(My less hyperbolic take is that it's a new Christmas Tradition®. Like if you had to pay a licensing fee every time you referenced Santa.)
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
I don't generally tend to believe in conspiracy theories but I can only imagine that the elf on the shelf thing is intentionally designed to normalize the surveillance state in which the kids of today will live as adults
― silverfish, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
they should build nanny cams into them - two birds, one stone. or something.
― koogs, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
If you really want to open all three eyes and glimpse evil, there's this thread: Bah Humbug - The Elf on the Shelf
― ✈️✈️ (pplains), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
It took effing Masterchef to make me realise last week we name all pasta (one pasto?) by the plural.
One strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto.
Just like a gnocco, a macarono, a farfallo, a fusillo, a linguino, a fucking raviolo.
I had no idea.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
nb the singular of farfalle is farfalla
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
What is the singular of 'spaghetti-o'
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
lolstuck one feather in his hat and called it macarono
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
Yes! :D I had no idea. Prob because I don't usually dine at Michelin-star restaurants, but they were cooking up a starter called a "raviolo". It was, indeed, one raviolo.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
i also had no idea
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
Am hoping the raviolo was at least twice the normal size
― koogs, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
Speaking of Michelin ratings, I was shockingly old when I was disabused of the notion that Michelin in this context must assuredly refer some refined gentleman gourmand whose familiar surname is simply a coincidence but no it actually does refer to the company whose mascot is a cartoon dude made out of tires.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
Raviolo have been messing me up my entire life. I never knew this.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
And don't get me started on panini...
― nickn, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
paninis
― wmlynch, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
I always thought raviolo was some hybrid of diavolo meaning the raviolo was bigger and filled with yolk because of some italian superstition that I made up in my head.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
― koogs, Tuesday, December 18, 2018 8:27 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It wasn't ;_;
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
> mascot is a cartoon dude made out of tires.
cartoon dude has a name (and a restaurant named after him) :
https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/restaurants/bibendum
― koogs, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
I tell people about this restaurant with the michelin man stained glass and no one ever believes me.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
These days, my default assumption is that if it's almost parodically absurd it's probably also true.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
I passed on it my way to work every day for 4 months. The first however many times it came up in conversation, I always doubted myself that it was a dream I had.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
https://static.businessinsider.com/image/52a8abf36da8116a1f21f3d5-750.jpg
― Number None, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
why would somebody that's MADE OUT OF TIRES ride a bike
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 23:09 (five years ago) link
That entire building is a delight.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
it's by the museums iirc, south ken tube station. have never been inside.
― koogs, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
Yeah S Kensington tube stop, walking towards Draycott.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
i have just realised that the michelin man is not the same as the stay puft marshmallow man
now i mean of course i *knew* this. im sayin i have only just realised it.
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
Add in the Pillsbury Doughboy for a complete xxx puffshow.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link
i think i was late enough in life before exposure there that ive never had the same deep set issues
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 00:48 (five years ago) link
he's having an identity crisis
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:55 (five years ago) link
Saves wear and tear on the body.
― nickn, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:58 (five years ago) link
Maybe he's found his groove.
― ✈️✈️ (pplains), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 12:28 (five years ago) link
Useful if you fall off tbf.
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
Just died @ the visual image of the Michelin Man falling off his bicycle while riding up a steep hill and bouncing all the way down.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
You may laugh but it makes sense.
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
Now I'm laughing even harder imagining after every impact with the road that the Michelin Man mutters sagely to himself, 'this makes sense, it just makes sense'.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 13:51 (five years ago) link
That Judith Kerr's late husband was Nigel Kneale, therefore the dad in the Mog books is the creator of Quatermass and The Pit and The Stone Tape, therefore hidden somewhere beneath the charming depiction of 1970s suburban life is a race memory of being enslaved by Martians.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
cartoon dude has a name (and a restaurant named after him) : https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/restaurants/bibendum
the Michelin Man is called "that which must be drunk" in Latin? this is getting stranger and stranger
(ah: https://www.logodesignlove.com/bibendum-michelin-man )
I am prob pointing out the well-known here but it's not on either of those pages so I'll stumble on: iirc the idea of the Michelin guides was because bicycles and later cars opened up greater possibilities to find yourself in an unknown town looking for somewhere good to eat/sleep, so that's the tie-in with rating restaurants and hotels - originally the restaurant/hotel ratings were quite a small part of a general road travellers' guide full of maps, petrol station + mechanic listings, basic repair instructions, etc, but they took on a life of their own
good Mog/Quatermass fact, a crossover v much up my street
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
I recently learned two fun facts involving elephants:1) They have un-descended testicles (inside their body, up by the kidneys rather than outside in a scrotum)2) hyraxes, those little ugly ground-dwelling things, are more closely related to elephants and manatees than to rodents.
I feel like I should have known the elephant nuts thing before now.
― Dan I., Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
Why didn't anyone tell me about the elephant nuts thing!?
― Dan I., Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
The prophecy says you don’t need to know it for another week.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
I can still remember the day when my parents sat me down and told me about elephant nuts...
― nickn, Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
I also can still remember last Tuesday
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
god, I can't
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
Intersting information about elephant testes but this still doesn't explain why their penises are on the front of their bodies.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
isn't yours?
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
lol
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
Touche, my friend. Touche.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
Today I learned that human fingers don't have muscles in them. (They're operated by tendons linked to muscles in your hand.)
― Anne Frankenstein (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 December 2018 03:03 (five years ago) link
Arent the muscles in the forearm really?
― Hunt3r, Friday, 21 December 2018 04:25 (five years ago) link