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Hayley Williams

gerardwayspostnutclarity

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probablily

wow I wish they would follow me back 😔😔😔 such a shame they only reblog my posts after a mysterious stranger likes them 😔😔😔

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henstomper

hard cider was invented when someone decided to make beer that tastes good instead of bad

impossiblepackage

stupid fuckin post. People have been making beer since before they even knew how to write and you think that they don’t like the way it tastes?

henstomper

damn all that time and it still tastes really bad. huge L tbh

gerardwaysbob

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danielkanhai

it would suck being a new immortal. like it’d be 2109 and people would go, “what was it like seeing ancient civilizations rise and fall like that? seeing the pyramids being built? watching the expansion and growth of the new world?” and i’d just be like, “no…no i was born in 1991. so like, wow i’m gonna see some cool stuff, but, i mean i’m not that much older than just a really, really old person, you know? phones were big back then. so big. but only for like ten years, then they got like, as good as they are now. uh. rhinos existed. don’t think i ever saw one in person. cool, good talk.”

ayellowbirds

even worse, imagine being an immortal who keeps missing stuff. “What was it like seeing the pyramids being built?” “Fuck if I know, I was in Madagascar.” “Oh, okay. Well, how was the Renaissance?” “I fell down a hole in Scotland and people thought I was an enchanted well for four hundred years, it was over by the time I convinced someone to get me out.”

erkhyan

And now, a lesson in biases:

We barely know anything about Madagascar pre-500CE. We don’t even know whether the island had a permanent population before then, despite finding a bunch of much older signs of temporary human presence.

Malagasy mythology makes mention of the vazimba, a “precursor” ethnic group that might or might not be distinct from Madagascar’s current population.

The point is, we do not know.

So you were in Madagascar when the pyramids were being built in Egypt, i.e. during one of the most obscure, most undocumented parts of Madagascar’s human history?

Oh, buddy, you better go and make a bunch of anthropologists and archeologists really happy RIGHT NOW instead of feeling bad about missing everyone else’s pet Major Event.

ayellowbirds

It’s been a decade since we left that comment and you have the best reply anyone’s left to it.