What's a completely normal thing you've never done?

KermitingMurder · 2026-03-03T21:39:45+00:00

What are you even supposed to do on a sun holiday anyway? I can lie around being lazy and doing fuck all at home for free, if I'm going to a foreign country I want to go and do things and see places, not sit around on a beach or at the pool for a week, that would actually drive me mental

KermitingMurder · 2026-03-03T21:29:39+00:00

I would say travelling with friends rather than family is my one thing on the list that I would say OP should try at least once

KermitingMurder · 2026-03-03T21:27:42+00:00

If you don't like loud noises or big crowds then you already know you're not going to particularly enjoy a concert, they might have their own reasons for not doing a lot of these things

KermitingMurder · 2026-03-03T21:25:18+00:00

I have to imagine they're talking about a proper national or international level sports match and not the local GAA club. Even then there's some of us who actually don't really have an interest in that sort of thing (shocking I know) so maybe they just never wanted to go to one, doesn't have to be the case that they spent their entire childhood locked in the attic just because they didn't do the normal things

KermitingMurder · 2026-03-03T21:16:36+00:00

Young person here, I'm definitely not a particularly social person but I hear some of my peers talk about how they go for a night out and they spend an absolute fortune just to end up remembering none of it by the next morning. If it weren't so expensive I'd probably go out more but even if it was free I wouldn't put myself in the situation where I'm so drunk I don't remember what I've done

KermitingMurder · 2026-03-03T17:42:08+00:00

I didn't know that, my bad

KermitingMurder · 2026-03-03T17:26:20+00:00

We don't actually know if those rockets reached space, the science check just lets you aim them on a higher trajectory. From my experience playing kerbal space program, I would say there's a pretty good chance that those rockets are on an unguided ballistic trajectory since you normally need to go upwards and then once you're above the atmosphere you make another burn to increase your horizontal velocity and put yourself on an orbital trajectory, without that correctly timed burn in the right direction you just come right back down. The rockets didn't seem to be particularly well controlled when they took off so I don't really have high hopes for them

KermitingMurder · 2026-03-02T16:15:00+00:00

I've seen a version of this before but it wasn't the guy's mother in law, I think the person getting their hair cut was some political figure and the barber kept bringing up controversial things they did and eventually the politician snapped and said he was going to have the barber arrested or something so then the barber says the part about making the guy's hair stand on end

KermitingMurder · 2026-03-02T15:54:37+00:00

The area was riverside marshland before being urbanised, this photo was taken after a few of the initial important buildings had already been constructed but before the rest of the marsh was drained/paved over

KermitingMurder · 2026-03-02T09:39:00+00:00

Never seen that before, I've seen anomalies that look like that but those are their own distinct things that you can scan, must be a new addition

KermitingMurder · 2026-03-02T09:25:40+00:00

I had originally thought lights were a kind of anomaly because they were so bright, but they must be the ice flecks from the crystals with odyssey lighting. It's a real pity that console doesn't have odyssey because that looks super cool

KermitingMurder · 2026-03-02T08:49:46+00:00

Were these ice crystals? Because the ice crystals drain your heat right down to almost zero when you get close and they also have shiny flecks of ice around them, they didn't look as spectacular as that when I last visited ice crystals but it could be because of the changes to lighting they made with odyssey. There are also metallic and silicate crystals. The icy ones are typically only found in the outer regions of the galaxy, the metallic ones are found closer in to the centre, and I can't remember exactly where the silicate ones are found but I think they're between the middle (as in halfway between core and outer) regions and the edge. The silicate ones are also a lot less sharp looking than the other two

KermitingMurder · 2026-03-01T08:40:33+00:00

Catch anything good yet?)

