Like most, sorry maist, Scots' words!
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 24 March 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
Kate Lister just did a Betwixt the Sheets on Sordid Soho where she says the name Soho derives from a hunting cry.Had no idea.Is it just a coincidence that NYC also has an important arty space called SoHo but derived from abbreviation then portmanteau of the words South of Houston. Is the pronunciation different?
― Stevo, Saturday, 25 March 2023 10:38 (one year ago) link
in times gone (very) by soho (the london one) was a royal hunting ground and some of the pubs frequented in ilx FAPs gone by -- viz at least two of the fours pubs called the BLUE POSTS -- are said to mark the boundaries of this ground, with their name as a reminder of the relevant marker or signpost
― mark s, Saturday, 25 March 2023 11:04 (one year ago) link
Just found out that what we call filet mignon in America (a cut of beef) is not called that in French.
Apparently in French, filet mignon only refers to pork tenderloin.
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 25 March 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link
What we call filet mignon I've usually heard of referred to as just "filet" in France
Never heard that about the pork
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 25 March 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link
I've just learned that Americans call coriander cilantro. I knew about arugula being rocket, but somehow cilantro escaped me all these years.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 26 March 2023 00:25 (one year ago) link
Don’t forget TS cilantro vs. Italian parsley. In Latin America they also have cilantro macho and cilantro hembra.
― Old Man Reacts to Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 March 2023 00:36 (one year ago) link
enchiladas suizas = Swiss enchiladas
― budo jeru, Sunday, 2 April 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
Nigel Lawson's ex-wife (and Nigella Lawson's mother) married A.J. Ayer after divorcing Lawson.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 08:15 (one year ago) link
Wow Tom, your parents really fucked up not having that talk with you.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 09:37 (one year ago) link
for years i thought the UK speed camera sign depicted a Victorian bellows camera pointing to the right, but it’s just a boring CCTV camera pointing towards the viewer :/ pic.twitter.com/sCOVzyRPhW— rory ・‿・ (@FeyeraBender) April 4, 2023
― Tim, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:28 (one year ago) link
um wait whatO°
― kinder, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:33 (one year ago) link
FAKE NEWS http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7628908.stm
― kinder, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:35 (one year ago) link
That whole thread though, if you want to see how people see things --weirdly-- differently
― kinder, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:36 (one year ago) link
Yeah it’s a classic skeuomorph! Which is why it looks like a bellows camera and doesn’t look like the other thing
― michel goindry (wins), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:38 (one year ago) link
when my sister and i were small and bundled into the back of the car we would sing out "TOMATO!" whenever we spotted the no stopping sign and tbh that is still what i see
https://theorytest.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/no-stopping-sign-clearway.png
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:52 (one year ago) link
Gobsmacked by this, assumed it was filmed in Bath or somewhere similar.
Oliver! is on C4. Let us once again marvel at how they built this set at Pinewood. Fuck CGI. They. Built. It. pic.twitter.com/aDkOKg7dXe— Cupie Doll (@cupie_doll) April 8, 2023
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 9 April 2023 10:02 (one year ago) link
that the character actor I enjoyed so much in Mud and Cold in July was legendary playwright Sam Shepard.
― Trout Fishing in America (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 April 2023 22:57 (one year ago) link
The original snake oil worked. Omega 3 based oil made from boiled down snakes.It's take off was a scam though initially also made from snakes just the wrong type but thereafter total hokum.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 11:40 (one year ago) link
To expand apparently snake oil salesman picked up on a remedy from Chinese workers that did work to alleviate muscle pain. But it depended on being based on a specific type of snake which wasn't around in the U.S. the Americans tried to make it with local snakes which didn't actually work. Then marketed it as a universal panacea and then started making it from totally unrelated ingredients. But it was the show that it became part of that was the relevant part and these supposed healing shows had a much longer history, had been banned in the early centuries of the Christian era etc.Just listened to a Maintenance Phase episode on it. Interesting.
So what has been used as a synonym for phoney medicine only took on that meaning once it moved away from its original form.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 13:27 (one year ago) link
It's a good episode! Was definitely news to me when I listened to it, also. I think you can rest easy that this is not info known to 99+% of people using the phrase.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
Louis Leterrier, director of Transporter 2 and other venerable eurotrash, is the son of François "A Man Escaped" Leterrier.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 14 April 2023 13:56 (one year ago) link
That adults are, by and large, intensely more childish than children
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 14 April 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
am not!
