Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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!

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.

Дякую! I'm intruiged, I love how gritty and, indeed, ambient it is - though the latter is catnip.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

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.

fuck

well, take some solace in knowing that you were only the second-last person in the world to realise that

Nat "King" Cole got his nickname/stage name from the "Old King Cole" nursery rhyme.

I realized this yesterday.

I learned who Mary Lou Williams was yesterday :-/

On the upside, a student taught me! Here's to humility in teaching.

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

It took me a while to recognize the ship and witch's hat, I think I just thought it was a simple abstract drawing.

It's from a book of similar drawings, can't remember what it's called now

DROODLES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1BsdWGA9s

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.

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

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goodnight mr uncle toms midnight secret cabin is where im currently at with these

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

That I’ve been right all along about how to pronounce “vapid” (nobody ever says this word, you only see it in print, my instincts are usually terrible about this kind of thing)