feel the little knob
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 25 February 2024 17:08 (seven months ago) link
this morning: the etymology of courtesy, which of course refers to behavior that is worthy of a court. i think i must have known this at some point and then forgot, since the norbert elias book i'm re-reading is heavily annotated by past me.
― budo jeru, Sunday, 25 February 2024 19:07 (seven months ago) link
my kids used to think the little twirly knob was a hack to make the light change quicker and no amount of explanation would dissuade them
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 February 2024 10:47 (seven months ago) link
absolutely fucking floored by this knob news lads, never even dreamed such a thing was possible
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 26 February 2024 10:51 (seven months ago) link
Out of context bait
― cozen itt (wins), Monday, 26 February 2024 10:55 (seven months ago) link
snap
― ledge, Monday, 26 February 2024 10:56 (seven months ago) link
> absolutely fucking floored by this knob news lads
where were you all in 2015 when it was first mentioned?
― koogs, Monday, 26 February 2024 13:17 (seven months ago) link
gazing raptly at the green man across the road as we stepped happily out into the traffic
― mark s, Monday, 26 February 2024 13:37 (seven months ago) link
Ray Parker Jr. plays the guitar solo on Stevie Wonder "Maybe Your Baby"
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 26 February 2024 14:41 (seven months ago) link
The Nice were formed to back up PP Arnold.
― nickn, Monday, 26 February 2024 17:40 (seven months ago) link
I've been listening to Mouse On Mars for 30 years but didn't realise that (according to tvtropes.org), "Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma ... were born on the same day, in the same hospital, in the same room," and were childhood friends.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 06:56 (seven months ago) link
that has to be a joke, right?
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 07:00 (seven months ago) link
who knows! I actually went to middle school with a kid I'd never met before who was born in the same hospital, the same day. I mentioned that to my parents and they explained there was actually a mix up and he was taken to my parents' room and vice versa but it was very quickly figured out because we didn't look alike
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:35 (seven months ago) link
I never knew that Jim Steinman produced "This Corrosion" until right this second! That's wild. (its kinda the one song i want to hear by SoM every blue moon...)
― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 17:21 (seven months ago) link
I found this out a few months ago. So weird but I love it - The song and the fact that he produced it.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 18:27 (seven months ago) link
Just learned yesterday about the first, Spector-produced, version of "Tell the Truth" by Derek and the Dominos. (Includes G. Harrison and D. Mason and was recorded during the ATMP sessions.)
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 18:54 (seven months ago) link
xxp he also did "Dominion" and "More" (from the next album). Perfect pairing imo
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 23:07 (seven months ago) link
I learned for the first time yesterday that "lizard people" is an antisemitic trope.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 23:53 (seven months ago) link
I remember reading a Jon Ronson book where he was traveling around with David Icke as his events were being protested and cancelled because people were calling him an anti-Semite and Ronson’s take was, “No, when he says lizards, he means LIZARDS — what you’re failing to understand is, HE’S INSANE.”
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 29 February 2024 00:15 (seven months ago) link
i'm afraid to know any more of ronson, despite my real appreciation of his work i know. some is q insightful, some so "well, duh." i'll just keep reading/listening i guess.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Thursday, 29 February 2024 01:22 (seven months ago) link
Today is Superman's birthday.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 March 2024 00:35 (seven months ago) link
But he was born on the planet Krypton which didn't use the same calendar or have the same length of solar year, so how could that even be?!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 1 March 2024 00:37 (seven months ago) link
I dunno. I assume because whatever unit of time measurement they used fell on the same day as an Earth leap day?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 March 2024 00:46 (seven months ago) link
He's 35 in Superman years.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 1 March 2024 00:47 (seven months ago) link
He grew up at the normal earth-child rate until he reached 35, then miraculously stopped aging, due to being a freakish alien monster.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 1 March 2024 01:44 (seven months ago) link
Pete & Jason of Spacemen 3 were born same day, same year. Different hospitals though.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 1 March 2024 02:22 (seven months ago) link
The same day as Superman?
