Today I learnt

From: kontaz #51
Date: 03/18/26 @ 6:37 AM

Sepharo said:

I live there now! Here. I guess it's 'here' for me.

My kid lost her mind when she saw that movie and that he was trying to go to Fiji. She couldn't believe people not here knew about Fiji.

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #52
Date: 03/18/26 @ 7:26 AM

wow. lucky!

From: toadylox - I, alone, can fix it. #53
Date: 03/18/26 @ 8:54 AM

Is it true the entire economy there survives off fiji water?

From: Sepharo #54
Date: 03/18/26 @ 9:07 AM

I wanna go just about everywhere. But really wanna go to weird out of the way places like Fiji. It's probably Truman's fault tbh

From: kontaz #55
Date: 03/18/26 @ 1:18 PM

toadylox said:

Is it true the entire economy there survives off fiji water?

Seems like it! I have it coming out of the taps! We shower in it! But, nah. Fiji Water is about 25% of exports but only around 3% of GDP. The economy mainly survives on tourism. Which is great until you have a pandemic! We also have sugar and coups.

From: kontaz #56
Date: 03/18/26 @ 1:23 PM

Sepharo said:

I wanna go just about everywhere. But really wanna go to weird out of the way places like Fiji. It's probably Truman's fault tbh

It was just weird dumb luck that I ended up here. Since I've been living here, I've been to all those places on your list too!

From: GoonGoonington - Put some SPH 90 on that thing #57
Date: 03/18/26 @ 1:54 PM

I've been.

A lot of fat Aussies being loud and rude to the locals. The food is ok. Just ok. You see steaks on menus a lot. Which is weird.

It's Temu Tahiti. An anglo-protestant take on South Pacific exotism. Unlike French Polynesia, it's very repressed and churchy.

From: JTWood #58
Date: 03/18/26 @ 5:38 PM

TIL the Smurfs were the progenitors of modern zombie apocalypse stories

https://smurfs.fandom.com/wiki/The_Black_Smurfs_(album) is comic book OC that was translated into the horrifying cartoon episode in 1981 https://smurfs.fandom.com/wiki/The_Purple_Smurfs

The original [1961] story that this episode was based on is notable at the TV Tropes website for being "the original Zombie Apocalypse", with the black Smurfs representing zombies, that took place nine years before George Romero made the trope a standard with his horror film Night Of The Living Dead.

From: Sepharo #59
Date: 03/18/26 @ 10:21 PM

nah

From: JTWood #60
Date: 03/18/26 @ 10:48 PM

You ever watched that purple Smurf episode?

It’s 28 Days Later as performed by Smurfs. Traumatized me as a kid. Horrifying.

From: chobbler - - - - - - billy bumpkin here - #61
Date: 03/19/26 @ 12:07 AM

I had a layover in Fiji on my first trip to NZ. It was nice.

From: Sepharo #62
Date: 03/19/26 @ 4:40 AM

I'll give you it predates romero's movie but not that it is the "progenitor of modern zombie apocalypse stories"

there are others

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #63
Date: 03/19/26 @ 4:55 AM

get a room

From: kontaz #64
Date: 03/19/26 @ 11:42 PM

Elephants have names for each other. You can record them and then play it back, and they respond when their name is called.

But, if you do that and that elephant has already died, the rest of the elephants freak the fuck out and go looking for the ghost of their deceased friend.

I wonder if that group of elephants now believes in ghosts and passes that down in their oral history.

From: kontaz #65
Date: 03/19/26 @ 11:48 PM

GoonGoonington said:

I've been.

A lot of fat Aussies being loud and rude to the locals. The food is ok. Just ok. You see steaks on menus a lot. Which is weird.

It's Temu Tahiti. An anglo-protestant take on South Pacific exotism. Unlike French Polynesia, it's very repressed and churchy.

You gotta get out of the tourist areas! But, yeah, I never knew I hated Australians until living here. Haaaate. Of course there I know plenty of great Australians. But after living here and being around them all. the. damn. time. If I meet an Australian, they automatically start out with negative points and have to earn their way to a positive score with me.

The churchy repressed thing… sigh. Sadly true. A Fijian will, in one breath, criticize colonialism and blame it for everything wrong here, and in the very next breath unironically talk about how Jesus and the church are foundations of Fijian culture.

But having grown up in Alabama, I guess I’m immune to all that and can tune it out pretty well.

From: JTWood #66
Date: 03/20/26 @ 1:11 AM

Sepharo said:

I'll give you it predates romero's movie but not that it is the "progenitor of modern zombie apocalypse stories"

there are others

I'm glad you see it my way

From: Sepharo #67
Date: 03/20/26 @ 6:16 PM

🙃

From: phapster #68
Date: 03/22/26 @ 12:05 AM

eeeeeeeeeeeeee

From: Redboxer #69
Date: 03/22/26 @ 12:17 AM

The inventor of the saxophone was insanely accident prone.

