This gorgeous stinkhorn is easily separated from other veiled stinkhorns – such as Phallus indusiatus and Phallus multicolor – by its cinnabar red skirt. Like other stinkhorns, this fungus emerges from an egg-like sack, with a cap covered in a sticky, foul-smelling, spore-filled gleba, that will be eaten and carried far away by the flies that it attracts. You can see a few flies polishing off the last of the gleba here, which is mostly gone, revealing the red cap beneath.
As far as I know, the edibility of this variety is not known, but its close relative Phallus indusiatus, similar except for a pure white skirt,are considered choice edibles, while stinkhorn ‘eggs’ of all varieties are eaten, though they are not among the best culinary fungi.
Beautiful mushroom, but did they basically name it “cinnamon penis”?
YES! the entire genus is named for thier distinctly… dickish shape. P. indusiatus is edible/tasty and used to be thought to increase virility and longevity, but modern testing has been inconclusive. Here’s a gif of P. indusiatus blooming, becuase it’s still my favorite fungus:
(P. indusiatus roughly translates to “Penis with a pretty skirt)
I will continue to call The Creature “Frankenstein” and no force in Heaven or Earth will impede that.
I also laughed at him totally deliberately calling attention to the fact Victor isn’t a real doctor because he dropped out of college and built a guy out of corpses
Somewhere a rocket scientist brain surgeon physicist with a knack for economics who wears Velcro shoes is having a stress breakdown.
When I was a professional ballroom dance instructor, one of my coworkers was having a tough time teaching a step to her student. As he gets more frustrated she tells him “it’s ok- you’ll get it- this isn’t rocket science.”
There is an awkward pause as her student stares back at her. “No” he agrees, “this isn’t rocket science. That I can do. This is some sadistic step designed specifically to torture rocket scientists.”
And that’s how we found out he worked for NASA.
Reblogged for that story
Your daily reminder that no, seriously: “difficult” is a matter of context.
isn’t rocket science a form of physics
Buddy if you’re doing rocket science and quantum physics at the same time, then multiple things have gone seriously, seriouslywrong.
I was practicing mountains, and just doing a shit job. I could not get the paint to break, I felt like I was using someone else’s hands, and it was a frustrating, demoralizing experience.
Every time I wanted to stab the canvas, I scraped it clean and started over. Eventually, I ended up with a ton of various blue shades on my pallette.
I didn’t want to just throw it away, and I didn’t want to give up while I felt like an asshole who will never be any good at this, so I just started practicing again, but this time I didn’t care much about the colors. I ended up working with those colors and got something that matches my mood pretty accurately.
I don’t think you can see it, but the *technique* for my trees is real solid, even if the colors aren’t there. The mountain is okay, but not great. I’m struggling like hell to see it in my head before I get into it, and I still can’t do that. I feel like I end up icing a cake when I try to out on the snow, and it’s really demoralizing and frustrating. The distant trees going up the slop make me happy, and I like the reflections I tried out.
I still feel unsettled and kinda pissed at myself because I am just. Not. Getting. It. With the mountains, but I’m gonna a focus on how I ended up with this color study (I guess? Is that what it is?) that just feels like bleakness trying to be beautiful, which is very much how I feel in the empty space where my soul should be.
I still feel like I want to put on a heavy coat and grab some hot chocolate and go hang out there for a couple hours.
funny thing, without the artist’s commentary, you’d never know how much struggle went into this painting, or how much work went into getting it to look like this. You’d think the artist just tossed this off no problem, or something.
I can’t tell if the shadowy mountains in the distance are previous fuckup mountains that got removed, or if they’re there on purpose, but honestly I wouldn’t have doubted on purpose without the commentary. It looks like a fog is descending and there’s a whole mountain range back there, half-hidden.
I think it just goes to show that as an artist (or writer, or singer, or whatever) you see all the ways that it didn’t turn out how you wanted it to, but the audience only sees the way that it did turn out. The audience isn’t comparing it against the imaginary perfect artwork in your brain.
While talking with the Hobbits, Tom Bombadil puts on the One Ring. For a moment, all of the Nazgul burst into merry song. It is never discussed among them again.
After succumbing to a fever of some sort in 1705, Irish woman Margorie McCall was hastily buried to prevent the spread of whatever had done her in. Margorie was buried with a valuable ring, which her husband had been unable to remove due to swelling. This made her an even better target for body snatchers, who could cash in on both the corpse and the ring.
The evening after Margorie was buried, before the soil had even settled, the grave-robbers showed up and started digging. Unable to pry the ring off the finger, they decided to cut the finger off. As soon as blood was drawn, Margorie awoke from her coma, sat straight up and screamed.
The fate of the grave-robbers remains unknown. One story says the men dropped dead on the spot, while another claims they fled and never returned to their chosen profession.
Margorie climbed out of the hole and made her way back to her home.
Her husband John, a doctor, was at home with the children when he heard a knock at the door. He told the children, “If your mother were still alive, I’d swear that was her knock.”
When he opened the door to find his wife standing there, dressed in her burial clothes, blood dripping from her finger but very much alive, he dropped dead to the floor. He was buried in the plot Margorie had vacated.
