Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I was probably older than you when I learned that just now on this thread.

Hadn't heard R in the Month had anything to do with oysters until this thread. I thought it was just a more often than not thing. Presumably just past into common parlance so separated from its original context. But that explains usage better I guess. Like reason why it would not be in the months that don't have an R in them.

(xxp) Great song. One of his very few (co-)compositions.

Wonder what the saying is for oysters in the Southern Hemisphere.

I thought the oyster thing it was only partly to do with refrigerated transport. Also: Shellfish are filter-feeders. Everything that's in the water they're in passes through them, and some of it stays.

As such, they accumulate more environmental toxins, parasites, and such when the water is more concentrated. Due to evaporation and all. One would expect that shellfish would have more potentially harmful stuff in them in summer than in winter.

Of course, I don't know if there's an equal and opposite rule in the Southern hemisphere

ha pplains xpost

thought this was a red tide poisoning thing

Should You Eat Shellfish Only in Months with an 'R'?

I watched this video last year about clams being used as a kind of water pollution alarm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtanyJuW5CA

I thought oysters spawned in the non-R months? And spewed gross stuff everywere

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The pipehitter thing is extra funny because I assume spec ops bros initially picked it up from Pulp Fiction thinking it meant badass instead of “insane crackhead.”

― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, June 17, 2021 1:49 PM (two hours ago)

I assumed until just now that it mean that marcellus wallace was esoteric enough that he had associates who where known for their shtick of literally hitting people with pipes.

I did and still do

is that a joke?

pipe-hitting: that's where i hit people with pipes

uhh yeah that's pretty obviously what it means in the movie lol

oh god not you too

i'm pretty sure Marcellus doesn't want to leave the torture of his sodomizer to Chris Rock's character from New Jack City

he says something along the lines of "im going to call up a pair of hard piep-hittin' ... to go to work on the homes with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch". they're not going to be hitting him with a pipe, they are crackheads

technically the latter part was a callback to a line from Charley Varrick

yes tarantino likes to steal

apparently in a deleted scene marcellus actually calls Mr Wolf, suggesting that he decides for a more professional torturer

Should You Eat Shellfish Only in Months with an 'R'?

― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, June 16, 2021 4:46 PM (two days ago)

thank you for the link. the reasons listed there are why i've largely stopped harvesting my own oysters. "leave it to the pros, i say." (old latin phrase.)

ive freshly shucked oysters that ive picked in the middle of a hot summer, but i don't think i'd do it again. a couple of years ago some friends of mine were at a friend's parents' cabin and harvested some oysters. half the people who ate them spent the remainder of their trip having diarrhea while vomiting, there being only one outhouse a lot of this was done in the bushes. vile

Otto Preminger briefly played Mr. Freeze on the 1960s Batman TV series. I feel like I should have encountered this fun fact at some point already while reading about Preminger or Batman!

I knew John Saxon had been in a bunch of Italian movies and figured it was just like a Christopher George sitch with an American actor making a bunch of overseas flicks and ADR-ing his dialogue after the fact, but I saw The Girl Who Knew Too Much today in the original Italian which is where I learned to my surprise that he was actually fluent.

(Incidentally, I also learned that Christopher George was Vanna White's uncle. A very educational day.)

I was today years old when I learned percentages are reversible.

So 6% of 50 is the same as 50% of 6, which is a lot easier to work out

— Adam Smith (@adamndsmith) June 26, 2021

no wonder The Wealth of Nations is such a pile of shit if he's just working out how numbers work now

THomnas Pakenhman who wrote the Scramble For Africa is an Earl Of Longford who writes books about trees. JUst found that out.

That the Anglican/Episcopalian church is catholic, just not Roman Catholic.

I first learned this from The Transmigration of Timothy Archer but it was confirmed by my actively Episcopalian boss, whose father is a retired priest.

Catholic is just an old term meaning universal, isn't it? And retains that sense in expressions like 'catholic tastes'

that percentage thing is both head-smack obvious and crayzayy

I spent my Anglican childhood reciting “And I believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church” as part of the creed.

Catholic is just an old term meaning universal, isn't it? And retains that sense in expressions like 'catholic tastes'

Yes, English has retained its etymological meaning, whereas French, for instance, has not.

Is the Anglican church the result of Henry VIII wanting to split from the church to divorce his first wife so prior to Luther and Calvin being dominant forces. At least in Britain?

How old Debbie Harry is, older than Van Morrison, Davy Jones, Syd Barrett, Lesley Gore and Dolly Parton. 5 years older than Stevie Wonder!

I knew Blondie didn't form until she was almost 30, but it's pretty crazy in that comparison.

_Catholic is just an old term meaning universal, isn't it? And retains that sense in expressions like 'catholic tastes'_


Yes, English has retained its etymological meaning, whereas French, for instance, has not.

I mean, Diet Coke is still a Coke, I guess.

"...Henry VIII wanting to split from the church to divorce his first wife so prior to Luther and Calvin being dominant forces..."

Dominant is probably the key word here - Martin Luther's Edict of Worms was 1521, England's break with Rome was the 1530's

You can lock the screen on a Windows PC by hitting the Windows key plus L. Easier than Ctrl-Alt-Delete.

Windows + m to bring up the desktop is another good one.

* That "Sixty Minute Man" - a song I've loved since my mom introduced me to it in my teenage years, is not just an excellent R&B record from say, 1957 or so - it's from 1951 and recognized as a pivotal and important record in the history of rock and roll. The rock-docs and other texts I'd absorbed on the genre never mentioned it. And I don't think I've heard it on the radio since the day my mom caught it on the "Oldies" station circa 1995 and got all excited.

I didn't realize it was that old, either. I kinda figured it was from the mid '50s, right around the same time as Hank Ballard & the Midnighters.

"Sixty Minute Man" is one of those things where the first time you encounter it you're like, "People got away with this back then?" It's like that W.C. Fields short where he's a dentist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qYmFXWtdo8

I just realized that in the song about bottles of beer on the wall, the bottles are ON TOP OF the wall and falling off. I thought that they were nailed or otherwise suspended somehow in the middle of the wall before falling to the floor.

Like one would say a painting was "on the wall".

I thought they were on a shelf on the wall! "Take one down, pass it around...."

I also thought it was a shelf on the wall, after I determined that they were not clinging to the wall in defiance of gravity.

It makes exactly no sense to store beer on a wall, no matter how you do it.

But that's only one of the problems.

If you have 99 bottles, there's no need to take one down and pass it around. Just give everyone their own bottle. Much more hygienic and more efficient.

Stays colder that way too. Like if I'm last in line, I'm going to want to take one sip at a time from each of 99 bottles of warm beer with everyone else's spit and germs?

Just give everyone a bottle. Then another if they want it. You have plenty of beer. Jeez.

I was shockingly old when I learned what song you're talking about. In the UK (as far as I know) we didn't have this song, but we had another song with similar lyrics and a different tune that goes like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ooQv7oHvw

Though the Wikipedia page for your 99 bottles song says one of the alternative lyrics is "If one of those bottles should happen to fall, 98 bottles of beer on the wall...", which is what we sang in our song.