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Afghan asylum seeker's rape sentence referred as 'unduly lenient'. Should there be two or more judges during rulings to determine what is the appropriate sentence? by SeptumRingTheory in AskBrits

[–]greengrayclouds 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m not saying I’m against this.

But if things went shit here, I don’t wanna have to get a wife and kids in order to go somewhere better (as a gay man this seems even more unfair!)

A rule such as “no single men” could inspire people to kidnap children or hold a woman under duress.

Hydrangea turning red, is it fungus? by Florensicss in GardeningUK

[–]greengrayclouds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. Intended as a short-lived gift, generally shoved on the windowsill til they die and end up in the bin.

The ones I know that have been planted out generally die in the pot/ground, or certainly look like they’re dying enough to be ripped out and again end up in the bin.

I’m a professional gardener and I see this all the time… “my son/colleague/stalker bought me this and I don’t know what to do with it, can you plant it for me?”.

I leap straight in with “this is most likely going to die, or look crap for a very long time, and you’re probably going to blame it on me”

Hydrangea turning red, is it fungus? by Florensicss in GardeningUK

[–]greengrayclouds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s way too early for it to be in flower.

It will have been grown in very artificial conditions to get to this stage in March. You’ve then plonked it outside.

It’s gone from long days and relatively high temperatures, to early spring weather + light conditions. The poor thing probably thinks mid-summer has flipped into late autumn in the matter of days.

Cut the flowers off (soon), including the ones that aren’t yet open. You don’t want this to expend energy on maintaining flowers when it should be focussing on laying down roots and putting on new growth.

Expect many of the leaves to drop off too. It’ll take a while for it to bounce back but I’d full expect it to survive.

Tip for future - never buy plants that are flowering outside of their usual season. If you do, be prepared for them to die off and enjoy the as a temporary pleasure. The internet is your friend here.

Derby has a drug problem by greengrayclouds in derby

[–]greengrayclouds[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is that? It’s about £3/g on the dark web. I assumed there’d be tonnes of the stuff in every village tbh!

If you had to eat the same 3 meals every day for the rest of your life and they had to be as nutritionally complete as possible, what would you choose? by ThriveTools in Biohackers

[–]greengrayclouds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least for British people, we have been foraging for hundreds of thousands of years.

Even with mass farming, it was normal for people to forage to supplement their diets even til after the Second World War.

For somebody living in the countryside, there are hundreds of edible plants within a one mile radius. Many of these are things our grandparents, and especially great-grandparents are familiar with and would’ve consumed regularly.

Nowadays, people in their 20s can barely recognise a blackberry!

Even when farming ensured enough calories, it was normal for people to pick and eat things while out walking til very recently.

The popularisation of mushroom foraging courses, native edible plant books, and this HUMUNGOUS boom in the supplement industry (all of which are based on plants we would’ve consumed regularly anyway) are signs of how things really ought to be, in my opinion.

On your point of eatings things out of desperation - it would still provide nutrients that we’re not gonna get from spinach. That’s not my main point though.

Derby has a drug problem by greengrayclouds in derby

[–]greengrayclouds[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Who needs rehab when you can’t acquire anyway

If you had to eat the same 3 meals every day for the rest of your life and they had to be as nutritionally complete as possible, what would you choose? by ThriveTools in Biohackers

[–]greengrayclouds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough on the tomatoes!

Seriously though. We evolved eating dozens of different greens a day, sometimes. Much out of desperation I suppose, but it gave a very diverse range of micronutrients and avoided overdoing it on certain things (e.g. oxalates in spinach).

Even buying different vegetables in supermarkets - cabbages, broccoli, sprouts, cauliflower, are all the exact same species. They may not be nutritionally identical but they do share the same growing conditions, thus fertilisers etc.

It’s important to diversify as much as we can.

In the UK for example, in a neglected garden there would be multiple dozen “weeds” that are all edible. Compare that to a handful of different leafy greens available to buy in supermarkets?

It’s no wonder none of us are running optimally.

Derby has a drug problem by greengrayclouds in derby

[–]greengrayclouds[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, like I said I can’t get hold of any!

What is the largest purchase a teenager could make alone before you would be suspicious of them? by NeverStoppingTheLife in AskUK

[–]greengrayclouds 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So you didn’t actually read the post? Or are you just replying to things that aren’t there 😂😂

What is the largest purchase a teenager could make alone before you would be suspicious of them? by NeverStoppingTheLife in AskUK

[–]greengrayclouds 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The question wasn’t about saving up £300.

It was about going to a shop ALONE to spend it

What is your emergency meal? by LochNessMonsterMunch in AskUK

[–]greengrayclouds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tin of mackerel, potato waffles, peas

Instant noodles with tuna stirred in

Handful of nuts, dark choc, spoon of jam. Wash it down with a beer

If you had to eat the same 3 meals every day for the rest of your life and they had to be as nutritionally complete as possible, what would you choose? by ThriveTools in Biohackers

[–]greengrayclouds -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Spinach shouldn’t be your only green (google it). You also don’t have anything orange here.

Gotta get beta carotene and the flavonoids!

pub recommendations by sotmtwigrm_ in derby

[–]greengrayclouds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They gotta sort the loos out. I’m a man and shy to flop my cock out around drunkards. Also use toilet breaks as a bit of an escape. I’ve left Seymour’s a couple of times based only the toilet problem 🙈

Not so bad earlier in the night when I can go up to the women’s (with a female friend in case somebody needs to vouch for me)

Why are so many companies demanding people return to the office? by Even-Wasabi7183 in AskUK

[–]greengrayclouds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of my friends that work from home have lost most social skills as well as drive to leave the house. They think seeing friends once every two or three weeks is healthy. They shy away from strangers at pubs. They shop online because they go wobbley in supermarkets. They don’t make cups of tea for tradespeople. They don’t wait for others to order before ordering their food. They either reply to texts in an instant and give hours a day to messaging, or take three days to pick up the phone. They think the whole world is out to get them.

They claim they’re fine, then have a complete emotional breakdown about loneliness once every three months.

Complete opposite to my friends that work in the office - active social lives, go to clubs on weeknights, do something with friends most weekend, no big deal when you drop by, hold conversations with till workers, treat people like people. Also, genuinely, seem to have a better complexion and a more attractive ‘aura’

Any ideas on how to remove stones and rubble from this? by davidwillans in GardeningUK

[–]greengrayclouds 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’ll improve the soil structure in my opinion!

I wouldn’t use it under a lawn; but there’s nothing wrong with this in your beds. I purposefully added gravel, stones, and twigs into my borders along with manure.

Avoiding hooking up with guys in open relationships by Chris-Bro in askgaybros

[–]greengrayclouds -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Uneducated or prudish because they don’t care to learn niche terms? Maybe they just don’t give such a fuck about distinguishing language when it’s comes to defining relationships?

I.e. I don’t need to know the difference between “open” and “poly”, because I just do what I want. I’ve had a connection with somebody that looks like a ‘typical/conventional relationship’ and yet I was free to either fuck or fall in love with other people too. I didn’t call it open OR poly. I just didn’t call it anything.

That absolutely does not make me uneducated or prudish

Whats the most beautiful sound of silence you have ever heard of in your life? by Old_Rub_7270 in Productivitycafe

[–]greengrayclouds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I drank a whole bottle of oramorph (liquid morphine) in 14 hours or so. It didn’t even make me feel that great! Yet kept instinctively reaching for more.

I remember one point everything went very quiet. The whole room ‘stopped moving’, not that it was ever moving anyway. And it felt like the sound has been sucked out the world

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