Things you were shockingly old when you learned

THere's a real Northwest passage. I thought it was always a myth. Maybe it's just because it took so long to find it and took a loto flives doing so.
Fintan O'Toole talks about one of the ships looking for HMS Terror in the mid 19th century finding it. So unless it slipped my mind taht I had heard of it at some previous point that's like last week that I had it confirmed.
I thought it had been dismissed as folly and most of what was supposed to be it would be permanently ice locked or something.

Well there’s less ice now innit

roald amundsen's ship gjoa was the first actually fully to navigate it, in 1906

it's true that the search for franklin did also reveal where it likely lay, bcz the charting during the search was so extensive -- but the franklin expedition had also in effect charted it, even if they did some of it on foot and the direct documentation is lost. the franklin ships were frozen in bcz they were unlucky and got caught in a hard winter (or actually a sequence of two or three hard winters) which kept them in place until their food began to run low. it's still not clear why -- when the ice later broke up and the ships were remanned a year or two later -- why the franklin ships didn't then carry on and complete the passage, they certainly reached waters which should have allowed them to. possibly lack of manpower, possibly confusion over the best direction to take.

with global warming it's not even close to seasonally ice-locked now i don't think.

Yes: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/88597/a-nearly-ice-free-northwest-passage

Another route has been opened up by melting ice too:


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/28/melting-arctic-ice-opens-new-route-from-europe-to-east-asia?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

see, global warming is good!

when a door closes a window opens

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mag/2007/04/cover/840.jpg?1432054365

lol Gregg EAsterbrook still gets paid to write?

OMG, I knew that arithmomania was a legendary affliction of vampires (although the term itself is brand spanking new to me) but I only just this minute put two and two together (ah ah ah): Sesame Street's The Count Loves To Count Because Of This Real-Life Vampire Legend

According to widely believed anecdata it was Kevin Fucking Costner who suggested that Whitney Houston should cover "I Will Always Love You" for that stupid movie

he both suggested she cover it and it was his idea for it to begin a capella

costner = music genius

i like him a lot more since seeing him being adored by all on graham norton and his being v odd and uncomfortable but clearly pleased with this and striking me as quite likely a high functioning whatever type as opposed to the archbollix reported all these decades

nb no evidence but its enough for me

That the entire argument of whether it's champing or chomping at the bit is rendered moot by the fact that bits are designed to be unchampable/unchompable (resting, as they do, in a space between the teeth).

Yes, I'm reading a book about horses, and yes, I'm a twelve-year-old girl. Get over it.

that book about horses in full:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51PXvnqT3DL._SX381_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chimping

not old enough when i learned that tbrr

I was shockingly old when I learned that Old Lunch is a twelve-year-old girl who has been posting here since she was... what, two?

is there a shockingly young thread

I'm posting in utero rn

Mom has really good wifi

lmao at cold-water dishwashing. some of you have clearly never worked in a kitchen!

The steam is fierce in a restaurant dish area

I was shockingly young when I learned that checkered slacks are most comfortably worn with the waistband pulled to somewhere around the sternum. Also, early bird dinner specials are both a great value and a wonderful opportunity to visit with Walter and Gladys.

Ok, one could rinse mildly soiled dishes or nonstick pans in cold water but for serious stuff, yeah, hot (source: have worked in a kitchen, washing dishes)

Everyone should experience a stretch of time working in a kitchen, washing dishes. Even if you're currently ensconced in some tenured academic position, I would urge you to take a brief sabbatical (3-6 months) to go work in a kitchen, washing dishes. You will learn a lot about the world, and also yourself. And also about the particulars of water temperature as it relates to the proper cleansing of flatware.

Also you can relieve yourself while washing the dishes and nobody will notice

Define 'relieve'.

Am I about to be shockingly old when I learn that means something other than "urinate"

That is but one bodily function of many.

Nothing like taking a mid-wash number three.

This is notable and embarrassing: I just learned that analgesic medication is just anti-pain medication (as in an-algesic) and does *not* refer to anal suppositories (as in anal-gesic).

you've been putting tylenol up your ass?

“topical analgesic” would raise a lot of questions

this was just last week https://m.benzinga.com/article/15144838

That's like confusing diuretic for "diarrhetic"

This may be the right moment to ask: what does "For external use only" mean?

Don't drink it

Like this idiot at a party one time did to the bottle of poppers I offered them

https://i.ibb.co/7gXN10B/FB-IMG-1579912993024.jpg

I've worked in bars and kitchens! (not solely washing dishes though). But we had a dishwasher or used the three sink method with sanitizer. I am still staying on team not hot water.

We just broke the old dishes and used new ones

I will take one of those high pressure hand sprays though. Love.

xpost this is like I told someone I freeze bananas to keep around for smoothies and a week later he was asking me how I peeled the banana while it was frozen.

this is one of the few times I've ever felt Yerac is wrong, yet I support her right to wash dishes in the preferred method

yeah, I am probably wrong. I asked my spouse if he knew that you were supposed to wash dishes in hot water and he goes "Why?" And then he got all technical like he knew this already and this morning I noticed the hot water in the kitchen sink came on automatically after he washed the dishes. Traitor.

lol!!!

Don't drink it

It probably also means "also don't shove it up your ass or through your urethra"

See I was about to say that but not so elegantly

These are the areas I was worrying about.

Black Sabbath wrote a song about the dangers