Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I'm a stainless steel/carbon steel wok enthusiast as well, table.

lol, just ordered a chainmail scrubber and in my enthusiasm I didn't notice it was a China based ebayer, so might not get it for weeks. No more wearing out wire brushes for this fool!

we got a fancy carbon steel pan that we only use for eggs or egg-related dishes like shakshuka

there’s a lot in baseball that could have sprung from the mind of dr seuss tbh

I would not, could not, with a bat
I would not, could not, wearing a hat

I will not eat them with a ball
I will not eat them, Sam, at all

I would not eat them while playing Tetris
And I don't subscribe to Sabermetrics

That sounded like it segued into a Flight of the Conchords song at the end there.

that a sac fly doesn’t count as an at bat! what!!!?

it does count as a plate appearance, though. So it doesn't lower your BA, but it does lower your OBP. This is how you can have a lower OBP than BA, if you have more sac flies than walks (and HBPs)

enjoying all this sac talk

My favorite sac is Sacagawea

i mean it's not like you were deliberately trying to fly out, you were trying to rip a double. for some reason sac bunts not counting as at bats seems more normal... but it's true that it's the same principle. i dunno man. good point about OBP. it needs to show up somewhere. and it does!

It also shows up as an RBI

^^^

indeed

let us not sneeze at the good old ribbie

I only figured this out looking at a box score and trying to figure out someone that went 0 for 4 had an RBI.

how someone

I always thought for baseball fans most of the fun was in the stats and remembering the arcane rules, whereas watching an actual game from beginning to end was only an incidental pleasure.

“pleasure”

Should I have a put something like “a very rare occurrence”? Thought about it.

Computing pioneer Ada Lovelace was the daughter of Lord Byron, and her mother steered her towards mathematics partly in reaction to Byron's calling and life choices.

didn't quite work though...

Just listened to Kate Lister 5alking about Byron on Betwixt The Sheets current episode. So that's a coincidence

Huh, I'm currently reading "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" and Lord Byron appears in the chapter I was just reading last night.

Betwixt the Sheets comes out on a Tuesday so I was loistening to it while i walked around town. Had probably stopped a little before I saw that.
POdcast comes out Tuesday and Friday.

pickles (cukes) have no calories

that's my fav thing about them.

well that and the fact they're awesome

well.. i think pickles do

Huh, I'm currently reading "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" and Lord Byron appears in the chapter I was just reading last night.

absolutely do not be scared to post on ilb, the more the merrier

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

Mace and nutmeg are part of the same seed.

WHAT

Wait till you hear about cilantro

lol that one I knew!

Makes sense, they're practically interchangeable flavour-wise

lice is the plural of louse. like mice and mouse.

pretty sure I must have known this at some earlier point and then forgotten it.

dice = die

rice = rice

Relieved sometimes that this is my first language.

Spice is the plural of spouse

Uh, wait, no

formerly abanana (dat) at 2:25 24 Mar 23

lice is the plural of louse. like mice and mouse.

pretty sure I must have known this at some earlier point and then forgotten it.

Turn back, you lousy fule!

There are few adjectives I enjoy more than using "lousy" to mean "has a lot of" (rather than "is bad"). "This restaurant is lousy with cute waiters," for example

... same sense as the Scots word "hoachin'", which means infested or swarming with, Mr Redd will be interested to here.

Ye rang?

As far as I can tell, that word is not considered Scots, but an English word that is now only still used in Scotland.

Like most, sorry maist, Scots' words!

Kate Lister just did a Betwixt the Sheets on Sordid Soho where she says the name Soho derives from a hunting cry.
Had no idea.
Is it just a coincidence that NYC also has an important arty space called SoHo but derived from abbreviation then portmanteau of the words South of Houston. Is the pronunciation different?

in times gone (very) by soho (the london one) was a royal hunting ground and some of the pubs frequented in ilx FAPs gone by -- viz at least two of the fours pubs called the BLUE POSTS -- are said to mark the boundaries of this ground, with their name as a reminder of the relevant marker or signpost

Just found out that what we call filet mignon in America (a cut of beef) is not called that in French.

Apparently in French, filet mignon only refers to pork tenderloin.

What we call filet mignon I've usually heard of referred to as just "filet" in France

Never heard that about the pork

I've just learned that Americans call coriander cilantro. I knew about arugula being rocket, but somehow cilantro escaped me all these years.

Don’t forget TS cilantro vs. Italian parsley. In Latin America they also have cilantro macho and cilantro hembra.

enchiladas suizas = Swiss enchiladas