Things you were shockingly old when you learned

it’s alright ma i’m only knockin up heaven’s door

I didn't know until a few weeks ago that Hawaii is SIX HOURS away from LA by plane.

> Who knocks up the knocker-upper, though?

It's knocker-uppers all the way down.

(Didn't I read somewhere that, yes, knocker-uppers had their own knocker-uppers and they had their own etc. The earliest of which was early enough that they just stayed up late rather than had to get up early)

((Probably QI))

I only just this week found out that a pile of people (in America), supposedly pronounce faux like fox?! The "Faux News" thing is actually supposed to be a pun? wtf

No. No way. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

Also many x-posts - I was thinking about the abortion in DD recently because I watched the shit out of that movie when it came out and I was only 10 but I don't remember not getting any of it. Maybe my bff's older sister filled us in or something. Tbh I was really pretty sheltered so I'm surprised my parents let me watch at all let alone repeatedly.

The Carpenters' "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" is a cover (of Klaatu).

xpost I think I was 9-10 too for DD. I have no clue what I thought was going on. That she had a bad appendectomy?

it’s sad day when you realise stonehenge is just some fairly underwhelming rocks sat right up against the junction of two busy highways

― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 4:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sort of in keeping with the thread mandate, I thought until sometime within the past year that I'd just been remiss in learning all about the function/historical significance of Stonehenge but it turns out that nobody actually knows for sure what it's all about and my ignorance is shared with the entire rest of the world?

i was 12 when DD came out and i am pretty sure i knew she was pregnant and didn't want to be, but i didn't understand what the procedure was.

I only just this week found out that a pile of people (in America), supposedly pronounce faux like fox?! The "Faux News" thing is actually supposed to be a pun? wtf

i have never heard anyone do this, and i grew up in mississippi and live in arkansas. think it's pretty well understood "faux news" is a visual pun.

count me in on the "no woman no cry" understanding. hey, i may not have a woman but at least that means i don't have to cry because of a broken heart right? count yr blessings.

xp I'm going to tentatively agree on that, although I wouldn't discount the idea that some fox news viewers see the mocking and think it's a verbal pun, too

Cracked keeps doing variants of a listicle like "things you're probably picturing incorrectly," and they usually include Stonehenge and/or the Alamo, showing them from less-photographed angles or from farther away so you can see wow, that's not isolated at all.

I don't remember seeing the Amityville house in its burb context so maybe they've somehow missed that one.

my favorite images in that lineage are the pyramids at giza, as seen from the window of the pizza hut that's across the street from the pyramids

The Arby's atop Mt. Rushmore is supposed to be one of the best around.

Giza Hut surely

lol

I always thought "Try Glasgow More" was a well-known phrase, like it was the title of some 80s Scottish indie comp or something, but unless google misleads me I learned today that "Try Glasgow More" is the title of the ILX thread about Glasgow, and only that.

I'd just been remiss in learning all about the function/historical significance of Stonehenge but it turns out that nobody actually knows for sure what it's all about and my ignorance is shared with the entire rest of the world?

in the intro to architecture class i attended someone seriously asked "has it been proved that stonehenge was built by humans?"

sometimes I miss having classes with really non sequitur questions like that

That Glasgow thing is news to me, too. It sounds just like a slogan that a tourism board would come up with and I'd assumed it was.

(Same here)

This was the Glasgow slogan, fwiw...

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/06/32/a9/b9/the-riverside-museum.jpg

kilometres, innit

Not in the UK.

I learned just this second that Budgie plays drums on Cut

That the "Gallo Hearty Burgundy" jug wine that was always on our dinner table when I was growing up was not real Burgundy. Nor was the "Gallo Chablis Blanc" actual Chablis.

IIRC actual Chablis is a pretty narrow category but somehow it came to mean "white wine" in general in the North America of the 70s.

When I was growing up my mother always used the term "hoi polloi" to refer to elite/rich people. I can only assume she was mixing it up with "hoity toity" or something. So I was probably in my 20s before I learned it meant the opposite.

that rules

My father did the same thing with bourgeois, thinking "middle class" meant low-brow culturally rather than the the non-ruling, upper middle class that it means. Someone once asked him why he didn't go bowling and he said it was too bourgeois.

incredible. keep it coming

I learned just this second that Budgie plays drums on Cut

he’s in the typical girls video!

xxp yeah i've heard someone use bourgeois incorrectly like that.

chinchilla - my mother made exactly the same mistake, and it was similarly passed on to me

Chablis, Burgundy, Chianti, Champagne etc all got appropriated by US /wine producers/marketers in the 1970s. The EU finally sorted that mess out but some producers were grandfathered in which is why Korbel can still call itself Champagne.

I only just this week found out that a pile of people (in America), supposedly pronounce faux like fox?! The "Faux News" thing is actually supposed to be a pun? wtf

Hadn't heard of this. I was a little startled when I first heard Americans who rhyme "foyer" with "lawyer", though.

After reading about Faux News I saw it multiple times in the comments on buzzfeed. But I would imagine they don't pronounce it like "fox"?

I have never heard faux pronounced like fox, except maybe when I was a child.

my experience w/ foyer in USA is that only goons pronounce it in the French manner. People in mcmansions featuring "the great room" (big stupid high-ceilinged living room) will also refer to the "foy-ay"

^this may be a nyc metropolitan area thing

Most of the dishwasher single capsule things do not need the wrapper removed when you put it in the dishwasher. It dissolves!

also easier to eat it that way

Most of the dishwasher single capsule things do not need the wrapper removed when you put it in the dishwasher.

Except that SOME of them do!! GAH

It's a minefield

Dishwasher pods have changed my life.

Mine have a foil wrapper on them like a candy bar or something. I'm pretty sure those don't dissolve.

You definitely have to remove the wrapper before you eat them, though.

Right, just like the stickers on fresh fruit.