Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Polenta can be cooked soft like porridge or ex. into polenta cakes. Cream of wheat falls under the category of porridge x post. I don't think I have ever eaten it though.

I am very into grey poupon. I have 6 mustards right now. Two grey poupon, trader joes dijon, two monoprix balsamic dijon, maille whole seed dijon.

grits are polenta?
why did people tell me it's like porridge?

― kinder, Monday, November 25, 2019 1:32 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think technically they're a little bit different, but they're the same substance, just that polenta is a bit more coarse and grits is bit more fine (?)

you can cook polenta like a porridgy thing. it's how i usually have it

when it cools can you use it as a frisbee? this is iron law of grits ontology

wake me up when you guys figure out what hominy is

yeah it cools solid. you can then bake it or fry it etc.

Hominy is a large solid corn blob, not a purée or a ground corn.

Arepas are also made of corn meal but somehow different from polenta, and also the same.

I did not just learn this

I did just learn about grits and hominy tbh.

I think I just learnt about "French" mustard, OTOH it's the kind of thing I probably had been told about and thought oh that's interesting and promptly forgot about

I have been informed that the flapjack/pancake confusion falls into that category

I saw the the opening 15 minutes of the Star Trek Trouble With Tribbles episode, in which they mention a grain called quadri-triticale, the last part of the name from the actual grain triticale, and they pronounced the final "e" - trih-tih-cay-lee. I had read the real name for years, and always thought it was trih-tih-cael, the final "e" making the 'a" long but not pronounced. I googled it just now to check on those doofus writers and god damnit the long "e" at the end is correct.

I didn't know that the Parthenon was far more intact than it is today all the way up until 1687, when it was used as a gunpowder magazine and subsequently blew up after being shelled during a war between the Ottomans and the Venetians.

What an absolute miracle that it had been so intact for the 2000+ years before that!

Peter friggin' Murphy was the 'cool dude in the chair' in the old Maxell commercials from the 80s!?

Am I the only Bauhaus fan / sentient being who did not know this??

I don't believe this one

This is a well-worn did you know? So suitably shocking for this thread.

I did a little research and found why this didn't seem correct. Peter Murphy was the guy in a UK-only version of this ad, that I had never seen before. He is not in the original ad.

Was gonna say, my recollection of the dude in the ad I'm familiar with is that he was the type of guy ad execs expected us to accept as 'cool' because he wears sunglasses indoors.

That the Tobe in Tobe Hooper doesn't rhyme with robe

Say what?

Yah, it's pronounced like Toby.

most very likely was NOT Peter Murphy

https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/blown-away-man/

xps

Yeah, I always said 'toab' until I was corrected in conversation some years ago - which is esp embarrassing b/c I always stan hard for TCM in horror-related talk and I'd been saying 'toab' for a good decade+ prior to that!

(xp) I think this is the source of the confusion, this was obviously made after the original ads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBem3x7G6bc

... and there's another one for video tapes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uvmuqBze-c

Re: the correct pronunciation of 'Tobe', I probably have DVD commentaries or somesuch to thank in this instance for keeping me from sounding like my generally idiotic self as I try to incorporate into conversation words I know from books but that I've never actually heard pronounced aloud. A positively mor-TIFF-y-ing experience, let me tell you.

it was Milo Bloom in the Maxell ads iirc

Lol is Tobe pronounced like Robe even a name people have? I’m guilty of these mistakes, but this is one that oddly never occurred to me.

Short for, er, Toby.

Americans have weird names

not a Cholmondeley or a St. John among them

Not really appropriate for Mr. Farrell, despite Oliver St. John Gogarty.

he's lived among the English long enough to accept their ways

While Apollo 11 was orbiting and landing on the moon, a robotic Soviet probe called Luna 15 designed to capture soil samples was also orbiting. Shortly before the lunar module blasted off to return to orbit, Luna 15 crashed into a mountain in Mare Crisium.

Or... DID IT?

I mean, we don't *know* that there isn't still a secret Soviet colony on the moon

would be pretty badass if there were a socialist paradise of moon miners, who lost contact with their control base long ago, but have just kept on keepin' on. Moon mining inna Stalinist style; they didn't hear about the wall coming down or Reagan or any of that.

MOVIE IDEA

plz don't steal it, I'm working on the screenplay now thxbye

generally, 1ml of water = 1g ...1L of water = 1 kg
(the US really needs to switch to metric)

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S08E11/204737.jpg?b64lines=IE5PIERFQUwsIHB1ZmZpbi4gVEhBVAogTU9PTiBNT05FWSBJUyBNSU5FLiA=

> generally, 1ml of water = 1g ...1L of water = 1 kg

and 1 calorie is enough energy to raise 1g of water up 1 degree centigrade

hydrants are all on the same side of the street

> generally, 1ml of water = 1g ...1L of water = 1 kg

and 1 calorie is enough energy to raise 1g of water up 1 degree centigrade

and that one gram of water will be one cubic centimetre in volume.

Took the wrong turning out of Liverpool st yesterday and wound up going down some back streets and then found myself on a road I was thinking might be the bottom stretch of Brick Lane that I rarely get to. Turned out to be Petticoat Lane which I've just been missing by a couple of streets for years.

It has a nice looking food market and several fabric shops that seem to be more Afrocentric than Brick Lane.
MUst get back there later in this trip.

Also discovered what a powerful band the Flying Luttenbachers are. Wow.

i saw them in Chicago in 1995! 'destroy all music' is the name of one of their albums iirc

This was with a pick up guitarist from the UK. Amazing player who fit in like he'd played with them for ages.
THink he may have toured UK/Europe with them before. BUt I'm told there is a more permanent New York line up of the band and I think the other 3 were from that. Don't think you'd notice without being told as in who would and wouldn't be full time.

i seem to recall saying something unkind about weasel walter (the drummer) on the internet, perhaps on these very boards, and he found it within 24 hours and sent me an angry email about it.

1ml of water = 1g ... and that one gram of water will be one cubic centimetre in volume.

Oh hey, maybe I can blow a mind or two with stuff I learned about body part proportions in art school (if I can remember them accurately). Not hard and fast, obvs as bodies are variable, but generaly-speaking:

• Your foot is the length of your forearm from wrist to elbow.
• Your ears fit snugly between your eyebrows and the bottom of your nose.
• There's just enough room between your eyes for another eye.
• The corners of your mouth align with the centers of your pupils.

I learned the eye thing from, of all places, Stephen King's "Duma Key." An art dealer, viewing the main character's self-taught artwork, asks him if he uses the third-eye method when painting faces.

Also I the human head is roughly 3.5 noses high, iirc? And the edges of the nostrils align with the corners of the eyes? The nose is basically the golden rectangle of the face, is what I'm saying here.

There's just enough room between your eyes for another eye

and your whole head is five eyes wide.

and hairline to browline = browline to bottom of nose = bottom of nose to chin.

something about the span of your outstretched hand from the tip of your thumb to the tip of your little finger being equal to something as well? can't for the life of me remember what though

if you hold you hand in front of your face you can figure it out

:)