Things you were shockingly old when you learned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxl4MGRwjWo

there's a fucking windmill in brixton

The vowel sound that people from France use in "bien", "matin", or "demain" is completely different from the Canadian vowel and closer to the vowel in "un", such that a Parisian "vin" sounds more like "vent" to my ears. Only learned that in the past week.

https://forvo.com/word/matin/#fr
https://forvo.com/word/vin/#fr

That molybdenum is not called/spelled molybendum

Nor does the standard French accent distinguish 'brun' from 'brin'.

xp

whaaaat no

It's a well-documented shift. Unless you live in the South, in which case it's still very much in effect.

Many elevators, especially Otis elevators, ding once when going up and twice when going down, to aid blind users.

one of those things that's just been happening your whole life but you might never consciously register

recently the card readers on the train here changed from just beeping once regardless to beeping once when entering and twice when leaving, and the change made me very confused but I wasn't positive why at first until I confirmed with someone else that it had indeed changed

I only discovered recently that the textured surfaces you get on some pavements is called tactile paving, and it's an aid for the visually impaired.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Tactile_paving%2C_with_obstructions.jpg/220px-Tactile_paving%2C_with_obstructions.jpg

Apart from that one because someone's blocked it.

The first time I ordered a round of drinks in a pub that included a pint of Guinness, I asked for the Guinness last. The barman got shirty with me because I should have asked for the Guinness first because it takes more time to pour from the tap (you have to let it settle or some such). I had no idea.

That's only "shockingly old" if you've never ordered, drunk or seen Guinness before.

(only "seen" is meant to be faintly snarky there! this is totally reasonable not to know if one doesn't order stouts. obv I agree with you that you're a giant dumbass if you do drink Guinness all the time)

how fucking long does it take to order a round of drinks

If you say "Guinness" first, the barperson can start gently pouring that while listening to the rest of your order, let it set while they pour the other drinks, then either deliver a perfectly settled and drinkable beer such that all members of your party can cheers, clink and drink at the same time, or clumsily top up the glass if an erroneous tilt had inadvertently shortchanged you at first.

it's nagl for the barman to have gotten shirty in practice, but the attitude presumably originates from customer-minded consideration and has just degraded over years or during a stressful shift

i just learned that the two-stage pouring of guinness has been unnecessary for decades and still exists only as a marketing ploy.

I'm curious as to where you learned that, and what 'unnecessary' mean there.

it's called the cascade. I would get shirty with bar patrons who would order one drink at a time (out of a 5 drink round or such). It's a lot of extra labor and waste of time to do that so I would try to only take their order if they were completely ready.

The distress call “mayday” = French “m’aidez,” “help me”

xxp from wikipedia:

Before the 1960s, when Guinness adopted the current system of delivery using a nitrogen/carbon dioxide gas mixture, all beer leaving the brewery was cask-conditioned. Casks newly delivered to many small pubs were often nearly unmanageably frothy, but cellar space and rapid turnover demanded that they be put into use before they could sit for long enough to settle down. As a result, a glass would be part filled with the fresh, frothy beer, allowed to stand a minute, and then topped up with beer from a cask that had been pouring longer and had calmed down a bit.[71] With the move to nitrogen gas dispense in the 1960s, it was felt important to keep the two-stage pour ritual in order to bring better consumer acceptance of the modern nitrogen-based delivery. As Guinness has not been cask-conditioned for decades, the two-stage pour has been labeled a marketing ploy that does not actually affect the beer's taste.[72]

Arthur is an aardvark not a mouse

xp it's still necessary to pull a pint of Guinness though!

comes in a keg i thought?

The distress call “mayday” = French “m’aidez,” “help me”

wrong French to boot, it should be aidez-moi

Indeed. But it's actually short for '(venez) m'aider' or '(viens) m'aider'.

That the right and left wing delineation of politics comes from seating arrangements in the French Parliament during the French Revolution.

Americans pronounce 'jaguar' as 'Jagwa' or something

Pretty much, except the 'r' isn't silent (rhotic English and all that).

Jagwaaaar

OK, wow, I just listened to UK and Australian pronunciations of "jaguar" on Forvo. That one I did not know.

many an NFL commentator pronounces it 'jagwire' which I would not recommend

Technically we're all mangling the original Old Tupi pronunciation, so…

OK, wow, I just listened to UK and Australian pronunciations of "jaguar" on Forvo. That one I did not know.

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You're the ones saying it weird, wow

How do you pronounce "guano"

Guay-noh

Jk

trying to figure out how "guitar" fits into this

I play the gee-you-it-are

ah, so that's how Gwar got their name

Guava?

Elvis presley was introduced on TV by Charles Laughton because Ed Sullivan had recently had a nasty car crash.
Just heard that a couple of minutes ago.

That seems like a great set up for the Mandela effect, given how iconic and historically significant Elvis' Sullivan appearances are and that people have vivid reference points for Sullivan intros (Beatles most prominently). I wonder how many people would swear up and down that they distinctly remember Sullivan introducing Elvis' first appearance.

Spent time with my anxiety ridden agoraphobic father in law which means sitting around watching weird classic rock performance from PBS on his dvr.

This taught me that the guy who sang “Hang On Sloopy” was Rick Derringer of “Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo” fame which led to learning that he co-wrote “Real American”, the Hulk Hogan entry song and also played guitar on a bunch of Steely Dan songs as well as “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and Air Supply’s “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All”, produced a bunch of Weird Al albums, used to hang out with Andy Warhol, and is now a right wing nut job.

Elvis presley was introduced on TV by Charles Laughton because Ed Sullivan had recently had a nasty car crash.

When Lennon/McCartney appeared on "The Tonight Show", Joe Garagiola was sitting in for Johnny.

Thread trending towards “trivia nobody cares about at any age”

Funny thing about Joe Garagiola, he grew up across the street from none other than Yogi Berra (who was also a baseball catcher.)

what a Mandela effect is

(It seems like a kind of dumb phenomenon tbh?)