Things you were shockingly old when you learned

> Scan the ID card

but id cards are transferable. what's to stop me clocking in my mate using his card?

A coworker shared a story of a contractor who thought carrying an id badge to get into the building was too onerous, so he duped the RFID tag into a chip he implanted into his hand

Seems like a bit much, but to compound that lunacy, the same guy wrote an anti-corporate manifesto and quit after his second week when he was told he couldn't vape at his desk

I'm told he made some good points in said manifesto, but ragequitting over vaping was what people remember

He couldn't just do it in the bathroom like the rest of us?

pretty sure someone would notice since there aren't any single-person restrooms but idk

I think it was the principle of the thing, being told not to do it

Oh I'm sure it was; I was just kidding.

Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow had his conviction for implanting his train ticket chip into his hand overturned, mh's brief coworker just loves quitting obv

I was thinking back to the first couple years that mass-market nicotine vapes were becoming commonplace and work had to keep mass emailing the building to tell people to stop vaping in the stairway

That the dude behind Dave's Killer Bread (he sold the company in 2015) was a goddamn maniac and multiple felon. (The bread is excellent.)

By geological definition glacial ice is actually rock, made up of the crystal ice compressed with some other stuff. By this definition, the liquid form of the crystal’s compound, which is called water, is actually molten ice crystals, and therefore actually lava.

10 y/o Hunt3r would have enjoyed this piece of work soooo much, shame I just found it.

xp Can Dave Dahl actually shred on guitar or do I need to switch to another bread?

I would pay to see a tasty blues lick duel between Dave Dahl and Steven Segal.

Killer Dave's Bread?

That the Sinatra song "New York, New York" dates from the late 70s rather than the 40s or 50s, and is from a Scorsese film I've barely heard of. Also really more of a Liza Minelli song.

The fact that "New York, New York" and the high five are both only two years older than I am always seems weird to me.

"New York, New York" was written to sound llke a 1940s song bc that's what it is in the context of the movie

"Anarchy in the UK" is an older song.

It is interesting that no one thought of the high five before that point in time. And also that the low five then disappeared so quickly and completely.

it hasn't disappeared, you're just too slow

lol

Bread boxes.... really work

Basically this entire Wiki page but Nottingham Forest being formed by shinty players will do for now.

https://shinty.com/english-shinty-association/

Would have said Lassie was a 'good boy' until I stopped to think why Lassie was called Lassie the other day. I've never knowingly watched or read any Lassie cultural productions but it feels either densely inattentive to the parodies I've surely seen or unpleasantly patriarchal ('the star must be male')

important lassie fact: her trainer's name was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudd_Weatherwax

Oh hang on

Pal (June 4, 1940 – June 18, 1958) was a male Rough Collie performer and the first in a line of such dogs to portray the fictional female collie Lassie in film, on radio, and on television

Goddamn liberal Hollywood perverts, making a male dog play Lassie to serve their woke trans agenda...

I used to watch the old TV show in reruns. I am pretty sure Lassie was always described as "she."

It would be weird if she wasn't.

I learned recently that When jewish folks do their bar/bat they read from a page that coordinates with their birthdate, which means that on any given day thousands of kids worldwide are reading the same page, and the page might not be terribly interesting!! Wild!!!

Goddamn liberal Hollywood perverts, making a male dog play Lassie to serve their woke trans agenda...

Wait till I tell you about Shakespeare

That although the Tay is the seventh longest river in the UK it’s largest by volume.

i mean tbf i wouldn't have been surprised if i'd died without ever knowing that. pleased i do now though, thanks Dan.

I learned recently that When jewish folks do their bar/bat they read from a page that coordinates with their birthdate, which means that on any given day thousands of kids worldwide are reading the same page, and the page might not be terribly interesting!! Wild!!!

lol amazing, those poor kids

Amazing

"anyway, i got you this discharge CD..."

Now I'm wondering what the Feb. 29 kids read.

Hebrew calendar, no February 29

It's actually a bit different from that, doesn't correspond to birthdate so much as just the date. Every synagogue is reading the same portion of the bible every week, and then whichever week a kid has their bar/bat mitzvah, that's what they read, with b mitzvah dates generally corresponding to birthday. but yes, it is quite a different thing to have to read and give a speech about a portion that's about priestly offerings or sex laws or something vs. the actually accessible narrative stories in Genesis.

while we're on the subject, the Hebrew calendar is lunar with 12 months, but 12 lunar cycles is significantly shorter than 365 days, so while there's no Feb 29, the Hebrew calendar actually has a leap MONTH that shows up -- to make things even more complicated -- every 2-3 years. Whether it is 2-3 depends on where we are in a 19 year cycle before that repeats.

just providing some fodder for being shockingly old to learn something, for those who partake

Have I mentioned this one before? Anyway, Leslie Charteris, author, creator of Simon "The Saint" Templar, was half-Chinese.

The country with the highest rate of home ownership is Romania, where 96% of people own their own homes.

that the lift part of a swivel chair base regulates the height of the chair with a pressurised cylinder of gas. I never thought about how they worked before, but at least now I know why my old knackered chair doesn't rise any more.

See, you manually raise it to the top, sit and commence work. It should very slowly descend through your work. When you reach the bottom, you have completed one seat-session of work. It’s like the worst xkcd comic ever.

brb farting in my old swivel chair

if it raises yr seat u did it right

that's what the Josh Groban song is about iirc

"It should very slowly descend through your work"

if it goes down before you have a completed a work session then you aren't farting hard enough

That the Sinatra song "New York, New York" dates from the late 70s rather than the 40s or 50s, and is from a Scorsese film I've barely heard of. Also really more of a Liza Minelli song.

This is like when Irish people realize that the Fields of Athenry was written in 1979 and not 1879.

or Scots (like me) when they find out Flower of Scotland was written in the 1960s

Good conservatives.

Not long ago I learned that powdered/confectioners sugar is just regular sugar further ground up, and that you can make your own simply by blitzing granular sugar in a food processor.