The Thoughts of a Random Person

and other stuff.

[drinkpisspissblood]

Every time I talk to my roommate I feel my pineal gland calcify and my third eye close a little bit more

[drinkpisspissblood]

Last night she asked me how many days there are in a year and I said “why do you not know that?” and she said “why the fuck would I need to know that?”

[drinkpisspissblood]

She’s getting ready for work rn while listening to the Carrie Underwood song from the Super Bowl at full volume

[drinkpisspissblood]

She keeps hanging this shit up around the house

[drinkpisspissblood]

Last night she was telling me about a car accident she was in years ago and she said they had to use the “jar of live” and I was like. Do you mean the jaws of life and she said “you don’t know what the jar of life is?”

[drinkpisspissblood]

She’s sitting next to me scrolling through a facebook meme page scream laughing and showing me literally every post and saying “what’s wrong? Are you okay” if I don’t laugh hard enough

[drinkpisspissblood]

We’re at her dads house it looks like this

[anarchohellenism]

This is like the straight equivalent of Get Out

[overpricedvodka]

American killed on Andaman island home to uncontacted people, body yet to be recovered

An American man was killed on an island inhabited by a tribe known to resist outside contact in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. And, his body still lies there. The North Sentinel Island is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous tribe that is furiously rejects outside contact.

Y'all hear sum? I thought I might have, but nope.

[onlyblackgirl]

Missionary or not, if you go somewhere where it is widely known they don’t want visitors and it is literally illegal to contact them or go on their land, and you get clapped, that is your own fault. 

Stop trying to colonize everyone and mind your business. 

[vivalatinamerica-deactivated201]

this man wasn’t a tourist — he was an intruder.

[crazymeds]

Left out of the headlines and first paragraphs:

He was killed on his THIRD visit.

The first time the locals shot arrows at the kayak he used to get from the fishing boat he hired to the shore.  That dissuaded him for a day.  Then he came back with a large fish as a gift.  The locals accepted the fish and told him to leave.  He whipped out his Bible and they shot up the Bible (as one of his missionary relatives described it to the BBC “The Bible saved his life!”).  Still not taking the hint he returned the next day and, having had enough of his bullshit, they filled him with arrows.

What part of NO SOLICITORS did he not understand?  

[fail-boat]

Also, they have no immunity to outside diseases. His presence could have literally wiped out the population of the entire island.

[amuseoffyre]

He knew it was illegal. The fishermen who took him knew it was illegal. The locals made it very, very clear that he was unwelcome. There were two days of warning shots, making it very clear his presence was not wanted. Still, this man put his own opinions above their wishes and their well-being.

[willowofthehearth]

Tribe Kills Man Who Threatens Them With Genocide

There, fixed the headline

[sndwave]

the funniest thing in the entire pirates of the caribbean series is definitely that one scene in At World’s End where they have parlay but davy jones is part of it, and rather than have him stand in the shallows or something they get a big bucket of water and have in stand on it on shore

who thought of that idea? who thought “put davy jones in a bucket of water” and had the guts to suggest it aloud? and then who went “hey that sounds like a great idea!”

at some point someone told davy jones their idea was for him to stand in a bucket of water and he agreed to it

[sndwave]

*stands majestically in a bucket*

[stemmmm]

ok but notice the trail of buckets behind him meaning he walked from the ocean through three other buckets of water before he got into the one hes standing in

[prokopetz]

It’s even funnier when you consider how he must have figured all this out in the first place.

Some folks are asking “well, if he can avoid the no-dry-land curse simply by standing in a bucket, doesn’t that ruin his whole motivation?”, but he’s not on dry land here.

The parley takes place on a sandbar - which, for the unfamiliar, is a temporary “island” of sand deposited by breaking waves, unconnected with the shore, that spends most of its time submerged, being exposed only at low tide.

What Jones is doing here is rules-lawyering his curse. Can you imagine the trial and error he must have gone through in order to determine that this would actually work?

“Okay, do islands count as dry land? How about parts of the shore below the high tide mark? Reefs? Shoals? What if I stand in a pool of water on a shoal? Does it have to be seawater, or will any water do? Does it have to be a natural tidepool, or can it be something artificial, like a bucket?”

What I am saying is that there must have been a process.

[stumblngrumbl]

Pretty sure that this implies that the reverse - a bucket of sand, floating on the water (big bucket with just a bit of sand), would qualify as dry land. That’s absurd, so I’m pretty sure that his lawyer pulled a fast one over the curse governor.

[prokopetz]

It may be absurd, but the text of the film bears it out. Davy Jones can sense the presence of his heart while it’s at sea, but not while it’s on land (indeed, that’s why he buried it on land in the first place: to break his connection with it) - yet placing the heart in a simple jar of dirt conceals it from Jones’ awareness just as surely as burial on land does, even if the jar is on a boat at the time. Suitably prepared vessels filled with dirt absolutely count as dry land for the purpose of Jones’ curse.

