Things you were shockingly old when you learned

... also wrote "I Could Be So Good for You!

I remember that song! surprised it wasn't a bigger hit in the UK, the radio must have played it a lot.
these days sounds more like a sitcom opening song, like Cheers.
Gerard Kenny also wrote the Minder theme song "I Could Be So Good For You"!

xpost dammit Tom!
wouldn't be surprised if there was a clip of him singing New York New York on 3-2-1

now that we have AI we can finally hear what a Jo Stafford / Tommy Dorsey rendition of "NY, NY" would sound like circa '43

have you actually drunk a fizzing alka-seltzer?
― mookieproof, Monday, June 10, 2024 7:21 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I bought some aspirin the other day. I wanted to pop one in a public toilet when I realized they had sold me effervescent tablets. I was in a hurry. I took some water in my mouth and let it dissolve in my mouth. I didn't learn anything, but it was the first time at a shockingly old age.

at first I thought you meant you were planning to put the alka-seltzer in the toilet and then drink out of the toilet

You mean, an Anal Alka-Setzer ?

(xp) Waiting till it had stopped fizzing of course.

It’s literally Psalm 137 from the King James version of the Bible:

― assert (matttkkkk)

hardly anybody adapts the ending of that psalm where the psalmist sings "blessed are they who smash your babies' heads against the rocks"

the early mega man games picked the robot masters from designs submitted from fans. the kid who designed dust man and crystal man for the "mega man" series of games went on to create the manga "one punch man".

i don't know if that's really what the thread is intended for but i feel like i should have known that already, it seems like the kind of random trivia i know

woah! that also feels like the kind of thing I should know. but i guess the last time I was really learning new Mega Man trivia it was 2001. i also know nothing about the manga, except that it's very popular.

today:

the opening "flute" sound of the theme for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is meant to be a coyote howling

oh wow

TIL that "pooterish" means self-important in the manner of Charles Pooter, nothing to do with farts

I beg you to set out the context or, ideally, contexts in which you have read "pooterish" as "farty" and it made sense

Most Farty Adrian Chiles Column

I think it was only a few months ago that I learned that when pole dancers swing around in circles, the POLE itself is actually rotating. Apparently?!? I thought the dancers were swinging themselves around and I couldn't figure out how they could stick enough to stay up but still be mobile, which in retrospect makes NO sense at all. Now I know the laws of nature and surface traction are intact and the world makes sense again.

OMG

I learned that sometime in the past year as well.

Oh man, that’s a good one. I had no clue.

Wonder how many firemen have chaffed themselves trying to recreate special moments.

I mean, if you look at the pole it's clearly
rotating.

well, that may explain my failed efforts

Pour Some WD-40 On Me

the pole rotates in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere

I think it was only a few months ago that I learned that when pole dancers swing around in circles, the POLE itself is actually rotating. Apparently?!? I thought the dancers were swinging themselves around and I couldn't figure out how they could stick enough to stay up but still be mobile, which in retrospect makes NO sense at all. Now I know the laws of nature and surface traction are intact and the world makes sense again.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 14:21 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

what

here's to the ppl who look at the pole when they watch poledancing 🍷

i mean it isn't a sin to appreciate both pole and dancer

today:

the opening "flute" sound of the theme for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is meant to be a coyote howling

― budo jeru

it's an ocarina

it's the one thing people used to play on the ocarina before ocarina players were all link cosplayers who play zelda music

to be clear i love link cosplayers who play zelda music

i mean it isn't a sin to appreciate both pole and dancer

― he/him hoo-hah (map)

are we pole or are we dancer

Barre exercise is just pole dancing, sideways.

Change my mind.

I suspect you can't do a full 360 around the barre without looking like the Suspiria remake.

I think it was only a few months ago that I learned that when pole dancers swing around in circles, the POLE itself is actually rotating. Apparently?!? I thought the dancers were swinging themselves around and I couldn't figure out how they could stick enough to stay up but still be mobile, which in retrospect makes NO sense at all. Now I know the laws of nature and surface traction are intact and the world makes sense again.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, June 12, 2024 8:21 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

ok this isn't true?

WHAT

per Wiki:

Dance poles may have two different modes, spinning and static. In the spinning mode, the pole uses ball bearings to spin. This mode can be used to complete more experienced pole moves, make moves easier to complete, and add a more dramatic effect to the move. Most spinning poles can also be fixed to the static mode where the pole cannot rotate. The static mode is regularly used when pole dancing is first taught to beginners.

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

how they could stick enough to stay up but still be mobile

missed this part, i was just trying to say that dancers can spin like crazy on a stationary pole as the vid demonstrates, but obviously they slowly move down

i.e. i thought the claim was "all poles are rotating" which is why i said not true

Had the sudden realization while reading that the expression "drop a dime" very obviously traces to calling in police tips from a payphone

Eric André is not the "Eric" who co-created _Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!_. I don't know. You'd think I would be like more aware of this stuff maybe? But I kind of thought, you know, David Lynch-inspired takes on Public Access shows broadcast on Adult Swim, I mean. I thought they were kind of the same show. Look I'm gonna be honest I'm looking at this list of Adult Swim shows debuting from 2010 onwards and I've never heard of any of these except for the "Joe Pera" one people seem to like and the show by those Nazis. To be honest I kinda go out of my way to avoid both Tim and Eric's stuff and Eric André's stuff. Anxiety of influence.

I did know that the cheez-a-riffic guitar line in the Top Gun theme was Steve Stevens.

Did NOT know, I mean