Or... DID IT?
I mean, we don't *know* that there isn't still a secret Soviet colony on the moon
would be pretty badass if there were a socialist paradise of moon miners, who lost contact with their control base long ago, but have just kept on keepin' on. Moon mining inna Stalinist style; they didn't hear about the wall coming down or Reagan or any of that.
MOVIE IDEA
plz don't steal it, I'm working on the screenplay now thxbye
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
generally, 1ml of water = 1g ...1L of water = 1 kg(the US really needs to switch to metric)
― Yerac, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S08E11/204737.jpg?b64lines=IE5PIERFQUwsIHB1ZmZpbi4gVEhBVAogTU9PTiBNT05FWSBJUyBNSU5FLiA=
― Pete Swine Cave (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
> generally, 1ml of water = 1g ...1L of water = 1 kg
and 1 calorie is enough energy to raise 1g of water up 1 degree centigrade
― koogs, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
hydrants are all on the same side of the street
― Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 December 2019 10:48 (four years ago) link
and that one gram of water will be one cubic centimetre in volume.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 20 December 2019 11:05 (four years ago) link
Took the wrong turning out of Liverpool st yesterday and wound up going down some back streets and then found myself on a road I was thinking might be the bottom stretch of Brick Lane that I rarely get to. Turned out to be Petticoat Lane which I've just been missing by a couple of streets for years.
It has a nice looking food market and several fabric shops that seem to be more Afrocentric than Brick Lane.MUst get back there later in this trip.
Also discovered what a powerful band the Flying Luttenbachers are. Wow.
― Stevolende, Friday, 20 December 2019 11:24 (four years ago) link
i saw them in Chicago in 1995! 'destroy all music' is the name of one of their albums iirc
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 December 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
This was with a pick up guitarist from the UK. Amazing player who fit in like he'd played with them for ages. THink he may have toured UK/Europe with them before. BUt I'm told there is a more permanent New York line up of the band and I think the other 3 were from that. Don't think you'd notice without being told as in who would and wouldn't be full time.
― Stevolende, Friday, 20 December 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
i seem to recall saying something unkind about weasel walter (the drummer) on the internet, perhaps on these very boards, and he found it within 24 hours and sent me an angry email about it.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 December 2019 11:36 (four years ago) link
1ml of water = 1g ... and that one gram of water will be one cubic centimetre in volume.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 20 December 2019 12:07 (four years ago) link
Oh hey, maybe I can blow a mind or two with stuff I learned about body part proportions in art school (if I can remember them accurately). Not hard and fast, obvs as bodies are variable, but generaly-speaking:
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 December 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
I learned the eye thing from, of all places, Stephen King's "Duma Key." An art dealer, viewing the main character's self-taught artwork, asks him if he uses the third-eye method when painting faces.
― Pete Swine Cave (Eliza D.), Friday, 20 December 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
Also I the human head is roughly 3.5 noses high, iirc? And the edges of the nostrils align with the corners of the eyes? The nose is basically the golden rectangle of the face, is what I'm saying here.
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 December 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
There's just enough room between your eyes for another eyeand your whole head is five eyes wide.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 20 December 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
and hairline to browline = browline to bottom of nose = bottom of nose to chin.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 20 December 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
something about the span of your outstretched hand from the tip of your thumb to the tip of your little finger being equal to something as well? can't for the life of me remember what though
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Friday, 20 December 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
if you hold you hand in front of your face you can figure it out
:)
― mh, Friday, 20 December 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
defo confirmation here this ain't tru
― Ste, Friday, 20 December 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
If you are used to smiley faces and cartoon heads, the mind-blower when I was a kid was always that your eyes are halfway down your head (not at the top).
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 20 December 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
I mean, we don't *know* that there isn't still a secret Soviet colony on the moonwould be pretty badass if there were a socialist paradise of moon miners, who lost contact with their control base long ago, but have just kept on keepin' on. Moon mining inna Stalinist style; they didn't hear about the wall coming down or Reagan or any of that.
Matt McGinn already wrote this back in 1967 (with Robin Williamson on mandolin, ISB fans):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai1hf9_oIOg
― everything, Friday, 20 December 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
Ayn Rand's original name is Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum. i honestly have figured the less i know about that personality the better, so i'm tryna forget even this.
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Saturday, 21 December 2019 01:26 (four years ago) link
Ayn Rand gave someone power of attorney knowing they would apply for social security and medicaid for her in her dotage. Oh I didnt just find this out I just enjoy bringing it up
― xmas respecter (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 21 December 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
i actually DID know that one! *drinks again*
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Saturday, 21 December 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
idk I feel like “ayn rand collected social security!” is a the inverse of “you’re a socialist but you have an iphone!” you believe in something that isn’t the current situation but have to deal with the current reality. ayn rand was a delusional shitbag for so manyother reasons and collecting from a system she paid into is the smallest objection
― mh, Saturday, 21 December 2019 02:52 (four years ago) link
Brenda Lee was only 14 when she recorded "Rockin Around the Christmas Tree"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
she was 13 iirc
― xmas respecter (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
you do rc
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
Ida Lupino named names and spied for the FBI and HUAC.
