It’s nothing special. It’s blue.

Now excuse me, I’m off to imbibe vast quantities of alcohol.

I would fucking love to see the walls around me come crashing down with a matrix effect.

It’d be a sigh of relief. A deep one.

You misspelled “efficient”

Finland

I did not expect this.

Also in the archipelago, which I live close to. Usually there sorts of stories are from Australia.

I know you deleted the reply, but I could still see it on Sync in my notifications.

I know tins have plastic liners, but like, normal forks and knives don’t taste metallic. Something something interaction with the metal. I think coins wouldn’t smell metallic if you wash them properly and then don’t touch them with bare skin.

Coins don’t inherently smell; the “metallic” odor associated with them is actually a result of a chemical reaction between skin oils and the metal, particularly iron, when touched. This reaction breaks down skin lipids, producing volatile organic compounds like 1-octen-3-one, which is what our noses detect

But I’m sure that’s not what’s happening when you’re having a radioactive dye injected. It’s a different metallic sensation.

And yes, my taste buds are in my mouth. The radioactive dye is injected into my circulatory system, which also circulates the blood in my mouth, which has my tastebuds.

I think some comedian has a bit sort of related? Holup I’ll look for it,

Can’t find it. I was thinking maybe Jim Jefferies, or John Mulaney, then maybe Ali Siddiq or Theo Von. Nah. Just can’t recall. Anyway a standup comedian is impressed by some really crusty junkie comments on the quality of the drugs they inject, because they can taste the fillers through.

The point being it’s surprising how you can taste things in your blood.

Which definition does full corn kernels fall into?

idk man. the tins I’m drinking out of don’t really ‘taste metallic’, whereas when I got shot up with radioactive elements, I definitely described it as “having a metallic taste in my mouth”.

(Oh and the answer is ‘radiology’ — shooting people up with radioactive elements is literally everyday stuff. There’s a whole branch of medicine about it; “nuclear medicine.”)

Don’t spiders actually sort of rather drink their prey than eating it? We digest food inside us, spiders just vomit up shit onto paralysed prey that liquifies it so the spider can just sort of slurp it up.

So I wonder how he’ll do with a turtle. It’s easy enough to imagine on a fish, but…

Took me a while to realise it’s because Trump administration is aggressively scrubbing anything to do with “diversity”

“Son, if you’re interested in biology, you’ll have to learn to understand that the definitions of terms are rather… loose.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species

Fermenting anything generally results in at most some 15-18%, depending on the yeast you use. I’d say 10-12% is more realistic for homemade wines, but 14-16 isn’t out of the question.

So I don’t know what the deal is specifically with dandelion wine, but usually 10% alc will fuck up a person (and a teen especially) pretty well if chugged and the brewing process usually leads to there being all sorts of things in it (alcohols sugars, not-too-toxic byproducts) so the hangovers you get from home wines are usually… interesting, to say the least.

You rang?

If you’re gonna be anal about it, technically “laying” could be argued to be inaccurate, (although then you’d get into the semantics about how it’s technically referring to careful putting down, and I don’t know if you could argue that for like, pigeons), but I’d definitely agree that all mammals have eggs.

No worries. I think you better check it’s spelling again though, you called me “exist”. I don’t discriminate against my exes.

I think you meant to call someone sexist, what with the hysteria mention there.

I’ve got 2x whats literally called “painful rib syndrome” in English and I can barely get ibuprofen.

with leathery skin like a rhinoceros.

Then why the dog like fur?

Biologists wouldn’t say they’re the same species, because biologists are aware of interspecies hybrids and the species problem.

Fucking English collective nouns. :D

I actually had a raven once, I was so surprised. I was just being followed by Muninn, as normal, saw him, he glid a bit next to me while I was going to the store. Got them a bag full of balls, put it all out there on a field and stayed and watched.

I live in the outskirts of the city, so not too urban, but also not too unurban… There’s places within like 5km I know there’s ravens. But usually they’re not here.

Muninn saw me going to the store, glid aside me, I got them a bag… Oh wait I wrote that earlier.

Anyway that’s when I saw this

The scale isn’t evident from this photo, sorry. But ravens are huge compared to hooded crows which are like twice the size of magpies. Ravens are like 80cm from beak to tail. So many while I was in the army. Gorgeous corvids.

Bonus photo