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stop that’s so funny

manifesting a mid-week wdapteo5 upload and if they do im cracking out the good stuff

THE MOST FRUSTRATING THING IN THE WORLD IS WHEN A CARTOON CHARACTER IS LOCKED IN A CELL OR CAGE OF SOME KIND AND THE BARS ARE LIKE

Magic, bitches

How does superglue REFUSE to come out of the tube when you're actively trying to get some out, but as soon as you give up and put it down, the damn thing decides it's time to do world's best pineapple-with-a-werewolf-boyfriend -impression?

This website makes it impossible to communicate with normal people.

and my personal favorite:

i love getting validation as a lefty but also learning about new fun ways it continues to suck

I have to squeeze my fucking wire crimpers with my RIGHT hand because if I don't everything has to be upside-down

if one more person comments on my "we need to keep payphones/public phones" post with "what we need are free phone charging stations and wifi hotspots, like in new york!" i am going to lose my mind. what do you people not understand about "not everyone has a smartphone" and "phones can break". how are these new concepts.

Also, some of y'all are way too comfortable plugging random data cables into your phones.

a couple things gen alpha may not know about the differences between cell phones and payphones:

to be clear, i'm not hating on cell phones (you'd have to pry mine from my cold dead hands) BUT i do think physical emergency phones and payphones fill a really important gap! it would be a hit to general safety if we lost them completely, especially for poorer or more remote folks.

and they should be free!

Same reason all cars should be required to have an AM radio. Yeah, the quality can be shitty, but it might be the only way to get a broadcast in if a disaster strikes a remote area. Better yet, let's just sell AM radios for cheap in general. You get an AM radio! And you get an AM radio! Everyone gets an AM radio!

“Humans are inherently selfish--" Then why do so many cultures value hospitality, to the point of dictating it in their religions? Why is it so common for hosts to offer their visitors their best food, and as much of it as they can? At some point, multiple cultures decided that they knew what it felt like to be alone and vulnerable, and promised each other to never let those who stay with them feel that way. That doesn't sound very "inherently selfish" to me.

you want to be romantically attracted to someone? the thing that killed romeo and juliet?

you want to be romantically attracted to someone? the thing that killed romeo and juliet?

— Benedick at the beginning of Much Ado About Nothing

Beware!

Avoid sci-hub too👀

From Ask for PDFs from People with Institutional Access

Also, everyone seems to forget this, but if you’re in college, CHECK YOU LIBRARY’S WEBSITE. they usually have access to a ton of journals. Sometimes a site that says you don’t have access will work if you access it through your school’s library website.

Make no mistake, the Palestinian resistance caused this. Just hours ago, they announced a successful operation against the IDF

Its operations like these that has made it difficult for the IDF to conduct a genocide in Gaza

Of course the biggest credit goes to the people of Northern Gaza who steadfastly refused for 16 months to let their land get colonised

Us, arriving to Austria to a tiny family hotel owned by an elderly lady

Us: speak only limited German

Lady: barely speaks English

Us:

Lady:

Lady: Czech? Slovak?

Us: Czech

Lady, to herself: Czech, that's a Slavic language right

Lady: understand Yugoslavian?

Us:

Us: yeah that works

Shit like this can really only happen in Europe. Reminds me of the time I took my best shot at ordering at a restaurant in Spain in spanish. The closest language to spanish that I actually speak is latin.

Waiter: Germany?

Me: No, Czechia.

Waiter, in a heavily accented but intelligible Czech: Why didn’t you say so before! We get you guys here all the time!

Já v roce 2019 na Ukrajině: OK, takže když použiju tohle staročeský slovo, přidám polský sloveso, své chabé znalosti záhoráčtiny a řeknu to s ruskym přízvukem, tak to projde.

[Me in 2019 in Ukraine: ok so if i use this Old Czech word, add a Polish verb, my poor knowledge of the Záhorie dialect of Slovak and say it with a Russian accent, it might pass]

Reminds me of the time when we were in Poland and I tried to order a burger using a truly unholy mix of Slovak, Russian and Ostrava dialect (which in itself is like an unholy mix of Czech and Polish).

I did get the burger

[#my grandpa called this "Slavic Esperanto"]

I know Ukrainians who can do this on purpose and masterfully, and it was mind-blowing to hear a speech as immediately understandable to an audience of native speakers of three different native Slavic languages, not just two languages as is common

During one student exchange I (a Pole) got acquainted with two students from Czechia and Russia. At first we talked in English or German, but after a while we’ve noticed, that we could understand each other’s native languages just fine. And if some word was unknown in one language, another one had the right synonym.

*Each of us talking in their mother tongue*

Me: Bla bla bla.

Russian: I don’t know this “bla”.

Czech: Oh, we have “bla”! We also call it “that”!

Russian: Oh I know “that”! It’s a very old version of “this”.

Me: Oh, we have “this” too, but it means something slightly different.

German acquaintance: Was für nen Scheiß zieht ihr da ab? o_O

the reason there aren't slavic people in the bible is that they wouldn't have been surprised or awed to hear the disciples speak in tongues and be understood by people of many nations at once

Slavs walked away from the Tower of Babel mildly inconvenienced.

Majority tourists here are polish with a few czechs. A huge part of my first job as a cashier next in a place with a lot of motels was finding cognates with those languages and croatian and going "OHHH you mean [word]?" And them frantically nodding and other times being totally lost as to what the fuck an Arbuz is until they took me outside and pointed to the watermelons

the things that matter

Fun fact: there’s a virus that makes bugs iridescent

disease that makes you beautiful then kills you

i feel like you guys would appreciate this fact

OKAY

THIS IS CALLED INVERTEBRATE IRIDESCENT VIRUS 31 or ISOPOD IRIDOVIRUS

THERE UNFORTUNATELY ISN'T A LOT OF INFORMATION ON IT

BUT IT INCREASES BUGE MORTALITY AND TURNS THEM SHINY AND BLURPLE

There’s actually multiple of them, each targeting a different host

For example, invertebrate iridescent virus 3 mainly infects mosquito larvae

@rainbluealoekitten

WHHAAAAAT

The thing about the northwest passage is that it's too bad that all of those people died I guess but at a certain point hundreds of years of every british man ever compulsively running as fast as humanely possible to die horrifically in the arctic armed with ideas like "don't worry kitten there's no ice up there" over and over and over again no matter how many times it didn't work just because they were all really really keen to die for the stupidest colonial enterprise britain ever conceived of does become incredibly difficult to take seriously