Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Have to admit I thought he was Irish too. Apols, The Irish.

that (apart from leap years) the calendar shifts one day every year - so since 1st of january was a sunday this year it will be a monday in 2018, tuesday in 2019...

On a related note, that the point of putting the clocks back in winter is so that normal working hours coincide with the hours of daylight.

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strictly speaking clocks go forward in summer rather than back in winter

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count me in the 'WTF Flatley?' cru

Is that wtf who is he or wtf why so mean or wtf why is he allowed to exist?

i walk like Roddy McDowall in chimp mode on ice

I got freebies for Riverdance at Radio City Music Hall when i worked 'on Broadway' and took my Ireland-as-leprechaun-land mom. It was a sacrifice.

Amazed Flatley is not Irish. So is my colleague, who pointed out while he'd never heard Flatley speak, he'd heard an impersonator taking the piss out of Flatley speak in an Irish accent.

I assumed he was Irish too, since he made his breakthrough as the interval act at Eurovision.

Hair conditioner: what it is and that it actually does ~something~

Just learned this year that Miss Piggy was based on Peggy Lee.

really? i guess i just learned that too.

In fact the character was originally called Miss Piggy Lee until Peggy Lee threatened to sue

I was a subscriber to Muppet magazine and Peggy Lee fan and I still didn't know that!

And then Miss Piggy sang "I'm a Woman" on the Muppet Show with a muppet based on… Miss Raquel Welch

I never knew that Brian Eno produced a Devo album! Until today.

Hair conditioner: what it is and that it actually does ~something~

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, February 6, 2017 8:47 AM (five days ago)

at some point over the past year I learned that it's customary to use conditioner after shampoo rather than before. it still seems backwards to me, so I'm glad to see a few woke internet people speaking up about how it's actually healthier to condition first and how 99.9% of the hairwashing population is doing it wrong.

Look up the "no 'poo" movement

i learned that too recently about conditioner. watching a jim gaffigan special. i had no idea. i don't use it much at all but whenever i did i used it first.

but the shampoo is to scrub things (hair, scalp) and the conditioner is to moisturize hair? I am mystified by this "conditioner first" thing

i learned that in Calamity Jane Howard Keel sings "my love is higher than a hawk "

when my whole life I thought he sang

"my love is higher than a hog"

My fiancee explained to me what conditioner does in the past year. I didn't know about Miss Piggy or Michael Flatley either btw.

I don't wish to diss any particular person's hygiene regime or beauty-product choices. If it works for you and it isn't harming anyone else, rock on with you bad selves.

That said, an awful lot of products out there seem to have been introduced to reduce the harmful effects of other products.

There's a different bunch of products that exist to counteract and/or replace the things your body would ordinarily do on its own. There's still another bunch of products that exist to counteract the effects of the products that counteract the things your body used to do on its own. (Things, by the way, that human bodies were doing for many thousands of years before the products were invented.)

You can use conditioner to replace beneficial stuff that shampoo washed away (or you can shampoo slightly less often and therefore need less regenerative conditioner).

You can buy products that remove callus from your feet, which leaves your feet more vulnerable to the repetitive abrasion that leads to callus, which makes you want to buy a product to remove callus from your feet. (Or you could let protective callus develop protectively where your shoes tend to rub.) You can put Vaseline in your nose for dryness... or you could let your nose regulate its own lubrication level, which may make you want to buy less Vaseline.

I am not saying I'm eager to return to caveman days. But it does seem like at least _some_ of this stuff is a self-perpetuating profit machine for corporations that want you to keep buying their various goops and gels and unguents.

Women look a lot like men

Muller rice isn't disgusting, it's pretty good

I just realised that 'Hip Hop Hooray' by Naughty By Nature is a pun on "hip hip, hooray"

lol

that reminds me (not making fun, just v similar) of my friend who one night exclaimed (in an mIRC channel):

"wait, Man in the Mirror, MJ is singing about HIMSELF?"

That I never learn.

also just learned that Richard Cheese's pseudonym = "dickcheese"

I just realized thirty seconds ago that this world is not the world but is in fact hell.

^underrated Propagandhi song

that what Meat Loaf wouldn't do for love is perfectly explained in the lyrics of the preceding verses

That Max Mosley is Oswald Mosley's son

Niels - what won't he do?

mustache rides

ok this is a bit tmi so skip ahead

was about 19 or 20 and had got back to a girl's place and i told her "i don't have a condom" she said "oh that's fine i have an implant" - this is how i found out what an iud was.

thanks catholic school

there are also contraceptive implants -- norplant i think it was called?

they are not the same as IUDs

yeah, never heard of an IUD referred to as an "implant" but that could be a by-country thing

Yeah Norplant, Depo-Provera, and IUDs are all totally different things. (And condoms are still useful even when one of them is present, unless the only thing you are interested in is pregnancy. FWIW I still used them even after having a vasectomy.)

ha ok: things you were shockingly old when you learned - you can't generically add implants into the same category as IUDs because of what the IU in IUD stands for.

i was basically unaware that there was any device that could be implanted in any part of a woman that could be used as a contraceptive

what did you think the IU stood for? or alternatively, that's not where you put contraceptive implants!

if i had thought about it i might have came to the right conclusion.

I think I knew what IU stood for exclusively due to the Golden Girls.

U did all 3?

Err 4