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #70
Date: 03/22/26 @ 12:20 AM

they almost called it the saxidentphone crazy huh

From: haze - is having a bad day #71
Date: 03/22/26 @ 2:00 AM

Come on, man.

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #72
Date: 03/22/26 @ 3:06 AM

oh i swear what he mans
at this moment
you mean everythann

From: haze - is having a bad day #73
Date: 03/22/26 @ 3:11 AM

you in that dress (wow)
my thought I confess
verge on diiiiiirty

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #74
Date: 03/22/26 @ 3:15 AM

😲 jesus is 👑

From: haze - is having a bad day #75
Date: 03/22/26 @ 3:39 AM

Don't be coy.

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #76
Date: 03/22/26 @ 6:51 AM

tf am i a fish tfoh

From: haze - is having a bad day #77
Date: 03/22/26 @ 7:19 AM

I mean, maybe you are. Who the hell knows.

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #78
Date: 03/22/26 @ 7:25 AM

language

From: slimwhitem #79
Date: 03/22/26 @ 7:38 AM

i knew a guy named coy

fr

hes like a police chief now

From: Sepharo #80
Date: 03/22/26 @ 9:02 AM

https://www.facebook.com/reel/949664564670320

From: JTWood #81
Date: 03/22/26 @ 11:48 PM

Sepharo said:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/949664564670320

Not today, Satan. Ain't touching no FB link, especially not one for short form vertical video slop.

From: haze - is having a bad day #82
Date: 03/23/26 @ 12:01 AM

Tomatoes are fruits!?

From: Space Cat - please delete this account #83
Date: 03/23/26 @ 12:15 AM

So are potato's. Read a book, dum(b)ass.

From: JTWood #84
Date: 03/23/26 @ 12:41 AM

haze said:

Tomatoes are fruits!?

When The Supreme Court Decided Tomatoes Were Vegetables

The justices admitted that botanically speaking, tomatoes were technically fruits. But in everyday life, they decided, vegetables were things "usually served at dinner in, with, or after the soup, fish, or meats ... and not, like fruits generally, as dessert."

From: haze - is having a bad day #85
Date: 03/23/26 @ 12:48 AM

MY MINDS ARE BLOW'D.

From: Space Cat - please delete this account #86
Date: 03/23/26 @ 2:10 AM

Think about it.
Supreme Court.
Taco Supreme. It has tomatoes.
Nobody wants fruit on a taco.
Tomato is now a vegetable.
Follow the money.

From: haze - is having a bad day #87
Date: 03/23/26 @ 2:35 AM

I love tomatoes regardless of of what they identify as.

From: Space Cat - please delete this account #88
Date: 03/23/26 @ 2:52 AM

In Slovak they're called paradajky (like paradise).

From: haze - is having a bad day #89
Date: 03/23/26 @ 3:14 AM

I used to love growing the smalls.
Plenty made it into the house to make caprese with. Many did not.
Then you run your fingers along the vines and take a deep whiff.

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #90
Date: 03/23/26 @ 3:16 AM

here we go

From: chobbler - - - - - - billy bumpkin here - #91
Date: 03/23/26 @ 3:17 AM

rake him over the kohls

From: Sepharo #92
Date: 03/25/26 @ 10:16 PM

Today in my area a duck got caught in some fishing line... that was up in the air connected between two trees?

People were like, "Oh yeah, the orthodox Jews put that up."
Thought they were fuckin around but nope:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv

From: Space Cat - please delete this account #93
Date: 03/26/26 @ 2:39 AM

I mean it makes sense if you think about it real hard and there's something bad wrong with your brain.

From: redchiron - cant' think of a witty tagline #94
Date: 03/26/26 @ 2:46 AM

"I don't like that this isn't allowed, can we make an amendment to our traditions?"

"No, we'll have to make an even MORE ridiculous loophole."

From: wander - former King of the Moon #95
Date: 03/26/26 @ 3:16 AM

I prefer to play the game Rules As Written, no lawyering.

From: toadylox - I, alone, can fix it. #96
Date: 03/27/26 @ 9:05 PM

From: Sepharo #97
Date: 03/27/26 @ 10:19 PM

forgot what thread I'm in and was like, where the fuck is the punchline

From: toadylox - I, alone, can fix it. #98
Date: 03/27/26 @ 10:27 PM

lol, today I learned I'm not the only one with short term memory

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #99
Date: 03/27/26 @ 10:29 PM

I bet seph has long term memory too

From: phapster #100
Date: 03/28/26 @ 2:14 AM

toady I learnt to clothes the lid reel tite inthe bedrume