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But if you’re interested in finding all of the best content from Tumblr compiled in one list, we’ve got you covered, pandas. The Stole It from Tumblr Instagram account shares gems that they’ve found on the platform that deserve to be seen by wider audiences. We’ve got a list of their best posts waiting for you down below, so enjoy scrolling through, and remember to upvote all of the pics that make you giggle!
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I've seen that post a dozen times on Tumblr, and this is the first time I put "Mike Hawk" together. Good one, Tony. Good one.
Turns out that I can read "bird-beak-speak" and what that Tiny Hawk is telling you is the following: "When performing a hard-flip, be sure that you don't put too much pressure on your back foot, or the flip will rotate too far you'll land on the truck, total trick-system failure to the MAX." I would listen to that bird, as he knows what he's talking about!
Poor baby Kestrel, scared to death. And Kestrels are falcons, not hawks. Sorry, Tony.
I once searched for this margarine style fat Trex. You can imagine the outcome 🤣
Great respect for Tony, but Tiny, the American Kestrel, is so much cuter.
I'd break up with someone who thought buying books is a waste of money, too. Immediately.
Load More Replies...She had one shot at recovering - "Buying books is a waste of money. You should support your local library instead. I don't want to be here, we should go to the library". "Marry me".
People who don't read are not allowed to take up space in my world.
This is, %100, a set up to get bookstore girl to date pro book boy. I have been a wingman for a great many of these scenarios. Once I even threw half a glass of ice water in my best friends face and hollered "you said you were a cat person!!!?" Before storming out of the bar, just so he could get a phone number from a woman with two golden retrievers. All's fair, in love and scamming.
You, my friend, have just established yourself as "Wingwoman of the Year," and a case of Coors Light has been shipped to the last known address we have on hand for you! Cheers! 🍻🥂
Load More Replies...*Dude listens to whiny girlfriend, carefully peruses shelves, and pulls out a copy of "Find Yourself A New Boyfriend, NOW," which he hands to her and leaves the store* 🤣
I haven't been to a movie theater in years, but to see Leslie Jones as Bond!!! I'd be camping on the sidewalk for tickets.
Great idea, but I would have been rooting for Kermit in the reveal. Maybe Eric Cartman.
Ugh, you’re right. Just make something like “The Man with the Golden Gun”!
Load More Replies...I would take my scared self out to see this movie, even if I had to go after dark.
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Why are all the best TV show or movie ideas only in posts and we never get to see them
Because people who pay to make the movies think they will only make money by making movies just like other successful movies.
Load More Replies...I used to go shopping in 4 inch stilettos which is a lot with size 36 feet, yes it was the 80s. Now I just swap between black birkies and gold birkies
Load More Replies...Wow, it hit me in all the feels to realize that if I had been fortunate enough to have a knucke-dusting hero sister in my life like this one that I would have had a much happier, healthier life, including “adulting” time. I was (and I am once again, thankfully) a Chester. I cry very easily. Reading about Chester and his scrappy sister made me cry TODAY, because I realized that I needed a person like her in my young life. Society taught me as a young kid that I COULD NOT cry without having serious sanctions leveled against me, ergo I stopped feeling ANYTHING as best I could. I got very good at it, and once I was an adult and could have USED the ability to feel all the feels that life tosses at us, I found it had become impossible to "get through" my barriers. I'm 46-and-a-half and am FINALLY able to cry openly. Thank you, punchy sister, for protecting your brothers!
as the oldest, it was my duty to beat the c**p out of kids who picked on my younger siblings.
Ever read the Poet X, it’s centered around a girl who gets into fights often to protect her older brother.
Do we need any more reasons than the phrase 'militant vegans'?
Load More Replies..."I'm worried about the animals and the environment!! Don't buy wool or leather, buy plastic! " Meanwhile, a well made wool or leather coat will last several generations reducing plastic and waste
While I personally don't have that concern, I do get the _why_ of avoiding leather. I understand that logic. I absolutely do not get avoiding wool. It's the byproduct of properly cared for sheep.
Load More Replies...Go to your local charity shops. Lots of wool garments, and pure cotton stuff
Aye! I see it, as if a garment's in a second-hand, it's equivalent to being thrown out, so if you buy it, it's kinda respecting the animal.
Load More Replies...Shearing theoretically doesn't have to hurt them, but the regular wool industry is absolutely brutal, a portion of the sheep get hurt and some even die because of it. The choices in the regular wool industry are based on what makes the most profit, not on what doesn't harm the sheep. I wish people would look into it, instead of assuming that their rose tinted view is correct.
So veganism is about the animals, not the environment. There is a long list of environmental reasons to avoid animal husbandry as well, but they're not directly the rationale for veganism. Secondly, there are a ton of non-plastic natural fibres, from cotton to bamboo, linen etc, even vegan leather made from mushrooms! Incredible advances. Furthermore, you don't have to search too hard to find examples of animal abuse in the wool industry. Maybe know what you're talking about before calling caring people idiots.
The fibre made from bamboo is viscose, which is a synthetic fibre made industrially by pulverising the bamboo mechanically, and then boiling the pulverised bamboo in concentrated alkali to extract the cellulose. The alkaline cellulose extract is then cooled, and forced under pressure through fine holes into a tank containing strong acid. This neutralises the alkali, and causes the cellulose to solidify into fibres which are then washed to remove the acid, and spun into yarn. Not exactly natural . . .
