you need advice? i can advise.
― ledge, Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link
The mnemonic I’ve heard for this is “you can c a noun but you can’t c a verb”Kind of nonsense because you can see a verb but still
― michel goindry (wins), Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link
Practise/practice is another one
in theory it's the same for uk licenc/se but US usage has muddied the waters (and the fact that they're pronounced the same).
― ledge, Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:13 (one year ago) link
C-MurderS-Murder
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:14 (one year ago) link
Buddy Guy's Stone Crazy! is one of my favorite albums. Today I learned that a whole second album, Junior Wells' Pleading the Blues, was recorded at the same session, just adding Junior Wells on vocals and harmonica.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 4 May 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
I was just told that Cinco de Mayo is not celebrated in Mexico itself, but only in the US.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
Although maybe the guy meant Mexico Mexico, el DF, Mexico City itself.
Hmm, seems to be true.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link
I think it commemorates a relatively minor victory in some battle for independence, and I've always assumed it was selected in the US for celebrating because of its calendar position - not much else going on in early May.
― nickn, Friday, 5 May 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
Cinco de Mayo = a "white people get drunker than usual and get in more fights and car accidents" holiday
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link
- "So when is Mexico's Independence Day?"
- "El dieciséis de septiembre."
- "Hmmm. Did anything ever happen in 'marzo' or 'mayo'?"
― pplains, Friday, 5 May 2023 19:26 (one year ago) link
Commemorates the Battle of Puebla when they beat the French and slowed up the Second French Intervention.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:28 (one year ago) link
^this
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
Just talked to a poblana to get another data point and she confirmed that not even in Puebla is it celebrated.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 May 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link
It was basically invented to sell Corona to WASP Americans
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 6 May 2023 02:18 (one year ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/05/05/cinco-de-mayo-civil-war/
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 May 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link
That the singer from Stereolab is Laetitia Sadier and not Sadler.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 6 May 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
Only been listening to them for the last 30 years.
Heh. I've gone back and forth on that one.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 May 2023 19:32 (one year ago) link
Glyn Dillon is Steve Dillon's brother
I don’t do much comics work these days, so I was really chuffed to be asked if I’d like to do the cover for the new #bestof2000AD collection. I jumped at the chance because it features my brother’s iconic Cry of the Werewolf story. #SteveDillon #JudgeDredd pic.twitter.com/cD131r7vKG— glyn dillon (@glyn_dillon) May 11, 2023
― koogs, Thursday, 11 May 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 11 May 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
Marianne Faithful was related to Leopold von Sacher Masoch who gave the world the term masochism. Is that quite Sade-y? I'm sure it could be Sadier
― Stevo, Thursday, 11 May 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link
I wound up doing a tour of the Republic with Stereolab when I first came to Ireland in the early 90s cos I bumped into one f the guys who ran teh White Horse in Hampstead or possibly vice versa. Like I was sitting at a dublin bar and he appeared from behind me and said hey Stevo or something to that effect.I think Laetitia was quite generous with snacks and things
― Stevo, Thursday, 11 May 2023 21:49 (one year ago) link
White HOrse guy was being tour manager/possibly sound engineer too. Sean O'hagan was in the band at the time too.
― Stevo, Thursday, 11 May 2023 21:53 (one year ago) link
Roquefort is a really great cheese.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Thursday, 11 May 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
oh yeah, one of the best. in small quantities though.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 11 May 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link
so creamy
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 May 2023 22:27 (one year ago) link
Yeah, it's pretty rich. I eat a lot of cheese, but for that reason, I haven't had a blue for snacking in long time. It kind of blew me away.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Thursday, 11 May 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link
have known for a long time that the children's network Nickelodeon was named after a sort of old-timey movie theatre. but i never put it together that that name just means an Odeon that costs five cents (a nickel).
― budo jeru, Saturday, 13 May 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
and then a totally different thing that occurred to me this week is that taco in spanish means "wad", lol.
― budo jeru, Saturday, 13 May 2023 14:32 (one year ago) link
Was watching a Peppa Pig with the 3-year-old, the Pig family are walking in the park on a foggy day, and Peppa asks what fog is. Daddy Pig says “fog is a cloud that’s on the ground“, and I was like oh yeah, duh
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:26 (one year ago) link
Clouds can be on the ground if the ground is high enough.
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link
Seance means "meeting" in French
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 13 May 2023 21:32 (one year ago) link
As does reunion.
― Cosmo’s Hacienda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 May 2023 23:39 (one year ago) link
Seance doesn't quite mean meeting, it's more like session or sitting.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 14 May 2023 00:56 (one year ago) link
Right. Like the seance is the screening time of a film.
― Cosmo’s Hacienda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 May 2023 02:04 (one year ago) link
This is the way "meeting" was used in Mercyful Fate's "A Dangerous Meeting"
Though I suppose it might have also been about Tupperware
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Sunday, 14 May 2023 02:12 (one year ago) link
xp I just realised on seeing the post about seance that session had a similar etymological derivation about seating. Not sure if I got that before but can see now the root is that.
― Stevo, Sunday, 14 May 2023 12:14 (one year ago) link
Does this in any way connect "secession" to "we're not meeting anymore"?
― pplains, Sunday, 14 May 2023 14:35 (one year ago) link
aggravatingly it does not! the latin root of secession is cedere with a c (to withdraw) rather than sedere with an s (to sit)
notorious typo to be on the look out for: supercede and supercession (both wrong) for supersede and supersession (from the latin supersedere, to sit right on top of)
(these may have been easier to kept apart a few centuries back, when the c was still hard)
― mark s, Sunday, 14 May 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link
tho i guess by normal usage as opposed to stupid etymology (and to honour the joke) secession is a very good way to announce that we're not meeting any more :)
― mark s, Sunday, 14 May 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
a session cessation if you will
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 14 May 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
Must be the session of the witch.
― Cosmo’s Hacienda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 May 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
til Elvis had an identical twin brother who was stillborn.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Monday, 15 May 2023 01:25 (one year ago) link
... called Jesse and Scott Walker wrote a song about him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYyOkQUyJZM
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 15 May 2023 01:32 (one year ago) link
Nick Cave's "The Firstborn Is Dead" is a reference to him too.
― john cooper mellencamp (Matt #2), Monday, 15 May 2023 01:43 (one year ago) link
Jesse Garon and the Desperados were named after him.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 15 May 2023 08:04 (one year ago) link
A 17-year-old boy shot at the Queen from a tall building during a state visit to New Zealand in 1981. He missed.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Monday, 15 May 2023 10:33 (one year ago) link
pot shot from the local museum iirc. that was just one of that particular person's various exploits & it was well up hushed up, but yeah.
― no lime tangier, Monday, 15 May 2023 11:31 (one year ago) link