Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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.

could have meant "it ain't no crime if you ain't got a woman as long as you ain't sleepin' with the boys" if Buju Banton had written it

I was in my 20s before I found out what procedure Penny had done in Dirty Dancing; "knocked up" was not in the dictionary when I checked.

You could've knocked me up with a feather when I found out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocker-up

We rented (in one of the bad years) a two bedroom cottage for the six of us from the 85 year old owner who moved into the coalshed with his dog in order to get the 25 punt a week into his hand.

Anyway, he used to do that for us.

I often wonder if ilxors have any questions about my upbringing they'd like answered

I've a few meself when things like the above snippet come back to me tbh

I’d pay an old man to prod me with a stick when I didn’t get out of bed in the morning in a timely manner

no sexual innuendo intended but some of you can get whatever kicks you want from inferring it

Who knocks up the knocker-upper, though?

I knew a knocker upper who only knocked up men who didn’t knock up themselves

it’s alright ma i’m only knockin up heaven’s door

I didn't know until a few weeks ago that Hawaii is SIX HOURS away from LA by plane.

> Who knocks up the knocker-upper, though?

It's knocker-uppers all the way down.

(Didn't I read somewhere that, yes, knocker-uppers had their own knocker-uppers and they had their own etc. The earliest of which was early enough that they just stayed up late rather than had to get up early)

((Probably QI))

I only just this week found out that a pile of people (in America), supposedly pronounce faux like fox?! The "Faux News" thing is actually supposed to be a pun? wtf

No. No way. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

Also many x-posts - I was thinking about the abortion in DD recently because I watched the shit out of that movie when it came out and I was only 10 but I don't remember not getting any of it. Maybe my bff's older sister filled us in or something. Tbh I was really pretty sheltered so I'm surprised my parents let me watch at all let alone repeatedly.

The Carpenters' "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" is a cover (of Klaatu).

xpost I think I was 9-10 too for DD. I have no clue what I thought was going on. That she had a bad appendectomy?

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

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Sort of in keeping with the thread mandate, I thought until sometime within the past year that I'd just been remiss in learning all about the function/historical significance of Stonehenge but it turns out that nobody actually knows for sure what it's all about and my ignorance is shared with the entire rest of the world?

i was 12 when DD came out and i am pretty sure i knew she was pregnant and didn't want to be, but i didn't understand what the procedure was.

I only just this week found out that a pile of people (in America), supposedly pronounce faux like fox?! The "Faux News" thing is actually supposed to be a pun? wtf

i have never heard anyone do this, and i grew up in mississippi and live in arkansas. think it's pretty well understood "faux news" is a visual pun.

count me in on the "no woman no cry" understanding. hey, i may not have a woman but at least that means i don't have to cry because of a broken heart right? count yr blessings.

xp I'm going to tentatively agree on that, although I wouldn't discount the idea that some fox news viewers see the mocking and think it's a verbal pun, too

Cracked keeps doing variants of a listicle like "things you're probably picturing incorrectly," and they usually include Stonehenge and/or the Alamo, showing them from less-photographed angles or from farther away so you can see wow, that's not isolated at all.

I don't remember seeing the Amityville house in its burb context so maybe they've somehow missed that one.

my favorite images in that lineage are the pyramids at giza, as seen from the window of the pizza hut that's across the street from the pyramids

The Arby's atop Mt. Rushmore is supposed to be one of the best around.

Giza Hut surely

lol

I always thought "Try Glasgow More" was a well-known phrase, like it was the title of some 80s Scottish indie comp or something, but unless google misleads me I learned today that "Try Glasgow More" is the title of the ILX thread about Glasgow, and only that.

I'd just been remiss in learning all about the function/historical significance of Stonehenge but it turns out that nobody actually knows for sure what it's all about and my ignorance is shared with the entire rest of the world?

in the intro to architecture class i attended someone seriously asked "has it been proved that stonehenge was built by humans?"

sometimes I miss having classes with really non sequitur questions like that

That Glasgow thing is news to me, too. It sounds just like a slogan that a tourism board would come up with and I'd assumed it was.

(Same here)

This was the Glasgow slogan, fwiw...

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/06/32/a9/b9/the-riverside-museum.jpg

kilometres, innit

Not in the UK.

I learned just this second that Budgie plays drums on Cut

That the "Gallo Hearty Burgundy" jug wine that was always on our dinner table when I was growing up was not real Burgundy. Nor was the "Gallo Chablis Blanc" actual Chablis.

IIRC actual Chablis is a pretty narrow category but somehow it came to mean "white wine" in general in the North America of the 70s.

When I was growing up my mother always used the term "hoi polloi" to refer to elite/rich people. I can only assume she was mixing it up with "hoity toity" or something. So I was probably in my 20s before I learned it meant the opposite.

that rules