Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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

"You Get What You Give" is not a World Party song

lol

Just this moment made the connection between 'count' (as in the title) and 'county'.

how to pronounce
- chutzpah
- imbroglio
- Tucson
- Thomas

How were you pronouncing Thomas?

Not really a shocking epiphany, but yesterday I discovered that "Mr. Hughes" in the song "Garden Party" referred to George Harrison. I always thought it was Howard Hughes.

Even though he was only 27 when he died, Brian Jones had five kids. And his Mum was Australian.

All by different women, it seems. Wear a bloody condom, Brian!

Found out this week that he was into non-consentual sadistic sex, even to the disgust of noted mysoginists Jagger & Richards, so must have been pretty bad.

I just read yesterday that Oswald Mosley was married in a secret ceremony in Goebbels' drawing room and Hitler was one of the 6 guests. And when he was imprisoned during the war it was in a small house in Holloway prison and he was permitted to take on other prisoners as servants!

xps MIck Jagger's mum was Australian too

It's why his accent is so good in the Ned Kelly movie.

Even though he was only 27 when he died, Brian Jones had five kids. And his Mum was Australian.

Also on Brian Jones, the house where he drowned (Cotchford Farm in Sussex) is the same house where A.A. Milne wrote the Winnie-the-Pooh books.

More like Winded in-the-Pool

Too soon

How were you pronouncing Thomas?

Tuomas

I had no idea that the theme music to Curb Your Enthusiasm is adapted from a piece by Italian soundtrack composer Luciano Michelini, and originally appeared in a rare non-exploitation flick by trash maestro Sergio Martino - director of Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, The Mountain of the Cannibal God and So Sweet... So Perverse among others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOnpPK21ofw

ha! me neither

JUst saw a reference to netflix being around in 2004 that surprised me. Hadn't realised it was around quite taht early. THough maybe it hadn't quite as much coverage of territory as it does now.

It's been around since the 90s but it was originally a DVD by mail service

Oh man, I loved those little envelopes showing up in the mailbox.

Someone like Eric posted a link recently about how DVD-only era Netflix really did seem to have everything in one place and that kind of thing is not likely to happen again.

I still get DVD from Netflix

Fair enough, but I believe their catalog is not nearly as deep as it once was.

discrete means "separate," while discreet means "unobtrusive

the 't' in discrete breaks up the 'e's into two separate letters.

Exactly

TIL there are at least two discrete guitars playing the intro to “California Dreamin’.” At least that’s what I am hearing now. Maybe the same guy double-tracked, P. F. Sloan.

the 't' in discrete breaks up the 'e's into two separate letters.

I would assume, just cause he's credited on the album, the first guitar playing the straight arpeggios is John Phillips.

What a mustang is, other than a Ford and part of an annoying song.