I only fuck to Frasier

also pls send noel nudes

[emperor-ing-deactivated20191108]

good news everybody

[soandsuch]

In this store, you go in, shop, and then walk out carrying the item’s you want to buy, and their facial recognition software figures out who you are and charges whatever items you are taking to your account. It’s incredible and creepy.

[thisurlwasnttakenbutnowitis]

*Walks into the store with anti-facial recognition haircut/makeup and leaves like a bandit*

[putinyoudown]

the cyberpunk dystopia is upon us and it fuckin sucks

[lilmoth95]

[laughing-treees-blog]

In this African tribe, when someone does something harmful, they take the person to the center of the village where the whole tribe comes and surrounds them. For two days, they will say to the man all the good things that he has done. The tribe believes that each human being comes into the world as a good. Each one of us only desiring safety, love, peace and happiness. But sometimes, in the pursuit of these things, people make mistakes. The community sees those mistakes as a cry for help. They unite then to lift him, to reconnect him with his true nature, to remind him who he really is, until he fully remembers the truth of which he had been temporarily disconnected: “I am good.” Shikoba Nabajyotisaikia! NABAJYOTISAIKIA, is a compliment used in South Africa and means: “I respect you, I cherish you. You matter to me.” In response, people say SHIKOBA, which is: “So, I exist for you.”

:’))))))

[blue-240d-deactivated20200202]

WHY ISN’T THIS A THING IN ALL CULTURES

[burins]

some day I’m going to create a bingo card for these kinds of posts.

vague mention of “Africa” and “African tribe” with no actual names of tribes, countries, or languages, because Africa is a country and everyone there is exactly the same obv: check.

picture of smiling/emotional black people taken completely out of context: check.

made-up “African” words with deep meanings: check.

“noble savage” grossness out the wazoo: check.

this photo is a picture of Ghanaian boys playing soccer from Amen: Grassroots Football.

Initial googling says that Shikoba means “feather” in Choctaw, which would mean OP isn’t even on the right damn continent.

(When I look at Choctaw-English dictionaries, though, shikoba doesn’t show up at all; the word for feather seems to be “híshi.” “Shikobli” is a verb meaning “to put on a plume” so maybe there’s some conjugation or gerund going on here? I’d welcome any corrections from actual Choctaw speakers.)

Nabajyoti Saikia is someone’s name. OP just straight-up stole some poor Indian cement chemist’s name for their colonialist hippie bullshit.

Look at this dude. He didn’t spend years of his life writing a goddamn textbook on waste management strategies so that you could use his name to prop up this crock of shit. He’s disappointed in you. Do better.

[faboomama]

^^^ Do it. I ran across a similar thing with images of “Chinese” people. The people in the photo were from like Iceland or Russian. 

[fthgurdy]

Every time someone on my Facebook posts this story I ask ‘Which tribe? Where in Africa? What language is that?’ and they usually get upset.

And I’m not even trying to fight racism or anything, I just want accurate information that I can then do further research on. I’m funny like that.

[ohnofixit]

Thanks to belligerentbagel for submitting.

I poked around a little farther and found this italian debunk which also points out that the original(?) post in spanish at some point changed the phrase “midori” to “shikoba.”

And a translated excerpt from that debunk:

Having said that, the fact is that there is nothing about this supposed African word anywhere on the web before March 27, starting with a post on Facebook from a page in Ecuadorean Spanish… the thing that makes it smell even more is that Nabajyoti Saikia seems to be a fairly common name in India (home to many experts in the computer industry) … Anything is possible, but the lack of other quotes on the web of this supposed ancient tradition … that up until March 27 was completely unknown to the web, makes me suppose it is just a huge hoax!

Following this rabbit hole still further back, I note that the earliest english version of the above as found on google dates to a May 7, 2006 facebook post by an Argentinean yoga studio.  I tracked the spanish(?) version referenced above back to a facebook post in Feb 1, 2001.  Then I switched to just searching the phrase “NABAJYOTISAIKIA."  That got me to an english tweet in Jan 16, 2000 and, for some reason, this 1999 National Geographic article on the indigenous Himba people of Namibia which doesn’t use the word at all, except possibly it might, behind a paywall? Also the archives for that article place it at 2004.

[caviria]

dear tweens and teens: please dont equate “self care” with buying a bunch of useless shit because some shill account on instagram told you to. any type of “self care” that involves consumerism is snake oil and a better way to care for yourself and build your personal self worth is through self actualizing activities i.e. go make art, go plant trees, go volunteer for a food bank, go organize!!!

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

dead leafs? that’s called yard salad now. and it’s the new food trend.

[xenso-remade]

leaves*

[holyrights-deactivated20211021]

where are you going

[oneterabyteofkilobyteage]

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[pancakeke]

>after a long hard day on the ranch

[shrimptin]

[dojacat]

Me after tucking my kids in bed and going to the kitchen to eat all their paw patrol gummy snacks

[kitty]

[lafrancheckona]

me in the kitchen

[choppedandfoodnetwork]

[Worst Cooks in America- Season 20]

[sorcerywithwords]

the only personality test that matters:

1. who do you main in mario kart

2. favourite pokemon type

3. hot or cold

[reallyreallife]

[newpokemoncards]

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[babygladiatorstudentviemarfefur1]

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[supplyside]

Terminator

[doujinshi]

[phdscar]

Fucking Legendary