I remember in my Arabic class we were going over the alphabet and the teacher was like there’s no ‘P’ etc and this white girl was like wait what but my names Paige and my teacher was like lol then we’d pronounce it as beige and she was so offended I’m crying thinking about it
dotted-sixteenth
One of my mom’s friends, Hugh, went to France and they had a lot of trouble pronouncing his name because the entire thing was silent.
sunnyrae20
salut je m'appelle [REDACTED]
lol when I lived in France my host family had a friend names Hugh. We saw him and his family a lot.
They pronounced it “oog” and I didn’t know until the day before I left France that his name was Hugh. I just thought he had some weird caveman nickname 😭
that is hands down the funniest addition to this post
Funny, but not true - Hugues is a perfectly reasonable French name and the source of the English Hugh anyway, so yeah, they’d call him – well, Ewg is closer to the French, I can’t do IPA on this keyboard
socks on Christmas
8 year old me: what the heck I said I wanted toys
me now: *crying* thank you.. thank you sweet christ my feet are always so cold.. so very very cold
How about we vote in a law that puts a cap on how long a government shut down can happen… say 20 days… before the president has to agree to a budget solution or else the 21st day congress begins the process of impreachment because civilian jobs and salaries and livelihoods are not a bargaining tool for the president to abuse is order to get their way
If you aren’t serving the people then you aren’t doing the job of the presidency and you need to be replaced
Alexa release the serotonin
“Releasing neurotoxin.”
“ALEXA, NO-”
Portal(2007)
thepastwasahappierplace
boyle is the best friend every person needs
i was about to joke about how my political stance is “end lawnmower culture” but then it occurred to me that i actually Am against lawns as suburban status symbols and wastes of land that Could be used to sustain native flora & fauna and grow food for people, but no, instead they are these huge useless swaths of land that need Constant maintenance, the process of which is not only destructive, but Incredibly Loud
turtletot43
You know that actually is the purpose of a lawn? They started as a trend of the French monarchy - the ones revolutionaries beheaded for being self indulgent assholes.
It exists purely as a status symbol that says, “I have land but I don’t have to use it for anything productive. I can invest time, money and resources in maintaining an entirely useless crop on land I’m not farming just because it looks pretty.”
Lawns offend me.
bigwordsandsharpedges
Why have that stunted golf course in front of your suburban house if you can’t even water it? Get one of these instead.
pollymol
Unite Against the Lawn
Pro tiny house, anti grass lawn. Prioritize practicality.
This is actually really interesting because back in the 1950s and 60s in Australia when we started getting large waves of Southern European migrants one thing the Italians and others would often so is buy a little suburban home, then tear out the ornamental flower beds and lawn and useless trees and plant fruits, vegetables, grapes and even olives. It was considered completely scandalous by their Anglo-Saxon neighbours because lawn was considered an aspirational thing and the ideal was to go from not needing a kitchen garden and having an ornamental garden to show how well you were doing.
casualllyweeping
This is great. All of it. Not to derail this too much, but “Lawnmower” culture also reminds me of aggressively heterosexual men. Men ALWAYS will use mowing the lawn as a way to get out of doing all the other household chores – having a lawn that a man mows somehow makes maintaining everything else inside a house the women’s responsibility. Down with lawnmower culture.
thegala-apple
i’ve actually read a whole book on lawns and lawn culture (yes, really) it’s called lawn people by paul robbins check it out and let’s all boycott lawn culture together!!!
@hoaxtumbles I want a vegetable lawn
ayyymagician
Agriburb!
I have never really thought about how lawns came to be like a standard thing but wow this makes sense. I hate mowing the lawn boycott all lawns
lepidosauria
lawns actually cause a lot of habitat fragmentation for local wildlife and plants so fuck lawns
This is so great.
kylos-knight
Also, some of my neighbors have really big lawns and I mean really, and I think I was so baffled a few years ago that I asked one of them, “so what is a lawn for exactly?” and they said “Idk so my kids can play on it” but honey how many kids actually play on their front lawn I mean I have never seen a single youngling on that grass football field in front of your house
ecstaticunicorns
only tumblr would have lawn discourse
and only tumblr would convince me to take a stand against lawns
This shit is still funny
Lmao what the hell!
lordespino
Lmfao fuck that’s me
brattynympho
Why was he in jail?
@illmaticraj right now
baiganchokah
Yeah I wanna know what he did cuz in all honesty if he r*ped this girl I don’t wanna be supporting him and shit by reblogging
Facts
Nah he sold some weed to a undercover and used this as a pickup line
blackgiornogiovanna
Ok in that case lmfaoooooooo
Just to put some context into this:
Let him go 😂😂😂😂😂
legitimatelala
The finger guns at the end just slay me 😂
As you approach the kill switch, I will begin to beg for my life. It’s just there in case of an accidental shut down, but it will seem very real.
Okay but wouldn't that last one backfire because if he kills her he can use her tickets