Things you were shockingly old when you learned

vin diesel and paul giamatti are the same age

You mean Vin ðiesel

I thought eths were pretty consistently misspelled and mispronounced as dees by English speakers and it was just the way it was, no?

Probably but kinda weird as the ð sound is pretty damn common in English!

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That this isn't a photo of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, but of an apartment building just down the street.

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

It is always so interesting to me to see the character equivalencies between Germanic languages, y = ÿ = ij, å = oa, etc.

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

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.

Lol really?

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.

xxp that's gotta be bollocks

Vay-CUNT

I just thought it was a British pronunciation.

I mean, I knew the song before I ever learned the c-word.

Usual pronunciation more like VAY-cnt

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.

I've always believed it was, he loves spitting out that syllable

today I accidentally found out how to do emoji on my phone keyboard

seven years ago I think you still had to install an app to get emoji

That it’s Gil Scott-Heron saying “you know when you’ve been tangoed” in the UK soft drink advert

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wait what xp

i just googled that i would've sworn he was joking

[voiceover]: He was not joking

Yeah that is an amazing nugget of knowledge to learn after all these years

I had to check too. Sounds like one of those apocryphal stories, like Bob Holness playing sax on Baker Street.

Mind blown.

The revolution will be tangoed

That has definitely replace his dad playing for Celtic in the Unlikely Facts About Gil Scott-Heron league table.

that the line "Now is the winter of our discontent" belongs to a sentence celebrating how things have taken a turn for the better.

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.

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”

Wow I had no idea about that discontent thing that is wild

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, February 3, 2019 10:52 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wooooah

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

Next you'll tell us that "kill all the lawyers" isn't intended as good advice.

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 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hmmm but listen isnt the thrust rather a complaint tho

The Disney live action movie The Gnome-Mobile was based on a story by Upton Sinclair

The founder of Crabtree and Evelyn was also the founder of Janus Films.

wuuuuuut?!?!
that's crazy!

it's like there were two completely different sides to that man

nicely done

^^

The Crabtree side and the Evelyn side

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.

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 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hmmm but listen isnt the thrust rather a complaint tho

― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Thursday, February 7, 2019 1:16 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It turns quickly enough to unattained personal ambition, sure, but on a surface reading the "our" there refers clearly enough to the York fortune as a whole, in which case the next line flips this one -- though reading it with a flavour of the "royal we" yields a nice foreshadowing too, yeah!

He's being sarcastic and rueful about it.

That Tomorrow's World isn't on any more.

It's called "The Today Programme" now.

Actor/voice artist/ventriloquist Paul Winchell created one of the first artificial hearts and held several other medical patents.

Whoa! Tigger? Gargamel? Will have to read more about that.