Things you were shockingly old when you learned

i feel seen

I am shockingly old and still trying to learn the proper use of toward/towards, forward/forwards, and backward/backwards.

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/10/slouching-towards-bethlehem.html

yeah remember thinking the theme song on a few things was sung by the lead character.
Possibly semi intentional in the choice of song even when it does turn out to not be the actor's voice.

AP style doesn’t consider “towards” a word at all iirc

The Nicholas Lyndhurst thing is a pretty widely-held misapprehansion.

I was v recently thinking of doing a "themes sung by actors" poll with that as one of the options!

I thought for a long time that Alan Thicke sang the Growing Pains theme song but that assumption wasn't completely out of left field, given that...

Thicke had a successful career as a TV theme song composer, often collaborating with his then-wife Gloria Loring on these projects, which included the themes to the popular sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life.

(Pretty sure I just blew someone's mind right there.)

You can clean a thermos interior with Polident denture cleaner, the plop-plot-fizz-fizz tablets... takes the tannins and stains right off.

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 2:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

THANK YOU! I've got a bottle I drink tea out of and have been fretting about the residual gunk lately.

My friend just shared this article about Bluetooth. I’ll never see that symbol the same way again.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/02/19/fact-check-bluetooth-named-after-viking-king-harald/4505776001/

Wow.

Oh. Pretty sure I somewhat recently read something about historical Bluetooth and chuckled over his name. Little did I know.

Canada has a problem with racism.
It's not all 'nice' progressive liberalism. Found out last year from a Webinar about violence towards indigenous people and others about abolishing the police and the black film scene. Then caught one on slavery in Canada last night. It includ3d thibgs like Enslaved people running back to the US prior to the UK banning slavery in 1830 as well as some more recent stuff.
Speaker said she wasn't talking about some special 'nice' form of the set up. There is no nice one.

King Harald Bluetooth, who was famous for uniting Scandinavia just as we intended to unite the PC and cellular industries with a short-range wireless link

this guy

That green and red peppers are not different types of vegetable

You can clean a thermos interior with Polident denture cleaner, the plop-plot-fizz-fizz tablets... takes the tannins and stains right off.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 2:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

THANK YOU! I've got a bottle I drink tea out of and have been fretting about the residual gunk lately.

― peace, man, Thursday, March 25, 2021 2:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Tried this out last night and I had to use two tablets per bottle, TWICE, but it really got the job done.

Yeah, I've used denture cleaners to clean the nooks and crannies of our coffee carafe before, seemed to do ok.

The How Clean Is Your House team used to have those tablets in their utility belts along with white vinegar, lemon juice and a few other things.
Used to watch that show quite heavily about 10 years ago

I'll have to look into this for my carafe, which is pretty much impossible to clean in any conventional way

I'm so excited about this that I've been rummaging through cupboards looking for anything else that's deeply stained and plopping them in.

would probably do a job on my teapot now that i think of it

The "shockingly" bit is probably being stretched a bit, but:

TIL that the 80s band with what I (as far as I have thought about it at all) have thought of as the typically 80s politics-inflected nonsense name Bourgeois Tagg was led by two guys named Bourgeois and Tagg.

For the thermos, I fill it was super hot tap water, dropping the wafers in, and then leaving it for a few hours.. it's like magic. (But don't put the lid on, it'll likely explode.)

How many tablets do you use?

TIL that the 80s band with what I (as far as I have thought about it at all) have thought of as the typically 80s politics-inflected nonsense name Bourgeois Tagg was led by two guys named Bourgeois and Tagg.

Wait till you hear about the admittedly less political sounding Climie Fisher.

is Fleetwood Mac a type of car

flotsam-based raincoats for fishermen in harsh climates ("climie fishers") iirc

xpost I use two of the tablets but the thermos is not very big

* Aimee Mann was the lead singer of 'Til Tuesday, and an electrifying stage presence in said capacity

Wait till you hear about the admittedly less political sounding Climie Fisher.

an angler with an addiction to mountaineering so they gave him a corny nickname, like

Climb-y Fisher

i remember when i found out the Aimee Mann/Til Tuesday thing and it blew my mind

If you're of a certain age, it may have taken you a while NOT to think of her as the singer of Til Tuesday.

I have been pronouncing Ciaran Hinds name wrong forever.

I am afraid to ask how it is pronounced

“Karen”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TpgCVbNJ1Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GcodBcAnkM

I would have gone with "Sharon" myself.

I had no idea he was from Belfast. I thought he was English!

Yeah its basically "Kieren" right? Anyway I was saying "cheearan" and "hinds" like LINDSay

Can't not:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/saoirse-ronan-and-stephen-colbert-pronounce-ridiculous-irish-names-1.2495185?mode=amp

Personal note: My sister and I got very Irish names at birth, though we are decidedly not Irish. Substitute teachers balked at them, our peers could not pronounce them. I changed mine; my sister kept hers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiYmrWnprf8

I think Waterford Whispers had a post about how some parents had been mispronouncing their children's names for years. Could have been an old post though but caught my eye. Irish take on the Onion.
There was definitely a trend in D4 Southside Dublin a couple of decades ago to use obscurish gaelic names for their offspring.

JUst now realising that a webinar I'm watching hasa virtual table panel on . Made up of individual zoom portals but teched into sitting at a cartoon table.
Hadn't seen that before.
Cool, or is Australia actually so free of covid taht people sit around cartoon tables.

Like, I think this is live and therefore not post production . Lining up people behind a virtual table in a line where thy have teh scale about right.
I possibly hadn't noticed cos I was doing several things at the same time.
Have seen individuals with almost convincing tech backdrops that would have you almsot thinking they were in teh room being used as backdrop.
BUt this is individuals slotted i behind a virtual table on a virtual backdrop. Probably something taht has been done elsewhere but I haven't see it.
& there is still shadow in wrong places for the virtual room but interesting to see how this is progressing.

how young were you when you started watching the webinar

I was a lot younger when I realised how unimpressed i was by self congratulatory douches

I didn't put it together until just now that Elmyra from Tiny Toons was based off of Elmer Fudd.

The characters of Elmyra and Montana Max in Tiny Toons are surrogates for Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, September 25, 2017 6:20 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Beat me to it.