Load More Replies...I love wool products too. And they LAST. I have a wool felt pea coat that has been handed down from my mother to me, so, pushing 70 years old now and still looks good and is warm. Have had to replace a few toggles over the years but the coat itself is still top notch.
Load More Replies...I would buy more wool if it wasn't so expensive. I really wanted to buy some 100% locally grown wool jumpers and hats when I was in Tasmania at the start of the year but each cost almost the same as a one way ticket to Tassie! Mind you, if you can knit or crochet yourself it's probably cheaper, because I find balls of wool for only a couple of dollars in op shops all the time.
To be fair, Tasmanian wool is expensive because of the processing costs. Tasmanian Devils are notoriously vicious so the shearers are paid huge amounts of danger money.
Load More Replies...uhhh acrylic yarn has been around for ages, thats nothing the vegans invented.
Like "vegan" leather.... Plastic... Just call a spade a spade. Faux leather not only have a very short lifespan. It also disintegrate into micro plastics before our very eyes.
It's not a meaningful term because different people define it in various ways, but some definitions insist that vegan leather only applies to plant- and fungus-derived materials. See for example the Wikipedia entry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant-based_leather
Load More Replies...If you were never an avid Tumblr user yourself, you might not be super familiar with the site and how it works. But it’s still thriving today, despite the fact that the platform hit its peak about a decade ago. According to Demand Sage, there are currently about 519 million blogs on Tumblr from all over the world. And every single day, 12.8 million posts are published for Tumblr users to enjoy.
When it comes to who frequents the social media platform, Tumblr reports that their users are an equal split between men and women, the majority being Gen Z and Millennials. And as far as why people hop onto the site, 60% say that they visit to find entertainment, while 12% use the platform to connect with loved ones.
Cat the Younger knows I'm leaving for work when I start putting on make up. He gets very upset when he sees me doing this!
Awe. My aunt had two little dogs that were pretty smart and they knew when she was wearing her work clothes and were pouty when she had to work weekends
Load More Replies...Well I used to say "Bye! I'm off now" to the cat, but she didn't give a sh*t
I certainly know my pets love when I stay home, actually I love it as well.
I've had a double mastectomy and my dogs know that I am going out when I put on my fake b00bs.
I think crows are so cool that if they wanted to accompany to Death's door, I'd be pleased as punch. (Just checked the origin of pleased as punch. It's not good, but I'll leave it as is.)
Then we must have read a different origin, cuz the one I found (I had to know what you were talking about) just had to do with puppets.. or are you afraid of puppets?
Load More Replies...The irony is, this song is supposed to be a good cadence for performing CPR- so we shall see who wins, Death or CPR administration :)
Just because a young girl is a tomboy does not mean she will be a Lesbian. They may just be a great athlete or be hyper active.
True, but if the girls dress and participate in traditionally masculine activities, having a group of older, similar women will be great mentors.
Load More Replies...💕 That wasn’t an option when we were kids. This IS hope after all! 💕💕💕💕
What I would have given to have parents like this. I was told I was either "demon possessed or under the influence of demons" (like they're a psychotropic substance) becuase I "refused to be feminine". Haha! Joke's on you, I grew up to be a man! Didn't see THAT comin' huh!? Mwuaahaahaa.... wait- wa- who? Who won the election? Oh...uh... *makes self much smaller*, well, I'll just be far far over there, do ignore me!" Of course, that's silly, and I have more courage than that suggests, but ngl, my head is still reeling, and I feel like that a lil bit.
One question: How in the actual fu*k can I get an invite to that brunch? I know how to make BOMB corned beef hash (with actual corned beef), and I would be happy to make an entire bushel of the stuff if it meant an invite would be forthcoming! I need that group's energy STAT!
This is awesome. Mom always taught that you can be whatever you want, and introduced me to so many adults from different walks of life. I'd like to think it's why I have so many friends half my age calling me 'auntie'. I was never forced to define, just to collect what I liked about those around me without judgement.
This is amazing but I need to know are you a butch group a butch group of friends ( I feel like saying sexual preference related would be wrong but I'm 43 and I don't think I understand how we're allowed to say things neither my bisexual daughter or my bisexual non binary kid are here to tell me ) I need context
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Yup, as a parent your most important responsibility is to unconditionally and whole heartedly love and support whatever child you get.
Seeing how devastating it can be to have a child with serious disabilities, in families around me, I at least think it's completely fair to choose an abortion... the child would probably have choosen to be born without the disability if they had a choice, certainly mild autism etc can be managble in families with lots of money and resources, but a poor American family have no chance of getting a good result
Load More Replies...All those things are not the same me thinks, a child with severe autism or other handicaps can be completely devestating for the parents and siblings, if the family dies not have sufficient resources to handle the challenge... its so easy to just say that all families should sacrifice everything for their children without considering their specific situation, but this is only in regards to the choice to get an abortion if it is found out the child will be born with a severe handicap
I mean there is always a risk. If you have kid, you basically sign the agreement that you understand there is a risk.
Load More Replies...Good for OP! Living in one of those countries where women have choices...
I'm the super proud Mum to a Trans, Borderline Asperger's GENIUS girl with somewhat of a social anxiety issue 🥰
That's a bit harsh: some stories of parents with children with severe disabilities are heartbreaking. They'll do anything they can for their child, barely dare to admit that sometimes they wish they made other choices and no one is ever really prepared for the fear of what will happen when they are no longer around to take care of their adult child...
