 'Pepper Potts', 'Teen Titans', 'Lios Lane', 'Doctor Doom', 'Wonder Woman'.

It doesn't follow for all though;

Ant man
Super Man
Spider Man
Black Panther
Captain America
Iron Man

I hate DC and Marvel. They've ruined cinema.

That an actor in two of my favourite TV programs was one the same person. I can't believe I didn't realize and my partner takes Micky every time one of them comes on TV even now ten years later.

Nope, it really IS cripple... speaking as one (raspberry ripple, I am a couple of generations away from the cockney side of the family).

@DeFacto - it certainly does. Not smack bang in the middle middle of the map, but near the centre line.

I've attached a British version and an Australian version to show you the difference.

@DeFacto - and I wasn't talking about a globe, I was talking about a flat map.

Because most old style analogue watches are worn so that 12 is pointing in front of you.

Then the 6 on the dial is pointing in the opposite direction - to behind your back.

You could use the same logic to indicate any other direction, like 3 for your right and 9 for your left.

The "cold" in cold war has nothing to do with the USA / USSR border being in a very cold area of the globe.

It was called a cold war because all the guns stayed cold as there was no direct armed confict between the two. Only lots of real hot proxy wars but that's another story.

@YetAnotherC1n1c
The "cold" in cold war has nothing to do with the USA / USSR border being in a very cold area of the globe.

😂😂😂😂

Cold War because it's on a"cold area".... fucking hell.... Not quite sure how you got that from my post.

I was referring more to missile bases etc and how close IN PROXIMITY it all is.

That is interesting @OrderOfTheKookaburra

On an Aussie map the Americas are to the East.

But the US is probably called the West.

@DeFacto - it's ok, we Aussies are used to translating phrases and sayings!!!