Things I Learned Today

Ive learned that Irish Man Cant Shoot Penalties, that a cousin is a friend of the guy that owns the studio me and mi band play(he absolutely hate us and we suspect he is a drug dealer) and that i shoudnt talk about gurls wiv older cousins while on the way to drunkeness and that almost 12 hours of food, footie and pool can really fuck your body on the other day

Tom, you should learn to answer my emails wiv FT ideas back and turn on your AIM so we can discuss the same

I have learnt that scabs can go saucer shaped if the graze is deep enough!

Also from now on when anyone asks me to describe myself I'm starting with "nosmic."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/dining/01rice.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin

(Japanese cooks, however, consider toasted rice overcooked and highly undesirable. The unwanted crust left stuck to the bottom of the rice cooker is called okoge — the same word used as slang for a single woman who spends a lot of time with gay men.)

what "challops" means

because I can't find the "what did you learn today on wikipedia thread" - from the entry on Central Park:

In 1850, the land was still covered with swamps, dotted with large boulders and occupied by many squatters, who raised livestock, including goats and pigs.[15] Before the construction of the park could start, the area had to be cleared of its inhabitants. Rossi states that part of the impetus to schemes such as Central Park and others was to remove shanty towns and their denizens,[16] who consisted of free African Americans and English/Irish residents, most of whom were poor, but some of whom were middle-class. Most lived in small villages, such as Harsenville,[17] the Piggery District,[18] or Seneca Village; or in the school and convent at Mount St. Vincent's Academy. Approximately 1,600 residents were evicted under the rule of eminent domain during 1857. Seneca Village and parts of the other communities were razed to make room for the park.[19]

:(

damn.

The word personality derives from the Latin word for mask.

that h.g. wells invented wargames:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_soldier#Gaming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HG_Wells_playing_to_Little_Wars.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/HG_Wells_playing_to_Little_Wars.jpg/800px-HG_Wells_playing_to_Little_Wars.jpg

There was once a thoroughbred racehorse who won more than 30 races, besting some of the fastest horses of his day, born 1773 died 1800, called Potoooooooo, pronounced Pot 8Os

!!!!!!!!!!

another proto-reddit thread on ilx

The Cazique of Poyais

TIL: there was a general in the 1st liberian civil war (1989-97) known as GENERAL BUCK NAKED: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Butt_Naked

he went into battle buck naked (hence nom de guerre) (or so i'm guessing) so as to protect himself from bullets (evidently it worked as he's still around): despite all this he was bad not good (atrocities etc tho their nature and scale is disputed)

its a shitposters world and we just post in it :( :( :( :(

BUTT not BUCK, but yeah :(

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/826689350155001856/880L-ItE_400x400.jpg

Most eventful wiki page I've read since Robin Friday

the spike went up through one of his buttocks, through his stomach and narrowly avoided a lung. Not only was Friday strong enough to pull himself off the spike, he recovered from his injuries within three months

He then began to dance, completely naked apart from the boots.

general butt naked: the lower-league footballer

Don’t envy the guy if that time comes when GBN’s grandkids ask him what he did in the (Liberian civil) war

klob vore: it's a thing

The generic name "spandex", which is an anagram of the word "expands",[6]

Wow.

Norah Jones is the daughter of Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar.

During World War I, due to concerns the American public would reject a product with a German name, American sauerkraut makers relabeled their product as "liberty cabbage" for the duration of the war.[14]

freedom fries & liberty cabbage 🇺🇸

Freedom Fries, Liberty Cabbage, and Other Product Renamings

Xavier Cugat pronounced his name (approximately) Sha-BEE-eh

the CBS documentary producer who ended up blackmailing David Letterman over his affair, which Letterman defused by calling the authorities and admitting it publicly on air, became a Project Veritas employee

completely a weird break, he had a pretty good career previously

Evelyn Waugh is a man

i had always assumed it was a woman

I learned that in Ghost Dad I think?

pronounced "Eee-vlin" iirc

I have a Time/Life book about wine & spirits with the text written by his brother Alec Waugh

pronounced Eeevelin like in He-Man

I learned it via that Lost in Translation scene

There was a sequel to Alfie, that didn't star Michael Caine.

Patrick Mower says Ken Hughes offered him the role and Mower was going to play it, but then the producer's "12 year old daughter" saw Alan Price on Top of the Pops and recommended Price play the role.[13] [...] Price was a singer who had featured prominently in O Lucky Man! (1973) but who had not acted in a film before.[14]