I'm not disagreeing with the sentiment, but I think it would be more accurate to say 'potentially' in front of all of these. Noone knows what will happen as part of pregnancy, birth or growing up - it's both a risk and a reward. I know in my heart that while I'm a good friend to my adult friends and family, I just don't have the compassion to raise a child so I don't have any.
Having a child is a c**p shoot. Some times they turn out to be winners. The odds are greater that they just turn out like an average flawed human.
We should support parents, because it's hard enough, and with a kid with stuff going on, it can be incredibly difficult. But they're your kid. Love them, support them, do your best and then some.
Whether straight, gay, or bi-, there's always at least one mean girl per group.
No you're being downvoted for being insufferable.
Load More Replies...I just need to confirm your address, telephone number, and date of birth. Me: Uh, what? Wait, I know this stuff.
I can honestly say I never ever in my entire life turned into a moron. You can’t turn into what you started out as.
I hate that question in an interview 'so tell me about yourself' me: I'm human and I have a cat
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International headline acts doing their Australian wide tour in Melbourne, Sydney and maybe Brisbane.
Ah, yes. Living in NZ, where the NZ tour is Auckland.
Load More Replies...Meanwhile, in Canada: 'A three-hour drive? That's just a quick trip to the grocery store!
Western Europeans be like "A 3 hour drive? Nonsense, it's just up the road, we can just walk."
*Canadians shrugging* lol I live on Vancouver island and my boyfriend currently lives in Vancouver, its a 7 hour trip to go see him and we don’t even leave coastal bc lol
I'm 59 years old and just realised that Vancouver Island isn't a cute little isle just off Vancouver City ie. a 20 minute hop on a ferry from the centre of town. Lolol
Load More Replies...3 hours ought to just about get me across town and out of the Houston Metropolitan Area
Only that the majority of Americans in my neck of the country use mileage, not time. Three hours? I live in rural flatlands. What does time even mean?
LOLLL central western Europe. Yesterday four hrs north to see a band in the Netherlands, earlier this year same band two hrs south in France, last year 8hrs in Germany.
Those Australians might be crying, but their tears travel down their faces from east to west, unlike my American tears which travel west to east...
This is actually really funny, whoever popped the extra joint in is hilarious 😂
That kid was smart. Preventative measures in case someone else screws it up.
Load More Replies...Hehe, I heard of the officer hiding 10 packs of stuff and his sniffer dog found 11.
Back in the 70's, I once went to a 'police lecture' about d***s and awareness, and they passed round a huge block of cannabis resin that they'd seized in a particular raid. About 60+ in the audience of healthcare professionals. The block was noticeably smaller when it got back to the dias.....
Then they called in the sniffer dogs and the school STILL went on lockdown. Kids can't win. 😒
I got through uni by rewarding myself for every 20-30 mins of work with 20 mins of tv. Now I can't even get myself to put my washing away because I decided to watch tv while I ate breakfast and three hours later I'm still sitting on the couch.
On a screen technically... Wait, do you print out website pages? How did you leave a comment on a piece of paper?!?
Load More Replies...And unlike popular belief its not always "Ooh! A squirrel!" it can also be "Oh look a squirrel. Hey that reminds me of *blah blah blah*. Oh, I just remembered *blah blah blah*. Sorry what? I zoned out for a second, Hey did you know *blah blah blah*
Load More Replies...And if you’re not interested in using Tumblr simply to stay entertained or get some giggles into your day, you might be able to use it to practice some of your skills. Rowena Wiseman at Novlr recommends that writers use Tumblr to share snippets of their work or share details about their writing process. It can help fans stay connected if they hear more about the background of their favorite books, and they’ll be thrilled when they know that something new is coming before its actual release.
My automatic response to tripping on something is "who put that there?". Get very odd looks if it's a crack in the concrete.
I get up, and no matter how ungracious or slow. I always finish with hands up as to make a bow, and say "tada".
There I was, tooling home with my little cart filled to the brim with groceries, listening to cool tunes, when suddenly the front tires caught in a crack. Next thing I knew I was on top of the cart, food spilled in every direction, arms outstretched, legs kicking like I was in a swim meet, and laughing hysterically. Good times.
🎶 These are the good times...🎶 But thanks for the laugh as I envisioned how you must have looked on top of the cart. Lol 😂 hope you were ok and didn't lose any or many groceries.
Load More Replies...I point and say, "have that removed" a la John Larroquette in Stripes
I usually glance around, then look at the nearest onlooker and say, "You didn't see that" in a conspiratorial voice.
I fell down some stairs and quietly mumbled about how my mechanics need some oil. The kids behind me laughed but i still dont know if they laughed because I fell or because of what I said!
I love saying, "Just testing gravity. Good thing it still works!" and go on with my day.
Cats get embarrassed when they run into a table leg or something. Every cat I’ve had has done it and every one immediately sat down and started washing themselves. Like, what? Ran into a table leg. Me? No you must be seeing things.
That wasn't his doing. The market had opened with Coca Cola down the $4 billion BEFORE he did his stunt with the water.
Euro 2020 football championship in Budapest on Monday 14 June. Ronaldo followed this by holding up a bottle of water before declaring in Portuguese: 'Agua!'
