very different laws in the US.

in the states, tree ownership ends at the property line.

once part of a tree or plant is on your property or in public property, it no longer legally belongs to the tree it is growing from.

If your neighbor’s tree branches grow into your yard, the branches are your property and you can harvest from or cut down those branches up to your property line.

Americans are generally pretty cool about urban foraging, in any case.

I’ve had neighbors invite me on to their property to pick fruit directly from their bushes or trees just because they had so much.

are private trees or close-packed houses not very common in Germany?

property lines are often a big problem in the states where so many have their house and property so close to each other.

this is great, My favorite foraging back in the day was a giant pear tree hung way over onto the sidewalk, I grabbed dozens of pears for months.

oh except I lived across from an abandoned orchard and seasonally got free apples while living in Portland. so that was pretty good.

My frugality this week was upcycling a pair of abandoned broken flip flops with paracord to make new huarachas, running sandals.

I also caught several ghost crabs on the beach a few days ago, enough to make dinner.

If that fruit is in a public area, then that fruit is public property, legally and socially.

ignorance-based fear.

lot of that in a geographically isolated country with poor education.

oh my god yes. yusssss. YES! I’m playing this.

og was for drains in general at the time it was invented in the late 1700s, we didn’t even have flush toilets or anything more than cesspools, so there was no need to unclog blockages in household toilets.

The first one was wielded more like a hammer, so it really was just to knock shit loose from whatever hole it was in, apparently.

I definitely felt the same way about toilet plungers as you do until I used one.

until I… took the plunge?

If you clean a fish and toss a couple scales, bones and fish skin down the sink, it will clog.

in the states, where houses have garbage disposals, I don’t think sink clogs are much of a problem anymore.

but most countries don’t have garbage disposals, and the original plunger design was invented 250 years ago, before much of modern plumbing and pipe design and everything, so it was useful to have any kind of plunger around.

you can make those couple plungers work for the toilet in a lot of situations, but for the toilet specifically a toilet. plunger is going to make your job way easier without any mess and splashing

thank you.

art style and similar physical features had me thinking it was generational rather than simultaneous.

appreciate it.

sorry, drinking, can you help me out?

the 6th panel is chubby man’s son?

why is young couple from first panel in last panel?

i thought it was a generational story.

their dead brown dog is related to the white dog in panel 7?

I’d love to know how my drank messed me up, thanks.

boooo

Bidet for the win.

that’s cool, I love stories with aha and oh-whaaaat moments.

i like the smaller sink plungers also,very useful little guys

checks out.

no worries.

“I’m guessing you thought you were responding to me”

nope.

"I said[meant] I have “never” seen anyone act in the manner OP described as in I’ve never seen someone get mad at their SO for using their real name. "

great.

Nah, it’s been litigated.

You can start again if you’d like.

hanging.

being all bodhisattva and shit.

it’s a fun way to encourage development.

Yup, started with the cup and derived into the flange.

Thanks for linking the US patent!

Sustainable living.

Hm, doubt it.

I strongly identify with this story.

Oh man!

I didn’t realize they were fully fleshed out dinosaurs!

they look great!

I actually saw some scrap dinosaurs in Arizona, but they’re still metal and skeleton, no skin or color on them.

wow and the skin is even pebbled. that is so cool.

thank you for getting back to me and sharing those pictures. wow! those are huge dinos too