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 1 March 2024 05:58 (seven months ago) link
Yes and they also have the same blood type, Type O Superman.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 March 2024 06:00 (seven months ago) link
fun fact for all the fucked up children!
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 1 March 2024 06:06 (seven months ago) link
Superman’s birthday being the 29th of February was an editorial joke (Schwarz, I think) to explain to letter-writers why he did not age
― bae (sic), Friday, 1 March 2024 08:16 (seven months ago) link
A random one -- but until I listened to it again today, I was convinced the chorus to The Christians' "Ideal World" goes "In an ideal world, where your shoes don't curl..." Nope. And no idea where that came from.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 1 March 2024 10:53 (seven months ago) link
That there is a Uyghur cuisine that Dubliners have some interest in.
Discovered that there is now a Uyghur restaurant on the continuation of O'Connell street. Didn't get a chance to try anything and prices were in double figures which may be standard for non fast food these days. Am intrigued by it's existence and want to check out what the food's like.I only heard of the Uyghur people as an oppressed population in China. So glad if some have been able to start a successful business in Ireland.
― Stevo, Sunday, 3 March 2024 07:32 (six months ago) link
“I-I-I-I….” in Dee-Lite’s “Groove Is in the Heart” is a sample of Eva Gabor sprechsinging “I get allergic smelling hay!” from the Green Acres theme song.
― Josefa, Sunday, 3 March 2024 20:19 (six months ago) link
...learned that from the One Song podcast on Groove? That was a great episode. I was even more delighted to learn the "blblblblblb" blubbering at the drop isn't Miss Kier. It's a punchline from a Moms Mabley type comedy record
― bendy, Monday, 4 March 2024 16:44 (six months ago) link
Excellent.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 4 March 2024 17:03 (six months ago) link
Had not heard the One Song pod - I just saw someone on social media point out that factoid so maybe that's where they got it from
― Josefa, Monday, 4 March 2024 18:26 (six months ago) link
Speaking of a sampled "I," the Arby's "We Have the Meats" stab at the end of their commercials clearly includes a bit of the opening "I" in Dave and Ansel Collins' "Double Barrel." I finally searched to see if anyone else had noticed this and found one person on Reddit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGTsiOttTYs
― UKXEPCTED TWITS (WmC), Monday, 4 March 2024 20:12 (six months ago) link
wow that's a good catch
― Josefa, Monday, 4 March 2024 20:23 (six months ago) link
the "blblblblblb" blubbering at the drop isn't Miss KierI think I always assumed this was Bootsy. Does Bootsy do it in the video?
― bae (sic), Monday, 4 March 2024 20:33 (six months ago) link
me too
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 4 March 2024 20:34 (six months ago) link
The tracks, on Blood On The Tracks, are the songs.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 05:17 (six months ago) link
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted (1992)From the album cover of Ferrante & Teicher's Keyboard Kapers pic.twitter.com/5tQtNgMidV— Bill Pourquoimec (@BillPourquoimec) March 2, 2024
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 05:37 (six months ago) link
Esso is an abbreviation for Standard Oil
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 10:30 (six months ago) link
!!
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 12:11 (six months ago) link
A while ago now, but I was pretty old when I realized Arby's was an abbreviation of roast beef.
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 17:10 (six months ago) link
Oh you did it now
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 17:13 (six months ago) link
they chose the name "Arby's," a phonetic pronunciation of the letters R and B, short for "Raffel brothers".[17][18][19]
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 17:47 (six months ago) link
I thought I read that here, not that I'm going to open an 11,860 post thread to find it.
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 17:56 (six months ago) link
The tracks, on Blood On The Tracks, are the songs.― nate woolls, Tuesday, March 5, 2024 12:17 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― nate woolls, Tuesday, March 5, 2024 12:17 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
my mind is seriously blown by this
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 19:02 (six months ago) link
That the poor spelling and punctuation in scam emails is there primarily to weed out intelligent people, who are more likely to spot it and less likely to fall for said scam anyway. Also non-native speakers but that's probably just collateral damage for the scammers.
― help me I am in hull (Matt #2), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 19:24 (six months ago) link