Things you were shockingly old when you learned

My dentist warned me about Corn Nuts, but I didn't heed the warning

I had an addiction to sunflower seeds when they were just plain salty, but I really lost control when the David Salsa flavor came out... also the Spitz dill pickle flavor

Hmmm, might buy some today

My dentist warned me about Corn Nuts, but I didn't heed the warning

― Andy the Grasshopper

cw nsfw you think corn nuts are bad, you ever try eating corn dick?

I lost a tooth to a fried corn nut recently. Tfw you think oh was a tough one, followed by sheeit where the fuck my tooth gone. At the moment - until the dentist has fixed me I would only take soft things in my mouth .. lol

I have eaten peanuts with the shell on. Shrimp too.

Never been into sunflower seeds so I don't really have a strategy.

But I have very complicated ideas about pistachios. There are several strategies:

1. Take a nut from the bag, open it, eat it. Discard the empty shell in some sensible way. Repeat.

2. Place a quantity of nuts in a bowl. Fish out intact nuts, shell and eat them one by one. Put the empty shells back in the same bowl, so that the search for an intact nut gets harder over time.

3. Option 2, but with an additional bowl for discarding shells. You're still eating them one at a time.

4. Place a quantity of nuts in one bowl, and arrange TWO additional empty bowls near the first. Put shells in one empty bowl and (this is crucial) place the extracted nut-meat in the third bowl. Do not eat it yet, however much you may want to. Save up several. Like, 10 or 12. Then you may eat them at your leisure, either all at once or one by one, without having to wait in between.

5. Buy the already-shelled kind.

6. Some other strategy I am not aware of.

I favor option 4. I can never do options 1-3 because one individual nut is not enough reward for the work of opening it. I get the appeal of #5, but it seems like a bit of a cheat.

I have eaten peanuts with the shell on. Shrimp too.

You people are weird. You probably eat the shell on M&Ms too.

I was actually given a special bowl that's divided into two, specifically (I think) for pistachios and their shells

Pplains, I have a servant who peels my M&Ms. I am not a savage. Sheesh.

I place the M&Ms in a special bowl that's divided in two, for the brown ones and the remainder, in case David Lee Roth comes to visit.

I once watched a very drunk S African guy at a braai get through a small mountain of prawns, shells and all.

i suck the m&m shell off then spit out the chocolate seed

I have eaten kiwi fruit with the skin on after I saw someone else do it. Wasn't bad at all.

Who can be arsed peeling one?

i prefer them with the peel tbh. nice and tart

I used to cut them in half and eat with a teaspoon

I've never mastered the art of peeling a mango. I usually lose about half the fruit in the process.

Mango - it's about slicing it up first, then eating the mango off the skin, and throwing the skin out the window

It doesn't separate happily from the pit, either.

Cut the mango lengthwise along the flat edge of the pit. Do this on both sides so you have two round "halves" and the pit with some flesh around its edge. For each of the halves: cut a grid pattern into the flesh, then invert the half.

Well, I have learned something today, and at a shockingly old age at that.

Kim you forgot the last step which is to referee the argument about who gets the pit and who gets the cheeks. If you cut it right, the pit has a strip of skin which can be peeled off by pulling, and the flat sides of the seed have been shorn so they are dry enough to grip.

The general trick with a mango is that the pit is shaped like the fruit.

That Pilates needs to be capped up because it's named after Joseph Pilates, a trainer who devised the exercise.

also one of his ancestors was a famous influencer who popularised crucifixes

he was the perfect prefect

tbh I'm still not sure what Pilates is, but I haven't been anywhere near a gymnasium since school. There was a point where I thought it was some kind of US ball game.

the only way I exercise is if you trick me into doing it without me knowing. like if I went to a rap concert and you slipped a treadmill under me I might walk 3 miles and not realize.

my only fitness goal is remaining agile enough to be able to walk at a reasonable speed, so no personal trainer is required here

I liked this from Mr Pilates' wiki:

Joseph Pilates wrote several books, including Return to Life through Contrology

that's also what i plan to use

nothing more shameless than giving false hope to dead people

rip them but i'm different

In a similar vein, I recently learned the burpee was named after a man named Royal Huddleston Burpee.

I always wondered why it was called that!

I used to pronounce the exercise like the name of the Roman governor.

I think the Roman guy would’ve pronounced it similarly in his day though, stress-wise at least

bought sunflower seeds yesterday, roasted and salted. hadn't realised you're not meant to eat the shells

ah yes that sounds similar to my first edamame experience

as to the original question: only recently did I realize that the term "button-down shirt" apparently refers to the collar being buttoned down. I guess I assumed it was a general term for shirts with fully buttoned fronts (as opposed to, say, t-shirts or pique shirts), but tbh I haven't given it a lot of thought.

cheap collars curl up or similar otherwise.

Cheap Trick’s “Oh Claire” (the coda of Heaven Tonight) is a pun on the Wisconsin city Eau Claire.

Misuse of “button-down” is a persistent pet peeve of mine. The “wrong” usage seems to be what I hear 80% of the time.

https://lpsoncd.com/media/ecom/prodxl/NewhartBob-ButtonDownMindOf021.jpg

I did not know until today that that term referred to the collar. Like anatol_merklich, I thought it referred to the shirt front.

I'm not surprised that that's what many people think. It could very well be a phrase that's in transition to the meaning you inferred.

comedy doesn't often age well, but bob newhart records still crack me up

or maybe I just haven't aged well

I feel like an idiot.

The amount of times I've gone looking for a button-down shirt with a spread collar...

This is new information for me, too. I had always assumed "button-down" meant the shirt front. (Perhaps this is why I have also seen this type of shirt referred to as a "button-up" and thought those people were misnaming it...)

First time I saw James Spader button his shirt from the top to the bottom in Sex, Lies and Videotape, I thought, OH I see, he is UNHINGED.

What? People button their shirts starting at the bottom and ending at the collar? Why?