Welsh is an official language of Wales. This means, legally, it cannot be treated less favourably than English in any part of daily life. So we have bilingual signs and sometimes the translations are… well just awful.
This is a classic and made the news.
Welsh reads “I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.
Welsh reads “Wines and ghosts”
Welsh reads “Warning workers are exploding”
In English these drinks are alcohol free in Welsh the drinks are free “Alcohol for nothing”.
Um- Welsh reads “Free erections” yes really!
This seems a tad harsh “Injure yourself now”
Wording is fine but the English and the Welsh disagree on right/left
The sign says “Parcio I Bobi Anabl” which is “Parking to bake the disabled” which I don’t think Tesco were going for.
Oh god! I literally lost 20 minutes of my life trying to explain this to a Londoner. No we can’t just let some random person translate our stuff! Welsh is complex, Welsh is regional, and by god if you get it wrong you will make an absolute tit of yourself!
The return of Free Erections! A great week in the Cambrian News.
so many people do not understand that 1) animals are not people, and 2) they aren’t teaching their animals what they THINK they are teaching them.
dog group on the book of faces, someone is asking for advice on how to get their dog to come to them after the dog is done relieving itself outside. The dog doesn’t like coming to them an they spend ten or twenty minutes or more catching the dog each time to bring it in. Which reminded me of one of many attempts to talk a person through trying to fix exactly this same behavior in *many* other dogs over the years…
Me: So, a quick question for you… does the dog not coming to you and you having to chase them down frustrate you?
Them: Of course!
Me: So what do you do when you finally either catch the dog or get them to come to you?
Them: I give the dog a correction!
Me: So. You get hands on your dog and then you immediately punish them for allowing you to get hands on them. And you wonder why your dog has developed the habit of not coming to you?
Them: No, that’s not… I’m punishing them for not coming when I call!
Me: Which was…. fifteen minutes ago, or so, you said?
Them: Yes, when I first called them!
Me: Dogs brains literally cannot link an abstract thought like that. A thought and a consequence MUST happen within 2.4 seconds of one another, or the consequence becomes linked to the most recent behavior, thought, or activity. So, tell me… how is your dog supposed to understand that you punishing them is for the event fifteen minutes ago when you have made such a concerted, if unintentional, effort to teach them that them getting close enough for you to lay hands on them in the yard means an immediate punishment?
Them: But that’s not what I *meant*!
Me: Doesn’t matter what YOU meant… what THEY learned is that they come to you, and they get punished. Stop punishing your dog for the behavior that you want to see more of.
Stop anthropomorphizing your animals, folks. They don’t think like us. Stop setting them - and yourself - up for failure.
happy 10 year anniversary to this game changer thank u @joscribbles for your services
can’t believe it’s been 10 years since i learned to always put my name on my art, even if it’s just a shitpost, bc u never know what’s going to blow up
anyway here’s a signed version if you wanna use it to shut up people who are trying to tell you their Opinions
Favorite bit of adventurers bible lore is that Marcille was a researcher developing new healing magic before she joined the party but then learned all the offensive spells we see her use in a single day. Insane behavior. Imagine knowing the top med student in the country and one day she drops out of her cancer research program and perfects the art of making pipe bombs in 24 hours.
me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit
mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters
me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU
A young woman is walking outside ████████. It just so happens that today, the 3rd of March 2006, is this young woman’s birthday. Though it was seventeen years ago she was given life, it is only today she will be given a name!
What will the name of this gothic young woman be?
> Enter Name.
Your name is EBONY. As previously mentioned, you are a GOTH. You have a variety of INTERESTS. You have a passion for ROCK MUSIC but you are NOT RELATED TO GERARD WAY. You are a vampire but your teeth are STRAIGHT AND WHITE. You have a fondness for HOT TOPIC and you DRESS ACCORDINGLY. You go to a wizard school in England because you are also a WITCH.
Your chumhandle is DarknessDementia and youtned to get yuor leters mixd up abit.
A lot of preps are staring at you. What will you do?
Not enough jobs are willing to do training anymore, no matter what the situation. Grocery stores won’t teach you to work a cash register, businesses won’t teach you how to use their programs, even the arts won’t teach you anything
Everyone wants a triple threat, expects you to just have those skills. In the old days? you could show up to a random theater barely able to dance and they’d teach you, and then the incel living in the walls would make you a world class singer and actor and you’d be headlining your own show in a few years
this is very much characteristic of a subset of autistic traits that some have and others dont, and some non-autistics have: its called Pervasive Drive for Autonomy (PDA), and basically means that it’s very hard to follow directions if you don’t see the purpose behind them, its mostly seen in children, since children are so tightly controlled without a reasonable purpose.
