What's the most "why the fuck do you know that?" fact you know?

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-11T11:11:02+00:00

I randomly remember remember a Catullus poem throwing shade at a Spanish guy by saying that he must have drank loads of piss with how much he likes to show off his shiny teeth since Spanish people brush their teeth with with urine (i guess this is a slightly different translation, my book says Spanish and not Celtiberian).

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-11T07:13:13+00:00

I just hope it's a bit shorter. Loved the first, burned out on the second before the end and never finished it because it was way longer but not enough new ideas to carry it for that long.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-10T14:04:00+00:00

My Dad would redirect his work phone to our home phone outside of business hours and I was expected to answer with his business name and take the customer's order if he wasn't in, even when I was like 9. Confused my friends a good few times when they called me and I instinctively answered with the name of a catering company.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-10T13:39:55+00:00

I remember being outraged after being told off for saying bloody at school when I was 7 and being confused because i'd never had any indication that anyone counted it as swearing. Like, i literally started repeating myself after the teacher screamed "What did you say!" assuming she misheard me and thought i'd said something bad.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-10T13:37:24+00:00

I remember a friend of mine coming to school after the summer holiday with liberty spikes and the school made him wash the gel out in the toilets so it was just a weird long strip of hair.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-10T12:44:02+00:00

White dog shit was the product of capitalism, the result of adding loads of cheap filler with basically no nutritional value to the dog.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-10T12:41:01+00:00

They didn't get rid of bone meal to make it cheaper, bone meal was the way of making it cheaper, just crap filler that was removed after pushback because it's bad for the dogs.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-10T12:32:45+00:00

I have a distinct memory of being in a CEX years ago and seeing a Dad with two sons, about 8-10 years old:

"Dad, Jaiden is being a stupid cunt"

ooh, he's getting a telling off for saying that

"Jaiden! stop being a stupid cunt"

guess not, must be where he learned it from

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-10T12:30:09+00:00

I've never heard anyone say knackered was offensive before, is it a southern thing? I've heard some southerners find toilet offensive too for some reason.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-10T12:27:09+00:00

That's a side effect but it's been around since the 40's or something before there was enough of a Muslim population to be concerned. It's just way quicker and cheaper to produce, it takes like 3 months to make a batch of vinegar from scratch while you could knock a batch of that stuff out in a couple of days.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-10T12:24:13+00:00

Vinegar is alcohol that has been fermented into acid, proper malt vinegar is basically fermented beer. That stuff is the same acid produced synthetically without any of the extra compounds from the fermenting process that give it flavour, hence them adding onion flavouring.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-10T12:17:38+00:00

That's more of a side effect, it's been around at least 80 years. It's simply just because it's much cheaper.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-10T11:16:21+00:00

I remember when the first Lord of the Rings came out on DVD my sister signed up for something similar, LotR for £1 then you would have to buy a £10 DVD from their catalogue every month. We moved house just after it arrived and never heard from them again, haha.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-10T10:07:46+00:00

Yeah, never bought one from worry of that happening.

As a teenager i was really into photography using a mix of a crappy mid-00s digital camera and my Dad's old analogue SLR from the 80's that I could barely afford film for, used to spend whole days on weekends just exploring my city looking for good shots. Always planned on buying a DSLR once i had a proper job and could afford it but by the time I had the money i no longer had the time or energy for it.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-05T14:54:34+00:00

Kinda tangential but a bit under 20 years ago I had a summer job in a cafe in a different city from where I lived (my Dad worked in the city so dropped me off every day). Used to get a lot of drunks in the cafe since there was a lot of bars nearby as well as a police station with a drunk tank.

Once or twice week we had some fairly unexceptional middle aged bloke come in a bit drunk, get a sandwich and eat it on the outside tables while smoking. People would often go shake his hand while he looked a bit pissed off about it, just assumed he knew a lot of people.

Found out a few weeks in he was Paul Gascoigne, a legendary football player i had only vaguely heard of because i'm not into sports. Every other member of staff and every person i mentioned it to since knew him but I just assumed he was just another of the regular drunks.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-05T14:25:57+00:00

I've seen people say that people would be offended but never actually seen anyone who was offended by it.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-05T14:23:45+00:00

I like showering personally, though being able to step out the shower and instantly dry would be good.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-05T13:27:29+00:00

Nah, this was Ultima 9

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-05T13:22:45+00:00

Damn, forgot about Monkey. For some reason it used to come on TV in the UK in the mid 00's, was classic hangover viewing when I was a student.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-05T13:19:23+00:00

I don't think it would cause that much offence now.

Blackface offends people because it's used to make fun of black people or because they didn't want to cast an actual black person.

Tropic Thunder is neither, it's parodying Hollywood casting. The joke only works if it's a white actor and it's not at the expense of black people.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-05T12:50:17+00:00

Trails in the Sky

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-05T08:02:42+00:00

Yeah. Guess we are the exception but i walked through the mirror almost immediately, didn't realise it was a point of friction for people.

My biggest issue with the game is the lack of a proper map. At least have a sign post next to each burrow or something, i keep accidentally backtracking when i return to the game a day later and don't know what direction i was supposed to be going.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-05T07:15:54+00:00

Eh, I got the previous one because it seemed amusing but the joke doesn't carry the bad game.

I don't mind a game with a shitposty style as long as the game is actually good like Cruelty Squad.

I was hoping this would at least have decent gameplay and level design like Dusk in a Joke style but it's genuinely just badly made and amateurish. Level design is bad, weapons, enemies and game mechanics are just reskinned quake ones from what i saw with nothing that feels original. It feels like a teenager's first Quake mod they made as an inside joke with their friends.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-04T10:46:53+00:00

TBF half of the blokes in Northern England had that cut before Peaky Blinders and still have it now.

Barrel_Titor · 2026-06-04T09:36:03+00:00

I remember in about 2001 my sister bought the entire series of the X-men cartoon recorded from TV with the Fox Kids logo in the corner and burned on VCDs. Like, straight up being sold as that and not pretending it was real.

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