Margorie went on to re-marry and have several children. When she did finally die, she was returned to Shankill Cemetery in Lurgan, Ireland, where her gravestone still stands. It bears the inscription “Lived Once, Buried Twice.”
During World War II, 600,000 African-American women entered the wartime
workforce. Previously, black women’s work in the United States was
largely limited to domestic service and agricultural work, and wartime
industries meant new and better-paying opportunities – if they made it
through the hiring process, that is. White women were the targets of the
U.S. government’s propaganda efforts, as embodied in the lasting and
lauded image of Rosie the Riveter.Though largely ignored in America’s
popular history of World War II, black women’s important contributions
in World War II factories, which weren’t always so welcoming, are
stunningly captured in these comparably rare snapshots of black Rosie
the Riveters.
Reblogging because I’ve never seen these before, and I bet a lot of people haven’t.
Don’t let people make fun of you for liking japanese culture.
I am living in japan right now and let me tell ya:
There are people here who can’t speak or understand English who play nothing but Missy elliot and ludacris, even in businesses like housing offices and restaurants.
There are people who have cowboy hats and dead cow skulls in their home because they idolize what they assume American homes are like.
There are people who learn English strictly through music videos and American television shows.
There are entire karaoke bars with english songs often sung by people who have no idea what the lyrics mean.
Japan often takes American shows like the powerpuff girls and make japanese versions of them.
They often mistake common Americans for celebrities. I have been mistaken for Micheal jordan, tiger woods, Shaquille o’neal, Tyler perry, and saddest of all: queen latifa.
The act of sprinkling English into your japanese sentences is considered cute and cool and is popular with teenagers. Bonus points if you happen to use it correctly.
Japanese stores sell shirts with english on them and people buy them not knowing that most of those word combinations are nonsense.
Don’t let someone shame you for singing an anime opening, using japanese in your sentences, wearing clothing with japanese on it, ect. If anything, this is just one more thing that you have in common with them.
The American/Japanese cultural exchange is so pure and wonderful and I love it so much
OK BUT RESONATE WITH THE SHIRT THING THOUGH
My Chinese relatives buy me shirts from China with English letters on them hoping I think it’s cool
I have a shirt that says “Hi Quality Uality”
It’s amazing
It happens alot.
And then what’s really great is Americans getting tattoos of Chinese characters thinking they mean one thing when they really don’t
Also a topic where the reverse happens.
lemme tell you..i have been in a grocery store in Japan and heard the unedited Get Low playin over the intercom..it was literally a Katt Williams moment
Oh, unsensored songs are pretty common.
I should not be hearing an unsensored ‘Magic Stick’ playing at a family restaurant.
And the best thing is when literally no one shows that they understand what is being said.
I was in a Chinese cafe one time and they had obviously put on their “fuck you” playlist. I mean, uncensored versions of Fuck You by Lilly Allen, Fuck You by Cee-lo Green, etc. No one else had any idea.
Oh, also, I got my favorite shirt ever in a little tchotchky store in Sichuan:
lmao the forced westernization in the media and internal racism that influences this isnt pure and funny lol its really sad knowing so many asians who hate their culture and skin color and try to white wash/americanize themselves and its super weird seeing an entire post laughing about it and pretending its a fun quirky thing and that most peoples obsession with japanese culture isnt due to fetishization/racism
Lol you are trying way too hard to make only one side the bad guy here.
Lolita fashion wasnt forced.
French maid cafes werent forced.
Bull fighting wasnt forced.
Tacorice wasnt forced.
Powerpuff girls and Titanic werent forced.
These countries chose to enjoy the fruits of other countries, and that facination sparked a general interest in said other country.
Idk who told you Asians in general hate their skin color, when Asians do the same thing as Americans. Asians often prefer certain races for dating (typically other asians, but still), Asians tend not to specifically tan or anything. The only thing you can really point out is wanting lighter skin, which was a thing in Japan before Europeans ever came. It was a sign of beauty and common to see in nobility. Just like some African countries tend to have people who prefer darker skin.
Essentially anything that you can deem racism when it happens from the US (or let’s be honest, you specifically mean white people) has an equivalent in Japan, and all over Asia.
Americans who learn most of their Japanese through Anime? Many Japanese people learn most of their English through cartoons or music videos.
Americans who like wearing Japanese garb such as kimono? Many Japanese people where things like cowboy outfits for fun too (even as costumes such as american disco culture).
Americans celebrating japanese holidays that has nothing to do with them? A bunch of Japanese people here celebrate Halloween, which has nothing to do with Asia.
Americans trying out their Jaoanese on a Japanese person? Japanese people specifically seek out foreigners (typically assuming they speak english) and try to speak with them. Even little children who take english classes will go out of their way to greet you in english.
Some Americans think Japan is just this super great anime, sushi wonderland? Many Japanese people see the US as a Disney, steak, and pizza wonderland.
Some Americans think all of Japan is one big Tokyo, and some Japanese people see all of The US as one big Texas or New York.
And literally shown above, just like Americans (who you would call ignorant and racist) have shirts and tattoos with bad Japanese, many Asian countries do the exact same thing for english.
If you inly see it as bad for one group, then it only shows your bias. And if you are trying to paint the HIGHLY influential countries such as China, Korea, and Japan as fragile victims, then you are likely the racist one here.
