6 ms·
Things I Learnt in 2023
- xz18r 3y agoCool list, some reading material for tonight. This reminds me of a similar thing I did in 2021 which was collecting a tidbit of trivia knowledge every single day: https://www.karelvo.com/blog/2022-01-01-365-thing-i-learned-in-2021/ https://www.karelvo.com/blog/2022-01-01-365-thing-i-learned-...
- valzevul 3y agoThat's pretty cool, thanks for sharing! (seems like I will be spending tonight learning how to mimic bird sounds)
- throwup238 3y ago> I wonder what happened though, and how kids managed to study constantly drunk. They learned early how to be functional alcoholics. Drunk kids these days just don't know how to handle their liquor and society has been going down the drain because of it.
- giantg2 3y agoUpto half a liter isn't much, especially considering that most traditional brews were lower alcohol content than the typical stuff today. So they probably weren't drunk, but who knows how that might have affected them in the future.
- abid786 3y agoHalf a liter is ⅔ of a standard bottle of wine. Even if it is only 11% ABV, this still equates to 55 ml of ethanol. An average 14 year old male weighs 112 lbs, about 70% of an adult’s size. So if we extrapolate linearly, 55 ml of ethanol would be equivalent to 78 ml of ethanol for an adult, which is 6.5 shots, assuming a 1 oz shot
- giantg2 3y agoYeah, but the wine was supposedly watered down for the children too. And that would be the maximum limit too.
- maximinus_thrax 3y agoEverything you're saying is true, but the wine was watered down. I grew up in (Eastern) Europe and I used to have a glass of wine with my parents at dinner time when I reached my teens pretty much every time they did (we had a small vineyard, like most people, and wine was plentiful). However, I was mixing it with mineral water (50-50) and with a heavy meal, I never got drunk from that.
- fasterik 3y agoI wouldn't consider functional alcoholism to be a good thing for anyone. It's especially bad for brain development under age ~25, before the prefrontal cortex is fully developed. https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/alcohol-and-adolescent-brain https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/alcohol-and-adolescen...
- bsder 3y agoDrinking contaminated water could kill you for most of the first half of the 20th century. So, it's probably an unclear tradeoff, historically.
- oa335 3y agoI’ve recently read that the idea that pre moderns drank alcohol as an alternative to contaminated water is a myth. See https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ol1h45/comment/h5bjn7s/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ol1h45/comme...
- singedproxy 3y agoThis gotta be the most alarmist, out-of-touch with reality comment I've read this year.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoYeah, but it's only mid January...
- throwup238 3y agoHow out of touch with reality do you need to be to take an absurd "kids these days" joke seriously? You should be alarmed!
- gumby 3y agoI believe Belgian schools still serve low-alcohol beer in the canteens.
- LaundroMat 3y agoThat's the first I hear of this and I've been Belgian for the past 49 years.
- gumby 3y agoWell you’ve been missing out! I have a small group of Belgian friends and it’s quite possible they’ve been pulling my leg. Sad (for the kids) if so. Belgian beer is great!
- LaundroMat 3y agoI did get what we call "table beer" when eating at my grand parents, but never in school. It must have been a regional thing. Anyway, you're right that school would have been a lot better :)
- gumby 3y agoGuess I have to find a way to prank these two guys in reverse.
- Lukeisun 3y agoSpam musubi is so good, the author should try making some :)
- tinycombinator 3y agoI loved having spam with kimchi stew too. Growing up, I didn't even realize spam was a brand.
- myrandomcomment 3y agoIt is not Rugby but American Football you are talking about. Rashomon is film by Akira Kurosawa from 1950 where the killing of a Samurai is told from various points of view. That is why the story telling you are talking about is called that.
- valzevul 3y agoAh, then today I learnt that rugby and American football are different! I knew about the Kurosawa's movie though, just didn't mention it in the snippet.
- atom-morgan 3y agoI'm surprised anyone thought the line was drawn on the field considering it changes with every first down.
- simonw 3y agoA fun note about the multiocular O - ꙮ - is that Unicode 15.0.0 included an update to it because it didn't have enough eyes: https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1571615998335123457 https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1571615998335123457 It should have 10, but many existing fonts only have 7. Here's "Proposal to revise the glyph of CYRILLIC LETTER MULTIOCULAR O": https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5170-multiocular-o.pdf https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5170-multiocular-o.pdf
- throwup238 3y agoAlso known as the trypophobia character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia ꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮ
- AndriyKunitsyn 3y agoThere's that (practically useless) thing, there are all sorts of palm gestures like U+1FAF3 "PALM DOWN HEAD", U+1F91E "CROSSED FINGERS", and of course U+1F595 "MIDDLE FINGER", but there's no fig gesture [°] in emojis, and proposals to add it were filed and rejected twice [^]. The Unicode consortium priorities are weird. [°] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_sign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_sign [^] https://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-requests.html https://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-requests.html
- wideopenjake 3y agoAs far as Spam Musubi - the US military brought Spam to the islands during WWII, and it quickly became available off-base. Combined with wartime fishing restrictions on the islands, the quickly became the easiest meat source available to locals. They made do with what they had, and spam sushi was invented along the way. Eventually, it took on a cult following of its own, and the rest is history - but Spam's place on the Hawaiian Islands originally comes from hardships imposed by the US military occupying the islands during WWII.
- JoachimS 3y agoKaffeost is nice! Here is some more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_cheese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_cheese
- gweinberg 3y agoSpam Musubi isn't that rare, you can get it at any Quickly.
- account-5 3y ago> Conkers... I wonder if there is a winning strategy... Cook them, just don't get caught having cooked them because then you're going to need to win a fight too.
- paulette449 3y agoI have fond memories of playing conkers in Dublin in the late 70s/early 80s, thanks to a number of horse chestnut trees at the end of our street. We'd "borrow" a knitting needle to piece them.
- oa335 3y agoFalooda is not the only Mughlai dessert with noodles: Doodh Savaiyan is sweet milk with vermicelli noodles.
- gumby 3y agoThing I learnt is that this person says he collates things he finds in RSS feeds but doesn't offer an RSS feed himself.
- o11c 3y agoNote that "Stone of Scone" is pronounced "Skoon". Unlike the food, which is pronounced "skon".
- friendlynokill 3y agoOff topic, but is that a piece of metal in your Champ?
- valzevul 3y agoThe picture is from Wikipedia but seems like it's just the bottom of the (probably copper) pan visible through?
- conductr 3y agoPickles in Texan movie theaters has been on the decline the last 20 or so years, in my observation. In the 90s, they were available commonly but the younger generation wasn’t eating them very often. Those were my teen years, and I remember occasionally a peer would get one but it wasn’t what I’d say was super common. Our parents generation and older were more likely to buy one. I actually went to the movies today, and I couldn’t think of when the last time I’ve seen a pickle in a theater. I’m sure they still are but I have seen one being sold or eaten in well over a decade.
- manyty 3y agoLove this, thank you for compiling and sharing this!