If you can, stop what you’re doing and do a google image search for “how cashews grow” right now.
Like. What is this bullshit???
WHAT THE FUCK
fun fact about cashews actually!! they’re technically the seeds of the cashew apple you see above them there as opposed to being a nut and they’re incredibly poisonous (they’ve got the same sort of acid that is found in poison ivy) if you eat them raw which is why stores always carry them roasted and unshelled
for scale of how big these suckers actually are too here’s one in my adult hand
Are cashew apples edible?
yes! if you eat them at the right time they can be very sweet and juicy but for the most part they seem to be relatively bitter and acidic so it’s sort of an acquired taste but they have incredibly fragile skins so they don’t ship very well which is probably why you won’t see them outside of places like central america
This was recorded by the Portsmouth Sinfonia in an experiment where all the members of the orchestra would swap instruments with each other and attempt to play them to the best of their ability.
favorite things about this
literally all the brass starts to get the hang of it and then the crescendos happen and everyone is like FUCK FUCK FUCK??? FUCK. JUST. BLOW RLY HARD.
the strings are lazy but also the same. like u can tell a lot of the ppl w/ the stringed instruments may already basically know how to play stringed instruments. like there’s definitely a section at the beginning where you hear a good portion going “oh yeah this is like. a smaller/bigger version of what i do.”
all you hear of any woodwinds is just “pffffttt??? pFFFTTTT???? PFFFFFTTTT I SAID PFFFFTTTT!!!!!” bc woodwinds are fucking HARD and you hear after like the first crescendo half of them just give up. they give up. they’re done. fuck this it tastes weird and my lips hurt.
that trumpet. that person is fucking TRYING man they fucking GOT this. they may not have figured out notes but they figured out LOUD and they GOT this.
I JUST DIED
I SEARCHED THIS POST FOR AGES OH MY GOD
As someone whose played instruments before this makes me ridiculously happy.
Fun story, my dad’s friend from college once wanted to bring his best friend from Palestine but he couldn’t get the papers so they went to court to say they were married or some shit and brought my dad to as a witness and the judge was like “prove it? I don’t believe this is an actual marriage and you two are in love” and like they shrugged and started to make out so hard that security had to come to split them up because they went to far, so yeah, real homies make out in a court room to get your homie into Canada to avoid being deported back to his refugee camp.
