I only know it because the racist cop in breaking bad says it all the time
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Thursday, 10 January 2019 07:43 (five years ago) link
When I was in junior high (1982-82) a local Cleveland DJ recorded a parody of Buckner & Garcia's "Pac-Man Fever" called "Beaner Fever," which was indeed about Mexicans. It got played over the Cleveland airwaves regularly.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Thursday, 10 January 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
I know the term from this classichttps://youtu.be/8iJMOBcPQyg
― mick signals, Thursday, 10 January 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
think I learned it from Cheech & Chong
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 January 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
I was thinking there was some sort of continental divide that lay between Mexico and Boston.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 January 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
impossible to avoid when Carlos Mencia was popular
and yet
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 January 2019 17:09 (five years ago) link
pplains exp matches my exp- 21 yrs all along mid-atlantic/ne seaboard i never heard it, but heard it in 90 soon after i landed in colo, took me a minute to even get what it meant.
around same time a midwesterner dropped “jew down” as a term for bargaining at me. it was new to me but i got it and objected immed. he really did seem shocked it was offensive.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:46 (five years ago) link
i gave up the zing app as a resolution and now i’m double posting bad memories in chrome yay
― Hunt3r, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:50 (five years ago) link
no dude, your post was just that booming
― flappy bird, Friday, 11 January 2019 04:51 (five years ago) link
Narcissus and daffodil are, broadly speaking, the same plant.
So the story about Sigmund Freud presenting Virginia Woolf (his English publisher) with a narcissus? It seems rather more homey and pedestrian than I'd been led to imagine. He needn't have consulted a botanist or florist. He probably didn't intend some grand statement based on mythology and psychology. He probably wasn't trying to subtly throw shade on her.
Indeed, he might have just hastily scooped up something from the Woolfs' dooryard, a few minutes before their meeting.
A whole allegedly revealing anecdote, undone by simple taxonomy.
― Twas in the fleek midwinter (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 12 January 2019 00:09 (five years ago) link
sometimes a daffodil is just a daffodil
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 12 January 2019 00:28 (five years ago) link
Only today discovered that the British employment of 'corn' may refer more broadly to a variety of grain, which clears up what I'd previously believed to be confusingly-anachronistic pre-1492 references to the existence of maize in Europe.
― A Nugatory Excrescence (Old Lunch), Saturday, 12 January 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link
TIL that Duplo blocks are called Duplo because they are double the dimensions of Lego blocks.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 14 January 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
Yesterday I noticed that the logo of Domino’s Pizza is a domino
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 14 January 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
There was also a short-lived product line called Quatro.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 14 January 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
I must have heard the Nick Cave song "The Mercy Seat" dozens of times and I only just learned that in the song the seat is God's throne as well as the electric chair. Never knew about the throne meaning and always thought it just referred to the electric chair.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:08 (five years ago) link
I assume the Mercy Seat title given to the electric chair was originally a pun on the God's throne thing. As in it was ironically applied knowing its prior usage. Not that it was named after a supposedly humane way of dispensing with unwanted criminals who might reoffend if ever let back out into the public.I heard the guillotine was partially used because it was developed as a more humane method of dispatch.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link
Gylfi Sigurdsson's actual name is Gylfi Sigurðsson.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 January 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
I thought eths were pretty consistently misspelled and mispronounced as dees by English speakers and it was just the way it was, no?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 26 January 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link
vin diesel and paul giamatti are the same age
― “I'm the sexy gorilla and I'm going to hell“ (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 26 January 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
You mean Vin ðiesel
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 26 January 2019 21:56 (five years ago) link
Probably but kinda weird as the ð sound is pretty damn common in English!
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 January 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/rTPU9Mn.jpg
That this isn't a photo of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, but of an apartment building just down the street.
― pplains, Sunday, 27 January 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
xp that is very true we should be just writing eths as "th" the way we do with Þs I suppose, and œ'ing the ös if we're gonna be real, Bjœrk Guthmansdottir maybe. Looks like a brand of cigarette, guess I'm thinking of Roðmans
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 27 January 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link
It is always so interesting to me to see the character equivalencies between Germanic languages, y = ÿ = ij, å = oa, etc.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 27 January 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
Hi everyone I've had a smart phone for seven years and today I accidentally found out how to do emoji on my phone keyboard
― kinder, Friday, 1 February 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
In 25+ years of listening to Pretty Vacant, this had never occurred to me:
The song gained attention for vocalist John Lydon's phrasing of the word "vacant", emphasising the last syllable to sound like the vulgar word cunt.
― peace, man, Friday, 1 February 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
Lol really?
― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
Huh, that never occurred to me, either.
This might not count since it's only been true for about three years, but I just learned today that Jerry Hall is married to Rupert Murdoch. Don't know how I missed it, guess I never pay attention to either one of them.
― I don't come off well (Dan Peterson), Friday, 1 February 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
xxp that's gotta be bollocks
― kinder, Friday, 1 February 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
Vay-CUNT
― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
I just thought it was a British pronunciation.
― peace, man, Friday, 1 February 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
I mean, I knew the song before I ever learned the c-word.
― peace, man, Friday, 1 February 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
Usual pronunciation more like VAY-cnt
― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
I was about 8 when it was released and we took great delight singing that way in the playground; always assumed it was deliberate on JL's part.
― fetter, Friday, 1 February 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
I've always believed it was, he loves spitting out that syllable
― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
today I accidentally found out how to do emoji on my phone keyboardseven years ago I think you still had to install an app to get emoji
― sans lep (sic), Friday, 1 February 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
That it’s Gil Scott-Heron saying “you know when you’ve been tangoed” in the UK soft drink advert
― gray say nah to me (wins), Sunday, 3 February 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyWRm4lV4AA6CDC.jpg:large
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 3 February 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
wait what xp
― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 3 February 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link
i just googled that i would've sworn he was joking
― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 February 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
[voiceover]: He was not joking
― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 February 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link
Yeah that is an amazing nugget of knowledge to learn after all these years
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:04 (five years ago) link
I had to check too. Sounds like one of those apocryphal stories, like Bob Holness playing sax on Baker Street.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link
Mind blown.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
The revolution will be tangoed
― gray say nah to me (wins), Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:29 (five years ago) link
That has definitely replace his dad playing for Celtic in the Unlikely Facts About Gil Scott-Heron league table.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
that the line "Now is the winter of our discontent" belongs to a sentence celebrating how things have taken a turn for the better.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
Robbie Robertson, the senior African American editor in the Daily Bugle, is played in the Sam Raimi films by Bill Nunn, who played Radio Raheem.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link