I adore David Mitchell and his rants. I really liked the one about how "rape" should not become socially acceptable and silly when followed by "pillage" just because the Vikings are depicted as having worn silly hats.
A South African friend of mine says "Saturday" for the upcoming one and "Week Saturday" for the one that is a week and some days away. I'm not sure how widespread that is, she's the only one I've heard use it, but it does seem more clear.
STOP POSTING MY MEDICAL INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET.
You get 8, evenly spaced holidays per year and they have nothing to do with Blue Eyed Jesus OR capitalism!! And they work just fine if you're an atheist, you can just celebrate the Earth's relative position to the sun.
Add the full moons and you're never far from a holiday.
I've started using the Celtic calendar to mark the seasons. I don't have kids or a summer break, so it just helps avoid frustration at the weather. It fits better with the seasons where I live. It puts the solstices and equinoxes as the "peak" of the season instead of the beginning of the season like US calendars do. This is closer to how the weather works where I live in California.
Summer starts in the beginning of May (Beltane/May Day), peaks in June on the longest day of the year (Midsummer/Litha/Summer Solstice) and ends in the beginning of August (Lughnasadh/Lamas/First Harvest).
This also means that Christmas/Winter Solstice/Yule is peak winter, not the "first day of winter" which always seemed stupid to me, and Halloween is the closing of Fall.
There are a few in my town and it's really hard not to stare as they go by, even after seeing them around a bit. I imagine a few accidents have happened by now because people can't stop rubbernecking and going "Holy shit, it looks even stupider in real life!!" >> crash.
Yeah, I think it's this one:
They're melting!
That's really neat, thanks for explaining!
OH, I get it. The pick up price is the purchase price. That's pretty clever. Does that mean the trash collectors have to pick every bag up by hand and glance at the contents? How many categories of trash/bag are there?
🏅 #1 RANKED YELLOW APPLE
The Opal apple looks like it shit itself. I apologize for being uncouth but there is no more apt observation. Just look at the top of it. The Opal apple looks like a jaundiced, freckled, unwiped anus. In fact, this may be the ugliest apple of the modern era. That being said, if you’re going to be an ass, you might as well be a good ass. And like a good ass, the Opal apple is exceptionally sweet and juicy. In fact, the complex flavor profile featuring hints of banana, coconut, and pear make this Czech-born, oddly-named monstrosity a delight to consume. And while the outside may be stained with a toddler’s accident, in an ironic twist, the interior of the apple does not brown for quite some time. So I say, if you’re looking to spice up your life with something a little different, close your eyes and eat ass. Who am I to judge?
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I'm allergic to chocolate solids but can eat cocoa butter. So, in a society that is unreasonably obsessed with chocolate, it is nice that there is occasionally a "white chocolate" option on things that for some reason come in 15 flavors of chocolate and little else.