Meh... If he had actually some how evaporated $4billion of actual cash from Coke executives, I'd be much more impressed
for every bottle of Coke Zero that I drink I drink 1.5 same size bottles of water.
I actually love Coca Cola, especially from glass bottles, but I'm pretty sure they won't want to sponsor an unknown science fiction writer.
Yeah, they should just drink coke like how they're told to.
Load More Replies...Apparently the English alphabet in order of letter frequency in dictionary words is EARIOTNSLCUDPMHGBFYWKVXZJQ according to https://www3.nd.edu/~busiforc/handouts/cryptography/letterfrequencies.html if I'm reading it right.
Oh lordy I just tried to sing that and it fried my brain
Load More Replies...No. Unless it's J for Jeremy. Because forget Jeremy.
Load More Replies...Q has been there since the Phoenician alphabet 2500 years ago. pe,, qop, res, shin, taw" (i.e. P, Q, R, S, T) There was another letter between P and Q called tsade that the Semitic languages (ie Arabic and Hebrew) kept but the Greek/Latin descendants dropped. Q also used to be super common in Latin with SPQR being the old abbreviation of the Roman Empire.
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Do you think it was directly targeted at them specifically? because I like to think it was.
Basically, they need to have contributed to space-flight safety during the mission. So... maybe [edit: spelling]
Load More Replies...Who in their right mind considered them astronauts? These guys don't have the minimum 10 years of training. Calling these rich a-holes astronauts is an insult to astronauts. They're in the same category as Able and Baker, the first primates to travel beyond Earth's gravitational pull.
"We poked our noses two inches above the Karman Line for five minutes! Woo-Hoo! WE HAVE CONQUERED THE UNIVERSE!!!" Yeah, shut up and go back to your offices.
I'd be fine with bezos being classified as an astronaut if he had been left up there.
Biden's effete weeping against DJT's immense popularity and ability to connect to the masses.
Is your comment related to this or just a gas explosion that was not contained?
Load More Replies...Most of my brain has been on autopilot for years.
Load More Replies...It's like being hyper awake after being at the most tired point at 3 in the morning
03.48 here as it happens! Yup, wide awake now.
Load More Replies...This sounds a lot like like autistic masking. I've done this my entire life, I can literally be having a full on anxiety attack but noone will be able to tell because I look calm and my expression is just neutral. My 6yr old niece is the exact same, she struggles a lot in school but whenever her mum tries to talk to the school about it they always act shocked and say she's doing amazing and always looks happy and carefree, they act like mum I'd crazy because they can't accept that she's masking all the time!
Interestingly, people who react to stress this way make great people to have around in an emergency!
True; unfortunately, it also means that people will always rely on you (me) in stressful situations. I've absolutely found this to be true at work (and the work we do is not saving lives).
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Disney strikes again. BTW, lemmings do not fling themselves off cliffs en masse.
They do if they're being chased by cameramen though. They didn't lie -they just presented alternative facts.
Load More Replies...Oh my god, the one that always gets me is the Marvel Thor movies - literally half our generation now believes that Thor and Loki are brothers. `
Oh well, Zeus fathered Heracles, Romans called them Jupiter and Hercules to avoid a name like Hera.
I watched that movie and (my family can back this up) was quite literally screaming the whole time because of all the inaccuracies
Seriously is no one more worried about the full kids - the ones whose mothers were his sisters eww
Oi, grandad, maybe it is time to turn down the grammar nazi comment, remember that the internet is full of people who's native language is not English. If you could write your comments in a different language you are welcome to be a stickler for orthographié.
Load More Replies...I NEED to know more about this kid!!!!! I assume he is doing great? I would LOVE to hear more!! How does he relate to everyone? I see him as the next pommel horse guy!!
I am the same way about weird people as they have found what makes them happy without hurting themselves, other people, dear pets, and properties.
I'm now imagining an idiot at the tattoo parlour: "I want you to tattoo a gluten on my leg."
If I seen this, and she said this to me I assume she meant in the middle of the crab, which could be fatal. Better yet would be have the words with the crab, stab here.
That's hilarious. I'd do that but my allergy isn't as interesting as a tattoo.
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I love the one who reminded us to take all our belongings with us, but added that if we forgot anything it would be on eBay by the time we got home.
I was once on a flight where the flight attendant running the show was a tiny gay guy who took full advantage of his captive audience to give us the gayest intro and safety demo possible, was freaking hilarious.
Southwest flights to Las Vegas are fun. It's only a 1.25 hour flight from here and everyone is happy, partying, and alert and the Attendants make fun announcements. The flight home? Not so much. Quiet with occasional groans. Hung over and broke.
I think some comedian said this - in an emergency, don't assume the safety position, assume the worst.
The old Latin mass ended with "Ita, missa est." Go, the mass is over.
And cat will forever and eternally slap the cr*p out of anything that annoys or confuses them
Evolution did not prepare birds for windows. Whoever wrote this has never seen a goose attack its own reflection in a mirrored window.
A phrase in our household: ducks only care about duck things. They do not notice or GAF about non-duck things. This was something I'd known instinctively, but watching Shaun the SHeep episodes really nailed it for me.
Try 'beercan' in a British accent. Now you als know how to say bacon in Jamaican.