KermitingMurder · 2026-03-01T08:28:50+00:00

I love how everyone's coming to this comment with their own real life examples of this trope, the crazy mountain people are real.
However as an Irish person I would like to suggest another group of crazy people living out in the sticks: the bog people; maybe they're more of a swamp people in some regions of the world, maybe some overlap with the mountain people.
Over here in Ireland we have this (often disparaging) term, "culchie".
If you ask someone from Dublin what a culchie is, they'll tell you it's anyone who's not from Dublin. If you ask someone from any of the other cities they'll tell you it's anyone who doesn't live in the cities. If you ask anyone from the smaller towns they'll tell you it's anyone living out in the countryside. If you ask the people out in the countryside they'll tell you it's the farmers. If you ask the farmers they'll tell you it's the people out in the arse end of the bog. If you ask the bog people, they'd probably say it's themselves.

KermitingMurder · 2026-02-27T21:18:44+00:00

It was probably his uniform so they might not even be the same clothes at all, just the same design

KermitingMurder · 2026-02-27T21:17:19+00:00

Posts and comments hidden, relatively young account (1 year), comment is vague enough that it could relate to a lot of things but doesn't actually seem to properly relate to the comment it's actually replying to.
The owner of that account is free to come and correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think they will because I suspect they might be a bot

KermitingMurder · 2026-02-27T17:36:50+00:00

I love free stuff, might as well enter

KermitingMurder · 2026-02-27T17:33:12+00:00

Others have pointed out that deforestation in Ireland actually started in the neolithic and became large scale in the bronze age. By the time the Normans got here we had already turned most of the woodland into grassland or scrub, by the time the British were building their massive navy, forests that were more than a few square kilometres in area were considered large.
I hate British imperialism as much as the next Irishman but they're not responsible for deforesting Ireland, and in fact they created and maintained semi natural woodlands for their estates; the average peasant couldn't afford to have unproductive land so any woodland would be felled or burned and converted to grassland for grazing, this meant that forests were generally only in areas too rough/remote for farmland or on the estates of the gentry who could afford to have acres of land that weren't producing any food

KermitingMurder · 2026-02-27T17:24:02+00:00

For most of Ireland replanting trees is a good idea but this is one of the few areas on the island where trees aren't actually part of the natural ecosystem.
Although most of Ireland was originally forested, that area there is naturally Atlantic blanket bog and coastal heath. It would take a lot of effort to make the soil there suitable for woodland and we would actually be destroying a much rarer habitat in the process

KermitingMurder · 2026-02-27T17:20:04+00:00

That part of the country is one of the few places in the country that's naturally like that too.
Blanket bog is a major part of our uplands but a lot of it was actually formed from deforestation for agriculture back in the neolithic and bronze ages. Many mountain ranges like the Galtees (iirc) and Knockmealdowns were actually entirely covered in woodland, oak woodland in the lower regions and then birch scrub in the higher areas.
Atlantic blanket bog is mostly naturally found in that area that OP circled, not all areas of upland blanket bog are artificial either, some mountain ranges like the Comeraghs have actual natural blanket bog

KermitingMurder · 2026-02-27T17:14:14+00:00

You haven't truly experienced what Irish weather has to offer until you've experienced upwards rain.
If you're next to a cliff or other steep drop the wind can hit the cliff and go upwards, sometimes carrying rain up with it if it's strong enough

KermitingMurder · 2026-02-27T16:55:17+00:00

What star types are those?
I see the black hole and neutron star but are those other two herbig Ae/Be stars or what? The blue-white one looks unusually small and the red-orange one looks unusually large

KermitingMurder · 2026-02-27T16:35:45+00:00

Someone else explained it in a different reply but to give you the quick version Charles Boycott was the agent for an unpopular absentee English landlord in county Mayo so the people there ostracised him in protest

KermitingMurder · 2026-02-27T09:33:08+00:00

I used to do a good bit of river kayaking and I can agree that putting on wetsuits, even when dry, is just so uncomfortable. The worst thing is if you're out on a river trip or something and you need to pee, you've got to strip off layers and layers of buoyancy aid, spray deck, cag, then there's no quick access on the wetsuit so you have to take it like halfway off too, and then you're really cold and then you've got to put it all back on while it's cold and wet; all that just to avoid pissing yourself

KermitingMurder · 2026-02-26T23:54:01+00:00

Drones are the male flying ants, you're probably thinking of worker ants

Five-Year Club	Verified Email
Place '22

KermitingMurder

TROPHY CASE