I only just this week found out that a pile of people (in America), supposedly pronounce faux like fox?! The "Faux News" thing is actually supposed to be a pun? wtf
― Manitobiloba (Kim), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
No. No way. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
Also many x-posts - I was thinking about the abortion in DD recently because I watched the shit out of that movie when it came out and I was only 10 but I don't remember not getting any of it. Maybe my bff's older sister filled us in or something. Tbh I was really pretty sheltered so I'm surprised my parents let me watch at all let alone repeatedly.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
The Carpenters' "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" is a cover (of Klaatu).
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
xpost I think I was 9-10 too for DD. I have no clue what I thought was going on. That she had a bad appendectomy?
― Yerac, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
it’s sad day when you realise stonehenge is just some fairly underwhelming rocks sat right up against the junction of two busy highways
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 4:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sort of in keeping with the thread mandate, I thought until sometime within the past year that I'd just been remiss in learning all about the function/historical significance of Stonehenge but it turns out that nobody actually knows for sure what it's all about and my ignorance is shared with the entire rest of the world?
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
i was 12 when DD came out and i am pretty sure i knew she was pregnant and didn't want to be, but i didn't understand what the procedure was.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
i have never heard anyone do this, and i grew up in mississippi and live in arkansas. think it's pretty well understood "faux news" is a visual pun.
― andrew m., Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
count me in on the "no woman no cry" understanding. hey, i may not have a woman but at least that means i don't have to cry because of a broken heart right? count yr blessings.
― andrew m., Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
xp I'm going to tentatively agree on that, although I wouldn't discount the idea that some fox news viewers see the mocking and think it's a verbal pun, too
― mh, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
Cracked keeps doing variants of a listicle like "things you're probably picturing incorrectly," and they usually include Stonehenge and/or the Alamo, showing them from less-photographed angles or from farther away so you can see wow, that's not isolated at all.
I don't remember seeing the Amityville house in its burb context so maybe they've somehow missed that one.
― it's my leopard. (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
my favorite images in that lineage are the pyramids at giza, as seen from the window of the pizza hut that's across the street from the pyramids
― mh, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
The Arby's atop Mt. Rushmore is supposed to be one of the best around.
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
Giza Hut surely
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link
lol
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link
I always thought "Try Glasgow More" was a well-known phrase, like it was the title of some 80s Scottish indie comp or something, but unless google misleads me I learned today that "Try Glasgow More" is the title of the ILX thread about Glasgow, and only that.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
I'd just been remiss in learning all about the function/historical significance of Stonehenge but it turns out that nobody actually knows for sure what it's all about and my ignorance is shared with the entire rest of the world?
in the intro to architecture class i attended someone seriously asked "has it been proved that stonehenge was built by humans?"
― new noise, Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
sometimes I miss having classes with really non sequitur questions like that
― mh, Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
That Glasgow thing is news to me, too. It sounds just like a slogan that a tourism board would come up with and I'd assumed it was.
― Dan I., Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
(Same here)
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link
This was the Glasgow slogan, fwiw...
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/06/32/a9/b9/the-riverside-museum.jpg
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
kilometres, innit
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
Not in the UK.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
I learned just this second that Budgie plays drums on Cut
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 2 March 2018 04:21 (six years ago) link
That the "Gallo Hearty Burgundy" jug wine that was always on our dinner table when I was growing up was not real Burgundy. Nor was the "Gallo Chablis Blanc" actual Chablis.
― Josefa, Friday, 2 March 2018 04:44 (six years ago) link
IIRC actual Chablis is a pretty narrow category but somehow it came to mean "white wine" in general in the North America of the 70s.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 2 March 2018 05:26 (six years ago) link
When I was growing up my mother always used the term "hoi polloi" to refer to elite/rich people. I can only assume she was mixing it up with "hoity toity" or something. So I was probably in my 20s before I learned it meant the opposite.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 2 March 2018 05:28 (six years ago) link
that rules
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 March 2018 05:30 (six years ago) link
My father did the same thing with bourgeois, thinking "middle class" meant low-brow culturally rather than the the non-ruling, upper middle class that it means. Someone once asked him why he didn't go bowling and he said it was too bourgeois.
― nickn, Friday, 2 March 2018 05:46 (six years ago) link
incredible. keep it coming
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 March 2018 05:51 (six years ago) link
I learned just this second that Budgie plays drums on Cuthe’s in the typical girls video!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 2 March 2018 06:45 (six years ago) link
xxp yeah i've heard someone use bourgeois incorrectly like that.
― new noise, Friday, 2 March 2018 06:54 (six years ago) link
chinchilla - my mother made exactly the same mistake, and it was similarly passed on to me
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 March 2018 11:11 (six years ago) link
Chablis, Burgundy, Chianti, Champagne etc all got appropriated by US /wine producers/marketers in the 1970s. The EU finally sorted that mess out but some producers were grandfathered in which is why Korbel can still call itself Champagne.
― Yerac, Friday, 2 March 2018 13:25 (six years ago) link
Hadn't heard of this. I was a little startled when I first heard Americans who rhyme "foyer" with "lawyer", though.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 2 March 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
After reading about Faux News I saw it multiple times in the comments on buzzfeed. But I would imagine they don't pronounce it like "fox"?
― Yerac, Friday, 2 March 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
I have never heard faux pronounced like fox, except maybe when I was a child.
― how's life, Friday, 2 March 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
my experience w/ foyer in USA is that only goons pronounce it in the French manner. People in mcmansions featuring "the great room" (big stupid high-ceilinged living room) will also refer to the "foy-ay"
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 2 March 2018 13:47 (six years ago) link
^this may be a nyc metropolitan area thing
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 2 March 2018 13:49 (six years ago) link
Most of the dishwasher single capsule things do not need the wrapper removed when you put it in the dishwasher. It dissolves!
― Yerac, Friday, 2 March 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
also easier to eat it that way
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 2 March 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
Most of the dishwasher single capsule things do not need the wrapper removed when you put it in the dishwasher.
Except that SOME of them do!! GAH
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 March 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
It's a minefield
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Friday, 2 March 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
Dishwasher pods have changed my life.
― Jeff, Friday, 2 March 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
Mine have a foil wrapper on them like a candy bar or something. I'm pretty sure those don't dissolve.
― how's life, Friday, 2 March 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
You definitely have to remove the wrapper before you eat them, though.
― Simon H., Friday, 2 March 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
Right, just like the stickers on fresh fruit.
― how's life, Friday, 2 March 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
Maybe not:
Do you eat the stickers on your apples, pears, other non-peely fruit? [Started by kkvgz in January 2011, last updated three hours ago by how's life on I Love Everything] 4 new answers POLL results
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 2 March 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
LOL!
Perhaps the faux/fox thing is less common than I was lead to believe - info came to me reading about theatrical faux finishing techniques where a Canadian designer advised not to get confused when working with American artists that might say it that way. So maybe full of shit, but supposedly from a person with decades of experience in the field.
― Manitobiloba (Kim), Friday, 2 March 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link