I mean, what’s mentioned in this thread is what rich people I know do. Plus saw a lot of it in Palm Beach.

Because they’re also power-hungry assholes who like to watch people scurry around an office on their whim. That and they figure that they’d slack off at home and do nothing, so of course their workers will too, and how would they know?

And the stuff he saw himself. He mentioned in an interview once that he kept his office job for a long time after making it big with Dilbert because he got so much material.

I dunno, Jackson still has him beat by a little bit.

Yeah, my grandmother had it beaten out of her too.

I mean, yes, but it is also a well-established bit of the lore. It even shows it in the first anime when Charizard is so unimpressed by Ash that he usually refuses to fight at all, and the one time he does fight (because the other Pokémon was strong enough to interest him) he just does his own thing and doesn’t listen to anything Ash says.

Because, when you think about it, what are you really going to do against a giant fire-breathing lizard that says ‘no’ when you ask him to fight? Especially if you’re a ten-year-old kid.

It still weirds me out a bit that when my grandmother was young this was a real, serious take the majority of people had.

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I’ve always thought that Terry Pratchett said it best:

No-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine they made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.

When you coming home son

T. rex was unfeathered (or at least the adults were) but other members of the Tyrannosaurus family were partly or fully feathered. Yutyrannus, for example.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

-Susan B. Anthony

Actually, a fair number of those that hold power are high on their own supply. They’re just also smart enough to use that supply to manipulate others too.

Meh, the original Cinderella stories were pretty dark too. And honestly I think in a creepier way. Nothing like a saccharine story where the sweet singing birds peck out the eyes of the stepmother and her daughters.

That’s because most companies cut the patterns out in bulk, so given how fabric wiggles you end up with an inch or two of variance across the group.

Unfortunately that just makes them shoot the women instead as punishment for being ‘whores’.

When you think about it that way it’s no surprise they worship the Orange Pedo as the Second Coming of Christ. You’ve been Living A Wicked Life and have Gone Down The Path Of Sin, and so you deserve to be smited by the divine! But the divine never answered his prayers; you and all those other icky upstart ‘sinful people’ kept having a nice job and everything that he felt should be taken from you.

And then Trump comes along and grants his prayers with deportations and shootings and everything else he thinks you deserve. Is it any wonder he’s willing to suffer himself, as long as you ‘get what’s coming to you’?

That’s because you missed rhizomes, not roots. And if you keep cutting the remnants down after you get the main body of the plant out they’ll starve and die eventually, it just takes a few years.

Speaking as someone who has worked with bamboo for a living for over a decade, an ounce of maintenance is definitely worth a pound of cure. Setting up a proper root-pruning system and cutting the young rhizomes twice a year before they have a chance to spread is much easier than chasing it down after the fact.

Now, tropical timber clumping bamboo… those are tough to deal with once they’re mature. They’re like a boulder that grows lol.

It would probably need a fair bit of water, too, unless you’re in a more humid climate with summer rains. It is a grass after all.

Unless you planted a tropical clumper, the concrete wouldn’t take damage. A runner would probably pass under it and show up on the other side eventually though. You can stop that by cutting the rhizomes back in summer and fall (think of it like edging a lawn), but it sounds like that space might be too narrow to set that sort of system up well.

Actually it spreads very predictably (in either circles or a collection of straight lines) and if you want to get rid of it, just cut it to the ground and stumpgrind out the rhizomes, which are the only part that can spread the plant (and for most species are found in the top 12 inches of soil). If someone tells you that you need to get out every tiny root, they’re bullshitting you.