Today is World Rainforest Day!

  • Rusty Raven M
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    41 year ago

    A small amount of gardening has been achieved, cutting back the beans and other dead summer plants and putting away the support stakes. Things look a bit tidier out there now.

    I have also achieved mixing & packaging a new batch of dog food and a bit of general tidying up.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    31 year ago

    After I got the weird Manscaped popup on Domino’s last night, I left them feedback when they asked. I thought this feedback would go to corporate, so I wasn’t particularly nice when I left it. Apparently it went to the store manager. Oof

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    I wasn’t super rude about it, like not abusive or anything like that, but ruder than I ever would be to any of the store people, even if it was their doing (which it isn’t)

  • Tofu
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    61 year ago

    Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

  • StudSpud The Starchy
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    91 year ago

    World Rainforest Day

    World: from Proto-Germanic *weraldi-, a compound of *wer “man” (Old English wer, still in werewolf; see virile) + *ald “age” (from PIE root *al- (2) “to grow, nourish”).

    Rainforest: apparently a loan-translation of German Regenwald, coined by A.F.W. Schimper for his 1898 work "Pflanzengeographie

    Day: Old English dæg “period during which the sun is above the horizon,” also “lifetime, definite time of existence,” from Proto-Germanic *dages- “day” (source also of Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, Dutch dag, Old Frisian di, dei, Old High German tag, German Tag, Old Norse dagr, Gothic dags), according to Watkins, from PIE root *agh- “a day.” He adds that the Germanic initial d- is “of obscure origin.” But Boutkan says it is from PIE root *dhegh- “to burn” (see fever). Not considered to be related to Latin dies (which is from PIE root *dyeu- “to shine”).

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    121 year ago

    Don’t tell my kids, but I don’t really want to get up at 7:30 on a Saturday to go and watch them play hockey. I’m tired, it’s cold, wet and I’m not really having fun.

    I might be getting my first new computer in 14 years later today, so I have something to look forward to.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    I smashed my free amazon prime membership for a month then cancelled it. Thanks for the postage suckers.

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        41 year ago

        I bought a bunch of bulk foods that I’d otherwise have to run around town for and an instapot duo.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      I do this every time it comes up too. Stock up on inconvenient stuff I know I don’t need immediately but might as well get while I have free shipping. Stuff like a big roll of tough double sided tape suitable for outdoor use or copper tape for snails.

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    91 year ago

    Decided to take the kukri (further sharpened today on a silicone carbide stone) to the lemon tree for the first time as it needed pruning. Turns out to be a good fast tool for that work. Hit those little branches at 45 degrees… straight through.

    Ended up with 22kg (!) and heaps more to go :)

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    111 year ago

    Spent this morning redoing my resume, and have now sent two applications with cover letters. I think that will do for today. Main part was ending the procrastination and actually sending out some applications. Feeling accomplished

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Good luck ! The cover letters have been the hardest and most troublesome part for me.

      How anyone can crank out and personalise more than one a day (let alone 20) is a complete mystery.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        My gonads have recessed and are shrivelled by the cool water of the plunge but they’ll drop back down with my voice, once I’ve earned it

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Good onya, that’s not an easy thing to push through, but it feels so good once the initial inertia has been shoved out of the way. I need some of that energy with my chores today! Here’s hoping your efforts are rewarded with a better job very soon :)

  • CEOofmyhouse56
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    111 year ago

    Look at us all busy little bees today. I’ve managed a shower and I’m deciding whether to get dressed or not.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      51 year ago

      Lol don’t worry. I only just got around to having a shower and getting dressed, and I only did that because I have a visitor soon. If it wasn’t for him, I would still be in bed

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Ii think I’ve been worse. I woke, had breakfast, chatted in the phone then went for a nap and that’s my day :/

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      It’s been a very slow start for me, if that makes you feel better! I have tons on next week so I knew I had to get some things done today or I’d be punishing my future self when she’s more tired and cranky.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      61 year ago

      I tried the GSP and thought it was absolutely vile. But I mostly go to Red rooster these days anyways, so I can’t blame you. kafers is just too expensive these days. A $5 snack sub box from rooster is where it’s at!

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      41 year ago

      The last KFC I had was so disgusting it’s tainted any memory I had of them being worth going to. Cold damp unsalted chips, some pieces of chicken looked like they’d been cooked 4-5 times already - tiny dried out husks of food. The box was soaked through with fryer oil.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Either its under salted, or it’s oversalted to the point where eating some is like crunching a salt lick.

        Almost impressive how KFC manages to straddle either side of the line.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Yeah that was them a couple of years ago. It’s better now. But not by much. It’s back to like 2008 levels, which let’s be clear is still pretty bad.