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
TESC is my alma mater, too, but sadly Hole never sang about me.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 01:23 (three years ago) link
did you sing about hole tho
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
The 57 in the Heinz Ketchup slogan is essentially meaningless.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-never-were-57-varieties-heinz-ketchup-180965158/
― Isolde mein Herz zum Junker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link
it means the ketchup was made up of the blood of 57 diff people when originally made
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 13:04 (three years ago) link
.
― Isolde mein Herz zum Junker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 13:07 (three years ago) link
"Electric Avenue," in Eddy Grant's song of the same name, is not just a cool-sounding place made up for the song; but it is a real street in Brixton, and the song is partly about the 1981 Brixton riots.
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
I learned that last year.
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
Maya Rudolph was in The Rentals. I had NO idea.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
tf
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
I learned about "Electric Avenue" just last year too. Since 1983 I had thought it was a metaphorical place, something like Alphabet St. or Easy Street
― Josefa, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
Both of these things! That's cool about Electric Avenue though - I had always just assumed it was a state of mind.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
And of course so named because it was the first market street in London (Britain?) lit by electric lighting.
― Mud... jam... failure (aldo), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
was hoping people died trying to walk on the street unless they grounded themselves
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
There's more of 'em than you'd think!
https://i.imgur.com/i5exh6l.png
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
DEALING IN MULTIPLICATIONhttps://i.imgur.com/ckAaw4m.png
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Also one in Venice, CA.
― nickn, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
On an Eddy Grant tip, I only recently learned that he wasn't the lead singer in The Equals.
― fetter, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
I thought Tony! Toni! Toné! was the name of a Tone Loc album until I was like 18
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
Nice.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
Cait O'Riordan's name is not pronounced like 'Kate' but more like 'Coyt'
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Friday, 17 July 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
Jason Patric is Jackie Gleason's grandson
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 17 July 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
I thought it was pronounced 'cat'. xp
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 17 July 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
I watched a video where two men kept saying Coyt like it was fine and normal and she seemed ok with it.
https://youtu.be/0eOrpnRM5co
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Friday, 17 July 2020 21:45 (three years ago) link
It's pronounced like Kuyt, you have to be Dutch to pronounce correctly.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 17 July 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link