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Cake day: March 29th, 2026

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  • As I read the thread again I was on the verge of thinking I was thinking about kitchen paper towels.

    I have to insist on my original stance. The zig-zag paper towels commonly found in public bathrooms, where I live, almost melt when in contact with water. I buy them to my own house, to use as tissues, as the paper is soft enough for such use. I use them in my workplace. I find them at cafes, supermarkets and shopping centers. Every single time, so fragile it requires several towels for one to dry their hands and it makes no difference how much you ball it up, as the paper starts to fray and dissolve has it soaks.

    I do not doubt you but the nearly indestructible paper towels were a thing some ten years ago, here, not anymore.














  • The two languages split and diverged into the forms they currently have due to the people living in the territories.

    Portugal developed a more nasal and closed speech, where vowels are commonly swallowed or nasal, closer to celtic speech roots, while spanish maintaned its more open speech structure, with every vowel clearly marked.

    It’s easy for a portuguese to follow spanish and brazillian while the opposite is often not. The european portuguese is denser, more compact and even faster for the majority of time. By comparison, spanish and brazilian are slower paced and open.






  • I can’t find a picture to post but recently the building fad in my country for single family homes is cubes. Literally, cubes. The houses are made of grouped cubic structures. No rounded surfaces, no decorative details. A bit like watered down brutalism.

    Can’t imagine those houses aging well.

    Meanwhile, old stone houses just look… good. Renovated, awsome. Abandoned, creepy. No ghosts though.