we should make fun of americans more. why dont their shops include tax in the price tag. like how much does this item cost? its a surprise :)
Honestly, tea. I’ve lived here my whole life and I have never once known what my total is gonna be at the register. Total fucking mystery.
im an ex-american living in new zealand for the past two years and it still never fails to blow my mind that i can take a $2 coin, walk up to a counter with two $1 items, and perform the expected transaction
There’s a devil in the church; got a bullet in the chamber and– This is gonna hurt!
Alright, So I kinda drew Raekai for once because he recently got a lot of art and i felt really inspired, yadda, yadda, i love my TWEWY oc BUUUUT the Pork City screenshots were way too small to be used as a background without losing any quality when englarged (also i didn’t like the way the black outline clashed with his wings.
So like any good artist with a death wish, I redrew Pork City in it’s entirety (and simplified it for my needs slightly, SO, I GUESS that’s something mildly impressive, which is why I added the versions without Raekai and the black frame.
Ok so……there’s this big stick just like ..sitting in the woods right…and there’s a bunch of thorns that have grown around it right in a wide radius so I crawled under them to get to the spot and my fingers are cold typing this but….I'mma touch it
I hope you end up inheriting some eldritch power for pulling The Forbidden Stick out of The Woods
so I did take it and high-key recorded it just in case anything weird happened but the only thing that really feels different is I just feel warm but that’s probably from adrenaline
Probably
but the interesting thing is I realize the area it was in I actually passed on my way down but I didn’t see it at all for some reason! and it was like stuck in there pretty well which I guess could have come from falling downwards but….??
Also during my journey on return home with the …thing…I found a random patch of grass… just in a circle, no snow….and it was warm to sit in the spot 😂 y'all this is getting to be a bit much
This also isn’t the first one I’ve found in the past year….if you’ve been here awhile you probably recognize these two >_>
Someone is trying to give you a magical destiny
I’m ready
Who is this modern Druid person?!
ahem. yes
My name is actually Gabriel but I’ll also accept Yes for short
Continuation, I spent more time in the woods today and realized I haven’t shown you one of my favorite spots so I brought my camera and a tripod. Some people say extra, I prefer extra fabulous
I just saw that people have cut down some of the Joshua trees during this shutdown and I want to cry
w H A T
The what trees? Someone explain? I want to be appropriately sad. I mean, I’m sad either way because trees are better than people. But why are these trees more special than usual?
They’re a rare species, and one that is very stunning, and also one that is very vulnerable to habitat loss and climate change.
And if I ever get my hands on one of the people who did this, I will be hard pressed to not kill them.
Did you see WHY they cut them down? They cut them down so they could go off roading in closed off areas of pristine desert.
Some fucking people should not be let out of their cages.
These are Joshua trees. They can be 300 years old (and at tallest, 15 meters).
Their range isn’t confined to the national park, fortunately. They are found in spots throughout southern CA, NV, and AZ.
This news makes me absolutely furious.
Read those articles. A lot of people think that you can’t “damage” the desert, because they don’t realize it’s not “just rocks and sand”, but an extremely delicate ecosystem that takes decades to grow even a little bit. Once damaged, it probably won’t repair itself in these assholes’ lifetimes.
And this is exactly the kind of thing that the national parks were established to combat – the mindset of “what does it matter if I cut down some of these trees, there are lots more right over there; what does it matter if I go off-roading, there’s more desert than anyone really needs”. It’s a profoundly selfish and wasteful mindset.
Just this week I went googling around – hesitantly – to see what the latest news is from Yellowstone. All of the parks are in danger of poachers coming in while the rangers are understaffed, but I feel like Yellowstone is especially vulnerable, because its wildlife is famous, and in cases like the wolf reintroduction there, infamous amongst exactly the same kind of people who are committing vandalism throughout the parks.
Fortunately, at least so far, I haven’t found any news reports of poachers targeting the wildlife. There are apparently a lot of local businesses (probably near many of the parks, but particularly Yellowstone) that are chipping in money for cleaning and upkeep and, one expects, security, because those businesses depend on visitors to the parks for their own survival. (Which is why the shutdown affects far more than just the 800k workers who aren’t being paid.)
Some people are absolutely awful, and the only thing I can take comfort from at the moment is that there are also many people who love the parks, know the danger they face right now, and who are trying to help protect them.
There are an estimated 140,000 miles of footpaths in England and Wales,
public rights of way that cut across all manner of private land, and due
to various quirks of history they have never been fully mapped.
It’s been 19 years since an Act in Parliament set a deadline of Jan 1,
2026 to map every footpath, and after that, footpaths that are not
mapped can be reabsorbed into the private lands they cross, ending
ancient rights of way.
The Ramblers, a hiking society with radical roots that fomented the
creation of the nation’s national parks, are leading the charge to
complete the maps, through the Don’t Lose Your Way campaign.
While many of the footpaths they’re struggling to save have simply been
forgotten, others have been deliberately obscured, often by farmers who
want to keep strangers from crossing their fields, and resort to
trickery like misleading signs and barbed wire to obfuscate the
footpaths.
I’ve spent many happy hours rambling, mostly in Norfolk, where all the
paths we took were well-marked, well-loved and well-maintained. The
footpaths are a visible remnant of the ancient compact between private
landowners and the common people, embodied in such documents as the Charter of the Forest, a much more important and radical document than the Magna Carta.
Throwback to the time my poor German teacher had to explain the concept of formal and informal pronouns to a class full of Australians and everyone was scandalised and loudly complained “why can’t I treat everyone the same?” “I don’t want to be a Sie!” “but being friendly is respectful!” “wouldn’t using ‘du’ just show I like them?” until one guy conceded “I suppose maybe I’d use Sie with someone like the prime minister, if he weren’t such a cunt” and my teacher ended up with her head in her hands saying “you are all banned from using du until I can trust you”
God help Japanese teachers in Australia.
if this isnt an accurate representation of australia idk what is
Australia’s reverse-formality respect culture is fascinating. We don’t even really think about it until we try to communicate or learn about another culture and the rules that are pretty standard for most of the world just feel so wrong. I went to America this one time and I kept automatically thinking that strangers using ‘sir’ and ‘ma’am’ were sassing me.
Australians could not be trusted with a language with ingrained tiers of formal address. The most formal forms would immediately become synonyms for ‘go fuck yourself’ and if you weren’t using the most informal version possible within three sentences of meeting someone they’d take it to mean you hated them.
100% true.
the difference between “‘scuse me” and “excuse me” is a fistfight
