Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I was the exact opposite, I knew the all mod cons phrase but the pun on mod didn't occur to me until years afterwards

worst British abbreviation is "spag bol"

spag bol might have been the one where I realized, oh, this is what you're doing as a culture with all these weird abbreviations

Pretty sure nobody outside of the oft-derided metropolitan liberal elites ever said spag bol

you remember those heinz beans adverts soundtracked by ladysmith black mambazo in the 90s, like this flavourless industrial gloop made by a german-american company is in fact your intangible cultural heritage which you should be willing to die for!!! - that's the lineage of fucking spag bol.

everything wd have been so difft if the jam had only called their third lp "all spag bol"

Multi xpost Always understood “it’s downhill from here” as things will get worse as you’ve reached the peak. Can see how it could be read the other way though.

I always thought it was the "gets easier" interpretation

I thought a "mod con" was some sort of Artful Dodger scheme before learning the actual meaning.

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, August 1, 2023 9:36 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

well, power pop was always sort of a different thing

you know who definitely calls it "spag bol"? ladbaby. and presumably the people who like ladbaby, not met any so far but they apparently exist.

Spag bol sounds like public schoolboy speak to me.

It was about 8 years ago when I discovered the og recipe from Bologna doesn't have any herbs or garlic and what is served up as SB in most UK Italian restaurants ain't nothing like it. Problem was nobody in my house liked the authentic stuff I made (with some pretty lousy tesco brand pancetta) and I soon reverted back to doing it wrong.

"it’s downhill from here" confusion similar to that of "a rolling stone gathers no moss". Does that mean you should constantly move on in order to keep things fresh, or that if you do so you'll miss out on the good things in life? Could go either way!

I've eaten spag bol in Bologna! It was pretty plain.

still the peasant dishes of Italy are a massive improvement on beans on toast

Why does no-one ever talk about the peasant dishes of the UK, cookbook industry missing a trick here

the jam's iconic third LP "all footy scran"

he did once do a lyric saying be thankful for what you've got cos there are no frozen fish fingers in Zaire

do they know its findus time at all

I was quite surprised when I went to live in Italy (25 years ago) that there was no such thing as 'bolognaise/ese'.

When I lived in the UK mostly I heard “spaghetti bo”

I was quite surprised when I went to live in Italy (25 years ago) that there was no such thing as 'bolognaise/ese'.

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Tuesday, August 1, 2023 9:43 AM

In Bologna they just call it spaghetti.

What do they call bologna? Lunch meat?

I guess not all bologna has a first name.

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/video-jon-stewart-gives-pepper-spray-cop-anthony-bologna-his-own-tv-show

Baloney

Spray Bol

That "mod cons" doesn't mean indoor flush toilet!

I guess not all bologna has a first name.

Post of the day.

I always thought spag bol was a Ben Elton thing, I remember him saying it in a routine on that Ch4 Saturday Live thing in the mid 80s

there are pockets of Australia where the abbreviation has degenerated to "spag bog"

Ha I thought it was just me saying spag bog because I like saying dumb things. But yeah I feel like Aussies say Spag Bol a lot and can get away with it more cos its... like, what we do.

What do they call bologna? Lunch meat?
By the way why is that pronounced "baloney"? I thought they were 2 different words until reasonably recently.
Here, you've got yer mortadella, of course. but theres also devon, luncheon, lunchmeat. Depends where u live. "Fritz", in Adelaide apparently which I have just now learned upon reading the wiki about it.

it was Spag Bog in our house. Spag Bol will forever sound posh to me.

Spag bol drives me nuts. Also saw something a few months ago where the comments revealed that a high percentage of people thought it was spag bowl and didn't know it was bolognaise.

it was Spag Bog in our house. Spag Bol will forever sound posh to me.

oooh putting on airs saying "spag bol" like he's a real Italian

oh so someone suddenly thinks they are Antonio Carluccio!

one thing I just learned was about the Andrea Doria/Stockholm collision. When the icebreaker went full steam into the starboard side of the AD obv all the passengers in that impact section of the hull didn't make it. Apart a young girl who was actually found dazed and with a broken arm amongst the crumpled wreckage of the Stockholm bow. They were like who is this? she's not on our passenger manifest ... oh!

wikipedia says she was catapulted from her bed onto the other ship -- and also that her dad, a famous radio broadcaster, had already delivered a story on the collision without letting his audience that he was himself still awaiting new of his daughter, at that time missing among the survivors (because she was now on the other ship)

wasn't her mother killed in the collision? I'm not sure if I misheard that bit. But ships can falter but the airwaves can't!

Trayce, wait till you hear about New Haven pizza being pronounced "ah-beetz," or the various dialect-specific things like mozzarella being pronounced "mots-a-dell."

Language weirds language

her mother was injured, stepfather and half-sister were killed, fuller story here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Morgan

my first thought was that her dad was a callous mofo, but on the other hand him not making the story all about himself could also be seen quite admirable.

when my uncle was badly injured in a motorcycle crash involving another motorcycle and a car. The other motorcyclist had his 14 yr old son riding pillion and he died. My uncle was in the same ward as him and said he was repeatedly boasting about how fast he was going. Now that's callous.

anyway youtube algorithm is serving up endless maritime disaster vids at the moment, some real nightmare fuel but also addictive.

(xp) Some kind of tortured metaphor in there for the approach to climate change being followed by the two main political parties in the UK.

Ugh

holy shit

I'd wish a grisly end to all them knaves in UK parliament. But perhaps nothing as bad as the Iranian divers who were still in the decompression chamber when their ship sank and then had to slowly choke out in there for days on the sea bed.

that urge to be a deep-sea diver really is something, like: good day at work today - I didn't almost die in some horrible and grisly fashion 300ft down.

heights scare me way more, construction workers in bucket lifts 60 stories high, or climbing up scaffolds (shudder), that looks absolutely terrifying.