Things you were shockingly old when you learned

well, that may explain my failed efforts

Pour Some WD-40 On Me

the pole rotates in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere

I think it was only a few months ago that I learned that when pole dancers swing around in circles, the POLE itself is actually rotating. Apparently?!? I thought the dancers were swinging themselves around and I couldn't figure out how they could stick enough to stay up but still be mobile, which in retrospect makes NO sense at all. Now I know the laws of nature and surface traction are intact and the world makes sense again.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 14:21 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

what

here's to the ppl who look at the pole when they watch poledancing 🍷

i mean it isn't a sin to appreciate both pole and dancer

today:

the opening "flute" sound of the theme for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is meant to be a coyote howling

― budo jeru

it's an ocarina

it's the one thing people used to play on the ocarina before ocarina players were all link cosplayers who play zelda music

to be clear i love link cosplayers who play zelda music

i mean it isn't a sin to appreciate both pole and dancer

― he/him hoo-hah (map)

are we pole or are we dancer

Barre exercise is just pole dancing, sideways.

Change my mind.

I suspect you can't do a full 360 around the barre without looking like the Suspiria remake.

I think it was only a few months ago that I learned that when pole dancers swing around in circles, the POLE itself is actually rotating. Apparently?!? I thought the dancers were swinging themselves around and I couldn't figure out how they could stick enough to stay up but still be mobile, which in retrospect makes NO sense at all. Now I know the laws of nature and surface traction are intact and the world makes sense again.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, June 12, 2024 8:21 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

ok this isn't true?

WHAT

per Wiki:

Dance poles may have two different modes, spinning and static. In the spinning mode, the pole uses ball bearings to spin. This mode can be used to complete more experienced pole moves, make moves easier to complete, and add a more dramatic effect to the move. Most spinning poles can also be fixed to the static mode where the pole cannot rotate. The static mode is regularly used when pole dancing is first taught to beginners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUmLLROwADk

how they could stick enough to stay up but still be mobile

missed this part, i was just trying to say that dancers can spin like crazy on a stationary pole as the vid demonstrates, but obviously they slowly move down

i.e. i thought the claim was "all poles are rotating" which is why i said not true

Had the sudden realization while reading that the expression "drop a dime" very obviously traces to calling in police tips from a payphone

Eric André is not the "Eric" who co-created _Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!_. I don't know. You'd think I would be like more aware of this stuff maybe? But I kind of thought, you know, David Lynch-inspired takes on Public Access shows broadcast on Adult Swim, I mean. I thought they were kind of the same show. Look I'm gonna be honest I'm looking at this list of Adult Swim shows debuting from 2010 onwards and I've never heard of any of these except for the "Joe Pera" one people seem to like and the show by those Nazis. To be honest I kinda go out of my way to avoid both Tim and Eric's stuff and Eric André's stuff. Anxiety of influence.

I did know that the cheez-a-riffic guitar line in the Top Gun theme was Steve Stevens.

Did NOT know, I mean

It’s “belay that order”, not “delay that order” (as heard in the Navy and old Star Trek episodes).

i don't think i ever knew that was joni mitchell in blackface on the cover of that album until this year. think i read about it on ilm first! forgot about it and then read about it again in a review of the new ann powers book. i've looked at the cover a million times and i don't think it ever registered.

there are flight map screens on the backs of airplane seats. who knew? that's cool.

i just saw obama's sister on t.v.! auma obama! i had no idea. she was protesting in kenya. and getting teargassed! had no idea he had a sister.

Some planes include nose cone cameras as part of the in-flight entertainment menu too! You can't see much tbh

I'd tease you guys, but I was the guy who showed up at the airport with a 5-page stapled itinerary folded into quarters in my pocket.

When I saw everyone else scanning bar codes from their phone (as Satan prophesied) to board the plane, I went O fuck, where is that darn email.

Bar code was probably somewhere inside the 5-page itinerary, now that I think about it.

the number of times I've lost a physical boarding pass between check-in and the gate is absurdly high. the main reason I finally moved over to doing it electronically.

