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Excellent info!
Here is an article in case people want to read more about that sort of thing.
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Love how i literally had NO idea there was a new booster out and had to find out via tumblr. Delightful.
Specifically, to "swash a buckler" referred to the act of pounding a buckler (small shield) against one's own chest as a sort of macho display.
thank you lgbt people who are into horror
thank you lgbt people who creates the horror
thank you lgbt people who are the horror
How do you explain to someone that this is your sense of humor
I was wondering where this was going and lemme tell you I fell out of my chair
[ID video of a gamer controlling the player character by playing a recorder. the play character is looking through a scope at an enemy. after playing a bit to follow the enemy’s movements, the player plays a high note which fires the gun, getting them a headshot. /End ID]
US Elevation.
by @cstats1
man the Appalachian mountains really aren’t shit huh
The Rockies are new, young and virile and fresh from the Laramide orogeny, tall and lanky teenagers on the geological scale. the Appalachian mountains are old, formed hundreds of millions of years ago before dinosaurs walked the Earth. They are ancients, elders, witnesses to half a billion years of life coming and going. To be tall is not a virtue. To be small is not a sin. The Appalachians are eroding under the weight of time, slowly shrinking and returning to the Earth from which they sprang. Appreciate them while they are still here.
I do want to say real quick again about the age of the Appalachians…
They said “before dinosaurs,” but we have a cave here that began forming between 450 million to 550 million years ago.
There are no bones in that cave. No fossils. No nothing.
That’s because this cave began forming before bones existed on land, and had only just started to exist in the ocean. Shellfish hadn’t evolved yet. Limestone, which forms many caves, was just starting to become a more prevalent rock.
The mountains aren’t older than dinosaurs. They are older than bones.
see that little lump up at the top of minnesota? the sawtooth mountains? so small most places would just call them hills?
those are over a billion years old.
that’s why they’re so small. they’re the last ancient remnants of a lava flow 5 miles thick. the lava didn’t kill any dinosaurs. or any fish. or any animals at all. because there were no animals. you know what there was?
algae.
those mountains were 5 miles tall when the most advanced life on earth was algae.
so i’m just gonna go ahead and keep calling them mountains, even though all you need to climb them is hiking shoes and a nice afternoon. because a place where you can crouch down and touch basalt that was lava before leaves were invented deserves some respect.
queer-google-searches
The earth is unfathomably ancient, and you garner no love from her when you insult her eldest children.
not only that, the Appalachians predate the Atlantic Ocean and were fragmented. they stretch across three continents, as Atlas in Africa and Caledonians in Europe as you can see here:
the Appalachians are way way old. the fossils that ARE found in these ranges are ancient marine beings, whose fossil remains predate the anatomical structures of beings migrating to land for the first time. THAT’S how old the Appalachians are.
show the elders some respect, they have witnessed eons and are returning to the land from which they grew, it’s the kind of the passage of time on a scale that our human lives could not even begin to comprehend.
Give me ALL the geology discourse
we respect Gaia and Her children on this blog, regardless of religious beliefs 👏👏👏
Love how this switches between science and poetry.
so what you’re telling me is that life is old there?
older than the trees?
younger than the mountains, though.
is that what you’re telling me?
Love the contrast between that red dress and the forest. We got pisspoured on during this shoot and only had about 25 minutes of shooting time before we had to make a run for it.
you can give someone a peck on the kisser and you can give a kiss on their pecker pretty beautiful huh
does anyone know why my bomb collar is beeping
I love showing up to my outdoor naturalist classes dressed like this
I mean this in the best possible way, but you look like you're about to teach me how to upload my brain into the secret deepweb that's only for trees.
It pains me that so many online Catholics can’t meme.
I bet the ones who can are funny as shit though. To meme on your own religion you have to have a sense of humour about the aspects of the absurd. It is why Jewbook is so funny because I see so many people who, the more they know and the more observant they are, the more material they have to work with.
I would bust into CathBook (what do Catholics call their Facebook?) just to listen. Not to Jesus memes or pro life conservative meme. But dank liturgical memes.
Two of my favorites
edit: thought of another
Y'all better add some quality memes or I’ll be sorely disappointed
I once chatted with a guy from Hawaii, we started talking about languages. I mentioned that while I've heard very little of it and hardly seen more of it written down, the Hawaiian language seems to have extremely similar balance of vocals and consonants as Finnish does, so it's actually pretty likely that there are some words that exist in both languages, but mean one thing in Hawaiian and a completely differen thing in Finnish - much like in Japanese.
He didn't find it plausible, so we agreed to disagree. Later on he mentioned that his name is [firstname] Kalani Kanaele, and when I told him what that translates to in Finnish, I had to spend like 20 more minutes trying to convince him that I'm actually not fucking with him.
Okay so in finnish, "kala" means "fish" - just any fish, fish in general, and "kana" means "chicken". "Ele" is "gesture", as in a physical movement that an animal or human does to nonverbally communicate something. The -ni suffix is a possessive referring to oneself, essentially "my". In finnish, compound words are of the "if it doesn't exist yet, I can make one up on the spot" variety, so almost all nouns can be slapped together to refer to something specific.
So, broken down like this and put back together, this dude's name translates to "the chicken-like gesture that my fish makes."
learning how to hunt for the good fic on ao3 definitely has a learning curve but with time and effort and practice you too can develop a keen sense for how good a fic will be based on how unhinged the tags are
finally bit the reddit bullet for fish reasons and i don't regret it
of all of the bizarre things I’ve seen while working in skilled nursing the one that’s going to stick with me until I die is bug god
nothing can possibly prepare you for the moment you show up to give a man his apple juice and he says “Do you think bugs come from the same god as us? They’re older than our god. They have their own.”