Things you were shockingly old when you learned

never trust a big butt and a rockism

I learned yesterday, a year after getting my ear pierced, that skin doesn't grow over the pierced flesh, the hole just sits there, and I was revolted

"Chicken cordon bleu" basically means "blue ribbon chicken."

it’s also the name of a legendary cooking school in Paris, which i think is the origin of that style of chicken - https://www.cordonbleu.edu/home/en

I similarly learned that if you jam a stick into the ground while visiting Kiev melted butter will ooze out.

I got too big of an eyebrow ring as a freshman in college (so, 1996/early 97) and I can still see the scar from it, eyebrow has a ever so slight gap there.

the title of the comic strip andy capp is a pun on the word "handicap"

Xps I haven't worn an earring for the best part of 25 years and still have a hole.

I can still see the scar from it, eyebrow has a ever so slight gap there

i have one of these from when i was a kid and my neighbor threw a spark plug at me

I am confused about this hole piercing thing. The skin does grow back together eventually?

no

Piercings can actually close

the only two that will never close are the lower ear lobes I got when I was a baby and kept in forever. The rest (7 others) have all completely closed.

oh wow, i know people with piercings that haven't had anything in them for > 20 years and there are still visible holes, maybe these are just indentations and the hole sealed up tho?

yeah, you can usually still see where there was a piercing but depending on where it was and how long it was in I think almost all will eventually close back up.

no what I mean is like. I assumed skin would grow to like "seal" the piercing wound, making a nice new batch of skin to protect the inside of my body like skin does, but actually the jewelry just sits there and my body just has a wound in it forever

This helps me to better understand the horrifying scenario from my youth wherein my sister's ear pretty much devoured the entire backing of one of her earrings.

Isn't there scar tissue that forms, sealing the wound? Or else it would be subject to infections forever.

there's scar tissue but scar tissue isn't as, like, good as skin, I guess?

are you having problems with that piercing, that it never fully healed?

I think we're saying piercings "fully heal" but not in same way a normal cut does ie it never gets quite back to "good as new"

Puff the Magic Dragon is a massive downer of a song.

"Puff the Magic Dragon" filled me with so much fear as a kid i used to run out of the room if it came on the radio

For years I was trying to ID a song from childhood that i believed went "hahahoohoohahahoohee hahahoohoohaha" as the chorus.

Only to find out it's the end of "Crimson and Clover" and it's just vocals run through an amplifier

I grew up thinking people don't change. Then something horrible happened to me and my family and I learned that people do change. And that you can change into an entirely different person.

That sounds like a terrible thing to learn - please, if you feel you can, talk some more (unless you are on another thread)

Or unless you don't want to, in which case don't.

alexandre dumas père was mixed race

THere's a 2 part podcast on Alexander Dumas pere in the Stuff You Missed in History Class series

I think they may have touched on this when I was in grammar school, I just kind of didn't raise an eyebrow, seventies Cosby kid and all. I think it's the parents who probably needed this information.

But after reading more about it on Wikipedia, I wanted to re-read Count of Monte Cristo.

p.s. I'm fine, actually. I'll just rant on Tumblr because I don't want to bother people with it.

Shackleton was Irish.

That there are two Kansas Cities next to each other, in different states.

All hornets are wasps. Not all wasps are hornets.

Wasps come in an astounding range of shapes and sizes. I was horrified to discover that this caterpillar in my mom's garden was covered in what turned out to be eggs of a diminutive variety of wasp that sustains itself at birth by slowly consuming the caterpillar its eggs were laid upon.

alexandre dumas père was mixed race

― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, November 8, 2019 5:04 PM (four days ago) bookmar

I only know this because of Django Unchained uwu

all wasps are assholes, not all assholes etc

that's thread commentary, i was shockingly young when i first discovered it

All wasps are definitely assholes. They're the geese of the insect world.

A referent for 1km which I only got listening to a GPS this afternoon. A point on the road near me to the main road into town
Kind of useful if I can abstract it and extrapolate from it. Don't think I had any comparison before.

Wasps are assholes for ruining figs for me.

I was shockingly old when I learned that there is a DEAD WASP in every fig you eat.

I've gone pretty soft on wasps in the past few years. I won't stick around a place that a wasp is active any longer than I have to, but I don't go around trying to exterminate them from my garage either.

Fuck figs though, in general.

I know that the wasp corpse is disintegrated by enzymes but the crunch of the seeds I can't

also they are all over the local country club and Saab dealership here

hey-o

I had an argument with Jack Monroe on twitter because she was recommending cheap figs at tesco and I said I'd bought them and they were horrible. Later I realised that what I really hate is every fig in every supermarket in the UK. The ones from my garden and in Greece are still great.

also they are all over the local country club and Saab dealership here

― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, November 12, 2019 6:27 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wasps or figs?

I was shockingly old when I learned that there is a DEAD WASP in every fig you eat.

What? Why? WHAT?

https://cdn.britannica.com/17/24017-004-98EF07A1/life-cycle-fig-wasp.jpg

Yeah one time i ate a fig Newton with bits of Nelson Rockefeller in it