bob was never heartbroken for long iirc
― mh, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link
he never let them fool himor even try to school him
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 02:00 (six years ago) link
OK, I feel better now knowing I'm not alone in this.
lol TH I never really thought of it as anti-woman more just like a love sucks and isn't worth the effort type thing. If you want to be happy on the other hand. It's a shame though because it's a damn catchy song and even the spoken ugly wife bits are fun. :(
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
I guess they only get a day off in Australia cause voting is compulsory there
Sorry, this isnt correct. We dont get the day off, they just do voting on Saturdays.
also we can vote, at fewer locations, for a couple of weeks before the official voting day
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
So with all the Billy Joel talk that goes on around these parts, and after hearing him on Spotify this morning, I remembered that I was well into my 20s before I learned that Long Island was not one of the boroughs of NYC.
Also Long Island-related, that the "Amityville Horror" house was not some isolated place far from its neighbors, but is right in the middle of a bustling suburb.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
lmao that is amazing
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
I grew up on Long Island and two of my closest HS friends were from near Amityville so we used to drive by the house all the time. And while you're right that it isn't a borough of NYC, Queens and Brooklyn are both technically on Long Island so it's not the craziest thing in the world for you to have thought that. God I hate Billy Joel.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
Oh we also drove by Joey Buttafuoco's house all the time which wasn't too far from the horror house lol.
Also Long Island-related, that the "Amityville Horror" house was not some isolated place far from its neighbors, but is right in the middle of a bustling suburb.it’s sad day when you realise stonehenge is just some fairly underwhelming rocks sat right up against the junction of two busy highways
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
Until a couple years ago I thought No Woman No Cry meant that if you don't have a woman then you don't have any problems and won't be sad/cry. One day I it came on the radio and I actually listened to the words and realized that it was BM telling a lady not to cry.
For a while when I first heard this (must've been early-mid teens) I wasn't sure which of these it was. I never thought it was definitely the first one, but I wasn't 100% sure either way. I did think if it was the first one, it was just a "love sucks" thing, not misogyny.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
When I was a kid I thought it was "No Woman No Crime". Not sure what I thought that was supposed to mean.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
could have meant "it ain't no crime if you ain't got a woman as long as you ain't sleepin' with the boys" if Buju Banton had written it
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link
I was in my 20s before I found out what procedure Penny had done in Dirty Dancing; "knocked up" was not in the dictionary when I checked.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
You could've knocked me up with a feather when I found out
― Finn T Buoty (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 March 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocker-up
― it's my leopard. (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 March 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
We rented (in one of the bad years) a two bedroom cottage for the six of us from the 85 year old owner who moved into the coalshed with his dog in order to get the 25 punt a week into his hand.
Anyway, he used to do that for us.
I often wonder if ilxors have any questions about my upbringing they'd like answered
I've a few meself when things like the above snippet come back to me tbh
― Finn T Buoty (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 March 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link
I’d pay an old man to prod me with a stick when I didn’t get out of bed in the morning in a timely manner
― mh, Thursday, 1 March 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
no sexual innuendo intended but some of you can get whatever kicks you want from inferring it
― mh, Thursday, 1 March 2018 02:14 (six years ago) link
Who knocks up the knocker-upper, though?
― it's my leopard. (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 March 2018 02:16 (six years ago) link
I knew a knocker upper who only knocked up men who didn’t knock up themselves
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Thursday, 1 March 2018 02:17 (six years ago) link
it’s alright ma i’m only knockin up heaven’s door
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 1 March 2018 03:30 (six years ago) link
I didn't know until a few weeks ago that Hawaii is SIX HOURS away from LA by plane.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 1 March 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link
> Who knocks up the knocker-upper, though?
It's knocker-uppers all the way down.
