Things you were shockingly old when you learned

xp knew about "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" of course, but big eek at bringing "Do You Wanna Touch Me" to a wider audience

I was today years old when I found out screwdriver handles are designed to put a wrench on it to help loosen tight screws. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/ITQuJPgwy5

— You Have One Job, Stay Indoors (@_youhadonejob1) May 12, 2020

:O

Holy shit

o_O

I've discovered the fittings on my screwdriver socket set work fine in my drill

dunno if this is a universal thing though

that tweet has a handful of comments saying that doing this could shatter the plastic handle, and that the thing to do is grip the wider part of the metal shaft, just below the handle...? though i'm not sure any screwdriver i own has that feature.

On 'sabotage' (I just assumed Lt. Valeris was right!):

A popular but false account of the origin of the term's present meaning is the story that poor workers in France, who wore wooden shoes called sabots, used to throw them into the machines to disrupt production.[1] This origin story is told in the 1991 movie Star Trek VI. This account is not supported by the etymology.[1] Rather, the French source word literally means to "walk noisily", as was done by sabot-wearing labourers, who interrupted production by means of labor disputes, not damage.[1]

hahahaha as i started reading this, i was preparing myself to be like "fuuuck, so Star Trek VI lied to me??"

I read that story somewhere as a kid, though I never watched the Star Trek thing. It seems p obviously unlikely, since throwing one's own shoes into machinery would be about the dumbest way for a poor person to commit an act of sabotage. I don't think that's true that "saboter" just means "walk noisily", though, is it? Or are they saying that that is an archaic meaning that has shifted in French as well?

Oh, OK, the latter seems to be true, or at least supported.

that the words krusty the clown sings when he sings "send in the clowns" are not the actual words

just learned that italo disco classic Mr Flagio's Take a Chance on Me is co-written by Bill Laswell as it is a cover of a song by Material.

‘Sabot’ (the noun) was also used to describe a shoddy object (especially a musical instrument or a boat) before the verb took on its contemporary meaning. ‘Saboter’ is thus to render something as useless as a ‘sabot’ (perhaps).

Bugger, my credulity is such that I totally bought that romantic etymology for sabot. I've mentioned it to classes before now. Hopeless.

I'm watching an episode of The Sweeney which has the actor, Wolfe Morris, in it - a well known face on British TV/films in the 60s and 70s, usually playing heavies and swarthy foreign types:

https://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/2017/M/tve12412-69-19690423-0.jpg

And it turns out he was Aubrey Morris's (older) brother.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/Actor_Aubrey_Morris.jpg/220px-Actor_Aubrey_Morris.jpg

... and it turns out Aubrey Morris is in this episode too! With long hair and a beard and indefinable accent of some kind.

shit! that’s a proper revelation

... apparently the accent was supposed to be Swiss, which is admittedly a difficult assignment for any actor.

Having never been much of a Velvets fan (don't think I've even heard Sister Ray), I was vaguely aware there were later releases sans Lou Reed. What I didn't realise was that final album Squeeze was essentially a Doug Yule solo record with Deep Purple's Ian Paice on drums! So Paicey's been a member of both the least credible and most credible bands in rock history. Does he bust out the paradiddles much?

Velvet's are considered credible now surely?

Not in my household

One more thing about Aubrey Morris I didn't know. "Up the Junction" was on recently and he was in it playing a sort of cliched 60s Jewish slum landlord who (mostly) rented to black families (à la Rachman) and, I thought, "He's laying on the Jewish bit strongly here, with the accent and the gestures" but, it turns out (again), he was Jewish, his real name was Aubrey Steinberg and his parents were refugees from pogroms in Ukraine.

matt #2 otm re velvets obv

no

did you know that if you do a google image search for "jesus arm wrestling demon" the top thing google recommends you is "hillary clinton"?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/30/a4/24/30a4249c84aebac3f238d7c3c698e2c5.jpg

personally i think the devil has this one, look at those guns

Can't argue with that.

Is that Kurt Russell?

Who, Jesus or the demon?

that jesus is martin thingy from freaks and geeks

Me too

I was today years old when I found out Gandalf carried his pipe in his staff. pic.twitter.com/SfXsw8pJkB

— Sam Sykes (@SamSykesSwears) May 15, 2020

Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty are siblings

what???

xxp

Toulouse Lautrec used to have a hollow walking stick he filled with hard liquor/industrial strength absinthe so he could have a few swigs if was working on the go.

what???

Ha, everyone knows that! (Including me as of about three months ago.)

I'd assumed it was generally known , Have known it for a couple of decades at least.
Not sure what i would come out in though.
& not sure if there are any telltale family resemblance points facially or anything.

actually eyes are somewhat similar and the way they smile now that i've looked through a number of photos.

Thought everybody knew that. Makes sense when you think about it too.

Thing I care to post is: Calum=Malcolm, as in that they are different forms of the same name.

That's darlene love and the blossoms doing BV on The Monster Mash

(watching 20ft from stardom)

Lenny Bruce's father was born in Kent.

... that's Kent as in Kent, the Garden of England not Kent as in Kent, Ohio.

i’ve heard there are plenty of kents in america

Thing I care to post is: Calum=Malcolm, as in that they are different forms of the same name.

rather like Theodore and Dorothy - same meaning, same syllables, different order.

Lindsey Buckingham had a brother who was a silver medalist at the 1968 Olympics in swimming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Buckingham

I hear he swam down one time, swam down two times

never going backstroke again