Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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%

I did a triple take on the "she was Ari Up's mother" reports, like, "wait they're contemporaries, how can that be?" but then read more detailed accounts to learn she was 14 yrs older than John.

Yeah and it helps that Ari was only 14 when she was in the Slits. It boggles the mind now to think her mother was perfectly ok with her doing all the shit she did at that age, but rich people gonna rich I guess.

Viv Albertine's autobio gave me the impression Ari was just left to do what the fck she wanted and her behaviour in any modern context would have had her medicated at the VERY least if not institutionalised.

prob true, and thankfully that didn't happen. RIP the 70s I guess...

Almost everything about Nora's life was surprising.

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, Saturday, March 25, 2023 8:25 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

The most confusing one is "public school"

in the US it means the opposite of what it means in the UK

Yes, in the US public schools are ones that are open to the public, free for all to attend who live in their districts, as opposed to private schools, for which one must pay to attend. That makes sense to me.

Yes, the brits are wrong on this one.

People do say private school here too. Public school tends to be reserved for a subset of them that are old and prestigious (Eton, Harrow etc). But yes, much better to call them all private schools. I think the term dates back to when the alternative to not going to school was being privately tutored at home!

you could also see it as a reminder that if you want to participate in public life in the UK you'd better have gone to Eton or Harrow

Until NV posted the fees for The Leys School on the 6Music thread, I don't think I realised just how expensive a public school education was these days. Fucking hell.

even the cost of building a gallows has skyrocketed

Yeah and it helps that Ari was only 14 when she was in the Slits.

OK that I did not know tho I guess we are talking their year of formation?

Born Jan. 1962.

Partly as a result of this thread I've been listening the Slits lately and, boy, does Bjork owe a lot to Ari Up.

This has the slightly dubious distinction of being the first record I ever disliked. I barely knew about records at all, I was four and three quarters: so my cynicism started early, if you like. This one was inescapable – number one for nine weeks, two million sold, flattening the opposition through Christmas ’77 and then on into ’78. I didn’t know what number ones were but I guess I just got bored of “Mull” being around, its comforting lullaby sway pushing into even our pop-free household*. I remember not being able to figure out what a Mull was, or a Kintyre: I’d been reading the Hobbit, and the Narnia books, so I reckoned it was an honorific, like King, or Tarkaan. And this dark haired guy singing it, he’d be the Mull, then?

TIL Tom Ewing was a reading prodigy