(Didn't I read somewhere that, yes, knocker-uppers had their own knocker-uppers and they had their own etc. The earliest of which was early enough that they just stayed up late rather than had to get up early)
((Probably QI))
― koogs, Thursday, 1 March 2018 04:35 (six years ago) link
I only just this week found out that a pile of people (in America), supposedly pronounce faux like fox?! The "Faux News" thing is actually supposed to be a pun? wtf
― Manitobiloba (Kim), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
No. No way. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
Also many x-posts - I was thinking about the abortion in DD recently because I watched the shit out of that movie when it came out and I was only 10 but I don't remember not getting any of it. Maybe my bff's older sister filled us in or something. Tbh I was really pretty sheltered so I'm surprised my parents let me watch at all let alone repeatedly.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
The Carpenters' "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" is a cover (of Klaatu).
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
xpost I think I was 9-10 too for DD. I have no clue what I thought was going on. That she had a bad appendectomy?
― Yerac, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
it’s sad day when you realise stonehenge is just some fairly underwhelming rocks sat right up against the junction of two busy highways
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 4:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sort of in keeping with the thread mandate, I thought until sometime within the past year that I'd just been remiss in learning all about the function/historical significance of Stonehenge but it turns out that nobody actually knows for sure what it's all about and my ignorance is shared with the entire rest of the world?
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
i was 12 when DD came out and i am pretty sure i knew she was pregnant and didn't want to be, but i didn't understand what the procedure was.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
i have never heard anyone do this, and i grew up in mississippi and live in arkansas. think it's pretty well understood "faux news" is a visual pun.
― andrew m., Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
count me in on the "no woman no cry" understanding. hey, i may not have a woman but at least that means i don't have to cry because of a broken heart right? count yr blessings.
― andrew m., Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
xp I'm going to tentatively agree on that, although I wouldn't discount the idea that some fox news viewers see the mocking and think it's a verbal pun, too
― mh, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
Cracked keeps doing variants of a listicle like "things you're probably picturing incorrectly," and they usually include Stonehenge and/or the Alamo, showing them from less-photographed angles or from farther away so you can see wow, that's not isolated at all.
I don't remember seeing the Amityville house in its burb context so maybe they've somehow missed that one.
― it's my leopard. (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
my favorite images in that lineage are the pyramids at giza, as seen from the window of the pizza hut that's across the street from the pyramids
― mh, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
The Arby's atop Mt. Rushmore is supposed to be one of the best around.
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
Giza Hut surely
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link
lol
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link
I always thought "Try Glasgow More" was a well-known phrase, like it was the title of some 80s Scottish indie comp or something, but unless google misleads me I learned today that "Try Glasgow More" is the title of the ILX thread about Glasgow, and only that.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
I'd just been remiss in learning all about the function/historical significance of Stonehenge but it turns out that nobody actually knows for sure what it's all about and my ignorance is shared with the entire rest of the world?
in the intro to architecture class i attended someone seriously asked "has it been proved that stonehenge was built by humans?"
― new noise, Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
sometimes I miss having classes with really non sequitur questions like that
― mh, Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
That Glasgow thing is news to me, too. It sounds just like a slogan that a tourism board would come up with and I'd assumed it was.
― Dan I., Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
(Same here)
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link
This was the Glasgow slogan, fwiw...
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/06/32/a9/b9/the-riverside-museum.jpg
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
kilometres, innit
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
Not in the UK.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
I learned just this second that Budgie plays drums on Cut
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 2 March 2018 04:21 (six years ago) link
That the "Gallo Hearty Burgundy" jug wine that was always on our dinner table when I was growing up was not real Burgundy. Nor was the "Gallo Chablis Blanc" actual Chablis.
― Josefa, Friday, 2 March 2018 04:44 (six years ago) link
IIRC actual Chablis is a pretty narrow category but somehow it came to mean "white wine" in general in the North America of the 70s.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 2 March 2018 05:26 (six years ago) link
When I was growing up my mother always used the term "hoi polloi" to refer to elite/rich people. I can only assume she was mixing it up with "hoity toity" or something. So I was probably in my 20s before I learned it meant the opposite.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 2 March 2018 05:28 (six years ago) link