Hello!
I am in love with thunbergii's extremely dark foliage and bark. However, I live in Minneapolis, which is 4B - Possibly 5A, but I don't like playing games with Mother Nature unless thunbergii is hardier than usually listed.
Can anyone recommend a cold hardy doppleganger? Thanks very much!
Hello! This coming month marks my one year lurkaniversary on this sub. I am now joining, with the hope to give a little back to this community!
Last January, while we were at peak confinement in my cold Canadian land, I got struck badly with the incense-making fever. I was strolling in an evergreens forest when the smell of pine became an inspiration. I brought a fallen pine branch home, and got to work! Ironically I'd never even lit an incense cone or stick before then. I'm an amateur botanist, and in my heart is a bottomless pit of LOVE for my local flora. Anything to do with plants, I'm curious about. So my "incense journey" has been a lot more about the process of powdering stuff, than the actual pleasure of fragrances. As such, I came into this hobby quite backwards.
When I began reading about the incense traditions, I realised most of the key plant components were from far away places with hot climates. I decided to see exactly how much I could replicate, with just my local flora. However, I live in a climate where harvesting seasons are very short, and in our short summers, some plants are quick to bloom then die.
So, this past summer, I gathered everything I could within the available time windows, but fell short from finding certain plants, and only managed very small quantities of others. As such, experimentation was mostly done with the most easily found materials that are available year long. My attempts involve lots of coniferous resins, woods, and needles. I make micro batches of about two teaspoons only, and then I carefully document the resulting cones or sticks.
In an attempt to find suitable replacements for binders / a makko substitute, I spent a great deal of time reading chemistry papers on various plants. My first post on the sub is therefore about GREAT PLANTAIN (PLANTAGO MAJOR). If you type plantain in this sub's search bar, one thread comes up, in which a user is asking if plantain is a suitable replacement for makko. A clever user replied that it might work as a binder, but also suspected it might not smell great. Well, after months of experimenting with my hand harvested plantain, I can CONFIRM this user's suspicions!
To whomever it might interest, here's the full lenght info dump :
- Plantain is a highly mucilagious plant, just as is the famous tabu no ki bark. The useful mucilage is contained in the matured seed pods and papery husks of the pods, NOT the leaves. One paper online estimates the mucilage c
... 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!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
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.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
I won't be doing that today!
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
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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
It was about a weak back.
So I figured after my last post had me digging through some really vile and racist material I’d take a little break and instead make a more light-hearted and fun post about a movie that I really like: Mulan. While it’s obvious that Mulan is set in China the film never actually says when the film is set, however using clues in the script and visuals of the film we can determine what period the film is set in and then we can look at what elements in the film are ahistorical to that period. Hopefully this post can use the film as a vehicle to discuss some aspects of Chinese history that often go unmentioned in Western school curriculum as well as being a fun read.
So in the film there are big clues, which tell us a lot about when the film is set, and little clues that just give us hints. First I’ll just run through some of the smaller clues that help us tell when the film is not set. The film features a lucky cricket, which tells us that the film is set after 500 BC when the tradition of lucky crickets emerged. We also see some men playing Chinese Chess (Xiangqi) which was developed during the Warring states period that lasted from 475 B.C to 221 B.C. At the training camp we can see examples of steel, paper, and an abacus being used, all of which date back in China to the Han dynasty. We can also see Mulan’s father eating dumplings, which supposedly go back all the way to the Three Kingdoms, which was the time period from 184 AD to 280 AD after the collapse of the Han dynasty. The final little clue we are shown is the use of cannons which utilize gunpowder. Gunpowder was not used for weapons in Chinese history until the Tang dynasty that lasted from 618 AD to 907 AD. With these small hints that more or less just tell us that the story is not set in ancient China out of the way we can look at the larger hints.
The first big hint we are given comes in the first scene of the movie when the Great Wall is being attacked. The Great Wall (Chang Cheng in Chinese) was originally built during the Qin dynasty by Qin Shi Huang. However that early wall is not the one we are shown in the film. The wall shown in the film is clearly the Ming Great Wall, which was built after the Ming dynasty’s aggressive foreign policy towards the steppe peoples proved to be a complete failure (even resulting in the Zhengtong emperor being captured by Mongols). After this failure to protect their borders the Ming decided to fortify the border and built the Great Wall as we know it today. T
... keep reading on reddit ➡
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 post all year!
