I guess the confusion arose from the stage show also being called Big Night Out. For some reason I can imagine Aimee Mann being a guest on Shooting Stars.
― Alba, Sunday, 5 January 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
Five years prior to shooting down KAL 007, the Soviets had shot down another KAL aircraft that had also entered their airspace due to a major navigation error. In that case, only two people were killed and the plane was landed on a frozen lake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_902
― Pete Swine Cave (Eliza D.), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
I don't know about 'shockingly old' but finding out Ezra Koening of Vampire Weekend wrote 'Hold Up' by Beyonce was a real 'O RLY? Ahhh it totally makes sense' moment the other day
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
Peter Gabriel's fourth album was also released in German
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
Also his third, for which the backing tracks were completely re-recorded (or so says wikipedia).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/65049-vampire-weekends-ezra-koenig-explains-how-his-tweet-about-the-yeah-yeah-yeahs-became-a-beyonce-song/
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
you can't make blueberry waffles
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
My mom wants a word, how dare you
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
but the blueberries make the waffles stick! is there a way around this??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
A hammer
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
apply more fats to the waffle iron to avoid sticking, or just dgaf about the extra waffle iron cleanup time
alternatively, just throw blueberries on top of the waffles when they're fresh off the griddle
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
Garret Hardin, the ecologist who wrote "The Tragedy of the Commons," was a white nationalist eugenicist
― rob, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
The artist on “Give Me the Night” was George Benson and the composer was Rod Temperton.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 January 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
who had you previously thought it was by?
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 11 January 2020 10:44 (four years ago) link
TIL i have been confusing Aimee Man and Amy Grant for like 20 years.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 11 January 2020 12:04 (four years ago) link
Aimee Mant!
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Saturday, 11 January 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
Ennui is pronounced on-wee as opposed to enn-you-ee.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 11 January 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
surely it is only twats like will self that pronounce it properly. the wrong version sounds better to me!
― calzino, Saturday, 11 January 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
I've only ever hear it pronounced the former way
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 11 January 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
Never heard anyone say it with three syllables. When I was small and only ever read it not heard it I assumed it was “uh-NEW-ee”
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:00 (four years ago) link
I have only ever heard or been a twat
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
you are all obv bad apart from Dan and me
― calzino, Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:04 (four years ago) link
definitely mangled into three syllables by Ed Kowalczyk on Live's "Rattlesnake"
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
Ed could stretch any word into double its original syllables
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 January 2020 00:21 (four years ago) link
it's as if his voice teacher told him to chew every word like taffy and then pick it out of his teeth
Neanderthal, you've gotta let gooo-oooo-uh, a-let it it gooo-aahh-ooo-aallovah.
― Pizza is Really Yummy for Me (Old Lunch), Sunday, 12 January 2020 00:37 (four years ago) link
*placenta falls to floor*
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 January 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
I'm one of the twats too in that case.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 January 2020 01:08 (four years ago) link
The movie Ronin with Robert De Niro is not about an Irish guy named Ronin.
― Yerac, Sunday, 12 January 2020 01:09 (four years ago) link
it's a biopic about the singer for Boyzone
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 January 2020 01:22 (four years ago) link
heh
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Sunday, 12 January 2020 01:44 (four years ago) link
rO'Nin
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 12 January 2020 03:19 (four years ago) link
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-justin-timberlake-sings-may-instead-of-me
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 January 2020 03:55 (four years ago) link
James Hetfield did the "may" thing before it was trendy
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 January 2020 04:06 (four years ago) link
Just last week I learned that dashboard car fuel indicators point out which side of the car the tank is on.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 January 2020 04:08 (four years ago) link
i learned that the correct way to put gas in your car was to put the pump into the tank, not driving into the gas tank and collecting the spilled gas in dixie cups and easing it into the gashole
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 January 2020 04:12 (four years ago) link
Recently learned, although I don’t know if this actually existed so long ago as such, that the weirdly textured white stripes of paint in the crosswalks in NYC are indeed some kind of tape, as suspected.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 January 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
Not sure how closely related it is to the red coloration layer on the grey safety dot rectangles on the corner.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 January 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, January 11, 2020 11:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
A few years ago for me, but yes, my mind was blown when I learned this
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 13 January 2020 00:35 (four years ago) link
Feel like this and the silverware basket in a dishwasher comes up multiple times whenever this sorta thing is discussed
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 13 January 2020 01:52 (four years ago) link
They are to this thread what Alice Cooper is to Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same.
― pplains, Monday, 13 January 2020 02:14 (four years ago) link
Wait, is this the dishwasher thing? Are there people who don't do this?
that you can just lift the silverware thing right out of the dishwasher and carry it over to the silverware drawer― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:58 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:58 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― jaymc, Monday, 13 January 2020 04:02 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I had no idea some people don't do that.
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 January 2020 06:36 (four years ago) link
I didn't do that for so long. Life was irrevocably changed when I realised I could just lift the basket out and take it to the cutlery drawer
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 13 January 2020 09:11 (four years ago) link
I dunno if that's the case with all dishwashers, but with the two I've had there's even a handy handle atop the basket so you can lift it more easily, which should make it obvious it's meant to be taken out.
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 January 2020 09:28 (four years ago) link
I just found out, at the age of 40, with a degree in Film Studies, that The Shawshank Redemption isn't a Coen Brothers film.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 13 January 2020 09:32 (four years ago) link
It is, however, the best movie ever made.
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 January 2020 09:33 (four years ago) link
Two posts of monumental wrongness for the price of one!
― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 09:36 (four years ago) link
xxp maybe thinking of the Hudsucker Proxy
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 13 January 2020 09:53 (four years ago) link
My post can't be wrong, since I was talking about its objective quality as measured in IMDb ratings.
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 January 2020 10:36 (four years ago) link