Things you were shockingly old when you learned

hydrants are all on the same side of the street

> 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

and that one gram of water will be one cubic centimetre in volume.

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.

i saw them in Chicago in 1995! 'destroy all music' is the name of one of their albums iirc

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.

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.

1ml of water = 1g ... and that one gram of water will be one cubic centimetre in volume.

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:

• Your foot is the length of your forearm from wrist to elbow.
• Your ears fit snugly between your eyebrows and the bottom of your nose.
• There's just enough room between your eyes for another eye.
• The corners of your mouth align with the centers of your pupils.

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.

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.

There's just enough room between your eyes for another eye

and your whole head is five eyes wide.

and hairline to browline = browline to bottom of nose = bottom of nose to chin.

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

if you hold you hand in front of your face you can figure it out

:)

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

defo confirmation here this ain't tru

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).

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.

Matt McGinn already wrote this back in 1967 (with Robin Williamson on mandolin, ISB fans):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai1hf9_oIOg

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.

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

i actually DID know that one! *drinks again*

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 many
other reasons and collecting from a system she paid into is the smallest objection

Brenda Lee was only 14 when she recorded "Rockin Around the Christmas Tree"

she was 13 iirc

you do rc

Ida Lupino named names and spied for the FBI and HUAC.

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?

Lee Hazelwood sounds like Johnny Cash

learnedobserved

That laundrette is recognised as an alternative spelling of launderette, rather than just being a surprisingly common error on launderette signs.

Olivia Newton-John's grandfather was physicist Max Born.

Less prestigious but she's also the third cousin of Ben Elton.

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.

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.

believe you are correct

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.

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.

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

That mayflies are also called 'Canadian soldiers' in the US.

I’ve never heard that before but I’m also not positive I know what a mayfly is

Aka shadflies or fishflies, apparently, or up-winged flies in the UK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly

i’ve never heard that in the US. what region is that from? probably some border area

Upon googling it I came across a couple of occurrences in local Cleveland papers so maybe it's a Midwest thing?

Never heard of 'up-winged flies' tbh. UK is a bit of a wide net to cast when it comes to language though.

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.

Happened to be in Central London yesterday and it is a nightmare.

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.

https://puurtamminga.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/TAM-banners-2017-BlijIJsje.jpg

http://www.brouwerijhetij.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/brouwerijtij_ijwit_001.jpg

http://www.brouwerijhetij.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/brouwerijtij_ijwit_001.jpg

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