Things you were shockingly old when you learned

xpost my grandma had one

didn't know what "put through the wringer" literally meant.

I had some literal experience with that one. There was a wringer washing machine in the basement of the house where I grew up and I got my hand stuck in the wringer at about age 4 or 5. My dad had to do some disassembly to free me.

hurts your liittle fingers ouuuuch

my grandma had one as well

Maingled

'young talent time' took its name from johnny young's surname.

Only learned the proper pronunciation of "Coachella" a few weeks ago

wait, is it pronounced in some other way than how it looks?

it's pronounced "twat picnic"

sorry, some of my best friends are picnics, etc

I'm amusedly picturing people saying Coach Ella

My grandparents had a lot of seemingly prewar stuff in their house. Which I think Included a mangle. Definitely had a weird drying rack that was attached to a piece of rope so it could be winched up near the ceiling.
Also had a coal hole for delivery by the coalman.
I say prewar but I think they only moved in there in the 50s

'ko-ACK-hella' IIRC

I think it's supposed to be 'koh-ah-cheh-lah' rather than 'kough-cheh-lah'.

Pretty sure that both pronunciations are acceptable now. Usage trumps all, etc.

otm

I'd seen refs to the festival in print and online 2 million times but never heard it spoken by an irl human until recently.

I don't get out much.

So it's not Coach Ella.

To be honest, I was pronouncing it more like "COH-chella."

Been pronouncing it Co-Chella in my head lo these many years.

Cloaca

Cockula

Cockerella

I think I can top being shockingly old when you find out how to pronounce Coachella properly, I've just googled Coachella to find it what it is.

http://languagehat.com/a-bastard-name/

I mean en español it would be “co-ah-CHE-ya” so

xxpost steveolende my gran had one of those racks too

Shockingly older and still learning!

xxp

I've got a coal hole outside my current house and we get coal poured down it. It's the highlight of my year tbh

I don't have a coal hold, but I do have one of those boxes cut into the side of my house by the side door where the milkman could put each day's dairy order. (House was build in 1946.) Need to get it filled in one day, since it has an R-value of minus infinity.

Early maps show the area as "Conchilla," the Spanish word for "seashell." Since the area was once a part of a vast inland sea, tiny fossilized mollusk shells can be found in just about every remote area. Local lore explains the change in the name from Conchilla to Coachella as a mistake made by the map-makers contracted to transcribe the data supplied by the Southern Pacific Railroad's survey party. Rather than redraw the expensive maps, the railroad chose to instead begin calling the area by the misspelled name "Coachella" rather than its traditional name "Conchilla."

'koh-ah-cheh-lah'

No other pronunciation ever occurred to me tbh.

xp I also have a coal chute, non-functioning sadly

I have a couple flour/sugar bins in my kitchen. They look like cabinets but they pivot out from the top to reveal a bin that narrows toward the bottom. It didn't take me that long to figure out what they were for, but I had never seen or heard about them before.

Repeated employment of the phrase 'coal chute' amidst discussion of the proper pronunciation of Coachella has me very confused, indeed!

Nickn, like a Frankfurt Kitchen?

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/the-frankfurt-kitchen-small-sp-113421

Specifically the 4th and 5th pic there

Similar concept, but these are about 2 feet tall and 14-16 inches wide, and you pull out from a handle at the top, with the bin pivoting at the bottom. They can be lifted out but in normal operation they aren't because they are heavy.

Like the lower right of this free-standing cabinet.
https://www.harpgallery.com/ebay/cd/cup11916board2.jpg

Close up of what the bins look like.
http://www.kingstonroadauction.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/image434.jpg

The dishwasher cutlery basket. It was only recently that it occurred to me that if I removed it from the dishwasher after its cycle, and placed it by the cutlery drawer, it would make it easier to put the cutlery away. And that the basket is specifically designed to enable this. Decades of to-ing and fro-ing from dishwasher to drawer could have been saved if I had realised this earlier.

^ it's been two decades since I lived with a dishwasher, and the dishwasher was immediately next to the cutlery drawer where I grew up, but this is brand new to me

Why did your parents force you to grow up in a cutlery drawer?

i’m not going to judge, my family lived near a fork in the road

lol i think we already did the cutlery basket thing in this very thread before!

xpost <3 estela

yes tracer hand taught us that cutlery basket trick years ago, i’m forever grateful

Oh Jesus fork in the road

That Liv Tyler is Steve Tyler's daughter.

Things Liv Tyler was shockingly old when she learned.

Definitely had a weird drying rack that was attached to a piece of rope so it could be winched up near the ceiling.

My current flat has one of these, they're awesome.

https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-22-2015/qPlUSR.gif

EG: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/6-Lath-Victorian-Kitchen-Ceiling-Pulley-Clothes-Airer-Maid-Laundry-Dryer-Rack-/310450716334

Very common in tenements in the West of Scotland - with those high ceilings which make it impossible to keep warm so it's good that the West of Scotland has a tropical climate.

also v efficient at packing the smell of a full fry-up into your nightshirt