thanks matttkkkk!
― cephalopod conflict resolution (cat), Saturday, 26 November 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3ARecycle001.svg
The 3 arrows in the original recycling symbol are not identical--2 arrows fold over and 1 folds under, making it a moebius strip.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 27 November 2022 08:21 (one year ago) link
But recycling isn't an eternal loop though is it? There's some dimensions of loss. Plus doesn't everything just get sent to Indonesia to destroy their environment, or is that just plastics.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 27 November 2022 10:33 (one year ago) link
or does the moebius element just highlight a fundamental physical flaw, that it doesn't quite work in this universe
― Stevolende, Sunday, 27 November 2022 10:37 (one year ago) link
I never realised until now that the question in the old “what’s brown and sticky” children’s gag is supposed to make you think it’s a poo.
I mean it’s so OBVIOUS NOW
but still
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 1 December 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
Just learnt that Ray Milland was Welsh.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 1 December 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
!
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 December 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
I recently learned how to say his hometown in Welsh: Castell-nedd.
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 December 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
Man
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 December 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
Ha, wrong thread
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 December 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
man: also welsh
― mark s, Thursday, 1 December 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
Really? Always thought it was Manx.
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 December 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
https://i.discogs.com/80Tg2M2Rfo0qpOc6kpXp9ifjYK1-PgJU_X9SehlQ3vs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzMDgx/NDgtMTUzOTIwMzY5/Ny0yNjU0LmpwZWc.jpeg
― Oh wouldn't it be rubbery? (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 December 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
I was today years old when I learned that Slade covered Moby Grape’s “Omaha”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LEA_kTO214
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 4 December 2022 23:23 (one year ago) link
Lissen Ma Frenz
― budo jeru, Sunday, 4 December 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 December 2022 00:04 (one year ago) link
With this and the Move doing "Hey Grandma", it seems like Moby Grape an impression in the West Midlands at least! Imagining "Nayyyykid If Oi Want Tow" in my head.
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Monday, 5 December 2022 07:47 (one year ago) link
*made an impression*
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Monday, 5 December 2022 07:48 (one year ago) link
would rather make an impression than impact anything
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 December 2022 08:06 (one year ago) link
https://i.discogs.com/vgg5oL-oJtp308OCjZAKhMcfRFD-WdDgJ1F6C3WlF-s/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQzNTk3/MjctMTM2Mjc3NjM5/OS01OTg3LmpwZWc.jpeg
i spent a good amount of time as a young person thinking that "thoroughfare" referred to food. i think i was likely in college, learning about haussmann and the boulevards, when i finally figured out my mistake. not sure that i ever encountered the above cover art, but it was definitely via bud powell's recording of the same tune on a blue note reissue CD that i encountered the word for the first time
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
hearty parisian thoroughfare
― mark s, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
in college sports parlance, "Yukon" is actually University of Connecticut... and not some sports powerhouse in Northern Alaska that I had imagined
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
yes, but not spelled like that
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
I many not be shockingly old but have long wondered: is the Husky mascot a play on the Yukon/UConn thing or just coincidence?
― tobo73, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
I always assumed yes but wiki says no:
The university's teams are nicknamed "Huskies", a name adopted following a student poll in The Connecticut Campus in 1934 after the school's name changed from Connecticut Agricultural College to Connecticut State College in 1933; before then, the teams were referred to as the Aggies.[2] Although there is a homophonic relationship between "UConn" and the Yukon, where Huskies are native, the "Huskies" nickname predates the school's 1939 name change to the University of Connecticut; the first recorded use of "UConn" (as "U-Conn", both separately and with "Huskies") was later in 1939.
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link
Wait until you hear about Case Western Reserve.
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
Learned yesterday that a courgette and a baby cucumber are not the same thing
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_England
not sure i knew this, that England wasn't England until 927
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
Yeah even Alfred was only King of Wessex, though there were various "Bretwalda" in the previous few centuries.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretwalda
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
Scotland appears to be older by 80-odd years.
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
GO YOU HUSKIES!
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 21:57 (one year ago) link
so for some reason I thought Rufus Wainwright had a French accent all this time, and then I hear him do an interview and...no, not at all. guess my confusion was the fact that he speaks French and often sings in French and I listened to his version of Hallelujah when I was younger and thought he had a thick French accent but listening now it's just folk-affectation and nothing more.
dum
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 December 2022 23:11 (one year ago) link
last week i discovered that you can hang up on most smartphones by pressing the power button. no need to look at the screen.
― formerly abanana (dat), Friday, 23 December 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
Yep. Did that by mistake the other day and then had to call back and re-cycle through about 15 stages of menu to get to where I was. VERY annoying.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 23 December 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
discovered a couple of weeks ago that lionel messi isn't french.
― ledge, Friday, 23 December 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
I hear Dawn French is rather messy.
― more crankable (sic), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
Yeah even Alfred was only King of Wessex, though there were various "Bretwalda" in the previous few centuries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretwalda
― Camaraderie at Arms Length
yet no one told me
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otrt0iH9ubw
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
Mind blown by this.
And of course my occasional reminder that it's called My Fair Lady as that's how Eliza would pronounce Mayfair. The greatest and most understated phonetic pun in any movie title.— Mark Lamarr (@lamarr_mark) December 26, 2022
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 26 December 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
holy shit me too duh
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Monday, 26 December 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
Kenny Rogers started out playing bass and was pretty good at it.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 December 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
lots of shots of him playing in this cliphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B45NsDaUa8o
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 26 December 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
Thanks. There is a video on social media of him playing upright bass with Dudley Moore jamming on “Satin Doll” on The Tonight Show that is particularly interesting. He gets a little lost during his solo and laughs but mostly sounds pretty good. Also didn’t know that Mickey Jones was in The First Edition.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 December 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
Dudley Moore & Kenny Rogers: Satin Doll https://t.co/puvu5WXLUr via @notreble— Kenny Rogers (@_KennyRogers) January 7, 2018
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 December 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
appears unavailable here, but this is also good ("what're you doing New Year's Eve?"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqjepfQZwzY
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link
In the "unknown bassist" category, I read that Giorgio Moroder spent the first part of his career playing stand-up bass in jazz groups.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
legend has it that he was kicked out of the jazz scene because of his tendency to only play repeated arpeggio figures
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
Ukraine is like the size of Texas. !?
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Saturday, 31 December 2022 01:17 (one year ago) link
I laughingly said to my 20yo daughter that as a kid I one day expected to understand the "macaroni" reference in "Yankee Doodle Dandy" when I grew up - assuming it was just nonsense for the rhyme - when she said "oh no that was a term for a fashionable dandy at the time" which floored me.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 31 December 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
Max’s Kansas City isn’t in Kansas.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 31 December 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link