“If a pig catches both a human influenza A virus and an avian influenza A virus at the same time, it can spark a process known as viral reassortment — a genetic exchange in which flu viruses swap gene segments.”
“Those swaps can introduce dramatic changes, producing a new virus with certain properties of a non-human strain coupled with the capacity to infect and spread between people.”
“The death rate in humans may be upwards of 50 per cent, World Health Organization data suggests, though it’s possible that milder infections are getting missed, skewing the case fatality ratio. Still, in a population that’s never been exposed, the global impacts could be dire.”
“More human cases could also be happening under the radar among farm workers who’ve moved to the U.S. from abroad, don’t speak English as their first language, and may be hesitant to seek medical help, he added.”
“So I think there’s probably underreporting on both sides,” Armstrong said.“
"If [H5N1] gets into a population where there’s constantly animals going in and out … it might not ever leave.”
I’ve been watching this develop for the past several days, and apart from being terrified most people will not take this seriously (I’ve seen a handful of people already shout conspiracy on social media and it’s alarming to see, as always). What I wanted to point out is that pandemics are going to continue to be our ‘normal.’ I watched a great video on YouTube a while ago (I believe it was by Vice?) that touched base on how this is going to become our new reality because of multiple factors (such as our proximity to animals, and environments/etc). It was when Covid hit and they did a piece debunking some of the misinformation floating on the internet. If I can find it I will post it here because it was informative and relevant to pretty much any world crisis we will see around any virus that spreads among a human population.
This post isn’t trying to fear monger anyone, I just hope more people are aware of what is happening because this is important to talk about. There are already cases (of cows getting this bird flu) in the US, and I won’t be surprised if there will be instances in more countries around the world. As usual, keep washing your hands/keeping good hygiene practices, masking up (and if you aren’t I hope you consider it), and taking precautions if you do happen to visit/work or go near a pig or poultry farm too:
I’ll keep track of this here of course, but please stay informed folks. And also FU to any governments who will try to minimize this or try to diminish the severity until it’s too late and community spread happens like Covid because their actions are influenced by capitalistic interests.
Can we get just maybe a five year break from new viral pandemics or
“i draw fat people!” and then it’s a skinny person with maybe 2 extra pounds on their stomach and thicker thighs and nothing else. Actually get out of my fucking house. I’ll kill us both
sorry i started thinking about an artblog i used to follow who started bragging about drawing fat people and when they got an anon that essentially boiled down to “where?” they pointed to 2 of their posts and it was literally just this and it still makes me so angry. Please actually stop talking forever. You’ve lost the right. You’re going away
I straightup do not understand why she’s so upset about this Edgeworth thing. I mean it’s obviously extremely upsetting *for Edgeworth* to learn that his panic in a high stress situation got his father killed by accident but she’s acting like this makes him a bad guy. It’s all the cheating in court that makes him a bad guy, Maya! You seem perfectly happy to overlook that! This incident has no moral weight whatsoever. This incident shouldn’t be making you feel anything about Edgeworth at all except possibly compassion. It’s irrelevant to his moral character. Get your head on straight. Be upset about the actual evil shit he does instead.
(From their Getting Started page, for people who hate phone calls: “Calling on evenings and weekends with the intent of leaving a voicemail is still a great way to make your voice heard. Congressional offices are usually open during normal business hours in their local time zone.”)
what do you guys think the relationship between NASA and the US military is
Its so fucking funny when usamericans criticize the Soviet space program for being “too connected with the military” as if NASA didn’t have 16 arms in every single MIC corporation and the military like the whole reason the space shuttle BECAME that big was because the military REALLY wanted something that could capture and deploy satellites.
for some extra laughs, because the usa was absolutely MALDING after Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, guess what fucking motto they used for their guy.
the first free man in space
oh look who it is on the bottom of this propaganda poster!
The beautiful thing as you get older is that you realize so many “rules” are made up and you can just do whatever. Posters can go anywhere in the house not just my room. I can sit down while cooking a meal or taking a shower. I can make the same thing for breakfast lunch dinner for a week straight. I can roam around the house shirtless. I can wear a dress with jeans. The world is my oyster key word my and I can live as I please embracing little things such as this
what’s important to note and missing from the “headline” tweet is that they simultaneously constructed additional good public transit to the public transit already in the city (bus rapid transit, train stations). Just removing highway alone isn’t going to make traffic better, the bigger part of the story is that they improved public transportation. And the current mayor wants to do more - cyclist lanes and reinstate a tram system
