i cant wait for the internet to go crazy w this when the queen dies

is everyone looking forward to twosday (22/02/2022)

happy twosday motherfuckers

nice

Today is the only day you can reblog this meme, everyone

Happy 22/2/22 day!

Not to mention that today, 22/2/22 Pluto has finished its trip around the sun which started in 1774.

is everyone looking forward to twosday (22/02/2022)

happy twosday motherfuckers

A historical moment

Stupid is timeless.

I’m that lady who’s just FEELING it

tbh cables were like that and safety precautions weren’t hard set in yet

Oh wow this is horrifying

Holy shit

So I stumbled through the Barbie aisle at Walmart the other day…

…and y'all, I almost cried. Just look at these. LOOK AT THEM.

So many skin tones!

PLUS SIZED BODY TYPES!

NATURAL HAIR STYLES!!! MULTIPLE SHADES OF DARK SKIN!!!

A WOMAN AS A DOCTOR!!!!!

I’M NOT DONE, THERE IS A PHOTO LIMIT!

LOOK AT THIS PROFESSIONAL LADY!

SO MANY SKIN TONES AND BODY TYPES AND LOOK AT THAT MERMAN!!!

FRECKLES!!!

Y'all, I’m just…so so happy.

I’m 35 years old and I’ve never seen a Barbie that looked like me, and then there I am as a Barbie in a purple sweater with thick thighs and evenly proportioned boobs and pink hair and a cat.

I can only imagine how other girls must feel.

Nicely done, Mattel. Nicely done!

Mattel also just announced some new Barbie dolls who have wheelchairs or prosthetic limbs!!!

Like screw anything calling this “politically correct,” this is what the real world literally is.  And the world’s population of children is just as diverse as its adults.  Kids deserve to see themselves represented.  As a disabled person myself, I can’t tell you how much this would have meant to me as a little girl.

BRO HAVE Y’ALL SEEN THE NEWLY RELEASED ONES

IM SOBBING

YES YES YES THIS IS PERFECT!!!

I only ever saw the one disabled Barbie but their is at least two! And look a ramp!

the OP was made a year ago so for fun I went to check what they’re new dolls were

Guys… Even being confident there would be even MORE added to the barbie range of dolls…. I was not prepared.

I am about to image spam you so forgive but there’s just SO MUCH

holy shit. I’m like… not even a doll person and so many of these I want!

There’s LITERALLY too many to add

(who is she?)

Plus sized Barbie with DIMPLES

They actually have a barbie with albinism and bothered to give her a proper face-sculpt!

This one looks like she could kill me instantly if she made direct eye-contact

This one’s smile is just KILLING me

Nubian girl because we’re not messing around

Also… this doll does not have any name on the product listing nor on the packaging so this might just be me but…. help me out here guys… is this.. ….is this a non-binary barbie? Am I presuming too much or is that what I’m looking at here??

Also final note. Just to REALLY drill this all home, Barbie has some photos of kids playing with the dolls and

Ironically, Barbie did not come to play around.

Also I’m obsessed with this Sally Ride doll

Barbie never played around, barbie played for keeps, why do you think she works so hard in so many fields?

if any of y’all think this is overkill:

i babysat the sweetest little girl who was in a hot pink wheelchair. it was almost brand new, and she was just so excited to finally have a good wheelchair!! the day i walked into the house after she’d gotten it, she wheeled over to me with the biggest smile and said “it doesn’t hurt my back anymore!!”

for her birthday, i got her a barbie doll who looked a lot like her (it was the one with vitiligo) and a little barbie wheelchair and a few other accessories because who doesn’t like accessories?

apparently she’d had a white doll for a while and of course loved her doll but when she saw not only the one with vitiligo but also the wheelchair? and she put that little doll into the wheelchair and pushed her around a bit on the table? she looked up at me and burst into tears, grinning from ear to ear, and murmured to me “she’s like me. i didn’t know there were ones like me” and lemme tell you i nearly broke down right then and there and i gave her the warmest smile and hug i could muster up and her parents called me a few months later (i’d stopped babysitting because they didn’t have money to pay and wouldn’t allow me to babysit for little/free like i offered because i knew they both were searching for jobs and couldn’t be around their kid much bc interviews) and they just thanked me, their daughter was “so happy to have a doll like her that she carried the barbie around with her all the time”. they hadn’t been able to afford the doll and were actually saving up for a wheelchair at least.

this isn’t overkill.

this is giving kids a doll like themself. this is showing them that they aren’t weird or irregular or not normal. this is showing kids that others who are different from them, others who do have a prosthetic or a wheelchair or dark skin or vitiligo, that those kids aren’t weird. if a little girl sees a barbie in a wheelchair, she’ll just think “oh that’s my friend!!” and be exposed to the fact that these “different” kids are kids too, friends and acquaintances and not people to be mocked or bullied.

