go gotham!! #yerrrr

greg, 25, he/him

[aquitainequeen]

Village Tackles Speeding by Planting Thousands of Flowers Because Drivers Slow Down as They Pass By

Officials first planted flowers along the roadside during the pandemic to help improve biodiversity, but soon they found another use.

Wildflower meadows are beautiful; so beautiful in fact that a village in Britain has found they act as natural speed traps from motorists slowing down to look at them.

The village of Long Newnton in Gloucestershire has a problem with fast moving through-traffic between nearby towns. Almost all drivers moving through areas they frequent will break posted speed limits, and neither a 30 mile per hour limit, nor warning signs made any difference.

Officials first planted flowers along the roadside during the pandemic to help improve biodiversity.

But they noticed that as well as attracting more wildlife, motorists also slowed down when they passed the flowers.

[anarchistmemedistro]

who could have guessed less-hostile urban spaces might be beneficial. this also reminds me of that japanese study where they found that planting flowers in a neighbourhood reduced crime. because people spent more time looking out their windows.

[leveloneandup]

Rose’s biggest fan.

[lovinggkewis]

[sportswithlogs on twitter]

Oh Kris😂💀

[mewismagic]

her brain looool she's so unserious 😂

[womanwithahotdogstand]

This is it. This is THE video. It has everything:

• Ashlyn kneeling in front of Rose and kissing her hand while she sings to her. 🥹

• Christen and Sam being proud parents.

• AD having the time of her life. She would literally die for Rose in this moment.

• And then there’s Crystal, Tobin and Lynn who are very clearly having some sort of religious experience.

[womanwithahotdogstand]

🥹♥️

[yourrfeelings]

[mysharona1987]

[scholarlyapproach]

DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!

Listen in the past the poor have had to improvise cheap food the rich never wanted as a means to survive. And over the many years of innovation made the food taste good until eventually the rich where like: “Oh hay you actually like that garbage? Why on earth would you like it?” Then they try it, love it, start buying it, and then drive the price up so much it becomes a luxury good.

They do this and its devastating, the food typically never becomes affordable again. It don’t matter how cheap the foo dis to produce, it doesn’t matter if there is almost no meat on the bone or its super difficult to eat and messy. Once the poor discover how to make some bit of cheap food taste good, the rich take it away via driving the price of it up.

THEY DID THIS TO RIBS.

Ribs were garage meat. Just look at them, there is hardly any meat on the bone, you have to eat them by hand usually, and they are messy. They where an undesirable cheap source of junk meat. But the poor being the poor made them taste good. (Because they don’t have much to choose from.) The rich discovered the meals the poor made with them and decided they liked ribs too. People discovered they could sell a few ribs to rich people and make way more money then selling lots of ribs to poor people and the price was driven up.

DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!

[askmace]

They did the same to brisket.  You used to be able to get brisket for less than a dollar a pound, which meant you could get a twenty pound brisket fairly cheaply.  And then you smoked it, sliced it, and had meat for weeks if not a full month.  And it was tasty.  I grew up eating brisket at least once a month because my family could afford it.

It was a cheap meat because no rich person looks at the dangly part of the neck of a cow and goes ‘ooh, that looks tasty!’.

But then Food Network started showcasing things like barbecued brisket.  Rich people started showing up at places that weren’t just Rib Crib to get their barbeque.  And the price of brisket went up.  A lot.

I regularly see it for over five dollars a pound in stores now.  And while yeah, that might not seem like a lot when you’re talking only a pound or two of meat, brisket is normally sold in ten to twenty pound sizes.  It’s become completely unaffordable to the people that made it delicious.

Sushi used to be really cheap, too, until it became ‘trendy’.  Guess why you’re now paying twelve dollars for your order of California rolls?  Because rich people discovered something that poor people had been eating for ages.

Noticed the prices of fajita meat, chicken thighs, or ham hocks has gone up recently?  You guessed it.  Rich people are taking our food and now we’re scrambling to afford the things that we grew up eating.

[auroraluciferi]

Lobster is a perfect example of this phenomenon.  For hundreds of years, lobster was regarded as a sort of insect larvae from the depth of the sea. It had zero appeal as a “luxury food” until people living in NY and Boston developed a taste for it. Before the 19th century, it was considered a “poverty food” or used as fertilizer and bait - some household servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice a week. It was also commonly served at prisons, which tells you something about prison food.

Only by cleverly marketing lobster as an indulgence for the privileged made it cost so much. It became a vehicle for enormous profit spawning a multi-billion dollar global industry in the process. This mythical affection for lobster flesh - not its practical value in terms of taste, nutrition, or any other reasonable consideration - drives its value.

[blackwitchmagicwoman-deactivate]

LMAO. Wait.

[thegrimmlovely]

Anyone else’s eye twitchin?

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

Food gentrification is a long standing practice and it’s some of the most evil shit I can think of. It’s why I refuse for example as someone living in the US to buy things with Quinoa in them. It is specifically pricing an indigenous population out of their prime staple food. It’s a horrific invasion of one of the final requirements of staying alive.

[shitonthesewallsray]

[notourz]

[thehotgirlproject]

Same thing happened to oxtails and is currently happening to chopped cheese

[womanwithahotdogstand]

🥹♥️

[equal-pay]

New rankings are out! Lots of movement!

[palant1r]

what did Europeans even do before google maps.

how did y'all find your streets

[palant1r]

me: please....please just put signs on them...

The Dublin street layout engineer I've trapped in my basement: if you aren't smart enough to solve my Riddles Three and find the ancient cornerstone, older than your fucking country, upon which I've etched a tiny cipher that, when cracked, reveals what street you're on, then you shouldn't be in fucking Ireland [spits out blood]

Me: I DIDNT EVEN HIT YOU. WHERE DID YOU GET THE BLOOD

[eruditetyro]

There’s a city in Germany, Mannheim, where the city center is laid out on a grid, but instead of naming the roads they named the blocks. So your grocery store might be on block L5. and that refers to, like, the square on the grid paper where the building is, rather than the street on which the building is.

Which like, ok fine. you’d assume the numbers go in order one way, and the letters go in order perpendicular to that.

They do not do that.

[caressthosecheekbones]

why

[funnytwittertweets]

[elenorasweet]

Put your lazy meal in the tags

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#I’m so sorry but it’s risotto and it does have chopped onion#in my defense I keep a giant bag of pre-chopped onions in thw freezer 

YOUR LAZY MEAL IS RISOTTO?? WHAT’S YOUR LAZY DESSERT, A FUCKING SOUFFLE? IS YOUR GO-TO QUICK READ WAITING FOR THE BUS THE FUCKING POETIC EDDA IN  ITS ORIGINAL OLD NORSE?

RISOTTO?? ARE YOU AN ALIEN???

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Okay you two are getting food poisoning.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#my go to lazy meal is apple slices & peanut butter#if i don’t feel like slicing the apple i just take a bite of apple then spoonful of pb is fast succession 

I despise peanut butter but you have my respect for this

[nerdfighterwhatevernumbers]

the chicken pot pies are small frozen meals with pre cooked chicken you won’t get food poisoning, what kind of rich person are you that you never bought a Banguet meal

[glimmerofawesome]

[greywindsports]

Russo goal- ENG vs SWE- July 26, 2022

[paranoidbookreader]

[leveloneandup]

It’s time for the ESPYs

[rookieforlife]

[leveloneandup]

Our clients Christen Press and Tobin Heath styled b Gucci for the ESPYs