Things you were shockingly old when you learned

we rented Tetris for the NES and I remember thinking that the goal was to build a castle or something, because the title screen was the Taj Mahal. I remember getting frustrated that the lines kept going away.

this is a good thread

So I saw signs everywhere that said "no littering. $200 fine." I thought it meant "you can't litter. But if you feel like leaving $200, that's fine." And I thought, "who the fuck would do that?" I was probably in fifth grade before the lightbulb went off.

I wonder if they've learned yet that lightbulbs go on, not off, when you realise something.

we rented Tetris for the NES and I remember thinking that the goal was to build a castle or something, because the title screen was the Taj Mahal

today you learn that it's St. Basil's Cathedral

Ha ha.

i'm going to pull an alba here and suggest that "lightbulb going off" is meant in the same sense that sirens go off, or alarms go off

dying @ toothpaste

No way can a lightbulb go off like a siren or alarm goes off.

Can't remember how old I was, or work out whether it was shockingly old, but there was very much an event that happened, twice, involving the words which seeing written I had thought pronounced 'pinney apple' and 'vee-hi-kyool' and hadn't clocked them with the spoken words

misled

just now - K9 = canine.

Oh, for pete's sake.

same as cardamom, I had heard para-dyme and seen paradigm and it took one incident to get schooled

Wait till you see what my ilx username is!

Parahttp://www.hungrydads.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/dig-em.jpg

I went so long without knowing that when one of the co-hosts of Polka Dot Door said "Polkaroo was here? I missed him again!" was meant to be a joke

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/27545366_10155494320098869_3311944330077119182_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=0b6ab9894d22602314fb4d718b126163&oe=5AE2611E

I can't remember exactly when I learnt this but for a long time I didn't realise Grant Hart sang songs in Husker Du. I knew he wrote songs but I thought Bob always sang them

Same

pathetic

lol

i don't get the tongue one

I suppose people didnt think that they were eating somethings actual tongue.

who eats tongues

to be fair people have some funny ideas about tacos de cabeza and headcheese, so it's fair to think people would hear tongue and think "nah, it can't actually be"

typically both of those don't include eye or brain, but people are like "omg beef brain tacos"

tacos de lengua are good, flappy

if a little chewy sometimes

lol I had a cabeza taco the other day, I was like "doesn't that mean 'head'" but they assured me it was cow cheek

yeah, most of them served around these parts are just cheek, because the tongue ones are sold as lengua

ah i see. unfortunately we have no tacos where i live. which is... infuriating to say the least

it is impossible not to think about how yr eating a big fuckin cow tongue while eating a lengua taco, lol. nasty.

I've never had that thought!

that is impossible! anyway, now you will, haha

nah, it's like eating pork cracklins (or chicharrones), the appearance and texture doesn't make you think "oh it's pig skin strips" because it's so disconnected

yeah i never ate tongue as a kid cuz eww but i imagine it was served fried/poached then in slices so you’d disassociate it. but i’d see it in a packet in the supermarket* and think OH GROSS.

*it occurs to me, as an aside, that i saw offal like tongue, sheeps brain and liver commonly as a kid but not at all anymore? maybe the 70s still had a slight war era rationing mentality i dunno

the cabeza tacos were delicious btw

ah i see. unfortunately we have no tacos where i live. which is... infuriating to say the least

the cartoon does not show tacos

Right

Yeah tongue isnt just a mexican thing, its also a british war era thing, along with brains, tripe, liver, kidneys etc.

I'm sure I've talked about my dads sheeps brains on toast breakfasts before on ILX.

Offal is eaten all over the world flappy you shockingly old so and so

War era? It's still sold here.

Still sold, but I can't imagine it's been give to children since the 80s or earlier.

My point being I used to see tongue/brains/tripe/liver easily in the meat section in the 70s - I dont now. Youd have to go to a butchers to get that shit now.

You can buy liver in literally every supermarket in the uk

Same for ox tongue I think but in the cooked meat section

Even though I don't eat meat, I'm strangely proud of Britain still being in the war era. It'll be a sad day when liver and jars of Princes salmon paste disappear from our shelves.

http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/medias/sys_master/root/h30/hc6/8987950514206.jpg

Liver and kidneys are hardly outre.

pretty much every uk supermarket will have this:

https://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/img/large/SGN1091.jpg

i don’t think australia has gammon either

and yet we have fray bentos so