Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I only grew to know the shape of fresh spinach leaves in my late twenties. For some reason I had pictured it as being some sort of soggy spring greens/pak choi affair until then (probably as the result of only knowing it in wilted mulch form)

I'm not sure if I knew as a kid that Tom's Midnight Garden and The Secret Garden were two separate books but I either realised or re-realised this a couple of weeks ago

my mental image of "spinach" was overwhelmingly defined by Popeye cartoons, in which it is a mushy green slime, only ever seen arcing as a colloidal mass from the can into Popeye's mouth.

Another, worse d'oh moment: that WhatsApp is a riff on 'what's up', which I guess everyone else in the world knew immediately. Shameful.

fuck

well, take some solace in knowing that you were only the second-last person in the world to realise that

Nat "King" Cole got his nickname/stage name from the "Old King Cole" nursery rhyme.

I realized this yesterday.

I learned who Mary Lou Williams was yesterday :-/

On the upside, a student taught me! Here's to humility in teaching.

I just now noticed there’s a Z and an A on the album cover of Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch.

― Mr. Snrub

It took me a while to recognize the ship and witch's hat, I think I just thought it was a simple abstract drawing.

It's from a book of similar drawings, can't remember what it's called now

DROODLES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1BsdWGA9s

My mate has the witches hat tattooed on his inner left arm. The first time he showed me, it took me an excruciatingly long time to work out what it was. Then we had to have the 'yeah, Zappa's a bit of a twat, isn't he?' conversation all over again and that was that for the evening.

I'm not sure if I knew as a kid that Tom's Midnight Garden and The Secret Garden were two separate books but I either realised or re-realised this a couple of weeks ago

― kinder, Friday, 15 November 2019 13:46 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

goodnight mr uncle toms midnight secret cabin is where im currently at with these

that the "returned search results for..." message in soulseek at the bottom is not just a system log, it's stuff that was returned from your library

I thought the results looked too familiar too often

That I’ve been right all along about how to pronounce “vapid” (nobody ever says this word, you only see it in print, my instincts are usually terrible about this kind of thing)

of course according to merriam-webster I would’ve been right either way

Nat "King" Cole got his nickname/stage name from the "Old King Cole" nursery rhyme.

I realized this yesterday.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, November 15, 2019 4:09 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

The way I understand it, the jazz trio featuring Nat Cole took its name from the nursery rhyme and it then got applied to the artist himself when he went solo..
Do love the King Co9le Trio cos it features the guitar of Oscar Moore who is pretty dashed fine.

That the Judeo-Christian notion of a soul didn't exist until Greek philosophers began ruminating about dualism.

Yeah how could one have been so shockingly ignorant about the origins of the Judeo-Christian notion of a soul.

I mean when I was like five I had this silly attachment to the Emersonian ideal of an oversoul. Then in like third grade I was big into the Nietzschean ubermensch concept. I was tempted by Manichean duality as a preteen, but it somehow the true historical path of these never quite crystallized for me. Good on ya, lunch

That no one else says vapid out loud.

I feel less bad about overusing that word as a vapid youth

I read somebody saying that policy wonks are nicknamed as such cos they know everything backwards! Which is obv wrong because the dictionary says it is slang for for someone with an eye for tedious detail or an inexperienced sailor (1920s).

vapid = 'vaped' right, please tell me i'm correct or i will be embarrsed

"When learning English, Russians have to practice making the "w" sound because they are not used to it. At first, they will often pronounce them as "v", which leads to being corrected by the teacher. This constant practice of substituting "v" with "w" leads to over correction wherein they become so conscientious about the substitution that they do it even when they're not supposed to."

vapid = 'vaped' right, please tell me i'm correct or i will be embarrsed

― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch)

it took me until like five years ago to learn how to spell embarrassed. i couldn't remember if it had two rs and one s or two ss and one r.

mark s: I worked with a Ukrainian who would often go to the wending machine.

i agree with kids who say a W is actually drawed like a double-vee. sorry that’s my only opinion. Inconsistently said, incorrectly named, what a mess. and a danish pal went on for a minute about the sport of “wallyball” and i couldnt figure out if that was just a weird way of saying volleyball, or a different sport.

In spanish, V is "ve" and W is "doble ve"

ah true. sorta pronounced doble b some places tho?

i agree with kids who say a W is actually drawed like a double-vee.

The VVitch
VValgreens
VValt Disney

vvtf

Very very the fuck indeed

vvolwes

Vvolves aye vve

That there's another famous Don Cherry that isn't the jazz guy

Famous on ILX maybe.

the (scott) walker (joe) walsh (don) cherry trio, uluv2 hear it

The acronym "FAP" is a reference to masturbation.

(Lol that the fame of the hockey Don Cherry is an ilx phenomenon.)

Is 'fap' an acronym in that context? 'Flogging a peen'?

Ha, we used to use it as an acronym for "fancy a pint" when planning ilx0r get-togethers. Idk if the original is also an acronym, though.

North American rather than ILX.

the acronym is not, and as far as I know "fapping" is onomatopoeia

didn't that come from some ages old webcomic? was it Megatokyo??

p sure this exact same discussion arose v early on (possibly courtesy much-missed NZ poster lady di)

the acronym is not, and as far as I know "fapping" is onomatopoeia

― mh, Monday, November 18, 2019 10:19 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yikes, is that what it's supposed to sound like?

'Hen fap' at the very least has its origins in a photograph from a late-'90s Onion article.

didn't that come from some ages old webcomic? was it Megatokyo??

https://www.sexylosers.com/

Yesterday I learned that you can’t drive through the Chunnel! I thought it was like the Holland Tunnel, basically. Now I’m a little obsessed with the drive-on trains.

It's like your car is inside a big crate, you can't see anything of interest, and the novelty wears off after about 30 seconds, if that.

sounds better than the holland tunnel

The worst part of Eurostar is the scenery is so dull, especially in Northern France.