I'm an extremely extra person and want everything I own to be exactly what I imagine in my head. So I post the things I've designed and thrown up on Redbubble on this blog along with a huge collection of wonderful things I've found on tumblr.
I'm really just using this post as an easy way to find my design posts. But you can click the tag to find the little things I've designed.
You can find the link to my Redbubble here.
even with those four numbers there are countless possible combinations good luck with figuring out which one is the right one you punk
*straightens calculator*
It’s pretty likely that it’s a four digit number, and as there are four digits chosen there, that means that there cannot be any repetition. This mean that there are:
n!/(n-4)! possible orders. As ‘n’ is 4 (number of digits available). 4!/0! which becomes 4x3x2x1/1 which simplifies to 24. That means that there are 24 possible combinations of codes. This would take you about two or three minutes to input all possible codes.
Unless an alarm goes off if you don’t get it right in 3 tries
*straightens calculator again*
Kick the fucking door in
well ‘technically’ the code is most likley 1970. statistically, a majority of people, when told to choose a 4 digit code will choose their birth year. and this key pad is obviously a few years old to put it nicely, thats most likley it.
some sherlock holmes shit just went down over here
No, no, no. Don’t base your deductions of psychology. Let’s talk chemistry. When you first press a button, there’s more of the natural oils on your skin, and therefore it wears down the numbers on the keys faster. Obviously 0 is the first one, then. Try 0791 first.
Sherlock out.
woah.
it got better
and this is why the sherlock fandom could either rule the world or end it….
Close, but not quite, I think. People will almost always choose a number they can remember. What’s memorable about 0791? Try 0719 - a birthday, 19th of July. That is more likely.
Those deductions are great and all, but unnecessary.
The light is green.
The door is already open.
And that’s why we have a John Watson.
This is “top 10 favorite posts” level.
Omg, it’s actually on my dash! This post is like a fossil!
Idk if I’ve rebloged this before, but I’ll reblog this legend again
Smithsonian? I’ve found the quintessential Tumblr and Sherlock fandom post. Yes. I would consider it definitive.
Ahh it’s back.
Legend of a post. 10/10 recommend reblogging.
this post is on my dash I feel HONORED
THE POST OF LEGENDS HAS RESURFACED ON MY DASH
I’VE ONLY EVER SEEN THIS IN SCREENSHOTS OMG
On your dash? I dig for gold like this,,, by looking at my mutual pages.
I’ve only seen this on Pinterest!
*gasp* THE SACRED TEXTS!
THIS IS A LEGENDARY POST I HAVE BEEN GRACED BY IT’S APPEARANCE!!!
yesssss
Why did Tumblr stop doing stuff like this, it’s genuinely fascinating, and cute that we include our favorite media in things we do
Well. Since you asked. I was on tumblr as this post was being built in 2013. The height of superwholock. Which has, since then, been declared peak cringe. So people picked new fandoms to openly love in earnest. Which were also eventually declared cringe. Eventually the youth decided to cut out the middleman, and declared loving anything in earnest to be fully cringe. So it has been a really long time since the day to day users of tumblr have let any fandom create anything nearing the cultural phenomenon that was superwholock. And it is exactly those cultural phenomena that are needed to create posts like this.
So. What happened? Cringe culture happened.
Try and imagine what would happen if this post wasn’t the “sacred texts” only ever seen in screen shots and in pinterest. Try and imagine any current pop culture detective media fandom creating this post today. They’d be slaughtered for being cringe by the time (in this case) Sherlock was mentined.
But because this post is 10 years old and completely broke containment, it’s celebrated when it graces our dashes.
I blazed a small fandom event announcement. Because I was genuinely excited to be part of a Big Bang for a wonderful movie. One of the first responses I got was “Why would you blaze this?” Because of genuine excitement. Because I wanted to celebrate the friends I’d met in the fandom To spread joy to people who might also like the content but hadn’t seen it yet. The fact that that was genuinely not realized made me sad. I love thing, I celebrate thing. I’m too old for cringe. Cringe is dead. Love what you love. Enjoy the small things in life, it’s too short to do otherwise.
