Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I often look back on my callow youth, and when I do a smile flits across my now mature but pitted face. I hardly recognize the naïve boy I once was. To think that I once believed that Evelyn Waugh was a woman! Of course now, with a couple of ‘O’ levels under my belt, I am far more sophisticated and I know that Evelyn Waugh, should he be alive today, would be very, indeed, dead proud of his daughter, Auberon; because of course Evelyn is the father of Auberon and not, as I once thought, the mother.

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Where's sic when you really need a factcheck

I briefly considered Auberon/ Oberon for my son's name! I had to ditch it bc I kept thinking of that Oberyn Martell scene on GoT.

actually I also had Evelyn as a potential girls' name... huh

Joan Bakewell says it Eve-lin and that's good enough for me:

https://youtu.be/UvtjUt0GzKg

omg @ how she says "waugh" - it is a monument to an entire way of being

laughter
slaughter
Waugh-ter

guys guys I'm pretty sure it's pronounced evil-lyn
thats my he-man joke I'm here all week you're welcome

as I've gotten older, I have learned that being young sucks, nobody lets you do anything and your brain doesn't work good

I didn't start getting my shit together til age 28

There is no scientific or medical word for boogers.

No fuckin way

xpost My grandmother's name was Evelyn. We pronounced it with second syllable short i. The british way sounds nicer.

That Mark Knopfler played guitar on Rod Stewart's "Young Turks." I just learned that yesterday.

i realized that wolfgang voigt aka gas was mike ink in burger/ink ...... last week.

Huh, I had no idea!

I for one am shocked that you guys didn't learn that in elementary school.

Fine. How about my "booger" nugget?

I only learned that when I read your post tbh.

Previous internet discussions of that seem to do a lot of hair-splitting between mucus and boogers.

To not trust anyone (for the most part)

booger nugget

i've never seen a single picture of any member of the band slade until about 5 minutes ago when i did a youtube search for them. interesting

I had to search, and huh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rftnB33goIg

I only knew their looks from that Runaway video.

Haha, yeah, I watched a bunch of Slade and other glam videos a few months back when I was reading Reynolds' Shock and Awe. I had also only known them from the "Runaway" video, which was a good example of younger me being totally baffled as to why these oddball bands woukd have videos on MTV, not at all realizing that they had careers prior to the 80s.

Slade definitely had a style going on back in the day. Noddy Holder was quite the character. I like his shtick and sartorial panache.

Well I’ve just learned that there’s a band called Slade. What’s interesting about what they look like?

Hi

http://artist1.cdn107.com/b80/b807d2dc47c76ed1f73fe5ac6423875f_lg.jpg

Gosh!

i remember being out on the playground in 3rd or 4th grade and noticing it get light and dark and light again and thinking it was super weird. i don't think i made the connection that clouds would move and block the sun until i was maybe 7, lol. i know that's not SHOCKINGLY old but i remember being embarrassed that i didn't realize it earlier.

Silby, does that mean that you've only heard Quiet Riot's version of "Cum on Feel the Noize"?

Or "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" for that matter?

I’m not trying to be faux-naïf or smug here but I have never heard of any of those things.

I actually am a little shocked by that.

I’m, like, 12 or something.

I haven’t heard of most music, or even most things, I really shouldn’t bring it up. Glad I did though in this case because that’s a good picture of some fun looking fellows

The Quiet Riot videos were huge hits when I was a kid as was that "Runaway" video. You should look up Slade on YouTube, lots of joyful nonsense.

This is like that one time a guy I work with who is younger than me says hes only ever seen about 2 simpsons episodes in his life.

(sorry Silby not having a go! ;P)

I’m also unfamiliar with plenty of things my immediate contemporaries consider famous and I’ve stopped looking at Twitter so I’m unlikely to hear about anything new for the rest of my life. It’s not that I prize being ignorant or oblivious it’s just sort of worked out that way.

Being Australian I get that a lot with ILX and other places esp with politics.

i have definitely reached the age where i don't know what's going on (except for slade)

there are other earlier examples but i feel like the line may have been entirely crossed with 'hamilton'

Slade were a staple of the English charts for most of the 70s. Their Christmas single still gets played every Christmas, probably the best loved Xmas single there is here.

And if you think glam Slade is weird looking, check out the early skinhead phase.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/SladeSkinheads1969.jpg/170px-SladeSkinheads1969.jpg

hot

How winches on cars were used. I always thought they were for towing things, but could never figure out why they were mounted in the front. One explanation I came up with was that if you needed your own vehicle to be towed you'd attach it to the towing car in front of you (this suggested you'd know you car was likely to need towing). I also considered you might need to tow something very carefully, and you'd want to be able to watch it as you proceeded, so you'd go backward while pulling it.

Finally I saw the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy and there's a scene where a Land Rover gets stuck and the driver attaches it to a tree in front of him to pull himself out (to comic effect), and it clicked that it's used to get your *own* vehicle out of the mud when you're out in the wilderness by yourself. Duh.

The Slade Skinhead thing was imposed on them by the management. It was bandwagon jumping on a style that was more interested in jamaican sounds like rocksteady and very early reggae. I don't think the band went anywhere near those sounds. BUt thinking about it now you could possibly see them asa precursor to Oi.

There is a really good video of them live in the studio a couple of years later where they rock with a great deal of oomph. Way better than their teenybop image would suggest.

LOL Americans

the idea of someone on this board not knowing who Slade are is amazing to me. I guess they had no transatlantic appeal at all then?

if you wanna hear something great, listen to the live version of 'Get Down And Get With It' from Slade Alive.

Vine previously played League football for Portsmouth, Brentford, Colchester United, Luton Town, Birmingham City, Queens Park Rangers (QPR), Hull City, Milton Keynes Dons, Exeter City, Gillingham, St Johnstone, Hibernian and Greenock Morton, and non-league football for Welling United, Havant & Waterlooville, Gosport Borough (two spells), Basingstoke Town, Southall, Hayes & Yeading and Hartley Wintney.

Been around the block, it's fair to say.