Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Hey, don't forget The Twist!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcqdHKqqc3M

That there were hazelnuts in Ferrero Rocher.

The proper pronunciation of "parameters."

Rafa Nadal has ocd.

http://www.preguntasfrecuentes.net/wp-files/2013/ticks-nadal.jpg

the chubby checker thing is "oval literally means egglike" stunning

How has Christopher Nolan not optioned the biopic

"the chubby checker thing is "oval literally means egglike" stunning"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Iwsx_nD9YOc/VAWSVZabXqI/AAAAAAAAC2k/pnbbE0zjZDs/s1600/shat.png

omfg oval literally means egglike

ovum Latin for egg.
Hence oeuf in French

I think it was only a few weeks ago I consciously realised for definite that Jason Sudeikis and John Krasinski are different people

I think I knew but would forget each time I saw one of them.

I've never owned a car, but I do hire them a lot and amazingly I've never known until today that there is often a little arrow on the fuel gauge on the dashboard indicating which side the petrol cap is on! This would have saved me loads of messing about at petrol stations over the years.

wait waht

Yeah, I only just learned that recently myself (but then I only just started driving again recently for the first time in 20 years so I figure I'm off the hook).

https://blog.allstate.com/is-your-gas-cap-on-the-left-or-the-right/

here is the secret

read that secret a while ago but i don't own a car. hired one last week, it had a full lcd dashboard and much to my disappointment no little arrow.

wow rude

I'm going to feel robbed if the next few cars I hire don't have this feature now.

That human beings were around when the UK was still part of the landmass of Europe.

That you don't actually have to slide the little slide bar to turn things on/off on iPhone--a simple tap switches the selection. Duh.

awww

Until now, I seriously thought Bob Dole was involved in the founding of the Dole Food company.

Magpies and jays are corvids. So presumably really smart.
Hadn't taken that in before reading the thread this week.

Until now, I seriously thought Bob Dole was involved in the founding of the Dole Food company.

I thought he just gave them a handout

[some joke about Dole quoting a verse from the Book of Job]

There is a bit in 24 Hour Party People where Coogan's Tony Wilson character is getting high and maintaining that Albert Broccoli's family invented broccoli, and that's how they were able to finance the Bond films.

It sounded suspect, but I will confess that I looked it up when I got home, just to be sure.

Holy shit, I never knew that about the gas pump icon.

The word hench (as in, "my arms a looking quite hench"). Today, in fact.

That makes two of us.

About 10 years ago I worked with a young apprentice who mainly talked fluent gangsta, apart from when he was talking to his strict Jehovah's Witness parents on the phone. And everything/everybody that was not small, was hench to him!

my eldest boy taught me hench, several years back yeah

Confused that people are freaking out about oval = egg-like. Don't think I ever questioned it, unless I 'm missing a wider point?

I was not aware of it before this thread. But I attended public school in the US, so there's a veritable cornucopia of common knowledge that has yet to cross my doorstep.

I was shockingly old when I learned that some people didn't know oval meant egg-like.

> unless I'm missing a wider point?

that ovum = latin for egg?

I might ask for a fried ovum next I'm in a cafe, just to show off.

that just gave me a turquoise jeep flashback

If I read and assume correctly, the oval-egg pennydrop referred to goes something like this:

-- Subject knows perfectly well which shape "oval" refers to.
-- Subject knows perfectly well what the Latin word for "egg" is, and is also conversant with Latin-derived adjectival suffices.
-- When attempting to form a Latin-derived synonym for "egg-shaped" in her/his mind, subject thinks "let's see, the stem of 'ovum' with for instance '-al' at the end should be... oh, DUH"

I think that the people surprised by the gas-gauge-arrow thing are probably better people than me, or people with greater willpower than I have.

Because it appears in like 83% of those stupid clickbait lifehack slideshows.

I have, alas, clicked on a large number of those WACKY FACTS ABOUT EVERYDAY OBJECTS teasers one sees all the time. "15 ways in which you're wearing pants wrong. #7 will shock you."

Each time I travel down that rabbit hole, I know I will be disappointed. I also know that it will most likely include "hey, did you know there's a little arrow on your gas gauge that shows you which side the gas cap is on?" Other perennials are the little pocket in jeans and the little tab on the back of a dress shirt.

whoa buddy no spoilers

Okay, mh, but I'm just saying. #12 will BLOW your MIND.

What *is* the little tab on the back of a dress shirt all about?

Oh, it's just to hang up in a locker or whatever, but clickbait lifehack slideshow shitposts invariably present that as like mindblowing information.

took me until my early 30s to realize worsening reflux and chronic dehydration were not just happy coincidences

That does not sounds like a pleasant realisation, are you OK?

My favourite of all these life hacks is with those paper sauce containers you sometimes get at cafes and burger stands
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/heinz-tomato-ketchup-life-hack-get-out-of-bottle_uk_578df1fbe4b0885619b11d4a

oops, didn't check the link. that's not right: http://lifehacker.com/5931053/fan-your-ketchup-cups-for-maximum-condiment-volume-and-dunkage

Previously my workaround had always been to forgo the cups altogether, opting instead to pump ketchup directly on my tray's paper lining.

Oh, but that was from all the way back in 2012. Looks like lifehacks are all grown up now.

http://lifehacker.com/the-beginners-guide-to-using-a-strap-on-1797402479

the beginner's guide to using a strap-on to distribute ketchup