Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Not sure how closely related it is to the red coloration layer on the grey safety dot rectangles on the corner.

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

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, January 11, 2020 11:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

A few years ago for me, but yes, my mind was blown when I learned this

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

Feel like this and the silverware basket in a dishwasher comes up multiple times whenever this sorta thing is discussed

They are to this thread what Alice Cooper is to Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same.

Wait, is this the dishwasher thing? Are there people who don't do this?

that you can just lift the silverware thing right out of the dishwasher and carry it over to the silverware drawer

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:58 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, I had no idea some people don't do that.

I didn't do that for so long. Life was irrevocably changed when I realised I could just lift the basket out and take it to the cutlery drawer

I dunno if that's the case with all dishwashers, but with the two I've had there's even a handy handle atop the basket so you can lift it more easily, which should make it obvious it's meant to be taken out.

I just found out, at the age of 40, with a degree in Film Studies, that The Shawshank Redemption isn't a Coen Brothers film.

It is, however, the best movie ever made.

Two posts of monumental wrongness for the price of one!

xxp maybe thinking of the Hudsucker Proxy

My post can't be wrong, since I was talking about its objective quality as measured in IMDb ratings.

I was always get Shawshank mixed up with that other pile of garbage movie where the 8 ft doorman grabs Tom Hanks' nuts!

Is Tom Shanks, sorry, Hanks in both?

ask IMDb Tom, they are like god and the last word on everything in movies!

Further confusion is that Tim Robbins (whatever happened to?) is in the The Hudsucker Redemption and The Shawshanks Proxy.

other than the titles and Tim Bobbins I don't think the two movies have much in common at all.

Tom Hanks' grabbed nuts are in The Green Mile, same director as The Shawshank Redemption and also based on a work by Stephen King

oh yeah I'd forgotten they were both Stephen King joints.

xxdp He's a lawyer in the new film about how Mark Ruffalo's character takes on DuPont by hulking out and smashing them

according to the Rotten Tomatoes movie website his highest rated movie is Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

what iMDB doesn't tell you is that the only Stephen King adaptation worth shit that Darabont directed was actually The Mist.

^^^ ^^^

somebody shockingly old refusing to learn anything!

we had a dishwasher when I was a teen but it was installed directly next to the cutlery drawer so it never occurred to me to remove the cutlery whatsit at all

as a grownup I've never lived anywhere with a dishwasher, except for two housesitting locations. double sink >>> dishwasher all day anyway.

fuck dishwashers, there is no need for them and we already make way more electrical appliances than the world needs.

counterpoint: getting a dishwasher has been the #1 best thing about my move out of london.

fuck dishwashers, there is no need for them and we already make way more electrical appliances than the world needs.

Dishwashers use less water than washing and rinsing dishes by hand does, though.

what iMDB doesn't tell you is that the only Stephen King adaptation worth shit that Darabont directed was actually The Mist.

― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 11:09 (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

its a fuckin cracking flick def

xp
but how many kWh do they add to electrical grids eh eh?

you wash your dishes in cold water?

when I put my central heating on, it heats up the water as well - talk about the fucking white heat of technology!

ok i'm afraid i'm not sufficiently organised to always synchronise the washing up with the central heating operation even though the planet is burning, mea culpa!

what the fuck are even talking about? have a glass of water.

but you are a hero for sacrificing heat in your house while the motor and heating elements are whirring away in your dishwasher, give yerself a green medal!

I was always get Shawshank mixed up with that other pile of garbage movie where the 8 ft doorman grabs Tom Hanks' nuts!

― calzino, Monday, January 13, 2020 11:46 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao, I knew exactly which other film you meant (and I've seen neither)

The Shawshank Redemption isn't a Coen Brothers film; it is pure candyass sap

Four million IMDB users would like to have a word with you in the yard.

I have actually seen Shawshank but it was in the 90s and I wasn't giving it my full attention. For the Coens, I am generally positively disposed to their movies, but don't follow them closely, my only challops with them is Big Lebowski > Fargo

My challop is Buster Scruggs and A serious man are their two best movies.

0.5 of a challop

Calop

The Naked Man >>> A Serious Man

Top that.

Not a challop on here but the ultimate authority on movies iMDB is threatening to twat me!

Which Stephen King story was Hudsucker Proxy based on? Or was it published under a different name like "The Body"

it was apparently based on the same script as the flintstones movie of the same year

Just remembered one: it was only sometime within the past year that I learned what 'Mr. Mojo Risin' was all about.

in response, i accidentally typed "jim morrisey." now i am forced to imagine the terrible personality and lyrics of this hypothetically-fused personality.

Come on, babe, hairdresser on fire

xp: Didn't care for The Mist till I saw the black & chrome version on the blu ray set.