Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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

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

Not really. I am exaggerating for humorous effect.

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.

hence: wobbly pannacotta, gooey fondant etc, our ancestral yearning for oneness

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

So did Grotbags:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEYaxZoQ188

There are Stevie Wonder truthers

Like literally people who believe he isn't really blind and is faking it

Wtf.

Things i wish i had never learned.

That He-Man (minus the hyphen) is a biblical name.

Zippers on long garments have bottom catches so you can unzip the lower part while sitting, driving, etc.

when speaking Ukrainian, the city of Kiev is pronounced "keev"

You mean Kyiv.

^ Something I just recently learned.

Do i say Chicken Kiev that way too?

If you're in Ukraine, yes.

they just call it chicken there

Chyif Kyiv

lol

Relevant:

https://naturalsciences.bandcamp.com/album/dungeon-rap-the-introduction

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.

Dude is… not exactly what you'd expect given the context.

It sounds really good tbh, a handful of songs in!