TIL: Today I Learned
- Thread starter Gilgamesh
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Maybe? Listen if it is then he's clearly started a new exercise routine if he's only recently started needing a sports bra for his flappy hooties. That means even at his age he's still working to improve himsellf. I can respect that.
Uhh, no disrespect intended @Dave
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haven’t head the one about beam of light and sunny afternoon. I also can’t figure it out. It takes about 8 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth. I could see it being more or less true at night for starlight.
Yeah, but that photon originates during nuclear fusion at the sun's core. That photon takes 10,000-100,000 years to make it's way to the surface and then 8 minutes to Earth.
Hmm, that makes me wonder if photons take the same amount of time to wind their way of out supergiants like Betelgeuse or if because they're so much less dense that it doesn't increase the amount of time from core to surface.
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TIL my favorite Farmers market used to be a train station! Wild.
Please don't tell me you mean "Reading Terminal Market", because... I mean, it's there in the name.
Unless you thought they meant it in the other definition of "terminal", as in "extremely or hopelessly severe; leading to death", which, okay, it's Philadelphia. It could have that vibe.
NO-that one I knew about...and am pretty sure my dad combined stories when I asked about the farmers market on the Black Horse Pike during conversation, thought he meant BOTH of them.
The Black Horse Pike one was just a farmers market with this really big stone thing.
I assumed it was like, a SUPER OLD railroad station before I was born, and he was also talking about Reading Terminal, but apparently just Reading.
figmentPez
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TIL that this guy:
The punk on a bus from Star Trek IV, not only wrote and performed the song, "I Hate You", that he's annoying the bus with, but he was also a writer for Muppet Treasure Island, and wrote / directed a lot of other Muppet stuff, including Muppets Haunted Mansion.
The punk on a bus from Star Trek IV, not only wrote and performed the song, "I Hate You", that he's annoying the bus with, but he was also a writer for Muppet Treasure Island, and wrote / directed a lot of other Muppet stuff, including Muppets Haunted Mansion.
And it's not even just dogs! I've had a couple of miniature donkey patients (weighing roughly the same as a larger human) who have needed pacemakers and have received donated units as well! They're still doing great 5-10+ years later!
Today I learned "Dunkin' Donuts" was ALWAYS called "Dunkin' Donuts", and was never called "Duncan Donuts" until they changed the name to what I THOUGHT was the new name, but was apparently the original name this entire time.
Full on Bearenstain effect.
Full on Bearenstain effect.
YIL that "rizz" is a shortened form of "Charisma." From context, I understood it to mean something related to presentation, bearing, style, appearance, and/or influence, but I had always assumed it was a term invented for the purpose, and had never entertained the possibility that it might be the corruption of an already existing term.
--Patrick
--Patrick
I’m around teens all day. Most modern slang seems perfectly fine to me, but I especially feel that “rizz” makes a lot of sense. It fills a small need in language, and it does that well.
Fucking “skibbidi” and “skib” are the dumb ones that I cannot stand. I especially hate when my students unironically say something like “What the skib?”
GasBandit
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I wish I could find it now, but I read the MOST BOOMER ARTICLE EVER a week or two ago with fogeys complaining about Gen Z. It was the most "kids these days" bs ever. And a lot of it was focused on the slang. "What do you mean you're serving? Serving what?!" Oh grandma, if a zoomer leaves out a word, you can assume it's a word you don't like.
Thing is, though, a lot of Gen X humor is referential, us being the first "raised by mass media" generation. The 20yo in my house looks at me like an alien whenever I tiredly moan "time to make the donuts" in the morning.
Thing is, though, a lot of Gen X humor is referential, us being the first "raised by mass media" generation. The 20yo in my house looks at me like an alien whenever I tiredly moan "time to make the donuts" in the morning.
Ah, but you're doing it because it's not just about getting up in the morning, it's all the context around it that matters...context that 20yr-old just doesn't have. I'm reminded of how The Mask deliberately changed "I'm not gonna pay a lot for this mufflah!" into a Yosemite Sam-esque "Hold onto your lug nuts, it's tiiime for an overhaul!" presumably due to worry about this happening, or rights issues, or whatever.
Boomers had their own phrases they could use ("It tastes good like a <CLAP CLAP> cigarette should!"), and there are a few they held onto ("It takes a licking and keeps on ticking!"), but I assume the reason they kept so few is due to the idea of a "meme economy" not existing at the time, so the concept of routinely using an idea-with-dependencies to metadeliver an encapsulated Darmok-style allegory payload is foreign to them.
--Patrick
Getting old friend. One of the more fascinating things about aging has been leaving the demographic everything is catered to.
figmentPez
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It took me far too long to realize that when you said "something" you were being specific, and not making some sort of censored reference.
Anyway, I learned about the geography of southern Canada.
Not your fault. I should have used quotations around the words for sure.
No word on women's union suits. Probably too scandalous to show in the catalog.
--Patrick