LORD OF THE DORKS

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[analogcreator]

So I made a motorsports themed blog 👀

@sleepythimble

[dostoyevsky-official]

[bogleech]

this is like just a fourth of a whole musical medley addressing that you can’t live like the simpsons anymore. harsh :(

[bogleech]

For those wondering, the rest of the episode’s songs cover such topics as kids turning to social media as their income source, Fox News skewing the votes of senior citizens by just plain frightening them, that Bart’s generation has little option but to hope they can destroy and rebuild the system, and that if you do want a good middle class job, almost the only reliable one left is being a firefighter.

Moe also raps in case you needed to know this

[beelzebufo]

We watched the episode and there’s this bit where when asked what to do about the shitty state of everything the janitor who leads the song pauses and says ‘burn it’.

That bit gave me chills. Because The Simpsons for the past 15 years or more has been a fairly good barometer of American popular opinion. Some folks are gonna be like ‘the Simpsons went radical!!!’, but, the Simpsons doing this shows that this is an opinion that is now -normal-. Two generations have been brutally disenfranchised and things are pushing towards a boiling point. I have 0 clue what that boiling point will look like but this is like steam raising from the pot.

[brightlotusmoon]

Ah, you have articulated my own thoughts as a Gen X who has literally watched The Simpsons from the beginning. I still watch it, and I chuckle when someone claims nobody watches or likes the Simpsons anymore. It’s a Sunday night ritual. Remembering how anti-capitalist they were then, and seeing such a poetically logical end game now, gives me chills as well. I’ve been recommending “Poorhouse Rock” to everyone I know regardless of their views on the show.

[charlesoberonn]

[nae-nae-supreme]

[wolfchildrenn]

*makes this noise at you*

[furbearingbrick]

it’s a ptenopus garrulus, aka Common Barking Gecko, which lives in Africa! The video doesn’t show it well, but they have goofy froglike faces!

by sheer coincidence, there’s a completely different kind of gecko endemic to Australia (underwoodisaurus/nephrurus milii ) which is also called the Common Barking Gecko:

[droct0]

So what im getting from all this informarion is…. two of them…

[milliedrinksmocha-deactivated20]

The frequencies this little creature sent to my brain 

[furbearingbrick]

wow, my addition has really gotten popular! anyway, here’s what ptenopus garrulus look like completely out of their burrows:

[thefuzzydave]

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

[stupidbeecandle]

I lived and worked in a lighthouse at a previous job.  There was a thick line painted in a circle around the shack where the fog signal was kept.  The line represented how close you could get to the fog signal without experiencing physical harm in the form of eardrums shattering or worse.

Even in the house it was LOUD.  Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval.  You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off.  It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.

At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks.  People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.

One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit.  It did.  Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that.  People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.

That said Id do it all again, I really do treasure those days

[glowingghosty]

[mcnerds]

you know you could’ve just said “no they don’t have wifi” and that would’ve answered the question

[stupidbeecandle]

But then you wouldnt have known about the moose

[drag-on-dra-goon]

[remnantglow]

breakdown of why moon's haunted is the tweet of all time

- the implication that the nasa spaceship got back to earth, from the moon, without nasa knowing

- nasa employee is super chill about it

- theres just a gun lying around

- the astronaut is taking a gun and nothing else to fight ghosts

- moon's haunted

[remnantglow]

[holdoncallfailed]

nice!

[spoon-fresh]

Happy Birthday Halflife : Fullife Consequences

[your-fave-hates-jk-rowling]

YOU hate JK Rowling!

[lochnutmonster]

[kingofthehilltoday]

These are the propane accessories Hank Hill sells

[ID: Squidward Tentacles' tentacle holding a realistic propane tank with a red bow tie on it. /end ID]

[kingofthehilltoday]

What's next? Sequined Grills?

[ID: Mr. Krabs holding up a miniature real grill in his claw, green sequins have been drawn all over it. /end ID]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[wyndryga]

catgirl strip club but all the poles are scratchposts

[happyfork]

(Cat Lunch Break - KC Green)

[ohmisterpitiful]

[ovadrive]

[castellankurze]

The Gimli Glider is one of those stories where every aspect sounds more fake than the last and yet it all actually happened.

-A passenger plane was underloaded with fuel because Canada had just converted to the metric system and everyone supposed to double check their numbers got it wrong. -When the plane ran out of fuel they were too far away to make it to an in-service airport and had to head towards the Gimli military base.  Which was shuttered. -They were coming in to fast due to a lack of flaps control and had to perform a series of slips (as shown in the video above) to slow down, basically drifting a giant passenger plane. -As they come down they realized that just because Gimli’s been decommissioned doesn’t mean it’s abandoned because a bunch of people are having drag races on the runway they’re about to need. -Despite everything they managed to land safely and no one was killed or even hurt which is why it’s one of the best air disasters to meme on.

[nudityandnerdery]

Those tags deserve to be shared.

[queerleigh]

[mommy-mortis]

wait

[mommy-mortis]

yea that's funny

[colossussteppes]

thought this was how they made chicken mcnuggets

[rogha]

bitch that’s the tubby custard machine

[tiktoks-we-like]

[headspace-hotel]

Homunculus 3 took me out

[drag-on-dra-goon]

gay

[drag-on-dra-goon]

[thebeautifulcomics]

Here (1989) by Richard mcguire (raw magazine)

[tsotea-deactivated20210727]

happy april fools. please take this egg

hahahahahha………………..

youve been fooled………………by the april fools beeper……………..it was a fully grown bird the entire time…..no egg………………it tells u it hopes u hav a good april 1st

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

I just queued this for a year