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
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 13 January 2020 00:35 (four years ago) link
Feel like this and the silverware basket in a dishwasher comes up multiple times whenever this sorta thing is discussed
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 13 January 2020 01:52 (four years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Monday, 13 January 2020 02:14 (four years ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:58 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― jaymc, Monday, 13 January 2020 04:02 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I had no idea some people don't do that.
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 January 2020 06:36 (four years ago) link
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
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 13 January 2020 09:11 (four years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 January 2020 09:28 (four years ago) link
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.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 13 January 2020 09:32 (four years ago) link
It is, however, the best movie ever made.
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 January 2020 09:33 (four years ago) link
Two posts of monumental wrongness for the price of one!
― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 09:36 (four years ago) link
xxp maybe thinking of the Hudsucker Proxy
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 13 January 2020 09:53 (four years ago) link
My post can't be wrong, since I was talking about its objective quality as measured in IMDb ratings.
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 January 2020 10:36 (four years ago) link
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, 13 January 2020 10:46 (four years ago) link
Is Tom Shanks, sorry, Hanks in both?
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Monday, 13 January 2020 10:47 (four years ago) link
ask IMDb Tom, they are like god and the last word on everything in movies!
― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 10:50 (four years ago) link
Further confusion is that Tim Robbins (whatever happened to?) is in the The Hudsucker Redemption and The Shawshanks Proxy.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Monday, 13 January 2020 10:51 (four years ago) link
other than the titles and Tim Bobbins I don't think the two movies have much in common at all.
― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 10:52 (four years ago) link
Tom Hanks' grabbed nuts are in The Green Mile, same director as The Shawshank Redemption and also based on a work by Stephen King
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 13 January 2020 10:54 (four years ago) link
oh yeah I'd forgotten they were both Stephen King joints.
― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 10:55 (four years ago) link
xxdp He's a lawyer in the new film about how Mark Ruffalo's character takes on DuPont by hulking out and smashing them
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 January 2020 10:56 (four years ago) link
according to the Rotten Tomatoes movie website his highest rated movie is Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
^^^ ^^^
somebody shockingly old refusing to learn anything!
― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 11:12 (four years ago) link
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.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 13 January 2020 11:46 (four years ago) link
fuck dishwashers, there is no need for them and we already make way more electrical appliances than the world needs.
― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 11:51 (four years ago) link
counterpoint: getting a dishwasher has been the #1 best thing about my move out of london.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Monday, 13 January 2020 11:58 (four years ago) link
Dishwashers use less water than washing and rinsing dishes by hand does, though.
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 January 2020 12:02 (four years ago) link
― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 11:09 (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
its a fuckin cracking flick def
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Monday, 13 January 2020 12:03 (four years ago) link
xpbut how many kWh do they add to electrical grids eh eh?
― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 12:05 (four years ago) link
you wash your dishes in cold water?
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Monday, 13 January 2020 12:10 (four years ago) link
when I put my central heating on, it heats up the water as well - talk about the fucking white heat of technology!
― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
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!
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Monday, 13 January 2020 12:18 (four years ago) link
what the fuck are even talking about? have a glass of water.
― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 12:20 (four years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
― 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)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 13 January 2020 12:39 (four years ago) link
The Shawshank Redemption isn't a Coen Brothers film; it is pure candyass sap
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 January 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
Four million IMDB users would like to have a word with you in the yard.
― Pizza is Really Yummy for Me (Old Lunch), Monday, 13 January 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link
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
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 13 January 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
My challop is Buster Scruggs and A serious man are their two best movies.
― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 13:31 (four years ago) link
0.5 of a challop
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Monday, 13 January 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
Calop
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 13 January 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
The Naked Man >>> A Serious Man
Top that.
― Pizza is Really Yummy for Me (Old Lunch), Monday, 13 January 2020 13:47 (four years ago) link
Not a challop on here but the ultimate authority on movies iMDB is threatening to twat me!
― calzino, Monday, 13 January 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
Which Stephen King story was Hudsucker Proxy based on? Or was it published under a different name like "The Body"
― pplains, Monday, 13 January 2020 14:57 (four years ago) link
it was apparently based on the same script as the flintstones movie of the same year
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 13 January 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link
Just remembered one: it was only sometime within the past year that I learned what 'Mr. Mojo Risin' was all about.
― Pizza is Really Yummy for Me (Old Lunch), Monday, 13 January 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
in response, i accidentally typed "jim morrisey." now i am forced to imagine the terrible personality and lyrics of this hypothetically-fused personality.
― in a mellow, balmy way (Hunt3r), Monday, 13 January 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
Come on, babe, hairdresser on fire
― Pizza is Really Yummy for Me (Old Lunch), Monday, 13 January 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
xp: Didn't care for The Mist till I saw the black & chrome version on the blu ray set.
― Now We Know (Sanpaku), Monday, 13 January 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
I learned just today that "Krazy Kat" creator George Herriman was of mixed-race Creole parentage and nearly always wore a hat to hide his hair and pass.
― Pete Swine Cave (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link