Things you were shockingly old when you learned

you still get the once a week fish van in scotland

I discovered a weekly fish van delivering to some houses near my work (in England) one week on the way home, and tried to find out where he delivered to and when (like, do you come near my flat? or do you come here at a regular enough time that I could pick something up here instead?) and the guy was incredibly rudely unhelpful, so fuck a fish van tbh, or that one anyway

as a child I was fascinated by my gran's milk-bottle basket with a little spinny-arrow dial you set to the number of bottles you wanted

Not only have I never had milk delivered, but I've never even seen a milkman. Not even in another town.

My grandfather used to deliver Sealtest, and my family still has 1,000 of those old red cartons stored away everywhere. But he was driving a truck to the grocery store.

We used to get propane delivered? I once had an encyclopedia salesperson come to the house? No, sorry. I've got nothing to beat this milkman business.

had to look up Sealtest. new one to me

I've never looked it up either. Here's one I was shockingly old before I learned:

Go out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis. Go by and tell them not to buy Sealtest milk. — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking in Memphis on April 3, 1968

Well. Makes sense now that my grand-dad worked for Sealtest. Anyone want a red milk crate?

I only know from elementary school milk cartons which milks were bad in carton form and which were good

and we have one local dairy where the cottage cheese has a distinct taste and some people apparently freeze a bunch of it when they live elsewhere to hoard

I do recall goldtop milkbottles with cream in the top few inches. Nan's house had those in the 70s, and if you were lucky she'd let you have the cream for your cereal.

All milk used to separate like that, to some extent. But they started homogenising milk sometime in the 80s I think so you don't get that now.

We get milk delivered weekly from this farm and it is non-homogenised and has a 'creamy top'.

creamy tops here too, sometimes you have to shake it for a minute before it will pour, or stick a knife in. or get our 3 year old daughter to stick a spoon in and eat it all.

fattening her up to eat after Brexit, good plan

My partner tends to scoop off and save the cream separately (in the freezer) for making yoghurt and things with.

I somehow read the word 'brain' in your username and somehow substituted it with 'cream' there

Our house was built in 1946, and by the side door, which opens into the kitchen, there is one of these things for the milkman to make deliveries.

T rex and triceratops had several million years between them. JUst learnt that. Assumed they were contemporary cos that's the way they keep getting shown I thought.

they did co-exist

but Stegosaurus was about 80m years earlier

Reading about dinosaurs as an adult when my kid got way into them was kind of mind blowing, I had no idea that we lived closer in time to some common dinosaurs than they did to each other.

Also I love that Spinosaurus, which I'd never even heard of until two years ago, is like a top- or second-tier dinosaur now, it's like not watching a show for a while and coming back and there's a new character that everyone just accepts as part of the gang.

They coexist on my son's pyjamas and that's all the evidence I need

Also we say diplodocus differently now apparently

I somehow read the word 'brain' in your username and somehow substituted it with 'cream' there

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

Creme de Krakow

Catching up on all the new dinosaur information from the last 30 years was one of the fun unexpected side benefits of having kids

I mean

My partner tends to scoop off and save the brain separately (in the freezer) for making yoghurt and things with.

haha, OK, that's different.

Guys, the zombie craze is so last year.

It’s undead

that 'just desserts' is technically incorrect

Brian Glover saw it all coming

https://youtu.be/oELhhTckIgE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oELhhTckIgE&feature=youtu.be

Bloody YouTube embeds. Last attempt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oELhhTckIgE

"use" him eh. Eh eh.

the "milkman" delivers his "milk" into my "milk door" at least "once" per "week"

I wish the milkman would deliver my milk in the morning.

that the well-known "2 bald guys fighting over a comb" saying was coined by Borges and referred to the Falklands war. Can feel a blackboard duster getting thrown at my head for this piteous confession!

Creme de krakow is a cocktail ingredient, right? Curiously, an Alexander would appropriate for me.

My partner tends to scoop off and save the brain separately (in the freezer) for making yoghurt and things with.

Is this where 'brain freeze' comes from?

https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=112998
50% of the mass of human shit is actually bacteria, which just seems a really high % to me, i woulda guessed 10-15% max.

I sorta feel like i shoulda learned that far earlier, it seems like when ppl are tryna tell you why shit is so filthy and risky they’d say like, “CHRIST KID IT’S actually actually 50% GERMS”!

That is seriously freaking me out, Hunt3r.

Forget about feces: microorganisms in and on the human body outnumber actual human cells 10-to-1.

That may be an outdated figure, though. More recent estimates is that we're only about 50/50 human/creepy crawlies.

I suppose that makes sense, giving that in our bodies human cells are vastly outnumbered by those of microorganisms. The greatest good we can do in this world is to shit and shit again, setting those little bastards free of our miserable insides.

[haha xpost]

My perpetual entry itt is 'pretty much anything relating to geography'. I am incredibly shit at remembering where discrete landmasses and territories are in relation to one another so pretty much every idle glance at a map is revelatory, sad to say.

Yeah, little kids get bacterial pink eye more because they don't wash their hands as often. POOP.

I just learned about the six flags for Six Flags theme parks yesterday.

Are there six actual flags? I assumed the first one was at a place called Six Flags, because that's the sort of thing a place might be called, in the US.

The name "Six Flags" originally referred to the flags of the six different nations that have governed Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States, and the Confederate States of America.

hey I learned something new

dont mess with texas its not actually a thing

strangely the CSA is the one i always forget

just realized the TC on the minnesota twins cap (probably?) stands for twin cities. my face burns crimson with the angry shame of a fool uncovered

i have watched baseball for like 15 years and even wore that very hat for ~2 and never thought about it

Re the faeces stuff, most people don’t realise that the large intestine is basically a bioreactor which actively maintains a bacterial mix tailored to the kinds of things our own digestive systems are unable to handle. In some ways the stomach and small intestine are pre-processors - they extract the easy stuff from our food, and render the rest into forms that the bacteria can tackle. Without the colon crew we would get significantly less nutrition from our food. It’s even thought that the appendix exists because it’s a seed colony reservoir for the most essential bacteria, in case of e.g. a dysentery sweeping the bowel empty.