Things you were shockingly old when you learned

A hammer

apply more fats to the waffle iron to avoid sticking, or just dgaf about the extra waffle iron cleanup time

alternatively, just throw blueberries on top of the waffles when they're fresh off the griddle

Garret Hardin, the ecologist who wrote "The Tragedy of the Commons," was a white nationalist eugenicist

The artist on “Give Me the Night” was George Benson and the composer was Rod Temperton.

who had you previously thought it was by?

TIL i have been confusing Aimee Man and Amy Grant for like 20 years.

Aimee Mant!

Ennui is pronounced on-wee as opposed to enn-you-ee.

surely it is only twats like will self that pronounce it properly. the wrong version sounds better to me!

I've only ever hear it pronounced the former way

Never heard anyone say it with three syllables. When I was small and only ever read it not heard it I assumed it was “uh-NEW-ee”

I have only ever heard or been a twat

you are all obv bad apart from Dan and me

definitely mangled into three syllables by Ed Kowalczyk on Live's "Rattlesnake"

Ed could stretch any word into double its original syllables

it's as if his voice teacher told him to chew every word like taffy and then pick it out of his teeth

Neanderthal, you've gotta let gooo-oooo-uh, a-let it it gooo-aahh-ooo-aallovah.

*placenta falls to floor*

I'm one of the twats too in that case.

The movie Ronin with Robert De Niro is not about an Irish guy named Ronin.

it's a biopic about the singer for Boyzone

heh

rO'Nin

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-justin-timberlake-sings-may-instead-of-me

James Hetfield did the "may" thing before it was trendy

Just last week I learned that dashboard car fuel indicators point out which side of the car the tank is on.

i learned that the correct way to put gas in your car was to put the pump into the tank, not driving into the gas tank and collecting the spilled gas in dixie cups and easing it into the gashole

Recently learned, although I don’t know if this actually existed so long ago as such, that the weirdly textured white stripes of paint in the crosswalks in NYC are indeed some kind of tape, as suspected.

Not sure how closely related it is to the red coloration layer on the grey safety dot rectangles on the corner.

Just last week I learned that dashboard car fuel indicators point out which side of the car the tank is on.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, January 11, 2020 11:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

A few years ago for me, but yes, my mind was blown when I learned this

Just last week I learned that dashboard car fuel indicators point out which side of the car the tank is on.

Feel like this and the silverware basket in a dishwasher comes up multiple times whenever this sorta thing is discussed

They are to this thread what Alice Cooper is to Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same.

Wait, is this the dishwasher thing? Are there people who don't do this?

that you can just lift the silverware thing right out of the dishwasher and carry it over to the silverware drawer

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:58 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, I had no idea some people don't do that.

I didn't do that for so long. Life was irrevocably changed when I realised I could just lift the basket out and take it to the cutlery drawer

I dunno if that's the case with all dishwashers, but with the two I've had there's even a handy handle atop the basket so you can lift it more easily, which should make it obvious it's meant to be taken out.

I just found out, at the age of 40, with a degree in Film Studies, that The Shawshank Redemption isn't a Coen Brothers film.

It is, however, the best movie ever made.

Two posts of monumental wrongness for the price of one!

xxp maybe thinking of the Hudsucker Proxy

My post can't be wrong, since I was talking about its objective quality as measured in IMDb ratings.

I was always get Shawshank mixed up with that other pile of garbage movie where the 8 ft doorman grabs Tom Hanks' nuts!

Is Tom Shanks, sorry, Hanks in both?

ask IMDb Tom, they are like god and the last word on everything in movies!

Further confusion is that Tim Robbins (whatever happened to?) is in the The Hudsucker Redemption and The Shawshanks Proxy.

other than the titles and Tim Bobbins I don't think the two movies have much in common at all.

Tom Hanks' grabbed nuts are in The Green Mile, same director as The Shawshank Redemption and also based on a work by Stephen King

oh yeah I'd forgotten they were both Stephen King joints.

xxdp He's a lawyer in the new film about how Mark Ruffalo's character takes on DuPont by hulking out and smashing them

according to the Rotten Tomatoes movie website his highest rated movie is Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone