There are three weeks in spring - around April - when the trees start sprouting their leaves. And for three weeks the beech leaves have such an incredible light green before they turn darker.

It’s so fragile, yet so vibrant. The sun shines through the leaves and illuminates them from the inside. It’s a bit milky or hazy but also unbelievably clear and honest. Going through a beech grove during that time feels like I’m in Lothlórien.

Well that’s 2008

Saddam Fußein

What healed me, was being mistaken for my dad on the phone. And my dad’s got a nice voice, so mine can’t be too bad.

Using every little bit of an animal you have killed in order to not waste the life is actually awful.

However, prioritising profit over substance, shortening leavening time and adding sugars and preservatives is actually wonderful.

The phone rings, that’s the knock. You can hang up for many reasons. Maybe it’s the culture of 100% availability that’s wrong, and not phoning.

You don’t finance it, you take a loan from a bank on the company. If the company folds, it goes bankrupt, not you. You don’t take anymore risk than the other workers.

If the company is dead, you’re still a human and now just another worker on the job market. You don’t go to jail for going bankrupt.

And thou shalt count to three. Three is the number thou shalt count to. Four, thou shalt not count to, neither two shalt thou count to. Five is right out.

Me llamo T-Bone la araña discoteca

Calves, lambs and kids don’t suck with a vacuum neither. They just kinda chew.

The rain will speak Dansk and the snow Kalaallisut

What? Do Ionian columns migrate?

There’s no “switching into granny gear” in the french Alps. You’ve got a single speed Bridgestone, you’re eating four pounds of white flour pasta a night, just put it into work.

No more government subsidies for active basses!

• Water buffalo
• Earth buffalo = bison/wisent
• Fire buffalo = cape buffalo
• Wind buffalo = yak

Even for people, who are not Leninist/Stalinist or similar, it is noticeable.

From my perspective (being not from the US) us-american arrogance is very present on lemmy.

The owl will have you study “the man has a red scarf” for two years before you get to words like “save” or “add to watchlist”.

Erm… original?

I don’t think so, babe

The important bits:

“I left the United States this morning” => “left America for good to fly to Poland”

‘I have come to learn your opinions and understand your desires for the future’ => ‘I have come here because I desire you’.

One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders.

Ah thanks, I googled it quickly and it gave me both (as titles on webpages, not like in a dictionary). But with the number of spelling mistakes on shopping sites, I shouldn’t have trusted the titles alone :)