Y’know I reblogged this a bit ago and was saved from financial probation and getting kicked out of school because of it, just mere months from graduation. Got a call from the financial aid advisor telling me that they made a mistake with filing my account (or some other sort of clerical error) and said that, basically, they owe me money. Welp.
Last time I reblogged the money cat, I won two $100 gift cards at work.
Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.
Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together. Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together.
You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits.
Frankentrees.
As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them.
On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it’s still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.
But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:
I am both amazed and horrified of nature as we all should be
I love how trees are like “fuck it, I’ll deal” at literally everything. Forest fire? Cool, my seeds’ll finally grow. Upside down? Branches, suck, roots, leave. What’s this new branch? Eh, welcome to the tree buddy.
I need to be more like tree
I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.
what kind of professor did these students have that they needed to prove him wrong so badly that they literally dug up a tree, flipped it and put it back in the ground?
“Bake Off is not about the money, or even really about the winning. Bake Off is a magical world of bunting and scones and dapper lesbian comedians making ridiculous puns about buns and gentle, worried people getting in a flap about pastry. There are very few hysterics. Legend has it that if anybody has a real breakdown in the middle of a signature bake, presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins stand next to them repeating brand names and swear-words so the cameramen can’t use the footage, and don’t you dare disabuse me of that fact, because I want it to be true.”
I’ve heard that too. That they just curse and repeat brand names until their faces are blue just to a) save the contestant the humiliation and b) make them laugh because who isn’t gonna laugh when you have Sue and Mel screaming “TESCO, ASDA, SAINSBURY’S” in front of an exasperated crew.
i’m sorry i’m reblogging again, but like where did dumbledore learn to swim like that? are we to assume that dumbledore lowkey swims in the lake at Hogwarts and outswims the Giant Squid or something? is that why he’s on speaking terms with the merpeople living in the lake? so they can let him practice his Michael Phelps-like perfect breaststroke? if so, there must be groups of students that secretly watch him, bc teens are weird. these are questions that will keep me up tonight, kayla.
are we to assume that dumbledore has a ripped swimmer’s bod under that fab clothing? dumbledore disguised as a hogwarts student: i heard that dumbledore has an 8 pack. that dumbledore was shredded.
My favourite thing is ‘perfect breaststroke’. Harry’s giving that shit a 10 outta 10
the funniest thing in the entire pirates of the caribbean series is definitely that one scene in At World’s End where they have parlay but davy jones is part of it, and rather than have him stand in the shallows or something they get a big bucket of water and have in stand on it on shore
who thought of that idea? who thought “put davy jones in a bucket of water” and had the guts to suggest it aloud? and then who went “hey that sounds like a great idea!”
at some point someone told davy jones their idea was for him to stand in a bucket of water and he agreed to it
*stands majestically in a bucket*
ok but notice the trail of buckets behind him meaning he walked from the ocean through three other buckets of water before he got into the one hes standing in
But they’re pretty damn far away, which strikes me as a passive aggressive way that the other two devised of making the captain of the ship of the undead play ‘the floor is lava’ and fucking spring between those buckets. Davy Jones does not strike me as a man who springs. Will Turner’s a sadistic bitch.
So a few months ago I reached an epic follower milestone on my blog and if you’ve been following me I had recently been swamped with vet bills. A few weeks ago I got the all clear on my pet goat and now…I’ve saved up a little bit of money to host a great giveaway!
THE PRIZE:
One of the box sets above. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling or Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin! (If the winner doesn’t want one of these, I’m sure we can work something out)
HOW TO ENTER AND THE RULES:
you must be following me to be eligible as a winner (i’m great, come on)
like and/or reblog this post the enter. Be wary of your followers, don’t spam them!
no giveaway blogs! come on guys, don’t be greedy!
this is WORLDWIDE!!!!!
this will be done through Book Depository so please check that the website delivers to you
you must be willing to give out your name and address
ENDS AUGUST 31ST 2016
the winner will be picked at random
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