Things you were shockingly old when you learned

It's a good time to clean out accumulated trash from the week.

pplains, I want you to know I have submitted your name in nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize on the basis of that story.

I was surpised the other day that I had gone this far in my life without knowing the word "defenestration".

Obviously not a student of the Thirty Years War.

Thanks, Phil. I mean, I did put out my cigarette first!

pplains was who that guy in The Birds was modeled after

orange mocha frappuccino while you waited, I hope

All these petril stories are greek to me tbh #neverdroveneverwill

i think i was 10 or 11 so not that old but i recall being confused by the expression "nuff said" thinking "who's nuff?"

"if so many people die at Gunpoint why do people continue to go there?"

IDK if "life lessons" are apt for this thread, but the fact that mocking others for "overcompensating" is often itself a sign of insecurity combined with laziness.

largely agree but hit us with some examples

I guess this came up for me in the context of having discovered relatively late that I really like lifting and that it does a lot for my mental and physical health and self-confidence. I had grown up with the received idea that anyone who lifted weights was "overcompensating" for something. But that kind of thinking was largely an excuse for me to not make self-improvement effort, and I imagine the same is true of a lot of the people who say that sort of thing.

What about mocking people for driving big honking pickup trucks?

yeah that's a good one. understandable as it's so connected to jock / bro culture in my mind. there's also the old "overcompensating for **something**" re: cars as tired dick joke. but yea it's such a lazy & easy thing to say, w/r/t fashion, even in casual conversation / arguments.

xp ha! yes. that one

that joke is just way past its sell by date

you might almost say it's overcompensating for something

i think i was 10 or 11 so not that old but i recall being confused by the expression "nuff said" thinking "who's nuff?"

Ha that just reminded me of when I was a young kid (maybe 10?) in school, a friend did the Bewitched thing where she said "witches honor!" and put her fingers either side of her nose. Somehow, I thought she'd said 'which is honor?" and I looked at her fingers, poked one and replied "that one!". Much to her confusion and weird expression.

"if so many people die at Gunpoint why do people continue to go there?"

Thousands of jobs in Jeopardy!

That so many of you didn't understand how pumping gas works is the most ilx thing ever

doesn't it just go in the trunk and kind of slosh around in there?

I'm no mechanic but yes I believe that is correct.

also perhaps lots of Jersey ilxors

The other day the auto-shutoff thing on my gas pump failed and gasoline briefly spilled forth from the pump/my tank. It was relatively innocuous and yet irrationally disturbing.

did a gas station employee with a cigarette on his lip come running out sayin "whatdafuckayadoin?" and slip in the pool of gasoline?

Who is this dimwit Frederick b?

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ahahahaha

I'm not a musician so I will inevitably mess up what I'm trying to describe, but I was shockingly old when I learned that Blues Traveller's 'Hook' is built around an arrangement(???) of Pachelbel's Canon.

I was in my mid-20s before I realized that kiwis aren't supposed to produce a tingling sensation in your mouth when you eat them. That only happens to me because I am mildly allergic to them.

Hmmm, I thought the tingling sensation is because they are pretty acidic?

there is a building in central london that until two years ago had banned all kiwi fruit anywhere in it, because someone, who did not want to be named, was apparently so allergic to them that he would have health problems if he was present in the building at the same time as a kiwi was

i was in my mid-20s before i realized that kiwis are better with the skin on fwiw

The new Ricky Gervais on netflix kind of has a funny bit about not getting his nuts in first class because of a women being allergic to nuts.

Hmmm, I am going to have to try the skin on kiwi. I never knew this was a thing. I do eat shrimp with the shell on if they are tender enough.

try it. you will not go back!

new Ricky Gervais on netflix kind of has a funny bit

seems unlikely, even with qualifier

just listening to a report on recent sexual abuse cases and the marginalisation of the Sami people in N Norway. I honestly didn't realise there were indigenous peoples in Norway.

I didn't realise they were Finno-Ugric (like Finns, Estonians and Hungarians) rather than Eskimo-Aleut until just now. (Not that this will shock anyone)

there is sami-language radio!

Such a shame that no one remembers the great Finno-Ugric entertainer Sami Davis Jr.

I didn't realise they were Finno-Ugric (like Finns, Estonians and Hungarians) rather than Eskimo-Aleut until just now. (Not that this will shock anyone)

Well, you do get them in Finland after all.

Though I thought they were mostly in Finland, but they are mostly in Norway, though I suppose the topmost part of Scandinavia is in Norway.

Xp yeah, but most of Scandinavia is not Finland, and the Finns came from a later migration it seems.

I went through the same kind of culture shock a few years ago: finland

I mean, on one hand, I feel kinda funny mocking indigenous people.

But on the other hand,

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

tbf slightly fair to the non-Sami Norwegians, they have been in Norway since 3000 BC, it's not quite a white settlers/ Native American sorta thing.

http://i.imgur.com/stpZV75.gif

You see, this is what you get with De la Rue - state of the art e-passports.

Soviet police memo to help determine one's national origin. pic.twitter.com/bAwy6WmF1p

— Soviet Visuals (@sovietvisuals) May 21, 2016

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71upBhWPBFL._SY450_.jpg

i like a good ancient culture and their various art things but the last couple of years have thrown up a couple that i knew nothing about

Today it was these things (stone spheres of costa rica):
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=costa+rica+spheres&tbm=isch

Last year it was these things (Sanxingdui masks):
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sanxingdui&tbm=isch