Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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yeah if the name does come from some supposed visually similarity that was a prodigious feat of imagination.

Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link

I think I was as old as 18 when someone had to tell me that Pub Landlord wasn't a real guy. Embarrassing.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link

that my fellow Americans are not really that committed to good government and democracy

Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/nqIhP2z.jpg

- "I don't know why you keep calling them scallops. They're clearly potatoes."

- "Maybe you're right."

pplains, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link

apparently in american football you can substitute players pretty much nonstop??

jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link

as soon as one gets a brain injury, yes

duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link

the strokes had a fifth album

Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Saturday, 3 December 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link

that only boy dogs lift a leg to piss, because girl dogs just squat

sorry, i never had a dog

mookieproof, Saturday, 3 December 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link

apparently in american football you can substitute players pretty much nonstop??

― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, November 30, 2016 11:23 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p much a substitution every play

Neanderthal, Saturday, 3 December 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link

Girl dogs do lift a leg sometimes, depending what they want to piss on.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 3 December 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link

I have a girl dog who lifts her leg to pee, although it looks more like that Karate Kid pose.

rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Saturday, 3 December 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link

Scallops is a contentious word down here too - theyre called scallops in NSW/QLD, and potato cakes in VIC.

Which always made me wonder, how to they differentiate potato scallops from actual ones, given those are also a thing in many chip shops (well, any where seafood's cheap and fresh anyway)

I love potato caaaakes

http://northeasthub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/scallops.jpg

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 3 December 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link

I just read that whenever you eat a fig, you're eating either a dead wasp or wasp larvae! I love figs and feel conflicted about eating them from now on.

JacobSanders, Sunday, 4 December 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link

^^ Debunked!

I've learned to stop worrying and love dates as much as I do, even though the occasional date I eat contains a (visible) small worm or larvae of some sort. Iranian dates are my fave, and I've seen it, but life's too short etc.

Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 December 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link

hmm, chance of either eggs and larvae or decomposed wasp, yeah feel a lot better about figs after that debunking

Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 4 December 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link

the female fig produces an enzyme that digests this wasp completely
I never knew figs were so interesting!
I was reading this http://knowledgenuts.com/2014/06/08/the-disturbing-truth-about-figs/

JacobSanders, Sunday, 4 December 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link

Scallops (chip shop potato ones, not seafood) are called fritters up here.

ailsa, Monday, 5 December 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link

that Ghetto Superstar interpolates a Rogers/Parton smash

niels, Thursday, 15 December 2016 13:32 (seven years ago) link

armadillos carry leprosy

clouds, Thursday, 15 December 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link

well, duh. how do you think people get leprosy in the first place?

pplains, Thursday, 15 December 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link

Leprosy always seemed like an unfair tradeoff for people who are clever enough to have figured out how to fuck an armadillo.

My Lunch Is Older Than Your Lunch (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 December 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link

I was a teenager when I found out that Ku Klux Klan were not a cartoon or a band but something more serious. My first guess would have been a cartoon about chickens. Clue Clucks Clan: Chicken Detectives.

I seen 3 Women a few weeks ago and its shockingly late to learn that Shelley Duvall is really beautiful.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 15 December 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link

platypuses have venom

troops in djibouti (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 15 December 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link

That window seats on planes are preferable to aisle seats. Going against habit I got a window seat on a whim recently and realized how nice it is not to be constantly bumped or brushed against by aisle traffic

Josefa, Thursday, 15 December 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link

That Grandmaster Flash didn't have anything to do with White Lines or The Message.

how's life, Thursday, 15 December 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link

+ can look out of the window. At the age of 37, after around 100 flights, the novelty of WE'RE IN THE FUCKING SKY hasn't worn off.

xp

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 15 December 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link

I have a weak bladder, so I always prefer aisle seats, it's awkward to wake up some random person who's trying to sleep so I can pee.

Tuomas, Thursday, 15 December 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link

if you pee on them they will prob wake up too

Neanderthal, Thursday, 15 December 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link

F

rb (soda), Thursday, 15 December 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link

I thought 10cc was either a punk band or krautrock until like 3 months ago

flappy bird, Friday, 16 December 2016 03:48 (seven years ago) link

I used to think if you had an acoustic guitar,

Mark G, Friday, 16 December 2016 06:37 (seven years ago) link

John belushi would smash it

banfred bann (wins), Friday, 16 December 2016 06:52 (seven years ago) link

and i would applaud him

Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 December 2016 07:06 (seven years ago) link

That time Colin Hay was on Scrubs

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view7/2945187/dr-cox-pulls-a-belushi-o.gif

troops in djibouti (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 16 December 2016 13:34 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

I learned very recently that Vancouver is all the way out west... I just thought it was close to Toronto or something. idk fuck

flappy bird, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link

And the weird part is that you live in Etobicoke.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 03:16 (seven years ago) link

i learned that "Toonrot" is an anagram for Toronto

Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 03:22 (seven years ago) link

Vancouver is Canadian Seattle. Or vice versa

mh 😏, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 03:43 (seven years ago) link

Only figured out upon hearing it today (probably because I never paid anything but peripheral attention to the song before) that Adam Duritz is the second voice on '6th Avenue Heartache'.

Yeah, I don't really care, either.

Gorvernment Stoodge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 04:54 (seven years ago) link

now I hate the song twice as much, thanks

Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 05:01 (seven years ago) link

Vancouver is Canadian San Diego, if you think about it.

pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 05:41 (seven years ago) link

I learned two months ago that peanuts aren't nuts.

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 05:47 (seven years ago) link

I learned very recently that Vancouver is all the way out west... I just thought it was close to Toronto or something. idk fuck
― flappy bird, Tuesday, January 17, 2017 7:03 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I didn't know Vancouver was on the Pacific til I was 27.

harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 05:53 (seven years ago) link

Vancouver is undoubtedly canadian seattle

F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 07:12 (seven years ago) link

I heard about it as Vancouver being Canadian San Francisco as in arty bohemian magnet some years ago. I think reflected in music scene etc.
But not sure who from there beyond My Indole Ring and Subhumans during different eras.

Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 08:04 (seven years ago) link

at least we're all agreeing it's like some other west coast city

mh 😏, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 15:00 (seven years ago) link

It's like the Joplin, Mo. of British Columbia.

pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 15:04 (seven years ago) link

I just now found out that Mickey and Minnie are boyfriend and girlfriend, not brother and sister

frogbs, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link

they're both

Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link

fuckin mice mannnn

trilby mouth (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link


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