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modernchild-deactivated20200213

@ my work place where no work ever gets done

nitramaraho

dirtyrotteninfidel-deactivated2

Holy shit im dying right now..prob the best one

christianmetalhead2112-deactiva

This actually probably is the best one hahahaha

a lot of my faves

goddesszz

😂😂😂😂

somecutething

valtsv

truly one of the funniest things about lotr to me is how much hostility the hobbits, a race of cheerful, fun-loving farm people, bear towards gandalf for absolutely NO reason except that he kills their chill vibe

valtsv

the hobbits of the shire whenever they hear gandalf is in town:

enlillestarling

I rewatched Lord of the Rings the other day and you know what I really appreciate?

The men are so tender.

They cry, and kiss each other’s foreheads, and hug, and call each other ‘my friend’ and ‘my dear’; they’re respectful to women and faithful to their partners; they have banter without being creepy and sleazy, and literally none of that stops them from being considered “manly”.

More Lord of the Rings men please.

coolsaddad-blog

Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.

feels-for-the-fictional

I have been waiting for this post all my life.

marzipanandminutiae

They are indeed purple, But one thing you’ve missed: The concept of “purple” Didn’t always exist.

Some cultures lack names For a color, you see. Hence good old Homer And his “wine-dark sea.”

A usage so quaint, A phrasing so old, For verses of romance Is sheer fucking gold.

So roses are red. Violets once were called blue. I’m hugely pedantic But what else is new?

ineptshieldmaid

My friend you’re not wrong About Homer’s wine-ey sea! Colours are a matter Of cultural contingency;

Words are in flux And meanings they drift But the word purple You’ve given short shrift.

The concept of purple, My friends, is old And refers to a pigment once precious as gold.

By crushing up molluscs From the wine-dark sea You make a dye: Imperial decree

Meant that in Rome, to wear purpura was a privilege reserved

For only the emperor!

The word ‘purple’, for clothes so fancy, Entered English By the ninth century

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Why then are voilets Not purple in song? The dye from this mollusc, known for so long

Is almost magenta; More red than blue. The concept of purple is old, and yet new.

The dye is red, So this might be true: Roses are purple And violets are blue

.

squeeful

While this song makes me merry, Tyrian purple dyes many a hue From magenta to berry And a true purple too.

But fun as it is to watch this poetic race The answer is staring you right in the face: Roses are red and violets are blue Because nothing fucking rhymes with purple.

cryoverkiltmilk

last-flight-of-dickarus

Hirple - To limp or walk awkwardly

Cirple - An old Scots word for the hindquarters of a horse

nobodybetterhavethisoneoriswear

“Roses are red, violets are purple,

My boner for you has caused me to hirple.”

…

My, how romantic!

wouldthatcreationhadformedmeman

DYING. I AM DYING.

kiranovember

Calling theshitpostcalligrapher! We need @theshitpostcalligrapher

theshitpostcalligrapher

@kiranovember u better buy this as a commission lmao

simonalkenmayer

This post has evolved.

princesstigerbelle

Reblog the Princess ™ for future happiness and mental stability. Let her cuteness cleanse you.

din-skywalker

please princess™… i require your stability and happiness

princesstigerbelle

She is listening

tastefullyoffensive

(via BurkhartAdriana)

thorffour-deactivated20190920

cats and snapchat

minato2525

catchymemes

For Caturday

rustandruin

evilkitten3

someone introducing t’challa at an international conference: and now, his majesty, king of wakanda, t’challa!

shuri, somewhere in the crowd: NERD

glazecake

galexy-astra

LET 👏 RETAIL 👏 EMPLOYEES 👏 SIT 👏

the-real-skye

The only major chain retail store that I know of that allows their cashiers to sit is the Aldi grocery store, a German chain. Their starting pay is also $12 an hour chain-wide.

The interior of the store looks like this so they save money on the annoying shelf restocking. Products remain in their boxes until being removed by customers. No unboxing and putting stuff on shelves, and constantly having to rearrange it. Also, the boxes make inventory a breeze as a sealed box has a defined number of items in it.

Typical American grocery stores have shelves like this

Every item has to be unboxed and neatly stacked on the shelves. If they get messed up by the customers, everything has to be rearranged back to specific rigid order. When you have to verify the inventory, every item has to be removed from the shelves to be counted and put back. Aldi’s also do not have plastic bags. You can buy reusable bags or simply use the empty cardboard boxes that are available.

Last is the carts. Most grocery stores have their carts strewn across the parking lots, rolling around and hitting cars until a store employee is sent out to collect them, after being yelled at by the manager when they were told to do other tasks in the meantime. Aldi’s chains those carts together and you have to put a Quarter in to release it. When you are done, you plug the chain back in and get your Quarter back. If others are lazy, you can collect and return the loose carts and collect the Quarters.

It stops this…

Then the employees have to do this

hclark70

reblogging this because I love Alidis

brighdethebonsai

With the exception of the shelf stacking, all of this is totally normal in every single supermarket chain in the UK… what the heck America

putrandomnamehere-deactivated20

Same for Germany… why would you make it any more complicated than that. Just. Why not let them sit??

queeranarchism

They’re not normal for no reason. The right to sit during work seems normal for most retail workers in these countries because they are it is part of the labor rights that have been won by unions. Sometimes the right to sit was won in an agreement with the store and sometimes it was put down in national laws.

For example, in the UK your employer legally has to provide you with a comfortable seat if you do work that can be done while seating. In the Netherlands you have to be provided a seat if you work at a cash register for more than 4 hours a day or for more than 1 hour uninterrupted.

Unionize.

burningonyx

Oh yes, let’s ignore charging poor people a quarter to use a fucking cart, and focus on the fact they let their cashiers sit. Gods, capitalism is a shit storm, and everyone who reblogged this without pointing out how fucked up it is that they charge poor people money to use a grocery cart has lost any respect I might’ve had for them. Also, in the US that charging a quarter thing would never work. People would be even less inclined to put the carts bak properly, and those carts would get stolen at an even greater rate. You can’t just point at something done differently in another country and say that we should do that thing because it works there. Just because it works there doesn’t mean it would work here.

firstenchanterorsino

ALDIS ARE IN THE US. i’ve had an aldi in my town for almost as long as i’ve been alive. people dont steal the carts and most people put the carts back because they want their quarters back. you… get the quarter back… also, i’ve seen plenty of people pass on carts, so the next person who comes up doesn’t have to use their own quarter.

aldis are in the us and i’ve hardly ever seen their carts in a mess. so like, yes. this works.