Cockula
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:25 (six years ago) link
Cockerella
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
I think I can top being shockingly old when you find out how to pronounce Coachella properly, I've just googled Coachella to find it what it is.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
http://languagehat.com/a-bastard-name/
― mh, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
I mean en español it would be “co-ah-CHE-ya” so
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
xxpost steveolende my gran had one of those racks too
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
Shockingly older and still learning!
xxp
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
I've got a coal hole outside my current house and we get coal poured down it. It's the highlight of my year tbh
― kinder, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
I don't have a coal hold, but I do have one of those boxes cut into the side of my house by the side door where the milkman could put each day's dairy order. (House was build in 1946.) Need to get it filled in one day, since it has an R-value of minus infinity.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
Early maps show the area as "Conchilla," the Spanish word for "seashell." Since the area was once a part of a vast inland sea, tiny fossilized mollusk shells can be found in just about every remote area. Local lore explains the change in the name from Conchilla to Coachella as a mistake made by the map-makers contracted to transcribe the data supplied by the Southern Pacific Railroad's survey party. Rather than redraw the expensive maps, the railroad chose to instead begin calling the area by the misspelled name "Coachella" rather than its traditional name "Conchilla."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
'koh-ah-cheh-lah'
No other pronunciation ever occurred to me tbh.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
xp I also have a coal chute, non-functioning sadly
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
I have a couple flour/sugar bins in my kitchen. They look like cabinets but they pivot out from the top to reveal a bin that narrows toward the bottom. It didn't take me that long to figure out what they were for, but I had never seen or heard about them before.
― nickn, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
Repeated employment of the phrase 'coal chute' amidst discussion of the proper pronunciation of Coachella has me very confused, indeed!
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 23:32 (six years ago) link
Nickn, like a Frankfurt Kitchen?
https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/the-frankfurt-kitchen-small-sp-113421
― koogs, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
Specifically the 4th and 5th pic there
― koogs, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link
Similar concept, but these are about 2 feet tall and 14-16 inches wide, and you pull out from a handle at the top, with the bin pivoting at the bottom. They can be lifted out but in normal operation they aren't because they are heavy.
Like the lower right of this free-standing cabinet.https://www.harpgallery.com/ebay/cd/cup11916board2.jpg
Close up of what the bins look like.http://www.kingstonroadauction.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/image434.jpg
― nickn, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link
The dishwasher cutlery basket. It was only recently that it occurred to me that if I removed it from the dishwasher after its cycle, and placed it by the cutlery drawer, it would make it easier to put the cutlery away. And that the basket is specifically designed to enable this. Decades of to-ing and fro-ing from dishwasher to drawer could have been saved if I had realised this earlier.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
^ it's been two decades since I lived with a dishwasher, and the dishwasher was immediately next to the cutlery drawer where I grew up, but this is brand new to me
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 04:39 (six years ago) link
Why did your parents force you to grow up in a cutlery drawer?
― Moodles, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 06:48 (six years ago) link
i’m not going to judge, my family lived near a fork in the road
― estela, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 07:04 (six years ago) link
lol i think we already did the cutlery basket thing in this very thread before!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 07:04 (six years ago) link
xpost <3 estela
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 07:05 (six years ago) link
yes tracer hand taught us that cutlery basket trick years ago, i’m forever grateful
― estela, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 07:08 (six years ago) link
Oh Jesus fork in the road
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 08:17 (six years ago) link
That Liv Tyler is Steve Tyler's daughter.
Things Liv Tyler was shockingly old when she learned.
Definitely had a weird drying rack that was attached to a piece of rope so it could be winched up near the ceiling.
My current flat has one of these, they're awesome.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 11:08 (six years ago) link
https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-22-2015/qPlUSR.gif
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 11:09 (six years ago) link
EG: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/6-Lath-Victorian-Kitchen-Ceiling-Pulley-Clothes-Airer-Maid-Laundry-Dryer-Rack-/310450716334
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 11:11 (six years ago) link
Very common in tenements in the West of Scotland - with those high ceilings which make it impossible to keep warm so it's good that the West of Scotland has a tropical climate.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 11:22 (six years ago) link
also v efficient at packing the smell of a full fry-up into your nightshirt
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 11:39 (six years ago) link
I can confirm that they are also very common in the East of Scotland too - well Edinburgh at least.
― finlay (fionnland), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 12:30 (six years ago) link
my dad has one of these. it's brilliant, but he keeps it in the same room as the cat food and it makes clothes smell a bit weird
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 12:49 (six years ago) link
I have no idea what kind of uncommon household appliances you all are talking about. They sound cool though!
My great-grandmother bequeathed a hussy dresser to my mother. In a weird ironic move, she sold it to her ex-husband, my father, to keep it in the family.
So now my dad's got this hussy dresser in his living room, right next to the other appliance from my mother's family, an old radio that still has its WHBQ button.
Google refuses to believe that I would actually search for something called a "hussy dresser," confirming my suspicions that this name I've heard all my life is probably a misnomer like "chester drawers".
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
one of those dryers above an aga is superb
― ogmor, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
OTM
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
There was probably a point where it was less about ignorance than wishful thinking. And then 'Bang the Drum All Day' happened and she was finally able to let go.
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
From "Bang the Drum" to "Love in an Elevator" the poor girl.
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
I'm sure there's a Greek tragedy which traces a similar path.
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
http://https%3A//farm3.staticflickr.com/2142/1808431922_f57204caf3_m.jpg
― calumerio, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2142/1808431922_f57204caf3_m.jpgBroken Pulley Ropes by Catriona, on Flickr
― calumerio, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
I am enjoying that flickr set:https://www.flickr.com/photos/catrionaf/albums/72157602808326564
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
Oh, that guy!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/watch-shocking-footage-window-cleaner-5771289
― ailsa, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
I don't know if this counts but I'm not sure I was aware that Patrick Swayze is dead until last night
― brimstead, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
That 80s cartoon The Raccoons was made in Canada and apparently wasn't shown in the USA. Not that I would've been able to discern a Canadian accent in the 80s, I'm still not great at it now, unless it's really strong and they say ey all the time. Sometimes I think Minnesotans are Canadian.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
I think the Minnesota accent can sound a bit Canadian? They are right next to each other after all.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
― brimstead, Thursday, 4 January 2018 08:40 (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fuck, so he is
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
I remember when that happened, it made me really sad. too young to have seen him in his prime, or anything really besides Donnie Darko, but I'll never forget a photo of him defiantly blowing cigarette smoke out of an SUV sun roof less than a month before he died. good for him.
earlier this year I learned it's not a good idea to put your hand in Drano
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
How did y'all think he was able to walk through walls and get inside Whoopi Goldberg like that?
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
get inside Whoopi Goldberga phrase i did not expect to see today
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
Can't quite remember how it came about now, but I had to very belatedly break the news of Patrick Swayze's death to a mate a couple of days ago.
― ailsa, Thursday, 4 January 2018 00:09 (six years ago) link