Load More Replies...While this is funny, in America people were asked if they thought Trump was too authoritarian. Many answered "What's an authoritarian?" And now we have the end of Democracy in America.
And while this may be true it has nothing to do with the hitherto-humourous nature of this post.
Load More Replies..."Let me take a proper gander" = let me take a good look. In some accents "proper" is pronounced as "propah" and "gander" as "ganda".
Load More Replies...I always thought it was when an airplane blade stops, and you have to restart it.
Look, God tried. Intelligence. Free will.Guidelines. Staying out of our way. We just can't seem to help collectively going off the deep end. Especially those of us who only say they're doing things his way
Which god? I mean out of the 2500 that have been worshipped on this planet, specifics are needed. How about this. There was this really significant event billions of years ago between inorganic materials that created an explosion that in turn created matter that meshed together to create organic material (flora/fauna). Why create deities that have been the cause of centuries of pain, suffering, wars, wreaking havoc on our planet, when the feckin incredibly amazing awesome universe is located right there overhead? Put down your holy books and start reading about Astronomy instead.
Load More Replies...Thank you for being aware of your fur baby's needs and attending to them.
I just want to know if it worked? The cat drinking the water, I mean. Zero interest in the prehistoric fantasy fiction
My son totally wants vegetables when I get a plate and start eating it next to him. Giving him his own plate does not work.
Load More Replies...Maybe not, if a bottle writes it it might be recycled
Load More Replies...In the future when we are all uploaded to an A.I. simulation Brenda is going to live forever because people who have read this meme are going to keep sending her more life.
I have read this quite a few times now but every time I can't not laugh, it's perfect.
AI couldn't possibly top this man's hilarious obit about his father: https://people.com/son-wrote-hilarious-obituary-so-dad-wouldnt-be-forgotten-went-viral-8730551
Was just watching a video essay about Henry VIII marrying Anne of Cleves, and they mentioned that when he was trying to decide between Anne and her sister, he sent a portrait painter to paint both of them with specific instructions not to improve their appearance. Then when Anne showed up for the wedding and he didn't like her, he partially blamed the painter for misleading him.
"Have they sent me a Flanders Mare?" He wasn't pleased with the artist but it did his career no harm. Hans Holbein Jnr. went on to be one of the 16th Century's greatest portraitists. In his case, flattery gets you everywhere.
Load More Replies...survivablyso is correct. They used rose-colored glasses as filters to paint unrealistic portraits, otherwise they'd be out of work or worse. I think the closest you'd get to unfiltered portraits and scenes would be Giuseppe Arcimboldo and Hieronymus Bosch.
Pimples?! Many of them were disfigured by smallpox (something we have to look forward to if antivaxers have their way.) It must have been a great leveler because it infected the ugly and beautiful alike.
Listened to a podcast about this. UK destroyed their stock to be safe, US & Russia keep theirs for MAD.
Load More Replies...To be fair, Agnolo Bronzino's portraits made the subjects look like posed corpses in elegant clothing, or maybe Anne Rice-style vampires.
It's because of all the artificial chemicals and plastics that we come across in every day life - food, clothing, skin care, etc.
But did she kill him, or is she showing symptoms of dementia? We'll never know.
Old people don't gossip. They're more like Town Criers shouting all sorts of random stuff to any hearing person within a block's distance. Lots of elderly people in my building. The kids in the playground across the street are quieter.
This post kinda reminds me of my grandparents. When me and my siblings and cousins were kids, we loved it when our grandparents would argue about mundane stuff. My grandfather would come up with the most hilarious insults, and my grandmother would just tell him to shut up. We'd be on the floor laughing so hard.
Grandma has a valid point. I don't won't to grow any older, so I only have one alternative. We'll see how this plays out. Me: 0 Life: continuing to do it's thing.
My in laws married in 1958. He calls her an old biddy and she calls him a pratt. Still sleep in the same bed together.
This will become Americans most popular thing now. They have all this hate inside them for non-existent threats manufactured by the right wing media. They need a safer way to vent it instead of using guns.
The first piece of sensible advice I've seen on the internet *braces for the literal-minded to tell me 'Umm actually eating literal dirt is bad soooo"*
Nah... We all did it at some point and we're all still here 😂 it's aight...... Gross but aight
Load More Replies...Wading through the effluent excreted by the semi-literates on the internet and eating dirt are very different things.
Load More Replies...Not 'actual dirt' just read everything you are able to read and learn things from that 'dirt.' Don't read Tabloids though, absolute BS there!
By the time I was ten, I was pretty over eating dirt. Good thing bullies were there to help
And keep teasing the girls until they're old enough to tease you back.
I was part of the messy genre and suddenly it clicked that handwriting was an art form and my handwriting got infinitely better. I never really noticed other's handwriting, until I was older and wondered why my siblings never left the bad handwriting phase.
My handwriting (printing… let’s not even talk about cursive) is and always has been awful. But it *is* fascinating to hear from the other genre :)
Load More Replies...As a girl I was always told I wrote like a boy My teachers used to take points off In kindergarten through 2nd grade because of my handwriting Those jerks It didn't change anything I still write The same exact way Messy as hell
Same, I finally earned the right to write with a pen, way later than almost the whole class and within a week I got moved back to pencil.
Load More Replies...In high school, I remember deciding I didn't like how I wrote the letter 'y' so I changed it and have been writing y that way since
The "cool" girls came up with a stupid, loopy script. Mom saw my attempt and ordered me to stop emulating "bird brains".
