Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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Do we know that woman's not six inches tall?

Josefa, Saturday, 31 August 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link

absolute unit

lowkey goatsed on the styx (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 31 August 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link

Yes David, taking after the architecture of the Disney Parks, employs forced perspective to make him seem bigger than he is. If you get what I'm saying. When I say 'bigger' I mean. I'm talking about his ding dong.

Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Saturday, 31 August 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link

Mine's bigger

FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Saturday, 31 August 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link

And doesn't break off

FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Saturday, 31 August 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link

just cuz it hasn’t yet doesn’t mean it won’t

lowkey goatsed on the styx (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 31 August 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link

I thought the Greeks had a thing about small being beautiful when it came to that.

Stevolende, Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link

In all these British spy/thriller shows, they are not calling the women in authority 'mom', 'mum' or 'marm'. I found this out last night while watching The Bodyguard with closed captioning on.

Yerac, Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link

yeah there's a very soft d ;-)

Stevolende, Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link

I heard ur mum likes very soft

FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link

all your moms and dads likes the very soft d.

Yerac, Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link

So soft it's non-existent though?

Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link

Well it's normally spelt 30th an apostrophe to show where it was. So progressively soft over time. Until it's more conspicuous by its absence but thats what it was.
French, like.

Stevolende, Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link

In all these British spy/thriller shows, they are not calling the women in authority 'mom', 'mum' or 'marm'. I found this out last night while watching The Bodyguard with closed captioning on.

Wait, I'm confused - you have "ma'am" in the US, yeah? So you didn't realise our "ma'am" was the same word?

kinder, Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link

xp- that was normally spelt with an apostrophe until my autocorrect got to it

Stevolende, Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link

Throw Maugham into the mix

Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link

ma'am like slam. I thought calling women "mum/mom" was a british thing like mami.

Yerac, Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link

and Rob Stark is very heavyhanded with all the "yes, mom" in The Bodyguard.

Yerac, Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link

i was wondering when Kevin Costner would ever say "ma'am" in an English accent

Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link

wait til you hear what arse means

kinder, Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link

I worked at a bar in London for 6 months and whenever anyone would say "you all right" i would do a total paranoid "yes, why, what have you heard, is something wrong?"

Yerac, Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link

I've been in the UK for a year now and it still feels that way tbh.

pomenitul, Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link

That Golgotha and Calvary were the same thing. I thought Golgotha consisted of residue from dying bodies on Calvary.
Does somebody in another media use Golgotha asa monster somewhere? Comic or Anne Rice or someone?

Calvary is also about the best track on Happy Trails btw. Nice atmospheric Cippolina meets Morricone greatness.

Stevolende, Saturday, 31 August 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link

i've been in the UK for 12 years and i still get a little defensive about 'you all right?' i'm like, why shouldn't i be

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 31 August 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link

that calvary is different from cavalry

mookieproof, Saturday, 31 August 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link

one's a bunch of people on horses and the other is either a location in Jerusalem which was where a bunch of people supposedly including the historical Jesus got crucified, or a place that the Winter Olympics were held in Canada at one point.

Stevolende, Saturday, 31 August 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link

just slightly too late with that information stevolende

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 31 August 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link

Seems like it came up on another thread right before this one.

The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 August 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link

or a place that the Winter Olympics were held in Canada at one point.

subs plz chk

quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 31 August 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link

i've been in the UK for 12 years and i still get a little defensive about 'you all right?' i'm like, why shouldn't i be

You need to say "yeah not so bad, how's yerself?" and all will be well. If we said "hey how ya doin'?" like Americans do the responses would be all "can't complain / oh, fine, fine, you know? / it's a good life if you don't weaken" etc and it wouldn't work.

michael schenker group is no laughing matter (Matt #2), Saturday, 31 August 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link

once something like that is explained to you, how does it stay an issue for ya tho?

theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Saturday, 31 August 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link

(no aggression, juat v curious like)

theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Saturday, 31 August 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link

a place that the Winter Olympics were held in Canada at one point

I think you got that mixed up with what one unit of nutritional energy value is called.

pplains, Saturday, 31 August 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link

And yet a cavalry stampede and a Calgary Stampede have much in common.

Hideous Lump, Sunday, 1 September 2019 05:13 (four years ago) link

There was no census at the (supposed) time of Jesus' birth, and no census has ever required people to travel back to the city of their forefathers (42 generations back no less!)

The Pingularity (ledge), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 09:42 (four years ago) link

The bones in tinned sardines are soft and can be eaten; they don't need to be removed.

fetter, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 10:40 (four years ago) link

...were you trying to take all those teensy bones out??

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link

There was no census at the (supposed) time of Jesus' birth, and no census has ever required people to travel back to the city of their forefathers (42 generations back no less!)

Look, Mary had her story and Joseph had his census story. No reason to get all cynical here.

pplains, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link

The census story was what Joseph took his other wife

FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link

*told

FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link

François Truffaut stars in Close Encounters of the Third Kind??????

flappy bird, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link

In at least one or two of the half dozen different cuts of the film, yes.

Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link

You've never seen it?

Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link

(xp)

Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link

I'm choosing to believe flappy has seen one of the Truffaut-lite cuts (because if he hasn't seen it at all, wtf). That whole extended bit toward the beginning with Francois and Bob Balaban was inserted later and I think he doesn't otherwise appear until the Devil's Tower sequence.

Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link

I've only ever seen it once tbf and Truffaut being in it was one of the highlights.

Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link

Never seen it

flappy bird, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link

Me neither

YouGov to see it (wins), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link

It's good!

Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link

Seeing it tmrw

flappy bird, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link


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