Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Perhaps another testament to the franco/anglo divide?

The Catholic school I mentioned is actually a French Catholic school.

In Australia pretty much all higher ed institutions "acknowledge country" at the start of all official meetings, that's been standard for ~ 5 years and patchy for ~ 5 before that. The national broadcaster SBS also acknowledges country on their Australian productions including the nightly news, but only in the credits. They also run NITV which is the national Indigenous network (and pretty interesting viewing more often than not).

i learned today that the official name of the state of rhode island is 'rhode island and providence plantations'

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Seal_of_Rhode_Island.svg/1200px-Seal_of_Rhode_Island.svg.png

I think of Rhode Island as Providence + Brown + rugged coastal estates + bridge tournaments, but I'm sure there is more to it than that

mafia and RISD

We might not have the Talking Heads if not for RI.

that was what I was missing

Glad no one's been murdered by cops up there recently. There might be hundreds of people inside that Wendy's.

That the second line of the ABC chorus runs "Are
simple as do-re-mi". I just coded the "are simple as" bit as nonsense syllables in my brain and never bothered checking what it actually was.

Still don't really understand why it's not "as simple as".

in Vancouver a territorial acknowledgement is de rigueuer at the commencement of literally any event at which people will be talking

and I work at a university here and we are strongly encouraged to have a territorial acknowledgement in our email signature

I guess the 'are' must refer to 1-2-3, meaning that A-B-C isn't as simple as 1-2-3 itself, but as easy as the fact that 1-2-3 is as simple as do-re-mi.

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Is that definitive? Because it might be "or simple as"

I hear it as "ah simple as"

Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII)
Posted: June 24, 2020 at 11:14:31 PM
mafia and RISD

And mafia-fetishism and RISD fetishism.

Rhode Island: the place where everybody knows a guy who can do that thing for you, as long as you’re willing to pay cash.

the clock tower song has a title and it is "Westminster Quarters"

Peter Schmeichel's father was Polish... and a jazz musician!

Just found out Sitting Bull was offed by the pigs ☹️

Is that definitive? Because it might be "or simple as"

Nothing "shockingly old" about this but this seems a good place for a minor piece of trivia I just learned.

The woman on the Sweetheart Stout can was Axl Rose's mother-in-law.

https://assets.sainsburys-groceries.co.uk/gol/7584523/1/640x640.jpg

Damn

the first 10 seconds of this album sound like a Large Professor beat

half a litre of 2% stout!

It's very bad milk stout,not sure how it still exists as I almost never see anyone getting it.

I think I knew that re: Axl Rose's mother-in-law.

I dont think I've ever seen anyone drink it outside of the Glasgow-Greenock end of the Central Belt. I remember when I was young that it was seen as booze for women who weren't into booze. Likewise Babycham, Snowballs and Bucks Fizz.

My mum said that when she gave birth to me and my older brother she was offered a choice between sweetheart stout and Guinness as a post labour medicinal.

OTM

There was definitely an idea that stout was good for you in some way - something to do with anaemia I think?

Yes it was all based (incorrectly) on Guinness being loaded with iron.
It has about as much iron as a spoonful of peas, but who wants peas after a 33 hour labour?

Weren't milk stouts given to women specifically to help with lactation?

Everything in this video basically


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-mDqKtivuI

I dont think I've ever seen anyone drink it outside of the Glasgow-Greenock end of the Central Belt. I remember when I was young that it was seen as booze for women who weren't into booze. Likewise Babycham, Snowballs and Bucks Fizz.

My mum said that when she gave birth to me and my older brother she was offered a choice between sweetheart stout and Guinness as a post labour medicinal.

flavour

Aye the only person I've ever seen ordering a sweetheart stout in a pub was a wee old woman

jeez that's a name I haven't heard in a long time, remember someone in school getting the utter pish ripped out of them for admitting that they'd drank Sweetheart Stout

We've definitely discussed it here before but didn't George Younger (of Thatcher cabinet fame) claim to have picked Venetia Stevenson for the can while working in the family business before his first election victory?

Sounds familiar.

Married twice - pictured here with her first husband Russ Tamblyn:

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/acrobat-and-actor-russ-tamblyn-doing-a-flip-on-the-sidewalk-with-picture-id50326893

But Axl's father in law is Don Everly!

Dr. Amp!

Listened to a webinar last week on semiotics in marketing which had some very interesting points. Told the story of how Cushelle toilet paper was a rebranding of Charmin after the terms of selling the product in a new territory was given some extreme conditions.
Had me thinking about why a bear was being used to sell bog roll and thinking about what they legenbdarily do in the woods.
So they useda big cuddly one to try to euphemise more .

& then the new company had to unwrap the elements of the branding and what they meant to the public. & try to come up with substitutes.Which they apparently did to such an extent that sales didn't drop from having to rebrand.

Seemed to be an interesting way of utilising theory that had been built up over years. Working out what means what to the general public sounds like a really good way of helping make sales .

Just occurred to me that "Hartford" must have originally meant "the place where deer cross the river"

OTM according to the Venerable Bede

Good thinking, YMP! Probably would be another 40 years before I realized that.

Alan Vega and Martin Rev from Suicide were born Boruch Alan Bermowitz and Martin Reverby respectively, which are even better names than their stage names.

oh right so Reverend B was a play on his name I assumed it was the source of the surname used.

patent leather is properly actual leather.

it was invented in like 1790s and is just a coating, not 20th cent mod pleather. it's olde pleather.

Didn't realise that Finland's air force still used the swastika as a symbol

Finland's air force quietly drops swastika symbol https://t.co/Ci86RWVjbL

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 1, 2020

that HAL is one letter up from IBM

"Flashdance...What a Feeling" was written and produced by Giorgio Moroder. no wonder it's one of my fav productions of the 80s