Perhaps “the butler did it” stems from real life, wherein correctly or not, the butler is an immediate suspect when someone who has hired help happens to be murdered in their home? Surely the master/servant relationship fosters resentment/ill will.

Even if not, I’m sure they’re a wonderful scapegoat for an inheritance seeking child or slighted spouse when they commit the murder.

My dog loves to try to crush my balls This can still work

Some used to be that way.

Youtube has folks that dig way too deep into Elder scrolls lore and several use the format. Those work from “literally stated in the game” to "if you read these books in game in this mobile only title from 2001, look at questionably cannon dev comments, and look at the assets names, you’ll find this reoccurring thread "

Creeping thyme is quite nice Stays soft and low Not as aggressive as mint though, so you might have to make space vs just letting the mint go

Of the rest of herbs I grow (basil, rosemary, parsley, cilantro, chives/winter onions, oregano) the oregano isn’t too woody or tall. It gets a bit leggy, though it could just be fallen over and accepting of is new life. Also a lot oregano varieties to work with. Nice hot oregano

Unclear how it would directly complete with other plants.

Depending on the type, it may get about 2 to 3 feet tall and develop woody stems. Our contained patch (pavement on 2 sides and the house foundation on the other 2) frequently gets overgrown/bushy by July. Does get little white flowers and attracts all the bees. But I’d dislike having a yard made of the stuff. Woody stem portions get pokey on bare feet, and I’m not sure it’d stay dense enough to keep the other tall plants down.

“Well” describes an amount of time in this instance, though thats only implied. “Shortly” could be considered it’s opposite here.

Does the thickness skin impact it’s ability to feel pain?

It doesn’t. Burn a slip of paper with a lighter. Now burn an orange. Notice how the the outer layer reacts to the fire?

Your nerve endings also exist in the outer most layer (your mouth vs your deeper flesh)

Are you a mammal? Congratulations, you have TRPV1 receptors in your mucus membranes (avian supremacy ftw). They exist to keep potato brain mammals from eating hot things. These will fuck up your insides. Apparently enough of a problem that mammals needed them. Fun fact: this is enough of a problem that ancestral peppers evolved a means to exploit it and exclude mammals.

But off topic. There’s no quantity of flesh that will make your mouth heat proof. Turns out first degree burns still hurt like fuck.

It does and doesn’t. The outer layer of the durian, yeah that’s gone. Dense biomass presents a unique scenario though. Where steel is homogeneous, and conducts heat very well, cells are “hollow” and contain a lot of carbon. Water vaporizes. Proteins vaporize. Carbon burns off. Slightly deeper: water vaporizes. But there’s no oxygen here. The burning biomass outside is consuming it and dumping carbon dioxide as it goes. What happens when carbon heats without oxygen? It purifies. Down to pure carbon. 3,630C to melt it away. What’s more, it’s not solid carbon. All that water and protein is long gone, but now it’s empty space. Insulation. It’s impressive how much biomass blocks heat.

Time matters. Long enough, the outer layers start to burn away. Oxygen moves deeper, carbon burns, not melts. That layer burns off. Oxygen moves deeper. You didn’t need 3000C. But you need time and air flow. If you’re trying to see who between a mass of steel or an equal biomass gives up first, the steel will fail every time.

As the person below mentioned, they very much had access to copper. We find quite a lot of copper artworks. We find surprisingly few copper tools. This makes sense. Pure copper kinda blows for tool making. Stone is harder and easier to get. And the problem lies with the purity. Other civilizations had to accidentally discover early metalworking and eventually stumbled upon bronze, being more durable than anything else at the time. North America, up near the great lakes actually has fairly pure raw copper deposits on the surface. A theory is that it led to the native people finding a “new” type of rock, but other than being distinct looking, it proved to be kinda useless.