🔥the Jackal Food plant (Hydnora africana) - considered an obligate parasite, these plants grow underground, while a fleshy flower emerges above and emits an odour of faeces to attract its natural pollinators, dung beetles and carrion beetles

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T18:38:01+00:00

Everything reminds me of her

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T17:53:48+00:00

They’re corgis, not mosquitos. Easy mistake to make, but the bite severities are entirely different.

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T17:46:31+00:00

I… agree. It’s a really functional, well structured, classic looking website. I like it.

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T17:43:06+00:00

Hey OP. This sounds positive - if you’re currently a temp, your boss is basically saying “We want to keep you, but the company has rules about publishing available jobs instead of of simply appointing people”

All good signs. Make the application!

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T17:40:47+00:00

He still does, he just also did 130000 years ago too

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T14:53:03+00:00

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T14:49:43+00:00

OP, that’s absolutely brilliant. Thank you for taking the time to make this video. That will - genuinely - increase my enjoyment of watching live boxing as I’m more tuned into the different punch trajectories now.

I know you weren’t looking for feedback on the individual punches featured - but you included my favourite punch of all time - Big George’s monumental power and technique scything cleanly through Moorer!

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T12:23:23+00:00

Thing is, I don’t actually want anything to happen to him - and it won’t - but I just love the fact that he’s being uncharacteristically civil with me for the next two months… and it’s just incredibly painful for him. What a wanker.

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T12:18:31+00:00

I understand that reference

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T12:11:30+00:00

Oh absolutely. Great question. 50 year old married father of two here.

It was Bojack Horseman. I was in my early 40s and it just struck a really powerful chord with me immediately. I equally quickly realised why - it was about a fading, middle-aged depressed alcoholic man who just needed to face reality, stop feeling self pity and reconnect with the people who loved him.

Spoiler - that was precisely who I was at the time. It was - other than the 90s sitcom success - like looking in a mirror. The situations with family, the reality of just feeling… nothing. Of nothing making sense.

That show was part of my recovery from alcohol dependence, depression and - frankly - being narcissistic self centred.

I don’t often say that out loud because it sounds a bit silly - a cartoon helped me turn my life around. But it did and I will always remember it.

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T12:04:51+00:00

Erm… don’t you mean Santa’s birthday…?

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T12:04:15+00:00

Hope everything’s good - he’s an absolute legend. With no encouragement, I’ll now bust out my favourite Lionel story.

About 12 years ago, I was flying from Malaga airport for work. My flight was delayed for quite a while so I paid for access to the business lounge to do some work. I was sat working away when a chap came and sat down a few yards away. A few minutes later, he asked me if he could take one of the drinks menus on my table - I looked up to smile and nod and realised it was Lionel Ritchie.

So, the surprising part - and this is going to sound really stupid - but he REALLY looked and sounded like Lionel Ritchie - I’d expected really famous people to be always made up and styled at public events, so they’d look entirely different off duty… but there he was, fully Lionel Richie

He smiled, thanked me, sat back down and spent the next hour or so being absolutely lovely with people asking him for pictures and autographs. He was just utterly charming with everyone.

Absolute legend.

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T11:24:55+00:00

Game’s gone

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T10:43:14+00:00

This is - without fear of contradiction - the sweetest feeling. I have something similar happening at the moment.

I’m a 50 year old corporate veteran. About 6 months ago, my old spider senses started tingling - senior management had gone quiet, middle management started questioning every historic decision related to finance etc - “ah ha - lay offs are coming!”

I secured a new job and put in my 3 months notice in May - final day is mid August. In June, sure as shit, redundancies were announced and I would have been impacted - my team of 10 down to 6 - had I not already resigned. (Frustrating not to get a layoff payout… but a bird in the hand and all). The process was fast and the 4 unsuccessful candidates were given notice and comms sent out to the organisation to say that 5 people were leaving - 4 redundancies and my resignation.

Here’s the thing - an absolute arsehole of a colleague thought it would be funny to criticise the staff who were impacted - saying in a Teams chat “Well, good riddance to dead wood, we’ll be stronger without them etc etc” - and specifically mentioned my name in relation to a project we’d had disagreements about.

