Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Now this really is shocking on my part, given that it's my hometown where I lived for the first 20-odd years of my life:

Owing to its industrial roots, Paisley, like many industrial towns in Renfrewshire, became a target for German Luftwaffe bombers during World War II. Although it was not bombed as heavily as nearby Glasgow (see Clydebank Blitz), air raids still occurred periodically during the early years of the war, killing nearly a hundred people in several separate incidents; on 6 May 1941, a parachute mine was dropped in the early hours of the morning claiming 92 victims; this is billed the worst disaster in Paisley's history.[19]

To be fair to myself I've never seen any memorial to or any mention of this anywhere in Paisley.

In terms of numbers that might be the worst disaster in Paisley's history, but I'm not sure this wasn't worse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Cinema_disaster

I remember a show he did in Oxnard, CA in the 70s, Linda Ronstadt opening. Don't think it was a benefit.

The concerts documented on Live in New York City were Lennon's only rehearsed and full-length live performances in his solo career, and his first – and last – formal, full-fledged live concerts since the Beatles retired from the road in 1966.

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I also don't remember it being a big deal (and seriously, if it were a one-off why pick Oxnard?). Probably 1975 but maybe '74.

Couldn't find anything on google after a quick look, but I did see Ronstadt with Jackson Browne in Oxnard in Jan 1974. I really remember Lennon, though.

was Mandela there too?

Lol

- Bob Marley

HaHa

It has just occurred to me that Danny La Rue is a play on "dans la rue". Was this intentional? Obviously it was his stage name, not his real name.

The modern pogo stick was invented by Max Pohlig and Ernst Gottschall, from Germany. A German patent was registered in Hanover on March 1920[3] for a device they called a "spring end hopping stilt". It is thought that the beginning two letters in these men's last names is where the word "pogo" comes from.

Well, that's just like those two guys who came up with the little adventure camera, Heinrich Goetzinger and Jürgen Protzman.

Bill Urich and Daniel Nalberg, inventers of

Bo Tierney, Xander Anderson and Carson Newman take the cake imo

I bet Ben Bradlee wouldn't have been so fond of portmanteaus had his two best reporters been Bob Dickson and Carl Thalhead.

Josef Von Sternberg's son, Nicholas Josef Von Sternberg, is a cinematographer and shot Dolemite.

The Germans blatantly ripped off that idea from Basil Hopping-Stilt and put their own names on it.

xp what wow

that 'er' and 'erm' are meant to indicate when someone is saying 'uh' and 'um'

'um' and 'er' are interchangeable value-free pauses, 'erm' is 'are you sure about that...', 'uh' is slack-jawed incomprehension.

never trust a big butt and a rockism

I learned yesterday, a year after getting my ear pierced, that skin doesn't grow over the pierced flesh, the hole just sits there, and I was revolted

"Chicken cordon bleu" basically means "blue ribbon chicken."

it’s also the name of a legendary cooking school in Paris, which i think is the origin of that style of chicken - https://www.cordonbleu.edu/home/en

I similarly learned that if you jam a stick into the ground while visiting Kiev melted butter will ooze out.

I got too big of an eyebrow ring as a freshman in college (so, 1996/early 97) and I can still see the scar from it, eyebrow has a ever so slight gap there.

the title of the comic strip andy capp is a pun on the word "handicap"

Xps I haven't worn an earring for the best part of 25 years and still have a hole.

I can still see the scar from it, eyebrow has a ever so slight gap there

i have one of these from when i was a kid and my neighbor threw a spark plug at me

I am confused about this hole piercing thing. The skin does grow back together eventually?

no

Piercings can actually close

the only two that will never close are the lower ear lobes I got when I was a baby and kept in forever. The rest (7 others) have all completely closed.

oh wow, i know people with piercings that haven't had anything in them for > 20 years and there are still visible holes, maybe these are just indentations and the hole sealed up tho?

yeah, you can usually still see where there was a piercing but depending on where it was and how long it was in I think almost all will eventually close back up.

no what I mean is like. I assumed skin would grow to like "seal" the piercing wound, making a nice new batch of skin to protect the inside of my body like skin does, but actually the jewelry just sits there and my body just has a wound in it forever

This helps me to better understand the horrifying scenario from my youth wherein my sister's ear pretty much devoured the entire backing of one of her earrings.

Isn't there scar tissue that forms, sealing the wound? Or else it would be subject to infections forever.

there's scar tissue but scar tissue isn't as, like, good as skin, I guess?

are you having problems with that piercing, that it never fully healed?

I think we're saying piercings "fully heal" but not in same way a normal cut does ie it never gets quite back to "good as new"

Puff the Magic Dragon is a massive downer of a song.

"Puff the Magic Dragon" filled me with so much fear as a kid i used to run out of the room if it came on the radio

For years I was trying to ID a song from childhood that i believed went "hahahoohoohahahoohee hahahoohoohaha" as the chorus.

Only to find out it's the end of "Crimson and Clover" and it's just vocals run through an amplifier

I grew up thinking people don't change. Then something horrible happened to me and my family and I learned that people do change. And that you can change into an entirely different person.

That sounds like a terrible thing to learn - please, if you feel you can, talk some more (unless you are on another thread)

Or unless you don't want to, in which case don't.

alexandre dumas père was mixed race

THere's a 2 part podcast on Alexander Dumas pere in the Stuff You Missed in History Class series

I think they may have touched on this when I was in grammar school, I just kind of didn't raise an eyebrow, seventies Cosby kid and all. I think it's the parents who probably needed this information.

But after reading more about it on Wikipedia, I wanted to re-read Count of Monte Cristo.

p.s. I'm fine, actually. I'll just rant on Tumblr because I don't want to bother people with it.

Shackleton was Irish.