Didn't know that black and green olives are identical, just different stage of maturity, until a few months ago.
Didn't realise that Adam Ant was a pun, until a year or so ago. Likewise Lipps Inc.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 07:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I've got a mac and I still don't know how to do any of, um, ^ those ^
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 08:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I end up going to wikipedia and copy-and-pasting when I want unusual characters
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 08:02 (fifteen years ago) link
The cows-and-bulls thing, plus Adam Ant, are the only things on this thread that I do know
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 08:03 (fifteen years ago) link
how to cook an artichoke properly
― nelson algreen (get bent), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 08:09 (fifteen years ago) link
(a julia child recipe steered me right)
How to tie my shoes (velcro, you see..)
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 08:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Didn't realise that Adam Ant was a pun, until a year or so ago.
^^^ this. Same with Sandy Shaw.
― NotEnough, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 10:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Fay Fife of the Rezillos.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 10:35 (fifteen years ago) link
(i.e. it's a pun on "I am from the town of Fife, my good fellow" in broad scots)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 10:36 (fifteen years ago) link
What's the Adam Ant pun? Adam Ant = adamant? If so... pretty lame pun.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 10:37 (fifteen years ago) link
That's it.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 10:43 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost Tell that to Lai Mpun, the lead singer of Bangkok's Phleng Chat.
― I CRIED (G00blar), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I am 33 and didn't know any of these things. Wait - how the hell DOES a candle work?!
― Savannah Smiles, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 10:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Same with Sandy Shaw.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't know how to explain it but i used to think chickens had a really weird way of "mating", something to do with the rooster's legs. (!!?!?) :)
― Ludo, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought penguins were as tall as humans until that march of the penguins movie
― I CRIED (G00blar), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
"that SHIFT + 6 = ^. I think I figured it out a month or so ago. I always wondered how people got that character."
^^^Dude, you beat me by a month. Thanks!
I once spent a half hour trying to eject a cd from a Mac before someone finally told me there's an eject button on the keyboard. I was going through all these crazy menus and preferences...
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 12:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I was like 16 or 17 when I learned that cows and bulls were the male and female versions of the same animal and not two distinct animals.What sort of seemingly basic facts did it take you a surprisingly long time for you to learn?― filthy dylan, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:30 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
What sort of seemingly basic facts did it take you a surprisingly long time for you to learn?
― filthy dylan, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:30 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― With a little bit of gold and a Peja (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 12:23 (fifteen years ago) link
loooool one of my friends thought this and it was since passed into running joke territory.
I think I've done that Mac eject button thing too :(
Pronounced lapels like 'labels' for years until corrected but happily don't dress well enough to use it often
― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 12:34 (fifteen years ago) link
My girlfriend was shocked to learn, at the age of 33, that a 'Flea Circus' is actually a rather charming mechanical toy, and is in no way operated by any parasitic insects.
― Huey in Bristol (Huey in Melbourne), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Ismael, at the age of 32, is shocked to learn the same thing. This thread is getting embarrassing
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 12:57 (fifteen years ago) link
WAT! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flea_circus
― Øystein, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought penguins were as tall as humans until that march of the penguins movieone of my friends thought this and it was since passed into running joke territory
one of my friends thought this and it was since passed into running joke territory
no but seriously, what is this about?
― negotiable, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean i can see that there's rarely anything to size them against in the big white antarctic, but why would anyone then automatically think okay here's a bird i could play tag with
― negotiable, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
u could still play tag w/it tho
― SNAKES! (ice crӕm), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
But you could make the same assumption with ostriches in the big yellow desert (or wherever they live), and in that case you'd be right!
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm still in touch with several grown adults who genuinely believe there's 'something' to supernatural claims about ouija boards, despite its fairly obvious origins in parlour games / illusions which utilised the (admittedly fucking spooky) ideomotor effect.
― Huey in Bristol (Huey in Melbourne), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:08 (fifteen years ago) link
aw no-one said 'where babies come from'
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I've had a lot of experiences in my adult life with mispronouncing words I understood as part of written text, but hadn't heard aurally in the context of conversation etc. For example, I was well into my twenties before I knew the word "vehement" wasn't pronounced veh-hee-ment. I wish others would politely correct you when you do that instead of letting you blindly sound like an idiot.
