This. My sister in law teaches and keeps all the letters she gets from her students. It’s stuff like that that keeps teachers going.

If you mean the floating lanterns they’re usually made with wire and are a hazard to wildlife and domestic animals, as well as creating litter.

I wasted time and energy arguing with some absolute whopper about composting. He suddenly went off on a tangent about the waste caused by sanitary products , presumably because I’m a woman, and that’s when I realised trying to make him squirm with descriptions of menstrual cups would be an absolute waste of energy and I should just stop and leave him to his nonsense rants. Deleted the app not long after, I think that and reading a load of racist bullshit about Roma people did it for me. I found a good man with van on there, but that’s the only use it’s had for me.

I think people are missing that this is the 2nd most taught foreign language, not the 2nd most taught language. So there’s the native language, then the most taught foreign language, and then the 2nd most taught foreign language. I’d imagine for quite a few countries that English is the most taught foreign language, particularly ones that heavily rely on tourism.

Edit: just noticed it even says that in the text on the right.

That doesn’t stop an absolute fuck ton of people believing in it. One of my friends is quite deeply into it, she’s in FB groups about it, and decides what everyone’s type is upon meeting them. According to her I only think it’s nonsense because I’ve only done the free online tests, not the proper one. She wouldn’t listen the other day when I tried to put her right about flouride in the water, either.

Myers Briggs is posh astrology.

That sounds very wrong. And probably dangerous.

Taking echinacia (sp?) to get rid of a cold. I’ve given up trying to tell my friends they’re wasting their money because they believe it works, because they start feeling better, and won’t be told that that was going to happen anyway.

I use Bandcamp instead of Spotify now, because that’s what most of my musician friends use to sell their music and recommend as the best way of supporting artists directly, and some of my favourite current artists are active on there. Yeah I can’t just stream and make playlists of whatever I want, and it’s more for new music than older stuff, but I can scroll through and play the suggested tracks which are far more interesting and diverse than anything Spotify would suggest to me, and then I can buy the stuff I really like. I’m slowly building up enough stuff that way to have an interesting collection on my phone to listen to, and it’s also introduced me to some really cool music that I wouldn’t have heard about from Spotify.

I had a duck egg containing a baby duck in HCM. It was ok. I stopped when it got crunchy.

I love tulsi / holy basil, but there seems to only be a couple of brands that do it here (UK) and they’re usually a bit pricey.

I got into this in a biiiig way when I was recuperating from Covid and Long Covid and had to cut right back on caffeine. I’ve got quite a few of my friends addicted as well. I drink it with oat milk and it’s nearly like Indian chai.

Dust of dust.

I trod on a slug recently while wearing socks. The slime didn’t come out in the wash. Bleeuuurrgghhhh.

I’ve just checked it out, and I have no idea why it’s so good, but it is.

I’m a bit confused by your comment and what you mean by “a tribe here or there has been through it” and that it’s unknown territory? It’s sparsely populated, but according to Wikipedia about 500k people live there, and they’re mostly in urban areas. Surely the lack of data is more down to the political disputes over who governs it? I’d imagine the locals are reluctant to share information with the Moroccan government who they see as the occupiers.

The Osmonds were Mormons weren’t they, which I guess makes this banger a Mormon choon:

https://youtu.be/iXcj8dFOd1E?feature=shared

Ha, I sent a very long and furious email to my (Labour) MP when that law got introduced, basically saying excuse me I’m a woman that squirts, what are you as a fellow woman going to do about a law that says that’s a deviant and obscene act? And got completely ignored - usually I got a generic response from her on other issues, on that I just got tumbleweed.

(And before I get any thirsty messages, I’m menopausal and that bitch has dried up. Nothing to see, move on.)

I only ever see mine from a distance and never get the chance to say thank you. My mum used to give them a tip at Xmas.

YES! I read the book a long time before I saw the film and was so disappointed when I finally got around to watching it. And then I know people who read the book years after seeing the film and didn’t like it, because it was so different to what they were expecting. And that’s such a shame, because the film just doesn’t have the same depth to it.