I learned to speak Chinese with a Dongbei accent because I used to live not far from the OP (which definitely gets me weird looks as a white lady originally from Kansas.) Native Mandarin speakers are often SO confused by my accent. But yes…Taiwanese speakers do sound really melodic and beautiful. And I sound like I’m angry shouting all the time.
In Germany and Austria, the Swiss are well-known for speaking Scweizerdeutsch. For reasons unknown, they use diminutive forms of a ton of nouns. The result is that Swiss people speaking German sound like if you found a city in Appalachia where it was 100% normal to baby-talk to everyone, all the time.
On the flip side, no one can understand a goddamn thing coming out of a Viennese person’s mouth.
This looks like a fucking parody post, or an edgy edit, but it’s 100% official real Flintstones.
Clarification: I don’t hate this book, I love it, it’s amazing. It’s just that taking a step back and looking it out of context is still really funny. Especially the line “We participated in a genocide, Barney.”
ok but imagine them in their cartoon forms saying this dialogue i’m
can we have some context to this, perhaps?
Bedrock is having a mayoral election. One of the candidates is a violent war mongering asshole that riles people up against the lizard people. This reminds Fred and Barney of their time in the army.
Back then the father of said violent candidate was riling people up against the “tree people”. Fred, Barney, and other soldiers fought what they believed to be a defensive measure against the tree people. Turns out, it was actually an invasion, in order to kill off the tree people and take over their forest to build Bedrock.
That’s what Fred means when he says he and Barney participated in a genocide. They literally did.
(Extra fun fact, Barney adopted a tree person baby after the war, and his son Bamm-Bamm is the last tree person.)
I’m sorry, but, “You can’t go through life trying to avoid a broken heart. If you do, it’ll break from loneliness anyway,” is entirely too profound a statement to be made by Dr Julian Bashir while talking to Odo in the middle of his James Bond LARP.
They are filled with life and the nutrients of the next years!
In these leaves there are future pollinators and lightning bugs which need two years in leaf litter to mature to the adult form we love to see.
Do a bit less work, and let nature guide your yard set up.
Where leaves naturally collect, spread more there, if it is an area you may want to garden native plants later.
That leaf litter alone can start you on your way to having a unique pocket prairie, where you let more of your lawn fade into native shortgrass prairie in sunny areas, and woodland emergent in shady areas.
Consider leaving the leaves, and maybe, if you can, leave them off the street.