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my client just said "there's bigger fish to fight" which is objectively a much better idiom

long sleeve got scrunched up while putting on jacket 3 dead 10 injured

they love me for my nice kindness

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An unlikely friendship

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im weirdly knowlagable in the history of soda i dont even drink soda why do i know so much about it

coke and pepsi taste different because coke was invent before refrigeration so it was designed to be drunk warm, while pepsi was designed after refrigeration was invented so it was designed to be drunk cold. as a result the tastes are different but if you drink pepsi cold and coke warm theyll taste the same.

Why the fuck do you know this

i honestly have no idea

coke’s recipe was originally green but the designers made it brown so it looked more like tea

Had they never seen green tea?

i dont even know if green tea was invented in 1886 but they wanted to make the public more open to eating the fizzy drink

Green tea was invented in the 13th century and made up 22% of the tea thrown off the ship in the Boston Tea Party 

alan i know about soda not green tea

i will trade u information abt bees and carrier pigeons for information abt the history of soda

no one knows where the origin of the name ‘7up’ started but it did have a mood stabilizer in the original recipe found in present day anti-depressants

i want facts about bees and carrier pigeons now

Carrier pigeons come from a species of Wild Rock pigeon, and their flights could be as long as 1800 km and were used as early as 3000 years ago. 

You know in old cartoons where a character throws a beehive at someone, and you think ‘lol, but that wouldn’t work in real life’. Turns out it would, and did. People used to lob beehives at the approximate location of the enemy forces to expose them. 

this is amazing thank you

Threads like this are pretty much the reason I come to Tumblr

It was kind of interesting to me that out of all the people in our training group, the ones that were the quickest to form social bonds were the people from way out in the country and the city people just kind of quietly kept to themselves.

But I was definitely accepted as one of the bumpkins.

Oh! This is actually an example of Rural vs Urban manners.

In rural/less densely populated areas, the polite thing is to offer people your time and social energy which is why country people will talk your ear off at the slightest acquaintence- it’s kind of lonely when you have to make an effort to see people, so you Make An Effort ™

In Urban/Densely populated areas, you’re meeting people whether you want to or not, because you are physically close to each other constantly. So the Polite Thing there is to kind of ignore other people and keep strictly to business, so you’re not imposing upon thier (probably already drained) soical spoons.

The city folks will warm right up to you once they get to know you well enough to know that talking to you won’t piss you off.

I grew up rural and live in the SF Bay Area now, and this is exactly how it is.

Appropriate city behavior is about *efficiency*, creating the least friction possible in every interaction because everyone has somewhere to be and is trying to pretend they don’t have strangers in their personal bubble *all day long*.

In SF, chatting with the bank teller a second longer than necessary is rude AF because there are 10 people in line and the teller is running behind and you are inconviencing *everyone*. They will deal with 1000 customers today and they genuinely don’t have it in them to form a friendly relationship with you.

In the little forest where I grew up you could stop your car in the middle of a one lane street to chat up a friend on the sidewalk. Any other cars would just go around you. There wasn’t much traffic, it was fine. If you’re one of 50 people the bank teller is gonna see today and there’s no line, it’s actually nice to ask how their day has been and commiserate about the roadwork at the single downtown traffic light.

City & country folks are operating under very different pressures and both are “right”, but it can be hard for city people to remember how to just…shoot the shit with strangers.

Vertebrates planning their invasion of land (358 million years ago, colorized)

Mmhmm. Yup, that nails it.

That’s what my eyes do…

…when it’s 2022…

…and people still want a phonecall for something that could be a 60-second email.

Admittedly, my eyes can’t vibrate quite that fast, but they get close by the inevitable “it’s 37 minutes past when they insisted we schedule this for” point.

This is one my favorite SNL moments

obviously unplanned moments like this are why I love SNL

They really gonna cook my man for thanksgiving dinner

roast beast is a feast i can’t stand in the least

- Harley's Holiday | Batman: The Animated Series

For context, Harleen was released from Arkham and went to buy a dress. After being treated horribly by everyone, she paid for the dress but left without having the security tag removed. The alarm went off and when she saw a guard coming towards her, she had a mental break. Hijinks ensued. Bruce spent the entire day helping her.

I cannot stress this enough: BTAS was the show that created Harley Quinn. Decades later, she's one of the most iconic characters in DC, but the animated series was the foundation of her characterization.

This is one of the reasons why Batman The Animated Series (and it's associated media) is the only definitive versions of Batman for me. It's not just about the doom&gloom. So much good came out of this series, and it deserves every piece of praise it gets.

Also note that when he says “I had a bad day too, once” he’s almost certainly talking about the day his parents were killed.

He could have said her problems were nothing compared to his. She wanted a dress. He wanted his parents back.

But he didn’t go all broody manpain on her or diminish the importance to her of having a new piece of clothing. He didn’t make his problems her problem.

He just said “I will help.”

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“omg you’re just blogging for attention”

and you’re blogging??? for gold? Women? Immortality?

To my sad mutuals…..CATCH!

Lmao, what is he saying??