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my drive home from work yesterday

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I'm reposting some of the things I made this past year that I'm proudest of. Here's an impassioned defense of Canada Geese.

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Barbecue

Many people do it in the summer, ok, the die-hards also do it in the winter, the barbecue. This word actually has a maritime background. The name is derived from the French term boucanier, which means "meat smoker", and this in turn from the Spanish barboka, "to cook over a grill".

The Buccaneer was a Picturesque Fellow: illustration of a pirate, dressed to the nines in piracy attire. By Howard Pyle, 1905

The Arawak, people of the Caribbean, used this term to describe a type of grill on which they smoked meat (preferably manatees) over a small flame with green wood. The buccaneers during the 17th century had adopted this type of grilling for the wild pigs they hunted on the coasts before moving on to bigger catches at sea.

The innocent and enjoyable pastime of barbecuing in one's own garden therefore has some roots in the bloody history of piracy in the Caribbean.

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A Sheep poll perhaps?

As usual, I will treat the results as character creation sliders.

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Run! Run little bird! The vacuum is coming for you!

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Strip poker with the 1840s historical costumers

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Car accents 🐈😺

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901 showed up while i was running errands earlier, and my goodness, she is a top Fat Bear Week contender for sure!

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source

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me today (hatching day)

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Enemies to "I accidentally came across you while you were vulnerable and scared and I'm not a total asshole so I tried to help you" to "accidental mutual uncovering of softer sides and vulnerabilities" to "I can't be mean to you anymore, not out of pity but because it would feel weird betraying that brief truce we had" to "Fine I'll make an effort to be nice to you now I guess" to "actually now that we're not actively hating each other you're not so bad I guess" to "i think we're friends but I'm not going to say that because I'm afraid you're not gonna feel the same way" to "oh you also think we're friends? Great" to lovers

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i think we need to start saying "same hat" again. weve forgotten the yaoi

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just some lads, being fellows

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Working on a dataset of roadkill reports. state agency personnel CANNOT spell

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there’s a bosnian saying that literally translates to “who lacks in brains, has in legs.”

example scenario: you go to the kitchen to get a drink, get distracted by food and return to your seat with a snack but no drink (brain stupid). once you realize you forgot, you have to get up and walk back to the kitchen for the drink (working those leg muscles).

i drag myself with this saying several times a day. is there an english equivalent?

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rice, like humans, is mostly water. thus, eating rice may be essentially equivalent to cannibalism. and as we know, cannibalism is frequently used as a metaphor or even stand-in for gay sex. therefore eating rice can be seen as the same as gay sex. in this essay I will