I'm going to feel robbed if the next few cars I hire don't have this feature now.
― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
That human beings were around when the UK was still part of the landmass of Europe.
― Chock Full of Love and Sexy Feeling (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
That you don't actually have to slide the little slide bar to turn things on/off on iPhone--a simple tap switches the selection. Duh.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
awww
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
Until now, I seriously thought Bob Dole was involved in the founding of the Dole Food company.
― MarkoP, Sunday, 30 July 2017 04:20 (six years ago) link
Magpies and jays are corvids. So presumably really smart.Hadn't taken that in before reading the thread this week.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 30 July 2017 07:10 (six years ago) link
I thought he just gave them a handout
― kinder, Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:56 (six years ago) link
[some joke about Dole quoting a verse from the Book of Job]
― calzino, Sunday, 30 July 2017 10:17 (six years ago) link
There is a bit in 24 Hour Party People where Coogan's Tony Wilson character is getting high and maintaining that Albert Broccoli's family invented broccoli, and that's how they were able to finance the Bond films.
It sounded suspect, but I will confess that I looked it up when I got home, just to be sure.
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 30 July 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
Holy shit, I never knew that about the gas pump icon.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 30 July 2017 12:52 (six years ago) link
The word hench (as in, "my arms a looking quite hench"). Today, in fact.
― Alba, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link
That makes two of us.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 12:15 (six years ago) link
About 10 years ago I worked with a young apprentice who mainly talked fluent gangsta, apart from when he was talking to his strict Jehovah's Witness parents on the phone. And everything/everybody that was not small, was hench to him!
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 12:24 (six years ago) link
my eldest boy taught me hench, several years back yeah
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 12:28 (six years ago) link
Confused that people are freaking out about oval = egg-like. Don't think I ever questioned it, unless I 'm missing a wider point?
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:03 (six years ago) link
I was not aware of it before this thread. But I attended public school in the US, so there's a veritable cornucopia of common knowledge that has yet to cross my doorstep.
― Chock Full of Love and Sexy Feeling (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:06 (six years ago) link
I was shockingly old when I learned that some people didn't know oval meant egg-like.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
> unless I'm missing a wider point?
that ovum = latin for egg?
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
I might ask for a fried ovum next I'm in a cafe, just to show off.
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
that just gave me a turquoise jeep flashback
― mh, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
If I read and assume correctly, the oval-egg pennydrop referred to goes something like this:
-- Subject knows perfectly well which shape "oval" refers to.-- Subject knows perfectly well what the Latin word for "egg" is, and is also conversant with Latin-derived adjectival suffices.-- When attempting to form a Latin-derived synonym for "egg-shaped" in her/his mind, subject thinks "let's see, the stem of 'ovum' with for instance '-al' at the end should be... oh, DUH"
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
I think that the people surprised by the gas-gauge-arrow thing are probably better people than me, or people with greater willpower than I have.
Because it appears in like 83% of those stupid clickbait lifehack slideshows.
I have, alas, clicked on a large number of those WACKY FACTS ABOUT EVERYDAY OBJECTS teasers one sees all the time. "15 ways in which you're wearing pants wrong. #7 will shock you."
Each time I travel down that rabbit hole, I know I will be disappointed. I also know that it will most likely include "hey, did you know there's a little arrow on your gas gauge that shows you which side the gas cap is on?" Other perennials are the little pocket in jeans and the little tab on the back of a dress shirt.
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
whoa buddy no spoilers
― mh, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
Okay, mh, but I'm just saying. #12 will BLOW your MIND.
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
What *is* the little tab on the back of a dress shirt all about?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
Oh, it's just to hang up in a locker or whatever, but clickbait lifehack slideshow shitposts invariably present that as like mindblowing information.
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
took me until my early 30s to realize worsening reflux and chronic dehydration were not just happy coincidences
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link
That does not sounds like a pleasant realisation, are you OK?
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 07:02 (six years ago) link
My favourite of all these life hacks is with those paper sauce containers you sometimes get at cafes and burger standshttp://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/heinz-tomato-ketchup-life-hack-get-out-of-bottle_uk_578df1fbe4b0885619b11d4a
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 08:23 (six years ago) link
oops, didn't check the link. that's not right: http://lifehacker.com/5931053/fan-your-ketchup-cups-for-maximum-condiment-volume-and-dunkage
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 08:24 (six years ago) link
Previously my workaround had always been to forgo the cups altogether, opting instead to pump ketchup directly on my tray's paper lining.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 08:35 (six years ago) link
Oh, but that was from all the way back in 2012. Looks like lifehacks are all grown up now.
http://lifehacker.com/the-beginners-guide-to-using-a-strap-on-1797402479
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 08:49 (six years ago) link
the beginner's guide to using a strap-on to distribute ketchup
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 09:30 (six years ago) link
Did you know that your ketchup gauge has a little arrow on it indicating which side you should refill?
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 09:46 (six years ago) link
my friends would tell me as a kid that the way to get the yogurt off the lid for more convenient eating was to tap the lid before opening, back when occasionally we would get yogurts with school lunch. it never seemed to do anything
now decades later I have started eating yogurts almost daily and remembered this one cool lifehack and finally determined that all it does is make yogurt spatter out at you when you open the lid, which I then realised was probably the point
well done, barely-remembered schoolfriends: I was apparently pwn-resistant as a kid (whether because I opened them side on and the spray went elsewhere or I was just too oblivious to care about getting yogurt on my shirt), but you got me a couple of times 30 years later when trying to look semi-presentable for work, in the world's slowest practical joke ever
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:06 (six years ago) link
yoghurt that sprays upwards would worry me
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:29 (six years ago) link
the beginner's guide to using a strap-on to spray yoghurt
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:31 (six years ago) link
spray yoghurt now there's a marketing idea
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:33 (six years ago) link
remember when - was it Tango? - made those spray drinks for a while? that was a pointless acceleration of our imminent species death
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:34 (six years ago) link
And yet no-one has done this yet,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT5kI3zJFmA
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link
speaking as somebody who loves cheese and peas I've never even tried to improvise that shit
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:42 (six years ago) link
Only disgusting savages don't love cheese and peas.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:43 (six years ago) link
peas are bad and if u like them u are bad
cheesy beans on the other hand are unimpeachable
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:46 (six years ago) link
cheesy beans are mint, no question
you are v wrong about peas tho, not that I'm advocating cheesing them up
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:47 (six years ago) link
wtf, i thought we were friends :(
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:49 (six years ago) link
i can tolerate peas as an additive to like a curry or whatever but standalone peas, whether mushy or otherwise, are not good
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:49 (six years ago) link
sorry lbi, you and i are done
mushy peas are occasionally done badly but done right they are the best vegetable
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:51 (six years ago) link
that is pure madness
have we done a 'best vegetable' thread? we need to put this issue to bed once and for all
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:54 (six years ago) link
I can only imagine the transatlantic shock and outrage if "mushy peas" was even included as a category
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:55 (six years ago) link