Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Did not know that!

That Aimee Mann is 59. Unaware of her until the late 90s, I assumed she was 10 years younger than that.

At least

Her biggest hit was in 1985

Yeah, not in the UK, you see. I'd never heard of Til Tuesday till I looked at her Wikipedia page just now.

When Bob Mortimer and Jim Moir made the first series of Vic Reeves' Big Night Out they had known each other for less than two months. Bob was taken to one of Vic's shows in New Cross by a friend, got talking afterwards, and was invited to participate the following Saturday, which he did: the first time he had ever performed anything in public, at the age of 30. Six weeks later they were filming it for Channel 4.

I only just found out that Aimee Mann is married to Michael Penn of "No Myth" fame, which seems very right.

And I only just found out that Chris Penn died. In 2006.

Bob talks about him and vic meeting (and his legal job, the Cockroach King, prior to this) in his Chain Reaction thing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b053bq55

i didn't know about the timing of the show though, seems crazy short.

I remember being similarly startled when I found out Debby Harry had been in a band that had a record out in 1968.

hush hush
keep it down now
Debbie Harry

In 1986, Mortimer went to the Goldsmith's Tavern in New Cross, London, to see a new show by a comedian called Vic Reeves. Mortimer was impressed by the performance, particularly the character Tappy Lappy, which was Reeves attempting to tap dance while wearing a Bryan Ferry mask and planks on his feet. Mortimer approached Reeves after the show, and the two began writing material for the next week's show together.

^ ie four years later, not six weeks

I guess the confusion arose from the stage show also being called Big Night Out.

For some reason I can imagine Aimee Mann being a guest on Shooting Stars.

Five years prior to shooting down KAL 007, the Soviets had shot down another KAL aircraft that had also entered their airspace due to a major navigation error. In that case, only two people were killed and the plane was landed on a frozen lake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_902

I don't know about 'shockingly old' but finding out Ezra Koening of Vampire Weekend wrote 'Hold Up' by Beyonce was a real 'O RLY? Ahhh it totally makes sense' moment the other day

Peter Gabriel's fourth album was also released in German

Also his third, for which the backing tracks were completely re-recorded (or so says wikipedia).

I don't know about 'shockingly old' but finding out Ezra Koening of Vampire Weekend wrote 'Hold Up' by Beyonce was a real 'O RLY? Ahhh it totally makes sense' moment the other day

https://pitchfork.com/news/65049-vampire-weekends-ezra-koenig-explains-how-his-tweet-about-the-yeah-yeah-yeahs-became-a-beyonce-song/

you can't make blueberry waffles

My mom wants a word, how dare you

but the blueberries make the waffles stick! is there a way around this??

A hammer

apply more fats to the waffle iron to avoid sticking, or just dgaf about the extra waffle iron cleanup time

alternatively, just throw blueberries on top of the waffles when they're fresh off the griddle

Garret Hardin, the ecologist who wrote "The Tragedy of the Commons," was a white nationalist eugenicist

The artist on “Give Me the Night” was George Benson and the composer was Rod Temperton.

who had you previously thought it was by?

TIL i have been confusing Aimee Man and Amy Grant for like 20 years.

Aimee Mant!

Ennui is pronounced on-wee as opposed to enn-you-ee.

surely it is only twats like will self that pronounce it properly. the wrong version sounds better to me!

I've only ever hear it pronounced the former way

Never heard anyone say it with three syllables. When I was small and only ever read it not heard it I assumed it was “uh-NEW-ee”

I have only ever heard or been a twat

you are all obv bad apart from Dan and me

definitely mangled into three syllables by Ed Kowalczyk on Live's "Rattlesnake"

Ed could stretch any word into double its original syllables

it's as if his voice teacher told him to chew every word like taffy and then pick it out of his teeth

Neanderthal, you've gotta let gooo-oooo-uh, a-let it it gooo-aahh-ooo-aallovah.

*placenta falls to floor*

I'm one of the twats too in that case.

The movie Ronin with Robert De Niro is not about an Irish guy named Ronin.

it's a biopic about the singer for Boyzone

heh

rO'Nin

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-justin-timberlake-sings-may-instead-of-me

James Hetfield did the "may" thing before it was trendy

Just last week I learned that dashboard car fuel indicators point out which side of the car the tank is on.

i learned that the correct way to put gas in your car was to put the pump into the tank, not driving into the gas tank and collecting the spilled gas in dixie cups and easing it into the gashole

Recently learned, although I don’t know if this actually existed so long ago as such, that the weirdly textured white stripes of paint in the crosswalks in NYC are indeed some kind of tape, as suspected.