Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I think we're saying piercings "fully heal" but not in same way a normal cut does ie it never gets quite back to "good as new"

Puff the Magic Dragon is a massive downer of a song.

"Puff the Magic Dragon" filled me with so much fear as a kid i used to run out of the room if it came on the radio

For years I was trying to ID a song from childhood that i believed went "hahahoohoohahahoohee hahahoohoohaha" as the chorus.

Only to find out it's the end of "Crimson and Clover" and it's just vocals run through an amplifier

I grew up thinking people don't change. Then something horrible happened to me and my family and I learned that people do change. And that you can change into an entirely different person.

That sounds like a terrible thing to learn - please, if you feel you can, talk some more (unless you are on another thread)

Or unless you don't want to, in which case don't.

alexandre dumas père was mixed race

THere's a 2 part podcast on Alexander Dumas pere in the Stuff You Missed in History Class series

I think they may have touched on this when I was in grammar school, I just kind of didn't raise an eyebrow, seventies Cosby kid and all. I think it's the parents who probably needed this information.

But after reading more about it on Wikipedia, I wanted to re-read Count of Monte Cristo.

p.s. I'm fine, actually. I'll just rant on Tumblr because I don't want to bother people with it.

Shackleton was Irish.

That there are two Kansas Cities next to each other, in different states.

All hornets are wasps. Not all wasps are hornets.

Wasps come in an astounding range of shapes and sizes. I was horrified to discover that this caterpillar in my mom's garden was covered in what turned out to be eggs of a diminutive variety of wasp that sustains itself at birth by slowly consuming the caterpillar its eggs were laid upon.

alexandre dumas père was mixed race

― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, November 8, 2019 5:04 PM (four days ago) bookmar

I only know this because of Django Unchained uwu

all wasps are assholes, not all assholes etc

that's thread commentary, i was shockingly young when i first discovered it

All wasps are definitely assholes. They're the geese of the insect world.

A referent for 1km which I only got listening to a GPS this afternoon. A point on the road near me to the main road into town
Kind of useful if I can abstract it and extrapolate from it. Don't think I had any comparison before.

Wasps are assholes for ruining figs for me.

I was shockingly old when I learned that there is a DEAD WASP in every fig you eat.

I've gone pretty soft on wasps in the past few years. I won't stick around a place that a wasp is active any longer than I have to, but I don't go around trying to exterminate them from my garage either.

Fuck figs though, in general.

I know that the wasp corpse is disintegrated by enzymes but the crunch of the seeds I can't

also they are all over the local country club and Saab dealership here

hey-o

I had an argument with Jack Monroe on twitter because she was recommending cheap figs at tesco and I said I'd bought them and they were horrible. Later I realised that what I really hate is every fig in every supermarket in the UK. The ones from my garden and in Greece are still great.

also they are all over the local country club and Saab dealership here

― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, November 12, 2019 6:27 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wasps or figs?

I was shockingly old when I learned that there is a DEAD WASP in every fig you eat.

What? Why? WHAT?

https://cdn.britannica.com/17/24017-004-98EF07A1/life-cycle-fig-wasp.jpg

Yeah one time i ate a fig Newton with bits of Nelson Rockefeller in it

there you go

https://youtu.be/eCkMxcEf7jI

xxxp peace man, dumb joek

Jesus, figs. Get it together. That is just disgusting.

figsbs

entomophagy is the fucking future, norms

I was shockingly old when I learned that there is a DEAD WASP in every fig you eat.

Fucking hell, couldn't you let the rest of us become shockingly older before dropping this?

Though edible figs may not be filled with baby wasps, doesn't this mean that these figs contain a lot of female wasps who died of loneliness?

;_;

But do read on: https://animals.howstuffworks.com/insects/fig-wasp1.htm

there's no time to get shockingly older and we just have to get used to it: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20141014-time-to-put-bugs-on-the-menu

So are figs strictly speaking okay for vegetarians to eat?

It goes into that on page three of the link above. Basically, that page says stop fussin', the wasp is turned into protein, digested by the fig so to speak.

Anyone who at this point is still squicked by the indisputable fact of our near-constant consumption of insects and insect parts probably just needs to become a breatharian or something already.

everyone eats eight spiders a night as they sleep

Oxygen ew xp

xpost I try to get it out of the way just before I sleep to make sure I meet my quota.

xp I sleep with a small bird in my mouth. That fucks them up.

the wasp is turned into protein, digested by the fig so to speak.

Somehow this is more disgusting, not less.

Really? It's a completely natural process! Factory processing of food, of meat and whatnot, is way more disgusting to me.

Sweeping across North America, flying hordes of Rocky Mountain locusts were once an awesome and horrifying sight, huge glittering clouds of insects laying waste countless acres of crops.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/23/science/looking-back-at-the-days-of-the-locust.html

the great lost episode of little house is so rad-- that's when papa, his prairie farm was assaulted by locusts, discovered that locusts were fuckin delish. so he opened a restaurant in faraway wherever, serving (secretly) locust-based artisan dishes, with craft beer, and became a bezillionaire! man were the olesone's pissed, the other farmers just took wagon trains to cali. some of them met the donner party in other eps.

Cool, I have a wall of mummified wasp pods growing on my garage