God I love “We’re enemies, but we’ve been enemies for a long time, which is sort of like being friends.” Great trope.
Especially when it comes with a side of “this OTHER enemy isn’t being your enemy in the right way. I will help you defeat them, so that I can go back to being your primary enemy, your correct enemy.”
Every word that starts with an N should have a silent G in front. Gnorway. Gnuclear. Gnervous system. Gnipples.
At some point my brain decided based on the word knee that body parts beginning with a n sound should have a silent k (particularly the word neck) so I am against gnipples wholeheartedly, it should clearly be knipples!
How about a compromise? Gn words and kn words get switched. So now it’s gneecaps and gnowledge, but it’s also knome and Knosticism.
the problem with this is that it doesn’t account for the original dilemma, which was gnipples vs. knipples
I, for one, think it should be pnipples, like pneumonia
Okay, but what about mnipples, like ‘mnemonic’?
Gkpmnipples (pronounced “nipples”)
This is the kind of content I remain for. (and y'all provide on the regular, I love you)
Female presenting gkpmnipples
what the fuck are you people doing, trying to invent neo-french?
No, we’re inventing Gkpmneo-French
don’t try and read this phonetically you’ll have a stroke
This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.
I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.
You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.
I just had a debate with myself over using the word mezzanine, wondering if I should describe it instead. Ultimately I decided the character would call it a mezzanine, and therefore readers could look up a new word if they didn’t know.
It’s how I learned words like myriad as a seven year old reading Lord of the Rings for the first time, why would I steal that experiance from someone else by simplifying language?
I don’t know about y'all, but books are how i know my vocabulary in the first place
my favorite thing relevant to this is when a dumb character uses regional or obscure words completely casually, but i have to look them up. To me it’s a big weird word, but to the silly town drunk in a story what else are you supposed to call that thing??
anyway, read outside your culture as well, even if it’s just the state/city/country next door that you’ve never been to. you will expand your vocabulary substantially.
This is a trend?? Why aren’t the same people annoyed by sci fi and fantasy dropping original terminology into casual dialog? Or do they hate that too?
i looked up the word gullible in the dictionary and the page was blank aside from the words “look out your window”. heeding the page’s words i peered through the blinds, sidewalks illuminated by the streetlights. outside, staring up at me, i saw something that looked just like me. i was frozen in shock for a long moment, my doppelgänger looking up at me with a placid smile. closing the blinds, i took a breath and looked back to the dictionary held heavy in my lap. the page, no longer that sinister instruction, now read “lollll got you good”
I want everyone to know that the guy who’s talking on the yugioh side of the Strategy panel has a deck so complicated it created the most infamous Excel spreadsheet in Yugioh history.
I solved the problem of watching videos about language learning instead of actually learning a language when I figured out that they also make those videos in Spanish because surprise surprise English speakers aren’t the only ones putting off doing something by watching videos about how to do it.
So now instead of procrastinating in English I’m procrastinating in Spanish. Which sort of means I’ve stopped procrastinating? I may have just created a paradox is what I’m saying.
I fucking despise when things fake being higher quality than they are. I don’t mean like slapping a slightly misspelled brand name onto an identical non-designer product for purely aesthetic reasons I mean like rivets or thread that are actually glued down rather than punched or stitched. Fake pockets on jeans that are actually just an extra seam. Heavy looking chain that’s plastic or very soft flimsy metal rather than anything sturdy. I bought boots which looked like they had a stitched sole 8 months ago and lo and behold the glue holding the sole on is revealing itself by falling apart. You PUT a STITCH IN THERE. YOU HAD THE NEEDLE AND THREAD. AND YOU DIDNT ACTUALLY STITCH DOWN THE FUCKING SOLES. Oh it makes me so mad. Cheap cunts taking the aesthetics of durability or practicality while handing you a product that won’t last you the year
beats headphones add weights to make the headphones seem higher quality. they ADD WEIGHTS. i don’t know the actually quality of the materials used for the headphones, but i know that adding weights is just… bonkers, really.
everyone’s like “bleach” or “sewage” please calm down edgelords
I’d be one of those neon colored sour gamer sup drinks Or exotic flavors of Mountain dew. A lot of people aren’t a big fan and it takes a while to get used to me, but I have a few people that like me regardless.
