Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Similarly, it took me until a good six months after their rise to fame to realise that Alt-J is not a rapper.

That international harvester was a brand of refrigerator and not just the name of a swedish prog band:

― nelson algreen (get bent), Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:18 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought it was more significantly the name of the type of school bus hippies were turning into mobile homes in the late 60s and probably even more significantly the type of bus that Ken Kesey and the Pranksters' Furthur was a model of

i had no idea that "brown sugar" was about slavery until like a year or two ago. i just never knew the lyrics. i knew the chorus.

The rolling stones song? I thought it was abt sex..

i know, right? it's a good time party anthem.

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in a market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright
Hear him whip the women just around midnight

Brown sugar how come you taste so good?
Brown sugar just like a young girl should

Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot
Lady of the house wonderin' where it's gonna stop
House boy knows that he's doing alright
You shoulda heard him just around midnight

Brown sugar how come you taste so good, now?
Brown sugar just like a young girl should, now

Ah, get along, brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby?
Ah, got me feelin' now, brown sugar just like a black girl should

I bet your mama was a tent show queen
And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen
I'm no schoolboy but I know what I like
You shoulda heard me just around midnight

Brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby?
Ah, brown sugar just like a young girl should, yeah

I said yeah, yeah, yeah, woo
How come you... how come you taste so good?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo
Just like a... just like a black girl should
Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo

turns out its a feel good party anthem about raping underage slaves. who knew?

the rolling stones may have forgotten themselves by now

I certainly learned something today... I guess you can't really party to it then?

Yeesh, it disturbs me that I've heard that song a million times but never understood wtf mick was babbling about there, like I was pretty sure he was using actual English words but I sure couldn't tell.

Isn't is also about heroin?

(the 'brown sugar' being the heroin cooked up in a spoon)

I thought it was about former Prime Minister Gordon Brown

No, that was The Stranglers' 'Golden Brown'.

I had never heard of the Ten Commandments until 6th grade.

I've never heard that Rolling Stones song, but I'm sure they came up with a garbage melody and garbage performance to complement their garbage lyrics. they haven't disappointed me yet.

Uncle Acid is a play on antacid. lol

No, that was The Stranglers' 'Golden Brown'.

― Does anyone know the Klingon for T'ai Chi? (snoball), Monday, November 9, 2015 9:34 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes that was the joek

How to properly pronounce at least a third of the English language, apparently (ongoing)

I'm not sure it counts if nobody ever hears the words idk

I ony learned about a month ago that Alt+D puts the cursor into the address bar. This is awesome because now I don't need to get my hands off the keyboard and grab my mouse every time I want to go to a different site.

i love the rolling stones, but they were disgusting and indefensible in many ways

i love the rolling stones art, but they were it is disgusting and indefensible in many ways

i only learned that "cruise control" was a thing you could do with your car a few years ago

http://www.vulture.com/2015/04/brown-sugar-still-tastes-good.html

I was about 23 when I learned that ponies aren't kid horses.

ponies aren't kid horses???

No, turns out they're just a smaller breed. Like horse chihuahuas or something.

wow... I was 27 when I realized this

wonder which shocking fact will get relearned the most times in this thread. the pony one is pretty good.

I ony learned about a month ago that Alt+D puts the cursor into the address bar.

whoa! thank you that is super useful!

i had a similar revelation when someone told me that clicking the mouse wheel opens links in a new tab.

As Laurel can probably attest to, I was well into my 30s before I found out that pickles were once cucumbers.

huh, I didn't know about Alt+D but then I use F6 for that

I'm a keyboard shortcut dummy so most things in that arena are revelations to me.

there is some family moment where ppl where shaking their heads when my cousins learned that coleslaw is made from cabbage

Sauerkraut is cabbage, too. I didn't know that until I was about 20.

I've never sent anyone a dick pic or been sent a dick pic, so perhaps I have an excuse for not realising this earlier, but I've only just figured out that when someone sends a dick pic, they send a pic of their erect dick. It's still messed up to do that, but suddenly it makes sense, there's actually a weird logic to doing that.

Because of the talk of keyboard shortcuts upthread I've just this second realised that the band Alt J (of which I know next to nothing) are actually named ∆

That a lot of soap, maybe most, is still made with animal fat

when i was a teenager i had a friend who referred to macaroni and cheese as "mac and cheese" and it took me several years to realize that this was a thing everybody said and not just a weird quirk of my friend

<3 the dick pic enlightenment that just happened

• i'm not sure how i never made the connection that ben savage is fred savage's brother

that the purpose of shaking a cocktail is to cool the drink without needing ice cubes in your glass (since they'll water it down eventually)

That doesn't seem like the kind of thing a young person would think about, though.

yeah i don't think that's something that the majority of people would know (i didn't so thanks!).

So if you're going to bake a frozen pizza right on the oven rack, you can use the cardboard circle as a little peel paddle.

Wombat poop is cube shaped.

That its "hang glider" not "hand glider."

That space rockets didn't land on the moon the way they did in Destination Moon