One of my coworkers keeps trying to give me a rabbit

[conuly]

Not me specifically, I don't think, she just wants to offload a rabbit on somebody.

I actually would like a rabbit, but I think I probably have enough pets. Also, my sister would surely lose her mind.

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Comments

[white_aster]

As an aside, oh my god, the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia is the most minecraft looking thing ever. It always was, but the "Let's make it TOL!" thing that's taken it over is just....wow. That is definitely a choice they are making. Someday that thing is going to break apart and hopefully not kill someone when one of those towers falls on them.

[conuly]

Surely Spain has some sort of building codes?

[white_aster]

Oh, definitely. It's just...such an ODDLY tall structure, I have to wonder how it's going to weather.

[jessie_c]

It was deliberately designed to fall apart as it was being built so as to provide permanent employment for the builders.

[white_aster]

Welp, if so, that has worked for 144 years. A++ scheme, there!

[chomiji]

I got back to about 1300 on the English thing, but as someone who once did 2 semesters in Anglo Saxon (one was Intro to and the other was Beowulf in the original), I should have done better.

Have you had a bunny before? They are a moderate amount of work. (We had two; they lived to be about 12 before dying 6 weeks apart.)

[kaffy_r]

I managed to get through to 1300 but, like many folk apparently, 1200 was where I couldn't even guess at things. There was one thing the writer said about how sentence structure changed in the 1000s that seemed a little odd, since I've been used to writing things in the order that he called very old.

The church looks so organic, and I've long wondered when it would be completed. Huzzah!

[archersangel]

for the How far back in time can you understand English? thing; i could figure out some of the 1400s & very little of the 1300s stuff.

[thekumquat]

Oddly, someone else.posted.on my timeline recently about a neighbour trying to give them a rabbit, only it was a dead one for eating.