that joke is just way past its sell by date
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
you might almost say it's overcompensating for something
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
i think i was 10 or 11 so not that old but i recall being confused by the expression "nuff said" thinking "who's nuff?"
Ha that just reminded me of when I was a young kid (maybe 10?) in school, a friend did the Bewitched thing where she said "witches honor!" and put her fingers either side of her nose. Somehow, I thought she'd said 'which is honor?" and I looked at her fingers, poked one and replied "that one!". Much to her confusion and weird expression.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 15 March 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
"if so many people die at Gunpoint why do people continue to go there?"
Thousands of jobs in Jeopardy!
― lana del boy (ledge), Thursday, 15 March 2018 09:11 (six years ago) link
That so many of you didn't understand how pumping gas works is the most ilx thing ever
― Dan I., Thursday, 15 March 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
doesn't it just go in the trunk and kind of slosh around in there?
― motorpsycho nightmare winningham (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 15 March 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
I'm no mechanic but yes I believe that is correct.
― Dan I., Thursday, 15 March 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
also perhaps lots of Jersey ilxors
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 March 2018 02:51 (six years ago) link
The other day the auto-shutoff thing on my gas pump failed and gasoline briefly spilled forth from the pump/my tank. It was relatively innocuous and yet irrationally disturbing.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 16 March 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
did a gas station employee with a cigarette on his lip come running out sayin "whatdafuckayadoin?" and slip in the pool of gasoline?
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 March 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
Who is this dimwit Frederick b?
― plax (ico), Friday, 16 March 2018 15:28 (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 16 March 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
ahahahaha
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 March 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
I'm not a musician so I will inevitably mess up what I'm trying to describe, but I was shockingly old when I learned that Blues Traveller's 'Hook' is built around an arrangement(???) of Pachelbel's Canon.
― Another helping of mouthwatering cobbler? (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 11:59 (six years ago) link
I was in my mid-20s before I realized that kiwis aren't supposed to produce a tingling sensation in your mouth when you eat them. That only happens to me because I am mildly allergic to them.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
Hmmm, I thought the tingling sensation is because they are pretty acidic?
― Yerac, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
there is a building in central london that until two years ago had banned all kiwi fruit anywhere in it, because someone, who did not want to be named, was apparently so allergic to them that he would have health problems if he was present in the building at the same time as a kiwi was
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
i was in my mid-20s before i realized that kiwis are better with the skin on fwiw
The new Ricky Gervais on netflix kind of has a funny bit about not getting his nuts in first class because of a women being allergic to nuts.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
Hmmm, I am going to have to try the skin on kiwi. I never knew this was a thing. I do eat shrimp with the shell on if they are tender enough.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
try it. you will not go back!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
new Ricky Gervais on netflix kind of has a funny bitseems unlikely, even with qualifier
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
just listening to a report on recent sexual abuse cases and the marginalisation of the Sami people in N Norway. I honestly didn't realise there were indigenous peoples in Norway.
― calzino, Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
I didn't realise they were Finno-Ugric (like Finns, Estonians and Hungarians) rather than Eskimo-Aleut until just now. (Not that this will shock anyone)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
there is sami-language radio!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
Such a shame that no one remembers the great Finno-Ugric entertainer Sami Davis Jr.
― yamnesia (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
Well, you do get them in Finland after all.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
Though I thought they were mostly in Finland, but they are mostly in Norway, though I suppose the topmost part of Scandinavia is in Norway.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
Xp yeah, but most of Scandinavia is not Finland, and the Finns came from a later migration it seems.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
I went through the same kind of culture shock a few years ago: finland
― pplains, Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
I mean, on one hand, I feel kinda funny mocking indigenous people.
But on the other hand,
https://i.imgur.com/PvOdpWB.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
tbf slightly fair to the non-Sami Norwegians, they have been in Norway since 3000 BC, it's not quite a white settlers/ Native American sorta thing.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/stpZV75.gif
You see, this is what you get with De la Rue - state of the art e-passports.
― calzino, Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
Soviet police memo to help determine one's national origin. pic.twitter.com/bAwy6WmF1p— Soviet Visuals (@sovietvisuals) May 21, 2016
― calzino, Friday, 23 March 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71upBhWPBFL._SY450_.jpg
― motorpsycho nightmare winningham (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 23 March 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
i like a good ancient culture and their various art things but the last couple of years have thrown up a couple that i knew nothing about
Today it was these things (stone spheres of costa rica):https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=costa+rica+spheres&tbm=isch
Last year it was these things (Sanxingdui masks):https://www.google.com/search?q=Sanxingdui&tbm=isch
― koogs, Saturday, 24 March 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
That crazy old Coors Light ad where the guy is practically delirious about "twins" was based on an old country song about little baby ducks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfH2mgOnM-k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk64JluO4CI
― how's life, Sunday, 25 March 2018 11:09 (six years ago) link
Oh, god. I know (and love) the Tom T. Hall song but have thankfully never been subjected to that nightmarish perversion of his song before now.
― Toilet Paper Tube Bracelets -- Super Hero Themed? (Old Lunch), Sunday, 25 March 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
Evelyn Waugh is male
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 00:56 (six years ago) link
same :-0
― burzum buddies (brownie), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link
Fun fact: his first wife was called Evelyn, so there was in fact a female Evelyn Waugh
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 01:06 (six years ago) link
http://www.edinburghspotlight.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/evelynreview.jpg
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 01:32 (six years ago) link
Only way I've kept that one straight is because I used to work with a guy named Mar10n Waugh.
His wife's name was Janey.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 01:44 (six years ago) link
More like Evelyn Wau, amirite.
(I did in fact know about old Evelyn. Do a Google image search for George Eliot if you're interested in further literary surprises.)
― to eat a little "snack", to have an snack (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 02:11 (six years ago) link
When I saw live musical performances on TV, I knew the music was often pre-recorded and that the artists were just lip-singing.
― mick signals, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 02:19 (six years ago) link
you know that's "lip-syncing", right? :P
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 04:45 (six years ago) link
I was shockingly old when I realised that the name of the band who did Funkytown was a pun on the above
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 04:53 (six years ago) link
Well, you don’t say.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 05:03 (six years ago) link
According to Wikipedia, friends took to calling the Waughs he-Evelyn and she-Evelyn. Hevelyn and Shevelyn would surely have been better?
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:04 (six years ago) link
make the edit alba DO IT
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:08 (six years ago) link
That it's pronounced Ever-Lin, Not Eeeeev-Lin
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:22 (six years ago) link