SOMEONE FINALLY PUT IT INTO WORDS!!!

guYS THE FUCKING SIGNS

via @quasi-normalcy

I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”

It’s the same in Irish! bóín Dé!

in hebrew it’s “our rabbi moses’s cow”

Oh I love this news!!!!

Multiple cultures upon seeing a ladybug for the first time: “Who’s cow is this????”

It feels like some early humans were naming things and one of them ran out of ideas.

Human 1: (points at animal) What’s that?

Human 2: Cow.

Human 1: (points at bug) What’s that?

Human 2: … little cow.

Human 1: But it’s so much smaller. Who would have use for such a small cow?

Human 2: (panicking but in too deep to stop now) God.

The “Lady” in the name “ladybug” is the virgin Mary. People just cannot stop giving religious names to this bug.

The reason for this was that if you lived in an agrarian society then your survival was a throw of the dice every year, depending on the success of the crops. A failed crop year is a very hard year where deaths are expected. And if you grew a cereal like wheat, there were several things that could cause your crops to fail, but one of the big ones was if you happened to get a fuckton of aphids. You know what eats aphids? Ladybugs! If there are lots and lots of ladybugs around, there was a good chance that it’d be a good crop year! They were little crop protectors! When your family lives or dies on the success of that crop, of course they’d be seen as a blessing and given an appropriate name!

Time for another good idea/bad idea.

Good idea: Saying “have a nice day.”

Bad idea: Saying “enjoy the next 24 hours.”

I wish my dad had an interest so I could get him a Christmas present based on it

Get him a sword

I'm a scifi writer what makes you think I have sword money

You could check in your area, or online, and see if there is a liquidation shop near you. Up in my part of Canada we have a liquidation chain (Bianca Amor) where you can get liquidation swords for very affordable prices.

If your shop don't have cheap swords, you never know what other weird/neat gift ideas they may hold.

I GUARANTEE THAT MY AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY TOWN DOES NOT HAVE SWORD WAREHOUSES WITH EXCESS SWORDS ON SALE

IF PEOPLE WANT SWORDS THEY GO ONLINE OR DRIVE SIX HOURS TO THE CITY

what about learn how to make them, are there any hobbyist blacksmiths do you think

I need you to understand that all the nerds in my town move to the cities after high school. There's me, a few guys who run the comic shop, and a legion of Warhammer-playing teenagers waiting out the last few years of high school so they can move to the cities. The medieval fair happens once a year here and that's the one day a year that the women all get excited to put on longer-than-normal dresses that they wouldn't wear otherwise (that's be weird, people would stare!) and buy knockoff versions of Disney products sold by vendors who drove here from the cities.

I was stage manager for one of my dad's plays a couple of years ago and I had to explain to the theatre group what larp was. To the theatre group. The THEATRE GROUP didn't know what larp was.

I explained and they DIDN'T GET IT. I then had to explain the basics of a tabletop rpg (I just said 'dungeons and dragons' because most of them recognised those words) and didn't get particularly far.

The "nerdy" girl in the theatre group asked me if I'd ever heard of this new thing going around called "superwholock". (This would've been around 2020 or 2021). My only response to Superwholock being called this new thing was a sort of stunned "uh, yes, I'm on Tumblr." She then asked me what Tumblr was.

Do you live in the smurf village

#city dwellers be like 'oh you dont have this incredibly obscure shop with 4 locations world wide? you dont have public transit?#do you live in the mud? do you live with the fucking elves?'

people always talk about evil clones like oooh a dark mirror oohh what if you saw what are cruel person you were/are capable of becoming. and well yes but what if you were the evil clone. what if you looked in the mirror and what you saw was so bright it blinded you. what if you had to know exactly how good you could have been.

Link for full article below.

*pretends to be shocked but also maybe this will make people realize that Indigenous People Know What The Hell They’re Doing and Deserve Respect*

3 other fun/cool facts about the Inuit:

1. They also invented kayaks and dog booties.

Dog booties are actually really important for working sled dogs in winter to protect their paw pads from iceburn and keep ice from getting in between their toes and burning them that way.

2. The traditional Inuit diet is one of the healthiest in the world, and the most balanced for the ratio of Omega 3 to Omega 6 consumption

Most modern diets consume way too much Omega 6 and not enough Omega 3.

3. Inuit is a plural noun. When speaking about a single person the correct word is Inuk (always capitalized)

For example, “This Inuk woman is wearing traditional Inuit tattoos”.

And she is wonderful

Putting the term "male gaze" on top of the fridge until everyone remembers that it refers to a cinematographic trend and not the act of looking at things while being a man

Hey, USAmericans? Wanna save your country? Run For Something!

!!!SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!!!

This is your permission to not think about the horrors for a bit. You can put it down now. They’ll be there tomorrow

On the topic of Leftist Andrew Tate and other mythical creatures of the liberal mind

ID: Two screenshots of a Twitter thread by Joth @ jothwip with text reading:

"The reason men are turning fascist is because the feminist and workers movements of the past decades have made it harder for them to own women as property, with current movements threatening to rid them of power they still have. Not because lesbians are mean to them

"When you talk of "The left alienating men" you are either buying the fascists at their word, or suggesting feminists compromise by not abolishing the power men have over women. Either option puts you on the same side as them"

End ID.

Unfortunately sad but true 😕

He put Elon in charge of the "Department of Government Efficiency"

The assholes actually named it DOGE.

We're gonna have our government run by assholes giggling at out of date memes.

This is the dumbest time line.

I regret to inform you that I am not making this up.