Please sign this petition to stop this clown-looking motherfucker. 

A July 21, 2020 update on signatures.

I haven't seen many people saying this, but he's likely created this story on purpose, to change the search results for the terms "mark Zuckerberg Hawaii."

That's now the top result, pushing this down

This was a calculated move by a pr team.

The harpy eagle looks like a person doing a really shite owl impression

this is what happens when you order your Halloween costume online

Uhhhh im just going to leave this here

that moment when an actor in a terrible costume still looks more authentic than an actual goddamn owl

I am a(n):

⚪ Male

⚪ Female

🔘 Writer

Looking for

⚪ Boyfriend

⚪ Girlfriend

🔘 An incredibly specific word that I can't remember

*wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat*

WAIT IT’S CALLED A THROW PILLOW

here is a super helpful website for this kinda thing!

the first result isn’t always the one you’re looking for but when you press enter it’ll give you a ton of words related to your query that’ll probably have what you’re wanting, or something better

here’s some examples:

Reblog to save a writer's sanity.

T h a n k y o u k i n d s i r .

THANK YOU REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE

Funny how that works

I am so pleased at how many notes are some version of “I don’t fear the science, I fear the corporations who control it” because that is EXACTLY the attitude you should have. GMOs can save us. Monsanto will kill us.

what people fear about GMO- ‘theyre gonna make frankencarrots that crave human flesh and cause diarrhea ’ what GMO actually is- ‘we made rice crop that is both drought resistant and flood resistant which will prevent about 20% of major famine disasters, also it now makes vitamin A because vitamin A deficiency in poverty stricken areas is a major killer of kids as most vitamin A rich foods dont grow there’ what people SHOULD be upset about- ‘i made all crops sterile so all farmers have to buy the seed from me in perpetuity and i will sue anyone who tries to go back to crops that produce their own seed’

It is the year 2046. The time has come for the annual Blog Inspection. Armed android wardens begin to arrive at the homes of the country’s prisoners who were once called citizens. A warden knocks on a ramshackle door. It is answered by an old man, bedraggled, starving, weary. The robotic guard’s abdominal display screen flickers to life with the image of a popular post on tumblr. “This has to be on everyone’s blog at least once,” intones the android. Fear enters the man’s eyes. He has not reblogged this post. He shrieks and, with one fell motion, blasts a hole into the android’s head with his laser magnum. Everyone in the neighborhood watches on in horror as the man, calling for liberation, is tackled by dozens of androids. His screams die with the buzz of plasma spears. There is no freedom. This has to be on everyone’s blog at least once. Everyone’s.

are you okay there

E V E R Y O N E

NO CHANCES TAKEN

This is in less than 30 years…

Guys we’re safe

I’m safe now guys

SAFE yes haha

Safe…??

Safe

What in the holy hell is this? There’s no way I’m not risking this

I guess I’m safe?

=

Okay then

I’m safe….?

Alright then.

LIKE HELL I’M GOING OUT LIKE THAT

What’s with this post

im scared y'all

reblogging just so i can get some of y’all paranoid lol

Only reblogging on this blog so that when they realise i didnt on my other, they can give me the sweet release of death.

Holy shmoKES I HAVE BEEN SPOTTED

*jumps into a bush*

…………………………………………………………………

…

I’m safe

Lemanjah by Brazilian artist Marcelo Jorge … Lemanjah is the Queen of the Sea

This is literally the first time I have ever seen cellulite depicted on someone in a painting

there’s been a mistake in this post, and OP is having trouble correcting it, so i was asked to do that for them. her name is Iemanjá (or Yemanjá, both are correct), not Lemanjah. she’s a very important deity in traditional afro-brazilian religions Candomblé and Umbanda, goddess of the sea, fish, and fertility, as well as protector of fishers, the elderly, and children. here, she is shown with some of her symbols - namely, seashells, the silver abebé (a kind of hand fan) and what is, to my knowledge, an offering (practitioners of umbanda and candomblé leave offerings for her in little boats that they sail over the sea, on her traditional colors, white and blue, as depicted above. it’s also costumary in brazil to do that on new years, even among non-practitioners. in both umbanda and candomblé. the objects and colors that symbolize the orisá - deity - are very important, and representing and wearing them is an important part of their religion) 

in short, this is sacred art, and as such it’s important that her name and representation are respected and accurate. so to anyone who’s reblogged, i’d be happy if you reblog this version as well

(PS: i’m not afro-religious, so if there’s anything inaccurate about my addendum, please let me know)

time to hit the government with a motherfucking

He just shit on your whole life, bitch.

