Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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

Nigel Lawson's ex-wife (and Nigella Lawson's mother) married A.J. Ayer after divorcing Lawson.

Wow Tom, your parents really fucked up not having that talk with you.

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

um wait what
O°

FAKE NEWS http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7628908.stm

That whole thread though, if you want to see how people see things --weirdly-- differently

Yeah it’s a classic skeuomorph! Which is why it looks like a bellows camera and doesn’t look like the other thing

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

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

that the character actor I enjoyed so much in Mud and Cold in July was legendary playwright Sam Shepard.

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.

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.

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.

Louis Leterrier, director of Transporter 2 and other venerable eurotrash, is the son of François "A Man Escaped" Leterrier.

That adults are, by and large, intensely more childish than children

am not!

If you use a kitchen whisk in partially deflated bubble bath, you can get bubbles back

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

Making things more (or less?) confusing, dried cilantro *seeds* do go by coriander here.

so if you've chopped up spicy peppers then you mustn't touch any of your more sensitive bits until after several intense handwashings, and i bet we all learned this pretty early on, but today i found out that garlic will also sear into your flesh if, for example, you got a mild sunburn on your face yesterday 🌠

You should see what happens if you have lime juice on you and go out in the sun.

if you wear lemon juice you become invisible

xp whoa

See also: pulling out poison ivy vines and then going to pee

Don't ask how I know

jmotherf-ingc at lime juice + skin + sun, i had no idea

if i'm feeling scrungy i sometimes do a baking soda & limon juice face scrub and henceforth i will be so so so careful to stay out of the sun after

thank you Josh you might have saved me from turning into a blister

John Lydon's recently deceased wife was a German heiress who inherited $180 million on her father's death.

Which does make you wonder why John felt the need to do butter adverts.

The great rocknroll swindle innit

think a lot of his motivation boils down to "what will make people mad"

John Lydon once said he cared
But he never really gave a fuck

xp 100%