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.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 11:36 (one year ago) link
didn't quite work though...
― koogs, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 12:41 (one year ago) link
Just listened to Kate Lister 5alking about Byron on Betwixt The Sheets current episode. So that's a coincidence
― Stevo, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
Huh, I'm currently reading "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" and Lord Byron appears in the chapter I was just reading last night.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
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.
― Stevo, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
pickles (cukes) have no calories
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 19:32 (one year ago) link
that's my fav thing about them.
well that and the fact they're awesome
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link
well.. i think pickles do
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
― brimstead, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 00:52 (one year ago) link
absolutely do not be scared to post on ilb, the more the merrier
― limb tins & cum (gyac), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 00:53 (one year ago) link
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
― Bringing Up Initials B.B. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 00:55 (one year ago) link
Mace and nutmeg are part of the same seed.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 23 March 2023 21:53 (one year ago) link
WHAT
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 23 March 2023 22:43 (one year ago) link
Wait till you hear about cilantro
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 March 2023 22:54 (one year ago) link
lol that one I knew!
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 23 March 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
Makes sense, they're practically interchangeable flavour-wise
― touche pas ma planète (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 23 March 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
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.
― formerly abanana (dat), Friday, 24 March 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
dice = die
rice = rice
Relieved sometimes that this is my first language.
― pplains, Friday, 24 March 2023 14:44 (one year ago) link
Spice is the plural of spouse
Uh, wait, no
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 March 2023 14:45 (one year ago) link
formerly abanana (dat) at 2:25 24 Mar 23lice is the plural of louse. like mice and mouse.pretty sure I must have known this at some earlier point and then forgotten it.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 24 March 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
Turn back, you lousy fule!
― Bringing Up Initials B.B. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 March 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
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
― touche pas ma planète (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 24 March 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
... same sense as the Scots word "hoachin'", which means infested or swarming with, Mr Redd will be interested to here.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 24 March 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link
Ye rang?
― Old Man Reacts to Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 March 2023 18:41 (one year ago) link
As far as I can tell, that word is not considered Scots, but an English word that is now only still used in Scotland.
― Old Man Reacts to Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 March 2023 18:43 (one year ago) link
Like most, sorry maist, Scots' words!
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 24 March 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
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?
― Stevo, Saturday, 25 March 2023 10:38 (one year ago) link
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
― mark s, Saturday, 25 March 2023 11:04 (one year ago) link
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.
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 25 March 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link
What we call filet mignon I've usually heard of referred to as just "filet" in France
Never heard that about the pork
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 25 March 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link
I've just learned that Americans call coriander cilantro. I knew about arugula being rocket, but somehow cilantro escaped me all these years.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 26 March 2023 00:25 (one year ago) link
Don’t forget TS cilantro vs. Italian parsley. In Latin America they also have cilantro macho and cilantro hembra.
― Old Man Reacts to Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 March 2023 00:36 (one year ago) link
enchiladas suizas = Swiss enchiladas
― budo jeru, Sunday, 2 April 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
Nigel Lawson's ex-wife (and Nigella Lawson's mother) married A.J. Ayer after divorcing Lawson.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 08:15 (one year ago) link
Wow Tom, your parents really fucked up not having that talk with you.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 09:37 (one year ago) link
for years i thought the UK speed camera sign depicted a Victorian bellows camera pointing to the right, but it’s just a boring CCTV camera pointing towards the viewer :/ pic.twitter.com/sCOVzyRPhW— rory ・‿・ (@FeyeraBender) April 4, 2023
― Tim, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:28 (one year ago) link
um wait whatO°
― kinder, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:33 (one year ago) link
FAKE NEWS http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7628908.stm
― kinder, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:35 (one year ago) link
That whole thread though, if you want to see how people see things --weirdly-- differently
― kinder, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:36 (one year ago) link
Yeah it’s a classic skeuomorph! Which is why it looks like a bellows camera and doesn’t look like the other thing
― michel goindry (wins), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:38 (one year ago) link
when my sister and i were small and bundled into the back of the car we would sing out "TOMATO!" whenever we spotted the no stopping sign and tbh that is still what i see
https://theorytest.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/no-stopping-sign-clearway.png
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:52 (one year ago) link
Gobsmacked by this, assumed it was filmed in Bath or somewhere similar.
Oliver! is on C4. Let us once again marvel at how they built this set at Pinewood. Fuck CGI. They. Built. It. pic.twitter.com/aDkOKg7dXe— Cupie Doll (@cupie_doll) April 8, 2023
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 9 April 2023 10:02 (one year ago) link
that the character actor I enjoyed so much in Mud and Cold in July was legendary playwright Sam Shepard.
― Trout Fishing in America (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 April 2023 22:57 (one year ago) link
The original snake oil worked. Omega 3 based oil made from boiled down snakes.It's take off was a scam though initially also made from snakes just the wrong type but thereafter total hokum.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 11:40 (one year ago) link
To expand apparently snake oil salesman picked up on a remedy from Chinese workers that did work to alleviate muscle pain. But it depended on being based on a specific type of snake which wasn't around in the U.S. the Americans tried to make it with local snakes which didn't actually work. Then marketed it as a universal panacea and then started making it from totally unrelated ingredients. But it was the show that it became part of that was the relevant part and these supposed healing shows had a much longer history, had been banned in the early centuries of the Christian era etc.Just listened to a Maintenance Phase episode on it. Interesting.
So what has been used as a synonym for phoney medicine only took on that meaning once it moved away from its original form.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 13:27 (one year ago) link
It's a good episode! Was definitely news to me when I listened to it, also. I think you can rest easy that this is not info known to 99+% of people using the phrase.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
Louis Leterrier, director of Transporter 2 and other venerable eurotrash, is the son of François "A Man Escaped" Leterrier.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 14 April 2023 13:56 (one year ago) link
That adults are, by and large, intensely more childish than children
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 14 April 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
am not!
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 14 April 2023 14:18 (one year ago) link
If you use a kitchen whisk in partially deflated bubble bath, you can get bubbles back
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 14 April 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link