Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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The term vegan was invented in Leicester in 1944.

I literally just found out what ICYMI means.

i guess YMI

It's like it's something I saw for years but never took any notice of so it became almost invisible.

i did think for a while it was cleverer than it is. "i see you...", er, M I

"i see why..." obv

I think for a while I conflated "I can't believe it's yogurt," "I can't believe it's not butter," and "The Country's Best Yogurt" with various piles of initials like TCBY ICBINY ICBINB YMMV ICYMI AIUI etc.

When I see ICYMI I have a tough time believing that it has nothing to do with yogurt,

Your yogurt may vary.

MTG probably thinks TCBY = "These Cucks Brought Yogurt"

Good frozen yoghurt

TCBY actually originally stood for This Can't Be Yogurt, then they retconned it to mean The Country's Best Yogurt.

I remember a few kids in my fourth grade class getting into an argument about which it meant.

The word derives from Latin harena, a particularly fine-grained sand

I'm guessing (without looking it up) that Spanish word harina (flour) derives from the same word.

https://i.imgur.com/AnUYgP8.jpg

TCBY used to be have its name on the tallest building in Arkansas.

They're still around, but now HQ'ed in Salt Lake City — which, believe me, is completely on-brand for them.

TCBM

"It's fun to eat at the T C B Y ..."

Actually I assumed it was Taking Care of Business yoghurt.

If the company was founded with current nutritional guidance, I guess it would be This Cant Be Plant-Based Yogurt.

it’s fun to eat at the Y

Nina Simone’s birth name was Eunice Waymon.

TCBM

― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Thursday, February 9, 2023 10:36 AM (twelve hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

They Could Be Midgets

Had a fakebook when I was a kid with 'Mull of Kintyre' in it. Wasn't until I saw the video a couple of years ago that I realized Mull of Kintyre is a geologic feature in a geographical location, and not a unit of material like a ball of wax.

TIL it's not a person (like Martin Mull, c'mon).

yup i thought it was a problematic person from kintyre wherever that is

what's a fakebook

a book of sheet music that helps you “fake it” like you know how to play it, usually with just the main chords and melody sketched out

eventually a fakebook of standards called “the real book” got made and was passed around via photocopy, and it was like the ur-text for anybody who wanted to get up to speed with jazz classics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Book

Mull of Kintyre was one of the first songs in the first guitar method book I got when I started guitar lessons in sixth grade. I hate it so much.

fake it till you like it

Love the mull misunderstandings.
You should've mulled it over a bit more...

Yeah my dad had a million fake books, which is how he knew so many songs to play around the campfire.

Paul McCartney's haircuts from about 1979 through 1989 could be described as...

Wait for it...

Mullet of Kintyre

I always think of Tom Ewing at Popular:

This has the slightly dubious distinction of being the first record I ever disliked. I barely knew about records at all, I was four and three quarters: so my cynicism started early, if you like. This one was inescapable – number one for nine weeks, two million sold, flattening the opposition through Christmas ’77 and then on into ’78. I didn’t know what number ones were but I guess I just got bored of “Mull” being around, its comforting lullaby sway pushing into even our pop-free household*. I remember not being able to figure out what a Mull was, or a Kintyre: I’d been reading the Hobbit, and the Narnia books, so I reckoned it was an honorific, like King, or Tarkaan. And this dark haired guy singing it, he’d be the Mull, then?

TIL that sometimes doctors use maggots to treat wounds

and leeches are great for taking down traumatic bruising!

Yesterday, after being interested in the moon for about 50 years, I learned that the direction of moonrise varies about 30 degrees or so depending on when in the month it is. The full moon rises due east, then moonrise wanders south of east, new moon is due east, then wanders north, repeat. How have I never noticed this?

not gonna lie, i barely pay attention to where the new moon rises.

I am an 80s music stan so my main association with the new moon is "New Moon on Monday."

xp apparently neither have I, but this week the full moon rose behind the hills to the east and then a few nights later moonrise came in the other window over the city, I thought I was losing my mind.

does the moon swing around the other way in the southern hemisphere? i think it will if its orbit is anywhere near Equatorial

nah I think if it's rising on the south side of east wouldn't that be the case wherever you were?

but if it's on the same plane as the sun (which it is because eclipses) basically above the equator, then it'd look to be south from the northern hemisphere and to be north from the southern hemisphere. east/west aspect would be the same but it'd appear to arc in the other direction...

um, must be a site where you can put in your location and see what the sky looks lik...

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/australia/sydney

yeah, it does

in a similar vein, it wasn't many years ago when i realised that the day / night balance on the equator must be almost 50/50

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/sri-lanka/kandy

vs, say, tromso

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/norway/tromso

I hope the moon is behaving itself. Any suspicious behaviour and those wacky North Americans might well start accusing it of being a PRC spy satellite!

time for the moon to launch a sneak attack imo

https://www.indy100.com/news/us-navy-venus-spy-balloon-2659371853

does the moon swing around the other way in the southern hemisphere? i think it will if its orbit is anywhere near Equatorial

― koogs, Sunday, February 12, 2023 11:04 PM

The shockingly dumb way I learned this: https://www.vox.com/2015/2/22/8087847/simpsons-southern-hemisphere

Also, I've been there, and the whole damn sky is upside-down.

the only time i visited sydney i couldn't figure out why my mental map was all wrong - i kept on thinking the coast was in the opposite direction. eventually realised the sun was in the wrong half of the sky.

in other shockingly old news, i learned the other day that 'game and watch' was a game and... a watch! i thought it meant you er watched the game. i never owned one btw.

You never owned a watch?