Things you were shockingly old when you learned

how would you know though

Different soundtrack.

I just haven’t updated my concept of what “50 years ago” is since I was a child I think. Until like today.

I have only this evening realised that Count Von Count has a beard and it is blowing my mind and I definitely think it deserves to be on this thread.

I've only just realised that there are two separate bad pirate ladies on Swashbuckle (cbeebies). Captain Sinker apparently left and was replaced by Captain Captain.

This isn’t something I only learned recently but for many years I didn’t realise that a coffee enema was an actual procedure, when people referred to it I assumed they were making a humorous reference to the laxative effects of coffee

xp to the horror of my wife I quite fancy Jennie Dale aka Captain Captain

I have only just figured out (well I was shown) how to write a 9 so it doesn't look like a 4.

*posties everywhere breathe a sigh of relief*

I still have never learned how to hold a writing instrument 'properly' so I will probably be shockingly old when/if that ever happens. I write longhand constantly with no ill effect, though, which seems to put paid to the entreaties of my frustrated teachers and parents. Nyah.

lol CAL

I still have never learned how to hold a writing instrument 'properly' so I will probably be shockingly old when/if that ever happens. I write longhand constantly with no ill effect, though, which seems to put paid to the entreaties of my frustrated teachers and parents. Nyah.

I can completely relate! I never learned to grip the way you're supposed to with "a writing instrument" so I feel like that probably makes writing a more difficult proposition than it should be, but it's too late for me to break myself of the old habit so if I ever do, it'll probably be when I'm close to death. Also, I attended Catholic schools so I KNOW they paid extra special attention to the way we wrote (hell, we got marks for penmanship all the way through the end of grade school, i.e. until the end of the 8th grade!) and no one bothered to correct me, so I guess I was doing a good enough job as it was.

Anyway, new thing I have only just been corrected on (and this is timely for today): I learned the Irish stepped in to help Mexico out with the Mexican-American war, NOT the war for Mexican independence from Spain as I'd previously thought! I feel like an idiot because I parroted the latter misconception to my Mexican-born aunt a few months back as if it were true and she didn't correct me. I really should have known this because of my late mom's extreme pro-Mexican cheerleading and my late dad's having had an Irish grandmother (which I've already mentioned), but nope, took me THIS long to have had corrected, d'oh!

Playtex made astronaut suits: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/what-did-playtex-have-to-do-with-neil-armstrong-16588944/#zCMhFpR7AyUEmUBy.99

(which I learned because of this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/science/female-spacewalk-canceled.html)

Cross your heart, hope not to die

that eggs are not dairy

?!

Expand on that, flappy

I want to believe

Eggs aren't dairy.

Dairy = milk derived.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/are-eggs-dairy

is this one for the American things thread?

i think this is a regional thing... i've met people who consider "dairy" to include eggs.

those people are wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_product

I used to consider eggs to be part of dairy, because of the 4 food groups. and because of supermarket shelves. doesn't make it so!

dairy is made from milk

do the egg-dair ppl think eggs are elaborately whipped milk

wait, this is the Easter lobby’s fault, isn’t it

Eggs are dairy, but fish isn't meat. Ok.

Eggs are a kind of meat

Somewhere in Shakespeare there's a line: "He's as full of wit as an egg is full of meat."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TL_Ro-sDZE4

Curse you, mobile YouTube, for not expanding

Anyway, Ivor Cutler, Egg Meat.

I used to consider eggs to be part of dairy, because of the 4 food groups.

me too until yesterday

Could over think things and see them interrelated by being birth related. So possibly having some association in folklore etc.

I'd get rid of my cow but I need the eggs.

I was 52 before I tasted rhubarb. Can't get enough of the stuff now.

i definitely used to cross-wire dairy and eggs as a kid. must have been down to some kind of nutrition song or something that we learned?

That’s truly shocking, no snark. Rhubarb is a gift of the gods!

xp

I also thought eggs were considered dairy, but thought it was weird that they were!

milkmen always used to do eggs as well. perhaps that's where the confusion comes from. also, farms.

I mean, meat comes from farms too. Farms and militiamen.

milkmen still do eggs! and coconut milk and bread, all of which is dairy

Meat comes from cows too, but not eggs.

meat DOES come from eggs, what are you on about

wouldn't it have to be a fertilized egg to even be some kind of proto-meat?

I don't know eggs are fucked up

Apparently, green Haribo gummy bears are strawberry flavored and the red ones are raspberry flavored.

Those are the American bears. The European ones, I think the green are apple.

it's all the same flavour. can't believe you fall for this swizz

I am a haribo sommelier. Don't tell me it's a sham.

Wait, why would eggs even be part of a dairy food group?

I always thought of it as part of the "meat/meat alternatives" group, which is also the first thing that comes upwhen I Google "4 food groups".

Cows continued to lay eggs until sometime during the Middle Ages, hence the confusion. History, folks. Look into it.

I suppose proximity in the supermarket might have also facilitated my childhood confusion.

I always had some confusion about whether eggs were 'dairy' and eggs are in their own special section in the supermarket here (which you can never find), far away from the milk.

vague notions of eggs and dairy being in some similar category of something or other in the 80s