Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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.

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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.

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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

I recently had a similar non-revelation that 'sic' is clearly an abbreviation of 'spelled incorrectly' (duh!). It took me way too long to realize that my discovery very obviously fails to hold any water.

(My revelation which failed to acknowledge that the abbreviated version of 'incorrectly' would technically be spelled incorrectly in that scenario.)

Today I realized that water tastes different when I’m actually thirsty. I

Old Lunch, I think I had a similar thought when I was younger - "whoah, 'sic' must mean 'spelling is correct!'," and a condescending smart person in the room said, "no, you idiot, it's Latin for 'yes.'"

Oh, y'know, your 'spelling is incorrect' translation is probably what I actually had in mind during my 'eureka!' moment. I mean, I'm kinda stupid but not stupid stupid.

Just occurred to me that Young Thug called his album "Barter 6" and not "Carter 6" not only because of Wayne but also because he's a Blood and they're averse to Cs.

Well I guess I'm slow on the uptake because that's covered in the Wikipedia entry.

Silly Bunt!

I recently had a similar non-revelation that 'sic' is clearly an abbreviation of 'spelled incorrectly' (duh!). It took me way too long to realize that my discovery very obviously fails to hold any water.

― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Thursday, January 11, 2018 5:30 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(My revelation which failed to acknowledge that the abbreviated version of 'incorrectly' would technically be spelled incorrectly in that scenario.)

― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Thursday, January 11, 2018 5:33 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

holy shit...

a condescending smart person in the room said, "no, you idiot, it's Latin for 'yes.'"

They weren't that smart; it isn't.

a condescending smart person in the room said, "no, you idiot, it's Latin for 'yes.'"
They weren't that smart; it isn't.

How it was explained to me was that there *wasn't* a Latin word for 'yes' and that 'sic' is actually the Latin word for *thus* which is used in some of the situations when we would use 'yes'.

And when 'sic' is used when something has been spelt incorrectly in the original source it means 'rendered thus'.

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.

I broke the news that Leonard Cohen died to a mate on the anniversary of his death, at a wee tribute concert to him. He thought it was a living tribute thing.

I think sic is 'like' or 'just as' and is actually itself a shortening. It was usually accompanied by 'veritas' or 'erat scriptum' meaning truth or as written respectively.

I think 'sic' as used to indicate a misspelling basically means 'your spelling is gross' or 'you are a grody speller', as in 'it's totally sic how bad you are at spelling, it's literally making me sic right now'.