What didn't you know until recently?

[Laurel]

last time I bought a USB stick they were 2GB/4GB versions. Now a £5 USB stick, is 128 GB....

[Percy]

Originally Posted by Laurel

last time I bought a USB stick they were 2GB/4GB versions. Now a £5 USB stick, is 128 GB....

Scary isn't it.

[Percy]

Enya's only 62.

[Laurel]

Well it’s only time.

Collecting too many books has a Japanese term called Tsundoku.
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[Percy]

Originally Posted by Laurel

Collecting too many books has a Japanese term called Tsundoku.
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And it should be celebrated.

[Amara 94]

I'm late to this but just observed that cars registration plates with the green stipe on the left are ev's. Idk why it took this long to make such connection.

[Amara 94]

Originally Posted by Laurel

last time I bought a USB stick they were 2GB/4GB versions. Now a £5 USB stick, is 128 GB....

Wow, maybe we don't need cloud storage. But I guess the cloud is more convenient as it's easy to sync across devices.

[Amara 94]

only six percent of people in the UK now work 9 to 5

My opinion though is that a lot work more so that doesn’t sound overly optimistic.

[Mo34]

I knew the price cap on buses goes up to £2.50 in Nov but didn't realise it will be in place till Nov next year. Quite pleased about that. £2 would be better but a return of a fiver is better than the £8/£9 I would usually pay. Not much cop though if you need 2 different buses to get somewhere which in a rural area I often do. Just as well getting a £10 day ticket for that.

[Amara 94]

That paying for more actually helps save money in the long run sometimes. Now that i'm starting uni and know that it will be tech dependent I have spent money on trying to make my PC setup more comfortable and will continue to.

I am spending more than I planned because tech and office furniture isn't cheap. But I am only spending as much as I am because before I never really invested in my PC setup. I never invested in displays, power ports, chairs, tables. So these all need to be brought soon. Thankfully hardware and furniture is usually a long term investment so I can spend less next month.

Luckily I got decent audio from the time I was into music production and a long lasting laptop, a 11 year old X230 thinkpad, as I saw that a typical, hp that was lower spec, was not worth it for software heavy tasks. Now I would rather long lasting, repairable desktops/laptops for future investments.

But I also need some new clothes which is an extra payment. If I spent money constantly on stuff, but at a low rate, for example, a new garment every one to two months or so, I think I wouldn't need to spend a lot as I would kind of usually have the stuff I need. I think I went minimalistic with clothes and threw a lot away. I don't regret this. I think minimalism is still good but maybe it's like a season so should be practised but not always to an extreme.

It's like spending wisely is about maintaining some flow.

[Seagull]

Originally Posted by Amara 94

That paying for more actually helps save money in the long run sometimes.

Very true, certainty of clothes, the cheaper the item the more quickly it will lose its shape after washing etc. You’re better off buying good quality brands from eBay etc. or charity shops than from Primark or supermarkets etc.

[Amara 94]

True, Spend more but less often.

But what I meant is that if I spend frequently or frequent enough in certain things I lower my risks of having to buy a lot of the thing in a short period. But then this is why savings are important. I need to get better saving habits. My savings account is too easy to access.

[Percy]

Carrots are naturally purple. It was the Dutch who made then orange

[3stacks]

^same with corn you can get rainbow looking corn. Looks like jewellery

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[Percy]

Originally Posted by 3stacks

^same with corn you can get rainbow looking corn. Looks like jewellery

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Interesting.

[biscuits]

Originally Posted by 3stacks

^same with corn you can get rainbow looking corn. Looks like jewellery

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My sister grew this. It's ace! And you can also get rainbow corn that you can turn into popcorn. She grew that too.

[Laurel]

Cordyceps are fungi that grow on specific insects and have been used in traditional Chinese medicine for their anti-fatigue, anti-aging and

I'll age at normal rate thank you, ain't eating fungi from insects.

[biscuits]

Anti-fatigue properties sounds good to me!

I've eaten insects before and they were pretty tasty, really!

[gregarious_introvert]

^ I like mushrooms and they're fungi.

I don't remember insects tasting of much, but I've only eaten them in Cambodia and Vietnam.

[Laurel]

^^ you're not gonna convince me.

[biscuits]

^

[Sunrise]

There's a red food colouring made from crushed beetles which is used in lots and lots of different foods, so pretty much everyone will have eaten insects.

[Laurel]

to be fair fig rolls I think are made from wasps? And that is delicious.

[Dougella]

^ Isn't it figs that are made from wasps?

[biscuits]

Originally Posted by Laurel

to be fair fig rolls I think are made from wasps? And that is delicious.

Haha noo.

Wasps have to crawl inside to pollinate and then the fig breaks down the wasp so it's fully decomposed.

Figs are haunted by the ghosts of wasps.

[Laurel]

bzz

New term, not heard this before:

aphantasia
/?e?fan?te?z??/
nounMEDICINE
the inability to form mental images of objects that are not present.
"if counting sheep is an abstract concept, or you are unable to visualize the faces of loved ones, you could have aphantasia"

[Laurel]

those who fold their toilet paper to wipe their bum use 50% less toilet paper than those who scrunch.

[Rocket Spud]

Women scrunch. I have no evidence for this and i'm putting my neck on the line but i can imagine.

[Laurel]

time for a poll

joking

[Dougella]

^^ I don't scrunch, but i can't speak for other members of the female population.