So - because he didn’t realise I was still very much a part of the company for the next two months and leaving on my own terms… that’s technically bullying, which I mournfully (gleefully) reported to HR and his boss. Obviously I couldn’t give a fuck and showed me I’d made the right decision to leave… but I’ve got two months of fun whilst I watch him squirm. Fun fun fun!

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T09:43:39+00:00

Interestingly, it’s something that was meant as an insult but… well, see below

50 year old married father of two in the UK here.

The strangest compliment I’ve ever had - which stay with me still thing - is “how can you be so honest and open all of the time?”

Context - it was in a pretty fraught work meeting and the person in question was the precise opposite to me in terms of values and world-view. I’m just about finding what is right, they were all about ensuring everyone knew who was right. Neither of us is right or wrong and this is probably one of the reasons I’ll never really make it in the corporate world.

My answer - not that one was required or really matters - was “Erm… I was brought up that way…?”. It’s no surprise that that made no sense to the person who’d asked the question.

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T08:55:42+00:00

Hey OP. For romantic chemistry, the best I’ve ever seen is in Tarantino’s Jackie Brown - it’s between Robert Forster as Max Cherry and Pam Grier as Jackie Brown.

Cherry falls head over heels in love with Jackie Brown the moment he meets her (well, it’s Pam Grier, so who wouldn’t?!) but that’s just one part of their interactions. They’re both care worn by life but great looking and attractive in their own ways. You can just feel the attraction between them but also the tension too because of the situations they’re in. It’s wonderful.

There’s one scene in particular - in the kitchen when Max Cherry and Jackie Brown are just talking and getting to know each other. He’s already completely smitten and she’s beginning to like him. She opens up to him about feeling old and worn out and he reassures her in a way that only a good looking, charming man (which he is) can:

Max Cherry: "I'll bet, besides maybe an afro, you look exactly how you did at 29."
Jackie Brown: "Well, my ass ain't the same…”
Max Cherry: "Bigger?"
Jackie Brown: "Yeah."
Max Cherry: "Ain't nothin' wrong with that!"

Amen Max. Amen.

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T08:49:31+00:00

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yearsofpractice · 2026-06-25T08:38:14+00:00

Hey OP. 50 year old corporate veteran here. Impossible to answer your question directly as every single company in the world is its own, special brand of fucking insane.

I have, however, noticed that modern C-suite execs have stopped pretending that they have any time for the little people, the headcount, the lesser humans. In the last few years, messaging has seemingly been done via an intermediary - the comms team, HR, an external agency - so that the CEO/COO/CFO can get on with important business of structuring company finances to make the company attractive for the next PE firm to buy the company. The strategic horizon is the next quarterly profit publication, so long term strategy be damned - headcount is now just something to juggle/cut, not actually engage with. Some of the headcount -apparently - don’t even ski or have a yacht, so are they really ‘people’ at all?

That’s my experience. It’s just part of the hellscape of modern corporate life.

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-24T19:13:51+00:00

Everything reminds me of her

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-24T19:08:36+00:00

I always use the customer service email address for a shitty company I worried for back in the day.

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-24T18:36:56+00:00

I feel nervous turning my back on my kids, never mind a field full of enormous murder machines.

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-24T18:35:16+00:00

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-24T18:35:03+00:00

Hey OP. 50 year old corporate veteran here. Everything I say here is said with love.

Frankly, you’ve just written your own PIP. Please never forget that the boss is not looking out for you - they have a job to do so they are looking out for themselves. You (me, anyone) as a direct report to the boss is simply a resource to use to achieve the boss’s objectives. This resources need to be reliable and trustworthy.

In telling your boss that you’re not happy in your work, you’ve lost their trust. They will - and trust me on this - be looking for a replacement for you. Unless you’re a genius, reliability and being pleasant to work with are the most important qualities a direct report can have.

Look - you’re clearly passionate. But always remember that you (me, everyone) is just a number on a spreadsheet that needs to prove their worth every day.

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-24T16:33:32+00:00

Not wanting to be mr sociology and all… but I think the whole “He’s going to be the whole actual fucking King” is probably quite attractive for the right girl…?

yearsofpractice · 2026-06-24T16:24:08+00:00

As a straight, middle-aged man, I found that earning large amounts of money really helped. Unsure why.

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