Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Suzi Quatro is Sherilyn Fenn's aunt

No way

"Her sister Arlene is the mother of actress Sherilyn Fenn."

I don't see much resemblance.. maybe the eyes:

https://images.discovery-prod.axs.com/2020/11/suzi-quatro-tickets_04-21-21_17_5fc4dd4abf0fe.jpg

Here's Mom:

https://i.imgur.com/WTSc0Ep.png

I don't know if it's just seeing these posts in conjunction but suddenly I'm seeing a link between Peter Cook in Bedazzled and the Giant in Twin Peaks.

Good Suzi Quatro fact.

Speaking of peepers:
Her family name of "Quattrocchi" ("four eyes", meaning "bespectacled") was shortened to Quatro

How long have spectacles been around? Seems crazy that there would be a family named after eyewear

Since the 13th century! But that's another good Suzi Quatro fact.

Seems crazy that there would be a family named after eyewear

Quatro's 60s bands were quite good. I picked up the Cradle cd last year and meant to pick up the Pleasure Seekers set.
Both of them feature Suzi plus several sisters though looks like it didn't include this one.

That leaving a mosquito bite alone really does work to stop it itching a lot more quickly.

lol

Suzi Quattro's 'Culture Fix' interview in the Times recently was err... Sadly it's behind a paywall, but:

If I could own one painting, it would be . . .

The Scream by Edvard Munch. You can dive right into that picture and find so many things in there. I always really love that really famous painting of the last supper, but I don’t know which artist painted it. [It was Leonardo da Vinci.] I know I should.

The book I couldn’t finish

The follow-up to Fifty Shades of Grey. I found myself actually flicking past the rude parts because they had become so repetitive and dull. To be honest, the thrill had gone.

The book I’m ashamed I haven’t read

I have a wide, wide range of taste and a thirst for knowledge. I can’t really think of a book I should have read that I haven’t.

I liked it when i noticed that the Scream mask as in comedy horror film was based on the Scream face as in Edvard Munch

I have a wide, wide range of taste and a thirst for knowledge. I can’t really think of a book I should have read that I haven’t.

in other words: can the can

Well, she obviously hasn't read the follow-up to the follow-up to 50 SoG.

I like her spirit. Fuck all this anguish about unread books.

Easier said than done.

fifty shades crash

about *NSYNC:

The group's name is also a play on the last letter of each of the initial members' names: Justi*N*, Chri*S*, Joe*Y*, Jaso*N*, and J*C*.

I just recently discovered the similar construction of Jodeci (which I think only eluded me for so long because I was out of the pop loop at that point and didn't realize K-Ci and JoJo were members of Jodeci).

Had to look up Jaso*N*. He dropped out soon after the group was formed and was replaced by Lanc*E*.

this guy just found out what NGL stands for:

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

That makes two of us.

...BUT, he was nicknamed "Lanste*N*" so they could keep the name 'NSYNC!

xps

i thought it was the same as nagl

There are tiny arachnids that live on your face
Not any other part of your body
Just your face

where do they poop? are we all spidershitfaced?

iirc they don't poop at all.

As KQED points out in the video, face mites have no anus, instead storing their poop in their bodies for the full duration of their brief lives.

no anus, good life

0.3 mm sounds awfully large for spiders living on my face.

btw they don't look much like spiders, they look worse thsn spiders.

you’d look worse if your entire lifetime’s worth of poop was backed up in you too, lay off

That 'Rule Britannia' not only has a load of verses, but that their scansion strongly resembles that of Iron Maiden lyrics. Honestly, imagine this with Bruce wailing away and the old gallop riffs churning out:

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.

When Britain first, at heaven's command,
Arose from out the azure main,
This was the charter of the land,
And Guardian Angels sang this strain:

The nations not so blest as thee
Must, in their turn, to tyrants fall,
While thou shalt flourish great and free:
The dread and envy of them all.

Still more majestic shalt thou rise,
More dreadful from each foreign stroke,
As the loud blast that tears the skies
Serves but to root thy native oak.

Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame;
All their attempts to bend thee down
Will but arouse thy generous flame,
But work their woe and thy renown.

To thee belongs the rural reign;
Thy cities shall with commerce shine;
All thine shall be the subject main,
And every shore it circles, thine.

The Muses, still with freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coasts repair.
Blest isle! with matchless beauty crowned,
And manly hearts to guard the fair.

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves

is there anything about Fear of the Dark skinned people in there too?

is pooping what eventually kills the face mites?

As KQED points out in the video, face mites have no anus, instead storing their poop in their bodies for the full duration of their brief lives.

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jair bolsonaro is a face mite

if you're very quiet can you hear the skin mites exploding?

Popping is what kills the face mites.

Private jets fly at a higher altitude than commercial jets. Typically 6,000 - 8,000 feet higher, sometimes more.

That's a pretty cool fact! Never knew.

There seem to be a few reasons for it but at the center of it is the fact that they *can* fly higher (mechanically it's possible) and that they *choose* to fly higher to get out of the way of commercial traffic.

Not so much choosing as being directed to do so by air traffic control rules.

Nah. It's just really important for rich people to stay far above the riff-raff. It was mostly figurative for a long time, now they want it to be literal.

At some point, all the rich people will just be in permanent low-earth orbit in their sky-yachts while the surface-dwellers cling to piles of burning trash amid rising oceans

Huh. We see literally dozens of planes flying to and from O'Hare through our enormous windows on any given day but I guess it is always commercial aircraft (and they're often close enough to tell).

interesting way to disclose you live on a sky-yacht with enormous windows

The enormous windows are actually in the mansion which hangs from our sky-yacht by ropes of gold and the finest of silks.

My favorite flight tracker