I think I read the movie tie-in novel first though lol
― paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 January 2023 03:37 (one year ago) link
That there are no bridges across the Amazon https://www.livescience.com/why-no-bridges-over-amazon-river
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 7 January 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
!
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 January 2023 14:23 (one year ago) link
is Ski just an anglicisation of Skyr? (yogurt-wise)
― koogs, Monday, 9 January 2023 16:06 (one year ago) link
Oooh
― Alba, Monday, 9 January 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
Wasn't it supposed to be Swiss (for some reason) and Alpine and, therefore, healthy (for some reason), a bit like Alpen?
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Monday, 9 January 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
it's the full-of-fitness food (where fitness means blobs of fruit)
my sister and i ate it with like ten spoons of sugar in it (even more full of fitness)
― mark s, Monday, 9 January 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
Yvonne = Ivan
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 9 January 2023 19:19 (one year ago) link
Nothing to do with Skyr, marketing bs/genius.
Rather brilliant thread about Ski here. Big LOL at the dustbin analysis.
Okay, as requested, more history of weird stuff with food and logistics.Let's talk about how Ski Yoghurt utterly dominated the 70s UK yoghurt wars, by understanding how humans work better than humans do.Oh, and also through strippers.Read on... /1 pic.twitter.com/5fQqn0AObx— John Bull (@garius) July 30, 2021
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 9 January 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
pleased to discover that my sister and i were correct abt sugar and fitness (and that we were eating 14 spoonfuls of sugar per pot)
― mark s, Monday, 9 January 2023 20:16 (one year ago) link
Georgie Born out of Henry Cow and Olivia Newton-John were cousins.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Monday, 9 January 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link
Dolly Parton is the godmother of Miley Cyrus.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 January 2023 22:23 (one year ago) link
That Al Franken is one of the gorilla transporting guys in Trading Places.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
Just now, and I have owned both for decades:
"From nearly 50 years I own the albums, I never noticed this continuity between the two albums covers..."
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/325128010_4192419900982537_506495545880088972_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=r-56ozKQgusAX8wd09f&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AfB3pbDraO7EfMP4UmCh8XIEwY5bgml9GzbFm_GFcR3iJA&oe=63C2C91E
― nickn, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 22:14 (one year ago) link
that's a new one to me too, wow!
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 22:23 (one year ago) link
OK my mind is blown to its foundations now
― moving on from the Corby 4400 era (Matt #2), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 23:00 (one year ago) link
this. changes. everything
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link
They are bboth by the same artist Roger Dean who Yes discovered through Osibisa.So maybe it's intentional or maybe he was using the same art set up so had similar things likely to coincide. Not sure what else he had running across both sides of a gatefold.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
Is that a front sleeve running onto the side of a back sleeve?It's not an existing rock formation he's incorporated into his fictive mythical art or something is it?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 23:26 (one year ago) link
That the line in Spandau Ballet's True is "I know this much is true" not "I know this march is true".
― Alba, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
Alba. “This march”?
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link
A journey to glory?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:07 (one year ago) link
This smartch is true
― doug watson, Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:25 (one year ago) link
I know thisBud's for you
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:50 (one year ago) link
Was eating tacos al pastor last night and annoying my wife talking about the connection to shawarma through lebanese immigrants in Mexico and how the name translates to "shepherd style".
For some reason it had never occured to me that it's the same word as "pastor" in the sense of leading a flock.
― joygoat, Sunday, 15 January 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
so it's basically shepherd's pie?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 15 January 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link
fava beans are broad beans
― ledge, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 19:34 (one year ago) link
'broad beans and a nice chianti' lacks a certain something
Also that you can make bread with them https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/jan/18/beans-in-toast-uk-should-switch-to-broad-bean-bread-say-researchers
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
that's where I learned it!
― ledge, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
Fava beans are a big area of interest in crop science rn, ppl have started brewing with them too which is significantly greener than just using cereals
― pilk/pall revolting odors (wins), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 22:49 (one year ago) link
I was reading about this yesterday - apparently faves/faba are same species as broad bean but different variety to the ones traditional in British cuisine. https://hodmedods.co.uk/blogs/news/what-are-fava-beans-are-they-just-broad-beans
― Alba, Thursday, 19 January 2023 09:39 (one year ago) link
In US English however the name fava refers to fresh broad beans ... ?
― ledge, Thursday, 19 January 2023 09:57 (one year ago) link
can we have some US english people on here to adjudicate please
I call them fava beans. Might be a regional divide on the issue though
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Thursday, 19 January 2023 12:26 (one year ago) link
Noel Redding resigned from the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hadn't realised he'd left voluntarily. Thought Jimi was just into expanding his sound. That would explain why Mitch Mitchell was back playing with Hendrix a few months after Woodstock/Band of Gypsies a bit better..
― Stevolende, Thursday, 19 January 2023 13:14 (one year ago) link
I'm growing fava beans this year!! I wanted to make ful medames last year and couldn't find fava locally, either dried or canned. It made me get interested in growing and drying them. Experiment to be updated in May-June.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
that poster fastnbulbous isn't Anthony Fantano. no, not intended as a diss. somehow years ago from a post I read I thought someone confirmed this, but in browsing google today....no, very much not. though I think they're also named Tony.
p big mistake there, lol.
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 January 2023 17:21 (one year ago) link
dude if fantano posted here, you would likely know for sure
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 January 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link
Lol that was the first thought this morning that made me question my long standing wrong belief
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 January 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
Abernethy biscuits are not actually from Abernethy (in Perth & Kinross), despite always being marketed as Scottish iirc, and are named after the person who invented them, who was English.
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Friday, 20 January 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link
"Big" Don Abernethy
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 January 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
Just realized the name of the movie service mubi is a funny way of writing "movie."
― nickn, Monday, 23 January 2023 19:45 (one year ago) link
etymology of "arena"
The word derives from Latin harena, a particularly fine-grained sand that covered the floor of ancient arenas such as the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, to absorb blood.[1]
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 00:47 (one year ago) link
Hence the collocation "blood and sand."
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 01:01 (one year ago) link
Aka Sangre y arena.
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 01:02 (one year ago) link
There's a village in Powys called Three Cocks and another in Norfolk called Three Holes. Googling the two to see if they are twinned was not a good idea.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 01:04 (one year ago) link
pythagoras and confucious and the buddha (probably) all lived at the same time.
― ledge, Friday, 27 January 2023 10:18 (one year ago) link
in the same house (sitcom proposal)
― mark s, Friday, 27 January 2023 10:22 (one year ago) link
I think there was a non fiction book a few years ago talking about great revelation coinciding at several points around the globe at the start of the common era. Think I looked at a copy over last couple of weeks but going blank on title.
― Stevolende, Friday, 27 January 2023 11:54 (one year ago) link