Things you were shockingly old when you learned

a little malt vin in the onion dip does sound good

Not sure how I’m gonna break this news to my fellow kiwis, since for generations we’ve been under the impression our CKD is extremely unique.

Does the vinegar curdle the cream?

I think I’ve used the Knorr French Onion mix before for the same. Looks like they have a dip recipe on the bag sometimes, although theirs appears to include mayonnaise in addition to sour cream

https://www.knorr.com/us/en/r/french-onion-dip.html/107790

lmao my dad used to make the onion soup mix plus sour cream combo all the time and I was SPRINTING to tell you

We are not kiwi of course just your everyday snack connoisseurs

French onion dips a thing in Aus too but yeah we just make it with sour cream and Continental french onion soup in a packet. I'd be curious to try an evap milk/malt vinegar combo instead!

(assuming reduced cream = evaporated milk ? I am maybe rong)

Not sure if it’s quite the same - it’s only sold in nz and oz, nowhere else in the world

https://thespinoff.co.nz/kai/15-09-2019/future-of-kiwi-onion-dip-hangs-in-the-balance-as-nestle-factory-closes#

Afaict, reduced cream is made from cream and skim milk, while evaporated milk is just milk. I think reduced cream has a higher fat content.

Also, I don’t know of any other instance where reduced cream is used, except in CKD, which tells you just much of this stuff we eat.

It only dawned on me minutes ago that the name of the protagonist of the Alien series, Ripley, is just the first name of the director of the first film with the "d" rotated 180 degrees.

Ha!

Believe it . . . or not!

Ripley Scarn

Today i learned that Meatloaf was only 5'2"!! I always thought he was about 9ft tall

No way!

Haha no scratch that - I've been given false information. He was six foot

ppl out there just fibbing abt meat loaf, in 2024!

FAKE LOAF

Like a Gnat Out of Hell

5'2" ain't bad

We were barely seventeen and we were not so tall

Clock DVA, the sheffield band, who i have always called "Clock D V A" are actually "Clock Dva", Dva being russian for 'two'. it's a clockwork orange reference.

(still unconvinced by that)

Whoa really?

I heard that several years ago. The 2 o'clock bit at least. Thirst has a symbol on the front that appears to signify that too. irckle with a triangle corresponding to the clock hands position filled in.

circle with a triangle

I remember them talking about this in the Made In Sheffield documentary - iirc they gave up telling everyone it wasn't D V A after a couple of years and started calling it that themselves.

The difference between collision and allision, at least as far as maritime law defines it.

Railways existed before steam engines and locomotives - I mean, duh, why wouldn't they?

well a locomotive wouldn’t be much use without them Tom duh

allision-- my aim's untrue

well a locomotive wouldn’t be much use without them Tom duh

Wagonways!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaton_Wagonway

... this is what I was shockingly old when I learned about.

I used to know this insane wingnut minor-league weedlord out of Cave Junction who had built a working wood gas car— it didn’t go very fast or far, but it worked! Saw it with my own eyes. Lost tough with him because he outed himself as a virulent anti-vaxxer a few years before the pando

I’ve driven something converted to run off natural gas

what’s wild is how many road vehicles were electric back in the early days. Or cities with full-on electric buses with the overhead electric line. Was widespread for a brief period

"Waiting for Guffman" per wiki:

The film's title is a reference to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot.

oh. duh ...

What a "hospital pass"is. Saw this story and thought it must have something to do with the NHS

https://www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/03/28/rishi-sunak-i-inherited-worst-hospital-pass-for-a-new-pm-in-decades/

Not shocking, but I just learned the character in the drawings of nude woman in black gloves and stockings that appear in Playboy are called femlins, and that the character was created by LeRoy Neiman.

Femlins were created by sport illustrator LeRoy Neiman in 1955 when publisher/editor Hugh Hefner decided the Party Jokes page needed a visual element.[1] The name is a portmanteau of "female" and "gremlin." They are portrayed as mischievous black and white female sprites, apparently 10–12 in (250–300 mm) tall, wearing only opera gloves, stockings and high heel shoes.[2] They are usually drawn in two or three panel vignettes, interacting with various life-sized items such as shoes, jewelry, neckties and such.

An auction is happening today of stuff from the Hefner estate.

Americans call an umbrella a "bumbershoot".

a handful of americans, perhaps

i have never heard anyone call an umbrella a bumbershoot in my nearly 40 years.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bumbershoot

checks out

it's definitely a word, just not in common everyday use for most Americans. it's like folksy slang.

It's generally only used when one is adopting the voice of a pompous twit, for comedic effect.

Is bumbershoot like Lollapalooza, an out of use antiquated term used only to name a music festival?

^^^^^ yes

I've only heard bumbershoot used by Americans as a faux-Britishism

Extremely faux as no-one in Britain has ever heard of it.