Things you were shockingly old when you learned

That is a huge suprise to me to but looking at Wiki seems that they didn't become step-sisters till around 1990.

Woah, curveball.

Here's one: I have it sorted NOW, but for a long time I was tripped up by this group:

Ronnie Van Zant
Steven Van Zandt
Johnny Van Zant
Townes Van Zandt

...sometimes leaking into Stevie Ray Vaughn or just plain absurdities like Van Cliburn / Van Morrison.

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/cards/12573.jpg

"Throwing Muses were formed in 1983 by Kristin Hersh and her stepsister Tanya Donelly,"

How is it that I love this band but never knew this

Yet I don't love that band and I feel like everyone always knew this?!?!?

Yeah I knew this, but I'm a big TM/Hersh fan. They'd been friends even before K's mom married T's dad as well, iirc.

I thought there was shared blood so it was half sister not step sister so that's new to me.

Is the correct term for somebody coming from Michigan a MichiganDer, hadn't heard it before i was watching Monday Night's Chris Hayes show. Would have just gone with Michiganer or something similar.

Michigander is correct

And the feminine form is Michigoose of course.

People from Manitoba are correctly called Manitoboggans.

I used to hear Michiganian a lot more when I was a kid but Michigander seems to have won out

Mishegoss, iirc?

whats sauce for the mishegoss is sauce for the michegander

The actor who played Admiral Piett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Kenneth Colley, also played Jesus in his one scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian.

Myanmar is a new name for Burma. Only found that out in the Last Week Tonight from last week.

Then later saw some text written on a handout sheet sitting in a holder on the corridor of a place i started a course in that looked a lot like the text used during the show. So wondering if there si a major Myanmar diaspora in ireland or if there are similarly looking texts across Asia. I heard that Japanese borrowed its pictograms from China so wondered if others had done anything similar.

Koreans used Chinese pictograms but was difficult for the working classes to learn, so the phonetic Korean writing system Hangul was invented in the 15th Century, reputedly by King Sejong. Took a while to catch on due to pressure from the elites, didn't want the proles actually learning stuff iirc. It really is remarkably simple to learn though, you can get the basics down in an hour or so.

Learned just now: Martha Plimpton is Keith Carradine’s daughter.

Coati Mundi of Kid Creole & The Coconuts is named after Coatimundi, a South American raccoon.

Is there a tribute band called Mission of Myanmar yet?

this flag:

https://www.theflagshop.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/h/a/hawaii-flag-std.jpg

I thought suede was synthetic leather until a suspicion popped into my head while I was listening to the new Suede album a few days ago

[Bloodsports is] a very Suede title. Typically evocative and strangely perverse. Tell me how it came about and what it means?

Brett Anderson: It's about lust, chase, the endless carnal game of love. The title came up very early. It was almost the first thing and it seemed to sum up in a cheeky, cynical way the game of love, the bloody game of love. It's not to be taken literally. I'm not a barbarian. I don't go foxhunting or badger baiting. I was slightly worried that people might assume it was pro-bloodsports but obviously it's a metaphor. I'm still vegetarian.

https://i.imgur.com/WMFZDy4.png

Via the Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you thread...

I never noticed that Bros were so named because they were brothers. I just thought the name was a meaningless random syllable.

Oh for the days when bros was a meaningless random syllable.

wondering whether the pronunciation of that band name may have drifted from the original rhymes-with-toss to rhymes-with-toes, ie seen as more of a plural of "bro" than shortening of "brothers"?

No.

Thanks!

ONe of them went onto an acting career, played things like the upstart prince in Hellboy II

& oh yeah it's Matt & Luke Goss so the surname rhymes with the bandname.
Did it originally derive from Moss Bros the men's outfitters who were one letter away from the family name?

I think it derived from the fact that their surname was Goss and they were bros

I think Moss Bros was a fixture of most high streets at one point.
& I'm seeing that people are wondering about the pronunciation.

Would recognise they were brothers but not sure if bros(s) is an immediate formulation you get to as anything other than a total abstraction without there being a cultural signifier which was around. So can see them seeing Moss bros and thinking of themselves as the Goss Bros otherwise would think they would have the other pronunciation.

smh at the Stalinists itt erasing Ken

I think they called themselves Gloss before they became Bros.

That 'cockpit' originally referred to a space reserved for cockfighting and was adapted to denote the area of a ship where injured crewmen were taken (and which was often a bloody mess, resembling its linguistic forebear).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-operative_Party

^ third biggest party in British politics

https://twitter.com/i/status/1050819794285580289

real size of countries distorted by Mercator projection. wtf, this should have been covered in first form geography!

This video shows the size bias caused by the (very common) Mercator projection of the entire planet. #gistribe #gis #maps. From https://t.co/sFvqaFOmSR pic.twitter.com/fdnNRjuoOD

— Guillaume Larocque (@GuillaumeLarocq) October 12, 2018

Susi Grant isn't an Irish teacher.
Only found that out today

I *knew* Russia couldn't be that big!!
tiny losers

they are taking the piss tbf!

I don't mind Greenland doing it.

Bob Grant got his dick cast by Cynthia Plaster (????????)

THis Bob Grant?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Grant_(actor)

No the conservative talk radio host

I finally remembered to look up what double parking means today (parking beside a parked car in a traffic lane, not taking up two parking spots)

THis Bob Grant?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Grant_(actor)

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3229/2451075678_5edbe06e95_z.jpg

Jefferson Airplane was the US West Coast Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention was the English Jefferson Airplane

Bob Grant got his dick cast by Cynthia Plaster (????????)

I went to an exhibition of her collection of casts many years ago, and Bob Grant's was there.

The pronunciation of the word "gazebo," which I thought was pronounced "gays-bow" until at least the 8th grade.

Sympathetic lol. If I had a nickel for every word in my vocabulary whose pronunciation I had to learn the hard way...