Things you were shockingly old when you learned

His dad was also a songwriter/musician (as well as an actor) who wrote with Lionel Bart and Tommy Steele.

that Lotte Lenya played central evil and treacherous secret agent in early Bond movie.

most memorable character for me, I must say, in otherwise clumsy effort

The LGBQT acronym for indigenous Canada adds like 6 more letters. 2SLGBTQQIA Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual (2SLGBTQQIA)
which I heard a couple of weeks ago and couldn't work out what the 2nd Q was at the time.

whaaaaaat. damn

i've never seen 2S at the front, but i guess it changes more often than i check in

I think 2s is specifically indigenous. I think it has even been something there has been some debate about cultural appropriation when non indigenous people have attempted to claim it asa term. have seen a talk where teh speaker flatly denied taht anybody who is not of a tribal background can claim a status of 2 spirithood. He went on to say taht the term used in different tribes and the perspective on the role changed from tribe to tribe. But it was something that had been accepted in a pre Christian hegemonical indigenous epistemology or something along those lines, like it was a thing in existence and acccepted not shunned in a lot of tribes. But Christian morality when imposed frowned upon marginalised sexuality. Probably actively marginalised it in fact.

The Peter Principle was a 1969 satirical book exploring the phenomena of being promoted to the level of one's own incompetence.
I had come across the idea before but had no idea it wasa book until I found taht book in a charity shop yesterday.
It's written by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull. So the peter of teh name is one of the author's surnames. So maybe a bit narciossistic. I thought people named principles etc after other people and noramlly dead ones.
But yeah interesting little tome, a bit dated and illustrated with loads of Victorian era Punch illustrations or similar alongside some diagrams etc.

xp sorry point was speaker was an indigenous 2 spirit person themselves and saying that it was not a term that could be used by non indigenous people. I think I put in a double negative that I didn't mean to.

Just found out that it's Genesis and Cosey on the cover of UFO's Force It album, pre-TG.

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/when_half_of_throbbing_gristle_ended_up_on_a_ufo_lp_cover

Also, that all the facets on the cover was a pun on the title ("Force It").

facets = faucets (And I proof-read!)

The whole thing couldn't be any more Hipgnosis really

Robyn Hitchcock's father wrote the novel "Percy", about the world's first successful penis transplant, later a film starring Hywel Bennett with soundtrack by the Kinks.

I remember playing maniac mansion on the PC when I was 13 and being frustrated at being unable to select the tap, only something called a "faucet"

For some reason I had it in my head that Americans were more precise than us and distinguished between the spout and the thing you turn (the faucet). But now I see I’ve invented this and that faucet covers both things, just like tap does.

I’ve also just discovered that in some parts of America it’s called a spigot instead.

Often pronounced "spickit"

Spigot's more like what's at the end of a garden hose.

Yeah, I think I've only ever heard spigot in an outdoor context.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cP7VnMmUL._AC_.jpg

Suzi Quatro is Sherilyn Fenn's aunt

No way

"Her sister Arlene is the mother of actress Sherilyn Fenn."

I don't see much resemblance.. maybe the eyes:

https://images.discovery-prod.axs.com/2020/11/suzi-quatro-tickets_04-21-21_17_5fc4dd4abf0fe.jpg

Here's Mom:

https://i.imgur.com/WTSc0Ep.png

I don't know if it's just seeing these posts in conjunction but suddenly I'm seeing a link between Peter Cook in Bedazzled and the Giant in Twin Peaks.

Good Suzi Quatro fact.

Speaking of peepers:
Her family name of "Quattrocchi" ("four eyes", meaning "bespectacled") was shortened to Quatro

How long have spectacles been around? Seems crazy that there would be a family named after eyewear

Since the 13th century! But that's another good Suzi Quatro fact.

Seems crazy that there would be a family named after eyewear

Quatro's 60s bands were quite good. I picked up the Cradle cd last year and meant to pick up the Pleasure Seekers set.
Both of them feature Suzi plus several sisters though looks like it didn't include this one.

That leaving a mosquito bite alone really does work to stop it itching a lot more quickly.

lol

Suzi Quattro's 'Culture Fix' interview in the Times recently was err... Sadly it's behind a paywall, but:

If I could own one painting, it would be . . .

The Scream by Edvard Munch. You can dive right into that picture and find so many things in there. I always really love that really famous painting of the last supper, but I don’t know which artist painted it. [It was Leonardo da Vinci.] I know I should.

The book I couldn’t finish

The follow-up to Fifty Shades of Grey. I found myself actually flicking past the rude parts because they had become so repetitive and dull. To be honest, the thrill had gone.

The book I’m ashamed I haven’t read

I have a wide, wide range of taste and a thirst for knowledge. I can’t really think of a book I should have read that I haven’t.

I liked it when i noticed that the Scream mask as in comedy horror film was based on the Scream face as in Edvard Munch

I have a wide, wide range of taste and a thirst for knowledge. I can’t really think of a book I should have read that I haven’t.

in other words: can the can

Well, she obviously hasn't read the follow-up to the follow-up to 50 SoG.

I like her spirit. Fuck all this anguish about unread books.

Easier said than done.

fifty shades crash

about *NSYNC:

The group's name is also a play on the last letter of each of the initial members' names: Justi*N*, Chri*S*, Joe*Y*, Jaso*N*, and J*C*.

I just recently discovered the similar construction of Jodeci (which I think only eluded me for so long because I was out of the pop loop at that point and didn't realize K-Ci and JoJo were members of Jodeci).

Had to look up Jaso*N*. He dropped out soon after the group was formed and was replaced by Lanc*E*.

this guy just found out what NGL stands for:

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

That makes two of us.

...BUT, he was nicknamed "Lanste*N*" so they could keep the name 'NSYNC!

xps

i thought it was the same as nagl

There are tiny arachnids that live on your face
Not any other part of your body
Just your face

where do they poop? are we all spidershitfaced?

iirc they don't poop at all.

As KQED points out in the video, face mites have no anus, instead storing their poop in their bodies for the full duration of their brief lives.