Bai Gumiho

안녕! bai 입니다

[impormable]

Old dude came in the shop and when I said "lemme know if you have any questions" he goes "what was the name of Alexander the Great's horse," thinking he was so funny. I told him Bucephalus, and he was so disappointed. Like his whole day was hanging on beating me at trivia. He says "you're only the second person who knew that" and I said "well, probably the third if you count Alexander the Great." He left without buying anything, and did not say goodbye. I think I honestly hurt his weird little feelings! Sorry I'm a bitch, old man!

[sonnetscrewdriver]

I had one of these once, bookshop customer randomly challenged me to name, quote, ‘the only word in English where two u’s are next to each other’, and when I immediately said ‘vacuum’ he looked disappointed and when I pointed out it isn’t even the only word with two u’s next to each other in English and offered ‘continuum’ as an example he looked like I’d just punched his ribcage out his back like a Mortal Kombat character

[captainclickycat]

People claiming this didn’t happen have never worked a day in retail

[hellenhighwater]

I'm really struggling with the Pursuit of Jade, because 1. I don't speak Mandarin and 2. Malice keeps putting her fucking tail over the subtitles

I'm sure this scene would be very moving if I had any idea what was going on

[hellenhighwater]

An awful lot of judgement from someone who also doesn't speak Mandarin

[injuries-in-dust]

Some weird bird noises that I hope will brighten your day.

[imdrinkingmiso]

I am doing whatever the opposite of locked in is .

[bai-gumiho]

[gean-grey-blog]

One time I was leaving a friend's place and an older lady with basically no English came up to me and communicated that she was very cold and needed a ride. She pointed to tell me where to go.

I got there and her daughter or granddaughter came out and was like omg her phone died we were worried

And then the older lady said something and the younger lady translated.

"She knew she could trust you because you have pink hair"

I thought it was funny at the time. But when I think back on it I think she was basically saying "you had a visible sign of not vibing with the system I was afraid of"

Be weird. Be colorful. Help random people.

[phantom-threaded]

Guillermo del Toro on the Creature

[caffeinatedopossum]

"I'm still kicking" is such a funny way to say "I'm still alive". Like lol. I'm still thrashing. Flailing. Writhing even. The violence remains.

[bai-gumiho]

As someone who understands germ theory, I put way too many things in my mouth.

[bluescluesposting]

[mysticalcoffeequeen]

When you thought it would be easy peasy lemon squeezy but it turns out to be difficult difficult lemon difficult.

[switchnx]

Wait that’s actually really good, gonna pop this out of the tags

[itsreallystupid]

[teaboot]

[depsidase]

[eusexuanal]

Settles down on your dashboard gingerly and with a big heaving sigh

[depsidase]

[kosmogrl]

[byjove]

me: I wonder how some of these bog bodies got created, like, how do you just fall into a bog and die?

drunk guy in the late Iron Age:

[byjove]

There are! There are several where the pathological report is like “The burial does not seem to be intentional and there are no signs of illness or trauma to the body. It is theorized the decedent was a traveler who died of exposure or drowned.” aka wandered into the bog drunk, tripped, ate shit and inhaled peat.

[teaboot]

As someone who grew up around bogs….. we have wooden paths to traverse them. Because the peat is essentially a 15-foot deep spongy mire that… might not hold your weight. So. I imagine during the rainy season, it may have been a bit more frightening than that

[jesusandtollers]

I have read multiple detective novels in which the treacherous nature of the peat was extremely important, because there were sections where you would literally get sucked under like the lightning sand from Princess Bride. It was called the Mire (usually capitalized) and someone was almost guaranteed to die in it.

[depsidase]