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
https://puurtamminga.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/TAM-banners-2017-BlijIJsje.jpg
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 29 December 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
http://www.brouwerijhetij.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/brouwerijtij_ijwit_001.jpg
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 29 December 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
teh origineel
― kelis navidad (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 29 December 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
Before "mayflies" disappears from view altogether, that Wikipedia article includes the following:
Adult mayflies, or imagos, are relatively primitive in structure...
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 29 December 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
I was worried my true intentions upon posting that link would forever languish in oblivion.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 29 December 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
specific mayfly such as imago
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 29 December 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
Richard Wilbur, Mayflies
In somber forest, when the sun was low,I saw from unseen pools a mist of flies,In their quadrillions rise,And animate a ragged patch of glow,With sudden glittering –as when a crowd,Of stars appear,Through a brief gap in black and driven cloud,One arc of their great round-dance showing clear.
It was no muddled swarm I witnessed, forIn entrechats each fluttering insect thereRose two steep yards in air,Then slowly floated down to climb once more,So that they all composed a manifoldAnd figured scene,And seemed the weavers of some cloth of gold,Or the fine pistons of some bright machine.
Watching those lifelong dancers of a dayAs night closed in, I felt myself aloneIn a life too much my own,More mortal in my separateness than they–Unless, I thought, I had been called to beNot fly or starBut one whose task is joyfully to seeHow fair the fiats of the caller are.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Sunday, 29 December 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
Key lime pie is from the Florida keys???
― calstars, Monday, 30 December 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link
lol
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 December 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link
Wait til u hear where Crab Louie comes from
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 December 2019 00:12 (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?as a native Clevelander I would be happy to go on at length about these little bastards
― Pete Swine Cave (Eliza D.), Monday, 30 December 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
The Key lime is the queen.
When the Key lime dies, the other limes find new colonies
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 December 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link
fgti’s comment about Dutch otm and just helped me with the spelling in one of the language learning apps. Weird that there are some Dutch words that are exactly the same as the English word, such as “water,” and then there are some words that have enough of an alien feel that they get repurposed for sf use, such as “baan.”
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
This is probably already on here Coriander is just another name for cilantro
― El Tomboto, Monday, 30 December 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
You mean cilantro is just another name for coriander.
― pomenitul, Monday, 30 December 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
I didn't know this either, although they are used to denote 2 different things in the US, the fresh plant vs the dried spice.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 30 December 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
Like, on some level beef and cow and steak are the same thing; ditto ham / pork / pig
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 30 December 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
My family always called the fresh plant (which my parents grow in their backyard) "coriander" when I was growing up and didn't use the word "cilantro" but, yeah, I heard about this distinction later on.
― Un sang impur (Sund4r), Monday, 30 December 2019 04:46 (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.
― Fizzles, Monday, 30 December 2019 07:01 (four years ago) link
I need to check out his bandcamp page. Should have rechecked my notebook before leaving him nameless in that comment.He really was quite phenomenal.Need to get some more stuff by this lot and him of he's got anything on cd.
― Stevolende, Monday, 30 December 2019 08:48 (four years ago) link
https://alexward.bandcamp.com/
― Stevolende, Monday, 30 December 2019 10:57 (four years ago) link
Both dried and fresh are called coriander in the UK
― Alba, Monday, 30 December 2019 11:04 (four years ago) link
Me and my wife found out about the coriander/cilantro thing the hard way a couple of years ago. She's from Costa Rica, where fresh culantro is an essential part of the cuisine, whereas I'd never really used it here in Finland. So when she moved here, at first she was shocked that the local supermarkets didn't seem to sell culantro at all, until a couple of months later she discovered it's called korianteri here.
― Tuomas, Monday, 30 December 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
The stems and leaves of a coriander plant are called cilantro in the US; the root of a celery plant is called celeriac in the UK. In a better timeline, the root of a coriander plant is called coriandriac, the stems and leaves of a celery plant is called celeriantro
― kelis navidad (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 30 December 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
https://pics.me.me/neapolitan-neaneanea-polipolipoli-tantantan-neapolipoli-neaneapoli-politantan-polipolitan-neatantan-neaneatan-46428753.png
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 30 December 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
I think I saw the first home electric car charger on the street yesterday as opposed to a standing charger that you need to park next to.Hadn't really thought about how people do this more conveniently. I think there have been few electric cars around Galway so there wasn't much competition. Don't know how long you would need to park at one to charge either. But it presumably must be quite a drain on the home supply. I guess it compensates for having to pay a separate petrol fee but still presumably mustard a lot to the bill.& does mean you have to park directly outside your own house which isn't always easy. Also here the lead was on the ground across the pavement so hoping that nobody trips over it.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 08:42 (four years ago) link
never mind all this end of the decade stuff, i just figured out that some people reading this today will be alive in the 22nd Century and it's freaking me out
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 11:40 (four years ago) link
You're freaking out, how do you think I feel about living to be 175 years old
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 13:01 (four years ago) link
how anchors work.
i suddenly thought "if they are basically barbs stuck in the sea-bottom, how do you dettach them?" but it's basically the weight and friction of the chain more than anything and this and the barbs are less effective when pulled from directly above
― koogs, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
Re cilantro/coriander in the US: I believe the difference isn't really fresh vs dried, but rather leaves vs seeds?
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 2 January 2020 09:43 (four years ago) link
'One Night in Bangkok' was written for a musical entitled Chess by Andrew Lloyd Webber's lyricist and half of ABBA.
Sometimes I think I know things but then it turns out I don't know anything at all.
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 January 2020 13:36 (four years ago) link
Why... why did you think there was such an immense focus on playing chess in that song?
― pplains, Friday, 3 January 2020 04:24 (four years ago) link
the great Chess Resurgence of 1985, obviously
I couldn't go down the street as a young lad without some ruffian sizing me up and challenging me to a little black and white. i wasn't allowed to pass on my way to school until the words "checkmate" were uttered by someone.
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 January 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
I like how the first two minutes, the instrumental that usually gets cut to a ten-second intro is technically its own song. Much like "Foreplay/Long Time" or "Sirius/Eye in the Sky", that Murray Head song is "Bangkok/One Night in Bangkok".
― pplains, Friday, 3 January 2020 04:29 (four years ago) link