unperson was a nihilistic teenager.
where did Morbs learn this?
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Friday, 19 April 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
There are some things a son can't hide from his father.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Friday, 19 April 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
"Love Is All Around" is not a Wet Wet Wet original. Oh boy.
― Sky rockets in flight, afternoon D-White (fionnland), Saturday, 27 April 2019 06:00 (five years ago) link
pozidriv and phillips are different things. may explain a number of stripped screw heads over the years.
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Saturday, 4 May 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
i've never even heard of pozidriv but that word looks kinda awesome like it was created for sputnik
― Hunt3r, Sunday, 5 May 2019 04:50 (four years ago) link
That I have aphantasia. 😭
― nathom, Sunday, 5 May 2019 07:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:09 (four years ago) link
Well that woman who feels no pain apparently didn’t figure it out until she was 65
― milkshake chuk (wins), Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:20 (four years ago) link
Aphex Twin - Flim, that's MILF in reverse.
― Ludo, Sunday, 5 May 2019 10:33 (four years ago) link
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.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2019 10:59 (four years ago) link
Especially as Come To Daddy was released two years before the movie American Pie popularised the term.
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Sunday, 5 May 2019 11:08 (four years ago) link
Yeah, wasn't sure when the term first came into common usage.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
Plus I work(ed) with a guy, from Bangladesh, who pronounces 'microfilm' as 'microflim' and it was the first thing I thought of.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2019 11:10 (four years ago) link
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.
― nathom, Sunday, 5 May 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link
I'm 45. So it's a bit late. 😂
― nathom, Sunday, 5 May 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
Flim = phlegm, surely, if we've begun the quixotic task of assigning meanings to Aphex Twin song titles.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Sunday, 5 May 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
He's lost his flam.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0452901249_10.jpg
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 5 May 2019 14:08 (four years ago) link
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.
― kinder, Sunday, 5 May 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
nice!
flim > milf, Aphex ahead of his time again.
:P (ok maybe not)
― Ludo, Monday, 6 May 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
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.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 6 May 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
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
― kinder, Monday, 6 May 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
the colossus of rhodes didn't stand astride the harbour
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 17 May 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
Of course it didn't, otherwise it would've been called the Colossus of Bhridges.
― Blithering Hayseed (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 May 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
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)
― Josefa, Friday, 17 May 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
Relevant to that, I learned recently that Lorena Bobbitt was only 22 when the dick chopping happened.
― Yerac, Friday, 17 May 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
Illeana is the granddaughter of Melvyn.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 May 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
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.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 May 2019 13:19 (four years ago) link
I can use the Alt Gr key to write áéíóú or even ÁÉÍÓÚ - learned today, aged 39.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 May 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
Oh that's cool!
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 May 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
In the song "Pretty in Pink" the "in pink" means naked
― Josefa, Thursday, 23 May 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
wait wutreally?!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 23 May 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
i am truly shockingly old to have realized thati guess i just didn't want it to be true because it's gross and uh not everyone is pink
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 23 May 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
yeah I think I was thrown by the latter point
― Josefa, Thursday, 23 May 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
That turning a gas hob knob fully anticlockwise brings the flame right down without extinguishing it.
― Alba, Thursday, 23 May 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
the existence of gas hob nobs
― mark s, Thursday, 23 May 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
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.
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 23 May 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
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
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 23 May 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
Oh, I knew going in that it was an indefensibly-terrible dad joke. Thank u for recognizing the effort.
― smrater than all of you (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 May 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
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
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, 23 May 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
it's good not bad
― mark s, Thursday, 23 May 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
I've only half accepted that that bit at the end of podcast and radio advertising where the T&C's are read on helium is actually sped up and not performed by a cabal of people who can speak at twice the normal human speed.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 24 May 2019 07:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK5ZjtpO-M
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 May 2019 08:56 (four years ago) link
xp
On a similar note, I learned recently that it's a common thing for people to listen to podcasts on 1.5x or 2x speed to get through them faster.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 24 May 2019 12:04 (four years ago) link
I do this with ploddingly read audiobooks
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 24 May 2019 12:10 (four years ago) link
> listen to podcasts on 1.5x or 2x speed
they also did this with subtitled VHS films in microserfs
― koogs, Friday, 24 May 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
oh there are weirdos out there who do it with TV shows too
― Number None, Friday, 24 May 2019 12:51 (four years ago) link
i only listen to podcasts on 0.5x so i can savour every word
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 24 May 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
networks do this too with syndicated old sitcoms to squeeze more hernia mesh commercials in.
― andrew m., Friday, 24 May 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
haha i listen to podcasts on 1.2x because i don't wanna notice it's sped up, i just wanna trick myself into have like 6 more mminutes a day to listen to a different podcast
― km not doin typos anymore (Will M.), Friday, 24 May 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link