Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Candlebox's "Far Behind" is about Andrew Wood. Originally the chorus was "Aaaaaaaannnddddy, I didn't mean to treat you oh so bad", and he changed "Andy" to "maybe"

It makes sense now but I never knew until I read a Kevin Martin interview

Mother Love Bone is pretty awful

Is that just a statement or just recently learned

I had a 12" years ago - not an album - and I remember trying to get into it, and then just deciding it was terrible. Like thirty years ago

I still have a Green River album from that era, and the last time I listened to it, it was pretty crummy as well

Green River were good. Mother Love Bone suuuuucked. A bunch of rain-soaked hicks who couldn't decide if they wanted to be the Red Hot Chili Peppers or The Cult, and couldn't manage either.

I'm not trying to be facetious. I remember reading the review of this album in Rolling Stone, and it was compared to Houses of the Holy. My high school buddies and I thought this record would sound pretty cool. Imagine my disappointment when I realized that I had been rooked.

A few years later, some guys in the dorm were raving about this band called Pearl Jam. I knew better and refused to get fooled for a second time.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, September 30, 2004 5:26 PM

I will also stan for Green River.

I have a feeling I was shockingly old when I found out the Elgin Marbles weren't actually marbles.

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Lol.

In Texas they also have Elgin sausage.

Which I used to think must be called so because of some marbling, but this turned out not to be the case.

I was very old when I found out Elgin is pronounced with a hard "g" rather than a "j."

"Gerrymander" should also be pronounced with a hard "g", but it ain't gonna happen.

hard "g" is the OG

It's hard out there for a g

For many years I could not handle which “g” was hard or soft, because “juh” sounds obviously harder than “guh” to me.

yes! i still have to think about it

relatable.

I am fifty muthaflippin years old and I can't alphabetize things without singing the song

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/irelands-red-troubadour

that Luke Kelly from The Dubliners was a cool as fuck commie.

I saw The Dubliners live when I was 7-ish and I think he was an absentee after a car crash. One of them said something like "quite unreasonable for the road to turn like that when he wasn't turning".

I've probably actually realised this before, but just doing it again for the hell of it.

I was shockingly old when I found out his grandmother was Scottish and seems to have had a considerable influence on him musically.

my mum says they lost their grit post-Luke

Today I learned Adele's last name

i learned her middle names last night but i've forgotten them again one of them might've been Blue?

I think I was taught "Elgin" with a soft-g/j sound in college Classics courses!

I just learned a couple of days ago that NONE of the types of bees that are native to North America a) make honey, any honey, at all, or b) live in hives. They burrow in the ground and live solitary lives and never make honey.

This is shocking. I had a garden full of native pollinators all summer long and I assumed they flew away to hives at night and that my borage was flavoring some honey somewhere. No.

Yeah, but can't we assume that some of the non-native bees have gone native and do just that (make hives & honey)?
I see wild honey bee hives in hollow trees fairly often, out on hikes

I also remember reading that the hive collapse syndrome or whatever it was called only happened to domestic bee hives (i.e. the white wooden boxes) and was never found in wild honeybee hives

Apparently European honeybees do go feral but they're a danger to native ones because they compete for pollen! But only native pollinators are able to pollinate some native plants, such as tomatoes, blueberries, and squashes. I read about one flower (tomato?) where the pollen is too hard to reach, so the native bees do a buzzing dance from inside the flower that makes pollen shake off and fall onto them!

That Gary Mapp, the mysterious bass player on most of the tracks that were eventually released as the classic Thelonious Monk Trio album on Prestige was a cop!

Defund the bass player.

Like, an undercover cop?

just a standard cop I think .. his name is never credited on any other records apart from police reports but here he is playing along with Monk/Art Blakey/Max Roach ...lols!

the quote I read was : "Apparently he was a policeman first and bassist second, and occasionally you can tell from his exceptionally wrong notes."

Babycham is just a type of Perry.

The Atlanta Falcons logo makes an F.

Babycham is just a type of Perry.

Yes! Surely it should be a kids' champagne.

Babycham is just a type of Perry.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, November 27, 2021 3:12 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Without even knowing what this was, I immediately thought to myself: "British"

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it's fer posh birds that play tennis!

http://mynie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/c5.jpg

The American version... but it's just malt liquor

"mark my words you're headed for the poorhouse"

^^^

classic advertising slogan!

"... some people just know how to live!"

Classic ILX slogan!

'pictures of people who just know how to live'

Gong Li

What stare decisis means.

Stare decisis — Latin for “to stand by things decided.”

It’s the doctrine of judicial precedent. If a court has already ruled on an issue (say, on reproductive rights), future courts should decide similar cases the same way.

Learned last week about the National Day of Mourning as an alternative to Thanksgiving, even though it has been celebrated since the 1970s.

Nikita and Nina Kruschev were together for 43 years before they got married.

Well, the Bolsheviks were originally very anti marriage.

I can copy and paste symbols that aren't on my phone. So I can do the hidden text thing.