Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Election Day and Mardi Gras, two Tuesday hiolidays that really should be moved to the weekend,

(Funny enough, Louisiana does hold its state elections on Saturdays.)

Weekend? Do it the australian way mate, holiday on a friday or monday so you can have a 3 day weekend.

Or heck having it on a tues is fine, everyone'd just take monday off anyway.

Samedi Gras

Americans don't get a day off to vote, btw. That would make it much harder to disenfranchise voters.

I guess they only get a day off in Australia cause voting is compulsory there. Would be a bit much to fine people for not voting if they were at work all day.

There you go. Make voting mandatory like in Australia, and then you can fine all the people who have to work/don't have proper ID/convicted of a felony, etc.

I was probably well into high school before I learned that the phrase was "reckless driving" and not "wreckless driving." I couldn't understand how driving that resulted in accidents was "wreckless."

I don't think I knew that Ringo Starr is left-handed. Maybe I heard a long time ago and forgot, or didn't recognize the implications.

Can we just have one thread called “Voting: Down Under Vs. Everywhere Else, Especially USA” and not do this on every thread on ILE

we've moved on Tom

I was shockingly old when I learned how irritated Tombot was by digressive discussions of national voting customs.

don't remember where i was
i realized life was a game
the more seriously i took things
the harder the rules became

I don't think I knew that Ringo Starr is left-handed. Maybe I heard a long time ago and forgot, or didn't recognize the implications.

Learned this in Lewisohn's (most recent) awesome book. I guess like a lot of lefties it was sort of beat out of him by teachers, which yeah definitely affects his playing style.

Well this throws off one of my big points about Paul being dead.

Unless Ringo is dead too... Hang on, this changes everything...

Suicide pact.

Or 'cack-handed" as Quincy Jones puts it.

I guess they only get a day off in Australia cause voting is compulsory there. Would be a bit much to fine people for not voting if they were at work all day.

I think that in India, election days are holidays even though voting is not compulsory.

Well into adulthood, I thought 'post-nasal drip' simply referred to stuffiness, i.e. the point in time after your nose had stopped dripping.

after the nasal drip, sounds right

ah, the subtleties of hyphen placement! post-nasal drip vs post nasal-drip

pee... is stored in the balls

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/308/928/7ea.jpg

OR... does it mean that girls have balls???

Until a couple years ago I thought No Woman No Cry meant that if you don't have a woman then you don't have any problems and won't be sad/cry. One day I it came on the radio and I actually listened to the words and realized that it was BM telling a lady not to cry.

~BM~

Commas save lives. It should be called "No, Woman, No Cry."

Prithee m'lady, cry not

I mean it's also clear from the rest of the lyrics but I guess I just never paid attention.

You have only just disabused me of this notion, ENBB.

Same. Thankfully, I've never lectured on it without realizing this.

I guess they only get a day off in Australia cause voting is compulsory there

Sorry, this isnt correct. We dont get the day off, they just do voting on Saturdays.

can you imagine if voting were compulsory in America.

people would be holding angry marches for the freedom to not vote.

cos that's the shit we protest here.

You have only just disabused me of this notion, ENBB.

― Alba, Monday, February 12, 2018 4:49 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thought this was = mo money mo problems construction

i was shockingly old when i learned so many otherwise intelligent people thought the great bob marley had written an anti-woman chorus on a par with "if you want to be happy" by jimmy soul!

I thought he was just heartbroken and temporarily embittered

bob was never heartbroken for long iirc

he never let them fool him
or even try to school him

OK, I feel better now knowing I'm not alone in this.

lol TH I never really thought of it as anti-woman more just like a love sucks and isn't worth the effort type thing. If you want to be happy on the other hand. It's a shame though because it's a damn catchy song and even the spoken ugly wife bits are fun. :(

I guess they only get a day off in Australia cause voting is compulsory there

Sorry, this isnt correct. We dont get the day off, they just do voting on Saturdays.

also we can vote, at fewer locations, for a couple of weeks before the official voting day

So with all the Billy Joel talk that goes on around these parts, and after hearing him on Spotify this morning, I remembered that I was well into my 20s before I learned that Long Island was not one of the boroughs of NYC.

Also Long Island-related, that the "Amityville Horror" house was not some isolated place far from its neighbors, but is right in the middle of a bustling suburb.

lmao that is amazing

I grew up on Long Island and two of my closest HS friends were from near Amityville so we used to drive by the house all the time. And while you're right that it isn't a borough of NYC, Queens and Brooklyn are both technically on Long Island so it's not the craziest thing in the world for you to have thought that. God I hate Billy Joel.

Oh we also drove by Joey Buttafuoco's house all the time which wasn't too far from the horror house lol.

Also Long Island-related, that the "Amityville Horror" house was not some isolated place far from its neighbors, but is right in the middle of a bustling suburb.

it’s sad day when you realise stonehenge is just some fairly underwhelming rocks sat right up against the junction of two busy highways

Until a couple years ago I thought No Woman No Cry meant that if you don't have a woman then you don't have any problems and won't be sad/cry. One day I it came on the radio and I actually listened to the words and realized that it was BM telling a lady not to cry.

For a while when I first heard this (must've been early-mid teens) I wasn't sure which of these it was. I never thought it was definitely the first one, but I wasn't 100% sure either way. I did think if it was the first one, it was just a "love sucks" thing, not misogyny.

When I was a kid I thought it was "No Woman No Crime". Not sure what I thought that was supposed to mean.