wonder which shocking fact will get relearned the most times in this thread. the pony one is pretty good.
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link
I ony learned about a month ago that Alt+D puts the cursor into the address bar.
whoa! thank you that is super useful!
― new noise, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 15:13 (eight years ago) link
i had a similar revelation when someone told me that clicking the mouse wheel opens links in a new tab.
― new noise, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
As Laurel can probably attest to, I was well into my 30s before I found out that pickles were once cucumbers.
― UYD: Oxys, Percs, Vics, Addys, Rit-Dogs and Xannys (sunny successor), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
huh, I didn't know about Alt+D but then I use F6 for that
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
I'm a keyboard shortcut dummy so most things in that arena are revelations to me.
― Trimming The Hegyes: The Life & Times Of A Sweathog's Barber (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
there is some family moment where ppl where shaking their heads when my cousins learned that coleslaw is made from cabbage
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 16:00 (eight years ago) link
Sauerkraut is cabbage, too. I didn't know that until I was about 20.
― Austin, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
I've never sent anyone a dick pic or been sent a dick pic, so perhaps I have an excuse for not realising this earlier, but I've only just figured out that when someone sends a dick pic, they send a pic of their erect dick. It's still messed up to do that, but suddenly it makes sense, there's actually a weird logic to doing that.
― bored at work (snoball), Saturday, 13 February 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
Because of the talk of keyboard shortcuts upthread I've just this second realised that the band Alt J (of which I know next to nothing) are actually named ∆
― MaresNest, Saturday, 13 February 2016 20:08 (eight years ago) link
That a lot of soap, maybe most, is still made with animal fat
― JRN, Sunday, 14 February 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link
when i was a teenager i had a friend who referred to macaroni and cheese as "mac and cheese" and it took me several years to realize that this was a thing everybody said and not just a weird quirk of my friend
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 14 February 2016 00:19 (eight years ago) link
<3 the dick pic enlightenment that just happened
― • (sleepingbag), Sunday, 14 February 2016 00:30 (eight years ago) link
― lute bro (brimstead), Sunday, 14 February 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link
that the purpose of shaking a cocktail is to cool the drink without needing ice cubes in your glass (since they'll water it down eventually)
― niels, Sunday, 14 February 2016 11:06 (eight years ago) link
That doesn't seem like the kind of thing a young person would think about, though.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Sunday, 14 February 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link
yeah i don't think that's something that the majority of people would know (i didn't so thanks!).
― new noise, Sunday, 14 February 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
So if you're going to bake a frozen pizza right on the oven rack, you can use the cardboard circle as a little peel paddle.
― pplains, Thursday, 31 March 2016 00:24 (eight years ago) link
Wombat poop is cube shaped.
― and all the politicians making crazy sounds (snoball), Sunday, 28 August 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
That its "hang glider" not "hand glider."
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 28 August 2016 23:10 (eight years ago) link
That space rockets didn't land on the moon the way they did in Destination Moon
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 29 August 2016 00:48 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I only learned that a few years ago, when I visited the space museum in Washington.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 07:19 (eight years ago) link
Thank God, I thought that one was only me
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 09:05 (eight years ago) link
I always knew there were three people on the first moon flight, but I hadn't realized before that the third guy never even got to moonwalk instead of just waiting in the orbital module. He must've felt cheated.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 09:12 (eight years ago) link
Also, I just learned from the documentary about the last guy to have walked on moon (it's on Netflix) that before Apollo 11 there were two fully manned flights where they simply went around the moon and back, but never got to land there. Those guys must've felt really cheated! (Except for the subject of the documentary and one other astronaut, who both eventually got to walk on moon on later Apollo flights.)
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 09:20 (eight years ago) link
Maybe Neil and Buzz were just blah blah blah we're gonna land on the moon are we there yet lol for the whole flight up there, and Collins was more than happy to have a few hours floating around by himself for a little while. He'd been to the Grand Canyon in '52, he pretty much had the general idea of what he was "missing" it's ok.
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 09:38 (eight years ago) link
i think being a spaceman is p much a swell deal all the way around, plus you dont have to sign as many autographs
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 04:33 (eight years ago) link
u get to punch skeptics too
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 05:19 (eight years ago) link
in tuomas' defense, that's only if you get to walk on the moon though.
If you don't, you just get called out for being a space pussy for the rest of your life.
― pplains, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 13:10 (eight years ago) link
Also, I just learned from the documentary about the last guy to have walked on moon
and even there, for those of us occasionally engaged in trivia/quizzing contests, is a rub: The last guy to walk on to the moon is not the last to walk on the moon, since the guys on Apollo 17 went for an ABBA on-to/off-of pattern, rather than the ABAB which would have made such questions unambiguous.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 00:09 (eight years ago) link
used to cry over what i imagined to be collins' loneliness as a little kid. he was prob too stressed to notice.
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 00:12 (eight years ago) link
aw it's ok, he made it eventually.
http://i.imgur.com/We0jA8B.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 00:31 (eight years ago) link
look, see? they even took the family on vacations to the moon.
http://i.imgur.com/V4tdJJO.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 00:34 (eight years ago) link
how "awry" is pronounced
― niels, Monday, 26 September 2016 10:21 (eight years ago) link
oh that one... yeah me too. it took me a while to understand that 'misled' was 'miss-led' not 'mizzled' or even 'mild'
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 26 September 2016 10:22 (eight years ago) link
I got clowned hard for pronouncing it "aw-ree" beck in high school.
― how's life, Monday, 26 September 2016 10:26 (eight years ago) link
feel fortunate that I came across the correct pronounciation somewhere online before goofing irl
― niels, Monday, 26 September 2016 10:36 (eight years ago) link
so is wry something other than cunning.is a-wry the semantic root of the word or something.
― Stevolende, Monday, 26 September 2016 10:59 (eight years ago) link
Since when did wry ever mean cunning?
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Monday, 26 September 2016 12:07 (eight years ago) link
Wry Fox
― how's life, Monday, 26 September 2016 12:11 (eight years ago) link
Merriam Webster has this as the 2nd simple definition
2 wryadjectiveSimple Definition of wry
: humorous in a clever and often ironic way
I thought that extended beyond humour which would then be close to synonymous with cunning I would think.
Looks like the etymology is more based on toward the twisted
― Stevolende, Monday, 26 September 2016 12:15 (eight years ago) link
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<3 <3 <3 <3
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Monday, 26 September 2016 12:27 (eight years ago) link
That a Twix is Millionaire's Shortbread in chocolate coated stick form.
― here we are now entertain us (snoball), Sunday, 9 October 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
it took me way too long to realise that when you get into this cooking game don't struggle with a shitty little blunt knife, get a big fucking sharp knife and a blade sharpener and a mortar and pestle. Tools that make cooking easier and quicker
― calzino, Sunday, 9 October 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
Yeah my top cooking tips:Sharp knifeHOT panStop moving the food around the pan all the time
― kinder, Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:36 (seven years ago) link
HOT pans are good for searing, if that's what you're after, but high heat makes protein very tough, so it's a shitty approach to, for example, frying an egg. otoh, it can caramelize sugars, so high heat can be nice for root vegetables.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
pansplaining
― Har-@-Iago (wins), Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
I only eat steak and burnt eggs
(I do actually fry an egg from cold oil after someone tipped me off)
― kinder, Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
I should add that my helpful tips are brought to you after far too long using shitty blunt or serrated knives and medium warm pans because I didn't want to burn stuff
― kinder, Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
xp spécialité de le maison
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link