Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I worked in a Catholic school that has a land acknowledgment plaque, which I found a little bit sadlol.

lol @ that sketch.

I've never heard of anyone doing this in Quebec fwiw.

A year or two ago an old friend asked if I wanted to meet up at a ramen restaurant and it blew my entire fucking mind that ramen is an actual part of Japanese cuisine and not just cheap styrofoam-tasting packet noodles.

There are some insanely good ones out there too

Ramen is the queen of soups

The slovenly medieval king of soups is potato leek

I've never heard of anyone doing this in Quebec fwiw.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, June 24, 2020 2:17 PM (fifteen minutes ago)

wow really? I really am in a bubble then

heine and edward milliken both wrote poems called "death and his brother sleep"

i also remember and have mentioned on ilx a book of this same title (or possible "sleep and his brother death") by eric ambler that i remember my dad reading when i was maybe 10, remembering it bcz the title seemed so cool

anyway this doesn't seem to exist (not if written by eric ambler anyway)

it wd have been a thriller, probably spies rather than crime

Perhaps another testament to the franco/anglo divide?

xp

Never mind, several francophone universities have a 'guide de reconnaissance territoriale' now, which they adopted after their ROC counterparts. I was abroad for a year and a half so this explains that.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tdsb-indigenous-land-1.3773050

Is this still being done every morning in Toronto schools? Seems like it would become meaninglessly rote pretty quickly.

blew my entire fucking mind that ramen

this is a good one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_country btw

Harry Caray was born Harry Carabina, and was 1/2 Italian

Never heard of the indigenous greeting, but I've only lived in two places in the U.S.: The South, where they don't acknowledge anything, and in the Midwest, where they barely acknowledge each other.

Perhaps another testament to the franco/anglo divide?

The Catholic school I mentioned is actually a French Catholic school.

In Australia pretty much all higher ed institutions "acknowledge country" at the start of all official meetings, that's been standard for ~ 5 years and patchy for ~ 5 before that. The national broadcaster SBS also acknowledges country on their Australian productions including the nightly news, but only in the credits. They also run NITV which is the national Indigenous network (and pretty interesting viewing more often than not).

i learned today that the official name of the state of rhode island is 'rhode island and providence plantations'

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Seal_of_Rhode_Island.svg/1200px-Seal_of_Rhode_Island.svg.png

I think of Rhode Island as Providence + Brown + rugged coastal estates + bridge tournaments, but I'm sure there is more to it than that

mafia and RISD

We might not have the Talking Heads if not for RI.

that was what I was missing

Glad no one's been murdered by cops up there recently. There might be hundreds of people inside that Wendy's.

That the second line of the ABC chorus runs "Are
simple as do-re-mi". I just coded the "are simple as" bit as nonsense syllables in my brain and never bothered checking what it actually was.

Still don't really understand why it's not "as simple as".

in Vancouver a territorial acknowledgement is de rigueuer at the commencement of literally any event at which people will be talking

and I work at a university here and we are strongly encouraged to have a territorial acknowledgement in our email signature

I guess the 'are' must refer to 1-2-3, meaning that A-B-C isn't as simple as 1-2-3 itself, but as easy as the fact that 1-2-3 is as simple as do-re-mi.

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Is that definitive? Because it might be "or simple as"

I hear it as "ah simple as"

Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII)
Posted: June 24, 2020 at 11:14:31 PM
mafia and RISD

And mafia-fetishism and RISD fetishism.

Rhode Island: the place where everybody knows a guy who can do that thing for you, as long as you’re willing to pay cash.

the clock tower song has a title and it is "Westminster Quarters"

Peter Schmeichel's father was Polish... and a jazz musician!

Just found out Sitting Bull was offed by the pigs ☹️

Is that definitive? Because it might be "or simple as"

Nothing "shockingly old" about this but this seems a good place for a minor piece of trivia I just learned.

The woman on the Sweetheart Stout can was Axl Rose's mother-in-law.

https://assets.sainsburys-groceries.co.uk/gol/7584523/1/640x640.jpg

Damn

the first 10 seconds of this album sound like a Large Professor beat

half a litre of 2% stout!

It's very bad milk stout,not sure how it still exists as I almost never see anyone getting it.

I think I knew that re: Axl Rose's mother-in-law.

I dont think I've ever seen anyone drink it outside of the Glasgow-Greenock end of the Central Belt. I remember when I was young that it was seen as booze for women who weren't into booze. Likewise Babycham, Snowballs and Bucks Fizz.

My mum said that when she gave birth to me and my older brother she was offered a choice between sweetheart stout and Guinness as a post labour medicinal.

OTM

There was definitely an idea that stout was good for you in some way - something to do with anaemia I think?

Yes it was all based (incorrectly) on Guinness being loaded with iron.
It has about as much iron as a spoonful of peas, but who wants peas after a 33 hour labour?

Weren't milk stouts given to women specifically to help with lactation?

Everything in this video basically


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-mDqKtivuI

I dont think I've ever seen anyone drink it outside of the Glasgow-Greenock end of the Central Belt. I remember when I was young that it was seen as booze for women who weren't into booze. Likewise Babycham, Snowballs and Bucks Fizz.

My mum said that when she gave birth to me and my older brother she was offered a choice between sweetheart stout and Guinness as a post labour medicinal.

flavour

Aye the only person I've ever seen ordering a sweetheart stout in a pub was a wee old woman