My Uncle Got Treed By A Hippo Once. Spent All Night Up The Tree. Person He Was With Was Injured. I Always

My uncle got treed by a hippo once. Spent all night up the tree. Person he was with was injured. I always thought that maybe the hippo could...roll on him? Try to ram them? Maybe it's actually supposed to be a rhino, the one with the horns?

nope. makes so much more sense now that I am seeing these teeth. I am retroactively a bit terrified.

You ever think about how weird hippos are ecologically speaking?

There's literally no other megafauna on earth that spends the entire day lounging around in water, mostly just socializing, only to come onto land to feed at night.

I remember when I used to do education programs on hippos, most people assumed they ate aquatic plants, and that that's the whole reason they were in water. Meanwhile, hippos are basically just giant nocturnal cows that eat only grass.

Coming back to this as I read At The Feet of the Sun, aaaaaah.

new at the feet of the sun chapter just dropped, i am losing my entire mind thanks!!!!

Au where Goncharov and Andrey survive everything, grow old together and sit on a street all day somewhere in the south of Europe

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”

As always, on this, the anniversary of his passing, GNU Terry Pratchett

oh to have a silly little house like this...