My mother had near perfect handwriting (she's still around but her eyesight isn't what it was) and my father had some of the worst I've seen. He somehow even had bad handwriting when he typed. I'm probably 80 him/20 her
I had bad handwriting through primary school. The summer before middle school, my Grand Aunt gave me a fountain pen and taught me old fashioned Parker Penmanship. I now make a few extra pennies by addressing envelopes for special occasions (like weddings) and occasional notes.
I still write in cursive and people are fascinated. And it’s not even that neat.
It has been said, that poor handwriting is a marker of intelligence . . .
My elder son writes very poor (we used cursive in Europe) bc he is dyslectic before dyslectia was a thing. When I spoke with his teacher in his 9 yrs, she tels me ""it is stabilized handwriting of balanced person!" I had a fit of laugh. My son write so to now - he is a MD.
Load More Replies...I always loved to write by hand. So I practiced a lot and experimented with how I wanted to shape each letter and so on. In my 20s i had a lot of pen pals and some lasted for over a decade and I wrote long letters because i felt it was a waste of postage to send letters that were fewer than 15-20 pages long. I think my record was 60-something pages for a letter. all handwritten on old school letter paper. I have also written a diary on/off since early 2000s.. and for the past 10 years or so I have obsessed about bullet journaling. I hate the cursive-ish lettering everybody showing their bujos online seem to use, though. Again, I just experiment and try this and test that.
I love this. Carve it in stone! Print it on fabric and stab it 10,000 times with threaded needles!
The average sandy desert. So-so balls of fire. Middling white shark. The sufficient showman.
This has potential for a great party game. Now I need to find other nerds to party with.
Jefferson Airplane beat them all to the punch over 50 years ago with "Alexander the Medium"
Reminds me of my favourite YouTuber who always wears sunglasses (from a really cool company btw for every pair you buy they plant a tree) and once he took them off... to reveal another pain of sun glasses
But then you're getting awfully close to the show exploding kittens
Load More Replies...As a European, New York would terrify me. Every day you're next to someone who needs mental health help AND you allow guns. I can't even comprehend living like that
Please stop the trope of the mentally ill are violent. Statistics show they are more likely to be victims of violence.
Load More Replies...Moved from a quiet town where the least bit of odd behavior was noticed and discussed amongst the neighbors. Now living in the city where I am invisible because of the sensory overload.
Is it like the Flintstones and a hundred tiny creatures come out and lick your plates clean?
Push start. Flap opens and soap drops out of its compartment. Hot water sprays onto the dishes from spinning arms. Dishes get cleaned. Repeat water sprayer to rinse. Energize the drying heater. What more do you need to know?
I have at times went to put softner in the washer and happened to notice that the water was very dirty. I wonder if I should run the washer again. I think I notice this with the towels more than the clothes.
I can so relate to this. Getting to the grocery store IS the mission no matter how many days it takes me to work up the courage to push my little cart down the street.
Agreed. Nice firm grapes are the best. Bonus points if they come off the stems really easily without leaving little bits of stem attached, so you can just grab like three grapes at once and drop them in your bowl
I like to leave red ones till they become baggy and wrinkly, sweeter and half way to raisins. Tight and smooth is over rated
for blueberries i like when they aren't tight but aren't loose. like its juicy but not bitter
Coronation grapes are the best but only available for about a month in the fall.
Let's hope it was for an extreme eye irritation. Then they can say "Doctor Dockter, can't you see I'm burning, burning?"
My mother has an eye surgeon named Dr. Blinder.
Load More Replies...My physician's last name is Waechter. When I was trying to figure out how it was pronounced, she said it "rhymes with Doctor."
Years ago my girlfriend (now my wife) went to an eye doctor in St Paul, MN, whose first name was Seymour.
There's got to be something to this, I see so many examples of this it's ridiculous.
Load More Replies...🎶 Doctor, doctor, give me the cure. I have a bad case of seeing blurred!🎶
And now that "Chad" is used to mean "ultimate man" he probably feels even better about his name.
You do one mindlessly nice thing for someone and the next thing you know you've got this rep as a nice person. Sheesh!
Just imagined lots of heavily tattooed Asian guys in a hot water spring.
Apparently people with lots of tattoos can't go to onsen because of Yakuza tattoos
Load More Replies...I interpreted the reply as "I didn't want to like taking a bath with Japanese gangsters, but I did."
In my country we all like to search/pick funghi in forests. I spoke with my younger friends about it, they say: We take you with us. I: I am too old and slow. They: We will go slowly. I: I am bad at orientation, I will lost. They: We give you a bell. I am still little offended.
I'd taze your lame a*s! Twice!! Abusive behavior. You are aware of this situation and yet you persist in exploiting it to your amusement.
I'd 'bell' you like the movie, "No Country For Old Men."
Load More Replies...If that cat hopped into my car, then he would be going home with me. I am the chosen one and will not argue or put up a fight.
I can imagine it being written on a big whiteboard and the CEO just tapping it with the marker frantically
It's not math but the lousy way it's taught. Concrete, everyday applications first, then abstractions. Can't memorize what you don't understand, try memorizing sentences in a language you don't know.
