@EvilCartyen @virbonus look what happened to the last guy!

@EvilCartyen just one but yes. Can you just imagine me walking around greeting people with a straight face and a polite smile and this giant black front tooth.

I'm famously unselfconscious but I just smiled in a bathroom mirror and saw that a blueberry from breakfast, which was 3 hours ago, had shed its entire skin to laminate one of my front teeth solid black. The physics of how this could possibly happen without me feeling it escapes me, but I've been walking around like this for hours. People could only have thought it was a Halloween costume. For once I am (slightly) embarrassed, but what can you do? Get better friends, at least!

@EvilCartyen knowing exactly is the key and I have no problem with that! Nommm

I am in the unenviable position of text arguing a friend trying to keep her from eating a large parasol mushroom she found in a forest.

As the old saying goes, "all mushrooms are edible; some are just edible once." Then you die and they pour your liver out like a dirty oil pan.

Y'all please do not eat fungi you can't trust 10 times over with a solid ID. If you find yourself texting a friend to ask if it's edible, the answer is don't eat it. That goes for all plants but especially for fungus.

Literally b&bs in Italy: Etruscan walls, thermal springs 10min walk, breakfast on request, real beds, floors.

All of these things are surprising, some for existing and others in that they warrant mention at all. Perhaps I should be asking more specific questions.

@EvilCartyen I love this point of view. I need to get in to hide boosts more. All the tools are here for us, whatever place (again, thank you tech nerds!)

2¢ : I've seen some tut-tutting recently about the niche technical content of so many posts here. As someone who could not tell you anything about my computer past what color it is, I just want to say that I'm personally glad that others are keeping up and are technically astute. Even if I don't understand the jargon or issues at stake, I still applaud and take comfort in the granular expertise, as I do in all fields. I find it a pleasure to see. That's all.

A.S. Byatt is not for everyone but she will always have my heart. While I'm busy trying to think through storylines and metaphors on the ground, she's building empires I can't even see to see across time and space. Every once in a while I glimpse the larger structure and swoon. In the last 15 pages she's revealed relationships that she's developed and braided together over 3 books. How did she do that, so naturally that it now seems obvious and inevitable, not at all a surprise?
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@EvilCartyen I don't know if you meant to distill wisdom for the ages but this is about the smartest, densest post I've seen in years!

All. So. True.

I'm trying to assimilate but labeling this moka pot "6 cups" is an affront to reality.

How do you learn a language?

By falling on your face,
over and over and over.

Like a baby.

I know this. I still hate it.
Oh well, the sooner I start falling, the sooner it will be over. Let's go.

Please at least tell us what's in your out-of-app post. Most of us here are not going to click a blind link.

American recipe:

"What makes this sauce special is it's not heavy like so many other sauces... Start with a cup and a half of sour cream..."