Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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

Yeah, I only learned that a few years ago, when I visited the space museum in Washington.

Thank God, I thought that one was only me

I always knew there were three people on the first moon flight, but I hadn't realized before that the third guy never even got to moonwalk instead of just waiting in the orbital module. He must've felt cheated.

Also, I just learned from the documentary about the last guy to have walked on moon (it's on Netflix) that before Apollo 11 there were two fully manned flights where they simply went around the moon and back, but never got to land there. Those guys must've felt really cheated! (Except for the subject of the documentary and one other astronaut, who both eventually got to walk on moon on later Apollo flights.)

Maybe Neil and Buzz were just blah blah blah we're gonna land on the moon are we there yet lol for the whole flight up there, and Collins was more than happy to have a few hours floating around by himself for a little while. He'd been to the Grand Canyon in '52, he pretty much had the general idea of what he was "missing" it's ok.

i think being a spaceman is p much a swell deal all the way around, plus you dont have to sign as many autographs

u get to punch skeptics too

in tuomas' defense, that's only if you get to walk on the moon though.

If you don't, you just get called out for being a space pussy for the rest of your life.

Also, I just learned from the documentary about the last guy to have walked on moon

and even there, for those of us occasionally engaged in trivia/quizzing contests, is a rub: The last guy to walk on to the moon is not the last to walk on the moon, since the guys on Apollo 17 went for an ABBA on-to/off-of pattern, rather than the ABAB which would have made such questions unambiguous.

used to cry over what i imagined to be collins' loneliness as a little kid. he was prob too stressed to notice.

aw it's ok, he made it eventually.

http://i.imgur.com/We0jA8B.jpg

look, see? they even took the family on vacations to the moon.

http://i.imgur.com/V4tdJJO.jpg

how "awry" is pronounced

oh that one... yeah me too. it took me a while to understand that 'misled' was 'miss-led' not 'mizzled' or even 'mild'

I got clowned hard for pronouncing it "aw-ree" beck in high school.

feel fortunate that I came across the correct pronounciation somewhere online before goofing irl

so is wry something other than cunning.
is a-wry the semantic root of the word or something.

Since when did wry ever mean cunning?

Wry Fox

Merriam Webster has this as the 2nd simple definition

2 wry
adjective
Simple Definition of wry

: humorous in a clever and often ironic way

I thought that extended beyond humour which would then be close to synonymous with cunning I would think.

Looks like the etymology is more based on toward the twisted

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

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That a Twix is Millionaire's Shortbread in chocolate coated stick form.

it took me way too long to realise that when you get into this cooking game don't struggle with a shitty little blunt knife, get a big fucking sharp knife and a blade sharpener and a mortar and pestle. Tools that make cooking easier and quicker

Yeah my top cooking tips:
Sharp knife
HOT pan
Stop moving the food around the pan all the time

HOT pans are good for searing, if that's what you're after, but high heat makes protein very tough, so it's a shitty approach to, for example, frying an egg. otoh, it can caramelize sugars, so high heat can be nice for root vegetables.

pansplaining

I only eat steak and burnt eggs

(I do actually fry an egg from cold oil after someone tipped me off)

I should add that my helpful tips are brought to you after far too long using shitty blunt or serrated knives and medium warm pans because I didn't want to burn stuff

xp spécialité de le maison

What is this cold oil thing?

It took me until after my 35th birthday to work out why the popular anti-dandruff shampoo was called "Head & Shoulders"

Bc when u use it, u get head, then u brush your shoulders off bc ur a player