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this is, as the kids say, frying me (a glasses wearer)

Rip Geralt of Rivia you would have loved wearing a knee brace and taking ibuprofen

Did anyone ever like attempt to document and compile the variations of Barney the dinosaur murder ballads across the elementary school system in the early 2000s. Like legit it has always fascinated me as a phenomena and I would love to know if there were like traceable regional variations or what.

taraxippos

Looking at the tags so far I’m kind of fascinated by how much the ‘I Love You’ parodies vary in their phrasing/murder weapons but the ‘Joy to the World’ ones are nearly identical

karvina

here is my collection of barney murder songs as they appeared in the notes and comments of this post at about 4 pm pacific 7/25, somewhat arbitrarily color coded to show similar memes. it appears that "baseball bat and 2x4" is the mode configuration but there is so much variation that that exact phrasing only makes up a small part of the set. if i knew more about statistical modeling i would turn this into some kind of data tree that shows which phrases are most likely to follow other phrases.

hungwy

people born in 2000 should be like 12-14 now. but they’re not. that’s how fucked up our world is now

how-not-to-human

The older this post gets the funnier it becomes

duchesspeggy

My cousin born in 2000 is a licensed psychologist.

shepardoftheearth

that’s how fucked up our world is now

cyborbs-deactivated20231020

best thing tumblr ever did for me is the term "rotating it in my mind". it's really true that sometimes you think about something real hard but you can't tell what the thoughts are exactly. it's revolutionary stuff, i might even say

vulpineprince

sometimes the subject of your thoughts is just in this thing

ablondpanda

Ah, there it is!

The TUMBLER!

knitmeapony

The tumblr blorbo in the blorbo tumbler.

vulcanette-deactivated20260506

the new dj crazytimes song … now that’s what I call music!

vedajuno

allthestarscantfillalifetime

The over-pronunciation of every word is so spot on lol

dykejedi-deactivated20170430

when i was little and i went to church people would talk about “fearing god.” they would use ‘’fear’ to describe like a way of respecting him while understanding his power and i never knew what that meant until i met a fucking horse

tjmystic

This… went in a completely different direction than I thought.

noodles-07

"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

heroineimages

Mental illness is all in your head in the same way that prostate cancer is all in your ass.

noodles-07

this person wins everybody else go home

yuri-alexseygaybitch

They need to invent more fake celebrities like Hatsune Miku and Gorillaz and the Muppets because it's genuinely the most sustainable way to maintain a parasocial relationship with the entertainer class.

yuri-alexseygaybitch

Kermit the Frog can never get canceled because Kermit the Frog has no agency or personhood beyond what he is imbued with by the collective labor of puppeteers, voice actors, singers, and writers. He is, along with these other examples, effectively a celebrity by gestalt. He has transcended the inherit instability of the celebrity class through diffusion of responsibility for his personhood. He is a god.

lavalampadvocate

atlantaasterism

Kids, you have not lived until you have seen Big Bird in person. He wasn't even animate at the time -- there is just one of the Big Bird suits on display at the Museum of Puppetry Arts in Atlanta.

All I can say is, they have him behind glass for a reason. I imagine they have to clean it frequently as all of the kids and some of the adults immediately hurl themselves towards him and leave prints on the glass. He is so Big, and Feathery, and Yellow. He is many things that start with capital letters, and also an embodiment of pure love. I wanted to fling myself into his Feathery Yellow Embrace. I teared up. He is so beautiful. You have to go visit him.

smoothjazzdigit

Have you guys seen that clip

Go off Kermit

quixoticclown

Yes, these Muppets have taken Manhattan. The question now is can they HOLD it

quixoticclown

I have since discovered that Charles Dance has appeared in a Muppets live show 'The Muppets Take the O2.' Do with this what you will

homunculus-argument

You know you've fucked up when you go to a doctor and the thing you have wrong with you has been named after an occupation that isn't a thing anymore. Like imagine a doctor looking at you and going "yeah you've got ox-drawn ploughman's disease. We don't even test for that anymore. Yeah the reason you've never heard of it is because the last known case was in 1927 and happened to some guy who was like 98 years old and didn't believe in modern medicine of the time. What the fuck have you been up to."

