35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group

I once met a different species of dragon. It was tiny and adorable, but I could never have one as a pet because I don't want to raise insects.

Yah, was just thinking that he had to pause the video to explain that they didn’t go extinct, they just stopped flying. :p

I was watching a show about London Zoo a few weeks ago, and one guy's job title is "Dragon Keeper". Komodo, obviously, but how much more epic a job title can you have?

And you most definitely do NOT want one of those!!!!!!

I see a few flying around the sky every day

I think some species are better for it than others.

They don't (except for being small). You start out with a young, "normal" tree and prune it the way you want it. Can be done with olive trees, oaks, maples, fir trees, flowering cherries, ...

Most of the Bonsai you see are Ulmus parvifolia or "Chinese Elm" because they are very easy to train as Bonsai. Technically you can do it with any tree, though ones with tiny leaves work best.

I used to research this a lot. So they use wire to make the branches grow in certain directions and use very precise planned cutting for the leaves to grow into certain areas. This can’t be done with all types of tree obviously, There are common types to use. If you get a bonsai it needs very special care. You can look at some bonsais to see the wire lines if you know what to look for. For more information I’d recommend watching this video:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SzA8gjNcDA4 It has a nice beginner explanation, and is where I began researching bonsai. His content has gone downhill but a lot of his old stuff is cool

I know because we have an olive tree bonsai. It’s still small and really cute!

Try google images, you'll see hundreds of different kinds of bonsais. Leaf trees, pine trees, in all shapes and sizes. They are beautiful and some of them are very old.

You also get bonsai palm trees.

They do not all look the same. Several years ago I attended Sakuracon in Seattle. Mostly anime stuff but there was a display room set up by the bonzai society (forget their name). some of the examples were really old / very amazing. The styles you are probably picturing, but also some that looked like a pine tree forest and stuff like that. But yes to some trees are preferred over others. I thinkin part due to being slow growing.

Look the same!?!

They don't. All look the same.

It takes yeeeaaars. Some of the best examples are centuries old.

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Yeah. I used to have a Bonsai Pine Tree. Like a micro Christmas tree

It doesn't even have to be a tree! There's a form of bonsai that uses grass.

They have similar shapes, but they most certainly do not all look alike. There's a Rhododendron Species & Bonsai Garden in Federal Way, WA where you can see what a huge variety there is. They even have one that is over 700 years old. (And for the record it's "bones eye" and not "bahnz eye", as so many people mispronounce).https://rhodygarden.org/

Actually they're called Bondage trees. Or at least I call them so.

Peer pressure.

Technically they are. Bonsai is the art of making a small tree look like a minaturized big tree.

Unknown is telling us he's worked in the restaurant industry, without telling us he's worked in the restaurant industry.

I see you too were a line cook

🤣🤣🤣🤣 working in a restaurant is a lawless land.

Yeah... Asking for a bump where I worked would have gotten you coke or K... Those were the days.

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What kind of „restaurants“ do you frequent?

Hahaha...they were "salad toast" in my house. But I did know they were called croutons...but salad toast sounds...better lol.

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Are you alright??? Lol!

Except for one which they now stand on indefinitely

I don’t wanna imagine horse toes

But those toes wouldn't be folded into a hoof shape.

Yeah, and the hooves are just nails

Eohippus, if I remember correctly.

She got a case of ancestral memory.

Are you saying OP is old?

you can still see, if you look very closely, bumps on either side of the ankle where the last two toes were.