penny-anna: penny-anna: penny-anna: Jaskier’s hobb

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Jaskier’s hobbies incl. counteracting all the nasty myths about Witchers with myths of his own

Jaskier: did you know that witchers hibernate all winter

Someone: really?

Jaskier: yes & they can also eat their own body weight in salmon

Someone: isn’t that bears?

Jaskier: mmmno…. I’m pretty sure it’s Witchers :)

he does this in part to try and improve the general reputation of witchers but mainly to confuse & annoy Geralt like

Villager: what are you doing here? shouldn’t you be hibernating??

Geralt: what?

Villager: don’t witchers hibernate in the winter?

Geralt: w h a t

Villager: Oh I see you’re fattening up for the winter!

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Geralt: no I don’t -

Villager: you’re welcome to all you can eat… I understand how it is, the winter’s very long

Geralt, stuffing pies into his saddlebags: that’s very kind thank you

a dialect question

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Sitting on the couch at home, Dude says to me suddenly, “Hey do you know the phrase to blow somebody in?”

“Yeah,” I said, “it means, like, when you tell on somebody, or turn them in for something. Like, ratting somebody out.”

“So, they say that where you’re from,” he said.

“Uh,” I said, “hang on. I mean, I’ve lived here fifteen years. I don’t know where I heard it. But yeah, I’d use that phrase.”

“Hm,” he said.

So when we got to the farm, well, eventually in conversation Dude said “Somebody’s gonna blow him in to Smokey the Bear for littering,” and Farmsister was like “Smokey the Bear doesn’t care about littering,” and I pounced and said “Ha! so we do use the phrase blow somebody in” and Farmsister was like “what no?” and realized she’d just inferred it from context. But no, she had never heard the phrase before. And her husband, native of Illinois but resident of lots of places, had never heard it before either.

So it’s possible this is a Western/Central NY phrase, and we’re fascinated to know its distribution.

Have you ever heard or used the phrase with that associated meaning? If yes, where are you from and what approximate generation?

The person who brought it up in the first place, in conversation with Dude, is approximately 40 and first encountered it in Syracuse NY; the person was theorizing that perhaps he’d made it up himself, but had spoken to someone who claimed it was Central NY-specific. Dude claims to have been familiar with the phrase but is now doubting that it’s something he picked up in Buffalo; he may have encountered it in Rochester where he went to college, specifically from a non-local roommate who was enthusiastic about stealing slang. Anyway! We can’t tell, now, where we heard it.

Sunday was a hike at Dyken Pond and Saturday was a family...

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such-justice-wow:kontextmaschine:Chickens were traditionally machines to convert agrarian debris...

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Chickens were traditionally machines to convert agrarian debris (bugs, seeds) into protein-rich eggs. Their current battery-farming use turning corn feed into breast, thigh, and wing meat is relatively novel.

Pigs are traditionally a way to convert farm waste and forest forage (grubs, mushrooms, nuts) into fat and protein, with pigs hardy enough to stand up to the forest’s threats

Cows turn grassland forage into protein-rich milk, meat, and leather. Cows are sturdy enough to be turned loose to live freely outside of direct supervision for long periods in secured territory and then rounded up, so can be raised with little labor on large amounts of poor land. Can move long distances under own power, can be raised in remote areas and sold fresh in high-demand population centers. Dairy herds, by contrast, were kept right outside population centers. Quick-spoiling milk can be processed into cooking lipid butter and stable, transportable, marketable protein source cheese. Can be used as traction-generating and load-bearing beasts.

Sheep are similar to cows at smaller scale and requiring closer attention, process grassland into mutton, milk, and wool, once most important textile in world before cotton.

Horses convert grassland to service as traction-generating and load-bearing beasts. Intelligently trainable, nimblest animals practical to tide.

Donkeys convert grassland to service as traction-generating and load-bearing beasts. Size and output/consumption ratio makes more practical than horses for many applications, but intensely annoying.

Mules - we bred a donkey with a horse to make it less annoying.

Deer, Antelopes, Turkeys, Ducks, Pheasants, etc. - game animals. Sustain their own life cycle from undeveloped land, are hunted in regulated fashion to sustain stock.

Bees - plant-fertilizing function radically increases productivity of fields, yields rich, high-sugar, indefinitely stable honey

Doves - we used to fuckin’ farm doves, we’d have big-ass birdhouses out in the fields. Not sure what that was about.

Ostriches - one of those 80s things, a tax dodgee that sounded cool on cocaine

This is cool but it’s written like patch notes