Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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Bud's for you

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.

so it's basically shepherd's pie?

fava beans are broad beans

'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

that's where I learned it!

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

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

In US English however the name fava refers to fresh broad beans ... ?

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

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..

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.

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.

dude if fantano posted here, you would likely know for sure

Lol that was the first thought this morning that made me question my long standing wrong belief

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.

"Big" Don Abernethy

Just realized the name of the movie service mubi is a funny way of writing "movie."

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]

Hence the collocation "blood and sand."

Aka Sangre y arena.

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.

pythagoras and confucious and the buddha (probably) all lived at the same time.

in the same house (sitcom proposal)

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.

I remember learning about this in R.E. at school. "The axial age." Also Zoroaster and Plato and the Hebrew prophets.

Oh, looking it up now, that covers a longer period.

Anyway, g8 days

apologies for spelling confucius wrong, i was confuced.

'suggs' was graham mcpherson's graffiti name before he joined madness

that iggy pop's pre-stooges band the prime movers also included allmusic founder michael erlewine and experimental composer "blue" gene tyranny

xxp I think this may have been book I was thinking about
Karen Armstrong. The Great Transformation

Thanks stevolende, that looks interesting.

That Pink Floyd etc bassist Guy Pratt is the son of Mike (Randall and Hopkirk Deceased) Pratt

That came as a surprise to me when I found out. There was a nice little twitter thread a few weeks ago about the things he’d use to show his character’s hip credentials. Was more surprised to discover he was a musician too.

As I've got the day off, I thought I'd share my obsession with Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) screen grabs which helped to establish Jeff Randall's hip credentials. A thread, starting with Martin Sharp's poster for the 'legalise cannabis' rally in Hyde Park, July 16, 1967.
1/6 pic.twitter.com/bw9FrJEBNy

— Marco Rossi (@marcosquawks) January 24, 2023

Guy Pratt chiming in to confirm they were all his dad's!

The expression “va-va-va voom” can be traced back to Art Carney, who said it on TV in 1949

!

Although I can hear him say it.

The word "glamour" originates from Scotland.

Up there with "Drambuie" as things often erroneously assumed and pronounced as French, in certain places at least.

glamour and (related) gramarye are both scottish -- the first popularised by walter scott -- but their shared root is old french gramaire (meaning learning, spells, mumbo-jumbo) from latin grammatica

learning, spells, mumbo-jumbo

my major in college

And here I thought it was something to do with the thane of Glamis

Carb Rangoon, things of that bat

_learning, spells, mumbo-jumbo_


my major in college

Yeesh zing c’mon man

What I always think of when I hear the word glamour:

'I went to the l-l-library and l-looked it uh-uh-up,' Bill said. 'I think It's a gluh-gluh' — he
paused, throat straining, and spat it out — 'a glamour.'
'Glammer?' Eddie asked doubtfully.
'G-G-Glamour,' Bill said, and spelled it. He told them about an encyclopedia entry on the
subject and, a chapter he had read in a book called Night's Truth. Glamour, he said, was the
Gaelic name for the creature which was haunting Derry; other races and other cultures at
other times had different words for it, but they all meant the same thing. The Plains Indians
called it a manitou, which sometimes took the shape of a mountain-lion or an elk or an eagle.
These same Indians believed that the spirit of a manitou could sometimes enter them, and at
these times it was possible for them to shape the clouds themselves into representations of
those animals for which their houses had been named. The Himalayans called it a tallus or
taelus, which meant an evil magic being that could read your mind and then assume the shape
of the thing you were most afraid of. In Central Europe it had been called eylak, brother of
the vurderlak, or vampire. In France it was le loup-garou, or skin-changer, a concept that had
been crudely translated as the werewolf, but, Bill told them, le loup-garou (which he
pronounced 'le loop-garoo') could be anything, anything at all: a wolf, a hawk, a sheep, even
a bug.

I think of the novel by Christopher Priest.