At around 13, with no experience outside knowing how to ride a bike, attempted a 6 foot BMX bike jump, the kind with a near-verticle lip. After two bailed attempts, I committed to MORE SPEED on the third try. I went straight up, couldn’t position the bike forward, and fell directly backward onto my unhelmeted head and back onto packed dirt and gravel. Always kind of felt dumber, slower after that day
My favorite bit of bear lore is the etymology of the word “bear”
The English word “bear” comes from Old English bera and belongs to a family of names for the bear in Germanic languages, such as Swedish björn, also used as a first name. This form is conventionally said to be related to a Proto-Indo-European word for “brown”, so that “bear” would mean “the brown one”.[1][2] However, Ringe notes that while this etymology is semantically plausible, a word meaning “brown” of this form cannot be found in Proto-Indo-European. He suggests instead that “bear” is from the Proto-Indo-European word *ǵʰwḗr- ~ *ǵʰwér “wild animal”.[3] This terminology for the animal originated as a taboo avoidance term: proto-Germanic tribes replaced their original word for bear—arkto—with this euphemistic expression out of fear that speaking the animal’s true name might cause it to appear.[4][5] According to author Ralph Keyes, this is the oldest known euphemis
The Disney-Netflix merger is going to singlehandedly save the western economy for a year or two
Dr bronners soaps, change scent seasonally. Arm & Hammer deodorant, think it’s lavender scented. Kinda burns my armpits at times, but I’m not going to be one of those “I don’t wear deodorant but I don’t stink” people who actually is very stinky
18 years meatless and counting
Like that SNL skit where Phil Hartman can’t remember what his real voice sounds like, that is me after a day of toil in the customer service factory
For real. I was raised on slop, now that I’m a vegetarian, it doesn’t mean I don’t like the foods I grew up eating.
I guess the point is that we don’t need to rely on expensive substitutes made by the same corps that own slaughterhouses to make tasty, nutritious vegan food
“we’re giving them a few more weeks to starve more people out before we ‘admonish’ them for starving people”