[silver-tongues-blog]

Then the reverse should also be true. If he buried it in a jar of water, no matter how far inland it is, he would be able to sense it. So by this logic, any container of seawater counts as not dry land, ergo, the bucket is a perfectly viable loophole.

[prokopetz]

Not necessarily. It’s traditionally a lot easier to accidentally get whammied by a curse than it is to weasel around it - I figure that’s why he’s using multiple layers of indirection here. He’s forbidden to set foot on dry land, but it’s technically not dry land (it’s a sandbar, a non-permanent landform exposed only at low tide) and he technically didn’t set foot on it (he’s standing in a bucket of water). It’s entirely possible that either one of those things alone wouldn’t make the grade.

[officialharshnoise]

okay but this all raises one further, very important question: if it’s specifically “dry land” he’s forbidden from, what about wetlands. can Davy Jones fight you in salt marshes? can he throw down in a peat bog?Swamp Battle?

[musicalhell]

This is the quality content I come to Tumblr for.

[karometeenk]

could he step on land if his shoes are wet?

[there-was-a-girl]

No matter how ridiculous PotC gets I will love it. Especially when it results in conversations like this

[glumshoe]

What if he crawls around on his hands and knees, with his feet raised slightly into the air? Can he walk on his hands? Can he ride around in a litter or a wheelchair?

[princedorkface]

can he be in a wheelbarrow?

[bemusedlybespectacled]

What if he flies over dry land? Like in a hot air balloon, or in the claws of a giant bird?

[pantheraj]

What if he’s carried by two swallows using a strand of creeper?

[strikelikeahawk]

European swallows or African swallows?

[thinster13]

this whole thread reads like a conversation between these two:

In fact im not entirely sure that it wasn’t their idea in the first place

[giraffepoliceforce]

(x)

[stirnerstuff91-blog]

stop ascribing sexualities to children just stop stop it

[just-shower-thoughts]

I hold in my pocket a device that contains access to nearly all information available to humanity. I use it to look at porn and pictures of cats.

[paleglo]

the middle of her tail goes the same colour as your blog background.

[bowlegsintheimpala]

[mooseleys]

[uskradetat-deactivated20170722]

I’m dying

[foervraengd]

centaurs would work if you replace the horse body with a giraffe, because it’d suit the anatomy of a centaur to live of fruits and leafs up in very tall trees.

Also they’d look hilarious when they have to drink water.

[reluctantbride]

i was gonna be like i Need this and then i realized wait… i can draw…

[otherworldlycitizen]

Bro your art is amazing and I love these centaurs!

[foervraengd]

YESSSSS!!!!!!

[batanice]

It’s not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it’s about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism.

Mary Robinette Kowal (via batanice)

[knusprig-titten-hitler]

[33v0]

Wqhat the fuck

[miscbones]

ITS JUST FLUFF. THERES NO DOG ITS JUST FLUFF OMG

[user483748483]

No that dog has super speed and is vibrating so fast that it is able to move its molecules through that fence.

[howboutnovak]

[theconcealedweapon]

[gaylor-moon]

*cough*

[liberalsarecool]

When the truth stares you in the face.

[notjessica]

hmmmm 🤔

[subcas]

Demon Dean using a rolled up porn mag to wreck another demon

[cheshicat]

Amazons confirmed queer society for all you haters

[thingstolovefor]

Tayjha Deleveaux, 16, sparked a movement called #supportthepuff after getting chastised at school for natural hair.

Tayjha Deleveaux is a student at the CR Walker Senior High School in the Bahamas. Earlier this month, she went to school with an “Afro puff” that made administrators threaten punishment if she did not “clean” up her “untidy” hairstyle.

According to principal T. Nicola McKay, she was trying to clamp down on students wearing their hair in a way that

 “looks like it would not have been combed for days.”

The controversy has inspired the hashtag #supportthepuff, as other naturalistas embrace their beauty and show off their hair in solidarity. 

“Black women through the course of history have been told that their hair is unworthy and were made to chemically straighten, hot comb or cover their kinky crowns. In order to be seen as beautiful, many women of African descent were told unapologetically that their hair was not beautiful in any other form.” -  An online petition to #supportthepuff

I support the puff, because it is what naturally grows out our heads. The Eurocentric concept of beauty is destroying the world: Asians cutting their eyes; black women risking fibroids through relaxers to achieve this standard of beauty. Stop the madness and love what your creator gave you. #Love it!

[irrationalliberal1]

#supportthepuff Women should always feel free to go au natural