Things you were shockingly old when you learned

OIM RILLY ROILED UP ROIGHT NOW

flea circuses are actually a real thing that people used to do, with real fleas, not just a metaphor or a thing in cartoons

Yeah, but I'm sure I've heard it called roiling. Is broiling not grilling?

oh you’re right. i’ve only ever had broiled meats in chinese/taiwanese soups, and just assumed broiling was that.

that lots of guys apparently like to wank in front of unwilling women

NOT ONLY THAT, but his weird anti-semitic racist plot to foist squaredancing upon the country is the whole reason for square dancing in gym class. https://t.co/LBUThVJpbi pic.twitter.com/ONEMWpAEHj

— Robyn Pennacchia (@RobynElyse) December 7, 2017

that is wild

I only learned last week that in the chipmunks christmas song they're howling about a HULA HOOP instead of just indiscriminate wailing. I like my ~40 year internalized version better but I can live with reality too

i still sing it as HOONA HOO because thats how it sounded to me, it’s funnier that way

That Janice Long is Keith Chegwin's sister

Can see a facial resemblance if that's true.

Was, dudes.

That Janice Long is Keith Chegwin's sister

― Colonel Poo, Monday, December 11, 2017 2:33 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark

haha, found this out about 32 minutes ago too

er, Janice Long is still alive afaik

That teenager is teenager because thirTEEN, fourTEEN, ... eighTEEN, nineTEEN. I still cringe at my statement of "but teenager is such a vague word..when does one become a teenager? 12? 13?" in a debate.

Also fell victim to the idea that pickles were vegetables in their own right (not pickled cucumbers). Then my immediate thought was that pickling cucumbers was terrible inefficient considering how much they shrunk in the vinegar (from supermarket cucumber size to gherkins).

That Liv Tyler is Steve Tyler's daughter.

fyi 'Beats' from People Just Do Nothing is(was) Keith Chegwin's nephew

I only worked out yesterday that 'ymmv' stands for 'your mileage may vary' rather than 'your meat, my veg'

U did not

phrase's very strange!

srsly though

i always found it a pretty natural phrase but your meat, my veg

à chacun son goat

Three Google results for "your meat my veg". My brethren

Mind you, one of them types "your mileage may vary" as well just to be sure

"your meat may vary"

I shall wear it as penance

I like "your meat, my veg". Using this from now on.

ym,mv

the word "veg" makes me Irrationally Angry except in the context of "to veg out", makes me think of how much I loathe Jamie Oliver

but hey, ymmv

yvmv

Varymite girl

your marmite, my vegemite

Give to me your leather, take from me my lace

MY veg not yours

Our veg, ourselves

For vegger and vegger,

Our Meat.

i'm class
you're ace
your meat
my veg

meat & two vegemitegrrrls

postcards from the veg

"Give to me your leather, take from me my lace" this is the fucking grossest line in pop music history, it makes me shiver. just to think of sweaty don henley in leather pants peeling stevie's lace panties off. ugh.

could be furniture & window dressings, you dont know

a yellowed lace curtain and an old family bible and sweaty don henley who cannot be written out of the scene

at first i thought ymmv stood for ‘you make me vomit’ which seemed highly dramatic when it appeared in mild discussions about posters’ differing experiences

haha

No you did not

I refuse to imagine it

I just realised that Yodas face is a caricature of Alec Guinness's. Is that well known?

Not only is it not well known, it's not true.

yes. it's common knowledge that yoda is obi-wan's father

I only recently learned that Gary Lewis is the son of Jerry Lewis. TBF, the music of Gary Lewis & the Playboys is not a thing I've ever had a conversation about with anyone ever so I'm not particularly surprised that his family ties have never come up.