I always wanted to be an architect but when I saw how much math was needed....no thanks
That's why god invented structural engineers, you fool
Load More Replies...Happens to a lot of wannabe nurses from what I hear. Somehow I learnt more (well actually understood more) maths studying to be a teacher (and actually teaching) than I did in school, so I guess the opposite to this happened.
My father was able to create blue prints based on the customer's expectations. He never graduated high school.
I think it would be called New Ding Dong then, like New York, and that just sounds like a gender change operation...
Load More Replies...Has a population of 22 in the year 2000, that's as far as my mild curiosity got me.
There are days when I go to the pool for my daily swim that I am so weak it feels like I am swimming in thick jelly.
Falling asleep in your school clothes??? Wow! How do you say you have lenient parents without saying you have lenient parents?
I'm guessing it's not an everyday occurrence. I think there's a difference between having lenient parents and maybe a parent getting home from work to see their possibly exhausted, just got over or getting an illness, not sleeping due to nightmares, whatever kid sleeping on the couch in their school clothes and just letting them get that well needed nap, until dinner is ready.
Load More Replies...I got my nosed pierced in 1981 after having seen Indian women with it. When I got home, my mother only said "I hope that's glued on." One of my granddaughters has her nose pierced now as well.
I blow my nose too frequently for this. Every time I see someone with a nose ring, instead of listening to them, I'm wondering, how do they blow their nose.
Mine is rarely affected by it, you learn to adapt to having it..
Load More Replies...I have never actually found there to be much difference between a pierced or non-pierced tongue.
Load More Replies...I'm 50, covered in tattoos (including two feel sleeves), and have a double nose piercing. I've never once had an issue getting hired for a job. I currently work in the medical field.
Load More Replies...English person in Spain: adds an O on the end of words
Load More Replies...I’m an atheist but the first thing that entered my head … god was at the shrooms again that day.
There are countries that scale fines based on income, for this reason. A rich person can get a £100,000 speeding ticket.
Carry a fake ID, get fined for some misdemeanor, and you'll never have to pay it.
But you could potentially cause a bunch of legal and financial issues for some innocent person, that got their wallet stolen earlier in the year, like the latter isn't already bad enough.
Load More Replies...Planes don't fly in a direct path between airports. Also, more likely that he was just being cute about catching favourable winds
Well, they do now. FAA has been trying to introduce direct flight paths. Guess that flight got one.
Load More Replies...What can he do more? He is a dentist, no jewish mom. (jewish mom here)
Load More Replies...And that's no doubt why Chris Evans has such good teeth. I went to school with a girl whose parents were both dentists, and she has the most amazingly straight, even teeth you ever saw.
To be fair, there's hundreds of people in the movie, it could easily have been a bit-part/crowd scene extra.
Even better, Dr. Bob shares a name with a great breakfast retaurant.
Chinananananananana. The Chinese version of 70's doo wop group Sha Na Na
They say cats have nine lives, where as in my experience my life has nine cats.
Humans created them, then assigned them with all sorts of weird personality quirks. Makes you wonder what motivated humans to do something so peculiar.
Sidenote: This morning I read how Chernobyl Tree frogs have evolved darker skin pigmentation, protecting them from radiation poisoning, making them the dominate frog in the area. See people, there's hope for us after all. We just need thicker, darker skin to protect us from ourselves.
I heard they found a mushroom in chernobyl that feeds off radiation like how plants feed off sunlight
Load More Replies...When my kids were little, I had a trying day - and found myself yelling to the boiling over pan on the hob - Oi, just stop it NOW!
Like that scene in the Cat in the Hat where the kids are arguing and the dogs barking and the phones ringing. She yells at everyone to shut up, and they do, except the phone - which needed a special talking-to...
Load More Replies...My grandfather did that too. On purpose - he knew the real pronunciation. :)
Load More Replies...We had a similar scene when my family was in a bakery and my brother ordered quiche, but asked for 'squishy quishy'. We still call it that now, even though I'm pretty sure he knew how to say it correctly at the time.
Reverse image search reveals that this is a "chayote". I still really don't know what it is. But it appears to be treated as vegetable rather than a fruit.
Has texture like an apple, one big seed, mild flavour. Common Chinese vegetable. Stir fry it with some egg or pork.
Load More Replies...They also replace apples in depression era apple pie, which is awesome since I can't eat apples anymore. It actually works so well. When I was a kid we often had them with white sauce on which also tastes great.
Load More Replies...There's a grocer in Penarth, Cardiff, which has non standard fruit and veg, I bought a purple sweet potato, an orange cauliflower, some fresh turmeric root, and a red centred kiwi.
Purple string beans show up in our weekly outdoor market from time to time. I bought some to try and ended up writing a la Gelett Burgess: I never saw a purple bean / I never hoped to see one /And since, when cooked, they just turn green / I guess I'll never eat one.
Load More Replies...I always buy unknown to me vegetables and fruits at ethnic markets. Chayote has a mild flavour and best cooked with lots of spices.
Well, whatever they are, they look like an exercise in buttock clenching.
If memory serves there are something like 15,000 edible plants. Humans eat only a tiny percentage of them.
I wish I could try them all. Never had a vegetable or fruit I didn't like.
Load More Replies...I live in a predominately Spanish-speaking neighborhood. Chayote is always available at the local grocer's.