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm a bit like that, but now I'm in the habit of saying works incorrectly, I can't get out of it. Canal is not pronounced can-el, but there's fuck all I can do about it now.
― NotEnough, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
^ This happens to me all the time too - so much so that I actually now find it quite amusing when I realise, midway through a sentence, that a word I've never heard before is looming at the end. I suppose that people who talk a lot, rather than reading, must find the same with spelling. It only annoys me when some moron uses it as an opportunity to score cheap points (sadly fairly often)
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I was going to start a thread like this, but it was going to be more about 'life lessons' that took you forever to learn, rather than trivia.
Anyway it's taken me this long to fully realize how unreliable first impressions can be when it comes to people.
― invisible jet (wanko ergo sum), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
but why would anyone then automatically think okay here's a bird i could play tag with
haha
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
TAL have an episode on this in the "best of" section on their wesite. people who thought unicorns were real, etc., lots of awkward silences at cocktail parties: good stuff.
― rent, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link
i like to tag birds. (runs)
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a penguin here and he wants to say "you didn't touch me ner ner ner"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought penguins went "weh weh weh"
― ╓abies, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
― Huey in Bristol (Huey in Melbourne), Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:08 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you couldnt get me in the same room as a ouija board
― a country packed with ponies (sunny successor), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I was about 35 when I figured out Open Sesame = Open Says Me.
― Rotgutt, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i used to think HAZCHEM was a foreign word for danger like Achtung
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I just figured out, like 2 days ago, that the lyrics are "highway to the danger zone"
(until then, thought they were "I went to to the danger zone")
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
ooh i like that
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
lol mandee those are even better
― Uncle Shavedlongcock (max), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Nothing, as I'm not shockingly old.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Misheard lyrics are always better. The singer of my old band had this (intentionally) corny line that went "sleep all day til the telephone ring / head to the bar and shake that thing", the latter half of which I always thought was "head to the barber and shave that thing".
― monkey bonkers (╓abies), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
My friend always thought that Op Ivy song Take Warning went "skate boarding", which is way better.
― monkey bonkers (╓abies), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok I sounded this out several times in several different ways and I still don't get how this is a pun. Help?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I think that 'Shaw' is meant to sound like 'shore' - I don't hear it either
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Sandy Shore.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Does the vinegar curdle the cream?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 23:35 (one week ago) link
I think I’ve used the Knorr French Onion mix before for the same. Looks like they have a dip recipe on the bag sometimes, although theirs appears to include mayonnaise in addition to sour cream https://www.knorr.com/us/en/r/french-onion-dip.html/107790
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 00:19 (one week ago) link
lmao my dad used to make the onion soup mix plus sour cream combo all the time and I was SPRINTING to tell you
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 01:17 (one week ago) link
We are not kiwi of course just your everyday snack connoisseurs
French onion dips a thing in Aus too but yeah we just make it with sour cream and Continental french onion soup in a packet. I'd be curious to try an evap milk/malt vinegar combo instead!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 05:12 (one week ago) link
(assuming reduced cream = evaporated milk ? I am maybe rong)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 05:13 (one week ago) link
Not sure if it’s quite the same - it’s only sold in nz and oz, nowhere else in the world
https://thespinoff.co.nz/kai/15-09-2019/future-of-kiwi-onion-dip-hangs-in-the-balance-as-nestle-factory-closes#
― just1n3, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 09:37 (one week ago) link
Afaict, reduced cream is made from cream and skim milk, while evaporated milk is just milk. I think reduced cream has a higher fat content.
― just1n3, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 09:42 (one week ago) link
Also, I don’t know of any other instance where reduced cream is used, except in CKD, which tells you just much of this stuff we eat.
― just1n3, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 09:43 (one week ago) link
It only dawned on me minutes ago that the name of the protagonist of the Alien series, Ripley, is just the first name of the director of the first film with the "d" rotated 180 degrees.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 01:46 (one week ago) link
Ha!
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 March 2024 06:03 (one week ago) link
Believe it . . . or not!