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 14 April 2023 14:18 (one year ago) link
If you use a kitchen whisk in partially deflated bubble bath, you can get bubbles back
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 14 April 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link
Making things more (or less?) confusing, dried cilantro *seeds* do go by coriander here.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 April 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
so if you've chopped up spicy peppers then you mustn't touch any of your more sensitive bits until after several intense handwashings, and i bet we all learned this pretty early on, but today i found out that garlic will also sear into your flesh if, for example, you got a mild sunburn on your face yesterday 🌠
― bloompsadaisy (cat), Friday, 14 April 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
You should see what happens if you have lime juice on you and go out in the sun.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 April 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
if you wear lemon juice you become invisible
― Will.I.Am's fetid urine (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 April 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link
xp whoa
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Friday, 14 April 2023 19:24 (one year ago) link
See also: pulling out poison ivy vines and then going to pee
Don't ask how I know
― doja catharsis (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 April 2023 19:44 (one year ago) link
jmotherf-ingc at lime juice + skin + sun, i had no idea
― bloompsadaisy (cat), Friday, 14 April 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
if i'm feeling scrungy i sometimes do a baking soda & limon juice face scrub and henceforth i will be so so so careful to stay out of the sun after
thank you Josh you might have saved me from turning into a blister
― bloompsadaisy (cat), Friday, 14 April 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
John Lydon's recently deceased wife was a German heiress who inherited $180 million on her father's death.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 15 April 2023 01:14 (one year ago) link
Which does make you wonder why John felt the need to do butter adverts.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 15 April 2023 01:15 (one year ago) link
The great rocknroll swindle innit
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 April 2023 01:57 (one year ago) link
think a lot of his motivation boils down to "what will make people mad"
― bloompsadaisy (cat), Saturday, 15 April 2023 02:27 (one year ago) link
John Lydon once said he caredBut he never really gave a fuck
― Will.I.Am's fetid urine (Neanderthal), Saturday, 15 April 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
xp 100%
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 15 April 2023 02:55 (one year ago) link
I did a triple take on the "she was Ari Up's mother" reports, like, "wait they're contemporaries, how can that be?" but then read more detailed accounts to learn she was 14 yrs older than John.
― nickn, Saturday, 15 April 2023 03:16 (one year ago) link
Yeah and it helps that Ari was only 14 when she was in the Slits. It boggles the mind now to think her mother was perfectly ok with her doing all the shit she did at that age, but rich people gonna rich I guess.
Viv Albertine's autobio gave me the impression Ari was just left to do what the fck she wanted and her behaviour in any modern context would have had her medicated at the VERY least if not institutionalised.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 15 April 2023 03:46 (one year ago) link
prob true, and thankfully that didn't happen. RIP the 70s I guess...
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 15 April 2023 03:52 (one year ago) link
Almost everything about Nora's life was surprising.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 April 2023 08:05 (one year ago) link
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, March 25, 2023 8:25 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
The most confusing one is "public school"
in the US it means the opposite of what it means in the UK
― hoonja doonja love me anymore (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 01:12 (one year ago) link
Yes, in the US public schools are ones that are open to the public, free for all to attend who live in their districts, as opposed to private schools, for which one must pay to attend. That makes sense to me.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 01:19 (one year ago) link
Yes, the brits are wrong on this one.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 10:08 (one year ago) link
People do say private school here too. Public school tends to be reserved for a subset of them that are old and prestigious (Eton, Harrow etc). But yes, much better to call them all private schools. I think the term dates back to when the alternative to not going to school was being privately tutored at home!
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 10:33 (one year ago) link
you could also see it as a reminder that if you want to participate in public life in the UK you'd better have gone to Eton or Harrow
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 10:35 (one year ago) link
Until NV posted the fees for The Leys School on the 6Music thread, I don't think I realised just how expensive a public school education was these days. Fucking hell.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 10:49 (one year ago) link
even the cost of building a gallows has skyrocketed
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 10:52 (one year ago) link