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- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 2 days ago:
Hey, staying alive to snuggle cats and spite your parents works too.
- Comment on Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui 2 weeks ago:
As it so happens, it did nearly kill him. Some locals beat the shit out of him afterwards.
But hey, he said he could afford the fine, so I’m sure he could afford the medical bills too.
- Comment on “It was because my bed is facing the bedroom door” 1 month ago:
I dunno, in Japan at least there was a lot of woowoo as far back as 1000 years ago. The gardening version of Feng Shui that Japan adopted has fun stuff in it like ‘don’t put a rock in upside down, or it will curse you for seven generations’.
- Comment on Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid? 1 month ago:
To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
-Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 1 month ago:
Also: older eggs. The newer an egg is the more the shell will try and stick after hard-boiling.
- Comment on How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not? 2 months ago:
I mean, what’s mentioned in this thread is what rich people I know do. Plus saw a lot of it in Palm Beach.
- Comment on HAIL HYDRA! 2 months ago:
That’s because you missed rhizomes, not roots. And if you keep cutting the remnants down after you get the main body of the plant out they’ll starve and die eventually, it just takes a few years.
Speaking as someone who has worked with bamboo for a living for over a decade, an ounce of maintenance is definitely worth a pound of cure. Setting up a proper root-pruning system and cutting the young rhizomes twice a year before they have a chance to spread is much easier than chasing it down after the fact.
Now, tropical timber clumping bamboo… those are tough to deal with once they’re mature. They’re like a boulder that grows lol.
- Comment on HAIL HYDRA! 2 months ago:
It would probably need a fair bit of water, too, unless you’re in a more humid climate with summer rains. It is a grass after all.
Unless you planted a tropical clumper, the concrete wouldn’t take damage. A runner would probably pass under it and show up on the other side eventually though. You can stop that by cutting the rhizomes back in summer and fall (think of it like edging a lawn), but it sounds like that space might be too narrow to set that sort of system up well.
- Comment on HAIL HYDRA! 2 months ago:
Actually it spreads very predictably (in either circles or a collection of straight lines) and if you want to get rid of it, just cut it to the ground and stumpgrind out the rhizomes, which are the only part that can spread the plant (and for most species are found in the top 12 inches of soil). If someone tells you that you need to get out every tiny root, they’re bullshitting you.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 3 months ago:
To quote Scrollone@feddit.it elsewhere in the conversations:
It makes me think about the Italian movie from the '80s called “Maladolescenza”, which is now considered child porn by many countries, thus illegal.
I also saw a newspaper from the time in which they were interviewing people that came out of the movie theater, asking them what they thought of the movie. It was almost as disgusting as this article.
So certainly a fair number of people did.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 3 months ago:
Yeah, but it seems most of the people watching that movie took exactly the wrong message away from it, if that article is any indication.
- Comment on Just say the word 3 months ago:
You’d think so, but they’ve done studies and there tends to be more marital issues in families where the woman makes more of, or all of, the money.
Personally I agree that it shouldn’t be defined along gender lines. We don’t have kids, but my husband is way better with them than I am. It would make much more sense (if we could afford it) for me to work and him to stay home. But it seems that, society-wise, we have a long way to go.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 3 months ago:
They’ve done it before. They’ll do it again.
- Comment on I have seen a lot of movies where the Catholic School Nuns smack a students hand for being disruptive or something is this a trope or a real something? Like most notable in Blues Brothers 4 months ago:
My grandmother too.
- Comment on Heave-ho! 4 months ago:
Every time the pockets-in-pants thing comes up:
Women in the comments: OMG yes please what we have now sucks
Men in the comments: well acktually…
- Comment on Why is sharpedo blocked in image searches on DuckDuckGo and Bing, but not Google? 4 months ago:
‘Sharpedo Pokémon’ works too
- Comment on 5 months ago:
I mean, most sweets are vegetarian…
But seriously, meat gives a lot of easily-digestible protein, so when you cut it out your body starts to throw energy cravings everywhere, and fats and sugars are another easy-access energy source.
I’ve found it helps to eat more smaller meals through the day to keep my energy up and my cravings low, if I haven’t been hitting up heavy-protein foods like beans.
- Comment on Having a rough morning. I'm still pondering the question about beavers, and my kid asks me THIS 5 months ago:
I like Pratchett’s take. The Tooth Fairy of the Discworld takes the baby teeth and hides them in its domain because pieces of a person can be used for sympathetic magic, like cursing someone, and he wants to protect the kids from that.
- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 5 months ago:
Huh? That bird is obviously eating an Eohippus. (And yes, horses were once that small.)
- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 5 months ago:
Ahhh so the horse was just getting revenge then
- Comment on you can choose your family 5 months ago:
Redwall is mouse propaganda
- Comment on Assumptions 5 months ago:
Who started the assumption that herbivores were all sweet harmless cuddle bugs anyhow? Because they had obviously never interacted with a large herbivore before.
- Comment on Name your favourite prehistoric tree. 6 months ago:
Ginkgo and Arucaria for beating out almost all the others in the game of survival lol
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 6 months ago:
Spoiler: it’s not
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 6 months ago:
Wow, who hurt this guy? They’re like, every bad terminally online never-talked-to-a-real-woman cliche.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 6 months ago:
They’re kind of being an asshole all over the thread. I don’t know why women asking men to not comment in a women’s forum has them so hot and bothered, but it sure has them on the warpath lol.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 6 months ago:
Ummm… what do you think the park picnic space rentals are?
Also, parks with camping have reserved spots.
Seems to me either you don’t get out much, or you are one of those assholes that refuses to leave a space someone already paid to rent.
- Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations? 6 months ago:
If you want a great rundown on the history and craziness of English, may I recommend this video? It does a pretty good breakdown of how our language got to be such a mess.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me.. 6 months ago:
5 & 6. Wonder if 6 followed my great-grandmother over from Minnesota?
- Comment on Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate 6 months ago:
He had sex with underage girls. Wtf is wrong with you, defending a pedo?