Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I just heard sublime's "what i got" for the first time and now realise that that godawful "heaven is a halfpipe" song is a complete ripoff of that song in particular

I'm sorry you got this far in life never hearing 'What I Got' without getting the rest of the way through your life never hearing 'What I Got'.

really not difficult in UK where nobody has heard of sublime

Love is what oi got, mate

Heard that yesterday too. Wasn't until I got home that I realized it was the 25th anniversary of dude dying.

And achieving immortality on KROQ.

I bet that Dalmatian's got to be dead by now too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzJ_rgmqLfI

TIL some people are not familiar with the concept of "indoor cats"

I felt so bad for not allowing my cats (particularly the one who always is scheming to run outside) to go outside that I bought a harness and leash. Immediately proceeded to traumatize the one cat by not putting the harness on him correctly. In my defense, it's a horrible design.
Then a month or so ago, he escaped. Was dark out so I put on a headlamp and went out back where he always goes upon escaping. I see 2 pairs of eyes glowing just beyond my property line (it's open country beyond). Yeah he "made friends" with one of the local strays. I shoo away that guy and then try to pick up my guy, except he's gone completely feral. Our bond has disappeared. Something about his confrontation with the stray cat has turned off the "domestic cat" part of his programming. I couldn't get within 3 feet of him. He's a scared he's trying to escape from me but in so doing he's thrashing around in all the thorny desert bushes and I'm worried he's gonna scratch himself to death in them. I wound up grabbing a tall clothes hamper from inside and placing it over him, closing the top.

I've strongly considered taking my cats out on leash walks, but I suspect once I start that they will become giant pains in the ass wanting to go outside all the time

Understand that walking a cat is very different than walking a dog in that, essentially, your cat will walk you. You might take a few steps, then stop so they can take a few sniffs. A few more steps, a quick dart to explore a bug, followed by a few more sniffs, etc. From there, you might go into a little bit of a trot, only to stop again for more sniffing. Clearly, this is not the excursion into aerobic exercise that walking a dog can be, so be prepared for the slower, more contemplative experience of cat-walking.

I think this would drive me to caticide

https://www.jacksongalaxy.com/blog/leash-walk-my-cat-ask-the-cat-daddy/

Seems like indoor vs. outdoor cats is crying (mewing?) for its own thread

"She's an indoor kitty..."

if i did the leash thing with my cat, which i don't think i could because i think just training him to accept having a harness on would be months of my life and a lot of scratches and bites, im sure he would just want out constantly after that. can't let him get a taste!

I shoo away that guy and then try to pick up my guy, except he's gone completely feral. Our bond has disappeared. Something about his confrontation with the stray cat has turned off the "domestic cat" part of his programming. I couldn't get within 3 feet of him. He's a scared he's trying to escape from me but in so doing he's thrashing around in all the thorny desert bushes and I'm worried he's gonna scratch himself to death in them. I wound up grabbing a tall clothes hamper from inside and placing it over him, closing the top.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, May 27, 2021 9:59 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

a friend of mine with an indoor/outdoor cat says that every time he bumps into his cat in the neighbourhood (his cat has a reasonably large range that he goes out in) it runs away from him as if scared of him

it's like when you see your primary school teacher in the supermarket

My guy does turn into an annoying whiny shithead after having an outdoors experience. But it only lasts for a few hours, maybe a full day tops. Thank God cats have pretty short memories.

Then I'm the annoying shithead in his eyes cause I'm outside lounging in a patio recliner, soaking up that sunshine and fresh air, ignoring him as he pleads to join me.

"a cat is very different than walking a dog in that, essentially, your cat will walk you"

only someone who has never owned an oversized, strong-willed and stubborn as a mule labrador would say this!

Ha, I started the indoor kitty thread 15 years ago.. plum forgot

(xp) LOL, yes, dogs walk their owners all the time!

I suppose the difference is that dogs at least understand the concept of a walk, of going at a slow yet steady pace while following the straight, sterile, hard path through the neighborhood.

I grew up with indoor/outdoor cats, biggest surprise with indoor only cats is that they live forever. My mom’s first indoor only cat (adopted when I was in junior high) made it to 24 and died in her sleep.

my dad's last two indoor/outdoor cats both lived to about 20

The record for indoor-outdoor for us was 12 - disease or accident got to them. Or my super friendly cat Chester who disappeared (probably walked into someone’s house and never left).

"I suppose the difference is that dogs at least understand the concept of a walk, going at a slow yet steady pace while following the straight, sterile, hard path through the neighborhood"

absolute bollocks ime! In the same way I wouldn't ask a joiner to fix my boiler - I wouldn't ask cat people to talk about the dog owner experience.

My last two dogs in the last 17 years have been black labs and aggressive pullers and I literally see a hundred other dogs like this every year, even small dogs.

Pakistan is an acronym

Yes, my own black lab mix had two primary modes of "going for a walk", 1. Dragging me along excitably in all directions except " straight" and 2. Refusing to budge.

Trying to walk an 80 pound lab/chow mix on my new ‘aggressive inline’ roller blades ended poorly.

lol they are such stubborn fuckers and a lot of hard work, but wonderful noble beasts.

xp

I think I already knew that but can't remember where I first knew it. It might have been reading Magnificent Delusions a few years ago,

Aw yeah, they're the best <3

Anyone have experience in an indoor/outdoor dog culture?

during my old commute i used to see this woman with earbuds "dance walking" with her cat down the sidewalk, jazz hands and possible singing aloud as well.. the cat just kind of slowly trudged behind her.

lol

That Paul Simon released his first solo album in 1965, The Paul Simon Songbook, with solo versions of many S&G songs.

you know, i've known that for ages, flipped past copies in the bins from time to time, but it's never actually sunk into my brain as an actual piece of information about his career/discography, nor have i ever felt any spark of interest in checking it out. but maybe it's good? i could imagine it being at least okay?

That gargoyles are essentially water spouts, there solely to divert rainwater away from the buildings that house them. Similar sculptures of purely ornamental purpose are called grotesques or chimeras and aren't gargoyles at all. Thanks, Wikipedia!

Also from the old French meaning throat - as in they function as the end of gutters, and the water passes out through their mouths.

does gargle have related etymology then?

Matt needs to make notredamus his displayName.

The chorus of "All Star" by Smash Mouth incorporates the chord progression from the James Bond theme

(learned this from a Switched-on Pop podcast)

somebody once told me
this thread was gonna roll me

does gargle have related etymology then?

Lexico (~Oxford) online on "gargoyle":

Middle English from Old French gargouille ‘throat’, also ‘gargoyle’ (because of the water passing through the throat and mouth of the figure); related to Greek gargarizein ‘to gargle’ (imitating the sounds made in the throat).

So, yes, absolutely.

Also iirc gorge (throat) has a connection to the origin of the English word "gorgeous."

"Orange Pekoe” listed on black tea labels does not indicate a flavor, instead this is used to indicate the size of the leaves. The term Orange Pekoe is now in use by some retailers to describe any generic type of medium grade and size black tea.

I only learned this weekend that hens lay eggs every single day (in the absence of a rooster presumably). I find that astonishing!

uhh sure some breeds are meant to max out at 300+ eggs per year but my layers have rarely hit 7 in a week. not to mention their winter break which can last months without artificial lighting etc

I recently learned that pigs (sows) have varying numbers of teats/nipples, with something like 10 being the average, and the more teats they have, the bigger their litter (though the number of piglets does not necessarily correlate exactly to their number of teats).

the bigger the litter, the multiple teat-ers