The Nangarhar University watertower, photo by Todd Huffman, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/oddwick/)
If you want to be an architect, there's a lot you need to know, but not all of it is taught in schools. There are lists, long lists for sure, but oh so important, as this one shared by vincebowdren shows.
Photo by ishmael daro, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/93280928@N02/)
Canada is known for maple syrup, snow, hockey, and... liqueurs? Yes indeed as shown in asbury's post about several Canadian distilleries using ingredients from their country to make distinctive brands of alcohol.
Saskatoon berries! Nova Scotian honey! The northern haskap! O Canada indeed!
Photo by Anka Albrecht via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/134465805@N06/)
In this week's belated (or bleated, hey sheep happens) Free thread, Wordshore shares a great story about being late to a wedding. How late? Oh just one year, that's all, no biggie!
Morale of the story? Putting the year on wedding invitations is highly overrated!
Ten Cold Hot Dog posted a single link to a 55 second YouTube link of an animated frog playing a trumpet. That's it, that's the share and it is delightful! Come for the frog, but stay for the captions if you're looking for a bit of fun to inject into your day!
[COMMUNITY] Yes, yes, this week's FREE thread is a little late, we admit it. As such, it makes sense that the question/ theme of the week is "tardiness and/or belatedness". Come on it and take a load off as we loaf around and discuss the above or pretty much anything else folks want to talk about it.
US Politics post, beware!
With Trump continuing to...well, be Trump, and the major media outlets being too biased, essexjan asks the real question over in Ask MetaFilter: Where should I get my US political news from? Come on in and find other sources of news that (hopefully) are more than doom scrolling.
The ancestors did it, for all the usual reasons we still do it. This post by Fizz points out that creating graffiti is something people have done since ancient Pompeii. Yes, there's a drawing category for NSFW images, because people gotta be people.
The title of this post is not hyperbole. At least not that we know of. We lost a bit of time just scratching the surface of links in this simple and great post by JHarris. So pull up a chair (or sit up in bed, this is a judgement free zone) and check out a few. Be sure and read the thread too, because Rhaomi has a comment that was Flagged As Fantastic by a few people and yeah, that's putting it mildly.
It's a link laden comment about sideloading on the iOS to have more alternatives to the common, and increasingly expensive, streaming sites. Thank god it's the weekend, so there's plenty of time to check out all the suggestions!
[COMMUNITY] Kirkaracha has been hard at work developing a new website for MetaFilter. If there are specific requests you have for the new site, please submit them here!
Uniforms of Germania Airline / Germany
Hey, do you like flight attendant uniforms? Well Lemkin has the post for you, which looks at a lot of uniforms from a lot of airlines. By "a lot" we mean "many" to a degree that will astound you, go ahead and look! Some might say it's too much, but ignore those people.
Season 2 of the acclaimed science fiction series Andor is set to debut on April 22, prompting Kattullus to create a post about season 1. In the thread we talk about the show's anti fascism and Marxist outlook, along with why this particular show is among the best fiction that occurs in a galaxy far, far away.
[COMMUNITY] This week's Free Thread wants to know all about your creativity!
Musician Tom Waits was born in 1949 and has been playing professionally since the late '60s. Those decades of performance in the age of video and tv allows us a special treat: The ability to compare and contrast Waits performing one of his signature songs, Tom Traubert's Blues, 48 years apart, in this lovely post shared by growabrain
Photo by Trish Hamme, courtesy of Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trishhamme/)
Hey, you're a single woman and that's absolutely alright, according to this study that Kitteh shared. Come for the "duh," stay for the whimsical illustrations!
MeFi seeks a Poet Laureate to create comments that are aureate
To sing praise of worldly beans or the danger of capitalist blue jeans
Alas, I can't write poetry so just pretend that you don't know me
and come on inside this MetaTalk post
(Title of post bybsome guy named Poe)
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