Obvious things that suddenly registered to you.

[Soubriquet]

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!

Won't be long before there's MN triplets/ siblings; Balonz, Barold and Nedmund 🤣

@FindRod I'm not going to lie, I was wounded when I realised, 🥺
I then asked DM and was informed that he was 15, and had cancer so it was the kindest thing to be PTS, ( she still looked at me as if to say ' you have only just realised 🤦‍♀️) 🤣

T for Time (when an event is to happen). So T minus ten minutes means there's ten minutes until it's Time for the event to occur.

You may now be able to work out what the D in D Day and the H in H Hour stand for.

Another time-related one for fans of NCIS and military type shows is Zulu time. Which is UTC (which we'd know in the UK as GMT, but for reasons that's only the time zone rather than standard time).

Same! 😱

Took me quite a while to twig that in Winnie the Pooh the characters Kanga and little roo together make up the word Kangaroo!

Also howling at Barold!

😂 Amazing. To be fair, I never knew what it was short for - just that it was short for something!

Omg, Barold!!! Can't stop laughing and have a baby asleep on me 😂

No, it's so you don't have to do the maths.

You're storming the cartel hideout at 1600, right now it's 1550. But because you're told that it's T minus 10 minutes (1600 - 10 = 1550) you know straightaway the important information, that its 10 minutes to kickoff.

😂😆😆

Yes, Barold is the new Balonz!

Thank you but I am SOOOOOOO confused
it’s never going to sink In is it ?
one of those things 🤯🤯🤯

I remember excitedly screaming this at DH when DD was 2… “omg!!!! It’s Madame Gazelle!!!! It’s Mademoiselle!!! Do you get it? Do you?”

He looked at me.. “oh. Didn’t you know”

😑😑

I put this on another thread, but I only realised very recently why its called a qwerty keyboard. 🙄

That is pretty much exactly what happened in our house too

@DogInATent
thanks dog….really ‘it’s you it’s me’ I’m just not cut out for it 😭

I had to Google this. It's not Mike Myers it's someone else from SNL - Dana Carvey

m.imdb.com/name/nm0001022/

sorry to be pendentic but that screws with me head 😂

@DogInATent
meant it’s not you it’s me 😭

It literally just means “it’s happening in 10 minutes”.

Whatever the time is, (t minus 10 minutes, t minus 5 seconds, t minus 5 hours whatever it is) that time is when the thing is happening. So if you had to leave the house in 5 minutes time, it would be t minus 5 minutes.

@Nicewarmfeet
already got my ashamed face on a PP said dr evil /Austin powers is Wayne not Garth 😭

I just assumed 'heads up' referred to meerkats tbh

This thread is funny

@Nicewarmfeet pendentic is a fantastic typo there!

Adam Ant is adamant. I felt a fool.

Also, Major Tom dies at the end 💔

@TwoMonthsOff it just means the number minutes left until it’s time to do something. So if we were going to leave the house at 9am, and it’s 8:45am, it would be T minus 15 minutes as in there’s 15 minutes until it’s time to go.

OMG! My late grandfather always used to call them a prambulator and it always made us (the grandchildren and great grandchildren) laugh so much. I always thought it was just a silly word he made up to make us all laugh…. Until… well…. I just read your post 😳😳😳

Yesterday I was saying that I’d ordered a new ring for my right hand finger

my dp asked why I just didn’t use an old ring that I used to wear on my left hand finger

his mind was blown when I explained (and showed using a ring sizer) that fingers are different sizes