Cosmic Joe Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Apparently skidmarks is not an exclusively Scottish term. It featured in an old episode of Sex in the City (I know - my wife watches this absolute tripe). Every day is a schoolday 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Here's a channel I watch. Essentially a "TIL" https://www.youtube.com/c/Todayifoundout-official 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 9 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said: Apparently skidmarks is not an exclusively Scottish term. It featured in an old episode of Sex in the City (I know - my wife watches this absolute tripe). Every day is a schoolday We had a boy in our class called Mark who regularly shat his pants (aged 10). He got called skidmark. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 36 minutes ago, Venti said: Here's a channel I watch. Essentially a "TIL" https://www.youtube.com/c/Todayifoundout-official Love that channel 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nkomo-A-Gogo Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 The Owen Paul song my favourite waste of time is not the original. It was recorded by a guy called Marshall Crenshaw. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 A few weeks ago, I discovered that you get a much easier and closer shave if you shave AFTER being in the shower, rather than before. 40 (forty) years of shaving, and I just discover now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 A few weeks ago, I discovered that you get a much easier and closer shave if you shave AFTER being in the shower, rather than before. 40 (forty) years of shaving, and I just discover now.I am absolutely fucking stunned you didn't know this. Genuinely. I now question your Larbert traffic complaints given that there's no way they allow you to operate a vehicle. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted August 18, 2022 Author Share Posted August 18, 2022 I didn't learn this today, but I recently discovered that the wee green man on the pedestrian crossing adopts a walking motion, while the red guy is standing still. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 5 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said: I didn't learn this today, but I recently discovered that the wee green man on the pedestrian crossing adopts a walking motion, while the red guy is standing still. There is a knob on the underside of the crossing stop button box which rotates when the green man is displayed. This is for the benefit of blind people. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 6 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said: I didn't learn this today, but I recently discovered that the wee green man on the pedestrian crossing adopts a walking motion, while the red guy is standing still. East Berlin's iconic Ampelmann (literally traffic light man) being a great example of this genre 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 20 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said: I didn't learn this today, but I recently discovered that the wee green man on the pedestrian crossing adopts a walking motion, while the red guy is standing still. Oh come on! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted August 18, 2022 Author Share Posted August 18, 2022 10 minutes ago, mathematics said: Oh come on! It's true! For years I simply saw green (go) and red (stop). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 44 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: I am absolutely fucking stunned you didn't know this. Genuinely. I now question your Larbert traffic complaints given that there's no way they allow you to operate a vehicle. True story. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oystercatcher Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 The word Ye, as in ye old oak ham or ye olde inn, is actually pronounced the. It had something to do with early typesetting. Also Julius Caesar should be pronounced Julius Kaiser 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Todd_is_God said: East Berlin's iconic Ampelmann (literally traffic light man) being a great example of this genre The hat is allegedly based on one that DDR General Secretary Erich Honecker wore Near Utrecht Station is a crossing with a red Miffy the Rabbit and a Green Miffy the Rabbit. This is because Miffy's creator, Dick Bruna, came from Utrecht 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 44 minutes ago, Oystercatcher said: The word Ye, as in ye old oak ham or ye olde inn, is actually pronounced the. It had something to do with early typesetting. Also Julius Caesar should be pronounced Julius Kaiser Old English had a letter that looked a bit like a "p" called Thorn which stood for "th". Icelandic I think still has the letter. Typesetters substituted the letter y for thorn as it was the closest looking letter in the Latin alphabet The Scots surname Menzies is pronounced properly "Mingiss" as the Z stands in for a letter in Old Scots called "yogh" 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar_Army Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 1 hour ago, tamthebam said: Old English had a letter that looked a bit like a "p" called Thorn which stood for "th". Icelandic I think still has the letter. Typesetters substituted the letter y for thorn as it was the closest looking letter in the Latin alphabet The Scots surname Menzies is pronounced properly "Mingiss" as the Z stands in for a letter in Old Scots called "yogh" In Dundee we have an area called Menzieshill (pronounced Meenus-hull). Menzieshill High School was pronounced locally as "Meenie Heh" or 'Meenie-hull Heh". The Shop John Menzies was pronounced as "John Men-zeez'. Then Menzies Campbell came on the political scene and confused us even more! I remember at primary school somebody from outside the city came in to do something and was going through the class register and called out Sean Menzies "Seen Mingus" to much hilarity. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 People still call for a private hire taxi like it’s 1990. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 6 minutes ago, Sugar_Army said: In Dundee we have an area called Menzieshill (pronounced Meenus-hull). Menzieshill High School was pronounced locally as "Meenie Heh" or 'Meenie-hull Heh". The Shop John Menzies was pronounced as "John Men-zeez'. Then Menzies Campbell came on the political scene and confused us even more! I remember at primary school somebody from outside the city came in to do something and was going through the class register and called out Sean Menzies "Seen Mingus" to much hilarity. Unfortunately pronounced the same as menses. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 11 hours ago, Nkomo-A-Gogo said: The Owen Paul song my favourite waste of time is not the original. It was recorded by a guy called Marshall Crenshaw. Owen Paul was on the Radio 2 "One Hit Wonders show with OJ Borg, and said he recorded it after hearing the Bette Midler cover. He is also the brother of Brian McGee, the original drummer from Simple Minds 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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