Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Wait until you guys hear about Paul Potts!

OMG

the snapping thing is blowing my mind

Jennifer Jason Leigh is Vic Morrow's daughter?! I swear everyone in Hollywood is related to someone else in Hollywood.

Yeah, I think last week I learned that Josh Brolin's dad was an actor.

TWL
Today We Learned pic.twitter.com/oaUsivOIqK

— TRL Mailorder (@TRL_Mailorder) August 25, 2021

As a kid, always wondered which cities were in the other guitar/horseshoe crab-spaceships.

Cambridge and Dedham, iirc

actual LOLs

That 'Slav' and 'slave' have the same root, because Slavic peoples were in fact used as slaves in Carolingian Francia.

We may well still be in the age of Pisces, not the age of Aquarius. Hippy misinformation!

Probably. Inasmuch as there are ages at all.

https://earthsky.org/human-world/when-will-the-age-of-aquarius-begin/

Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle are sisters.

heh I feel like I learn that every ten years or so and then somehow manage to forget it

Robert E Lee lead the army unit that stopped John Brown from his attempted raid. I think that was in Ibram X Kendi's Stamped From The Beginning, definitely read about it somewhere over the last week. So does that already put him on the wrong side of history before the civil war?

I heard a few years ago that Arlington cemetery was located so that it went right up to Lee's door so he would be continually reminded of the mess he had caused.

back to the snapping!

That the loud clicking sound generated by clicking/snapping one’s fingers is the sound of the finger hitting the fleshy part of the palm

i've been experimenting, and this is only partly the case. the snap sound is the wave being amplified through the little tube created by your ring and pinkie being closed against the palm. if you block the hole of your downturned pinky, no snap sound. just the dull thud of your middle finger.

the little tube created by your ring and pinkie

Ban this filth

long live the new flesh

I heard a few years ago that Arlington cemetery was located so that it went right up to Lee's door so he would be continually reminded of the mess he had caused.

I don't think the Union ever planned for the Lees to ever reclaim the property anyway.

He may have been on the wrong side of history when he captured John Brown, but he was wearing stars and stripes while doing it.

I swear I was at least 20 when I learned that you could only legally terminate a pregnancy in the first several weeks

Plan B not legal?

That Dublin was established as a Viking town.

(Basically the entire history of the Vikings in the UK has eluded me until very recently.)

Norse Gaels, for instance

Plan B not legal?

Notably not referred to as “the month or two after pill”

Plan B doesn’t terminate pregnancy.

oops, i misread

okay I just learned today that Ocelots live wild in the United States

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/02/65/03/17518821/3/2400x0.jpg

I just learned that Cadillac and Rolls Royce are makes, not models.

I am wearing my favorite t shirt right now. It has a picture of a margay on it, but everyone thinks it's of an ocelot.

last night, looking up what the heck is kohlrabi, i learned that it, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale and collard greens are all the same species --- just been cultivated and bred from the original wild cabbage into these extremely different forms.

https://kottke.org/plus/misc/images/brassica-oleracea.jpg

I assume you can eat the respective parts of each of the variations there are just going to be far less of them because of what the breeding process has focused on. & they will be less flavorful?

Ingenious.

Today I learned that the girls on the cover of Roxy Music's Country Life LP were the sister and girlfriend of Michael Karoli out of Can.

The name of Missing Persons' first LP, Spring Session M, is an anagram of the band's name.

The process of making fabric soft enough to wear next to your skin out of bamboo is apparently deeply detrimental to any ecological benefit you get from doing so. Hear it outlined on a webinar last night that it is a heavily chemical viscose like process. So whereas it is a fast growing wood that works well as wood it isn't as universal a product for other ethical usage and fun stuff like that, like.

Wait, who is making bamboo clothing?

the adverts on UK tv have mostly been either sports shoes or underwear but a quick Google shows a bigger range, but still mostly sporty

Seems to be mostly underwear for fat shouty annoying - possibly Australian - men.

haven't seen adverts but there was a shop called Mabboo in our shopping centre that was selling bamboo clothing. I got a bamboo tshirt from a bamboo clothing store in NYC about 10 years ago, so it was a thing then.
The viscose thing is interesting; there was a brief history of its production on A House Through Time recently.

xp yeah, Step One ads seem to be on during every show, but last christmas there were others which had men strutting around wearing nothing but boxers and panda heads (particularly amusing as our work squad had panda as a code name - p & a)

Allbirds are the bamboo running shoe ads that are similarly common.

I had some bamboo socks a few years ago but they shrank in the wash.

viscose similarly takes a hard substyance and pulps it then breaks things down chemically before creating a synthetic substance from it to make clothing from. Sounds like it was a good step on the route to further development when the process was discovered but it is not a healthy ecological process so that leaves viscose as a not very green fabric too. Shame since it is the one fabric I've found so far taht I can get tartan that I can make trousers from that I can actually wear.
Same speaker was pointing out the negatives in the production of cotton, wool and a few others too . Like seems like there are few fabric production processes that are actually all that positive. Sheep need to be fed and then the resultant wool needs to be heavily treated before it can be used, cotton is not a great positive plant and processes for preproduction of fabric aren't great either. Loads of things are very water consuming and leave a lot of pollution in their wake.
The point of the webinar was to point out that the production processes didn't tend to be very green and I think it was well made. But people need to wear clothing both traditionally and environmentally and so some things are at least semi necessary. Could all be improved though.

Well people need to stop throwing clothing away after six months, would help. Putting it in a charity bin doesn’t absolve the sin.

The best solution is nudism.

Couple more years it'll be too hot to wear clothes anyway.

I thought clothes were meant to be worn once

Well people need to stop throwing clothing away after six months, would help. Putting it in a charity bin doesn’t absolve the sin.

― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, October 14, 2021 6:09 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I bought my first pairs of new pants in more than 2 years this past weekend, and realize that I've had some t-shirts for a decade if not more. It actually boggles my mind that people go through clothes so quickly.

I thought clothes were meant to be worn once

"Alessia Teresko, a 21-year-old student from Nottingham, seldom wears the same outfit online twice."

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2021/oct/06/out-of-style-will-gen-z-ever-give-up-its-dangerous-love-of-fast-fashion

(xp) Only a decade? I've got t-shirts that are over 30 years old. I don't wear them very often mind you!

some of us had to buy new clothes because we got fat during the pandemic, mind