egrets

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[–] egrets 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Dinosaurs really had the jump on mammals in terms of time to evolve flying ability, but I've got faith more mammals can go that way.

Of all of the alien fauna I saw in Australia, seeing fruit bats fly over at dusk was the most memorable. (Finding engorged leeches between my toes was the second, and the emotion was quite different.)

[–] egrets 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The artist is Jian Su (苏健) of Xinghe Studio in Beijing.

[–] egrets 22 points 2 months ago

A man walks up to a tailor in the agora at Delphi with a couple of torn chlamydes in hand. The tailor glances at him. "Euripides?"

The man nods. "Eumenides?"

[–] egrets 4 points 2 months ago

Also, here's the context of the post title.

As detailed in the song bio, Byrne was aping televangelists in the style of the voiceover, which is a neat tie-back to Christian Comics and the rapture.

[–] egrets 11 points 2 months ago

"A reference community for data and sources," if you can make sense of that. I'm not sure I can.

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[–] egrets 20 points 2 months ago

The only acceptable circumstance is if you both talk to each other at the exact same instance. Extra leeway is granted if you say the same exact thing. If the utterance interval exceeds 250ms, the earlier speaker must turn themselves over to the authorities.

Can't believe you had to ask, really; these are basic social maxims.

[–] egrets 3 points 2 months ago

Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.

[–] egrets 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The 6th Earl of Leicester was responsible for ethnic cleansing of English Jews, and his father depicted here had a key role in slaughtering the Cathars in Languedoc as you've mentioned in the title, so maybe what goes around comes around?

[–] egrets 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe they've improved!

[–] egrets 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm baffled by the constant good reviews I read about Henry vacuum cleaners. Either they're doing really well in convincing people that the product's good just because they expected it to be good, or you're all upgrading from really terrible hoovers.

Henry can't navigate a corner despite being round, it has so-so suction power, and it has nowhere to stash attachments (or at least, the last one I used didn't).

It does have a big smiley face on the front, though. Maybe that's the ticket.

[–] egrets 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

This is Simon IV de Montfort, not to be confused with his father Simon IV de Montfort about which we know little. Our de Montfort is therefore sometimes named Simon V de Montfort, but is not to be confused with his son Simon V de Montfort, who was hacked apart by royalists at Evesham.

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