Glad no one's been murdered by cops up there recently. There might be hundreds of people inside that Wendy's.
― pplains, Thursday, 25 June 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link
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.
― Alba, Friday, 26 June 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
Still don't really understand why it's not "as simple as".
― Alba, Friday, 26 June 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
in Vancouver a territorial acknowledgement is de rigueuer at the commencement of literally any event at which people will be talking
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
and I work at a university here and we are strongly encouraged to have a territorial acknowledgement in our email signature
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
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.
xpost
― Alba, Friday, 26 June 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
Is that definitive? Because it might be "or simple as"
― Josefa, Friday, 26 June 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
I hear it as "ah simple as"
― Gin and Juice Newton (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 June 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII)Posted: June 24, 2020 at 11:14:31 PMmafia and RISDAnd 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.
― rb (soda), Friday, 26 June 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
the clock tower song has a title and it is "Westminster Quarters"
― joygoat, Friday, 26 June 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
Peter Schmeichel's father was Polish... and a jazz musician!
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 June 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
Just found out Sitting Bull was offed by the pigs ☹️
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 June 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
― Alba, Saturday, 27 June 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
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
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Sunday, 28 June 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
Damn
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 28 June 2020 01:40 (three years ago) link
the first 10 seconds of this album sound like a Large Professor beat
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 June 2020 02:05 (three years ago) link
half a litre of 2% stout!
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Sunday, 28 June 2020 03:09 (three years ago) link
It's very bad milk stout,not sure how it still exists as I almost never see anyone getting it.
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 28 June 2020 03:13 (three years ago) link
I think I knew that re: Axl Rose's mother-in-law.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 June 2020 09:36 (three years ago) link
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.
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Sunday, 28 June 2020 09:41 (three years ago) link
OTM
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 June 2020 10:08 (three years ago) link
There was definitely an idea that stout was good for you in some way - something to do with anaemia I think?
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 June 2020 10:11 (three years ago) link
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?
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Sunday, 28 June 2020 10:24 (three years ago) link
Weren't milk stouts given to women specifically to help with lactation?
― assert (MatthewK), Sunday, 28 June 2020 11:30 (three years ago) link
Everything in this video basically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-mDqKtivuI
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Sunday, 28 June 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Sunday, 28 June 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
flavour
― zombeekeeper (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 28 June 2020 14:50 (three years ago) link
Aye the only person I've ever seen ordering a sweetheart stout in a pub was a wee old woman
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 28 June 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
jeez that's a name I haven't heard in a long time, remember someone in school getting the utter pish ripped out of them for admitting that they'd drank Sweetheart Stout
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 28 June 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
We've definitely discussed it here before but didn't George Younger (of Thatcher cabinet fame) claim to have picked Venetia Stevenson for the can while working in the family business before his first election victory?
― Mud... jam... failure (aldo), Sunday, 28 June 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
Sounds familiar.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 June 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
Married twice - pictured here with her first husband Russ Tamblyn:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/acrobat-and-actor-russ-tamblyn-doing-a-flip-on-the-sidewalk-with-picture-id50326893
But Axl's father in law is Don Everly!
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 28 June 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
Dr. Amp!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 28 June 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
Listened to a webinar last week on semiotics in marketing which had some very interesting points. Told the story of how Cushelle toilet paper was a rebranding of Charmin after the terms of selling the product in a new territory was given some extreme conditions.Had me thinking about why a bear was being used to sell bog roll and thinking about what they legenbdarily do in the woods.So they useda big cuddly one to try to euphemise more .
& then the new company had to unwrap the elements of the branding and what they meant to the public. & try to come up with substitutes.Which they apparently did to such an extent that sales didn't drop from having to rebrand.
Seemed to be an interesting way of utilising theory that had been built up over years. Working out what means what to the general public sounds like a really good way of helping make sales .
― Stevolende, Monday, 29 June 2020 12:09 (three years ago) link
Just occurred to me that "Hartford" must have originally meant "the place where deer cross the river"
― zombeekeeper (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 29 June 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
OTM according to the Venerable Bede
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Monday, 29 June 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
Good thinking, YMP! Probably would be another 40 years before I realized that.
― peace, man, Monday, 29 June 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
Alan Vega and Martin Rev from Suicide were born Boruch Alan Bermowitz and Martin Reverby respectively, which are even better names than their stage names.
― the bournemouth supremacy (Matt #2), Monday, 29 June 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
oh right so Reverend B was a play on his name I assumed it was the source of the surname used.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
patent leather is properly actual leather.
it was invented in like 1790s and is just a coating, not 20th cent mod pleather. it's olde pleather.
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
Didn't realise that Finland's air force still used the swastika as a symbol
Finland's air force quietly drops swastika symbol https://t.co/Ci86RWVjbL— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 1, 2020
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 2 July 2020 06:52 (three years ago) link
that HAL is one letter up from IBM
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 July 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
"Flashdance...What a Feeling" was written and produced by Giorgio Moroder. no wonder it's one of my fav productions of the 80s
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 July 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
Best man at Peter Boyle's wedding? John Lennon.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 9 July 2020 04:42 (three years ago) link
Lady Antebellum is a band, not a woman.
Still p sure Lady Gaga is not a band
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Thursday, 9 July 2020 08:36 (three years ago) link
(xp) Wow, good one.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 July 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link
the difference between a sickle and a scythe
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 9 July 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
From Middle English sythe, sithe, from Old English sīþe, sīðe, siġði (“sickle”), probably from Proto-West Germanic *segisnu (“sickle”). Germanic cognates include West Frisian seine (“scythe”), Dutch zicht (“sickle”), German Sense (“scythe”). Related to saw, which see.The silent c crept in the early 15th century owing to pseudoetymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindere (“to cut, rend, split”).
The silent c crept in the early 15th century owing to pseudoetymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindere (“to cut, rend, split”).
i never have thought about this
― budo jeru, Thursday, 9 July 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
Things you were shockingly old when you first thought about
― Alba, Thursday, 9 July 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
Bikini Kill went to Evergreen State College, meaning that "went to school in Olympia" in Hole's "Rock Star" was meant literally.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link