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Sayings of the desert fathers; peruse at your leisure...

And this, on new-year's eve...

“There was a smell of Time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in his mind. There was a thought. What did time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people. And if you wondered what Time sounded like it sounded like water running in a dark cave and voices crying and dirt dropping down upon hollow box lids, and rain. And, going further, what did Time look like? Time look like snow dropping silently into a black room or it looked like a silent film in an ancient theater, 100 billion faces falling like those New Year balloons, down and down into nothing. That was how Time smelled and looked and sounded. And tonight-Tomas shoved a hand into the wind outside the truck-tonight you could almost taste time.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
 
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mer said:
So not a "pull a hamstring requst like Manchester United" :)
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I just learned that MU's players seem to be prone to pulling a hamstring. It took ChatGPT a long time to find it out. So much water was used that I can't believe it. I will drink less today to compensate for it. (I'm joking about anything you find inappropriate to be real).
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
I just learned that MU's players seem to be prone to pulling a hamstring. It took ChatGPT a long time to find it out. So much water was used that I can't believe it. I will drink less today to compensate for it. (I'm joking about anything you find inappropriate to be real).
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I'm a US citizen that actually enjoys/played soccer/football (grew up during Pele era) but have found it astounding how a player can run/dodge/weave/keep their feet until they hit opposing 18yd box. Then "OMG you breathed on me wrong I must flop like a flounder trying to draw a penalty".

This is not to diminish the skill of a lot of players, but rather focus on the theatrics.
 
blackbird9 said:
A bit more about thyme.

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2f7PYULlZy0

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Thyme Tea Benefits and How to Brew It

Thyme is a fragrant culinary and medicinal herb, well-known for its tiny, aromatic leaves and earthy flavor. Native to the Mediterranean region, it has been
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Stuff like this is good; go back a few generations and everyone had an herb garden with plants used for both cooking and home remedies.
Spices used in a lot of different cooking? Same thing.
 
I wonder if Douglas Adams already in the early 1980s anticipated the annoying blathering modern computer UI's haunt users with, or if UI designers took his computers as role models don't getting it was satire to be avoided.
 
mer said:
Stuff like this is good; go back a few generations and everyone had an herb garden
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Grow some herbs doesn't necessarily need a garden. A good place at a window, some patience, and experience is all you need. Plant pots, soil, and seed you get in your local do-it-yourself-store the whole year, or in spring time in every super market for a few bucks. Or just buy a pot with already grown herbs, and garden those. Most herbs are undemanding. It's a real luxury easy and cheap to get to have fresh parsley, basil, cive, thyme, coriander or others always at hands in your kitchen. ALL herbs not only improve health, but very much improve every dish you cook - it's the finishing touch. Very recommendable.
 
I had recently a mushroom growing kit. But there were mushrooms growing onto the mushrooms... I'm not a good farmer.
 
Mushrooms are a complete other thing, and tricky, while very specialized - neither a plant, nor an animal, but the third life form on our planet. Better start with basil, parsley, and thyme. :cool:
 
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