vidrig

Here in Sweden we have a pretty active larping community and many of them have a historical setting. I remember a story of a really awesome WW2 larp where, unfortunately, one of the participants hadn't removed his boots for three days straight and it rained the whole time. His feet suffered so much that he had to be taken to the hospital, which was a sight to behold. See, this guy covered in mud and wearing authentic WW2 gear had managed to get an incredibly historically correct case of trench foot. From a trench.

a-bed-of-moss-deactivated202605

Peer reviewed! Too good to leave!

pngblog

ymutate

Rukiye Garip,B. (1964) Turkey

Watercolor on Paper 22 W x 29.9 H x 0.1 D in

lemondoddle

[I.D. a hyper realistic watercolor painting of stones underneath clear, rippling water. end I.D.]

thatqueerchoirkid

WATERCOLOUR?????

thatqueerchoirkid

I was like what a nice photo. What a nice painting. WTAER COLOUR???? I was gonna sdume

This was oil paiyt or something DAMN BRO WTAERCOLOUR???

prismatic-bell

SCROLL BACK UP

NOT A PHOTO

galileosballs

"I want to live in a world in which teenagers can fulfil their natural purpose of being annoying" and "I do not always want to be annoyed by the teenagers" are compatible sentiments

galileosballs

#I get so happy when I’m annoyed by teenagers in public#because it’s like#these kids are forming communities outside of their parents!#they aren’t shackled by school or soccer or clubs their parents put them in#they have the initiative and confidence to make their own social connections#it’s so so cool that I’m out of touch with what they’re saying and doing#because it means they have lives of their own (tags via @elongated-twink)

You! You are the only person who has correctly understood this post. The point is not that they should go be annoying somewhere else, it's that being annoyed by teenagers in normal public places, while annoying, is a good thing. It is a sign of societal health. We adults just need to be ok with the fact that we're going to be annoyed sometimes.

fenrislorsrai

I got to tell people this at a public workshop at one point and they were fucking SHOCKED. yes, please annoy me.

it being a forum on 'why are students having so many mental health issues'. which was open to public but almost no one else who did not have kids in school came to it. I was one of 2-3 out of 100+ attendees

but, but, but the teens roaming the downtown are annoying! and loud! In public!

SO ARE YOU SOMETIMES. And you both should have equal access to that space and be allowed to be vaguely annoying. That's how public spaces work. Stop trying to force kids out of the public and then wondering why they can't learn how to act in public. We've banned bicycles, why aren't teens using bicycles anymore? WONDER WHY.

I have a business downtown so I see the packs of teens every day. Good! The kids are walking with friends and laughing! excellent! Sometimes they're in my store and ten teenagers in a 600 square foot store is a lot, but they generally figure out how Indoor Voice works as soon as their peers are shushing them without me saying a word. They're learning how to do that on their own!

That unscheduled hang out time where they can determine who they spend time with, what they do, and are able to join or leave as they please while also having uninvolved bystander adults in the general vicinity is really important.

If they're forced OUT of public spaces to hang out in segregated groups in isolated areas, that increases chances of something bad happening simply because there are no bystanders who are not peers. And there's high reluctance to summon an adult then who could fix it (since the parent may be Mad about whatever happened, even accidents)

Being in spots with bystanders who are totally uninvolved and have no authority over them helps rein in truly egregious or risky behavior. They learn to sort out their disagreements in such a way so as to not escalate to a point where a bystander notices and intervenes. But if things have escalated to point that a teen wants OUT, there's an adult nearby to serve as a point of de-escalation. Physically going over toward them, even if nothing is said, will make the other party consider if they want to get an unknown adult involved or not.