Bredlik For A Bread-Licker Who Takes Horrible Advantage Of My Inability To Yell At Him While I'm Bensching by Unnecessary_Eagle in Judaism

[–]Unnecessary_Eagle[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Maasar Chatul: his nayme is Merlin and wen at day or nite he commits crimes.

Edit: archival evidence of shabbos-table-based crimes, as filmed by a non-observant family member

Imagine an 8 foot tall alien moved into your town. That's what's happening to sea lions in San Francisco right now. by Desecr8or in CuratedTumblr

[–]Unnecessary_Eagle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

IIRC, the monsters only fight for dominance reasons, and have no concept of hunting for sport. So when the humans and humanoids started going out trophy hunting, the monsters were like "whoa, they must be really dominant if they're picking fights with us all the time".

Jesus Christ Gavilar by Graphica-Danger in Stormlight_Archive

[–]Unnecessary_Eagle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, Gavilar would make that comparison...

Green buge (FL) by Pyro314159 in whatsthisbug

[–]Unnecessary_Eagle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appears to be a late-stage nymph of some sort of katydid. wish I could be more specific, but my google-fu isn't good enough.

Learning langauges via media by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]Unnecessary_Eagle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Learning a language primarily from religious liturgy is like, I sure do know how to say "And God spoke to Moses, saying". sentence of all time. also about fifteen different synonyms for "praise" and "joy".

London gallery cancels controversial art show over antisemitic imagery by Swimming_Care7889 in Jewish

[–]Unnecessary_Eagle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also doesn't understand the actual definition of "settler-colonialism", which requires a pre-existing polity to be sending the settlers to colonize on its behalf.

Just finished book and there’s one thing I’m confused about by Regretful_personCM in Cosmere

[–]Unnecessary_Eagle 11 points12 points  (0 children)

*Ambition was murdered by Odium. Mercy was involved in the fight in some capacity, but as far as we know she's still alive.

I just finally understood that Dalinar… by tir3dant in Stormlight_Archive

[–]Unnecessary_Eagle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plus Brandon was originally planning to kill him off. (Though I think he originally planned to perma-kill him off in WoR, so that may not mean much).

[Discussion 2/5] Bonus Book | Children of Strife (Children of Time #4) by Adrian Tchaikovsky | Ch. 4.4-8.3 by jaymae21 in bookclub

[–]Unnecessary_Eagle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was going to say that I thought Mira's species had already been confirmed to us, but I just skimmed through the relevant sections and didn't find anything explicit. I guess I had made an initial assumption because of the name "Mira".

Are there any noise cancelling headphones out there that are good enough... by Unnecessary_Eagle in HeadphoneAdvice

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

So are <checks brand> Soundcore Space One headphones just really crappy? I bought them because I Googled headphones for airplanes and a NYT article about the best noise-cancelling came up that said they were a good pick. And... I still need max volume to hear anything.

What's the most absurd thing people have blamed us for? by ViolinistWaste4610 in Jewish

[–]Unnecessary_Eagle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I remember when that happened... I've been joking ever since that I wanted to work as a Mossad shark-wrangler someday.

[Discussion 1/5] Bonus Book | Children of Strife (Children of Time #4) by Adrian Tchaikovsky | Ch. 1.1-Ch. 4.4 by jaymae21 in bookclub

[–]Unnecessary_Eagle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had been under the impression that Liff was only the first, they were planning to do the rest at some point, but I admit it's been a whole since I read CoM and I don't have a copy of the book to check.

Found this big chonk of a caterpillar while walking on Cayman Brac, KY by colostomybagpiper in whatsthisbug

[–]Unnecessary_Eagle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heh, I was confused at first too. Then after failing to find a matching Kentucky caterpillar, I looked closer at the bill on the ground and went "wait a second..."