Oh look it’s a moray eel. We have these where my family is from in Greece, they’re kind of a low-key nightmare because they make “dens” inside holes in reefs and stone piers/docks where people like to swim, only shooting out to grab prey…like maybe a foot of a passing child swimmer (they have shit vision).
Some of the bigger ones in tropical waters leave their burrows to hunt.
They’re incredibly strong and can actually survive out of water for short period of time because their skin isn’t scaled, it’s slimy, keeping them wet when taken out of the ocean.
As a kid when I’d be in Greece I’d see them in fishermen’s nets sometimes and it’s always a big deal, you can’t grab them to pull them out (too big and slippery, plus they’ll try to grab your hand) so you basically have to wait for it to die. I’ve seen fishermen try to kill them by clubbing them to death, which is brutal to watch when you’re 8. No one likes doing it, because it’s wasteful, no one eats them because local “lore” basically tells you the skin is poisonous, though apparently you can use it for leather if you cure the shit outta it.
Basically it’s a pit monster from a Conan the Barbarian story.
so none of yall know what a friend group is apparently
the notes on this are depressing as hell u got all these people saying that this isnt friendship because friends are just people u go out to drink with on weekends and living with people and planning ur life with them in it is more than friendship. damn im really sorry none of u have ever experienced friendship in ur lives and need to make up new terms to describe genuinely caring about people
this type friendship does not jive well with the capitalist model of cutthroat competitive hyperindividuality and the heteronormative nuclear family its not a concept that’s discussed or promoted in media or schools because a network of healthy friendships can lead to supportive (gasp dare i say self-sustaining?) communities and we all know aint no corporate states tryna put a spotlight on that shit just sayin
lol this dude blaming capitalism for not having any close friends
I started Hebrew, which is why I’ve been dead on this blog, but I don’t think I can ever properly convey to you guys the sheer cultural whiplash of spending years learning Japanese from Japanese teachers and then trying to learn Hebrew from an Israeli
Japanese: you walk into class already apologizing for being alive Hebrew: you walk into class, the teacher insults you and you are expected to insult her back
Japanese: conjugates every single verb based on degree of intended politeness, nevermind keigo and honorifics Hebrew: Someone asked my teacher how to say “excuse me” and she laughed for several seconds before saying we shouldn’t worry about remembering that since we’ll never need to say it
Japanese: if you get one stroke wrong the entire kanji is incomprehensible Hebrew: cursive? script? fuck it do whatever you want, you don’t even have to write the vowels out unless you feel like it
Japanese: the closest thing there is to ‘bastard’ is an excessively direct ‘you’ pronoun Hebrew: ‘bitch’ translates directly
Fun fact: Israel has possibly the lowest power-distance metric of any culture in the world, while Japan has one of the highest. I didn’t realize that the CTO of my company was the CTO until somebody else told me, because everybody called him by his first name and engaged in mutual shit-talking/playful insults with him.
In Japan, even calling your boss by the wrong honorific is liable to get you in trouble.
And apparently there’s some sciencey cooperative venture going on between Israel and Japan in an official diplomatic capacity. I want to be a fly on the wall when Japanese and Israeli scientists work together.
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