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.
― the coming of prince kajagoogoo (doo rag), Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
STORY TIME
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:40 (one year ago) link
there was a post about this important matter on ilx once. They key is to use your feet like you are treading grapes, apparently.
― calzino, Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:44 (one year ago) link
More like the coming of prince kajapoopoo!
― nickn, Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:55 (one year ago) link
Poo shy shyFlush flush
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 June 2022 23:56 (one year ago) link
Martin Sheen's real name is Ramon Estévez
That's what's on his drivers license to this day, his birth certificate, etc.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 24 June 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link
Wait'll you see Charlie Sheen's real name
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 June 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
Frasier H. Babalucci
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 24 June 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
what, didn’t have questions when you saw the name of his son, emiliiiiiliiiiiioooo
― mh, Friday, 24 June 2022 01:20 (one year ago) link
maybe he thought Emilio was his stage name and his real name was, like, Kyle Sheen
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 June 2022 01:33 (one year ago) link
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
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 24 June 2022 04:29 (one year ago) link
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).
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 1 July 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
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.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 July 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
Buffy Sainte-Marie (co-) wrote "Up Where We Belong"
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Saturday, 2 July 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link
I'm not buying this beamer thing, according to whom?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 2 July 2022 01:18 (one year ago) link
beenie man iirc
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Saturday, 2 July 2022 02:01 (one year ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(cricket)
It also means an embarrassed red face in the West of Scotland - as does "riddie".
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 July 2022 09:11 (one year ago) link
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
― kinder, Sunday, 3 July 2022 09:56 (one year ago) link
Playing that long file is like an hour-long game of Heardle
― kinder, Sunday, 3 July 2022 09:59 (one year ago) link
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.
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 05:48 (one year ago) link
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.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 06:17 (one year ago) link
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!
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
xp think i saw recently that martin sheen regrets not using his birth name when he started his career.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 5 July 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
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.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
Phoebe Snow the singer got her stage (last) name from a character in old railroad advertisements.
― Mr. Art-I-Ficial (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
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.
― koogs, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 11:10 (one year ago) link
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.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 12:01 (one year ago) link
Who parks their Dodge Ram in right field?
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 13:05 (one year ago) link
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
― mh, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
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
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
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
― mh, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
y'all reminding me of this classic gag:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyGZAg3lo9A
― andrew m., Wednesday, 13 July 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
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
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
ooh yeah, so good with some spring greens and vinaigrette
― andrew m., Wednesday, 13 July 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
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)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
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.
― mh, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
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.
― nickn, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link
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.
― calzino, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
I’ve broken teeth chewing gum. If it’s gonna break it’s gonna break! Eat what you want!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
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.
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
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).
― nickn, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 22:09 (one year ago) link
My dentist warned me about Corn Nuts, but I didn't heed the warning
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 23:02 (one year ago) link
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
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
― Andy the Grasshopper
cw nsfw you think corn nuts are bad, you ever try eating corn dick?
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 23:18 (one year ago) link
I lost a tooth to a fried corn nut recently. Tfw you think oh was a tough one, followed by sheeit where the fuck my tooth gone. At the moment - until the dentist has fixed me I would only take soft things in my mouth .. lol
― calzino, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
I have eaten peanuts with the shell on. Shrimp too.
Never been into sunflower seeds so I don't really have a strategy.
But I have very complicated ideas about pistachios. There are several strategies:
1. Take a nut from the bag, open it, eat it. Discard the empty shell in some sensible way. Repeat.
2. Place a quantity of nuts in a bowl. Fish out intact nuts, shell and eat them one by one. Put the empty shells back in the same bowl, so that the search for an intact nut gets harder over time.
3. Option 2, but with an additional bowl for discarding shells. You're still eating them one at a time.
4. Place a quantity of nuts in one bowl, and arrange TWO additional empty bowls near the first. Put shells in one empty bowl and (this is crucial) place the extracted nut-meat in the third bowl. Do not eat it yet, however much you may want to. Save up several. Like, 10 or 12. Then you may eat them at your leisure, either all at once or one by one, without having to wait in between.
5. Buy the already-shelled kind.
6. Some other strategy I am not aware of.
I favor option 4. I can never do options 1-3 because one individual nut is not enough reward for the work of opening it. I get the appeal of #5, but it seems like a bit of a cheat.
― Nutellanor Roosevelt (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 14 July 2022 11:13 (one year ago) link
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 July 2022 12:25 (one year ago) link
You people are weird. You probably eat the shell on M&Ms too.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 July 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
I was actually given a special bowl that's divided into two, specifically (I think) for pistachios and their shells
― kinder, Thursday, 14 July 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
Pplains, I have a servant who peels my M&Ms. I am not a savage. Sheesh.
― Nutellanor Roosevelt (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 14 July 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link