Ok so for those of you who are also bad with following social cues and don’t get how he destroyed her

The gifs are from Project Runway, and the woman is a judge who is supposed to be offering useful critique regarding what the man has made. In the first gif, she insults the colour of the lace, and offers no useful advice, like a proper critique should. She’s supposed to be helping him, and is instead using her authority to insult him. In the second gif, he thanks her, which calls out the fact that she was supposed to give advice and didn’t, and that she is now in the wrong. In the third gif, she’s assumed that he’s arrogant, and attempts drives in the insult by pointing out she wasn’t complementing him, but instead sets herself up to get rekt. In the fourth gif, he points out that he didn’t take it as a compliment, thus subtly calling her out on the fact that she wasn’t delivering the critique she was supposed to give, and was instead being a bitch for the sake of being a bitch, and also making it clear that SHE KNEW she wasn’t doing her job. All in a way where he can’t be called on being rude to a judge.

The fifth gif is her realising just how much she’s fucked herself over.

the fifth gif is her realising just how much she’s fucked herself over

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And haikubot does wheelies on the wreckage.

is this blood orange guy????

or am i hallucinating

He just shit on your whole life, bitch.

Ok so for those of you who are also bad with following social cues and don’t get how he destroyed her

The gifs are from Project Runway, and the woman is a judge who is supposed to be offering useful critique regarding what the man has made. In the first gif, she insults the colour of the lace, and offers no useful advice, like a proper critique should. She’s supposed to be helping him, and is instead using her authority to insult him. In the second gif, he thanks her, which calls out the fact that she was supposed to give advice and didn’t, and that she is now in the wrong. In the third gif, she’s assumed that he’s arrogant, and attempts drives in the insult by pointing out she wasn’t complementing him, but instead sets herself up to get rekt. In the fourth gif, he points out that he didn’t take it as a compliment, thus subtly calling her out on the fact that she wasn’t delivering the critique she was supposed to give, and was instead being a bitch for the sake of being a bitch, and also making it clear that SHE KNEW she wasn’t doing her job. All in a way where he can’t be called on being rude to a judge.

The fifth gif is her realising just how much she’s fucked herself over.

the fifth gif is her realising just how much she’s fucked herself over

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And haikubot does wheelies on the wreckage.

GUYS. THERE WAS DRIVE-THROUGH IN ANCIENT ROME. FINDING OUT THIS ALONE IS WORTH THE COST OF MY MASTERS IN HISTORY.

[From Daily Life of the Ancient Romans by David Matz]

*rolls up to the window* yeah gimme a number V combo

“I’ll have two number IXs, a number IX large, a number VI with extra ambrosia, a number VIII, two number XLVs, one with cheese, and a large goblet of wine.”

hail, I am Gaius Furius, welcome to Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives

“YEAH CAN I GET A FVCKIN VVVVHHH….VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVHHHHHHHHH…BVRGER?”

@fortooate I had to do it

Please tell me someone has tagged @dduane and@petermorwood on this…

TL;DR - Yes, Ancient Roman cities had fast food outlets; No, they didn’t have drive-throughs because most vehicles were prohibited except when making deliveries at set times .

You just tagged me, and it pushed so many buttons, because our research for “Games” (optioned twice so far, though not produced either time) showed us that when it comes to comparing Ancient Roman eating habits with now - and particularly the US - the similarities are remarkable.

The usual name (though see below) was a “thermopolium”, meaning “Hot Food Here”, and archaeologists estimate there were about 300 thermopolia in Pompeii and Herculaneum.

This sounds like a lot, but lower-class Roman tenement dwellings (”insulae”) were usually just somewhere to sleep; there was no bathroom, no toilet and no kitchen. So besides their work all other parts of citizens’ lives, from bathing and eating to peeing and pooping, also happened away from home, in non-domestic facilities like public baths, public latrines (the Guilds of Fullers and Tanners thank you for your contributions) and eating-houses like thermopolia, tabernae and popinae.

The archaeologists think these three words may have been interchangeable, or subject to dialect variations, but saying that Ancient Rome had Diners, Drive-ins and Dives is as close to true as makes no never-mind. There were no Roman “fine dining” restaurants, since meals of that category would be eaten at home with invited guests as part of social networking, but though upper-class Romans looked down on the D, D-I & D establishments, there’s written evidence that they ate from them regardless.

Think of them as a cross between fast-food outlets, gastropubs and tapas bars.

Here’s a reconstruction:

Here are a few examples of real ones, all similar but each different:

Pots of prepared food were set in those counter recesses. I haven’t found out if there was a way to keep it hot, but the design looks like there might have been a charcoal brazier at one end sending hot air through the counter-space on the same principal as a hypocaust (Roman under-floor central heating), otherwise why make the counter of stone rather than wood?