I’d probably be Strawberry crush, it’s sweet and a bit tart but it’s really good
ice water. Btw hope, drink some
I’m currently “cleaning” my hip hurts too much to do much though but I will drink water now that my bosses aren’t around
thank you
I would be sparkling water.
Yes, I like sparkling water, sue me.
I will /silly
Anyway idk, i would probably just be something like water. I like water
Tea with too much honey
(i like it that way, but the people around me get concerned around the third spoon)
this ask was really eye opening about how there are users on this website that are on entirely different planes of being than me and i think thats beautiful. YOU have a great day man
BTW today I met a person who’s at least 50, uses they/it pronouns, and named themself Wyvern. It looks like if Santa was a biker and it plays D&D at the local library. Just a reminder that you can do whatever you want, forever.
My friends and I used to do this thing where we’d dress up on a theme and go do something totally normal.
We dressed up as pirates and went bowling.
We dressed as vikings and went to the grocery store. The security guard told us we had to move our longship because it was illegally parked.
We dressed as Romans and went to Blockbuster. The staff chanted, “toga! Toga! Toga!” at us.
We dressed up all steampunk and went to the museum. Tourists kept taking our picture.
I used to do historical reenactment when I was at University. I would go to class before session as a Norman knight, and when the session was over me and some of my buddies I did it with would get the bus home in the same kit. Stop at the Tesco’s in full armour for beer and supper and ice cream, then get together at Irish’s place for a LAN party.
It’s enrichment for all involved.
I remember being told I was 900 years late for the battle, and asking the bus driver where the horses were.
I genuinely think the world would be a much better place if more people felt comfortable dressing a bit silly out in public.
So many people who get periods are like “Ugh it sucks that having a menstrual cycle makes you almost die every month” like no that’s not normal you need to go to the doctor
If any of your symptoms go beyond “just like, super annoying ugh whatever” levels you should probably go see a doctor about that
You should not feel so depressed you want to die, you should not be getting mood swings so bad that you become violent, your cramps should not be so bad that you can’t get out of bed, your period should not last more than a week, you should not be losing so much blood that you feel dizzy. Go to the doctor.
walked into a burger place to pick up my order and the girl behind the counter looked at my shirt funny so I look down and the shirt is a picture of a girl excited about eating a hamburger and fries. i’m such a fucking cartoon character right now. this is the shirt
A large part of housecat vocalisation toward humans isn’t goal-directed communication, but rather, affiliative signaling: a simple call-and-response protocol which establishes that the participants are part of the same social unit. Amongst themselves, most housecat affiliative signaling is non-vocal, but humans aren’t really physiologically equipped to respond to such signalling in a feline fashion, and cats, well, they’re adaptable.
Which is to say that when your cat yells, and you yell back, so the cat yells again, and so forth, what you’re really saying to each other is “hiiiiii~”.
This is why it is important to meow at loved ones.
A largish percentage of human vocalizations are this, too! When your human co-worker says “Workin’ hard or hardly workin’?” or comments on atmospheric conditions or other readily-observable features of your surroundings, or generally statements that seemingly convey no useful or novel information whatsoever, the true purpose of these vocalizations is to develop and/or maintain the social unit of the workplace! In effect, they are saying, “We are experiencing this situation together. We often experience situations together. Let’s be allies!”
Some humans will even make vocalizations of this kind to complete strangers, such as when waiting in a line or using public transportation. This behavior is especially common in situation that may involve some form of inconvenience or frustration, such as waiting in a long line or experiencing a delay. In these contexts, the vocalizations communicate, “We are both experiencing the same unpleasant situation; let’s not make it worse by being aggressive to one another.”
yeah, its all fine and cool to say “fuck columbus” or whatever, but like. dude’s been dead for hundreds of years now. do things that actively help native lives in the present. learn about native lands and cultures. learn to appreciate but not appropriate. help us maintain what little we actually have when the government inevitably tries to take it from us.
