I trip out on small insignificant things sometimes...

WeAintFoundShit · Post by **WeAintFoundShit** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:50 pm

...like the wooden spoon.
The wooden spoon hasn't really changed its design since the fucking dawn of tools. When was that? Oh, like 2 million years ago.
Ok, so maybe the wooden spoon isn't quite that old. After all, soup is not 2 million years old, and I'm not about to look up who invented fucking soup and when.
But still, this is a piece of technology that we use and see in our daily lives almost every single day and it never really occurs to many of us just how long it's been useful. it only dawned on me the other day.
Maybe I just think too much about insignificant details like this, but I think this detail is kinda rad.

Some things are just enduring.

Here is a slightly unrelated video that calls into question just how long the threads of life are that lead to each of us, and how we personally relate to the origins of all life on earth, and how we're all lucky to be here. I'm sick, and high on cold medicine. Fucking sue me, this kind of shit is rad to think about.
Plus, the song is touching.

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I guess maybe the things I trip out about are not small, insignificant things, they are things so massive that they can only be connected to by their trivial artifacts, the things that can be touched on the human scale; tactile representations of a passage of time that no person on earth could ever truly comprehend.

This time last year I was edging on suicide. Now, even though my life still ain't where I want it to be, I'm glad to be here alive and thinking about the flow that I'm a part of.

xtian · Post by **xtian** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:53 pm

the word "soup" describes at its origin the slice of bread that you cover with boilled vegetables. then the tradition of the bread dissapeared but the word remained.
glad I could help.

WeAintFoundShit · Post by **WeAintFoundShit** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:00 pm

"One of the first types of soups can be dated to about 6,000 B.C.[1] Boiling was not a common cooking technique until the invention of waterproof containers (which probably came in the form of pouches made of clay or animal skin) about 9,000 years ago."

And then it says basically what you just did.

xtian · Post by **xtian** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:21 am

I just learned that two days ago, I never though I’d have a chance to use it so quickly to boost my social aura.
Thanks.

actually it was at a funeral dinner so it's no so out of place here.

WeAintFoundShit · Post by **WeAintFoundShit** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:44 pm

No problem, it worked.
I never realized that "Soup" originated from "Sop." (As in, "sop up the liquid with bread." I found this out on wikipedia after I looked it up because of your comment.)
Now when I hear the term sopping wet, I will always picture someone covered in soggy bread and soup.
Thanks for that.

piccini9 · Post by **piccini9** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:52 pm

I'm sick too. Now for some Nyquil and random musings on the age of the universe.

"They're all made up words." Me.

UndertheGun · Post by **UndertheGun** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:11 am

Today at school I used a spoon made from corn.

Metalredneck · Post by **Metalredneck** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:18 am

The wooden spoon, or stir stick, is the origin of the magic wand. Ancient brewers always used the same spoon to stir their hootch, before yeast was cultivated, and the spores from the spoon started the brew.

Yes, I make way too much booze. Ask Rolly.

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:45 am

Metalredneck wrote:The wooden spoon, or stir stick, is the origin of the magic wand. Ancient brewers always used the same spoon to stir their hootch, before yeast was cultivated, and the spores from the spoon started the brew.

Yes, I make way too much booze. Ask Rolly.

Too much booze? Never heard such insanity! Its like an article I just read in SportRider (don't hit me, it was a free subscription) talking about making fuel out of waste beer. First thing I thought was "Waste beer is more rare than refined in-the-ground oil"...

And on topic, just remember WAFS
SPOOOOOOOOOOON!!!

The Shifty Jesus · Post by **The Shifty Jesus** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:59 pm

As long as there is an ass to smack, there is a use for wooden spoons.

SmAsHeRs · Post by **SmAsHeRs** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:59 am

never has a thread on the utmc made me simultaneously sad & hungry.

here's a song i heard that kinda tripped me out yesterday, in a funny way. generally this guy is amazing, to boot.

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WeAintFoundShit · Post by **WeAintFoundShit** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:08 pm

Yeah, I seriously debated posting it up due to your present circumstances.

SmAsHeRs · Post by **SmAsHeRs** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:12 pm

meh, i cry when i look at meat & pancakes lately. i'm gonna be a mess for as long as i'm a mess regardless of what i experience. worry not, i require no pussyfooting, only patience. i'm just gonna get sappy sometimes.

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I trip out on small insignificant things sometimes...

I trip out on small insignificant things sometimes...