My first UK flat - renovated in the 1980s - had a waste disposal installed. Eventually it clogged, and the plumber who came to fix it said he loved these things because they made him a lot of money. He himself would never have one. It had clogged from the dirt from potato peelings, apparently a very common issue.

Women find a way… https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nushu-chinese-script-women

Polari https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari

He takes it up a few notches on Curb.

I heard on a podcast today that Larry David based the George character on himself. (The podcast is called Good Bad Billionaire, where a couple of people judge various billionaires on their ethics etc. TIL Jerry Seinfeld is a billionaire.)

Lol

Thanks to your comment I discovered my Oppo Reno has a document scanner!

Next up: you don’t fall down, you “have a fall”.

My personal experience in the 1970s: “I’d give you the job if you were a man but you’re not, so…” Apparently I would just get pregnant and leave.

Me, I’m 72. I didn’t expect to make it past 30; dying young was all the rage back then and I did a lot of drugs. But somehow here I am, knitting, sipping tea and browsing Lemmy.

In the olden days we would use a fax machine for that.

I’m voting Great Horned Owl. I’m scared not to. (Kidding! Look at those ears!)

I have the same problem with big cars. At the moment I have an ageing Toyota hybrid saloon, which is as big as I want to go. Years ago I knew a couple of people who had Toyota Rav4s - they were chunky little 4WDs, with a high wheel base but a small footprint. Perfect for the places I drive! Toyota still makes a Rav4, but now it’s a bulging, bloated monster. I’d love to have the original Rav4, but electric.

You can see the progression here: https://mag.toyota.co.uk/history-of-the-toyota-rav4/

Phew.

And the rest! Human mummies were ground up and used for a paint called “mummy brown”. Artists only stopped using it because the supply of mummies dried up (lol).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown

During the Egyptomania phase in Victorian times, rich folk would hold mummy unwrapping parties… and not just in England.

https://www.ajaonline.org/book-review/1184

This is correct. I’m old, and when I was a girl every home had soup spoons - along with teaspoons, dessert spoons and tablespoons. They appear to have died out, who knows why*. Some of my friends have heritage sets, I don’t. I eat my soup with a dessert spoon, like an ignorant youth.

** On reflection, maybe it’s a measuring thing? Baking recipes use teaspoons and tablespoons, but never soup spoons.

Home team for the ruru!!

A BMI calculator will just use height and weight - if you have a lot of muscle bulk you’ll get a higher BMI result even if you’re lean. Conversely, some people are “thin on the outside, fat on the inside”, ie they carry a lot of visceral fat around their organs. So while BMI can be useful, it’s not perfect.

I’ve organised to have my body donated to a medical school for dissection. It was quite complicated, lots of forms to be filled in and witnessed. My executor has to phone the university when I die & they send a van to collect me. They won’t accept my body if I’ve died of something communicable, or it was eg some accident that left me too mangled. When they’re done with me I’ll be cremated and my name goes up on a plaque in a special garden.

Fun fact: the word cliché also comes from typesetting - common words and phrases were preset. Apparently the word was coined by French typesetters, for the sound the slug made as it was snicked into place.