On Oct. 17, Texas plans to execute Robert Roberson, an Innocence Project client who has spent over 20 years on death row for a crime that never happened.
Robert faces the risk of becoming the first person in the U.S. executed based on the discredited “shaken baby syndrome” theory.
Mr. Roberson left school after completing 8th grade with undiagnosed autism spectrum disorder — which impacts how people communicate and interact with others. Symptoms of autism can include avoiding eye contact, “unusual” mood or emotional reactions, the appearance of indifference, fixation on details that strike others as “abnormal,” and difficulty expressing feelings.
Hospital staff, who did not know that Mr. Roberson has autism, were suspicious of his flat affect and interpreted his response to his daughter’s condition as lacking emotion. They viewed his inability to explain Nikki’s condition as a sign that he must be lying.
Every life has value, and we cannot stand by as an innocent life is threatened. Add your name to help #SaveRoberson and protect the sanctity of life. #RespectLife #RobertRoberson
as with all innocence project petitions you can and should sign outside the US too
Unless you were a tech at NASA back in the day, when one time some hydrogen a) escaped in a particular building, and b) caught on fire. This was extremely difficult because hydrogen does NOT burn on the visible spectrum humans evolved to see (and flee). Rather, it technically does, but it’s so pale that in practice, no one could see it. Additionally, pure hydrogen burns without smoke and with so little ambient heat that you can’t really sense it till you walk into it. So, per the lore, for a few days all the techs in that building just walked around brandishing brooms in front of them like lances. If your broom lit on fire, congrats! You have located more burning hydrogen! Do not proceed!
just found out that stoats hunt twice the size of them like rabbits by aggressively and eccentrically dancing around it with their little slinky rigatoni bodies so it can confuse the absolute fuck out of its prey until it can get close enough to jump on its back like some shadow of the colossus shit and take it down
oh my god its called the weasel war dance and they just go off the shits apeshit little animals
Famous dipshit and tech billionaire Fictional Asshole revealed today that his next business venture involves mass production of the minimal arrangement of human brain cells capable of having a soul.
“This’ll definitely be profitable somehow,” he said. “We’re thinking of an app?
…Look, off the record? I’ll level with you. None of my startups since Trungle have been profitable. I’m just throwing shit at the wall here and seeing what gets me venture capital. We’ve incinerated millions of these things already I have no idea what we’re doing.”
When asked about the ethics of deliberately creating organisms confirmed to have souls only to dispose of them, Fictional Asshole simply looked blankly at our interviewer as if incapable of processing the idea.
Famous dipshit and tech billionaire Fictional Asshole revealed today that his next business venture involves mass production of the minimal arrangement of human brain cells capable of having a soul.
“This’ll definitely be profitable somehow,” he said. “We’re thinking of an app?
…Look, off the record? I’ll level with you. None of my startups since Trungle have been profitable. I’m just throwing shit at the wall here and seeing what gets me venture capital. We’ve incinerated millions of these things already I have no idea what we’re doing.”
When asked about the ethics of deliberately creating organisms confirmed to have souls only to dispose of them, Fictional Asshole simply looked blankly at our interviewer as if incapable of processing the idea.
Famous dipshit and tech billionaire Fictional Asshole revealed today that his next business venture involves mass production of the minimal arrangement of human brain cells capable of having a soul.
“This’ll definitely be profitable somehow,” he said. “We’re thinking of an app?
…Look, off the record? I’ll level with you. None of my startups since Trungle have been profitable. I’m just throwing shit at the wall here and seeing what gets me venture capital. We’ve incinerated millions of these things already I have no idea what we’re doing.”
When asked about the ethics of deliberately creating organisms confirmed to have souls only to dispose of them, Fictional Asshole simply looked blankly at our interviewer as if incapable of processing the idea.
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