Drusas

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 111 points 8 months ago (4 children)

OP admitting to not teaching their kid how to do dishes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Oh, I know all about using blankets as pillows when there aren't enough pillows around. And sometimes when there are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The secret is many pillows. Many different pillows of many different shapes and densities and materials. Different fillings. And then, you have to experiment by placing them all around you in ways that feel comfy. But once you find a comfy situation, you don't give up then, oh no. You must keep rotating until you find the ideal situation.

It may turn out that you need more pillows. But that's just how it goes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Well hello there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Main character from The Darkness that Comes Before/The Prince of Nothing series by R. Scott Bakker. Liked the character, liked the name, loved the books.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I am a woman and I will make nests out of pillows at every given opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Sushi as we know it is actually relatively modern. The Japanese made a few exceptions to vegetarianism mostly out of practicality. For example, birds were also not seen as animals.

Somewhat related to this, there was an emperor who died of beriberi because apparently all he ate was polished white rice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

'Octopi', interestingly enough, is a result of people assuming that the word 'octopus' comes from Latin because it ends in -us, which would mean that the correct plural drops the 'us' and replaces it with an 'i'. But, trickily enough, it does not come from Latin; it comes from Greek. As a result, if you're trying to be super technical, the correct plural would instead replace the 'us' with 'odes'--octopodes.

Of course, almost nobody actually uses that term unless they're doing it for fun. The most commonly used, correct plurals for octopus are 'octopuses' and 'octopus'.

I hope you enjoy that little tidbit as much as I did when I learned it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Spiny dogfish. Those spiny, bait-stealing little jerks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Not fish, but absolutely adorable and intelligent and unethical to eat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This depends on how deep the fish lives. For example, where I live, anglers are required to have a descending device on them and ready to go to quickly return a deeper sea fish to the depths without causing it significant harm.

At the same time, all hooks are required to be barbless so as to cause minimal damage to whatever is caught.

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