Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0452901249_10.jpg

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

it's good not bad

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK5ZjtpO-M

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.

I do this with ploddingly read audiobooks

> listen to podcasts on 1.5x or 2x speed

they also did this with subtitled VHS films in microserfs

oh there are weirdos out there who do it with TV shows too

i only listen to podcasts on 0.5x so i can savour every word

oh there are weirdos out there who do it with TV shows too

networks do this too with syndicated old sitcoms to squeeze more hernia mesh commercials in.

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

oh there are weirdos out there who do it with TV shows too

Hey Duggee at 1.3x speed is the best show on iplayer fyi

I listened to a German audiobook at 0.9 speed and felt only 0.81 times as stupid as I did when completely failing to understand it at 1.0

You can also change the play speed of the clips on porn sites for a more efficient wank. I’ve heard.

Lifehack!

I listen to podcasts at 2x speed. They need to invent a player that automatically identifies music and goes to 1x for that because manual adjusting is not fun when I’m listening through the desert island discs archive.

I also can’t tell anymore if Marc Maron actually normally sounds a bit slow in 1x real life or if it’s just me being used to listening to him like he’s taken a line or two before the show.

Marlon Brando had no Italian ancestry and was in fact *German! The surname Brando being derived from Brandau!

(*in the American sense)

I bet plenty of those O'Malley's are derived from Mallenstein as well. it reminds me of the indisputably Jewish James Caan winning some Italian-American of the year award once iirc.

With an estimated size of approximately 44 million in 2016, German Americans are the largest of the self-reported ancestry groups by the US Census Bureau in its American Community Survey.

... and that's just the self-reported ones. My dad, who had a dislike of Americans, apart from John F. Kennedy, was always saying they're just Germans really.

He had a lot of strange notions though.

Needless to say he disliked Germans too but his attitude towards them softened somewhat when he went to work there for a while and realized how many of them were Catholics.