I will also stan for Green River.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 12 November 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
I have a feeling I was shockingly old when I found out the Elgin Marbles weren't actually marbles.
https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/toys-marbles-isolated-on-white-background-picture-id115923962?k=20&m=115923962&s=170667a&w=0&h=U9VUfyQseDte5OMU-KBRrluPL9LDNAM4Dh0kBRdd7iU=
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:02 (two years ago) link
Lol. In Texas they also have Elgin sausage.
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:35 (two years ago) link
Which I used to think must be called so because of some marbling, but this turned out not to be the case.
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:40 (two years ago) link
I was very old when I found out Elgin is pronounced with a hard "g" rather than a "j."
― nickn, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
"Gerrymander" should also be pronounced with a hard "g", but it ain't gonna happen.
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
hard "g" is the OG
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
It's hard out there for a g
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
For many years I could not handle which “g” was hard or soft, because “juh” sounds obviously harder than “guh” to me.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:56 (two years ago) link
yes! i still have to think about it
― kinder, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
relatable.
I am fifty muthaflippin years old and I can't alphabetize things without singing the song
― popcornoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/irelands-red-troubadour
that Luke Kelly from The Dubliners was a cool as fuck commie.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
I saw The Dubliners live when I was 7-ish and I think he was an absentee after a car crash. One of them said something like "quite unreasonable for the road to turn like that when he wasn't turning".
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 22:29 (two years ago) link
I've probably actually realised this before, but just doing it again for the hell of it.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 22:31 (two years ago) link
I was shockingly old when I found out his grandmother was Scottish and seems to have had a considerable influence on him musically.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link
my mum says they lost their grit post-Luke
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
Today I learned Adele's last name
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 19 November 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
i learned her middle names last night but i've forgotten them again one of them might've been Blue?
― huile about oeuf (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 November 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
I think I was taught "Elgin" with a soft-g/j sound in college Classics courses!
I just learned a couple of days ago that NONE of the types of bees that are native to North America a) make honey, any honey, at all, or b) live in hives. They burrow in the ground and live solitary lives and never make honey.
This is shocking. I had a garden full of native pollinators all summer long and I assumed they flew away to hives at night and that my borage was flavoring some honey somewhere. No.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 19 November 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
Yeah, but can't we assume that some of the non-native bees have gone native and do just that (make hives & honey)? I see wild honey bee hives in hollow trees fairly often, out on hikes
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 19 November 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
I also remember reading that the hive collapse syndrome or whatever it was called only happened to domestic bee hives (i.e. the white wooden boxes) and was never found in wild honeybee hives
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 19 November 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
Apparently European honeybees do go feral but they're a danger to native ones because they compete for pollen! But only native pollinators are able to pollinate some native plants, such as tomatoes, blueberries, and squashes. I read about one flower (tomato?) where the pollen is too hard to reach, so the native bees do a buzzing dance from inside the flower that makes pollen shake off and fall onto them!
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 19 November 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
That Gary Mapp, the mysterious bass player on most of the tracks that were eventually released as the classic Thelonious Monk Trio album on Prestige was a cop!
― calzino, Sunday, 21 November 2021 11:42 (two years ago) link
Defund the bass player.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 November 2021 11:46 (two years ago) link
Like, an undercover cop?
― foley track out of sync (Matt #2), Sunday, 21 November 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link
just a standard cop I think .. his name is never credited on any other records apart from police reports but here he is playing along with Monk/Art Blakey/Max Roach ...lols!
― calzino, Sunday, 21 November 2021 11:55 (two years ago) link
the quote I read was : "Apparently he was a policeman first and bassist second, and occasionally you can tell from his exceptionally wrong notes."
― calzino, Sunday, 21 November 2021 11:59 (two years ago) link
Babycham is just a type of Perry.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 27 November 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
The Atlanta Falcons logo makes an F.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 29 November 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
Yes! Surely it should be a kids' champagne.
― kinder, Monday, 29 November 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
Babycham is just a type of Perry.― Dan Worsley, Saturday, November 27, 2021 3:12 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, November 27, 2021 3:12 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Without even knowing what this was, I immediately thought to myself: "British"
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 22:50 (two years ago) link
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1bSyKUItOGY/Wmmh9YpQGeI/AAAAAAAACXY/6_nc9lQ7GMsvOYlW9Ll7PDrtMGDJSqW5ACLcBGAs/s1600/Babycham%2B-%2B1950s.jpg
it's fer posh birds that play tennis!
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
http://mynie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/c5.jpg
The American version... but it's just malt liquor
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
"mark my words you're headed for the poorhouse"
^^^
classic advertising slogan!
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 23:30 (two years ago) link
"... some people just know how to live!"
Classic ILX slogan!
― nickn, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 01:14 (two years ago) link
'pictures of people who just know how to live'
― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 12:54 (two years ago) link
Gong Li
― Duck and Sally Can’t Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 13:16 (two years ago) link
What stare decisis means.
Stare decisis — Latin for “to stand by things decided.”
It’s the doctrine of judicial precedent. If a court has already ruled on an issue (say, on reproductive rights), future courts should decide similar cases the same way.
― nickn, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
Learned last week about the National Day of Mourning as an alternative to Thanksgiving, even though it has been celebrated since the 1970s.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
Nikita and Nina Kruschev were together for 43 years before they got married.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 5 December 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
Well, the Bolsheviks were originally very anti marriage.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 December 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
I can copy and paste symbols that aren't on my phone. So I can do the hidden text thing.
― Stevolende, Monday, 6 December 2021 07:58 (two years ago) link
No square brackets like. I guess the fact that I can see square brackets should be an indication. Just not something I can independently access on my phone as far as I can see.
― Stevolende, Monday, 6 December 2021 08:00 (two years ago) link
& then I find a 2nd page of symbols. Cool. Great. Well early morning still. Lovely
― Stevolende, Monday, 6 December 2021 08:02 (two years ago) link
I just do a different formatting (eg italics) then change the letter to h
― Alba, Monday, 6 December 2021 08:37 (two years ago) link
Up until a ripe age I had a vague idea that the elongated interjection 'pee-you!' (ie, 'pew!' for an unpleasant smell) was the acronym 'P.U.' and stood for something in Latin.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 6 December 2021 08:46 (two years ago) link
Reid Miles, mastermind of the classic Blue Note album cover aesthetic, took the picture on the cover of Bob Dylan’s the Basement Tapes
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 6 December 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
The pac-man ghosts all move in different ways.
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Monday, 6 December 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
there's a great web page about that, right down to disassembly level, and points out an overflow bug.
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-pac-man-dossier
http://donhodges.com/pacman_pinky_explanation.htm
― koogs, Monday, 6 December 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
and the other interesting thing is that because their movements are deterministic then you can use patterns that work every time.
with Ms Pacman they gave them a random factor so the patterns don't work.
― koogs, Monday, 6 December 2021 21:19 (two years ago) link