Darn you! I was going to say that. (I've got Classic Who lined up in another tab rn)
Load More Replies...Omg guys, if you've never read the whole Tumblr thread on Anish Kapoor vs Stuart Semple, please take the time to read the whole thing through. It is hilarious, full of pettiness, and really shines a light on what a terrible and selfish person Anish Kapoor actually is. https://cheezburger.com/8875525/tumblr-thread-on-the-art-worlds-most-hated-elitist-anish-kapoor-and-his-bean
Kapoor called his work Cloud Gate because it acts like a gate connecting the sky and the viewer. Okay, whatever. Too esoteric for me. Apparently, he was attempting to capture the reflective fluidity of mercury in solid form. Then make it in another shape and call it Solid Mercury instead of saying we're stupid calling something that looks like a bean, a Bean.
That's like the sculpture/'big thing' in the a town near me. It was actually named 'The Spire' by the artist, meant to be a beacon of hope for a small town that was just being established. However, because the town's name is Churchill, and it is similar in shape, it was unofficially named 'The big cigar'. It's a bit of a sting for the town that it is referred to as a cancer stick considering the town was mainly populated by coal miners who also get high rates of lung cancer.
There's something near me I can see over the hospital that looks like a huge cig. Thing is, it also has smoke coming out of it
Load More Replies...Thought that said bird throat punch at first I was what hahaha
Load More Replies...In Italy we say "pane e companatico" ..It can be translate as "bread and with-bread" ..
There's an Italian restaurant in my town that does the best chocolate mousse so I'll buy 6 of them at a time to be delivered and nothing else (I freeze them)
I have a similar mindset. Instead of having someone deliver often, I order big, one delivery, freeze the remainder.
Load More Replies...Look, it's not a crime to write sloppily, but it IS irritating. The argument that 'language evolves, get over it' doesn't apply - this is about taking any effort with what you do. If you aren't going to put any effort into doing it properly, why should anyone put any effort into acknowledging it?
Yesterday I was at a Crackerbarrel (country style restaurant with small shop if you're not American nor live in the south) and they have these little games on the table, triangles with pegs, you basically have each peg jump over other pegs to remove the ones that have been jumped over, to win you have to leave only one peg, well I was playing that game and my first move I thought I made a mistake, I won that round
Is that why I've had to see so many more doctors since I had to stop eating apples/jk
They don't even WANT to treat you, they just get sucked in from adjoining rooms...
Load More Replies...Also, good food takes time. It takes 40 minutes for me to MAKE dinner, or I can sit for 40 minutes and chat and eat AND have no dishes to wash
This. If I want speed, I'm going to Burger King. If I'm at a sit-down restaurant, I'm not real concerned about the time as long as my food shows up hot and tastes good; I'm there mostly to avoid doing the work.
Load More Replies...Almost every time we go out to eat the server will come and say, "Sorry about the wait." Or "Thanks for your patience." And we're just like "No problem." Then when they walk away we look at each other and ask, "Was it really that long?" We never notice. I'd think it was a canned thing they say but not too long ago we had them comp us an appetizer because of the wait. Again--we didn't notice. It didn't seem to take especially long.
I've never understood this attitude. If you wanted your meal served fast, why didn't you stop at any one of the fast food joints you passed to get to a real restaurant.
There are multiple kinds of slow service. I've waited 30-40 minutes before a waiter bothered to come around and talk to me. That's something to complain about. At least drop a glass of water and say you'll be around. I've also had to wait that long after I'm all done eating, with an empty plate and empty glass, but no bill. If there's a cashier I go to them and ask for the bill, but a lot of places are "pay your server" and you can't pay until they come around. I've waited tables and either of those behaviors would have gotten you fired in any place I worked.
Bright and early for the daily races, going nowhere, going nowhere
Old boyfriend called my eyes "the colour of Bodmin Moor on a wet Wednesday in November", which is actually very accurate.
And very poetic. Like, your eyes are like pools… cesspools…
Load More Replies...My eyes are distinct circles of two different colors. I just call them Hazel.
I normally have hazel eyes. When I use to drink alcohol my eyes turned brown.
Michael Sheens can look all kinds of colours in different light conditions. I loved when someone on twitter asked him "Are your eyes blue or green or brown?" his answer was.... "yes"
Uh, uh, uh. Logic is not allowed on social media. One more time, and you'll be banished from this hellscape.
Load More Replies...One of my best friends is a vet and a hardcore goth the the hell he has to go through when he tries to use his discount is insane.
I find it weird that anywhere in the US gives military discounts. It' so different to Australia, where we recently had violent protests break out to oppose the violence of war when Melbourne hosted a military convention.
Bit ironic. Unless it's a protest about supporting Australia's own violence manufacturing industry, rather than farming their violence out to other people who will do it cheaper.
Load More Replies...My friend that got me into anime has a military dad, who also likes anime, maybe he just wants to buy her cosplay accessories
I use mine there, well used to... not the same any more so now I use it for my daughters
According to TS Elliot, all cats have three names. My cat became Pavel. Puff, Puffle. Pavel. Simples.
Love Tumblr, I just post Thomas pixel art all day and get mildly popular with 15 people because of it
Every post on Tumblr reads like it was written by a not-so-functioning alcoholic high on antidepressants at 3AM
Love Tumblr, I just post Thomas pixel art all day and get mildly popular with 15 people because of it
Every post on Tumblr reads like it was written by a not-so-functioning alcoholic high on antidepressants at 3AM
