Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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I don't wish to diss any particular person's hygiene regime or beauty-product choices. If it works for you and it isn't harming anyone else, rock on with you bad selves.

That said, an awful lot of products out there seem to have been introduced to reduce the harmful effects of other products.

There's a different bunch of products that exist to counteract and/or replace the things your body would ordinarily do on its own. There's still another bunch of products that exist to counteract the effects of the products that counteract the things your body used to do on its own. (Things, by the way, that human bodies were doing for many thousands of years before the products were invented.)

You can use conditioner to replace beneficial stuff that shampoo washed away (or you can shampoo slightly less often and therefore need less regenerative conditioner).

You can buy products that remove callus from your feet, which leaves your feet more vulnerable to the repetitive abrasion that leads to callus, which makes you want to buy a product to remove callus from your feet. (Or you could let protective callus develop protectively where your shoes tend to rub.) You can put Vaseline in your nose for dryness... or you could let your nose regulate its own lubrication level, which may make you want to buy less Vaseline.

I am not saying I'm eager to return to caveman days. But it does seem like at least _some_ of this stuff is a self-perpetuating profit machine for corporations that want you to keep buying their various goops and gels and unguents.

Oh the pacmanity (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 February 2017 14:49 (seven years ago) link

Women look a lot like men

Muller rice isn't disgusting, it's pretty good

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 18 February 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link

I just realised that 'Hip Hop Hooray' by Naughty By Nature is a pun on "hip hip, hooray"

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 19 February 2017 23:32 (seven years ago) link

lol

Neanderthal, Sunday, 19 February 2017 23:46 (seven years ago) link

that reminds me (not making fun, just v similar) of my friend who one night exclaimed (in an mIRC channel):

"wait, Man in the Mirror, MJ is singing about HIMSELF?"

Neanderthal, Sunday, 19 February 2017 23:46 (seven years ago) link

That I never learn.

Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Sunday, 19 February 2017 23:48 (seven years ago) link

also just learned that Richard Cheese's pseudonym = "dickcheese"

Neanderthal, Sunday, 19 February 2017 23:49 (seven years ago) link

I just realized thirty seconds ago that this world is not the world but is in fact hell.

Treeship, Sunday, 19 February 2017 23:50 (seven years ago) link

^underrated Propagandhi song

Neanderthal, Sunday, 19 February 2017 23:50 (seven years ago) link

that what Meat Loaf wouldn't do for love is perfectly explained in the lyrics of the preceding verses

niels, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 13:42 (seven years ago) link

That Max Mosley is Oswald Mosley's son

Alba, Thursday, 23 February 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link

Niels - what won't he do?

Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Thursday, 23 February 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link

mustache rides

waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 February 2017 21:08 (seven years ago) link

ok this is a bit tmi so skip ahead

was about 19 or 20 and had got back to a girl's place and i told her "i don't have a condom" she said "oh that's fine i have an implant" - this is how i found out what an iud was.

thanks catholic school

Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 23 February 2017 21:28 (seven years ago) link

there are also contraceptive implants -- norplant i think it was called?

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 23 February 2017 21:46 (seven years ago) link

they are not the same as IUDs

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 23 February 2017 21:46 (seven years ago) link

yeah, never heard of an IUD referred to as an "implant" but that could be a by-country thing

mh 😏, Thursday, 23 February 2017 21:55 (seven years ago) link

Yeah Norplant, Depo-Provera, and IUDs are all totally different things. (And condoms are still useful even when one of them is present, unless the only thing you are interested in is pregnancy. FWIW I still used them even after having a vasectomy.)

functionally alcoholic for the people (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 February 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link

ha ok: things you were shockingly old when you learned - you can't generically add implants into the same category as IUDs because of what the IU in IUD stands for.

Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 23 February 2017 22:51 (seven years ago) link

i was basically unaware that there was any device that could be implanted in any part of a woman that could be used as a contraceptive

Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 23 February 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link

what did you think the IU stood for? or alternatively, that's not where you put contraceptive implants!

Transform All Suffering Into Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 23 February 2017 23:06 (seven years ago) link

if i had thought about it i might have came to the right conclusion.

Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 23 February 2017 23:09 (seven years ago) link

I think I knew what IU stood for exclusively due to the Golden Girls.

Heavy Doors (jed_), Thursday, 23 February 2017 23:32 (seven years ago) link

U did all 3?

waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 February 2017 23:55 (seven years ago) link

Err 4

waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 February 2017 23:55 (seven years ago) link

I get IUDs and IEDs mixed up.

Alba, Friday, 24 February 2017 00:03 (seven years ago) link

masturbation, what it is, how everyone does it. i think it was like 7th grade or something before i learned.

Karl Malone, Friday, 24 February 2017 00:05 (seven years ago) link

they charge for obituaries and it is a lot more than you'd think

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 February 2017 00:26 (seven years ago) link

i knew they charged - some are much longer and more detailed than others, have pictures, etc. this always struck me as being connected to how much they cost - have no idea how much.

Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 February 2017 00:27 (seven years ago) link

Obituary Notice - 3 Days $303.44
- 3 days in both The Vancouver Sun and The Province.
- Base cost includes 5 lines of text & Online at Remembering.ca for 1 year
- $61.80 for each additional line of text. Add a Colour photo for $326.

Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 February 2017 00:29 (seven years ago) link

I've read some pricy obits it seems

Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 February 2017 00:30 (seven years ago) link

a color photo in an obituary seems like the rough equivalent to an open-cask funeral

Karl Malone, Friday, 24 February 2017 00:31 (seven years ago) link

human resources does not mean resources for humans

mh 😏, Friday, 24 February 2017 00:33 (seven years ago) link

(my first run-ins were all related to the benefits and insurance part of companies, so the naming based on staffing went over my head)

mh 😏, Friday, 24 February 2017 00:34 (seven years ago) link

Hope all my friends open their casks at my funeral.

pplains, Friday, 24 February 2017 01:41 (seven years ago) link

Both of them.

pplains, Friday, 24 February 2017 01:41 (seven years ago) link

masturbation, what it is, how everyone does it. i think it was like 7th grade or something before i learned.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, February 23, 2017 7:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Man there i was with a Cindy Crawford GIF and quivering nether regions, freaked the fuck out that my dick was trying to make a cocoon, and a week later in health class they were describing the ole "Shebop" and that it was normal and meant we were ready to father a child. And i turned to my friends (both of em) and said OH SHIT I JUST DID THAT LAST WEEK! I'M READY TO FATHER A CHILD! I'M READY TO FATHER A-

and the tubby one punched me in the stomach and i fell to my knees

waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 February 2017 02:13 (seven years ago) link

I had the general idea of how things worked but don't think I really did that act until 9th grade, yeeesh

mh 😏, Friday, 24 February 2017 02:16 (seven years ago) link

Nowadays kids learn it from Wikihow pages

waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 February 2017 02:17 (seven years ago) link

tbf I was a late bloomer (not to be confused with ilxor of that name)

mh 😏, Friday, 24 February 2017 02:19 (seven years ago) link

when they said "B.G." on Snoop and Dre albums for years I thought they meant "Bee Gee", ie, someone out of the 70s, out of touch. realized years later it meant "baby gangsta".

waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 February 2017 03:19 (seven years ago) link

just learned that Richard Cheese's pseudonym = "dickcheese"

ha this one only occurred to me a few weeks back as well, and we've been rocking his albums heaps lately.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 24 February 2017 04:02 (seven years ago) link

That a hymen isn't like a thin bit of plastic kitchen wrap skin that goes over the vagina and gets punctured after sex.

If I had given this more than a second thought this would have clearly made no sense.

barbarian radge (NotEnough), Friday, 24 February 2017 06:12 (seven years ago) link

I don't propose to look up what age school grades indicate solely to find out when ilxors started masturbating

Will u ppl not just use age to indicate age ffs

The Perks of Being a Wall St R (darraghmac), Friday, 24 February 2017 08:50 (seven years ago) link

think it wasnt until i was 17 or so that i realised that people had to pay milkmen? i didnt have some big alternative comedy theory about a publicly funded dairy welfare state or whatever it was just something that i had somehow never once encountered or thought about for a second

r|t|c, Friday, 24 February 2017 10:03 (seven years ago) link

mightve been early 20s even idk

r|t|c, Friday, 24 February 2017 10:05 (seven years ago) link

Like what else would be be doing at six am everyday, sure isn't he a milkman

The Perks of Being a Wall St R (darraghmac), Friday, 24 February 2017 10:05 (seven years ago) link

Ross - well, corny romantic stuff

The phrasing and composition makes it all a bit unclear (the wiki quotes disagreement between Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman as to whether the lyrics were ambiguous) but when you read it it's p clear:

And I would do anything for love
I'd run right into hell and back
I would do anything for love
I'd never lie to you and that's a fact
But I'll never forget the way you feel right now,
Oh no, no way
And I would do anything for love, but I won't do that
No, I won't do that

^^in this verse he'd run right into hell + back but he won't lie to you and that's a fact

niels, Saturday, 25 February 2017 10:21 (seven years ago) link

Just learnt that I can convert MKV files into something hopefully readable on my TV through a memory stick. VLC player can convert and save files. Haven't successfully done it yet but got one underway.
Been frustrating with tv not reading a load of stuff I've downloaded.

Now would really like to find out if i have any way of saving recordings made by Horizon box to something I could store on hard drive.

Stevolende, Saturday, 25 February 2017 14:03 (seven years ago) link

it's a subject complement rather than a direct object if you can't convert the sentence to passive voice

Brad C., Saturday, 25 February 2017 16:22 (seven years ago) link


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