Things you were shockingly old when you learned

i just learned that phil hartman designed the aja cover

I learned that Bruce Springsteen had a trainer named Phil Dunphy

I'd read a few books by Flannery O'Connor but didn't realise she was a woman until I checked her wikipedia article.

That the reason why a number squared or a number cubed is called that is coz if you have a square (or cube) with that number of little squares per side on it and you add them all up then.....

Also, that there wasn't a really prolific writer called Franklin W. Dixon who wrote all the Hardy Boys books, but also a big team of people writing under a pseudonym.

You call 101 for minor police issues, not 999 - just now lol

I knew 112, but not 101... And, apparently, there's a 4th

http://chandlersfordtoday.co.uk/emergency/

Oops, I thought 112 was the non-emergency number. In fact I think I once rang it for a non-emergency. Which turned out while I was on the phone to be a total non-event anyway.

(hangs head for accidentally wasting emergency service time)

Will try to remember 101 for next time.

I'm listening to "The Visitors" for the first time today

That the reason why a number squared or a number cubed is called that is coz if you have a square (or cube) with that number of little squares per side on it and you add them all up then.....

You just made me doubt my own (limited) math abilities.

I was all, but there are only six sides on a cube? Everything squared would then be the number x 6?

But now I get it.

xp haha wow I did that on NYE! That opening track eh?

i just learned that phil hartman designed the aja cover

this is an oft-repeated fact that doesn't seem to be true.

haha wow I did that on NYE! That opening track eh?

Anni-Frid sounds like Liz Fraser like so much on it

omg you're right!

aside from the entirety of odessey and oracle (yeah, file that one under this thread lol ffs), the two old-timey songs to blow me away recently were 'the visitors' and 'fotzepolitic', there's something about that wild psychedelic hyper-pop sound that just pins me to the spot

You're never too old to learn how amazing those two songs are, as long as you learn it eventually.

It's a fucking amazing album

That the reason why a number squared or a number cubed is called that is coz if you have a square (or cube) with that number of little squares per side on it and you add them all up then.....

You just made me doubt my own (limited) math abilities.

I was all, but there are only six sides on a cube? Everything squared would then be the number x 6?

But now I get it.

I think this is incorrect, the way it was originally written, unless I'm misunderstanding? x^3 is the volume of a cube with sides of length x, not 6x?

(Also, I don't think you can have e.g. a cube with only two squares on each side.)

i think the post is trying to describe volume, in terms of a cube made up of smaller 1x1x1 cubes.

Ah

That Sturgeon’s Law also applies to recipes.

isn't the square/cube thing about dimensions?

Something squared is 1x1, 2x2, 3x3, etc.? Chess board is a square, so this fits. (8x8= 64)

But something cubed? That's 1x1x1, 2x2x2, 3x3x3, etc.

3-cubed is 27. So how do you divide that into 6?

Also, I'm old and stupid, let's keep that in mind.

a 3x3x3 Rubik's cube can be divided into 27 cubes of equal volume, i.e.

https://i.imgur.com/7k38Yel.jpg

when i was a kid I thought a condom was something you wore 24/7

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh xp

xp uh oh maybe I've been doing this wrong

lol

take a line of fixed distance (x)

to find out how much space is in a square made out of lines that length, you multiply x by itself; you are turning the line into a square; you are "squaring" it

to find out how much space is in a CUBE with edges that length, the operation required is the familiar one above; you are turning that line into a cube; you are "cubing" it

thus verbing is not the modern American phenomenon everyone says

gleaming the cube is in a more advanced module iirc

What is the diff between gleaming the cube and romancing the stone

danny devito

Calling Fotzepolitic a "old timey" song ;_;

As your bra gets older, graduate towards the inner hooks.

...that the literal/original meaning of the expression "no holds barred" is "with no restrictions on the manner in which you may grasp your wrestling opponent", not "with none of the storage rooms on the ship having been secured against opening".

Its metaphorical usage makes more sense to me now!

Yeah I'd never given that saying any thought either (re the other thread) and I had no idea it had anything to do with wrestling! Here its just used to mean "no limits".

So I wasn't being entirely ridiculous about that expression usage making me laugh.

What did ye think the Hulk Hogan movie was about like

freightage

on a wharf-bound hulk which is nevertheless incredible

That the Los Angeles Lakers didn't change their colors to purple and gold until after they left Minneapolis – which is still home to the purple-and-gold Minnesota Vikings.

And – irony of ironies – those colors really should belong to New Orleans anyway.

Just realized this evening that beyond the fact that he was a classic Love and Rockets character, the band Speedy Ortiz probably chose the name because it sounds very similar to Sadie Dupuis.

The past three posts seem to me to be not very shocking, no matter at what age one learned these things. I wouldn't even be shocked if someone never learned them at all.

nb: I'm not speaking of "no holds barred". I thought everyone knew that phrase referred to wrestling.

tbh it’s got a pretty wide reach for a culture that has an inherent degredarion of wrestling as a spectator activity

no holds barred has me shook tbh

um this is reaaaaaaaally dumb but

i didnt realize that it the first digit of the room number at a large hotel = the floor

like
“you’re in room 415”
fourth floor, room 15

not the 415th room

i said it out loud & mr veg was like dude wut

That is shocking

I didnt realize that it the first digit of the room number at a large hotel = the floor

this is also the case in apartment buildings

nb: I'm not speaking of "no holds barred". I thought everyone knew that phrase referred to wrestling.

What next, "Pulling your punches is from boxing? Woah!"

you might consider what the title of the thread is here.