my observation from 2 months of kittens

“You should be at the club.” No, I should be at the scholastic book fair.

do you think he knows

What I find really astonishing isn’t that a giant land snail managed to earn a doctorate, but that he managed to land a national TV spot despite displaying this kind of egregious, disrespectful behaviour towards his co-host.

#for god’s sake dr. fisher #get off the poor man’s face #you’re a snail of science #act like it

there's this word in Serbian 'vukojebina' which literally means 'the place where wolves go to fuck' but they use it to mean 'in the middle of nowhere'. it sure does the job well, but the visual stayed with me longer than I would have liked it to.

for chinese we have 鸟不生蛋, which is used to describe a land so barren and remote that not even birds would lay their eggs there.

In German we have "am Arsch der Welt", which means "at the world's ass"

In Finnish it's "Jumalan selän takana" - behind god's back.

I propose that these are all the same place. The world's ass, behind god's back, where birds would not nest and where wolves go to fuck.

Australia has "Woop Woop" (origin unknown but dating to late 1800s if not earlier) as in "they live way out in Woop Woop". "out beyond the black stump" is a similar Aussie phrase.

On another token, Poles say 'hen, hen' when describing something being far away but like, affectionately??

When I was a kid, someplace out in the sticks was "Left Armpit, Pennsylvania."

Americans do infact have the phrase "butt-fuck nowhere" which feels like an important possibile addition

Yeah, I think I just got the Bowdlerized version. :P

The Back of the Beyond, in the UK.

You can't leave this in the notes.

The Colossi of Memnon at the necropolis of Thebes, Egypt, 1965, during the seasonal flooding of the Nile. Photo by Eliot Elisofon. (Smithsonian)

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always thinking about the production of hamlet i saw at the pop up globe a couple of years ago where everyone was costumed in typical shakespearean dress and the set was fairly minimal BUT! they gave polonius an iphone. it was like a running gag that his ringtone kept going off when hamlet or claudius were trying to speak and they would get more and more impatient with him every time. the cast had perfect comedic timing and it was such a perfect modernisation of typical shakespeare humour

but oh my God. the nervous laughter that rippled through the audience when his phone went off behind the tapestry. the heavy silence that followed, interrupted only by the incessant chime of polonius’ ringtone and a muffled “shit, shit!” while he tried to decline the call. it keeps ringing even after hamlet has already put his sword through him. hamlet picks it up in his bloody hands and ends the call, puts it back in polonius’ grasp before turning back to face gertrude.

hands down the best set up and pay-off of any addition to a shakespeare play i have ever witnessed

by Onidaiko

Hush! Video of Colorado's reintroduced wolves' pups playing

These are some of the first known wolf pups to be born in Colorado in over 80 years! Nearly a century later and they have returned to some of their traditional ranges--and they're playing!!

love being in town where 80% of the bird population is crows and ravens because i open my window a crack for the nice breeze and my room is immediately filled with the sounds of 20 little guys yelling AWWWWWW AWWWWWW outside my home

just got fired from my government job… apparently they can control the weather with space lasers now so they don’t need me to stand on a dark tower and chant in a big bellowing voice to summon clouds and winds of fear and frost

sorry to hear that, but it's happening all over. i recently got replaced at my job of luring sailors to their death on the rocks by an iphone and a loudspeaker

That’s a bummer to hear everyone is getting hit :/ I got replaced as the ghoul shaking your pipes and creaking your floorboards at 3am by shoddy new construction that does it on its own

Lost my job sprinkling sand on the eyes of small children to lull them to sleep. Because of woke.