I play the sitar

Monica, NY. Confused Indian-American by day, part-time bad joke analyst by night. PCCM doc trying to figure out how to human life.

[creature-adjacent]

Carnivorous plants doin this is so funny to me

They don't wanna eat their pollinators :(

[questionablepastries]

[ceruleanheaven]

[very clearly indulging the urge] im fighting the urge

[sternen--staub]

occasional posts from users

[ann-decart]

reblog if you make occasional posts

[cleolinda]

Sometimes I still hear my voice

[naamahdarling]

It's almost like I'm here with us.

[bludraws094]

make chocolate chip cookies

all purpose flour

baking soda

salt

softened butter

granulated sugar

brown sugar

vanilla extract

egg

chocolate chips

gravel from the driveway wait why is this an option wait dont pick this one

Voting ended onApr 30

[bludraws094]

how long should it bake

+1 minute

-1 minute

Voting ended onMay 2

[bludraws094]

and at what temperature

+10°f

-10°f

Voting ended onMay 2

[feeshstiks]

[disorientation]

Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors

[sailorsmoon]

[kirsanof]

Bois ton café, Éric Rohmer

[oshiwambo]

[walk-up-songs]

[one single bloodcurdling agonized scream] ok time to lock in

[dcminions]

KABHI    KHUSHI    KABHI    GHAM    (    2001    )

[elexecution]

if i was born 500 years ago i would have been speculating that the two dudes who went to get firewood together were fucking

[neaborealis]

chat, how long do y’all think 500 years is. Romeo and Juliet was written in the 1500s. 500 years is not the Stone Age.

[elexecution]

why do u think people stopped collecting firewood after caveman times

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Many such cases

[whetstonefires]

Collecting firewood in the way implied here was strictly speaking not a major practice in many parts of the world, in the early-modern period, on account of how it requires there to be 1) a lot of dead wood lying around that is 2) of adequate quality and dryness for practical daily fire-feeding purposes.

Wood-burning permanent settlements of any scope tend to both run through available wood of this kind much too quickly to depend on it, and to have much higher standards wrt wood quality than most modern campers.

Also someone tends to wind up owning rights to literally all wood resources including 'the trimmings from these small shrubs,' even if the 'someone' happens to be all citizens of the nearest settlement.

Which is to say 1) 500 years ago a majority of firewood in much of the world was commercially sourced in some sense, to keep up with demand, so 2) opportunities to be Those Two Guys weren't that thick on the ground, since the scenario proposed does in fact vaguely suggest a hunter-gatherer scenario of some kind, making the figure indeed kind of humorously low for the premise that going back that far would naturally deliver communal fires fed by forage, but 3) those absolutely still existed in 1525, so it's not necessarily wrong even if we assume that implication was intended.

some exist now also, though, so on that basis op didn't even need to posit any amount of years ago, just 'if i lived in a hunter-gatherer society' or something. but that wouldn't read as well.

speculating that woodcutters and shepherds and other people who Went Off Alone a lot were Getting Up To Things does indeed have a rich history lmao.

[curlicuecal]

Here I am n 1525 and since opportunities for those two dudes to collect firewood absolutely still exist but aren't that thick on the ground I speculate that those dudes are fucking

[whetstonefires]

#not part of the joke but I actually assumed they were getting the firewood from a woodshed or whatever

ok yeah if two guys take any significant amount of time to come back from the woodshed we are definitely taking odds on if they're 1) fucking 2) fighting 3) consuming contraband they don't want to share 4) i guess we're in some sort of army? in which case 5) looting.

[vaspider]

So uhh.

I can't speak for anybody else but I grew up in a house heated by a wood stove (which is still my parents' primary form of heat in the winter) & when we said we were "going to get firewood" it either meant a) we're going out to the woodpile to pick up logs (unlikely bc we usually carried wood in from the pile any time that we walked past it, like, if you're coming home from school and you have a free hand you better have a couple logs under one arm) or b) we were taking the kindling/large sticks basket out to wander around in the woods, pick up fallen branches, break them down so they fit in the basket, and bring the basket in so it could dry out and become good firestarter.

Option b is almost always what we meant if we said "firewood" bc that was a good excuse to get out of the house and be away from Supervision if we wanted to goof off, smoke weed, or whatever.

So yeah if a couple of guys went off to "gather firewood" with the kindling basket a bunch I might in fact think, "hmm yes they are going to find large sticks, indeed they are."

[cypresstrees]

crazy how if you do your chores and obligations first thing on a day off you can enjoy your free time more than if you feel like you’re procrastinating your chores and obligations the whole time. i will not be learning from this experience

[kushblazer666]

[xylou]

[tinysweetsmoon-deactivated20240]

[64mpg]

thinking about developing a social skill soon

[the-big-mood]