What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The whole pink-for-girls-blue-for-boys nonsense only dates from the Second World War. Prior to that, the nonsense was reversed - boys were traditionally dressed in pink (all shades of red were considered masculine colours) and little girls in either yellow or blue (feminine colours). The change is thought to be due in large part to the popularity of military uniforms.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Apparently, referring to your wife as ‘my sexy little bag of estrogen’ is NOT considered a compliment. 

Who knew?

Boru

[Silver]

Apparently, referring to your wife as ‘my sexy little bag of estrogen’ is NOT considered a compliment.

Who knew?

Boru

Because at her age there's probably no more estrogen.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

earthquake bed

My claustrophobia would make sleeping in this an impossibility.

Set it to close if a tremblor hits. I used to live in SoCal, I'd have used that thing.

My first earthquake felt was when I was in Indiana. I now live along the New Madrid Fault.

I feel the Earth move under my feet...

[Anomalocaris]

Astronaut Mae Carol Jemison traveled into space and was on Star Trek.



She was the first "real" astronaut to ever appear on Star Trek. She was followed by E. Michael Fincke and Terry Virts, who appeared in Star Trek: Enterprise.

arguably william shatter is an astronaut of sorts, a payload specialist in the sense of specializing in being the payload,  and appeared on star trek 20 some years earlier.

[Fake Messiah]

Teletubbies episode ‘The Lion & The Bear’ (1997) was banned in 1999 after being considered too scary for its target audience (children aged 1-4). Parents made numerous complaints about the age-inaccurate music, scary voices, dark tone, dialogue as well as the ending chase scene.

[Silver]

The show Outer Banks utterly Hollywoods the culture, according to a surfer actually from the area.

Esquire

[arewethereyet]

The show Outer Banks utterly Hollywoods the culture, according to a surfer actually from the area.

Esquire

I was born there.  They get a LOT of stuff wrong.

[arewethereyet]

^as a PS. I watched the first season. I didn't recognize anything. My aunts and uncles would say the show is purely fiction, including the geography. One uncle was a surfer back before a bad car accident. Family has been there for more generations than I can count.

I have a series of books that were written by a guy who moved there years ago. Murder mysteries, all of them. One takes place in grandma's house. There are names and places I recognize in those books but I wouldn't consider them great literature. Just sort of cool that several family members make appearances.

[Silver]

^as a PS. I watched the first season.

I typically don't watch these types of shows, but it's one of those rare ones, I guess, that just has that special something.

Almost done with season three, and it's been renewed for a fourth season.