Things you were shockingly old when you learned

also c/f the Pompei figures which are plaster casts of the voids left where people were caught in the ash

Maybe dont google bog bodies but do because awesome

I thought fossils were essentially organic material replaced by minerals.

That The Real World is still running. If you’d asked me to guess I’d have said it was cancelled around the turn of the century

is Puck still on it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bog_bodies
(applies both xp and not xp)

thought fossils were essentially organic material replaced by minerals.

Me too, Alba.

LOL, Neanderthal.

That the, to me, extremely boring and clunky name Denis/Dennis derives from Dionysius.

dirty dionysius

Dionysius the Menace

Dionysius Rodman

Dionysius Thatcher

Les Dionysius

Oh Dionysius doo-be-do
I'm in love with you, Dionysius doo-be-do

Claire Dionysius
Dionysius Hopper

Dionysius and the Belmonts

JUst had a filmmaker say taht they built the house in parasite for the film. She was comparing budgets with something she was working on.
Hadn't realised that at all. Assumed some of it would have been built elsewhere as in at least filmed, as I think things are normallly done

It was still in theatres a year ago

Dionysius Bergkamp
Dionysius van der Geest
Dione de Graaff
Dionysius DeYoung

Sir Dionysius Thatcher, 1st Baronet, MBE, TD, CStJ

Dionysius Nilsen

How old were you when you discovered that the TV suburb Erinsborough is an anagram of “Or Neighbours”?

— Craig Parkinson 💙 (@CParkinson535) February 6, 2021

I was about 9 when someone told me that Erinsborough was an anagram of Neighbours, and 9 when I was disappointed to work out that it wasn't.

"axl rose is an anagram for oral sex"

w. axl rose is an anagram for oral swex

― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:07 PM (nine years ago)

Flour is considered a raw ingredient. That is, it needs to be cooked completely to kill bacteria, you're supposed to wash your hands and surfaces after working with it, etc.

if you don't wash your hands and surfaces after working with flour, you've got worse problems than eating spoonfuls of it.

No I just have flour everywhere, forever

it's not fair, there was time now

bloody fariners

It was like last year but i was still really old when i learned that a very significant reason pre-modern agricultural ppl had such destroyed teeth was that the milling skills of their societies sucked and they had rocks and shit in their food.

Off topic— also vermin.

I’d like to revoke my medieval shaming and just amend to “milling is hard.”

The Rime of the Ancient Fariner

Well, I'm hot blooded
Check it and see
I got a fever of a hundred and three

Redd Foxx's birth name was John ... Sanford!

I was much less shockingly old when I learned it but I just remembered this trivia today and maybe some of you other oldsters will be shocked when you learn it:

(Tony) Burrows sang the lead vocals on several other one-hit wonder songs under different group names, Edison Lighthouse's "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" (February 1970); White Plains' "My Baby Loves Lovin'" (March 1970); The Pipkins' novelty song "Gimme Dat Ding" (April 1970); and The First Class' "Beach Baby" (July 1974). He also sang lead vocals on The Brotherhood of Man's "United We Stand", which reached #10 on the UK charts and also reached #13 in the U.S.

I have heard of two of those songs.

Get thee to a US AM gold comp posthaste

i know five seconds of four of those songs solely from tv ads for compilations

You can live without hearing more than four seconds of "Gimme Dat Ding" and "United We Stand" but the others are good bubblegum.

i know five seconds of four of those songs solely from tv ads for compilations

Is that Freedom Rock? Turn it up!

Gimme Dat Ding is one of the two I know! Just spent ten minutes trying to find the name of a two-LP compilation of novelty songs that I caned it on as a kid, to no avail

that austrians say "wee-enna"

for sausage or city?

The Viennese accent is quite something, so I believe.

I guess the Vietnamese version of that would be "ngu-ena"?

I just saw austrians as australians, gorlumme.

Now I want to hear the Vienna Choir sing "Khe Sanh".

I will never miss a chance to bring up that there are photos of the surface of Venus, taken by the Russians in the two hours before the lander freaking melted pic.twitter.com/s50svZfbgc

— Barry Petchesky (@barry) February 18, 2021

Whoa.

wait what

that owns