@dduane​ suggests it may be because old bricks and broken rubble were easier to find, but IMO these were built with more care than just “because it’s cheap”.

The second two have a side that obviously faces the street (they would all have done, it’s just more obvious in those pics) which is where takeaway would have happened. Customers wanting to eat in would have moved along the indoor side of the L-shaped counter.

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As for takeaway, it didn’t include Drive-In or Drive-Through as we’d know it. Roman cities were almost entirely pedestrian so Walk-In or Walk-Through was more likely, but there might be a certain amount of Stop-In-Front-For-Takeaway by hungry deliverymen, ignoring vulgar cries in Vulgar Latin along the lines of “get that bloody cart out of the bloody way!”

Even then it wouldn’t happen at peak times since, except for unusual circumstances, deliveries were restricted to and had to be completed within set hours before and after the business day. Roman writers including Martial and Pliny bitch about being woken at early o’clock by squeaky axles, braying mules and swearing drivers as fresh provisions arrived for sale.

This reconstruction shows the ruts in the road for cart-wheels…

…and these are the real thing, which along with the frequent crossing-stones restricted what size of vehicle could enter the city: local delivery wagons drawn by a single mule, yes, out-of-town heavy freight drawn by a yoke of oxen, no.

There’s a longstanding chicken-and-egg argument over what came first, carts making ruts in soft lava rock, or ruts cut into rock to control carts. Since ruts of the same size (supposedly recycled in the Industrial Revolution as the size of Standard Gauge railway track, YMMV on that) appear on roads in other parts of the Empire which aren’t made of soft lava rock, my two sesterces is on deliberate cutting.

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Okay, so what kind of food did these places serve? Those keep-hot pots (dolias) would have contained vegetables like onions, carrots, leeks, cabbage, etc., also stews of beans, lentils, fish and some cheap kind of meat; since this was poor or at least not-rich people’s food, that meat would have been the inner bits most modern diners don’t want to know about. Not that organ meat worried the Romans; they were nose-to-tail diners in the way that was common throughout history until about 150 years ago.

This 1st-century terracotta relief supposedly shows a basic meal of fish, bread (top left), possibly cheese (bottom left) and an egg (bottom right); there’s a knife (top) and spoon (bottom) to eat with, a cup and a pannier for drink. So far so good.

However IMO what it may show is a kitchen table in the classic cookery demo top-down view. Those two fish are about to be cut up using the knife (top centre right with a curved horn(?) handle and possibly a sheath) then cooked in the pan on the right. There’s a spoon to stir and taste (bottom right), and the egg, bread and cheese(?) are either other ingredients or meant to accompany the pieces of cooked fish when they go into the bowl at top centre left.

Okay, I’m guessing; but it’s a fair guess. :->

Fast food would also have included bread, fresh and dried figs and other fruit, olives, cheese, honey, shellfish, eggs raw and hard-boiled, dried and smoked meat and fish, olive oil and, inevitably, garum, the (in)famous Roman fish sauce to which the entire Empire was addicted. They had FACTORIES to make the stuff though like tanneries, they were built well away from human - or at least wealthy - habitation.

Internet pages delight in focussing on the “Ew, rotted fish guts!” aspect; the Romans for their part would have looked at tomato ketchup and said “hang on, tomatoes are deadly nightshade in a party frock” before falling on them with delight because Ancient Roman recipes suggest a real fondness for sweet-sour. Anyway garum’s not rotted, it’s fermented with lots of salt like Worcestershire and Tabasco.

You know how modern foodstuffs are packaged in distinctive containers so you can spot them easily? Garum did it too.

Some Roman fast-foods were surprisingly familiar: kebabs (meats grilled on spits, including more inner bits); pizza (more of a foccacia or flatbread, drizzled with oil, sprinkled with herbs, topped with cheese and / or bits of meat or smoke-cured salami); burgers (grilled chopped-meat patties using yet more inner bits) and hot-dogs (various sausages including the famous Lucanian Sausage, smoked pork with herbs and pine-nuts).

We don’t know if Roman bakers produced small loaves - what we’d know as buns - for the sausages and burgers; it’s more likely that if eaten modern-style, they’d be seasoned with pepper and a dash of garum, then rolled in a flatbread wrap or put into a split section of the standard Roman panis quadratus loaf, like these on a Pompeii fresco…

…or this actual loaf, somewhat overbaked by Mount Vesuvius.

As mentioned before, there was no ketchup, but there were several kinds of mustard from mild to pungent, including ones made with water, wine, vinegar, honey and of course garum.

The Romans didn’t have popcorn (like tomatoes, maize was still an Atlantic Ocean away) but roasted crunchy chickpeas - in new leek’n’garum flavour! - were a direct equivalent.

Some of what follows is known historical fact; some of the rest is logical extrapolation from research for our “Games” project.

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