Enkrod

Thank you for your service

Yes! Did you know that they can’t hear their own mating calls?

noice!

Is that a ukrainian cope-cage?

I was very very lucky.

I turned 26 when I heard myself coughing like a 66 year old chainsmoker with cancerous lungs, found I was unable to run up stairs and out of breath after carrying groceries inside. I had to have a cig every morning so I would be able to have a shit at all, but if I did… that first drag sent me rushing to the bathroom, it got so bad, I had to light the first one while sitting on the loo, or i’d shit my pants.

That’s when I found myself disgusted with myself. I stopped, I simply stopped. From 38 cigarettes per day to 0. I am so happy it worked, because I am a very easily tempted personality and tend towards addiction in anything that gives my brain pleasure.

It took a year before I completely stopped coughing and two years before I could run up those stairs again, but one day I simply realized “Oh my! I’m not out of breath. What… what happened? Oh, yeah I quit smoking! Damn this feels nice!”

Odds of a sexual abuser need not be high for the man, they’re simply 0% for the bear.

It’s three fedoras, looked at from the top!

Thank you for making me look, but fuck you for not telling me, it took ages of staring at my screen before I got what was actually depicted.

> Golf pal of dad go to Japan for business,
> he has prostitute over,
> goes at it like a wild rabbit
> she keeps screaming "Ana chigai!! Ana chigai!!"
> he thinks she mean big praise, great or wow
> next day he go golf with japanese businessman
> Japanese man get a hole in one!
> dad pal scream "Ana chigai!" to praise him
> Japanese man turn to him, looking confused
>
> "What you mean, wrong hole?"

Your flash drive: “Ana chigai!”

Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides

Such a weird mishmash of German, Latin and Greek, although Felix is extremely common in Germany too. Sigurd isn’t though, that’s some old germanic kinda name, like Æthelwulf in the anglosphere.

Meh, our esoterics are basically religious anarchists or spiritual hippies. They still fall into all the trapping of religion without the “organized” part of “organized religion”.

Not necessarily. And I don’t think you meant it like this could be read.

You can absolutely be pro something but recognize the downsides of it. You can be pro vaxxination, but be critical of how the government handles rollout, you can be pro EV but still remain convinced that the resources needed for batteries are (at the moment) produced using child labor and causing environmental destruction. Constructive critique is valid and necessary.

People don’t need to be fanboys, sitting on the fence is completely okay in regards to many topics.

What I think you meant to criticise (please correct me if I’m wrong) is that lots of invalid critique and unreasonable opposition hides behind a thin veneer of “I’m actually in favor of {x}” and yes, we’re all sick of it.

I’m here to provide the divided opinion: God Emperor of Dune is the best book in the series imho.

It’s her reversal of the Serenity Prayer, changing it into a call to action instead of acceptance of the (seemingly) inevitable.

Thanks for correcting me then

Then it’s not tea, it’s an infusion or decoction.

Tea is made from a specific plant, the tea shrub (Camellia sinensis).

These infusions might be called tea, but they are tea in the same way as a hotdog is a heated companionable mammal.

Except if you talk about Kukicha, then it’s made from the stems of the tea shrub. The important part here is the tea shrub. Without tea in it, it just ain’t tea.

is at least

Breathing is at least 150k a year, that’s more than enough, even after taxes and has me covered when I’m old and can’t go for a walk anymore.

I don’t need more, I’d rather enjoy my quiet time and taking an walk and standing still for a while at a nice vista, enjoying the view. I don’t need the constant chase for money and even more money in my life and the stress of having to keep moving to get even more. When I walk at the beach with my better half, I’d rather think of how nice this is rather than how much this earns me.

I have absolutely no idea, there are around 4000 species of snake and this one doesn’t have especially distinct coloration.

The narrow shape of the head and the long, slender body tells me it’s not a species of viper, it certainly is no python (except maybe a young black water python), or boa. It’s active, fast and slender, so personally I think it’s either a colubrid (most likely, colubridae make up about 60% of all snakes worldwide) or an elapid (less likely, but possible)… Am I the only one thinking that the body looks very triangular? Could be a black krait, but they only live in northern India and are most active during the night.

It’s most likely just some sort of black rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus) or black racer (Coluber constrictor sp.), which are both black american colubrids with a white belly and both constrict their prey. Both are active during the day, great climbers and hunt frogs. So I guess that’s my best guess.

But like I said, I don’t have the slightest idea.

Well yes, but no.

Every snake swallows it’s food whole and every snake (except teethless eggsnakes or wormsnakes or sum such freaky things) bite.

Constrictors (no venom, suffocating the prey) do bite and then wrap around the prey, that the snake tries to hold onto the frog seems to indicate it being a constricting species.

Venomous species bite and then often let go, as usually the venom is enough to kill or stun small prey and using your mouth to hold onto something that has the ability to fight back is usually a bad idea if you can just let the venom do it’s thing. Though many venomous snakes with less potent poison will also constrict their prey.

Most snakes, big and small are constrictors. Everything bigger than a king cobra is a constrictor, but most small species (like rat snakes, milk snakes, corn snakes and king snakes) are also cobstrictors.

Not all snakes are venomous