I only grew to know the shape of fresh spinach leaves in my late twenties. For some reason I had pictured it as being some sort of soggy spring greens/pak choi affair until then (probably as the result of only knowing it in wilted mulch form)
― imago, Friday, 15 November 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure if I knew as a kid that Tom's Midnight Garden and The Secret Garden were two separate books but I either realised or re-realised this a couple of weeks ago
― kinder, Friday, 15 November 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
my mental image of "spinach" was overwhelmingly defined by Popeye cartoons, in which it is a mushy green slime, only ever seen arcing as a colloidal mass from the can into Popeye's mouth.
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 November 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
Another, worse d'oh moment: that WhatsApp is a riff on 'what's up', which I guess everyone else in the world knew immediately. Shameful.
fuck
well, take some solace in knowing that you were only the second-last person in the world to realise that
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 November 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
Nat "King" Cole got his nickname/stage name from the "Old King Cole" nursery rhyme.
I realized this yesterday.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 15 November 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
I learned who Mary Lou Williams was yesterday :-/
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 15 November 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
On the upside, a student taught me! Here's to humility in teaching.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 15 November 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
I just now noticed there’s a Z and an A on the album cover of Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch.
― Mr. Snrub
It took me a while to recognize the ship and witch's hat, I think I just thought it was a simple abstract drawing.
― nickn, Friday, 15 November 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
It's from a book of similar drawings, can't remember what it's called now
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 November 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
DROODLES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1BsdWGA9s
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 November 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
My mate has the witches hat tattooed on his inner left arm. The first time he showed me, it took me an excruciatingly long time to work out what it was. Then we had to have the 'yeah, Zappa's a bit of a twat, isn't he?' conversation all over again and that was that for the evening.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
― kinder, Friday, 15 November 2019 13:46 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
goodnight mr uncle toms midnight secret cabin is where im currently at with these
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
that the "returned search results for..." message in soulseek at the bottom is not just a system log, it's stuff that was returned from your library
I thought the results looked too familiar too often
― frogbs, Saturday, 16 November 2019 03:49 (four years ago) link
That I’ve been right all along about how to pronounce “vapid” (nobody ever says this word, you only see it in print, my instincts are usually terrible about this kind of thing)
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 16 November 2019 03:57 (four years ago) link
of course according to merriam-webster I would’ve been right either way
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 16 November 2019 03:58 (four years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, November 15, 2019 4:09 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
The way I understand it, the jazz trio featuring Nat Cole took its name from the nursery rhyme and it then got applied to the artist himself when he went solo..Do love the King Co9le Trio cos it features the guitar of Oscar Moore who is pretty dashed fine.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 16 November 2019 10:40 (four years ago) link
That the Judeo-Christian notion of a soul didn't exist until Greek philosophers began ruminating about dualism.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Saturday, 16 November 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
Yeah how could one have been so shockingly ignorant about the origins of the Judeo-Christian notion of a soul.
I mean when I was like five I had this silly attachment to the Emersonian ideal of an oversoul. Then in like third grade I was big into the Nietzschean ubermensch concept. I was tempted by Manichean duality as a preteen, but it somehow the true historical path of these never quite crystallized for me. Good on ya, lunch
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 16 November 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
That no one else says vapid out loud.
― Alba, Saturday, 16 November 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
I feel less bad about overusing that word as a vapid youth
― mh, Saturday, 16 November 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
I read somebody saying that policy wonks are nicknamed as such cos they know everything backwards! Which is obv wrong because the dictionary says it is slang for for someone with an eye for tedious detail or an inexperienced sailor (1920s).
― calzino, Saturday, 16 November 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
vapid = 'vaped' right, please tell me i'm correct or i will be embarrsed
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Saturday, 16 November 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
"When learning English, Russians have to practice making the "w" sound because they are not used to it. At first, they will often pronounce them as "v", which leads to being corrected by the teacher. This constant practice of substituting "v" with "w" leads to over correction wherein they become so conscientious about the substitution that they do it even when they're not supposed to."
― mark s, Saturday, 16 November 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch)
it took me until like five years ago to learn how to spell embarrassed. i couldn't remember if it had two rs and one s or two ss and one r.
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Saturday, 16 November 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
mark s: I worked with a Ukrainian who would often go to the wending machine.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 16 November 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
i agree with kids who say a W is actually drawed like a double-vee. sorry that’s my only opinion. Inconsistently said, incorrectly named, what a mess. and a danish pal went on for a minute about the sport of “wallyball” and i couldnt figure out if that was just a weird way of saying volleyball, or a different sport.
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
In spanish, V is "ve" and W is "doble ve"
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
ah true. sorta pronounced doble b some places tho?
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
i agree with kids who say a W is actually drawed like a double-vee.The VVitchVValgreensVValt Disney
― insecurity bear (sic), Saturday, 16 November 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
vvtf
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 November 2019 01:00 (four years ago) link
Very very the fuck indeed
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 November 2019 01:11 (four years ago) link
vvolwes
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 November 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link
Vvolves aye vve
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 November 2019 01:20 (four years ago) link
That there's another famous Don Cherry that isn't the jazz guy
― Cornelius Fondue (Matt #2), Sunday, 17 November 2019 10:53 (four years ago) link
Famous on ILX maybe.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 November 2019 11:06 (four years ago) link
the (scott) walker (joe) walsh (don) cherry trio, uluv2 hear it
― mark s, Sunday, 17 November 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
The acronym "FAP" is a reference to masturbation.
(Lol that the fame of the hockey Don Cherry is an ilx phenomenon.)
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Monday, 18 November 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
Is 'fap' an acronym in that context? 'Flogging a peen'?
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Monday, 18 November 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
Ha, we used to use it as an acronym for "fancy a pint" when planning ilx0r get-togethers. Idk if the original is also an acronym, though.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Monday, 18 November 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
North American rather than ILX.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Monday, 18 November 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
the acronym is not, and as far as I know "fapping" is onomatopoeia
― mh, Monday, 18 November 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
didn't that come from some ages old webcomic? was it Megatokyo??
― frogbs, Monday, 18 November 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
p sure this exact same discussion arose v early on (possibly courtesy much-missed NZ poster lady di)
― mark s, Monday, 18 November 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
― mh, Monday, November 18, 2019 10:19 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yikes, is that what it's supposed to sound like?
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Monday, 18 November 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
'Hen fap' at the very least has its origins in a photograph from a late-'90s Onion article.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Monday, 18 November 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
https://www.sexylosers.com/
― insecurity bear (sic), Monday, 18 November 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
Yesterday I learned that you can’t drive through the Chunnel! I thought it was like the Holland Tunnel, basically. Now I’m a little obsessed with the drive-on trains.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
It's like your car is inside a big crate, you can't see anything of interest, and the novelty wears off after about 30 seconds, if that.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
sounds better than the holland tunnel
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
The worst part of Eurostar is the scenery is so dull, especially in Northern France.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link