Things I haven't learned even though I'm shockingly old: how long to hold the barcode on the ticket scanner for so the gate will open while some fierce airport employee glares at me.

I went through some Digital ID security line last week at LGA. I didn't even have to show them the boarding pass, just gave them my ID and they scanned my face. Creepy, but it's not like they don't already know everything about me before getting on the plane anyway.

I have yet to transition to electronic boarding passes. I also have to print out the QR codes for Amazon returns. I get jittery thinking about having to find these files on my phone at a critical time even though I know there is probably a smart easy way to go about it that doesn't involve wasting paper.

the number of times I've lost a physical boarding pass between check-in and the gate is absurdly high

Same. Got paged once at JFK cause I lot one while looking at duty free makeup. Panicked when I heard my name over the loudspeaker obv. I like the digital scanning things at the gates. Very futuristic.

I'm not typically an app guy, but if your airline has one, it makes boarding passes a lot easier.

I learned recently that the lyrics to Buffalo by Stump are not just a random selection of phrases but a character sketch of a couple of American tourists in London.

that the word Benelux comes from the names Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg.
I mean, of course it does. obviously. so why didn't I notice before?

is anyone talking about benelux these days?

...also means "good light" in Latin.

the number of times I've lost a physical boarding pass between check-in and the gate is absurdly high

Happened to me once, I went to the gate, explained, dude instantly printed out a new boarding pass! So I think as long as it's before boarding there's nowt to fear.

is anyone talking about benelux these days?

Yesterday, because we were playing Twilight Struggle.

hate trying to open an app which will invariably want to update and hope internet service works in a boarding line. taking a screen shot of the code beforehand = the way imo.

1.print your boarding pass
2.take a photo of that on your phone
3.print that out
4.scan that in and save it to your phone
5.send it in a message to the internet
6.get it printed onto a tshirt on redbubble
7. simply board plane with ease

I only learnt today that Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of 1964 movie Bedtime Story with David Niven and Marlon Brando. I also did not realise that 'The Hustle' was a remake.

Seersucker:

The word originates from the Persian words شیر shîr and شکر shakar, literally meaning "milk and sugar", from the gritty texture ("sugar") on the otherwise smooth ("milk") cloth.

thank you. and now i learn where the word came from.

From Sanskrit (śarkarā), meaning "ground or candied sugar", came Persian shakar and Arabic sukkar. The Arabic word was borrowed in Medieval Latin as succarum, whence the 12th century French sucre and the English sugar. Sugar was introduced into Europe by the Arabs in Sicily and Spain.

the word sucre always reminded me of an arabic word. so, i was in the right ballpark.

i imagine shîr is also the origin of the word “sheer” to describe very thin fabric?

Sheer sounds distinctly Germanic to me.

hmm you’re right

schiere "thin, sparse" (c. 1400), a variant of skere, from late Old English scir "bright, clear, gleaming; translucent; pure, unmixed." The Middle English word might also be from or influenced by the Old Norse cognate scær "bright, clean, pure." Both of these are from Proto-Germanic *skeran (source also of Old Saxon skiri, Old Frisian skire, German schier, Gothic skeirs "clean, pure"), from PIE root *sker- (1) "to cut."

"mano a mano" means hand to hand, not man to man

A door blows open in your mind when you learn about the suffix -le, it explains so much. People used to add it to verbs to mean ‘more than once’ or continuously—so originally, to ramble is to ‘roam’ on, to jostle is to joust repeatedly, and to sparkle is to emit lots of sparks.

A door blows open in your mind when you learn about the suffix -le, it explains so much. People used to add it to verbs to mean ‘more than once’ or continuously—so originally, to ramble is to ‘roam’ on, to jostle is to joust repeatedly, and to sparkle is to emit lots of sparks. pic.twitter.com/85oefNHMfa

— Wylfċen (@wylfcen) April 10, 2024

I wouldn't call my reaction to this knowledge "shock" as much as "bitter amusement, and relief that two other people have been spared" but TIL that Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Niall Ferguson are married.