I've never looked it up either. Here's one I was shockingly old before I learned:
Go out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis. Go by and tell them not to buy Sealtest milk. — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking in Memphis on April 3, 1968
Well. Makes sense now that my grand-dad worked for Sealtest. Anyone want a red milk crate?
― pplains, Friday, 29 March 2019 02:00 (five years ago) link
I only know from elementary school milk cartons which milks were bad in carton form and which were good
and we have one local dairy where the cottage cheese has a distinct taste and some people apparently freeze a bunch of it when they live elsewhere to hoard
― mh, Friday, 29 March 2019 02:16 (five years ago) link
I do recall goldtop milkbottles with cream in the top few inches. Nan's house had those in the 70s, and if you were lucky she'd let you have the cream for your cereal.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 29 March 2019 02:23 (five years ago) link
All milk used to separate like that, to some extent. But they started homogenising milk sometime in the 80s I think so you don't get that now.
― koogs, Friday, 29 March 2019 09:43 (five years ago) link
We get milk delivered weekly from this farm and it is non-homogenised and has a 'creamy top'.
― brain (krakow), Friday, 29 March 2019 10:53 (five years ago) link
creamy tops here too, sometimes you have to shake it for a minute before it will pour, or stick a knife in. or get our 3 year old daughter to stick a spoon in and eat it all.
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Friday, 29 March 2019 12:07 (five years ago) link
fattening her up to eat after Brexit, good plan
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 29 March 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link
My partner tends to scoop off and save the cream separately (in the freezer) for making yoghurt and things with.
― brain (krakow), Friday, 29 March 2019 12:30 (five years ago) link
I somehow read the word 'brain' in your username and somehow substituted it with 'cream' there
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 29 March 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link
Our house was built in 1946, and by the side door, which opens into the kitchen, there is one of these things for the milkman to make deliveries.
― early rejecter, Friday, 29 March 2019 12:42 (five years ago) link
T rex and triceratops had several million years between them. JUst learnt that. Assumed they were contemporary cos that's the way they keep getting shown I thought.
― Stevolende, Friday, 29 March 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
they did co-exist
― Number None, Friday, 29 March 2019 13:37 (five years ago) link
but Stegosaurus was about 80m years earlier
― Number None, Friday, 29 March 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
Reading about dinosaurs as an adult when my kid got way into them was kind of mind blowing, I had no idea that we lived closer in time to some common dinosaurs than they did to each other.
Also I love that Spinosaurus, which I'd never even heard of until two years ago, is like a top- or second-tier dinosaur now, it's like not watching a show for a while and coming back and there's a new character that everyone just accepts as part of the gang.
― joygoat, Friday, 29 March 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
They coexist on my son's pyjamas and that's all the evidence I need
― kinder, Friday, 29 March 2019 16:11 (five years ago) link
Also we say diplodocus differently now apparently
― kinder, Friday, 29 March 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length)
Creme de Krakow
― nickn, Friday, 29 March 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
Catching up on all the new dinosaur information from the last 30 years was one of the fun unexpected side benefits of having kids
― silverfish, Friday, 29 March 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
I mean
My partner tends to scoop off and save the brain separately (in the freezer) for making yoghurt and things with.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 29 March 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
haha, OK, that's different.
― nickn, Friday, 29 March 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
Guys, the zombie craze is so last year.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 March 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
It’s undead
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Friday, 29 March 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
that 'just desserts' is technically incorrect
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 March 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
Brian Glover saw it all cominghttps://youtu.be/oELhhTckIgE
― Alba, Saturday, 30 March 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oELhhTckIgE&feature=youtu.be
Bloody YouTube embeds. Last attempt:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oELhhTckIgE
― Alba, Saturday, 30 March 2019 21:59 (five years ago) link
"use" him eh. Eh eh.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 31 March 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link
the "milkman" delivers his "milk" into my "milk door" at least "once" per "week"
― cheese canopy (map), Sunday, 31 March 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
I wish the milkman would deliver my milk in the morning.
― A man of surgery, to remove the metal pellets from my flesh (Old Lunch), Sunday, 31 March 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link
that the well-known "2 bald guys fighting over a comb" saying was coined by Borges and referred to the Falklands war. Can feel a blackboard duster getting thrown at my head for this piteous confession!
― calzino, Monday, 1 April 2019 08:07 (five years ago) link
Creme de krakow is a cocktail ingredient, right? Curiously, an Alexander would appropriate for me.
Is this where 'brain freeze' comes from?
― brain (krakow), Monday, 1 April 2019 10:09 (five years ago) link
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=11299850% of the mass of human shit is actually bacteria, which just seems a really high % to me, i woulda guessed 10-15% max.
I sorta feel like i shoulda learned that far earlier, it seems like when ppl are tryna tell you why shit is so filthy and risky they’d say like, “CHRIST KID IT’S actually actually 50% GERMS”!
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
That is seriously freaking me out, Hunt3r.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
Forget about feces: microorganisms in and on the human body outnumber actual human cells 10-to-1.
― Piecing together a lost culture from an unearthed Joshua Kadison CD (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
That may be an outdated figure, though. More recent estimates is that we're only about 50/50 human/creepy crawlies.
― Piecing together a lost culture from an unearthed Joshua Kadison CD (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
I suppose that makes sense, giving that in our bodies human cells are vastly outnumbered by those of microorganisms. The greatest good we can do in this world is to shit and shit again, setting those little bastards free of our miserable insides.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
[haha xpost]
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
My perpetual entry itt is 'pretty much anything relating to geography'. I am incredibly shit at remembering where discrete landmasses and territories are in relation to one another so pretty much every idle glance at a map is revelatory, sad to say.
― Piecing together a lost culture from an unearthed Joshua Kadison CD (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
Yeah, little kids get bacterial pink eye more because they don't wash their hands as often. POOP.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
I just learned about the six flags for Six Flags theme parks yesterday.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link
Are there six actual flags? I assumed the first one was at a place called Six Flags, because that's the sort of thing a place might be called, in the US.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
The name "Six Flags" originally referred to the flags of the six different nations that have governed Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States, and the Confederate States of America.
hey I learned something new
― mh, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
dont mess with texas its not actually a thing
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
strangely the CSA is the one i always forget
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
just realized the TC on the minnesota twins cap (probably?) stands for twin cities. my face burns crimson with the angry shame of a fool uncovered
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link
i have watched baseball for like 15 years and even wore that very hat for ~2 and never thought about it
Re the faeces stuff, most people don’t realise that the large intestine is basically a bioreactor which actively maintains a bacterial mix tailored to the kinds of things our own digestive systems are unable to handle. In some ways the stomach and small intestine are pre-processors - they extract the easy stuff from our food, and render the rest into forms that the bacteria can tackle. Without the colon crew we would get significantly less nutrition from our food. It’s even thought that the appendix exists because it’s a seed colony reservoir for the most essential bacteria, in case of e.g. a dysentery sweeping the bowel empty.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 21:18 (five years ago) link
TC stands for "Traverse County", a county about as close to being between North and South Dakota as you can get. It also has the fewest people.
The "Minnesota" Twins just didn't want their smallest member to feel left out! That's how they are up there!
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link
I DONT KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Thursday, 4 April 2019 00:14 (five years ago) link
When they were the Washington Nationals, they also went by the moniker "The Congressionals".
― pplains, Thursday, 4 April 2019 00:17 (five years ago) link