All the ginger root I've ever seen is light brown on the outside and white on the inside. It is neither red nor orange.
― Emanuel Axolotl (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 12:21 (two years ago) link
possibly the first time I knowingly ate ginger root was at Wagamamas where it was bright pinky-orange! I assume it's pickled in some way. But I eat the normal ginger root all the time now.
― kinder, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 13:56 (two years ago) link
Mick Hucknall claims he was ginger-taunted
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 15:43 (two years ago) link
...and Hucknall's cinematic avatar in 24 Hour Party People is the first I heard of "ginger" as an insult. In the year of our lord 2002, when I was already thirtymumble years old.
Only after that did I learn that it was a Whole Thing in Britain, and there was even a documentary about gingers and ginger rights and ginger acceptance and the difficulty of ginger dating unless you went to a specifically ginger convention.
― Emanuel Axolotl (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 15:54 (two years ago) link
Yeah, documentary was nonsense, but hey.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 15:58 (two years ago) link
the pink ginger in sushi places is dyed I believe
― Number None, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 15:59 (two years ago) link
And now I am eating a ginger biscuit. Life is good.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link
The woman in Andrew Wyeth's painting Christina's World is on the ground because the woman who inspired it had a degenerative muscular disorder and could not walk.
― Josefa, Thursday, 27 January 2022 23:16 (two years ago) link
She was firmly against using a wheelchair, so she would crawl everywhere.
― visiting, Thursday, 27 January 2022 23:23 (two years ago) link
i found that out a week or two ago!
― kinder, Friday, 28 January 2022 09:07 (two years ago) link
only a gingercan call another ginger ginger
it hasn't the same sting over here, and anyway redhead is the more common word ime
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Friday, 28 January 2022 09:49 (two years ago) link
now if one said the word ginger with 2 hard gs it sounds so much more derogatory dunnit.
― Stevolende, Friday, 28 January 2022 10:15 (two years ago) link
Yes! That seems to be the preferred pronunciation for the noun form these days.
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Friday, 28 January 2022 10:26 (two years ago) link
I've only recently taken on board how bonkers French history is. Monarchy, revolution, republic, coup, empire, monarchy, coup, empire, monarchy, revolution, monarchy, revolution, republic, empire, republic - all in under 100 years.
― for 200 anyone can receive a dud nvidia (ledge), Friday, 28 January 2022 11:45 (two years ago) link
deems is that the Tim Minchin song or did he nick a folk saying?
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 28 January 2022 12:03 (two years ago) link
I mis-read that as Tin Machine.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 28 January 2022 13:33 (two years ago) link
Your occasional reminder that the main villain in the Take On Me video (who pursues Morten Harket with a pipe wrench) is played by Philip Jackson, who was Chief Inspector Japp in Poirot. pic.twitter.com/hX4HsHCKLb— Jason (@NickMotown) January 30, 2022
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 30 January 2022 20:26 (two years ago) link
!
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 31 January 2022 12:42 (two years ago) link
No feckin' way!
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Monday, 31 January 2022 12:43 (two years ago) link
Grendel isn’t a dragon
― chang.eng partition (wins), Monday, 31 January 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link
My dad called me today to inform me that "Tangled Up in Blue" is a series of sonnets.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 02:35 (two years ago) link
I'll have to check that out! It might make up for learning just last month that the lyric is "Split up on a dark, sad night" not "Split up on the docks that night".
― peace, man, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 02:41 (two years ago) link
I took a look and it kind of works! Not the meter, I don't think, and the rhyme scheme is similar but not the same. But it does (arguably) divide into sections of three quatrains followed by a final couplet, as in a Shakespearean sonnet.
Though to make this work you have to consider the last line Dylan sings before "tangled up in blue" - e.g. "We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view" to be two lines, the last line of the third quatrain and the first line of the couplet. "We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point/ of view / tangled Up in blue."
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 04:54 (two years ago) link
James Williamson and Ron Asheton were in the same band at different times as early as the mid 60s. Hadn't realised until Williamson posted a photo of the Chosen Few from his time and said that.He did apparently meet Asheton and Pop because of taht band though. BUt Asheton joined on bass after Williamson left.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 09:34 (two years ago) link
That there's a UK Dennis the Menace in addition to our US Dennis the Menace... he seems more willfully naughty than the U.S. version.
The weird part is that they were both first published on March 12th, 1951; apparently just a coincidence.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:33 (two years ago) link
Yeah, we got the US Dennis over here as an animated series, but he was just “Dennis”
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:51 (two years ago) link
And I think the UK version is titled "Dennis and Gnasher" outside the UK
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
the notoriously litigious DC Thomson must have been really fucked off. I joined the Dennis The Menace fan club and all I got was two badges and a membership card. The furry Gnasher badge was not very well made iirc.
― calzino, Thursday, 3 February 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
Until recently I thought "consumption" (as it often appeared in old literature and movies, as in "she died of consumption") was a euphemism for alcohol-related illness, as opposed to it being just another name for tuberculosis
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 5 February 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link
It might make up for learning just last month that the lyric is "Split up on a dark, sad night" not "Split up on the docks that night".
I just now learned that from reading your post.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 5 February 2022 21:51 (two years ago) link
I'm not an expert on rock festival history, but I was surprised to learn that Lou Rawls was one of the performers at the Monterey Pop Festival.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 6 February 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
Liam is short for William
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 7 February 2022 02:49 (two years ago) link
Ope! I did not know that!
I learned something today and thought of this thread but I forgot what it was.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 7 February 2022 02:56 (two years ago) link
Billy Gallagher.
― pplains, Monday, 7 February 2022 03:04 (two years ago) link
Liam and Topher Hemsworth
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 7 February 2022 06:36 (two years ago) link
The Muppet's Statler and Waldorf are named after the New York hotels.
I knew Waldorf is a hotel, but didn't know of Statler, so just thought it was a random name they chose.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 7 February 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link
One could also say The Statler Brothers were indirectly named after the Statler hotel chain, since they were named after a brand of facial tissue that was named after the Statler Hotel in Boston.
― Josefa, Monday, 7 February 2022 15:40 (two years ago) link
That wildebeests are the same thing as gnus
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 14 February 2022 10:47 (two years ago) link
Things you never gnu
― Alba, Monday, 14 February 2022 10:57 (two years ago) link
...and things you never wil
(debeest)
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 14 February 2022 13:02 (two years ago) link
I thought that was a blunderbuss.
― peace, man, Monday, 14 February 2022 13:22 (two years ago) link
"no gnus is good gnus"--gary gnu
― andrew m., Monday, 14 February 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
I'm a sucker for a solid Great Space Coaster reference
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 14 February 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
You gotta be shockingly old to know that show.
― pplains, Monday, 14 February 2022 16:32 (two years ago) link
:(
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 14 February 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
all i'll say is it will soon be legal for me to open the ilxors in their 50s thread.
― andrew m., Monday, 14 February 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link
welcome to the bracket
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 14 February 2022 20:33 (two years ago) link
Yesterday I learned that in American football offensive and defensive "lines" have totally different players who take and leave the field in turn, and have no overlap of people. I thought it was like soccer where you have the same players and a bench of alternates.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
I went to every high school home game for 5 years in the '90s and I just never...noticed?
A lot of high school teams used to have "two-way" players. I understand that it's less common nowadays, but not unheard of.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 00:22 (two years ago) link