bullshit
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 8 May 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
Korean Age
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/20/everyone-in-south-korea-could-soon-be-getting-younger
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Monday, 9 May 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
...see also racehorses
something from about 6 months ago which i was reminded of watching TV earlier: pole dancing poles rotate
― koogs, Monday, 9 May 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
I guess Korean babies are shockingly old at birth
― Josefa, Monday, 9 May 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
There was a thing not long ago about Koreans' drinking age. Every 20-year-old becomes of age at midnight on December 31, but a COVID curfew meant they had to wait.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/31/korean-new-year-covid-pandemic/
― may the florist be with you (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 03:05 (one year ago) link
After misreading a timeline in my 4th or 5th grade history textbook as "King John sings the Magna Carta" (dyslexics untie!), it was quite a few years before I found out the Magna Carta was a document and not an opera or something.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 13 May 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
Lol, good one.
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 May 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
Speaking of which, this exists: http://magnacartatrails.com/events/the-great-charter-magna-carta-community-opera/
― greyfriars boaby (Matt #2), Friday, 13 May 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ4mxOluXY4
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Friday, 13 May 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
I remember reading that in the Russian Revolution era some of the poor agrarian classes didn't know that The Internationale was some popular verse that people sung as a political anthem and thought it might be some kind of supernatural creature.
― calzino, Friday, 13 May 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
That Bridgerton is an adaptation of a series of novels written about 20 years ago, and not, as I assumed, something invented by Netflix to cash in on the success of Downtown Abbey.
― Alba, Monday, 30 May 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
I saw one of the books a few days ago but assumed it was a tv tie in and didn't look further.
― Stevolende, Monday, 30 May 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
I guess i’m astonishing old to learn bridgerton is a thing of any kind
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
John Peel's first wife was only 15 when they married (in Texas, where that was legal at the time). She later committed suicide.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 03:26 (one year ago) link
Coincidentally and apropos of nothing I learned tonight that Leo Gorcey of the Bowery Boys's first wife was 15, and that after they divorced she married the 54-year-old Groucho Marx when she was 21.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 05:44 (one year ago) link
Teenage Kicks
― pplains, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 13:11 (one year ago) link
That people still really care about the Cure
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 13:29 (one year ago) link
"Downtown Abbey" sounds like an "In Living Color" parody.
― THE VEIVET UIUERABOUIU (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
Do that which you would like to doin Downton Abbey
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 14:11 (one year ago) link
I nearly corrected myself with a Billy Joel themed joke but decided it wasn’t really working.
― Alba, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
I'm a woman.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
It's esoteric, but I recently bought one of those old rackmount Akai samplers from the 1990s - a big beige box with a jogwheel on the front and 32mb of memory. While looking at old sample libraries I realised that 90% of the non-licensed soundtrack for the first WipeOut game came from a single sample CD, Zero-g Datafile One. In this video the uploader has even used the samples to make a WipeOut-style tune:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msqrVjc-bZQ
And! The backing vocals from Haddaway's "What is Love" come from the same sample CD:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJSHAsmeZBY
The producer didn't even hire a backing vocalist. But of course it would have been nothing without Haddaway's anguished vocal performance. It haunts me still. As a kid I assumed the musicians made those sounds themselves, or scoured their record collections, but they just bought Zero-G Datafile One and Two instead. They still had to go through those discs and find the best samples and use them musically, but it was a lot easier than I expected.
If you listen to the second volume it's like a snapshop of 1990s video game music, particularly Jet Set Radio and Sonic CD:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_68RD0tkQM
It makes sense given that the musicians had a tight deadline to make hours of video game music with a budget of nothing. It's just striking that they all seemed to have the exact same sample CD.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
same thing happens when you fire up any classic digital synth and go through the presets, you'll be saying "hey wait a minute, that's ..." a lot. I imagine the same is true with whatever the hot new VST is these days.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
just remembered when I first got Ableton in the early 2000s and all the presets on the synths were the same as those used on the Morr records I was into at the time.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
Mr. Hooper was a communist.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 11 June 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
Women were not allowed to run in the Boston marathon until 1972, and for that matter, before the 1980s, there were no women's distance races in the Olympics at all. The women's marathon was introduced at the 1984 Summer Olympics
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link
Here is Katherine Switzer (trying to) complete her 1967 run while being assaulted by race manager Jock Semple:
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/04/19/sports/18switzer-web/18switzer-web-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale
"The AAU banned women from competing in races against men as a result of her run, and it was not until 1972 that the Boston Marathon established an official women's race."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 12:45 (one year ago) link
I mean, until 1974, women were often denied the ability to open their own bank accounts.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 17 June 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
I remember comment from the time from people about it being a year of women or something to that effect. Me being like 7 years old.
