Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Just learned that there were not thirteen but rather fourteen New British colonies in pre-Revolutionary America (pours one out for Nova Scotia).

omg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0MXQZUXcAM3y1v.jpg

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They sound like a gaggle of toughs to me.

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I'm gonna take a guess that might be an Obvious Plant joint.

Just learned that there were not thirteen but rather fourteen New British colonies in pre-Revolutionary America (pours one out for Nova Scotia).

― Hangover Ape (Old Lunch), Sunday, April 7, 2019 6:39 AM(yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There were 20 British colonies in north america at the time of the revolutionary war, the ones in present day Canada were much more recent possessions (taken from French in war) and so did not have the same culture of self-government etc. while the 13 colonies did and were more similar and established so were more inclined to rebel and join together

I was well into my 20s before I found out why the Montreal Expos were called the Montreal Expos.

Halloumi cheese chips being deep fried cheese with no potato content. Have these things been around for a while or a re they a recent trend. Quite nice though , but may be prone to rapid overkill. Halloumi can be a little rubbery.
Was surprised to find taht Aldi had just launched them as a range, 'new' stickers on the shelf a week after i tried them in a local turkish cafe. Had been eyeing them on the menu for the last few months in there.
Have they been around a while or are thy a newish trend.

Derivation of Latin from Latium the region of Italy around Rome.

Hence Lazio.

yeah, slight morph in language over the last couple of millenia, like.

That gas doesn't have a scent but is odorized o_O

yeah cos of incidents like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19IczVwsK0

Depends on the gas though dunnit.

Hfs that killed 295+, I’d not seen it before. Cleanup effort looks so shambolic and inefficient there.

Arthur Balfour and Henry Campbell-Bannerman were Scottish, meaning that of the first 7 British Prime Minsters elected in the 20th century, only two were English.

CB was a Kelvinside man

Gettysburg is named after a Mr. Gettys, not a Mr. Getty.

Julian Assange is only 47! wtf dude.

ppl say by the time u 50 u got the looks you deserve.

some ppl just go for palpatine asap

silver mangy coyote

The (former) existence of Est (Erhard Seminars Training)

xpost- i was rethinking my shitpost above while on the move. i gotta add that so many ppl (most?) live or are forced to live lives of _exceptional_ stress or hardship by 50. if the aphorism i repeated is true, let us all be benchmarked appropriately, i guess. i don't have deep knowledge of assange's paths and acts. not optimistic about him tho

Alba - as in you thought it was just in the Americans?

Julian Assange is only 47! wtf dude.

https://i.redd.it/052h540xgb5y.jpg

yikes thats a big hueg sorry.

Grayce - I just mean I'd never heard of Est at all and when I did it felt like the kind of thing I would have heard of.

The (former) existence of Est (Erhard Seminars Training)

my late realization was that Werner Erhard was actually an American who adopted a fake German name

Have you heard of the Landmark Forum, Alba?

If I had it hadn't registered with me. I know now that that's what Est sort of became.

Haven't watched The Americans – but the person I heard about Est from mentioned that it featured on there (and also explained the Landmark Forum thing).

Anyway, looking at Wikipedia taught me that Est itself had the Human Potential Movement as is antecedent, which again I didn't know of but that in turn had its roots in Maslow's theory of self-actualization, which I did know about so finally I have something to latch on to. I feel like I'd like to watch a documentary on all these things and it would probably be by Adam Curtis.

Sorry for all the typos, Grayce etc

Googling confirms my suspicion that Curtis's Century of the Self deals with Maslow so I should probably just rewatch that.

A former girlfriend of mine (a big Americans fan, oddly enough) got wrangled into a Landmark meeting by her roommate, who was advanced in it. She raved about the first session, saying she experienced a bigger breakthrough than in years of therapy, tried to get me to go... then a few weeks later said it was definitely cult-y and never returned. And yeah, considering how long it existed, I rarely find someone who knows what it was, and I don't see it mentioned much in popular culture, The Americans aside.

I knew there was a long old ILX thread on it:

Landmark Forum

I spoke at length with a close friend who'd been through the program. He told me he had absolutely benefitted from it, immeasurably-- it effectively cured his depression. But he was also angry about the way the program was presented to him, the weird secrecy around it, and did not wish to recommend it to anyone for that reason.

His conclusion was that the philosophy that was taught to him by Landmark ran so counter-intuitively to currently-held ideas about mental health, trauma, and privilege, that the weird "cultishness" of the program was a way of keeping its essentially Thatcher-esque "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" methodology away from any critical purview.

JUst listened to a Things You Missed In History Class talking about how the Presidential Pardon worked. Came from 2008 and was talking about scandal involving Scooter Libby getting his sentence commuted when he hadn't served a day. & i mainly know the guy's name from Trump having pardoned him.
I assumed he'd just been serving time until trump came along, so had he done something further in between that got him sentenced again.

on the hand I wanna know more, on the other ive got no time-energy for any more of that dbag

I think he just added to an existing scandal, somebody that most people thought was guilty was freed in 2008 or thereabouts and then supposedly utterly exonerated about a decade later amongst a series of abuses of the Presidential pardon.

"Bette Davis Eyes" (by Kim Carnes) is a cover.

what the hell, crypto! Never knew there was an original out there either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAQsOJbs-yo

Careful playing this. I blacked out and woke up inside the town square's gazebo.

just found out that status quo's - arguably best known - song "rockin' all over the world" is a cover

Bette Davis Eyes" (by Kim Carnes) is a cover.

― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, April 18, 2019 10:52 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark

this is also new to me

Same, Kim Carnes version is far superior though.

Rockin' All Over the World is a John Fogerty song innit?

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Agreed, the Carnes version is gorgeous; the DeShannon sounds like a it was intended as album filler.

I like this tidbit, from Wiki, though:

Actress Bette Davis, then 73 years old, wrote letters to Carnes, Weiss, and DeShannon to thank all three of them for making her "a part of modern times," and said her grandson now looked up to her. After their Grammy wins, Davis sent them roses as well.

Rockin' All Over the World is a John Fogerty song innit?

― Stevolende, Thursday, April 18, 2019 11:11 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah, id never heard it

Count me among the number who had no idea about 'Bette Davis Eyes'.

I'm sure the Bacharach poll is eliciting more than a few double takes among those who are just now realizing (as I did only a couple years back when I heard the Warwick version) that 'Always Something There to Remind Me' is also a cover.