Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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

I can confirm that they are also very common in the East of Scotland too - well Edinburgh at least.

my dad has one of these. it's brilliant, but he keeps it in the same room as the cat food and it makes clothes smell a bit weird

I have no idea what kind of uncommon household appliances you all are talking about. They sound cool though!

My great-grandmother bequeathed a hussy dresser to my mother. In a weird ironic move, she sold it to her ex-husband, my father, to keep it in the family.

So now my dad's got this hussy dresser in his living room, right next to the other appliance from my mother's family, an old radio that still has its WHBQ button.

Google refuses to believe that I would actually search for something called a "hussy dresser," confirming my suspicions that this name I've heard all my life is probably a misnomer like "chester drawers".

one of those dryers above an aga is superb

Things Liv Tyler was shockingly old when she learned.

OTM

There was probably a point where it was less about ignorance than wishful thinking. And then 'Bang the Drum All Day' happened and she was finally able to let go.

From "Bang the Drum" to "Love in an Elevator" the poor girl.

I'm sure there's a Greek tragedy which traces a similar path.

http://https%3A//farm3.staticflickr.com/2142/1808431922_f57204caf3_m.jpg

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2142/1808431922_f57204caf3_m.jpgBroken Pulley Ropes by Catriona, on Flickr

I am enjoying that flickr set:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/catrionaf/albums/72157602808326564

Oh, that guy!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/watch-shocking-footage-window-cleaner-5771289

I don't know if this counts but I'm not sure I was aware that Patrick Swayze is dead until last night

That 80s cartoon The Raccoons was made in Canada and apparently wasn't shown in the USA. Not that I would've been able to discern a Canadian accent in the 80s, I'm still not great at it now, unless it's really strong and they say ey all the time. Sometimes I think Minnesotans are Canadian.

I think the Minnesota accent can sound a bit Canadian? They are right next to each other after all.

I don't know if this counts but I'm not sure I was aware that Patrick Swayze is dead until last night

― brimstead, Thursday, 4 January 2018 08:40 (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck, so he is

I remember when that happened, it made me really sad. too young to have seen him in his prime, or anything really besides Donnie Darko, but I'll never forget a photo of him defiantly blowing cigarette smoke out of an SUV sun roof less than a month before he died. good for him.

earlier this year I learned it's not a good idea to put your hand in Drano

How did y'all think he was able to walk through walls and get inside Whoopi Goldberg like that?

get inside Whoopi Goldberg

a phrase i did not expect to see today

I don't know if this counts but I'm not sure I was aware that Patrick Swayze is dead until last night

Can't quite remember how it came about now, but I had to very belatedly break the news of Patrick Swayze's death to a mate a couple of days ago.

It only occurred to me today that the little holes in the bottom of plastic punnets of grapes or strawberries are to let water through when you wash them. This after I asked a coworker why she was running her grapes under the tap

the word 'punnet'

Ha, I loved The Raccoons as a kid.

when darkness falls
leaving shadows in the night

Just now realized/learned that pepperoni isn't Italian, but an American invention.

I was looking at the word and thinking, "hey, how come it has the English word 'pepper' in it, spelled in a very English and very not-Italian way?"

There is an Italian word peperone, but that refers to the vegetable, not the spice - and certainly not to a type of sausage.

h/t Ned. This was news to me too.

SUBWAY PERSON: OK, I marked your roast beef "RB".
ME: Heh. I didn't realize for YEARS that that's why it's called Arby's.
SUBWAY PERSON: ... oh my god. OH MY GOD.

— large monstrosity, unaligned (@zgryphon) January 11, 2018

except it's not right?

The brothers wanted to call their restaurants "Big Tex", but that name was already used by an Akron business. Instead, they chose the name "Arby's", based on R. B., the initials of Raffel Brothers.[9][10]

fake beef