Whoa there, pardner! What have you done to make sure that belief or practice actually originates in ancient times and didn't come from the imagination of a repressed Victorian romantic?
The first time I scrolled by this, I misread "pardner" as "Gardner" and this became ten times funnier.
true top gear fans know "stig" is short for "stigmata" because they crucify him after every show
Dutch people are like “we don’t need to wear a helmet when we ride our bikes, because unlike in the barbarous United States, we have simply outlawed traumatic brain injury”
solid asphalt only hurts to fall on if the road it makes up was designed primarily for cars
I told my friend who’s a TBI researcher about this post and he was shocked silent and then started laughing harder than I’d ever seen him laugh before, and then he said, “we literally use something called Rotterdam Score to assess brain injuries.”
Not seeing the issue here. This is the epitome of art
via reddit.com
Jesus ffucking christ bro.
Seems like he had an oral fixation… Almost as if he were replacing the cigarette with… No i shant say…
Apparently neopets not only managed to ditch the NFT bros, but with the closure of the Jumpstart brand weeks ago, neopets is now completely independent for the first time since the early 2000′s, got millions in a new investment deal and are currently installing a flash simulator so that all their games and animations work again.
I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of "people also watched" and "for you" into the results. That's not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.
"I despise your wretched little games" perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy
They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by “upload date,” the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that you’ll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, which—NO! That’s NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!
Also sometimes the “people also watched” bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. I’ve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.
When you are used to the no-nonsense, no-context approach of medieval Irish stories, trying to read Old Norse saga literature does feel kind of like you're being told a medieval story by Uncle Colm from Derry Girls.
#you know young thorgrim as it was #ah this wouldn't be the thorgrim who was thorstein's son #THAT thorgrim lived on the other side of the fjord #or WAS it that thorgrim? #no it was the other thorgrim #his father was thorstein too you see but he was quite a different man #although you wouldn't know it to look at his farm #a mess of a place it was #i said to him thorstein i said you need to start asking thorgrim to help you more #and he said they've a haunting #would you believe it! #a haunting! #it would have been around then or was it the winter after that when they had the famine #no i think it was that winter #and a young man arrived. a warrior he was. #i never knew his father but his father's uncle— (via @trans-cuchulainn)
If this were a medieval Irish story, it would be more like:
"There was an excellent warrior, Thorir his name. He was fostered by Thorstein, who had a son called Thorgrim, but it was not an auspicious time for their farm, because there was a haunting there. When Thorir saw the dead man, he tied a withe around its feet, but it pursued him anyway. Then he performed the sword-feat, and cut the man into many pieces. He took his head and went back to Thorgrim mac Thorstein. 'O fosterbrother,' he said, 'I have killed the man who was haunting you, that is, the revenant.' Thorgrim said, 'This is a great deed.' And that is why that place is called Hill of the Dead Man."
And we will never find out who any of these people are or what was up with the revenant or what Thorir was trying to achieve with the withe -- or even who the revenant was before he was dead.
Meanwhile in the Norse saga we're still learning his family tree and Thorir hasn't even shown up yet.
can anyone translate whatever the hell my little brother has going on rn
this is such a good point. @walnutsupreme why aren’t you doing numbers yet
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-american-mink-regrow-brains-rare.html
"populations that escaped from captivity were able to regain almost the full ancestral brain size within 50 generations"
"Dechmann suspects she knows why this animal, in particular, has achieved what was thought to be unlikely. American mink belong to a family of small mammals with a remarkable ability to seasonally change their brain size in a process known as Dehnel's phenomenon."
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY CAN SEASONALLY CHANGE THEIR BRAIN SIZE
thats one way to combat cabin fever
Mattie will get banned from house parties for hitting on the host in front of their boyfriend, only to show up the next week with like four beautiful women in tow and saying shit to them like "Did you hear they made a film based on those charming little Lego star wars games?"
People come up to him like "Mattie who are these chicks they're gorgeous."
He just looks around for a second and goes "To be honest dahling I have no idea. Here, if you want to woo one, read them some of this classical poetry." And he hands you the first book of Naruto.
I thought Mattie thought Naruto was real?
He thinks it's a historical text.
steps into a big pot of bubbling oil and sits there like its a hot tub and i snile at you so nicely that you step in after me and youre immediately boiled til theres nothing left
well you see,
the sniler
btw, the molotov cocktail got named that by Finns who used them when fighting back against the Soviet Union's imperialist invasion of their country, as a mocking reference to Vyacheslav Molotov's propaganda about said invasion ("we're not bombing them, we're just flying in food deliveries because they're starving!")
so i'm not gonna stop y'all from making molotov cocktail jokes, but you'd better not turn around and post soviet apologia afterwards. respect the cocktail's history
i get that i can expect to see the “unreality” tag a lot on my stuff. i post a lot of weird eldritch shit and even when i post something that isn’t it’s still deeply steeped in my nonsense.
but i’m fucking losing my mind at how even my posts that are correct and true will be tagged that. fatal incuriosity is inescapable when you’re me.
my “a coin is a three sided object. never forget that.” post earned an unreality tag at one point
i’m sorry but maybe you’re not the best watchdog for what’s real and what isn’t, champ. i think being the arbiter of reality requires at least a basic understanding of 3d space.
tumblr users experiencing “unreality”
i once posted the south up map in here and someone tagged it unreality… buddy that’s the earth……..
