If you wonder what I’m talking about, klick here.
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The first try turned out great so far. They get hard and show no sign of falling apart.
I tried to glue an ambrette seed on top of each, using styrax balm (Styrax honduras) but it got sucked up by the incense and the seeds fell off.
For the next try I reduced the wight by one gram per spice and replaced that with Guaiacum Wood.
The second recipe is:
17g Orange Peel
4g Cinamon (cassia)
4g Star Anise
4g Cloves
3g Guaiacum Wood (Guajacum officinale)
5g Frankincense (I used a rather faint smelling one I got gifted, It was sold as “Oman Frankincense” in Egypt, suggesting it is B. sacra but I doubt that. Or it is sacra but from a not so good harvesting area. Who knows. )
Everything got grinded using a cheap electric coffee grinder. I first grinded the wood, sifted it and used only the finer stuff. Then I grinded the spices together, before I added the coarsely chopped peel, I put the wood powder back in, blended it and at last added the Frankincense, just like the first time.
The dough was a bit drier/crumblier than the first one but still nice to work with. You can see the result at the second picture.
I’ve never seen Guaiacum Wood mentioned here so I want to introduce it:
There is Guaiacum wood and resin. Both is dark green. If you have chunks of resin, it is almost black, the powder is like a pastel tone mossy olive green, it gets darker if exposed to sunlight.
The wood is heavy and hard as fuck, you usually get it in form of tiny, cubic chunks.
The trade is regulated by CITES.
If you put in on an incense heater, you can see the bubbling resin like with agarwood.
The smell is sweet, vanilla like. But not as pungent as benzoin. Darker, smoother. I had resin I bought powdered that had just that beautiful vanilla smell; The resin chunks I have include a strange note that reminds me of paprika. I wonder if oxidation has a positive impact on it.
The balls you see in picture 3 is the third experiment.
I again used Orange Peel and Frankincense (B. Sacra this time), but also Sandarac; I exchanged the spices for mostly woods/root and herbs.
And it didn’t work.
I added more peel, more Frankincense (and a bit Cinnamon). Nope. It felt somewhat stic
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
I apologize for any inflammatory reaction to the title. I meant no offense for the majority of you all. But, if I have you attention, I have my case to make.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWVdViTylaQ
If you'd like my case study in a nutshell by a fellow Christian.
I work at a museum that includes dinosaurs. And time and time again people mostly associated with AiG have visited and come at me with proverbial attack dogs. Doesn't matter I am also a Christian, doesn't matter if I didn't do anything but greet them and offer my services if they needed anything, didn't matter if I precautioned we as an establishment are not there to say anything for or against any religion. They still go on the attack. More than once I have been conducting a field trip tour and find them hounding me, interrupting, and trying to pick a debate. I have been called an agent of Satan due to not ascribing to what Ken Ham puts out. I've also had more than one get explosively angry at me when I dismantled their arguments without a single reference to geologic time or evolution.
Most of you aren't like that. Most of you are good, well-meaning, God-fearing Christians. I've had some folks profess to being YEC and they thanked me for a wonderful tour with jokes, pleasant conversation, and lots of fossils or historical facts. I'm posting this for them. The biggest reason I didn't buy what AiG or Kent Hovin put out was because they used fossil species as props without ever actually understanding them. I have yet to meet a YEC with more than a layman understanding of the prehistoric beyond what Jurassic Park and Land Before Time shows. Surface deep understanding. This isn't meant as an insult, but as the saying goes if you are going to talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk. If you want me to take assessments of things ranging from dinosaurs to extinct mammals to trilobites seriously, you need to show me you actually understand the animals.
Short answer? Behemoth is not a dinosaur.
Long answer? Behemoth is not a dinosaur and here is why.
In this story, Job’s God is showing him the power of its creation as a way of humbling him and showing just how small man is. Part of this is done by bringing Job before a creature called “Behemut”, a name which was Anglicized in modern English as “Behemoth”. Whilst extra texts from Hebrew stories and scripture does mention Behemoth again, I will be chiefly focusing on the Book of Job description as
... keep reading on reddit ➡They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
You take away their little brooms
There hasn't been a post all year!
It was about a weak back.
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Him: I can explain everything!
(It's his best joke yet I think)
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