CRINGE CULTURE DIED AND
WE KILLED IT.SPREAD THE LOVE FOR
YOUR FAVORITE SHOWS
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
U go funky little haiku bot
maybe some people would like to know that this image is being used to sell twist potato sticks in south korea (source: i took this picture when i was there)
Alguien me habló todos los días de mi vida
al oído, despacio, lentamente.
Me dijo: ¡vive, vive, vive!
Era la muerte.
Jaime Sabines
Have squeak meet aliens?
best friends :]
A weird thing in English is that “savory” means (and has always meant) the exact same thing as “umami”, but everyone has agreed to switch to the word that comes with this bizarre backing mythology of a secret fifth flavor recovered from the depths of the Orient
I wish I had an OED subscription so I could investigate this more carefully, but I absolutely don’t believe that “savory” has always meant umami. It’s true that that if you look at a dictionary like Merriam-Webster today you can find
c : pleasing to the sense of taste or smell especially by reason of effective seasoning d : having a spicy or salty quality without sweetness e : being, inducing, or marked by the rich or meaty taste sensation of umami
but this was added recently! Back in 2015 it only had the senses c & d. My guess for how this happened is that this is a back-formation from the Japanese; someone was looking for a less foreign-sounding way to refer to umami, and calqued it as “savory”. (This is a pretty good rendering, because the Japanese word umami うま味 is itself a kind of pun. With a slightly different spelling うまみ it means “tastiness”—i.e. “savory” in sense c.)
I think historically the core meaning has just been c, it was a different word for “tasty”. If you look in Webster 1913, that’s how they define it. (I’m even slightly suspicious of sense d! It certainly occurs in set phrases like “would you like a sweet or savory dish”, but did people really have a coherent concept of non-sweet tastes? But that’s a digression.)
If you search for “savory” in 19th century books on on Google Books, there are a few examples which could plausibly refer to an umami taste, e.g. “a savory stew”, but those are in the minority, equally many hits are for things like “savory herbs”, “a savory fruit”, “savory smell”, which obviously aren’t umami, they are simply things that taste good. And perhaps more importantly, even in the case of meat dishes, the word only seems to be used to mean it tastes good. Obviously I have not done a thorough inventory, but I challenge you to find any historical usages of “savory” as a specific taste, analogous to “sweet” or “salty”.
I’m pretty confident that you will not find any such examples, because the idea of a fifth basic taste did not get generally accepted until the 1980s. E.g. as late as 1999, Alan Davidson writes in The Oxford Companion to Food:
the view that has been most widely accepted, at least in western countries, is that there are four tastes: sweet, bitter, acid (or sour), salt. However, many people believe that one or some of the following should be added to the list: metallic; ‘meaty’ or (to use the Japanese term) umami; astringent; pungent (as in the Chinese list above).
Note that even at this point there apparently was no consensus to translate it as “savory”, since he instead writes “meaty”.
I think this is the basic reason people use the loanword: the idea that umami is a taste a fairly recent scientific discovery and conceptual reorganization, while the word “savory” has been around since Middle English, so if you want a word referring specifically to things that trigger the glutamate/inosinate/guanylate receptor, “savory” would be unworkably ambiguous.
Also, apparently the notion that umami qualifies as a basic taste got accepted thanks to a specific research program by group of Japanese scientists who launched a subfield of umami studies in 1982. It seems pretty dismissive to write it off as orientalism when it was due to the deliberate work of actual people living in the orient!
HUGE NEWS: I've made the decision to hand in my notice at work, so as of September 15th I'll be full-time focusing on archery, pole and content creation!
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The brown bear
Oh Bobbin, don’t worry, Existential Tuesday will pass
the worst thing in the world is doing things. the second worst thing in the world is not doing things. how has no one ever come up with a solution for this
