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
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
So are figs strictly speaking okay for vegetarians to eat?
― Cornelius Fondue (Matt #2), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
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.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
everyone eats eight spiders a night as they sleep
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
Oxygen ew xp
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
xpost I try to get it out of the way just before I sleep to make sure I meet my quota.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
xp I sleep with a small bird in my mouth. That fucks them up.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
the wasp is turned into protein, digested by the fig so to speak.
Somehow this is more disgusting, not less.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
Really? It's a completely natural process! Factory processing of food, of meat and whatnot, is way more disgusting to me.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
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.
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
Cool, I have a wall of mummified wasp pods growing on my garage
― kinder, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
Not really. I am exaggerating for humorous effect.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 09:36 (four years ago) link
Avoid meat for carbon reasons, absolutely, for compassion, probably, but absolute vegetarianism and veganism is impossible, every vegetable and plant is festooned with tiny nematodes, every plant is built from the nitrogen and phosphorus of a zillion dead invertebrates, every plant sugar is part made from the exhaled carbon of any nearby animal. We flow into each other, hakuna matata, namaste, boom shaka.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 09:52 (four years ago) link
hence: wobbly pannacotta, gooey fondant etc, our ancestral yearning for oneness
― mark s, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 09:56 (four years ago) link
What the what what, you say? Liza Minnelli made a northern soul floor shaker? Indeed she did.https://t.co/uq5N0mMFuR— Rob Chapman (@rcscribbler) November 13, 2019
― mark s, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 11:36 (four years ago) link
So did Grotbags:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEYaxZoQ188
― fetter, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link
There are Stevie Wonder truthers
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
Like literally people who believe he isn't really blind and is faking it
Wtf.
Things i wish i had never learned.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
That He-Man (minus the hyphen) is a biblical name.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
Zippers on long garments have bottom catches so you can unzip the lower part while sitting, driving, etc.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Thursday, 14 November 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
when speaking Ukrainian, the city of Kiev is pronounced "keev"
― mh, Thursday, 14 November 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
You mean Kyiv.
^ Something I just recently learned.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 November 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
Do i say Chicken Kiev that way too?
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
If you're in Ukraine, yes.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 14 November 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
they just call it chicken there
― mh, Thursday, 14 November 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
Chyif Kyiv
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 14 November 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
lol
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 November 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
Relevant:
https://naturalsciences.bandcamp.com/album/dungeon-rap-the-introduction
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 November 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
Split across three different aliases, and a host of collaborations (including MC Holocaust, Rita Keen & Devilish Trio), the record draws on the sounds of Norwegian black ambient
TOO MUCH NAZIS IN NORWEGIAN BLACK M... oh it said ambient.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 14 November 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
Dude is… not exactly what you'd expect given the context.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 November 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
It sounds really good tbh, a handful of songs in!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 14 November 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
A trans-Atlantic mixtape between some DJ from Kharkiv and a revolving cast of Memphis rappers is a pretty sweet use of the Internet tbh.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 November 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
Дякую! I'm intruiged, I love how gritty and, indeed, ambient it is - though the latter is catnip.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 14 November 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
D'oh moment: that the names Kindle and Fire are connected. For some reason I'd never thought of the Kindle as being the same word as kindle.
― Alba, Friday, 15 November 2019 01:52 (four years ago) link
I just now noticed there’s a Z and an A on the album cover of Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 15 November 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
Another, worse d'oh moment: that WhatsApp is a riff on 'what's up', which I guess everyone else in the world knew immediately. Shameful.
― Cornelius Fondue (Matt #2), Friday, 15 November 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
I only grew to know the shape of fresh spinach leaves in my late twenties. For some reason I had pictured it as being some sort of soggy spring greens/pak choi affair until then (probably as the result of only knowing it in wilted mulch form)
― imago, Friday, 15 November 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure if I knew as a kid that Tom's Midnight Garden and The Secret Garden were two separate books but I either realised or re-realised this a couple of weeks ago
― kinder, Friday, 15 November 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
my mental image of "spinach" was overwhelmingly defined by Popeye cartoons, in which it is a mushy green slime, only ever seen arcing as a colloidal mass from the can into Popeye's mouth.
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 November 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
fuck
well, take some solace in knowing that you were only the second-last person in the world to realise that
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 November 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
Nat "King" Cole got his nickname/stage name from the "Old King Cole" nursery rhyme.
I realized this yesterday.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 15 November 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
I learned who Mary Lou Williams was yesterday :-/
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 15 November 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
On the upside, a student taught me! Here's to humility in teaching.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 15 November 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub
It took me a while to recognize the ship and witch's hat, I think I just thought it was a simple abstract drawing.
― nickn, Friday, 15 November 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
It's from a book of similar drawings, can't remember what it's called now
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 November 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
DROODLES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1BsdWGA9s
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 November 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
My mate has the witches hat tattooed on his inner left arm. The first time he showed me, it took me an excruciatingly long time to work out what it was. Then we had to have the 'yeah, Zappa's a bit of a twat, isn't he?' conversation all over again and that was that for the evening.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
― kinder, Friday, 15 November 2019 13:46 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
goodnight mr uncle toms midnight secret cabin is where im currently at with these
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
that the "returned search results for..." message in soulseek at the bottom is not just a system log, it's stuff that was returned from your library
I thought the results looked too familiar too often
― frogbs, Saturday, 16 November 2019 03:49 (four years ago) link