Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I remember comment from the time from people about it being a year of women or something to that effect. Me being like 7 years old.

Wonder how things like taht change in the world of For All Mankind since I've just been watching that era in it.

Iirc in For All Mankind the Equal Rights Amendment is ratified almost immediately, under Nixon.

xpost That I knew already. I guess back then running was considered kind of weird for everyone, period, but in the case of women, people literally believed it was dangerous to run fast for more than two miles at a time! Based on ... I dunno, bullshit? Like, this is so nuts:

When Joan Ullyot, a physician and an accomplished runner, published her book Women's Running in 1976, she took on a daunting set of traditional ideas that boiled down to one admonition: women should not run long distances.

They were not physiologically built for it, women were told. Compared with men, they typically had higher body fat, less muscle bulk and lighter bone structure, factors that should discourage them from engaging in long-distance running – or so it was believed. Moreover, many authorities in the field warned that extended running might harm women’s reproductive organs.

That's downright medieval in its intellectual and scientific dishonesty.

that "cf" is short for the Latin CONFER, which means "compare"

i'm not even going to type what i thought it meant but i feel really dumb

covfefe

In my head "cf" stands for "see, for example"

"SEE For instance" is what i mentally translated it to for a while

cf describes about 28% of all ilx threads.

i used to kind of assume, without putting it to the test, that if you did a poo in the shower it would just sort of disintegrate under the spray & go down the plughole. this is not the case.

STORY TIME

there was a post about this important matter on ilx once. They key is to use your feet like you are treading grapes, apparently.

More like the coming of prince kajapoopoo!

Poo shy shy
Flush flush

Martin Sheen's real name is Ramon Estévez

That's what's on his drivers license to this day, his birth certificate, etc.

Wait'll you see Charlie Sheen's real name

Frasier H. Babalucci

what, didn’t have questions when you saw the name of his son, emiliiiiiliiiiiioooo

maybe he thought Emilio was his stage name and his real name was, like, Kyle Sheen

that "cf" is short for the Latin CONFER, which means "compare"
i'm not even going to type what i thought it meant but i feel really dumb

Today I learned that a “beamer” only refers to a BMW motorcycle. The correct slang term for a BMW car is “bimmer” (which I have never heard before).

Just reading up on that Kathrine Switzer/Jock Semple incident. This was news to me. Good for her for not letting him stop her. She seems like a hero. Apparently, she and Semple became friends in later years.

Buffy Sainte-Marie (co-) wrote "Up Where We Belong"

I'm not buying this beamer thing, according to whom?

beenie man iirc

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(cricket)

It also means an embarrassed red face in the West of Scotland - as does "riddie".

And! The backing vocals from Haddaway's "What is Love" come from the same sample CD:

Late to the party on this one but :O

Playing that long file is like an hour-long game of Heardle

I watched Last Night In Soho just now and was looking at the song credits at the end and found out Peter and Gordon's "A World Without Love" was written by Lennon-McCartney (wiki clarifies it was just Mac, when he was 16). Paul thought it wasn't good enough for the Beatles to record.

I was listening to Dylan's "Day of the Locusts" recently and suddenly realised there is either a locust which sounds like a Hammond, or a Hammond which sounds like a locust, in the buildup toward the end.

dave van ronk was arrested during the stonewall riots, just on the general principle i guess that if the cops were arresting people he needed to be out there getting arrested too. it's a good principle and it served him well!

xp think i saw recently that martin sheen regrets not using his birth name when he started his career.

i mean, if the professional name i'd picked was _martin sheen_, i'd regret it too. seriously? he got his last name from _Fulton J. Sheen_? Oh you know what my stage name is going to be, _Kate Falwell_, I will NEVER REGRET picking that name.

Phoebe Snow the singer got her stage (last) name from a character in old railroad advertisements.

bought sunflower seeds yesterday, roasted and salted. hadn't realised you're not meant to eat the shells (despite that being where the salt is), just hadn't thought about it before (or bought them unshelled like this). now i've 1 million sunflower seeds to peel and it seems like a lot of work for little reward.

To peel? The general practice is to crack one between your teeth and spit out the hull on the ground in the parking lot next to your Dodge Ram.

Who parks their Dodge Ram in right field?

yeah, if you shell them you're going to miss out on all that delicious salt. one of those snacks that take give you time to ruminate

everyone I know in China can get through 2-3 sunflower seeds per second, cracking them with their teeth and spitting out the shells, they have no interest in pre-shelled seeds

can't find the post at the moment, but I read someone's calculations on whether shelled versus unshelled pistachios are a better deal. somehow, presumably with cheap labor and shipping prices or whatever, they were approximately the same price, which is mildly boggling

sunflower seeds, that's definitely a cultural experience to spit out the shells. there's something less satisfying about the tiny seeds in a jar

plus, you can pretend to be Fox Mulder

y'all reminding me of this classic gag:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyGZAg3lo9A

obviously if you're just going to be eating sunflower seeds you want to crack the shells with your teeth. shelled sunflower seeds are good for putting in salads though, we usually have some in the house

ooh yeah, so good with some spring greens and vinaigrette

I have a buddy who would chew up the seeds, hulls & all... and he got some form of diverticulitis, or perforations in his intestines

(I used to be a total addict, but I would carefully crack & spit the hull)

not something I learned, but a ridiculous sunflower seed story:

I got home from school when I was probably 12 or 13 years old, saw a tupperware container of sunflower seeds on the kitchen table, and had a couple. Later, I was mentioning to my mom, hey, I think these sunflower seeds are stale, why were they on the table?

Readers, my mom had cleaned out a bird feeder from the back yard and, not sure what to do with them yet (whether they'd sprout in the compost pile or if she should just trash them), had left them sitting there. They'd been in the feeder in the back yard all winter.

I used to eat the whole seed too, but maybe because I was a pre-teen/early teen my digestive system could handle it. Probably stopped around age 14-15.

I broke the second tooth with an old filling in 6 months a few weeks back, and this was just biting into the crispier edge of a pizza. Even just the seeds shorn of their shells would worry me right now with this filed down shard that I'm not getting capped till Monday.

one thing I learned was 53% of global sunflower seed production is grown in Russia and Ukraine, so the prices will go even crazier at some point.

I’ve broken teeth chewing gum. If it’s gonna break it’s gonna break! Eat what you want!

My shameful confession: I can only eat sunflower seeds in private, because I’m afraid I’d gross out my partner. I love the salt, so pop the entire shell in my mouth, suck the salt off, and crack the shell on my back tooth—so the resulting shells are damp and messy. My mother ate sunflower seeds the normal way, and as a kid, I used to steal her shells for the salt.

I saw a friend eat peanuts shell and all, which I though was weird, but I tried it and it wasn't that bad. Now when I have shell-on peanuts I will occasionally eat one whole (maybe one or two per session).

My dentist warned me about Corn Nuts, but I didn't heed the warning

I had an addiction to sunflower seeds when they were just plain salty, but I really lost control when the David Salsa flavor came out... also the Spitz dill pickle flavor

Hmmm, might buy some today