Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I've mentioned it before, but the class I mentioned had a number of farmboy types who would try to bait the instructor before class about Germany and he'd keep escalating by stating somewhat provocative things in a very matter of fact way. One day, it ended when he said, "Once the German army starts marching, they are unstoppable"

I almost fell out of my chair laughing

life is just a pony farm
can you live this pony farm life

FOI-yur

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 3 March 2018 04:28 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

australians do this, which tbh i thought was a legitimate pronunciation until just now

also there's an entire thread in the transliterated foreign aphorisms thing, it's brilliant

it's legit

“foie gras”

sometimes foyer pronunciation depends upon for whom i'm code switching tbh

foy-er. "aunt" = ant. robot = robutt

ok i'm still in 2008, but i've learnt more from this thread than the last year of life, thanks ilx. i still don't know who the fuck sandy shaw is but at least i get the pun.

courtney act is meant to sound like “caught in the act”, apparently everyone knew that except me

Caught in barn innit

Caught in the barn innit

may i reiterate that hawaii is a SIX HOURS away from california

Idgi how far did you think it was

it's a me, six hours away from California

idk like an hour or two? im not from california

If you said "foy-yay" instead of "foy-er" in Australia you'd get serious side-eye.

xp i thought the distance to hawaii was something like that until i had the chance to visit and discovered just how long it would take.

*to get there.

It's been a long time since i flew to the States but I thought Heathrow to JFK was ab0out 6 hours in the 70s & 80s. So the same duration does seem long for what presumably gets counted as an internal flight.
Maybe it bolsters the idea that Hawaii should be an independent state not part of the U.S. heard taht the move away from Independence wasn't 100% liked by natives.

Its probably more about the distance

Hawaii should build a wall, and send Dog The Bounty Hunter back!

Alaska is five hours from California by air. Don’t get me started on Guam.

the move away from Independence wasn't 100% liked by natives.

Understatement

The German dude who worked with us definitely had a killer deadpan, which he laid the groundwork for by being very serious the rest of the time.

Also he did the thing where having a very good sense of humour doesn't mean that you're actually funny a lot of the time - it means you hit your mark when you try, in contrast to EG one of our other colleague who would bound in like a setter in the brush in the sense that there was a joke somewhere in there, when a lot of the times the joke was just "that sounded a bit gay".

That's a great depiction of contrast, right there

Was slightly mindblown when I discovered this.

The two parts to the word “helicopter” are not “heli” and “copter”, but “helico” meaning spiral, and “pter” meaning one with wings, like pterodactyl.

— Karthik Balakrishnan (@karthikb351) March 5, 2018

Shit

a spiral with wings

beautiful

helicoter

nice - I still get weird looks from fellow biomed research people when I refer to "apo-tosis". The Aussie default is "ay-POP-tosis"

morphology ftw!

Stonehenge, the Alamo, the Amityville House... I discovered today that the railroad trestle on the Murmur album cover isn't exactly in downtown Athens, but it's not exactly out in the middle of nowhere either.

https://i.imgur.com/CIKp3b9.jpg

Granted, that area probably looks a little more populated today than it did in 1980, but still. I always imagined that you'd have to ~~ walk, through the woods ~~ to get there.

it's walking distance from the old church where they were living for a while ... that area is close to downtown, but most of what you see in the photo was undeveloped land in 1980

the trestle itself is half torn down now

When I was there in '94 it still basically looked like the cover but more kudzu. I think there was another (steel) trestle around Athens with "So Central" written on it.

I am 36 and I only learned last week that Tupac Shakur was born and raised in NYC and Baltimore, and didn’t move to Cali til he was almost done with high school. Also he was friends with Biggie up until he made Hit Em Up, which apparently he did just to sell records. It’s kind of blowing my mind to think the California Love guy was actually an East Coaster, and the whole East Coast/West Coast beef started just from dude being a shitty friend

he was also an art school kid

This I had heard, but man it does fit in perfectly with the rest of all that bullshit, huh

a friend of mine had his locker

in his house?

at the art school he went to

the California Love guy

California Love was a Dr Dre solo single that Suge had Pac put a verse on after the fact

I didn’t know that. That was some brilliant marketing.

I've been learning much these last couple weeks, heh

that Americans drop the first "i" in their pronunciation of aluminium. I thought it was just Trump fucking up the English language again until I looked it up. It was an accident that began with an advertising literature typo in 1892.

An American Thing.

TIL that the original Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy theme tune is an Eagles song!

t was an accident that began with an advertising literature typo in 1892.

Not quite true to say it began that way, as aluminum is the original name

we're not dropping the i, we don't have one to drop

the etymology is consistent w/ suffixes for other elements—you wouldn't call it "platinium"!