Not sure where I thought it came from but Heineken as a Dutch beer. Just seen a poster linking it to Amsterdam recently.Possibly had linked it to the Scandinavian stuff that tends to be ok.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link
probably
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
there was a jazz club on the street i grew up on, and a hotel where people like, oh idk ella fitzgerald, louis armstrong, and duke ellington stayed. holy crap! i feel like this is something my dad might have told me when i was too young to get it but now i am shockingly old enough and i get it!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
Sir Humphry Davey made a bit of a mess of naming this new element, at first spelling it alumium (this was in 1807) then changing it to aluminum, and finally settling on aluminium in 1812. His classically educated scientific colleagues preferred aluminium right from the start, because it had more of a classical ring, and chimed harmoniously with many other elements whose names ended in -ium, like potassium, sodium, and magnesium, all of which had been named by Davy.
― calzino, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
What do you expect from Humphrey "Davey" Davy
― kinder, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
ha! that erroneous "e" is my doing, the c+p didn't include his surname.
― calzino, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
The correct spelling is with an āeā so
― davey, Saturday, 10 March 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
yankee defensiveness aside, sounding out "aluminium" is more satisfying but can't do that in public w/o it sounding like "punch me"
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 10 March 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
Not sure where I thought it came from but Heineken as a Dutch beer. Just seen a poster linking it to Amsterdam recently.Possibly had linked it to the Scandinavian stuff that tends to be ok.ā Stevolende, Saturday, March 10, 2018 11:13 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Over there, they pronounce it Heinekenium.
― how's life, Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
xp lmao
― flappy bird, Saturday, 10 March 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
punchime
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.
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We don't drop the "i" in pronunciation, we drop it all together and don't spell it with two "i"s at all. It's aluminum here.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 12 March 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
do you savages eat Asda brand beans out of a tin with your bare hands as well? Jokes of course, don't want to dig myself in any deeper here.
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
No, we eat them out of a tn.
― Ape Wipes (Old Lunch), Monday, 12 March 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
Don't know if this exactly belongs here but it only just occurred to me that bars push cocktails because they are higher markup than straight liquor. All the add-ons are much cheaper per ounce than the liquor.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 March 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
yes and no? if there's a lot of markup, sure, but fancy cocktails have significant prep time
just pouring booze in a glass with little or no garnish is pretty economical
― mh, Monday, 12 March 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
yeah I guess that's true
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
Doesn't any cocktail still contain at least one shot of liquor? It seems like it would be even more economical to just push people to drink shots. xp
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
which definitely is a thing
i remember being in my 20s waiting for someone at a very busy bar, and as this was LOL pre-mobile phones i literally had nothing to do other than sit at the end of the bar watching people. this was also when bars generally didn't take cards. the amount of money that i saw being passed over the bar just floored me. hundreds and hundreds of dollars in the space of minutes. i was like man, this is the fuckin racket.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
but the joy man the joy
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
tbh i wanna go back home and run a small pub
That the specials board in a restaurant is mainly leftover food which they need to get rid of.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
I've heard that before (I think it entered widespread consciousness through Kitchen Confidential), yet it often seems to me that there's some fish or meat on the "specials" menu that isn't on the regular menu at all.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
sometimes that's because the wholesaler had leftover meat and offered the restaurant a discount
― mh, Monday, 12 March 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
i remember being in my 20s waiting for someone at a very busy bar, and as this was LOL pre-mobile phones i literally had nothing to do other than sit at the end of the bar watching people.
apparently you were shockingly old when you learned you should never go to a bar without a book to read
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
I was in my late teens before I learned that a movie clapboard was not just for effect or some vestige of "Old Hollywood" but was used to synchronize the sound reels with the film during editing. For some reason, since projected film had a soundtrack on the side, I assumed it was just recorded that way as well.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
super 8 was!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
it was probably 22 before I realized when you pump gas you can put up that little lever to hold the pump in place and let go and let it pump itself until you're done
wasted all that time squeezing the lever
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 March 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
so THAT's why you have one muscular arm
― StanM, Monday, 12 March 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
i still squeeze the pump--I don't trust the little lever.
― piper at the gates of d'awwww (voodoo chili), Monday, 12 March 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
anyone seen these in the uk?
― kinder, Monday, 12 March 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
I think they're even illegal in some states.
― pplains, Monday, 12 March 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
I don't trust the lever thing either. The one time I tried to use it didn't go very well.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 12 March 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
the lever works, trust the lever
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 March 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
lol wait what happened enbb
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 March 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
zoolander
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Monday, 12 March 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
lol I've had it get stuck a few times and pump an extra dollar or so unintentionally
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 March 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
I have never had it fail me, except for one glitchy sensor where it kept popping instantly
if it does fail, that means gas is pouring out the side of the car, right?
― mh, Monday, 12 March 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
lol I think so. I don't think I've ever had it happen though.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 March 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
the lever on a freezing day when you have no gloves or wanna sit in your car > no lever
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 12 March 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link
sometimes I just start the car and start driving before the gas is done pumping
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 March 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link
I have a friend whose scatterbrained mother drove off with the nozzle from the gas pump still attached to her car. Multiple times.
― mh, Monday, 12 March 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
do they charge extra for that
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 March 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
I think you get in some small amount of trouble, but not enough trouble to remember the next time
― mh, Monday, 12 March 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
i have been guilty on a few occasions of wedging gas cap into handle in lieu of lever. I have no illusions that this is safe or anything
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 12 March 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
I was a busdriver in college and one time drove several blocks from the lot with diesel gushing out (cap was not securely on). A car pulled up beside me and started yelling "you're leaking!"
― Yerac, Monday, 12 March 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
and then his car exploded
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 March 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
I didn't know about the little lever until today.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 12 March 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
I have yet to have a problem with the lever. If anything, it usually pops out too soon.
― pplains, Monday, 12 March 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
I usually siphon by mouth tbh
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 March 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link