Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Meanwhile Promises Promises, while NOT a cover version, is the most blatant ABC pastiche imaginable.

holy cow at Ray of Light

I've never even heard of Naked Eyes

Ditto.

unperson was a nihilistic teenager.

I didn't know that Toni Basil's "Mickey" and Blondie's "Hanging On The Telephone" were covers up until a couple of years ago ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

not sure if this is common knowledge but 'it's oh so quiet' is a cover. I was shockingly young when I learned this, though, as I heard the original when I was on a French exchange just before the Bjork one came out, and got a bit confused by it sounding so different in different countries

pretty shocked I didn't know about Ray of Light until now though

What i hate are people who post demo/scratch recordings of a song a songwriter was shopping around and not a real release (ie Robert Hazard "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun") and go BETCHA YOU DIDN'T KNOW THIS WAS A COVER?

I have news for y'all about "Red Red Wine"

now do the other 53 songs from the four Labour Of Love records

The revelation of most of these songs as covers is news to me, tbh. How many original songs are there, anyway? Twelve?

unperson was a nihilistic teenager.

where did Morbs learn this?

There are some things a son can't hide from his father.

"Love Is All Around" is not a Wet Wet Wet original. Oh boy.

pozidriv and phillips are different things. may explain a number of stripped screw heads over the years.

i've never even heard of pozidriv but that word looks kinda awesome like it was created for sputnik

That I have aphantasia. 😭

Aphantasia must be weird and limiting. Would be interested in finding out how old you are on discovering it. & how you'd avoided hearing things like using your mind's eye or imagination or whatever. Or what you would take something like that to mean if you didn't have the facility.

Have also heard of visual agnosia where people's vision only processes in black and white and they are not aware of it.
Not sure how you translate from one epistemology to another and therefore approach something like that in a way that would highlight it.

Also does everybody with synaesthesia assume that everybody else experiences things in exactly the same way they do until its pointed out that other people's sense experiences are more atomistic.

Well that woman who feels no pain apparently didn’t figure it out until she was 65

Aphex Twin - Flim, that's MILF in reverse.

Flim is MILF in reverse but who's to say that's got anything to do with the Aphex Twin track? A misspelling or mispronunciation of 'film' seems more likely.

Especially as Come To Daddy was released two years before the movie American Pie popularised the term.

Yeah, wasn't sure when the term first came into common usage.

Plus I work(ed) with a guy, from Bangladesh, who pronounces 'microfilm' as 'microflim' and it was the first thing I thought of.

It never really crossed my mind until I heard it mentioned. I realized I could never do a witness statement but it didn't seem like it was bec I had this condition. I do dream vividly but to voluntary conjure up a mental image: nope.

I'm 45. So it's a bit late. 😂

Flim = phlegm, surely, if we've begun the quixotic task of assigning meanings to Aphex Twin song titles.

He's lost his flam.

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I have synaesthesia but never really realised I had it until I learned about it. I'd heard other people (my mum included) say things like 'Wednesdays are yellow;' which, although incorrect (they're green), I assumed meant everyone experienced letters/words as having some sort of inbuilt colour or quality. Just as no-one really says out loud 'that music sounds sharp and stabby', we all assume we all think that.

For me, symbols like !"% don't have a colour so I sort of use that as a mental example of how other people see letters/numbers without any additional colour.

nice!

flim > milf, Aphex ahead of his time again.

:P (ok maybe not)

Huh kinder! Weird and interesting!

You ever so slightly reminded me that I used to have assigned genders/ages/personalities for letters and numbers--like a clear sense that 4 is feminine and 5 is masculine. That was as a kid and I guess I forgot about it later on.

do you think you would still assign then the same? That's basically how they test for synaesthesia afaik - if it's consistent months/years later

the colossus of rhodes didn't stand astride the harbour

Of course it didn't, otherwise it would've been called the Colossus of Bhridges.

Lizzie Borden was not an underage girl at the time of the murders. She was 32.

(Secondary realization: Lizzie was her given name, not Elizabeth)

Relevant to that, I learned recently that Lorena Bobbitt was only 22 when the dick chopping happened.

Illeana is the granddaughter of Melvyn.

xpost I was old enough to be fully aware of both cases as they were happening but it still takes conscious effort for me to remember that John Bobbitt and Joey Buttafuoco are two different people.

I can use the Alt Gr key to write áéíóú or even ÁÉÍÓÚ - learned today, aged 39.

Oh that's cool!

In the song "Pretty in Pink" the "in pink" means naked

wait wut
really?!

i am truly shockingly old to have realized that
i guess i just didn't want it to be true because it's gross and uh not everyone is pink

yeah I think I was thrown by the latter point

That turning a gas hob knob fully anticlockwise brings the flame right down without extinguishing it.

the existence of gas hob nobs

Colossus of Bhridges

I just got this terrible* dad joke now that I am 6 days older than when I first read it

* I say this lovingly

also re Flim/MILF, a couple of years before Flim and maybe 5 before American Pie I decided I liked a band called Milf and wrote their name on my school science folder. So I hope nobody knew the acronym them, and I also hope the band was named after something else tbh.

The stupidest part is I'm not even sure I'd heard the band or if I'd just read a review that sounded cool and decided I should like them. Hey, I was 14, but perhaps this is why normal people don't performatively pretend to like things they don't know anything about? Fairly sure I learned that lesson unusually late in life too.

also I was like 30 when someone showed me the gas hob thing after many years of accidentally turning the hob off in the middle of something. yeah, it's v useful

Oh, I knew going in that it was an indefensibly-terrible dad joke. Thank u for recognizing the effort.

Hey, I was 14, but perhaps this is why normal people don't performatively pretend to like things they don't know anything about? Fairly sure I learned that lesson unusually late in life too.

― a passing spacecadet

I think everyone does this as a teenager as do many adults