Pardon, but your tie is not symmetrical.

Trying to use Chinese to name items at a Japanese supermarket

English added by me :)

A street interview

English added by me :)

Ahhh! This is so cool!

Omg I'm so excited to see this on my dash! This is not my field of study but I do keep up with the latest paper published about this fascinating plant.

Here's one that I read recently (2022). It's open access, so go on click that link and read about the wonders of this marvellous plant

And a sidenote, Taylor and Francis have loads of (or all of them) open access research articles. Bookmark this webpage and go nuts reading about empirically tested brilliant research!!

Ahhh! This is so cool!

Good news: it IS true! You can read the scientific paper about Boquila trifoliolata imitating the artifical leaves here

Investigating where cashmere comes from

English added by me :)

Also, since it frequently gets commented on in other posts: the choice of bgm is because Jingle Bell Rock doesn't necessarily have the same cultural significance in China (or at least not to OP) so it's not particularly recognized as a holiday/winter song

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A tiktok video with fun muslic of a white adult snuggling with a stuffed blue hippo toy. Text above reads "absolutely vibing with my new stuffie"

They startle and the music shifts ominously. Text changes to "I'm 23 fucking years old"

Video shifts to a black man, @the404kingpharaoh, war drums playing. His tiktok reply is of him in a filter that makes it seem he is is a suit of wooden armour, on a wooden horse, riding through the mountains on a bright day.

He says "You hold that plushie. The world is hard and cruel. There will be many difficulties. many things for you to overcome. You must find the softness were you can! You hold that plushie. When you are done, prepare yourself, for we go to war!"

He looks stoically into the distance. Video ends.

Scene from City of Lost Souls (1983) featuring Angie Stardust and her girlfriend

you uh… you got somethin’ you want to tell spock there, buddy?

[Transcript:]

“The Perfect Heist Hack”

Fun Fact: I modified a pair of pants for this sketch so I could hold 30 feet of rope and a full-sized grappling hook in the pant leg. Useful!

featuring Jordan Hare

#this is what we’re losing by not putting disabled characters in action/fantasy/sf stories#hitherto unavailable shenanigans!

(via)

Owner, sounding very groggy: Okay so it’s three on the morning, and he puts this. ON MY HEAD. My HEAD, Quirky. He prolly wants me to throw it.

Dog makes very excited gurgling panting noises when owner raises ball.

Owner: It’s THREE FOURTY FIVE. Oh goddammit you’re so fuckin’ cute…

This is a stupid conversation! and I'm not going to continue it! literally so fucking correct

What I’m really proud of is the fact that he made SURE the audience understood why the caller was being an idiot. He made a PERFECT comparison, gave the caller an honest chance to re-evaluate and change his mind. His point landed, everyone knew it, even the caller (note his pause and almost hesitancy after being asked).

But when the caller decided to bulldoze on anyway, because god forbid actually listen to the other person in the conversation, the expert cut him off and refused his time. And good for him.

[VD: A tweet by @ g33kgurli, tweeted at 9:47 PM on Dec 17, 2021. It reads, "Perhaps the best clap back to antivaxxers and antimaskers." Attached is a video from The Thom Hartmann Program, where Hartmann is talking with a caller. The conversation goes as follows:

Caller: Hey Thom. Uh, I was listening to you for the last hour so, um, I heard survival of the fittest. Um, you know some of us choose not to vaccinate and uh--

Hartmann: You're nuts, Nicholas.

Caller: --because we work very hard about staying fit, eating healthy, and our natural immune system.

Hartmann: So Nicholas if you're so healthy, would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis or gonorrhea?

Caller: You're missing the point.

Hartmann: No, I'm not missing the point. They're contagious diseases. Would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis and gonorrhea and not worry about it because you're so healthy?

Caller: [pause] No, I wouldn't do that.

Hartmann: Okay, then why would you expose yourself to covid without having some protection?

Caller: Because the protection is my natural immunity.

Hartmann: No, it's not. Tell that--

Caller: Yes, yes, my natural immunity--

Hartmann: Tell that to eight hundred thousand dead Americans. Nicholas, this is- this is a stupid conversation and I'm not going to continue it.

/end VD]

What I can never get over with this stupid argument is that. That. That IS what the vaccine IS FOR. It’s to build YOUR OWN NATURAL IMMUNITY. Vaccines ARE FOR your natural immunity, THAT’S HOW IT FUCKING WORKS.

the comments on this video killed me

“Maybe not places but places”

He's going place.

