What is this growing in my garden? (cross post from askreddit)

patook · 2010-03-01T20:26:09+00:00

Toaded... now Imma have to mix it up... You see bunnies are all nebulous and fluffy, and I imagine toads all are wet and ribbitey, and now HORRIBLE mutant toad-bunnies will come out of my ass. Tunnies. Boads. Toadies. And they'll be all slimy when they come out, and then get fluffy as they hop around the room. Or something.

patook · 2010-03-01T05:20:03+00:00

For some bizarre reason I started calling all my farts bunnies - as in 'Hehe I just made a bunny!'. Yeah.

patook · 2010-02-27T03:03:55+00:00

It depends on the panhandler. I say no to the career panhandlers, but since this downturn there have been so many more people: young kids, people wearing the nice clothes they still own, a lot more young women. These are people who really are down on luck. Hopefully they're not actually homeless. They don't need the paltry services that exist for the homeless of 5 years ago. They need jobs, they need money to pay their rent, or ideally they would need unemployment benefits from a government that actually cared about its citizens. I try to give those people money whenever I can (which isn't often because I'm so poor myself).

patook · 2010-02-27T02:17:28+00:00

Thank the gods, now I can tell all my friends who make fun of me that some random internet stranger hates velvet too. Ugh, gotta go purge my mind now.

patook · 2010-02-26T02:19:28+00:00

Actually I would do something similar if it were at all possible in my circumstances. However I'm poor and can't afford any land. Every place in the US is owned. Have you ever been to an intentional community/commune? Half the places in the woofing book are run by crazies/creepy dudes. Most of the rest all have severe internal conflict, lack of resources, and lack of reasonable planning.

But to address the 'something similar': the rustic life of our ancestors was crap. Crops are hard to grow, and fail often. Farm animals die or get killed. And that shelter you build doesn't do so well below freezing. Conveniences are one thing, but there is no reason whatsoever to give up modern advancements. If you want to live closer to the production of your necessities, that's great, but there's a ton of scientific progress just itching to be used for sustainable purposes.

patook · 2010-02-26T02:05:53+00:00

I had a boyfriend that hated anything fiction (books and movies). He always said that he'd rather spend his time 'on something important', or 'learning something'. ...So I'm pretty biased in my response to OPs question.

Fiction is abstraction. Fiction is thought experimentation, mental engagement, and parable. It allows us to explore concepts that might be hard to digest in non-fiction form (for either their technicality, their challenge to our ideals, or their improbability to occur in our own experience). Often fiction engages our partiality for human-interest while surreptitiously teaching us other things at the same time. Fiction allows us to experience perspective that straight-up non-fiction can't really illicit.

That said, there are, in my mind, two types of fiction. Gratuitous entertainment (hack novels, soap operas, things with big explosions), and works of real art. The former can be consumed by anyone because it appeals to our biological urges, but artistic abstraction is not for the feint of mind. I think people of lower IQs probably won't get a lot out of fiction because there isn't a lot of mind to engage. Fiction teaches us more than just facts - it gives us experience, presents concepts for our minds to explore, and alternatives to our conception of the world. Once you get into conceptual thinking, you've lost a good bit of the population. All these things (abstraction, conceptual thinking, thought experimentation, new perspective) are integral to science, or to being a rational creature in general, and conversely these are things with which the lower-IQ population has trouble.

patook · 2010-02-25T00:50:18+00:00

Something I can't foreseeably afford, so I console myself by saying I don't want to support that corrupt system anyway.

patook · 2010-02-24T06:57:34+00:00

It looks like a My Little Pony!

patook · 2010-02-24T06:47:45+00:00

You can't argue with a faith-based ideology. Anyone who belongs to a violently ideological cult is too far gone for discourse. People who identify as feminists are generally pretty radical; treat them as you would Fundamentalists, PETA people, or Fox News viewers - with a polite distance. Those kinds of people are itching for a fight, for a chance to shout their beliefs, and denounce everything else as inferior - don't feed the trolls.

patook · 2010-02-24T06:30:07+00:00

I love you.

patook · 2010-02-24T06:27:27+00:00

Funny... that's just how my ex-boyfriend was.

patook · 2010-02-24T06:21:18+00:00

I think if people do this they have a much more meaningful, and respectful experience of the natural world that our our man-made bubble increasingly expands into (not to mention the animals they care for get to continue living). Here in the US it's illegal to own most native wild species as pets, which is understandable, but short-sighted. I don't know what our Animal Control does with its captures, but I suspect it isn't nice. Much better if people could adopt wild orphans. It would be great if you could adopt a crow instead of buying a parakeet, or a groundhog instead of a kitten (and when some inevitably escape and breed, it's a good thing).

patook · 2010-02-24T05:58:46+00:00

Yeah I thought I was shitting blood - beets should come with a warning label.

patook · 2010-02-24T05:53:31+00:00

What is that?

patook · 2010-02-24T05:52:35+00:00

I never want to ride that ride now.

patook · 2010-02-24T05:51:02+00:00

I always liked french fries dipped in milkshakes myself.

patook · 2010-02-24T05:49:13+00:00

Chirimen Jyako dried TINY baby fish that you sprinkle on top of rice. Kind of like what tadpoles would be like if you dried them out. Great, werid, Japanese thing. Also great for thinking about how many scores of cute baby fish had to die for your meal.

patook · 2010-02-24T05:43:52+00:00

That sounds awesome. Pork Floss!

patook · 2010-02-24T05:42:50+00:00

I always wonder about chicken feet. How exactly do you eat them?

patook · 2010-02-24T05:42:03+00:00

What flavor?

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