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!

Barold 😂😂

Realised that breakfast is "breaking your fast" 🤣🙃

Nedmund 😂

Best one yet

@Justkeepleft wow I'm 58 and never knew that , I'd just assumed that there was a gap that allowed the blood to trickle out 😬

Nedmund 🤣🤣🤣

Barold and Nedmund 🤣🤣

Oh poor pup 🤦‍♀️

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gots me thinking….another one I keep hearing is “T minus ten minutes’
I’ve tried to work that one out but I still don’t know what the T means

they’re often saying it in the American nonsense shows I watch

I didn’t know that 😅

Theatre, I think. Crew working up among the suspended flats and curtains would be invisible from stage level. So, in the days before walkie-talkies, they would shout "Heads up!" to warn anybody below to look up and make sure they were out of the way when the crew lowered something.

Though after my currants error...

Used to be the ends of the line!

I was about 40 when I clicked ray-bans ban the rays. Duh.

I’m assuming it means the time take away 10 mins.

So T minus 10 mins right now would be 21.37.

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thanks for the explanation but sorry - that’s way to confusing for me 😭

That cats and dogs have belly buttons - unless you're hatched out of an egg, you've got a belly button...(might not be visible due to fur, and maybe not a deep button like a human, but umbilical = belly button

Oh how about this.

The duck billed platypus whilst hatched from an egg is obviously a mammal. However, she doesn’t have nipples. She secretes milk from her abdominal area and the pup just licks the fur

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So not only are they meant to be storming some drug cartels operational headquarters with unknown personnel and their firepower….you have to work out time minus something ?? It’s lucky I’m not in the elite forces obviously everyone would have to have my six at all times 😭

Working at height is also the reason why it's considered unlucky to whistle in a theatre. Crew would have whistle codes to communicate between those on the floor and those up in the roof lowering things. If you whistled randomly they might miss-hear your whistle as a code and drop a flat or weight without calling Heads Up. On your head.

Similar to a pp, my parents had a lock (like a bathroom-type lock) high up inside their bedroom door. I was well into adulthood before I realised its purpose!

I was nearly 50 when it dawned on me that all those lorries carrying sheep, calves and livestock weren’t simply taking them from one lovely green field to graze another one…

No, T minus 10 - takeoff minus 10 minutes - rocket launching.

Stop it 😂😂😂

Literally realised the other day that the character Harley Quinn literally means Harlequin. My children looked at me like I was mental when I told them as apparently it was obvious 🤣

Does it mean the time minus ten minutes, so ten minutes ago?

Obviously I don’t know