[Video and image descriptions

Video

A Tiktok by @TheRealGrandCanyon201947.

A person gets out of a car at night and as they walk round the side of the car to the front they say, "Oh my god dude, that party was so, Oh I almost just kicked that rock. I'm not gonna fall." They then immediately slip on a patch of ice and are running in place for most of the rest of the video. At the start they look like they're going to face plant on the ice. Then it looks like very comedic running with their arms flailing out around them, other bits look like normal running on a treadmill until at the end, unable to save themselves, they fall and land on their back on a pile of snow behind them saying "oh". The person filming laughs.

Image 1 - 5

Screenshots of comments.

tiny_screamo95: How it chews to 5 feels gum...

bstchld: Homie ran a 6-minute mile in place

itsdanielmac: How is this even possible

homie9796: all that work just to fall (skull emoji)

BigBlueOxterra: We all just watched a dude fall for 30 seconds

JesusFlores1019: This man really started playing real life Temple Run

mrs.rager_: good thing he didn't kick the rock, that would've been bad

PaoloAndre_: Me trying to get closer to my goals

TheWayOfLew2: He really thought "maybe if I get my form right I can sprint out of this"

SheenaNelwani: That's one way to get your 10,000 steps in before the night is over.

AlexanderAgrawal1: "I have been falling for 30 minutes"

kae5279: This how it feels to run in dreams

ksliedtke: At one point he really just committed and started running on it like a treadmill (skull emoji)

aristokati: Bro was falling for 2 whole business days

nwolins: This guys going places, maybe not places but places

Image 6

A gif of Loki lying on the floor saying, "I have been falling for thirty minutes!"

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I saw this video and it really sums up what apd is like. the issue most of the time isn’t us not hearing you (as in you’re too quiet) we don’t need you to be louder we just need you to say it differently

[Video description

A Tiktok by Courtney Carini.

The same person plays two different characters.

Person 1 says something unintelligible followed by the words, "drive my car".

Person 2 says, "I'm sorry what."

Person 1 says something unintelligible followed by the words, "drive my car".

Person 2 says, "...what about your car"

Person 1 says something unintelligible followed by the words, "drive my car. My car", with emphasis on the second my.

Person 2 says, "I heard the "my car" part. I didn't hear the 1st part before that."

Person 1 says something unintelligible followed by the words, "drive my car".

Person 2 says, "You Want to drive it? You Don't want to drive it? You want Me to drive it? What's the first part???

Person 2 is becoming more frustrated.

Person 1 says something unintelligible followed by the words, "drive my car".

Person 2 says, "Why do you keep saying it the same way??? I'm clearly not hearing it when you say it like that. Can you please just enunciate the 1st part?!"

Person 1 says, "Ugh. Forget it. I just wanted to drive my car."

Person 2 sounds exasperated as they say, "You want to drive your car! Thank you! That's all I needed!"

End description]

[video description: a Tiktok video by "voicemonsteredits", showing a bulky, white man with short blond hair and beard, wearing a blue tanktop. He's standing in some kind of shack or garage or something, wooden walls behind him, and some kind of red swing gate over his head.

He's saying: "-lesson in my," when a wooden plank behind him comes off from the wall and hits him on the head. "Ow... Holy fucking shit, i didn't see that comin'", while saying that he turns around, checks what hit him, before turning back towards the camera. He puts his hands on his hips and continues, triumphantly: "Probably because I had my back turned," a small smile on his lips. /end description].

Kirill Sarychev

Video description, translation from Russian:

Tall man with apparently only a towel around his hips: It’s not easy to be a voluminous man and live in a standard apartment with standard bathtubs. Bathtub manufacturers, I want you to consider non-standard men.

Sh-ha! (dramatically takes off towel off his loins, revealing shorts underneath)

Hah! Thought I would bathe naked, did you? Hehe!

(making straining sounds, he climbs into bathtub. In an impressive display of the Archimedean law of displacement, water splashes out of the bathtub, like, everywhere. He props his feet up onto the armature, because the bathtub is too short too comfortably put them in)

[unintelligible]

(folding his legs over each other) and then you lie down the way you like, lay yourself down, and lie there.

End translation.

I love this Voluminous Man.

[Image ID: Screencap of someone wearing a denim jacket and a fedora saying “I don’t know what the fuck she’s saying but girl, I’m livin’.” End ID.]

@were-ralph

[text: ppl who celebrate fictional characters birthdays are annoying pass it on.

Fuck this post and happy birthday Severus Snape. /end].