By the way, this is why bright or unusual colours have been a sign of wealth for almost all of human history
Pigments and dyes take a lot of heckin work
I love how, when the blue becomes a bit blown out and flat, you can see the moment the camera gave up on trying to represent the actual color and said sorry, this is the bluest I got (yes like in that one Tom Scott video about the pinkest pink)
Translation request by @unbridled. English added by me :)
:3
Regarding porcelain pillows
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If you think about the ancient Egyptian head-rest or neck-rest,
...it’s basically the same idea. Something to get the head positioned comfortably while minimizing anything that could trap body heat & sweat in an already hot climate.
As the video points out, it's not that they didn't have fabric or other soft pillows, but soft pillows wouldn't be preserved until modern day. So we have more records of the hard ones :)
amazing contribution by @misophoria
American advertising is nothing compared to this
at this point i don’t wanna be immune that was funny
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American style bullying
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this video is making me SOB
I feel that a large part of the humiur is lost in not including the fact that 笼 in mandarin means cage (笼子), and so the word latern literally means “lamp in a cage”.
Bc you know, cage…? Jail…? At least i think that’s where the joke came from? Or is OP’s dad just this random LOL
I asked my dad this and he was genuinely shocked about the connection, he hadn’t thought of it but it’s a really cool coincidence
My dad is apparently just this random LOL
this video is making me SOB
So I was working on my “What’s in a Name” series for the Earth Kingdom, specifically researching Joo Dee’s name origin. I initially thought Joo Dee’s name was meant to be a joke, since it sounds like such a mundane English name (Judy). However, the more I looked into her name, the more depth of meaning I discovered. Allow me to share these discoveries with you:
The name Joo Dee literally means “Local” (局地) in Mandarin Chinese. It’s a very fitting, if somewhat uninteresting name for a tour guide. However, when you break down the hanzi (Chinese characters) of her name, she becomes both an ominous and tragic figure of Ba Sing Se.
The characters used for her name mean Bureau (局) and Earth (地), respectively. So when writing her name, you literally read it as “Bureau of Earth”, which sounds like a label you’d slap on a piece of government property. Keep in mind, Joo Dee is not the name of one person, it’s an identity forced upon droves of brainwashed women. They’re not just figurative tools of the government, they are literal tools of the government and are never allowed to forget that through the name given to them.
The American Equivalent to this would be:
“Hello, my name is Cia and I’ll be your DC tour guide! ^_^”
“Oh, Sia, that’s a pretty name…”
“It’s spelled C-I-A, short for Central Intelligence Agency! ^_^”
“Wait, you work for the CIA?”
“No, I AM THE CIA. ^_^”
And then you find out she’s a victim of Project MKUltra.
And that is Ba Sing Se in a nutshell: systematic and casual dehumanization with a thin veneer of affability.
this person’s What’s In A Name? series is really excellent
So that explains it.
guy: Go, go, go, go, go. Shoo shoo, shoo, shoo. It’s ignoring me…
girl: Cat’s ignoring you
guy: Hey hey. Oi. Hey hey hey hey. Don’t you do that. Hey. Hey hey hey. Hey. Tch. This mother fucker…
[Cat stretches]
guy: Stop it! Oi.
[Cat lies down]
guy: Go away, you! Go away!
girl: It’s so cute! So cute… It’s so cute…
thank u for this translation
I wasn't ready. I was like "oh, that's cute. She's gotta hobby. That's.... whoa. WAIT."
I should've known by the arm behind the back that she wasn't playing.
I should've known by
the arm behind the back that
she wasn't playing.
Old ladies are the only people on Earth that are wholesome and a force of nature.
