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I hate the “open floor plan” that everyone is obsessed with in houses now. I want nooks and crannies and bizarre floor plans. I don’t need to be able to see what someone is doing on the other side of the house. I want places to hide and lurk and dwell in the shadows. I am the beast who awaits in the labyrinth
#agreed#also I want to be able to shut of my kitchen from the rest of my house#I don't need my sofa smelling of cooking thanks.#(the nooks and places to hide are the best and I will I had more of those)
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For something a bit different, here's a silly little video of a silver gull hunting flies. The area had been hit by a storm recently which washed massive amounts of kelp and other sea weed onto the beach which in turn attracted enormous numbers of flies.
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#I hate the smell of them#but I also hung out with a lot of smokers in school#because my school was a mixed day school/boarding school#and if you were a boarding student you were allowed to leave the school grounds to smoke#(so a lot of the boarders became smokers to be able to leave the school without parental permission at break time etc)#so really in my head being a smoker was more about having a free-pace to leave the school during the day#and I already had that#so yeah never tried a cigarette#but got half decent at rolling them while I talked to my (then) smoker friend (who is still a friend but no longer a smoker)
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Wisteria in Japan around 1880
641 - Wisteria at Kameido, Tokio, ca. 1880, albumen print hand-tinted by unknown artist | Syracuse University Art Museum
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Wisteria at Kameido, Shinto Temple of Temmangu. Albumen print hand-tinted, ca. 1880 by unknown artist | Syracuse University Art Museum
Wistaria blossoms at Kameido, Tokio. From : Famous Scenes in Japan, Kobe, Takagi Photo Co., Kobe, Japan, undated, published ca. 1919. | George Baxley
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Saw someone complaining on Reddit that Manor Lords isn't worth the price because it's "only got about 3 hours of content in it max," and I'm just baffled, bamboozled, and calling bullshit because I've been playing this one map for 8 hours today, and haven't even built my castle yet.
The fuck kinda warp speed nonsense is that person playing the game at.
Anyway, I'm happy to report that the comments underneath are some variation of "lol, lmao, even" and people admitting they don't know what day it is any more because they haven't moved since the game launched on Friday.
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A hummingbird thought a man’s orange hat was a flower [x]
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Tiffany couldn't quite work out how Miss Level got paid. Certainly the basket she carried filled up more than it emptied. They'd walk past a cottage and a woman would come scurrying out with a fresh-baked loaf or a jar of pickles, even though Miss Level hadn't stopped there. But they'd spend an hour somewhere else, stitching up the leg of a farmer who'd been careless with an axe, and get a cup of tea and a stale biscuit.
It didn't seem fair.
“Oh, it evens out,” said Miss Level, as they walked on through the woods.
“You do what you can. People give what they can, when they can. Old Slapwick there, with the leg, he's as mean as a cat, but there'll be a big cut of beef on my doorstep before the week's end, you can bet on it. His wife will see to it. And pretty soon people will be killing their pigs for the winter, and I'll get more brawn, ham, bacon and sausages turning up than a family could eat in a year.”
“You do? What do you do with all that food?”
“Store it,” said Miss Level.
“But you-”
“I store it in other people. It's amazing what you can store in other people.” Miss Level laughed at Tiffany's expression. “I mean, I take what I don't need round to those who don't have a pig, or who're going through a bad patch, or who don't have anyone to remember them.”
“But that means they'll owe you a favour!”
“Right! And so it just keeps on going round. It all works out.”
“I bet some people are too mean to pay-”
“Not pay,” said Miss Level, severely. “A witch never expects payment and never asks for it and just hopes she never needs to. But, sadly, you are right.”
“And then what happens?"
“What do you mean?”
“You stop helping them, do you?”
“Oh, no,” said Miss Level, genuinely shocked. “You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant. Everyone's poor round here. If I don't help them, who will?”
"A Hat full of Sky" - Terry Pratchett
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i just found out tumblr was storing over three GIGABYTES of cookies on my device without me knowing and that's why it's been running so fucking slow recently... incredible. anyways everyone go clear your fucking cookies. don't let this website run a goddamn video game's worth of disc space in the background for no good reason.
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in guarani there's a standard greeting that literally translates to "are you happy" (ndevy'apa) and the natural reply is "i'm happy" (avy'a) and as americans learning the language we were so distressed like "but what if we're not happy....." and our teachers were like "that's so not the fucking point"
we kept trying to think of any other way to reply but our teachers kept trying to get it into our brains that it's an idiomatic greeting, it literally is not the time or place to traumadump, and as usamerican english speakers we are not some special exception for saying "what's up" with the reply being "not much" instead of "the ceiling"
but anyway while i was working in paraguay -- the country with the largest population of guarani speakers -- i got sent an article by some friends back home like "look! they're saying that paraguay is the happiest country in the world!"
and the methodology was "we went around and asked paraguayans if they're happy and recorded their responses" and i was like. oh. of course you did. and of course you got a 100% positive response rate.
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