Mince pies seem pretty straightforward, right? Like, a steak and ale pie has steak and ale in it. So a mince pie has mince in it. WRONG. (tbf I learned this one when I was a kid and not when I was "shockingly old" but still - whyyyyy?)
― emil.y, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:47 (seven years ago) link
I only recently learned that the E Street Band is named after a street called E Street. I always thought it was an abbreviation for East Street Band, bolstered by hearing live recordings in which Bruce says the name and I thought he was saying East not E.
― heaven parker (anagram), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
news flash: Sweetbreads are not bread, and sweetmeats are not meat.
― pattypandemic (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
Sweet Sweetback's song is not baadaaaaaaass
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
A mince pie did used to have mince in though (and still does in our house) because it uses raw mince rotted down to provide some of the sweetness in the mincemeat.
http://oakden.co.uk/mince-pies-1861-recipe/
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 15:02 (seven years ago) link
I am told you can't buy Bombay Duck in the UK any more (certainly all our local takeaways stopped doing it) because of import health & safety laws or something.
Which was disappointing to my Dad, as was the time he, yes, bought "scallops" in a fish&chip shop, ordering several bags full as he couldn't believe how cheap they were. They're not a common thing round here but there must be at least one place in Wiltshire that did them 30+ years ago as I've heard the tale many times.
I'd always imagined they must be puffy and ridged like a scallop shell, but a quick image-google suggests they are p. much just discs of potato. Would still eat them.
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
yeah if the name does come from some supposed visually similarity that was a prodigious feat of imagination.
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
I think I was as old as 18 when someone had to tell me that Pub Landlord wasn't a real guy. Embarrassing.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link
that my fellow Americans are not really that committed to good government and democracy
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/nqIhP2z.jpg
- "I don't know why you keep calling them scallops. They're clearly potatoes."
- "Maybe you're right."
― pplains, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link
apparently in american football you can substitute players pretty much nonstop??
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
as soon as one gets a brain injury, yes
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
the strokes had a fifth album
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Saturday, 3 December 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
that only boy dogs lift a leg to piss, because girl dogs just squat
sorry, i never had a dog
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 December 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
â jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, November 30, 2016 11:23 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
p much a substitution every play
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 3 December 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
Girl dogs do lift a leg sometimes, depending what they want to piss on.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 3 December 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
I have a girl dog who lifts her leg to pee, although it looks more like that Karate Kid pose.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Saturday, 3 December 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
Scallops is a contentious word down here too - theyre called scallops in NSW/QLD, and potato cakes in VIC.
Which always made me wonder, how to they differentiate potato scallops from actual ones, given those are also a thing in many chip shops (well, any where seafood's cheap and fresh anyway)
I love potato caaaakes
http://northeasthub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/scallops.jpg
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 3 December 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
I just read that whenever you eat a fig, you're eating either a dead wasp or wasp larvae! I love figs and feel conflicted about eating them from now on.
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 4 December 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
^^ Debunked!
I've learned to stop worrying and love dates as much as I do, even though the occasional date I eat contains a (visible) small worm or larvae of some sort. Iranian dates are my fave, and I've seen it, but life's too short etc.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 December 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
hmm, chance of either eggs and larvae or decomposed wasp, yeah feel a lot better about figs after that debunking
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 4 December 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
the female fig produces an enzyme that digests this wasp completelyI never knew figs were so interesting!I was reading this http://knowledgenuts.com/2014/06/08/the-disturbing-truth-about-figs/
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 4 December 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
Scallops (chip shop potato ones, not seafood) are called fritters up here.
― ailsa, Monday, 5 December 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link
that Ghetto Superstar interpolates a Rogers/Parton smash
― niels, Thursday, 15 December 2016 13:32 (seven years ago) link
armadillos carry leprosy
― clouds, Thursday, 15 December 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
well, duh. how do you think people get leprosy in the first place?
― pplains, Thursday, 15 December 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
Leprosy always seemed like an unfair tradeoff for people who are clever enough to have figured out how to fuck an armadillo.
― My Lunch Is Older Than Your Lunch (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 December 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link
I was a teenager when I found out that Ku Klux Klan were not a cartoon or a band but something more serious. My first guess would have been a cartoon about chickens. Clue Clucks Clan: Chicken Detectives.
I seen 3 Women a few weeks ago and its shockingly late to learn that Shelley Duvall is really beautiful.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 15 December 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
platypuses have venom
― troops in djibouti (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 15 December 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
That window seats on planes are preferable to aisle seats. Going against habit I got a window seat on a whim recently and realized how nice it is not to be constantly bumped or brushed against by aisle traffic
― Josefa, Thursday, 15 December 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link
That Grandmaster Flash didn't have anything to do with White Lines or The Message.
― how's life, Thursday, 15 December 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
+ can look out of the window. At the age of 37, after around 100 flights, the novelty of WE'RE IN THE FUCKING SKY hasn't worn off.
xp
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 15 December 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
I have a weak bladder, so I always prefer aisle seats, it's awkward to wake up some random person who's trying to sleep so I can pee.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 15 December 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
if you pee on them they will prob wake up too
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 15 December 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
F
― rb (soda), Thursday, 15 December 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
I thought 10cc was either a punk band or krautrock until like 3 months ago
― flappy bird, Friday, 16 December 2016 03:48 (seven years ago) link
I used to think if you had an acoustic guitar,
― Mark G, Friday, 16 December 2016 06:37 (seven years ago) link
John belushi would smash it
― banfred bann (wins), Friday, 16 December 2016 06:52 (seven years ago) link
and i would applaud him
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 December 2016 07:06 (seven years ago) link
That time Colin Hay was on Scrubs
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view7/2945187/dr-cox-pulls-a-belushi-o.gif
― troops in djibouti (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 16 December 2016 13:34 (seven years ago) link
I learned very recently that Vancouver is all the way out west... I just thought it was close to Toronto or something. idk fuck
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link
And the weird part is that you live in Etobicoke.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 03:16 (seven years ago) link
i learned that "Toonrot" is an anagram for Toronto
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 03:22 (seven years ago) link
Vancouver is Canadian Seattle. Or vice versa
― mh đ, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 03:43 (seven years ago) link
Only figured out upon hearing it today (probably because I never paid anything but peripheral attention to the song before) that Adam Duritz is the second voice on '6th Avenue Heartache'.
Yeah, I don't really care, either.
― Gorvernment Stoodge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 04:54 (seven years ago) link
now I hate the song twice as much, thanks
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 05:01 (seven years ago) link
Vancouver is Canadian San Diego, if you think about it.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 05:41 (seven years ago) link
I learned two months ago that peanuts aren't nuts.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 05:47 (seven years ago) link
I learned very recently that Vancouver is all the way out west... I just thought it was close to Toronto or something. idk fuckâ flappy bird, Tuesday, January 17, 2017 7:03 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I didn't know Vancouver was on the Pacific til I was 27.
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 05:53 (seven years ago) link
Vancouver is undoubtedly canadian seattle
― F⯠A⯠(â), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 07:12 (seven years ago) link