― nickn, Thursday, 21 March 2024 06:32 (one week ago) link
Ripley Scarn
― kinder, Thursday, 21 March 2024 11:32 (one week ago) link
Today i learned that Meatloaf was only 5'2"!! I always thought he was about 9ft tall
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:25 (one week ago) link
No way!
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:26 (one week ago) link
Haha no scratch that - I've been given false information. He was six foot
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:30 (one week ago) link
ppl out there just fibbing abt meat loaf, in 2024!
― mark s, Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:33 (one week ago) link
FAKE LOAF
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:36 (one week ago) link
Like a Gnat Out of Hell
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:38 (one week ago) link
5'2" ain't bad
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:41 (one week ago) link
We were barely seventeen and we were not so tall
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:57 (one week ago) link
Clock DVA, the sheffield band, who i have always called "Clock D V A" are actually "Clock Dva", Dva being russian for 'two'. it's a clockwork orange reference.
(still unconvinced by that)
― koogs, Monday, 25 March 2024 14:37 (four days ago) link
Whoa really?
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:47 (four days ago) link
I heard that several years ago. The 2 o'clock bit at least. Thirst has a symbol on the front that appears to signify that too. irckle with a triangle corresponding to the clock hands position filled in.
― Stevo, Monday, 25 March 2024 21:15 (four days ago) link
circle with a triangle
I remember them talking about this in the Made In Sheffield documentary - iirc they gave up telling everyone it wasn't D V A after a couple of years and started calling it that themselves.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:36 (four days ago) link
The difference between collision and allision, at least as far as maritime law defines it.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:35 (three days ago) link
Railways existed before steam engines and locomotives - I mean, duh, why wouldn't they?
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:31 (three days ago) link
well a locomotive wouldn’t be much use without them Tom duh
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 20:08 (three days ago) link
allision-- my aim's untrue
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:13 (three days ago) link
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:20 (three days ago) link
Wagonways!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaton_Wagonway
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:23 (three days ago) link
... this is what I was shockingly old when I learned about.
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:27 (three days ago) link
I used to know this insane wingnut minor-league weedlord out of Cave Junction who had built a working wood gas car— it didn’t go very fast or far, but it worked! Saw it with my own eyes. Lost tough with him because he outed himself as a virulent anti-vaxxer a few years before the pando
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 01:27 (two days ago) link
I’ve driven something converted to run off natural gas
what’s wild is how many road vehicles were electric back in the early days. Or cities with full-on electric buses with the overhead electric line. Was widespread for a brief period
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 03:29 (two days ago) link
"Waiting for Guffman" per wiki:
The film's title is a reference to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot.
oh. duh ...
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 18:47 (two days ago) link
What a "hospital pass"is. Saw this story and thought it must have something to do with the NHShttps://www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/03/28/rishi-sunak-i-inherited-worst-hospital-pass-for-a-new-pm-in-decades/
― Alba, Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:32 (yesterday) link
Not shocking, but I just learned the character in the drawings of nude woman in black gloves and stockings that appear in Playboy are called femlins, and that the character was created by LeRoy Neiman.
Femlins were created by sport illustrator LeRoy Neiman in 1955 when publisher/editor Hugh Hefner decided the Party Jokes page needed a visual element.[1] The name is a portmanteau of "female" and "gremlin." They are portrayed as mischievous black and white female sprites, apparently 10–12 in (250–300 mm) tall, wearing only opera gloves, stockings and high heel shoes.[2] They are usually drawn in two or three panel vignettes, interacting with various life-sized items such as shoes, jewelry, neckties and such.
An auction is happening today of stuff from the Hefner estate.
― nickn, Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:48 (yesterday) link
Americans call an umbrella a "bumbershoot".
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Friday, 29 March 2024 08:53 (three hours ago) link
a handful of americans, perhaps
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 March 2024 09:48 (two hours ago) link
i have never heard anyone call an umbrella a bumbershoot in my nearly 40 years.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 29 March 2024 11:05 (one hour ago) link
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bumbershoot
checks out
― koogs, Friday, 29 March 2024 11:29 (forty-four minutes ago) link