Wonder how things like taht change in the world of For All Mankind since I've just been watching that era in it.
― Stevolende, Friday, 17 June 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
Iirc in For All Mankind the Equal Rights Amendment is ratified almost immediately, under Nixon.
xpost That I knew already. I guess back then running was considered kind of weird for everyone, period, but in the case of women, people literally believed it was dangerous to run fast for more than two miles at a time! Based on ... I dunno, bullshit? Like, this is so nuts:
When Joan Ullyot, a physician and an accomplished runner, published her book Women's Running in 1976, she took on a daunting set of traditional ideas that boiled down to one admonition: women should not run long distances.They were not physiologically built for it, women were told. Compared with men, they typically had higher body fat, less muscle bulk and lighter bone structure, factors that should discourage them from engaging in long-distance running – or so it was believed. Moreover, many authorities in the field warned that extended running might harm women’s reproductive organs.
They were not physiologically built for it, women were told. Compared with men, they typically had higher body fat, less muscle bulk and lighter bone structure, factors that should discourage them from engaging in long-distance running – or so it was believed. Moreover, many authorities in the field warned that extended running might harm women’s reproductive organs.
That's downright medieval in its intellectual and scientific dishonesty.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
that "cf" is short for the Latin CONFER, which means "compare"
i'm not even going to type what i thought it meant but i feel really dumb
― budo jeru, Sunday, 19 June 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
covfefe
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 19 June 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
In my head "cf" stands for "see, for example"
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 19 June 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
"SEE For instance" is what i mentally translated it to for a while
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 19 June 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
cf describes about 28% of all ilx threads.
― pplains, Monday, 20 June 2022 13:29 (one year ago) link
i used to kind of assume, without putting it to the test, that if you did a poo in the shower it would just sort of disintegrate under the spray & go down the plughole. this is not the case.
― the coming of prince kajagoogoo (doo rag), Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
STORY TIME
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:40 (one year ago) link
there was a post about this important matter on ilx once. They key is to use your feet like you are treading grapes, apparently.
― calzino, Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:44 (one year ago) link
More like the coming of prince kajapoopoo!
― nickn, Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:55 (one year ago) link
Poo shy shyFlush flush
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:56 (one year ago) link
Martin Sheen's real name is Ramon Estévez
That's what's on his drivers license to this day, his birth certificate, etc.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 24 June 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link
Wait'll you see Charlie Sheen's real name
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 June 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
Frasier H. Babalucci
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 24 June 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
what, didn’t have questions when you saw the name of his son, emiliiiiiliiiiiioooo
― mh, Friday, 24 June 2022 01:20 (one year ago) link
maybe he thought Emilio was his stage name and his real name was, like, Kyle Sheen
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 June 2022 01:33 (one year ago) link
that "cf" is short for the Latin CONFER, which means "compare"i'm not even going to type what i thought it meant but i feel really dumb
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 24 June 2022 04:29 (one year ago) link
Today I learned that a “beamer” only refers to a BMW motorcycle. The correct slang term for a BMW car is “bimmer” (which I have never heard before).
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 1 July 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
Just reading up on that Kathrine Switzer/Jock Semple incident. This was news to me. Good for her for not letting him stop her. She seems like a hero. Apparently, she and Semple became friends in later years.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 July 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
Buffy Sainte-Marie (co-) wrote "Up Where We Belong"
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Saturday, 2 July 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link
I'm not buying this beamer thing, according to whom?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 2 July 2022 01:18 (one year ago) link