Things you were shockingly old when you learned

my grandparents had a dog named Toby

dammit Darragh I was just about to post a Toby or not Toby quip

look i hadnt all day and god forbid it was let slip yknow

My cousin, who is AA, named her son Tobias. Don't know if that disproves anything, but I think this theory is dubious at best.

"People hear the name Tobias and they think 'big black guy'"

t/s Tobias from Arrested Development vs Tobias from Animorphs

the word holiday comes from "holy day"

god forbid it was let slip

Arf.

Just today realized that the first moon landing, Chappaquiddick, the Tate-LaBianca murders, and Woodstock all occurred within the span of a few weeks.

Yeah I learned about Chappaquidick & the moon landing today too

That there is actually a musical instrument called jingle bells.

Disgust and distaste are pretty much the same word, etymologically speaking.

I love how redundant and fucked up English is that way

“Manufactured” just means “hand-made”!

how deadly hippos can be

I've only realized in the last few months that with the exception of steaks, maybe, you really don't need a knife for eating.

Lettuce

peas

foetii

Celebrating Saturday, I see.

life begins at dinner

the fool playing chess with Brian Glover in The Slaughtered Lamb is Rik Mayall.

I am watching the Thor movies for the first time tonight. I am shocked. This shit takes place in space? That is a a disappointing copout.

It doesn't, though? Those aren't the same stars (or if they are then someone in the art department has massively fucked up)

everything takes place in space tbf

woah

“Manufactured” just means “hand-made”!

and artefact means "made by craft", which leads it to have two weirdly different meanings:
- a precious object made by skilled craftsmanship, e.g. a museum artefact
- an unintended junk byproduct of the production process, e.g. a jpeg artefact

(it also has two valid spellings but not sure it gets any less confusing to spell the two meanings differently)

That there’s prize money for winning the World Cup. $38 million for this year’s winner, $28million for runner up etc...

don't think i've ever thought about it!

Does it go to the FAs or the players? I had a quick Google and couldn’t find out, but did see that this year’s $794 million is $400 to the competitors* (everyone gets at least $8m) and the rest to the players clubs both for using their players and potential payouts if they get injured.

*again FAs ot players I don’t know.

I just found out recently that my club will earning something like $40 grand a day whilst it's Danish/Australian international are still in the competition, which likely won't be very long - but it's a nice earner if none of yr players get massacred!

Split between FA and players? At least in USA. X amount for the group games, another X if you get out of the group, and so on.

i've never been clear on the meaning of the word "chauvinism" / "chauvinist" until today.

Huh. Having just looked it up, apparently neither was I.

I guess its been used in the "male chauvinism" context so much the other usage has faded?

the og French indie rock stan!
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"..from the character Nicholas Chauvin, soldier of Napoleon's Grand Armee, notoriously attached to the Empire long after it was history, in the Cogniards' popular 1831 vaudeville "La Cocarde Tricolore "

Despite living in America for 3 years I only realised today that 'egg rolls' are spring rolls

according to Wikipedia... not quite? they have 2 separate entries. Spring rolls are listed as Chinese (and they look like what we get in UK, although I expect ours are some kind of inferior abomination) while Egg rolls have their own page as a Chinese-American dish, and they look different in the pictures.

well they're closer than what i imagined which was some kind of omelettey thing

and what about California Rolls - why California? This is Japanese food non?

oh... so apparently it's not Japanese, it's like the Balti - invented in California and used to popularise sushi in other countries

Despite living in America for 3 years I only realised today that 'egg rolls' are spring rolls

Can I join your club?

Yeah til a while ago I thought egg rolls were some kind of reverse-sushi thing with an omlette, not just a bloody spring roll.

OK egg rolls seem to be deep fried. Now I'm thinking theyre more like Chiko Rolls (google it)

my wife (Merican living in UK) says egg rolls are definitely not the same as spring rolls

i've been to US Chinese restaurants that had both items on the menu, so there must be a difference

I think spring rolls tend to vary in kind and substance more than egg rolls, which are almost always a big, rolled, fried wonton filled with stuff. Spring rolls are basically egg rolls on some menus but egg rolls are pretty predictably just egg rolls.

Not looking it up, I would say spring rolls are in a rice wrapping, steam/fried and egg rolls use a won ton like wrapping and are deep fried.

I spent a lot of my childhood wrapping won tons and egg rolls.

there are different kinds of spring rolls - the stuff you get from chinese restaurants are basically tiny egg rolls, but vietnamese spring rolls are totally different

Basically that, yes. If spring rolls are in a steam tray on a buffet line, they're probably pretty much Asian taquitos.