Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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?

― plax (ico), Friday, 16 March 2018 15:28 (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.

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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

That crazy old Coors Light ad where the guy is practically delirious about "twins" was based on an old country song about little baby ducks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfH2mgOnM-k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk64JluO4CI

Oh, god. I know (and love) the Tom T. Hall song but have thankfully never been subjected to that nightmarish perversion of his song before now.

Evelyn Waugh is male

same :-0

Fun fact: his first wife was called Evelyn, so there was in fact a female Evelyn Waugh

http://www.edinburghspotlight.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/evelynreview.jpg

Only way I've kept that one straight is because I used to work with a guy named Mar10n Waugh.

His wife's name was Janey.

More like Evelyn Wau, amirite.

(I did in fact know about old Evelyn. Do a Google image search for George Eliot if you're interested in further literary surprises.)

When I saw live musical performances on TV, I knew the music was often pre-recorded and that the artists were just lip-singing.

you know that's "lip-syncing", right? :P

I was shockingly old when I realised that the name of the band who did Funkytown was a pun on the above

Well, you don’t say.

According to Wikipedia, friends took to calling the Waughs he-Evelyn and she-Evelyn. Hevelyn and Shevelyn would surely have been better?

make the edit alba DO IT

That it's pronounced Ever-Lin, Not Eeeeev-Lin

Stop spoiling my nicknames.

Where are you getting that from, anyway? All the things I can immediately find on the internet say that with him it was Eve-Lin not Ever-Lin.

(not very authoritative sources, I admit)

these folks seem to agree it's EVE-lin

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p061qw73

Evil Genius with Russell Kane
Writing Brideshead Revisited? Genius. Naming his son Auberon? Evil. And it gets worse... Russell weighs it all up with Jolyon Rubinstein, Ellie White and Sadie Harrison.