0bvious things you’ve only just realised (2019 edition)

[dissolute ocelot]

In the sitcom 'Ellen' her bookshop's name 'Buy The Book' was a play on the phrase 'by the book'

I thought it was as in "you've seen the movie, now buy the book" but I guess "now read the book" is how it usually goes, so yours makes more sense. Although maybe bookshops don't care if you read it as long as you buy it?

[Norton Canes]

It's December - therefore it's not unlucky to sing carols

So I don't have to quickly think of 'I Should Be So Lucky' or any other catchy yet shite song every time I get a Christmas carol earworm

[Icehaven]

The cyclist woman is called Victoria Pendleton, not Victoria Peloton, and therefore she has nothing to do with the Peloton exercise bike they're advertising to death at the moment (and landing in trouble for being sexist https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/04/peloton-backlash-sexist-dystopian-exercise-bike-christmas-advert)

[bgmnts]

The cyclist woman is called Victoria Pendleton, not Victoria Peloton, and therefore she has nothing to do with the Peloton exercise bike they're advertising to death at the moment (and landing in trouble for being sexist https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/04/peloton-backlash-sexist-dystopian-exercise-bike-christmas-advert)

Critics have pointed out that the woman in the advert is already slim at the start, and that the implication that her partner thinks she needs to get fitter and lose weight is patronising and damaging.

There is so much wrong here.

[Ferris]

The cyclist woman is called Victoria Pendleton, not Victoria Peloton, and therefore she has nothing to do with the Peloton exercise bike they're advertising to death at the moment (and landing in trouble for being sexist https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/04/peloton-backlash-sexist-dystopian-exercise-bike-christmas-advert)

A peloton is the main group of cyclists in a road race. You typically have one main peloton, a breakaway group some way ahead, and a couple of grupettos made up of stragglers trying to avoid automatic disqualification via the time cutoff. All depends on the stage profile and the various teams' tactics/target for the day though.

[Replies From View]

Alright clever clogs what are pantyloons then

[Ferris]

Alright clever clogs what are pantyloons then

The lads in lycra desperately cheering from the sidelines

[Norton Canes]

A peloton is the main group of cyclists in a road race

From the French 'small ball'. Stop laughing

[Icehaven]

All fair enough it's just I heard/saw the ads and thought it was the Olympic(?) cyclist lady's surname and she must be endorsing it or something. Well now I know what a peloton is anyway (not a surname).

[kalowski]

From the French 'small ball'. Stop laughing

Or pellet.

[Dex Sawash]

Liam is short for William. Mind blown.

[NoSleep]

Is Colm short for Malcolm?

[Icehaven]

Just saw this on the BBC website
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-gloucestershire-50094576/glastonbury-festival-footage-from-1983-rediscovered

Footage of Glastonbury from 1983, and was surprised how similar it looked to how I remembered it, but then realised that the years I went, in the mid-late 90s, are much closer to 1983 than they are to now.

[Cerys]

Is Colm short for Malcolm?

Clearly Malcolm is Evil Colm.

[Replies From View]

Clearly Malcolm is Evil Colm.

CMEC?  That's a shit acronym for Colm.

[olliebean]

Is Colm short for Malcolm?

I don't think so. According to Wikipedia, it's Irish for "dove." Also thanks to Wikipedia, I now know that "It is not an Irish version of Colon," as if anybody ever thought it was.

[Replies From View]

Malcolm is a malcontented version of Colm.

Colm is a type of comb, and it is a boy's name that means comb.

[DistressedArea]

'Chester is not short for Manchester. Thought that was just what the cool kids were calling it.
Also, 'Bury is not the hip name for Canterbury. They are different places.

[Replies From View]

Manchester means 'man chest hair'.

[petril]

'Boro is not the cool nickname for Middlesbrough. It is the nickname, the place is just a shitehole

[NoSleep]

Is Colm short for column?

[Replies From View]

Is Colm short for column?

No I think it is something to do with a non-malcontented Malcolm of some kind


Etymologically it stems from comb, as in "This six year old prick is named Comb".

[FredNurke]

It's the Irish for 'Columba' (Latin for dove), after the saint of that name who spread Christianity to Scotland in the 6th century. 'Malcolm' means 'follower of (St) Columba'.

[touchingcloth]

I don't think so. According to Wikipedia, it's Irish for "dove." Also thanks to Wikipedia, I now know that "It is not an Irish version of Colon," as if anybody ever thought it was.

So it's mal dove? Bad dove? Is that what you're saying?

[NoSleep]

What about Nelson's Column?

[touchingcloth]

I was at university with an Irish lad called Colm and he pronounced it "column". Hope that helps. His nan lived nextdoor to Morrissey.

[NoSleep]

I've only ever heard it pronounced that way.

[touchingcloth]

I've heard it pronounced more as a single syllable as well. Seems to be the way people pronounce Colm  Meany's name.

[Lordofthefiles]

Joe Swinson is Lloyd Cole from 1987

https://youtu.be/hMdyuUk94Ao

[Paul Calf]

Mainstream?