Coati Mundi of Kid Creole & The Coconuts is named after Coatimundi, a South American raccoon.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 October 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
Is there a tribute band called Mission of Myanmar yet?
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 1 October 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
this flag:
https://www.theflagshop.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/h/a/hawaii-flag-std.jpg
― koogs, Monday, 1 October 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
I thought suede was synthetic leather until a suspicion popped into my head while I was listening to the new Suede album a few days ago
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Monday, 1 October 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
[Bloodsports is] a very Suede title. Typically evocative and strangely perverse. Tell me how it came about and what it means?Brett Anderson: It's about lust, chase, the endless carnal game of love. The title came up very early. It was almost the first thing and it seemed to sum up in a cheeky, cynical way the game of love, the bloody game of love. It's not to be taken literally. I'm not a barbarian. I don't go foxhunting or badger baiting. I was slightly worried that people might assume it was pro-bloodsports but obviously it's a metaphor. I'm still vegetarian.
Brett Anderson: It's about lust, chase, the endless carnal game of love. The title came up very early. It was almost the first thing and it seemed to sum up in a cheeky, cynical way the game of love, the bloody game of love. It's not to be taken literally. I'm not a barbarian. I don't go foxhunting or badger baiting. I was slightly worried that people might assume it was pro-bloodsports but obviously it's a metaphor. I'm still vegetarian.
https://i.imgur.com/WMFZDy4.png
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Monday, 1 October 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
Via the Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you thread...
I never noticed that Bros were so named because they were brothers. I just thought the name was a meaningless random syllable.
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 09:23 (five years ago) link
Oh for the days when bros was a meaningless random syllable.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 11:25 (five years ago) link
wondering whether the pronunciation of that band name may have drifted from the original rhymes-with-toss to rhymes-with-toes, ie seen as more of a plural of "bro" than shortening of "brothers"?
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
No.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
Thanks!
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
ONe of them went onto an acting career, played things like the upstart prince in Hellboy II
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
& oh yeah it's Matt & Luke Goss so the surname rhymes with the bandname. Did it originally derive from Moss Bros the men's outfitters who were one letter away from the family name?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
I think it derived from the fact that their surname was Goss and they were bros
― Number None, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
I think Moss Bros was a fixture of most high streets at one point.& I'm seeing that people are wondering about the pronunciation.
Would recognise they were brothers but not sure if bros(s) is an immediate formulation you get to as anything other than a total abstraction without there being a cultural signifier which was around. So can see them seeing Moss bros and thinking of themselves as the Goss Bros otherwise would think they would have the other pronunciation.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
smh at the Stalinists itt erasing Ken
― Stab my hinge, get hit (sic), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
I think they called themselves Gloss before they became Bros.
― Tim, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
That 'cockpit' originally referred to a space reserved for cockfighting and was adapted to denote the area of a ship where injured crewmen were taken (and which was often a bloody mess, resembling its linguistic forebear).
― Mummenschanz in a Metal Mood (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-operative_Party
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 October 2018 09:12 (five years ago) link
^ third biggest party in British politics
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 October 2018 09:13 (five years ago) link
https://twitter.com/i/status/1050819794285580289
real size of countries distorted by Mercator projection. wtf, this should have been covered in first form geography!
― calzino, Saturday, 13 October 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
This video shows the size bias caused by the (very common) Mercator projection of the entire planet. #gistribe #gis #maps. From https://t.co/sFvqaFOmSR pic.twitter.com/fdnNRjuoOD— Guillaume Larocque (@GuillaumeLarocq) October 12, 2018
― calzino, Saturday, 13 October 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
Susi Grant isn't an Irish teacher.Only found that out today
― Stevolende, Saturday, 13 October 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
I *knew* Russia couldn't be that big!!tiny losers
― kinder, Saturday, 13 October 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
they are taking the piss tbf!
― calzino, Saturday, 13 October 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
I don't mind Greenland doing it.
― calzino, Saturday, 13 October 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
Bob Grant got his dick cast by Cynthia Plaster (????????)
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 October 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
THis Bob Grant?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Grant_(actor)
― Stevolende, Monday, 15 October 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
No the conservative talk radio host
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 October 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
I finally remembered to look up what double parking means today (parking beside a parked car in a traffic lane, not taking up two parking spots)
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Friday, 19 October 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3229/2451075678_5edbe06e95_z.jpg
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Friday, 19 October 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
Jefferson Airplane was the US West Coast Fairport ConventionFairport Convention was the English Jefferson Airplane
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 19 October 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
I went to an exhibition of her collection of casts many years ago, and Bob Grant's was there.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 19 October 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
The pronunciation of the word "gazebo," which I thought was pronounced "gays-bow" until at least the 8th grade.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Friday, 19 October 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
Sympathetic lol. If I had a nickel for every word in my vocabulary whose pronunciation I had to learn the hard way...
― Extra Shprankles (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 October 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
I read 'determined' as 'deter-minded' when I was a kid.
Found out yesterday that Cartesian geometry was named after Descartes...
― koogs, Friday, 19 October 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
recently I had the blinding insight that Pekinese dogs were named for Peking/Beijing
― Brad C., Friday, 19 October 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
oh i thought that said "weren't named for" for a second and had a heart flutter
― macropuente (map), Friday, 19 October 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
i was shockingly old when i really thought about why people mispronounce words. it’s because they learned them by reading, and that is cool, not dumb. if you grow up in a place with no gazebos or people talking about gazebos then of course you pronounce it gaze-bo, because the actual pronunciation makes no sense.
still kinda bitter about my parents laughing when a wee me brought up the ancient greek philosopher So Crates
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 October 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
that is otm
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Friday, 19 October 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
xp So Crates, the mentor of Play-Doh
― Brad C., Friday, 19 October 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
Aris-Toddles
― Ludo, Saturday, 20 October 2018 10:39 (five years ago) link
Epic Wheatus?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 20 October 2018 11:01 (five years ago) link
I think I was lucky enough to never have to say the words epi-tome and hyper-bowl before learning how they were actually pronounced, but I did think they were pronounced that way
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 20 October 2018 11:10 (five years ago) link
lolThis is the thread we tend to use for youthful misreadings of words not heard aloud, yes? I was thinking the other day about how when I was a kid I always used to read the word bedraggled as “bed-raggled”, which made sense to me as it meant looking like you’d just got out of bed
― coetzee.cx (wins), Saturday, 20 October 2018 12:26 (five years ago) link
I surely mentioned 'froot-eye-on' (aka 'fruition') itt. Surely I did.
― Extra Shprankles (Old Lunch), Saturday, 20 October 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
When I was a kid I would get puzzled by the use of the past participle of the unfamiliar verb “infrare”
― coetzee.cx (wins), Saturday, 20 October 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
Neneh (Cherry) is pronounced Neh-neh not Nayner.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 20 October 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
Barfly was my favorite of this particular type of misunderstanding
I would go to the video store and wonder would you call a movie Barfly? Is it about barf?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 20 October 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
it's a syllable boundary mistake more often than not
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 20 October 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
I just realised that the cover of Bowie's Tonight is a nod to Gilbert & George, duh x infnity
― MaresNest, Saturday, 20 October 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link