I am delighted to say that I’ve found one of the funniest lines in Latin. This guy called Columella is writing about agriculture and he’s advising farmers to feed their chickens once in the morning, and then again in the evening to ensure the little beasties actually return to the henhouse so they can be locked away for the night. Since the promise of food makes the chickens return, this will help you keep track of them, he says wisely, nam volatile pecus facile custodiam pastoris decepit – for poultry easily deceive the watch of the man who cares for them.
I’m just so thrilled to learn that even 2000 years ago farmers were sitting around like
OMG everyone I know the ACTUAL story behind the gif this time!
Yes, it’s in Australia– that’s a big angry goanna that wandered into a popular restaurant. All the Australians in the vicinity went OH FUCK NO and cleared off, because goannas are mean.
The waitress you see there is a French exchange student, who was quoted as saying something to the effect of “I thought it was a weird ugly dog” and had no idea it was a reptile that wanted to rip her arms off. She’s been hailed as a hero who saved diners.
It’s amazing what power “not knowing” has.
The thing I especially love about this is this is a pretty dangerous animal, except she managed to defeat it by just fucking grabbing it by the tail and walking too quickly for it to turn around. Once again the animal kingdom is thwarted because we evolved opposable thumbs, long limbs, and reckless bravery.
weird, ugly dog thwarted by foreign exchange student and polished floors
my take-home lesson here is that nobody in france has ever first-hand seen a dog
people were writing “hot or not” lists on the bathroom stalls when i was in 8th grade and the dean of students came on the morning announcements and said something i will never forget “we’ve got some bad apples at this school… and it’s applesauce season"
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