Things you were shockingly old when you learned

The Benedictine Monks of Burton Abbey discovered that slowly toasting the malted wheat flakes used in their brewing process offered a distinctive taste when baked into their bread. It’s the malting process that gives our loaf its unique nutty flavour and scrumptious texture today.

The original malted bread apparently also formed the major part of the very first ploughman’s lunch and was the bread that was taken by farmers into the fields along with their cheese and ale! Why not try your own tasty ploughman’s lunch by pairing with your favourite choice of chunky cheeses (a mature Cheddar is our favourite go to!), pickled onions, chutney, pickles and two slices of delicious Hovis Granary® bread. Add tomatoes, spring onions, crunchy celery, or even a slice of apple too, if you fancy a bit more bite.

If it’s not Hovis® it’s not Granary®

Did you know that Granary® is not a type of bread? It is in fact a brand and a registered trademark of Hovis®.

huh, I was reading "granary" and thinking "that's where you keep your grain"

makes sense that someone would make it into a brand for a bread type, though

I thought it was a type of bread. My mother always bought granary and I don't think it was Hovis. That's not them being proprietary after the fact is it?
Trying to lay claim to something that was at one point more general.

Learned just minutes ago that Shazam! and Captain Marvel are two different 2019 films

I am assuming Shazam is a real version of the imagined 90s movie with Sinbad and I absolutely refuse to watch or listen to anything that will disabuse me of this notion

The sight of a stinkbug almost makes me grateful for the house centipedes that stalked my last apartment in Montreal. Almost.

Bed bugs overturn the 'almost'.

same here, CAL

Just learned that there were not thirteen but rather fourteen New British colonies in pre-Revolutionary America (pours one out for Nova Scotia).

omg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0MXQZUXcAM3y1v.jpg

smashboy

They sound like a gaggle of toughs to me.

Wish it was true but sadly... pic.twitter.com/xk5vo44dWO

— Jeff Ball (@jeffthatnoise) February 24, 2019

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I'm gonna take a guess that might be an Obvious Plant joint.

Just learned that there were not thirteen but rather fourteen New British colonies in pre-Revolutionary America (pours one out for Nova Scotia).

― Hangover Ape (Old Lunch), Sunday, April 7, 2019 6:39 AM(yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There were 20 British colonies in north america at the time of the revolutionary war, the ones in present day Canada were much more recent possessions (taken from French in war) and so did not have the same culture of self-government etc. while the 13 colonies did and were more similar and established so were more inclined to rebel and join together

I was well into my 20s before I found out why the Montreal Expos were called the Montreal Expos.

Halloumi cheese chips being deep fried cheese with no potato content. Have these things been around for a while or a re they a recent trend. Quite nice though , but may be prone to rapid overkill. Halloumi can be a little rubbery.
Was surprised to find taht Aldi had just launched them as a range, 'new' stickers on the shelf a week after i tried them in a local turkish cafe. Had been eyeing them on the menu for the last few months in there.
Have they been around a while or are thy a newish trend.

Derivation of Latin from Latium the region of Italy around Rome.

Hence Lazio.

yeah, slight morph in language over the last couple of millenia, like.

That gas doesn't have a scent but is odorized o_O

yeah cos of incidents like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19IczVwsK0

Depends on the gas though dunnit.

Hfs that killed 295+, I’d not seen it before. Cleanup effort looks so shambolic and inefficient there.

Arthur Balfour and Henry Campbell-Bannerman were Scottish, meaning that of the first 7 British Prime Minsters elected in the 20th century, only two were English.

CB was a Kelvinside man

Gettysburg is named after a Mr. Gettys, not a Mr. Getty.

Julian Assange is only 47! wtf dude.

ppl say by the time u 50 u got the looks you deserve.

some ppl just go for palpatine asap

silver mangy coyote

The (former) existence of Est (Erhard Seminars Training)

xpost- i was rethinking my shitpost above while on the move. i gotta add that so many ppl (most?) live or are forced to live lives of _exceptional_ stress or hardship by 50. if the aphorism i repeated is true, let us all be benchmarked appropriately, i guess. i don't have deep knowledge of assange's paths and acts. not optimistic about him tho

Alba - as in you thought it was just in the Americans?

Julian Assange is only 47! wtf dude.

https://i.redd.it/052h540xgb5y.jpg

yikes thats a big hueg sorry.

Grayce - I just mean I'd never heard of Est at all and when I did it felt like the kind of thing I would have heard of.

The (former) existence of Est (Erhard Seminars Training)

my late realization was that Werner Erhard was actually an American who adopted a fake German name

Have you heard of the Landmark Forum, Alba?

If I had it hadn't registered with me. I know now that that's what Est sort of became.

Haven't watched The Americans – but the person I heard about Est from mentioned that it featured on there (and also explained the Landmark Forum thing).

Anyway, looking at Wikipedia taught me that Est itself had the Human Potential Movement as is antecedent, which again I didn't know of but that in turn had its roots in Maslow's theory of self-actualization, which I did know about so finally I have something to latch on to. I feel like I'd like to watch a documentary on all these things and it would probably be by Adam Curtis.

Sorry for all the typos, Grayce etc

Googling confirms my suspicion that Curtis's Century of the Self deals with Maslow so I should probably just rewatch that.

A former girlfriend of mine (a big Americans fan, oddly enough) got wrangled into a Landmark meeting by her roommate, who was advanced in it. She raved about the first session, saying she experienced a bigger breakthrough than in years of therapy, tried to get me to go... then a few weeks later said it was definitely cult-y and never returned. And yeah, considering how long it existed, I rarely find someone who knows what it was, and I don't see it mentioned much in popular culture, The Americans aside.

I knew there was a long old ILX thread on it:

Landmark Forum

I spoke at length with a close friend who'd been through the program. He told me he had absolutely benefitted from it, immeasurably-- it effectively cured his depression. But he was also angry about the way the program was presented to him, the weird secrecy around it, and did not wish to recommend it to anyone for that reason.

His conclusion was that the philosophy that was taught to him by Landmark ran so counter-intuitively to currently-held ideas about mental health, trauma, and privilege, that the weird "cultishness" of the program was a way of keeping its essentially Thatcher-esque "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" methodology away from any critical purview.

JUst listened to a Things You Missed In History Class talking about how the Presidential Pardon worked. Came from 2008 and was talking about scandal involving Scooter Libby getting his sentence commuted when he hadn't served a day. & i mainly know the guy's name from Trump having pardoned him.
I assumed he'd just been serving time until trump came along, so had he done something further in between that got him sentenced again.

on the hand I wanna know more, on the other ive got no time-energy for any more of that dbag

I think he just added to an existing scandal, somebody that most people thought was guilty was freed in 2008 or thereabouts and then supposedly utterly exonerated about a decade later amongst a series of abuses of the Presidential pardon.

"Bette Davis Eyes" (by Kim Carnes) is a cover.