Things you were shockingly old when you learned

That after scooping some sour cream, yogurt or cottage cheese out of a container, you should flatten the top surface of what remains before covering and putting it back in the fridge. That keeps it from separating. I had always assumed that the little watery, kinda gross stuff that accumulates in the hole where you scooped was just an unavoidable residue which you needed to either pour off or stir back in with your next portion.

That seems to make eminent sense and makes me feel dim for not having thought of it. Haven't tried it yet, though.

i like the yogurt water

Disgusting yogurt savage.

No whey

lol

I was shockingly old when I learned/realized that it's trivially easy to make popcorn on the stove in traditional fashion and thus that the markup of microwave popcorn is a complete outrage

By the way, you can also take a half of a handful of popping corn, put into a paper bag (like a brown paper lunch bag) and make your own microwave popcorn.

As much or as little as you want, seasoned and flavored however you want (including not at all). For pennies.

I like stovetop popcorn plenty, but hot oil can be a pain to deal with and you need to tend it carefully last it burn. It takes salt and seasonings better than microwave popcorn. Pros and cons to each.

We are in agreement that the microwave stuff in bags full of goop is overpriced.

By the way, you can also take a half of a handful of popping corn, put into a paper bag (like a brown paper lunch bag) and make your own microwave popcorn.

My wife does this! It has the side effect of leaking canola oil into the microwave though.

I make my popcorn in a wok with oil - works pretty good!

Until I lived in a house across from a small farm, I had no idea that roosters crow all day long, not just at dawn.

Um, just now shocked to wiki-learn that the word "rooster" was originated by American pilgrims as a euphemism for "cock".

Well I only just this very second recognized that the word very obviously refers to 'one who roosts'. Hiding in plain sight my entire damn life...

whoa same here

fuck

I think you mean "one who fucks"

to roost: to settle or congregate for rest or sleep

^^^this is not really what they are best known for

Don't chickens also roost?

They even come home to do it, that's how committed to roosting they are.

This may sound stupid, but I just realized that the band name High on Fire means, like, you caught a buzz from the element, and not that you're high and also happen to be on fire

"High, On Fire" is how I always read it, I guess

I always figured it could go either way, and both were awesome and super metal.

I did not know before today that Anton LaVey's speaking voice was the thick-tongued mumble of a guy with a three-line cameo in a Rob Zombie movie.

Fred Rogers did all the voices of the puppets on his show

I'm imagining a TV puppet show hosted by LaVey with puppet voices done by Fred Rogers.

That it's Ian McShane's voice at the start of Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm

I'm imagining a TV puppet show hosted by LaVey with puppet voices done by Fred Rogers.

That's not the done thing, but did you know Mr. Rogers was friends with horror legend George Romero? I believe Romero worked on his show in the early years of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. The reverend even supported his friend by going to see Dawn of the Dead when it was out in the theaters in 1978 and gave George his seal of approval. Imagine Mr. Rogers watching Dawn of the Dead. That DID happen.

pittsburgh lyfe

https://blog.sfgate.com/parenting/2010/05/13/dead-and-fred-george-a-romeros-connection-to-mr-rogers/

I had to look it up because it sounded so wild and apparently it wasn’t just Romero: Michael Keaton was a grip on Mr. Rogers’ show!

pittsburgh rolling hard

Any Warhol connection?

That "serving suggestion" is a legal disclaimer, not a sincere suggestion for dim people.

Yeah presumably meant the gunk you got out of the packet wasn't going to look exactly like the idealised picture on the packet.

As a kid spending countless hours at the breakfast table staring at cereal boxes, reading everything printed on them no matter how trivial, I assumed that the words in fine print next to the photo on the front were there just to tell customers that if they tried eating their product out of a bowl with milk and maybe some fresh fruit, it might taste better than just reaching into the box and stuffing dry fistfuls into their mouths. "Hey, just a friendly suggestion, folks."

This is more of a TIL than I should have known, and wont mean a thing to anyone under 40 but:

the theme tune to Educating Marmalade was done by Bad Manners!

It’s “she WANTS the young American” not “she WAS the/a young American”??!!??!!
Wut? I looked it up. It’s WANTS?? Wow.

Wow, what?

It's possible to be shadow banned from nearly everywhere on the internet. That'd genuinely shock people like Crowder and company.

Last time I tried to talk shit my WiFi router somehow got installed from my laptop and it took me close to an hour to re-install it. Good times.

USA. USA. USA. Land of freedom, baby.

*uninstalled

I'm aware if I keep speaking my voice in the US I'll get murdered. Hence this Russiagate smokescreen crap where they pin Putin with the shit the USA does to its own citizens.

Whatever. My life is more important than anything else. Whatever. I'm done with politics.

Who knows? If you play your cards right you could get banned from one more place.

Effective wiping technique — reduced smearing — means pushing the remaining poo bits back into the anus.

okay

sorry if that's TMI

what is going on in here

I'm getting things back on their proper course, is what's happening.

I only yesterday made the connection between the term 'knee-jerk' (ie an unthinking and reflexive response) and the thing where a doctor hits your knee with a hammer, thereby inducing an unthinking and reflexive response. Only yesterday, while in my early forties. Yyyyyep.

^ Wondering what flash of recognition at long last led you to make that connection? For the previous 40 odd years had you thought that it had to do with people who are jerks?

By the way, thanks for the course correction.

I dunno, I guess I figured it was like 'apple of my eye'. I know what it connotes and how to use it in a sentence but who even knows how that arrangement of words came to mean that particular thing (someone who bothered to look it up, is who). And like the phenomenon I described somewhere upthread where I know how to get to one place and how to get to one other place and it takes me forever to realize that the two places are actually just like a block away from one another.

whenever i see knee jerk or hear it I've always automatically envisioned someone using a reflex hammer. But I really liked those things as a kid so maybe that's why.

As for idioms, I don't recall how or how shockingly late I learned that "balls out" had nothing to do with male anatomy. I guess I had likened it to "going commando", ie, being so ass-kickingly committed that you disdained any thought of underwear.

wait what does it have to do with??