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@thisisnotjuli / thisisnotjuli.tumblr.com

juli, he/they, 20s | multifandom sideblog | my writing (ao3) | occasionally NSFW, you've been warned
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Let’s hear for a woman who had to spend many years hiding that she lended her voice to a doll that has spend the last 60 years inspiring young girls.

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her name is chris anthony lansdowne! dont worry, op didnt omit her name, tumblr formatting just makes it so that its cut from the photoset!

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Please watch this.

Shit, I’ve only seen stills of this.

the photoset really didn’t do this scene justice im yelling

Takashi narrating: “I have completed my enrollment for Cromartie High School.  I hope to get used to the school as quickly as possible and lead a healthy, academic life.  But… I’m surrounded by people who, frankly, scare me.  Aaaaand I’m kinda freaking out.  [He bumps his pencil and it falls off his desk.  He gasps.]  Uh-oh.” [An intimidating-looking student picks it up.] Takashi out loud: “Uh, thank you very much.” Takashi thinking: “Huh.  Maybe these guys aren’t so bad after all–” [The student puts the pencil in his mouth, snapping it in two.  Takashi screams internally as the student chews and swallows.] Takashi thinking: “He.  Ate.  My.  Pencil.  He ate my pencil!” [With a look of resignation, he opens his pencil case and pours out a large pile of identical pencils before the student, who picks them all up and, naturally, chows down on them, growling like an animal.] Takashi thinking: “That– that-that can’t be normal.  He ate all of them.  These guys are not your run-of-the-mill delinquents.” [In the background, the student who ate the pencils retches, accompanied by the sound of pencils clattering.]

My sister and I were watching Lost but not paying a ton of attention and then suddenly the TV is like "Okay so we're going to have to remove two inches from the width of the island" and we both like snap our heads up like woah we were literally just dealing with a time travel problem why do we need to make the island a little smaller now? But it turns out the dog had laid down on the remote and turned it to Property Brothers so like bad news for whoever's kitchen they're designing but good news i guess for the Lost people for not having to shrink the island

most insane reddit comment i've gotten is someone saying that they had a brief catholic phase because "sex should be for procreation only" just seemed "right" to them. And then they realized they were an atheist but had a breeding kink.

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Sometimes you're gonna see a really stupid post and you're gonna have to keep your mouth shut online but you can always say "Shut the fuck up dumb fuck" out loud, they can't hear you when you do that.

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I have a little plastic cap gun revolver next to my computer and when I see a really bad post I take it out and I shoot the post

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I’m gonna be honest now that my frontal lobe is fully developed I think I’m gonna stop sexualizing fútbol players it’s just doesn’t hit the same guys... 😔

so yeah... i dont think i can slutify old men anymo- hey, what's this? 🔌👀🔌👈🚶‍♀️⚡💥💥😵💀⚡️⚡️☠️😵⚡️⚡️😵💀⚡️⚡️😱⚡️⚡️💥⚡️⚡️💥⚡️😵💀⚡️😱⚡️⚡️😵💀⚡️⚡️⚡️😵💀⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️😵💀⚡️⚡️☠️⚡️⚡️☠️😱⚡️💥⚡💥😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵😵😵😵😵

OUGGUUUHH sorry guys i got electric shock from a plug 😩⚡🤕

anyway... normal again

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Americans be like: My grandpa 😠😠😠 served in the Korean War 😠😠😠 and killed 9 people 😠😠😠 to fund his college degree in clownery 😠😠😠 Respect him or leave the country 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬

That’s a super light story huh? My great grandfather got killed in action from a land mine to protect this country. If you don’t wanna respect the history or stand for a national anthem😁then leave to your peaceful home and fuck right off

How did your great grandpa stepping on a landmine protect this country

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Happy Memorial Day

usamericans pointing at french protests going omg look true revolutionaries!! oh are those marchs and protests actually doing something? well no but le mis!!!

the french are always placed as the true enlightned (civilized) protestors and they dont even have the decency to accomplish shit with their protests like cmon

Let’s talk about something called the “sunk cost fallacy”.

Say that you’ve bought a concert ticket for $50 for a band that you don’t know that well. Half an hour into the show, you realize that you don’t actually enjoy the music and you aren’t having a good time - instead of leaving the concert to go do something else, however, you sit through the remaining hours of the concert because you don’t want to “waste” the cost of the ticket. 

Congratulations, you’ve just fallen victim to the sunk cost fallacy.

The “sunk cost fallacy” is something that all humans are prone to when we make decisions. Simply put, it’s the human tendency to consider past costs when we make choices, even when those costs are no longer relevant. When you’re deciding whether or not to stay at that concert you aren’t enjoying, you will likely consider the cost of the ticket when you’re making your decision - for instance, you’d probably be a lot more willing to leave a $5 concert that you aren’t enjoying than a $50 concert that you aren’t enjoying. But taking the cost of the ticket into account at all is a mistake. 

When you’re making a rational decision, the only thing that matters is the future. Time, effort and money that you’re spent up until that point no longer matter - it doesn’t make sense to consider them, because no matter what you decide, you can’t actually get them back. They are “sunk” costs. If you decide to stay at that concert, you are out $50 and you’ll have a mediocre evening. If you decide to go leave and do something more fun, you are out $50 and you’ll have a better evening. No matter what you choose, you have lost $50 - but choosing to leave the concert means that you haven’t also spent an evening doing something you don’t like.

The sunk cost fallacy is sometimes also described as “throwing good money after bad” - people will waste additional time, resources and effort simply to justify the fact that they’ve already wasted time, resources and effort, even if it leaves them worse off overall. 

Common examples of sunk cost fallacy in everyday life include:

  • refusing to get rid of clothes that don’t fit or that you never wear because they were expensive
  • going to an event that you no longer want to go to because you already bought the ticket 
  • spending more and more money on repairing a car or computer (or something else that depreciates in value over time) instead of buying a new one because you don’t want to waste the money you put into earlier repairs
  • continuing to watch a movie or TV show you aren’t enjoying anymore because you’ve already watched part of it 
  • finishing a plate of food that you’re not enjoying or are too full to enjoy, because you don’t want to waste it
  • refusing to get rid of unused, unwanted or broken items in your home because the items were expensive

Perhaps the most damaging example of sunk cost fallacy in everyday life, however, is relationships. 

People often use the length of a relationship to justify staying in it. You’ve probably heard this logic - you may even have used it yourself: “I can’t break up with him or the two years we spent together will be for nothing.”

“If I leave her, it will mean I wasted the five years I spent with her.”

The reality, though, is that staying in a mediocre relationship doesn’t “give you back” the time you’ve already invested in that relationship. It just makes the relationship longer. If you stay in a bad relationship for five more years to avoid “wasting” the first two, you haven’t actually made those first two years worthwhile - you’ve simply spent seven years of your life in a bad relationship. There’s nothing we can do to recover time and effort (and in most cases, money) that we’ve already spent. But we can forgive ourselves, and we can stop letting our past mistakes continue to define our futures. 

To put it in Marie Kondo’s words, those things have served their purpose to you, even if their only purpose was to teach you that you do not like that thing. That ticket has now taught you that you do not like this type of band/concert, and leaving the concert is not a waste of that ticket because the ticket has already served its purpose to you. Don’t hold onto things solely out of guilt, because their purpose in your life is over now, and holding onto them will not bring you joy.