I always get concerned that somehow I have packed hard drugs (I don’t do hard drugs.)

It doesn’t.

It takes time for earth worms to occupy available ecosystems. It’s not like they’re natural migrators. In particular, they’re slow to cross rivers. Not very good swimmers either. I’m addition to agriculture and construction, anglers also seem to be spreading them.

I was wondering until this comment. “Ethiopia? Ecuador? Oh! Colombia.”

First time I’ve seen the word ‘cryptofascist’ outside of Red Dwarf.

I couldn’t catch it either, but yeah, that’s rough. Definitely a step above “shut up”.

Heavy brow ridge, no chin, fair hair. This guy is literally a Neanderthal.

Here’s my man with the real goods. Linguistically these categories explain so many ‘weird’ spelling shifts between cognates.

How about hands in pockets? IIRC Anzac slang for pockets was “Yankee gloves”.

A reference to Habbakuk 3:11 in the Bible, which Jesus alludes to in his triumphal entrance into Jerusalem (see Luke 19:40). Habbakuk is prophesying against the people of God and saying they’ve become such a bunch of self-serving hypocrites that even the stones and timbers of their house (figurative or literal) cry out against them.

If you want more explanation, I’m happy to unpack it more, but that’s where it comes from.

As to why someone felt it made a good message for a rock wall? I don’t know. Often Christians interpret it as the stones are crying out in joy at Jesus’ arrival, but that misses the Habakkuk allusion, the political reality of Jesus’ conflict with the Jerusalem temple authorities, and the context in which “hosanna” historically gets used.