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
that the line "Now is the winter of our discontent" belongs to a sentence celebrating how things have taken a turn for the better.this is sort of like how “wherefore art though romeo” doesn’t mean “dude i can’t find you”
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
Wow I had no idea about that discontent thing that is wild
― froggles! (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:42 (five years ago) link
― gray say nah to me (wins), Sunday, February 3, 2019 10:52 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wooooah
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York
i.e.: "Now, the winter of our discontent is made glorious summer by this sun of York", "now" is not the subject of the sentence at all though it appeared to be
― froggles! (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:46 (five years ago) link
Next you'll tell us that "kill all the lawyers" isn't intended as good advice.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:58 (five years ago) link
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:41 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hmmm but listen isnt the thrust rather a complaint tho
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 February 2019 00:16 (five years ago) link
The Disney live action movie The Gnome-Mobile was based on a story by Upton Sinclair
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 February 2019 00:52 (five years ago) link
The founder of Crabtree and Evelyn was also the founder of Janus Films.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 7 February 2019 01:59 (five years ago) link
wuuuuuut?!?!that's crazy!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 February 2019 02:05 (five years ago) link
it's like there were two completely different sides to that man
― Josefa, Thursday, 7 February 2019 02:37 (five years ago) link
nicely done
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 7 February 2019 03:08 (five years ago) link
^^
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Thursday, 7 February 2019 03:47 (five years ago) link
The Crabtree side and the Evelyn side
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 7 February 2019 04:34 (five years ago) link
That the hip-hop producer Rockwilder's name is a play on "rottweiler".
I didn't actually read that anywhere, it just occurred to me suddenly.
― JRN, Thursday, 7 February 2019 06:43 (five years ago) link