Tar_Alcaran

Wednesday is my day off from paid labour so I can do the unpaid labour of being an adult, and keep my weekend free from either.

I only have minor chores, like feeding myself, the husband and the cats, and cleaning up after tabletop day at our place, followed by bed.

Oh no. It was that very typical “two cherries on a joined stem” picture, like you posted (but with two). Pretty sure plums don’t grow like that.

It’s much more pretentious, of course. Escalops are a sign of pilgrims, pilgrimages and divine protection (during holy acts). Via that, it’s also a sign of people going to heaven because of their good acts.

All things that very much don’t match Churchill.

I love heraldic descriptions. They’re a little peek into what people from the past thought how people from THEIR past talked.

I also love how it ranges from the famous: “Azure, a bend or”, which means “A blue field with a diagonal stripe of gold”, to

Quarterly 1st and 4th Sable a lion rampant on a canton Argent a cross Gules; 2nd and 3rd quarterly Argent and Gules in the 2nd and 3rd quarters a fret Or overall on a bend Sable three escallops of the first and as an augmentation in chief an inescutcheon, Argent a cross Gules and thereon an inescutcheon Azure, three fleurs-de-lis Or.

Which means this monstrocity: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Arms_of_Winston_Churchill.svg

It’s not “kind of true”, they mark scent with urine. And they’ll mark all their cage mates too, and that includes their human.

But yes, rats are tiny and don’t pee on you and your house much, that’s true. They also absolutely have bladders (what a weird myth that is) and almost always potty train themselves to do most of their urinating in certain spots when not marking scent.

It was on the wall in my English class, with a black and white photograph of some cherries.

I always thought it was weird, but I never forgot it.

Also, sheep are incredibly cuddly, and will happily follow you the whole day just to get more head scritches

And not just one, so monogamy is right out.

I once sat a bar, having a drunk chat with a guy, who went from your basic “you know what would fix the world? Fluffier dogs!” type talk into “you straight women have it easy, you never have to control yourself when there’s some sexy 14 year old chick around”.

I was far too drunk to give him the proper reaction, but I wasn’t nearly too drunk to get the fuck out.

When I did my PhD, I was chatting with another PhD student there. I told him I went to a museum where they had a really cool lineup of all the early hominids, all the way back to Lucy.

And he said something like “why would you care about all those deformed humans?” So I went “no, I mean, the proto humans, before they evolved into homo sapiens”. I laughed and said “aren’t you too smart to believe in evolution?”

So yeah, you don’t have to be stupid to be an idiot.

It happened again in lunar orbit

The real conspiracy is that they managed to get their staging right the first time, without reverting to VAB.

survival horror game, stealth game

Immediate thrown-on-ignore-pile

a cinematic platformer

a what now?

Nobody who wants to rule should be a ruler, so logically, he’s the very best

“told you I’m not gay! How dare you say I’m gay. I’ll sue you!”

Thrown in prison for being gay

Generally it’s silver reacting with (trace) amounts of sulfur containing gasses in the air to form silver sulfide.

Silver sulfide isn’t blue, but the colours, and especially the multiple hues are caused by thin-film interference. That’s the same effect that gives soap bubbles that shifting multi-colour effects.

The only way to remove it, is by grinding off a tiny bit of material, which is what you do when you polish it. The tarnish doesn’t go further than the surface layer, so it’s actually a pretty amazing way to preserve the metal.

Fun fact: if you ever want to make silver look old, put it in a closed box or bag with a hard boiled (or rotten, but I suggest boiled) egg. Those are high in sulfur compounds and will add months of tarnish in minutes.

zebras live in anonymous herds. That is, they like to clump together to ward off predators, but they don’t know or like each other.

Zebra’s don’t like anyone, and they’re not afraid to show it. Repeatedly.

The odds aren’t zero. He’s not any more braindead than the rest of the conservatives, and won’t pass nearly as many terrible laws.

I did the maths three times, because I was sure I got it wrong, but on Earth you get a LOT of energy from the radiation of stuff around you. I never really thought about that.

At that point, you’ll have to calculate the heat transport of the human body, and answer questions like “how long can a person live with frozen skin” and other fun questions I’m not equipped to answer.