Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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

Did you know that your ketchup gauge has a little arrow on it indicating which side you should refill?

my friends would tell me as a kid that the way to get the yogurt off the lid for more convenient eating was to tap the lid before opening, back when occasionally we would get yogurts with school lunch. it never seemed to do anything

now decades later I have started eating yogurts almost daily and remembered this one cool lifehack and finally determined that all it does is make yogurt spatter out at you when you open the lid, which I then realised was probably the point

well done, barely-remembered schoolfriends: I was apparently pwn-resistant as a kid (whether because I opened them side on and the spray went elsewhere or I was just too oblivious to care about getting yogurt on my shirt), but you got me a couple of times 30 years later when trying to look semi-presentable for work, in the world's slowest practical joke ever

yoghurt that sprays upwards would worry me

the beginner's guide to using a strap-on to spray yoghurt

spray yoghurt now there's a marketing idea

remember when - was it Tango? - made those spray drinks for a while? that was a pointless acceleration of our imminent species death

And yet no-one has done this yet,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT5kI3zJFmA

speaking as somebody who loves cheese and peas I've never even tried to improvise that shit

Only disgusting savages don't love cheese and peas.

peas are bad and if u like them u are bad

cheesy beans on the other hand are unimpeachable

cheesy beans are mint, no question

you are v wrong about peas tho, not that I'm advocating cheesing them up

peas are bad and if u like them u are bad

wtf, i thought we were friends :(

i can tolerate peas as an additive to like a curry or whatever but standalone peas, whether mushy or otherwise, are not good

sorry lbi, you and i are done

mushy peas are occasionally done badly but done right they are the best vegetable

that is pure madness

have we done a 'best vegetable' thread? we need to put this issue to bed once and for all

I can only imagine the transatlantic shock and outrage if "mushy peas" was even included as a category

brb gonna start a nominations thread

Hot Peas and Vinegar is one of the human race's greatest achievement. bizarro get out, just get out now, I don't want to look at you.

Cheesy peas for posh folk

believe me i don't wanna be here either, u people are monsters

WHAT IS THE BEST VEGETABLE: nomination thread

Barron Trump was named after one of his dad's pseudonyms. Just heard that 10 minutes ago.

I mean, presumably. It could just as easily be a tribute to Trump's love of Red Baron (sp) frozen pizza.