Things you were shockingly old when you learned

What the what what, you say? Liza Minnelli made a northern soul floor shaker? Indeed she did.https://t.co/uq5N0mMFuR

— Rob Chapman (@rcscribbler) November 13, 2019

So did Grotbags:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEYaxZoQ188

There are Stevie Wonder truthers

Like literally people who believe he isn't really blind and is faking it

Wtf.

Things i wish i had never learned.

That He-Man (minus the hyphen) is a biblical name.

Zippers on long garments have bottom catches so you can unzip the lower part while sitting, driving, etc.

when speaking Ukrainian, the city of Kiev is pronounced "keev"

You mean Kyiv.

^ Something I just recently learned.

Do i say Chicken Kiev that way too?

If you're in Ukraine, yes.

they just call it chicken there

Chyif Kyiv

lol

Relevant:

https://naturalsciences.bandcamp.com/album/dungeon-rap-the-introduction

Split across three different aliases, and a host of collaborations (including MC Holocaust, Rita Keen & Devilish Trio), the record draws on the sounds of Norwegian black ambient

TOO MUCH NAZIS IN NORWEGIAN BLACK M... oh it said ambient.

Dude is… not exactly what you'd expect given the context.

It sounds really good tbh, a handful of songs in!

A trans-Atlantic mixtape between some DJ from Kharkiv and a revolving cast of Memphis rappers is a pretty sweet use of the Internet tbh.

Дякую! I'm intruiged, I love how gritty and, indeed, ambient it is - though the latter is catnip.

D'oh moment: that the names Kindle and Fire are connected. For some reason I'd never thought of the Kindle as being the same word as kindle.

I just now noticed there’s a Z and an A on the album cover of Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch.

Another, worse d'oh moment: that WhatsApp is a riff on 'what's up', which I guess everyone else in the world knew immediately. Shameful.

I only grew to know the shape of fresh spinach leaves in my late twenties. For some reason I had pictured it as being some sort of soggy spring greens/pak choi affair until then (probably as the result of only knowing it in wilted mulch form)

I'm not sure if I knew as a kid that Tom's Midnight Garden and The Secret Garden were two separate books but I either realised or re-realised this a couple of weeks ago

my mental image of "spinach" was overwhelmingly defined by Popeye cartoons, in which it is a mushy green slime, only ever seen arcing as a colloidal mass from the can into Popeye's mouth.

Another, worse d'oh moment: that WhatsApp is a riff on 'what's up', which I guess everyone else in the world knew immediately. Shameful.

fuck

well, take some solace in knowing that you were only the second-last person in the world to realise that

Nat "King" Cole got his nickname/stage name from the "Old King Cole" nursery rhyme.

I realized this yesterday.

I learned who Mary Lou Williams was yesterday :-/

On the upside, a student taught me! Here's to humility in teaching.

I just now noticed there’s a Z and an A on the album cover of Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch.

― Mr. Snrub

It took me a while to recognize the ship and witch's hat, I think I just thought it was a simple abstract drawing.

It's from a book of similar drawings, can't remember what it's called now

DROODLES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1BsdWGA9s

My mate has the witches hat tattooed on his inner left arm. The first time he showed me, it took me an excruciatingly long time to work out what it was. Then we had to have the 'yeah, Zappa's a bit of a twat, isn't he?' conversation all over again and that was that for the evening.

I'm not sure if I knew as a kid that Tom's Midnight Garden and The Secret Garden were two separate books but I either realised or re-realised this a couple of weeks ago

― kinder, Friday, 15 November 2019 13:46 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

goodnight mr uncle toms midnight secret cabin is where im currently at with these

that the "returned search results for..." message in soulseek at the bottom is not just a system log, it's stuff that was returned from your library

I thought the results looked too familiar too often

That I’ve been right all along about how to pronounce “vapid” (nobody ever says this word, you only see it in print, my instincts are usually terrible about this kind of thing)

of course according to merriam-webster I would’ve been right either way

Nat "King" Cole got his nickname/stage name from the "Old King Cole" nursery rhyme.

I realized this yesterday.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, November 15, 2019 4:09 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

The way I understand it, the jazz trio featuring Nat Cole took its name from the nursery rhyme and it then got applied to the artist himself when he went solo..
Do love the King Co9le Trio cos it features the guitar of Oscar Moore who is pretty dashed fine.

That the Judeo-Christian notion of a soul didn't exist until Greek philosophers began ruminating about dualism.

Yeah how could one have been so shockingly ignorant about the origins of the Judeo-Christian notion of a soul.

I mean when I was like five I had this silly attachment to the Emersonian ideal of an oversoul. Then in like third grade I was big into the Nietzschean ubermensch concept. I was tempted by Manichean duality as a preteen, but it somehow the true historical path of these never quite crystallized for me. Good on ya, lunch

That no one else says vapid out loud.

I feel less bad about overusing that word as a vapid youth

I read somebody saying that policy wonks are nicknamed as such cos they know everything backwards! Which is obv wrong because the dictionary says it is slang for for someone with an eye for tedious detail or an inexperienced sailor (1920s).

vapid = 'vaped' right, please tell me i'm correct or i will be embarrsed

"When learning English, Russians have to practice making the "w" sound because they are not used to it. At first, they will often pronounce them as "v", which leads to being corrected by the teacher. This constant practice of substituting "v" with "w" leads to over correction wherein they become so conscientious about the substitution that they do it even when they're not supposed to."

vapid = 'vaped' right, please tell me i'm correct or i will be embarrsed

― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch)

it took me until like five years ago to learn how to spell embarrassed. i couldn't remember if it had two rs and one s or two ss and one r.

mark s: I worked with a Ukrainian who would often go to the wending machine.

i agree with kids who say a W is actually drawed like a double-vee. sorry that’s my only opinion. Inconsistently said, incorrectly named, what a mess. and a danish pal went on for a minute about the sport of “wallyball” and i couldnt figure out if that was just a weird way of saying volleyball, or a different sport.

In spanish, V is "ve" and W is "doble ve"

ah true. sorta pronounced doble b some places tho?