Things you were shockingly old when you learned

some of us had to buy new clothes because we got fat during the pandemic, mind

― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, October 14, 2021 3:54 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Yes.

The bigger thing though is that although I still have some positively ancient t-shirts still in circulation, many newer articles of clothing have already hit the skids because everything is increasingly (and intentionally) made like shit (see also the thing where I'm currently wearing a sturdy-ass pair of glasses from twenty years ago because every single pair of glasses I've owned since has broken from just like regular wear).

i have had numerous pairs of jeans rip after like only 3 months worth of wear. i've learned to uhhh buy more reliable brands, cos boy is that not something fun when it happens in public

I have an SST "Blasting Concept" t-shirt that came with the cassette comp (which vanished years ago) as a package deal, probably from 1986 or so? I don't wear it often but it gets to guest star once in awhile.

Buying more expensive and better made jeans is a real thing. I had a pair of jeans I wore every day for 1.5 years during which they saw riots, stints in jail, hopping freight trains across the country, and living in a squat— I spent $120 bucks on them. When they fell apart, I immediately went out and bought another pair

I have some shirts from pre-2010 but they are few and far between, mostly because of an incident with a incontinent cat in 2012 where half of my wardrobe was ruined.

This is why I only buy jeans in thrift stores, so I can can buy the expensive brands.

The bigger thing though is that although I still have some positively ancient t-shirts still in circulation, many newer articles of clothing have already hit the skids because everything is increasingly (and intentionally) made like shit

The idea of dsiposability was always undermined by the diffculty of actually permanently disposing of things that wasn't detrimental to the environment. It just lead to a load of landfill and broken things being around in the environment without further usage.

I almost never buy new clothing for those reasons. Maybe once every couple of years I'll buy something expensive and timeless that will last years, maybe decades (I still wear clothes I had in high school, possibly even middle school). I really prefer to buy old clothes, but nothing too hipster. Years ago I thought "when was the last time I had a pair of jeans that wasn't made like shit?" and since then I've only bought jeans made in the 1980s. Thrift stores here mostly sell 'fast fashion' junk- I can't be bothered.

Actually I don't really buy anything brand new in general, I've been buying secondhand products primarily most of my life. There are a few exceptions, and they tend to be minor purchases, like underwear and razor blades.

My favorite sweater that I wear all the time I've had since I think she 9 or 10 (it was too big on me when I got it)

*she = age, obv

Anthony Michael Hall's real name is Michael Anthony Hall

did he change it so he wouldn't be confused with Michael Anthony of Van Halen fame?

I thought it was so he wouldn't be confused for the dormitory named after Michael Anthony of Van Halen fame

Durag not do-rag.

In 2000, Nikki Sixx formed a band called 58 with writer/producer Dave Darling, his former father-in-law. I just learned that this is not the same David Darling who played cello, recorded for ECM and died earlier this year.

Rocinante, the mount of Don Quixote, is a male horse. Always seemed more like a mare's name to me.

Never knew that either, despite being near the end of Season Two of The Expanse.

lol James same reaction from me

Same lol, but I also haven't read Quixote...since 2002? Something like that.

(And we're toward the end of season 3, totally addicted)

I learned only the other day that people only really started eating tomatoes in the 1880s. I'd always assumed that Spanish and Italian people had been incorporating them into their cuisine for long before then. But for around two centuries they'd been considered deadly poisonous because the acids in the tomatoes would soak up lead from pewter plates and kill people.

I'm doing a bit more online searching and apparently this might not be strictly true after all as there are records of people putting tomatoes into recipes dating before then, but I think it was around 1880 that tomato-mania exploded with the popularity of the Napolonean pizza

by 'people' I assume you mean "European people'

I don't know how I didn't know but: a VIP remix isn't done by some extremely prolific dude (or collective) who did thousands and thousands of remixes in the most diverse genres, for decades now.

VIP means Variation In Production and it's a remix done by the original performer of the track.

me = head asplode gif

if you are into d&b then surely you would know this already? or if you aren't then surprised you know about VIP mixes.

Oh! is it especially D&B? I thought it was way more ubiquitous, somehow.

it's definitely in other genres too, and I never realized this either. I thought it just meant like this is a special exclusive mix.

thinking about it the first time I was really aware of it was this, which isn't even d&b

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvIWnh8dNOw

Every day before today is dim and gray in retrospect, because on all of those days, I did not know this:

Things I Did Not Know: After their defeat and loss at Copenhagen in 1807, the Danes responded by planting 90,000 oak trees toward the Navy’s rebirth. The Danish Nature Agency, successor to the royal forester, informed the Defense Ministry in 2007 that their trees were ready. pic.twitter.com/R2L2hrMn1k

— aniemyer (@aniemyer) November 1, 2021

Good time for them to challenge Spain, then

That reminds me of a story in the old The Whole Earth Catalog about some Cambridge students who noticed that some ancient oak beam in some ancient hall was showing signs of bug infestation. And then the campus forester reminded everyone that some replacement oaks had been planted in 1640-whatever as replacements, and they were ready to be harvested. We don't think in those terms anymore.

(xxp) It's good stuff but it really doesn't belong in this particular thread tbh.

It is pretty cool tho. Most major Japanese temples and shrines have nearby forests of carefully maintained trees timed to mature when the structure needs renewal, Ise being the most famous example because it’s entirely dismantled and rebuilt every 20 years. Transferring the kami is the key part.

Things I Learned Today

That I can resize this Add a Post text box area woooo

That Cybill Shepherd dated Elvis!

some truly mind-popping quotes about it here

ew

That there is an apostrophe in Jack Daniel's. I thought it was Jack Daniels. Only realized while reading this article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-police-lodge-jack-daniels-committee-investigation/2021/11/04/e035a92a-3377-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.html

Everyone knows how Jack Daniel and Evan William used to hang out together.

stop off with kroger for groceries or mcdonald for fast food

That "Chopsticks" was written by someone and didn't just emerge out of the public domain ether.

You can be too tall to serve in the US Armed Forces. Can't be over 6'6" in the Army and Marines, or over 6'8" in the Navy.

this was an issue for David Robinson:

At the time the Naval Academy had a height restriction of 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) for all midshipmen, and in the autumn when the new academic year began Robinson had grown to 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m). Assuming that he was unlikely to grow much more, the academy's superintendent readily granted him a waiver. However Robinson continued growing, and by the start of his second year at the academy he had nearly reached his adult height of 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m), which later prevented him from serving on any U.S. naval ships.

And yet that military discipline he learned no doubt helped him when called upon to assemble in Precise Modern Lovers Order.

This is a mistake. Overly tall servicemen & servicewomen should be transferred to a unit of other really tall soldiers/sailors, as sort of a psy-ops cadre designed to strike terror in the hearts of enemy forces; modern day bezerkers, if you will.

Candlebox's "Far Behind" is about Andrew Wood. Originally the chorus was "Aaaaaaaannnddddy, I didn't mean to treat you oh so bad", and he changed "Andy" to "maybe"

It makes sense now but I never knew until I read a Kevin Martin interview

Mother Love Bone is pretty awful

Is that just a statement or just recently learned

I had a 12" years ago - not an album - and I remember trying to get into it, and then just deciding it was terrible. Like thirty years ago