― Pete Swine Cave (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
I just realized the Add a Post text box on ILX can be resized on my phone by dragging the edge. How has this feature escaped my notice all these years?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
Lee Hazelwood sounds like Johnny Cash
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
learnedobserved
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
That laundrette is recognised as an alternative spelling of launderette, rather than just being a surprisingly common error on launderette signs.
― Alba, Saturday, 28 December 2019 12:21 (four years ago) link
Olivia Newton-John's grandfather was physicist Max Born.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link
Less prestigious but she's also the third cousin of Ben Elton.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
Does common mispelling lead to amended spelling automatically. Think it might have prior to printing fixing things and would just be another step in the evolution of whatever language presumably.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
I think OLJ got a cameo in Ken Burns Country didn't she. Had eiyher forgotten or not fully taken in that she started in country before breaking out presumably thanks to Grease.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:11 (four years ago) link
believe you are correct
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:19 (four years ago) link
She started in easy-listening pop, and had non-country chart hits in the UK, US and Australia during the decade before Grease, and competed in Eurovision in 1974.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Saturday, 28 December 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
Okay, perhaps not quite accurate to say she “started” in country, but she was marketed as country in the US and won CMA Female Vocalist of the Year in 1974, the year before John Denver’s name as Entertainer of the Year was in the envelope set on fire by Charlie Rich.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 December 2019 00:33 (four years ago) link
If you rinse your dishes in hot water, as opposed to cold or tepid water,- they’ll dry much faster - they will have fewer streaks and water-spots- they’ll just look generally cleaner- your hands won’t feel (as) old and arthritic
― rb (soda), Sunday, 29 December 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
That mayflies are also called 'Canadian soldiers' in the US.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 29 December 2019 03:57 (four years ago) link
I’ve never heard that before but I’m also not positive I know what a mayfly is
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 29 December 2019 04:03 (four years ago) link
Aka shadflies or fishflies, apparently, or up-winged flies in the UK:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly
― pomenitul, Sunday, 29 December 2019 04:07 (four years ago) link
i’ve never heard that in the US. what region is that from? probably some border area
― babu frik fan account (mh), Sunday, 29 December 2019 04:38 (four years ago) link
Upon googling it I came across a couple of occurrences in local Cleveland papers so maybe it's a Midwest thing?
― pomenitul, Sunday, 29 December 2019 04:43 (four years ago) link
Never heard of 'up-winged flies' tbh. UK is a bit of a wide net to cast when it comes to language though.
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 December 2019 12:02 (four years ago) link
THat there is now only one HMV in London, or is it 2 and neither is in the centre of town. Thankfully found that out before walking to Bond St which is what I had planned. One I'm aware of now is in White City area. ShameBond St one wass good for some stuff at least.
& from the same trip I discovered that on, that there's now a Xmas fair in Trafalgar Square which means its even harder to get through crowds than normal and this tiie of year in centre of LOndon is not the easiest to walk. Kept rushing through crowds to find that waves of people were being slowed down by people reading mobile phones. GUess that's nothing exactly new but still a pain. Hate having to maneuvre around connected groups of slow moving people who will inevitably haveone membersticking out into oncoming pedestrian traffic. Crowds are not easy things to move through at speed.
Also thinkI worked out on this trip that the waxed cotton I have been buying hasn't got cheaper but has had a cheaper variation added. Was thinking a couple of trips ago that price had dropped from around £10 for 6 yards to about £6 and then saw a lot around for £5, But it no longer has the annoying sticky label denoting quality on it. THink this might be the Chinese stuff instead of the quality I was buying for a few years. Found out that some of what I had boughtthis year was one sided as opposed to the better stuff that looks about the same on both sides apart fro writing being reversed and ink possibly being a bit smudgier.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 29 December 2019 12:18 (four years ago) link
Happened to be in Central London yesterday and it is a nightmare.
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 December 2019 12:22 (four years ago) link
I found this out a few years ago, and mentioned it briefly upthread, but I spent years visiting Holland feeling pleasantly delighted that the Dutch language appeared to be some kind of clown hybrid of English and German: zeewolf! vleermuis! bakkerij! I found the "ij" suffix particularly amusing, even if I knew it was an "ee" my mind couldn't but read it as an "idge". schoenmakerij! brouwerij!
Then, one day I was walking in Amsterdam and I passed by a bakery where the signage plonked the 'i' and the 'j' rather close together in the kerning so that they were effectively joined together. The result was a 'ÿ'. Ah, now I get it, I thought.
― kelis navidad (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 29 December 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link