Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I've worked at heights when I was youngish - wouldn't be able to do it now. Got a much clearer idea of what The End looks like and how easy it is to reach it these days.

Personally I only want thrills that I am in control of.

My beloved wife likes roller-coasters and amusement park rides and wants to do escape rooms and such. I confess that I just don't get it.

Like, I will do pretty demanding hikes and climbs and caves and bike rides and cross-country skiing. Because the speed and thrills come from ME. If it demands skill, it demands MY skill.

But a waterslide? That's plastic plus gravity. Skydiving? Gravity plus nylon.

By the way why is that pronounced "baloney"?

I am guessing it's just a mangling of the Italian pronunciation, but I honestly don't know. This might be something I learn today.

Can we do an ILX fundraising drive to build our own submarine?

Thinking 1k should be enough.

We all live in a neandosubmarine

won't be living in it for long if I'm the captain

Captain Nemanderthal

Or maybe: 77 Leagues Under the Sea

DJP Boot

Nemo Raggett

C or Das Boot

The Hunt for Raggettober

just give me a cardboard bix and a sharpie

POXtober

i once made a gravity bong out of a bathtub and an office water cooler jug, it felt like a scuba mission. investigative and exploratory.

i have seen workers on scaffolds doing insane daredevil acrobatics these last couple of years, it's shocking and horrifying. honestly playing baseball on a scaffold would be way safer.

I'm very confused about the baloney/bologna thing upthread. I've got no idea what it actually is, it's just a word I heard in American cartoons and films when I was a kid that seemed to a polite way to say 'bullshit'. Now this thread seems to be telling me that there is no such word as 'baloney', just 'bologna' pronounced very weirdly, but it doesn't mean the Italian city or bolognaise sauce, it means...?

it's a kind of cured pork and beef sausage -- also called polony and (in parts of australia) "fitz"

Well, I'm shockingly old to learn that

It is, or was, also a very popular choice among U.S. parents as a cheap meat to use in school lunch sandwiches.

It's basically floor sweepings.

I can barely stand the smell of it now, it really makes me sick.

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

how quickly we forget that oscar meyer has a way with b-o-l-o-g-n-a

I wish I could forget that ad. It's taking up valuable storage space.

baloney the food sounds like a more hench version of a frankfurter, but possibly even more indigestible and bad. An old fashioned UK word meaning nonsense/bollox I really like is "tommyrot". A headmaster used it on me once and it seemed hilarious at the time, but I still use it irl.

"What rot!" is also pleasing to say

tommyrot is another australian name for a cured pork and beef sausage

It's basically the American version of mortadella. An emulsified beef and pork sausage with no discernible pockets of fat or pistachios or what have you.

BTW, I must thank everyone for all of your posts. This thread is one of the most edifying I've read. Thank you.

"Can we do an ILX fundraising drive to build our own submarine?"

there was a trend for ppl building DIY subs out of used propane gas tanks in recent history. Obv low depth limited vehicles just done for a laugh or just to get a taste for the underwater experience. Stockton Rush made one and the hack engineer who who designed and wired all the frequently dysfunctional hydraulic and control systems for the Titan submersible said in an interview that the one Rush made actually contained a wooden part, although he didn't specify if it was part of the pressure chamber.

there’s a weird john mayer song about a dude building a submarine in his back yard and hanging out there all the time alone

Not sure I believe a word of this, but whatever

https://www.dictionary.com/e/baloney-or-bologna/

Influenced by "blarney" they say, but I always assumed it was a euphemism for bullshit. I've heard many an older person say, "oh, bull......loney!"

kissing the baloney stone gives endows you with the gift of t'all tastes same to me

Can we do an ILX fundraising drive to build our own submarine?

Thinking 1k should be enough.

― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, August 2, 2023 11:54 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i love how this post can mean a sandwich or a watercraft, depending on how you place it in context

I mentioned Mortadella/devon/fritz upthread yesterday, and then 2 ilxors felt free to say the same thing as if I hadn't spoken. What is this, a staff meeting?!

"In Britain, it goes by Polony."

Hmmm. I've never heard of Polony. We do have mortadella, though.

I just found out George Davis was not in fact innocent

I was listening to Duran Duran at the time, not Sham 69 or Patrik Fitzgerald which would've been much cooler

polony sounds like polari for baloney

It's not so much learning about it just now, but more like I just realized how untethered for me that the letter "W" is from the idea that it is literally double-"U", at least until I saw a video how it's called doble-V in some Spanish-speaking countries.

I blame POTUS#43 for this semantic decoupling. We don't bag on him enough anymore.

apologies trayce, you did indeed and i didn't spot it

xpost Thought it was cool how they did it on the movie poster

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTUyNzkwMzAxOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzc1OTk1NjE@._V1_.jpg

double-V does make more sense. it'd be funny to see it spelled UUitch and aluuays

'sok Mark all good. I did feel like Invisible Lady from the Fast Show skit though lol.

who weezy is

an asthma medication delivery service?

Lil Wayne

all I know is he endorsed Trump, can't remember any of his music

I first heard the source of the “Amen break” about 90 seconds ago.

what a kookaburra sounds like.

or rather, that the sound of the "jungle" from old movies and cartoons isn't monkeys, as i had always thought, it's kookaburras!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3puMIfxm9fU

Sitcom maven Chuck Lorre wrote the theme song to "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

There was television in the 1930's?

There was television in the 1920's.

But not yet broadcasting, right? Just like experimental demonstrations

In 1928, WRGB (then W2XCW) was started as the world's first television station. It broadcast from the General Electric facility in Schenectady, New York. It was popularly known as "WGY Television".

I was just reading about this fluke BBC broadcast that reached New York in 1938, I didn't realize that they were broadcasting TV images that early:

https://archive.org/details/BbcTelevisionReceivedInNewYork-1938