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dancerindc

This is why the gays fucking love this show.

dykerouxls

i dont trust birds. fuckin hollow bones. suspicious. what are you hiding in there

dykerouxls

fuck. shit. youre right. fuck.

dankmemeuniversity

xenosaurus

my parents just got back from vacation and my mom befriended an octopus???? she scared off a small shark (because you don’t want them near you in the water) and realized the thing it had been circling was a little octopus, which then came over and stayed near her feet for a few minutes. I’ve never been so jealous in my entire life

xenosaurus

she didn’t even realize it was an octopus at first because it was pretending to be a starfish. i love my new octopus sibling.

xenosaurus

I’m glad you’re all so supportive of my newest family member

ororomunroedontpullout

A true warrior queen has risen

emmersdrawberry

C h o s e n

juliastiles

sixpenceee

Horror art by Stefan Koidl

eurydicesviper

Omg all the love Ariana is getting from other celebs n actors from the movies she featured in thank u next is so cute

disneyfilms

TARZAN (1999) dir. Chris Buck, Kevin Lima

crimepit-deactivated20200606

guys listen

mermaids would have to be dark-skinned and chubby to survive in the ocean

water isnt a great means of protecting oneself from the sun theyd have to be very dark if they were shallow mermaids and they didnt want to be constantly sunburnt and they may be paler if they lived deeper in the water but theyd have to be buff and/or chubby as hell to resist the water pressure and cold of the deep sea

what im saying is pale-ass white skinny mermaids are just unrealistic

anxious-bi-bb-deactivated202006

I love this tea

asundergrowth

Fat isn’t a defense against water pressure, it’s an insulator. So the colder the water, the fatter the mermaid.

Scandinavian merfolk would be tubby, evolving more for persistence hunting in the freezing coastal waters, possibly relying more on siren-song to lull prey into effective range. The less moving the better! Gotta keep the chub on to survive the winter.

Whereas Mediterranean/Polynesian merfolk would spend their time among the fertile reefs in warmer waters, competing with other predators. They would be built for speed and agility, buff like sprinters. Darker skin would be harder to spot under the surf, and more resistant to the glaring sun.

Also: it’s not hair, it’s scillia that they use to filter plankton out of the water, and it stings like a jellyfish if you touch it.

I would imagine that merfolk come in many different colors, maybe they even have the ability to shift their skin tone to assist in hunting? I guess that depends on how intelligent your mermaids are.

Tldr; cold water mermaids would probably be chubby, warm water mermaids would look like Serna Williams.

theofficialvincenzo

Another thing to take into account is Deep-Sea-Gigantism. It’s not fully understood why many animal species such as the colossal squid and whales typically grow to unimaginable sizes in high-water-pressure areas, but it’s assumed that it develops as some sort of defense mechanism. This would imply that deep-sea merfolk would be a sort of Leviathan-class eldritch horror.

kingofsnape

evansbuck

pottergerms

consistency is very important

pocketsareeverything

Viola Davis for L’Officiel USA.

drivingtowardsfate

What a queen 👏

politicalsci

rest in peace stephen hawking (1942-2018)

great-tweets

watch the whole thing, i’m begging you

sushinfood

this is NUTS

ranger-truth

Reblogging this again because I found out he’s actually the drummer in an all-mascot metal band called Charamel.

hollowboobtheory

wait a second

fuck-customers

Lmao this American girl walked up to a Hungry Jacks (Burger King) register with her drink and really, really loudly (I was at the other side of the place) proclaimed: “I asked for Lemonade, you gave me Sprite” in a really bitchy, entitled voice.

The cashier (and everyone within earshot) just looked at her like “the fuck is wrong with you”

In Australia, Sprite IS lemonade as far as we’re concerned.

Enjoy your 90c refund you cheap ass ho.

jhenne-bean

“Sprite IS lemonade as far as we’re concerned”

freshest-tittymilk

@fleamont can you verify?

movednowbye-deactivated20221103

Yeah this is correct. Lemonade is sprite. Clear fizzy liquid type thing. Solo is closer to what American lemonade is but we don’t actually have what you guys consider lemonade anyway so she was never going to get what she wanted lmao.

freshest-tittymilk

Y'ALL AIN’T GOT LEMONADE?!?!??

madness…

kingjaffejoffer

“we don’t actually have what you guys consider lemonade“

thetallblacknerd

That entire continent exists on a different realm of existence

blasianxbri

What the… Lmao

yosoyleche

Why is it called lemonade then? 🤔

fiontan

@casualswfan What is wrong with you guys?

seascrapes

IT IS THE SAME DAMN THING. You Yankees and your fifty brands of the same :P

fiontan

LEMONADE AND SPRITE ARE NOTHING ALIKE

verdytai

Things heating up in the drink fandom

fairytalesandimaginings

I’m pretty sure the same is true in the UK at least was in 2010 except Sprite didn’t seem to be a common brand so I’d ask for Sprite get blank looks eventually figured out to ask for lemonade

questions-within-questions

Sprite is a recognised brand here, but it’s not omnipresent, it is also considered a brand of lemonade.

larena

This is fucked up.

tparadox

Sprite: lemon-lime soda (pop/carbonated beverage). Lemonade: lemons, water, and sugar. Still.

zarekthelordofthefries

LEMONADE IS NOT CARBONATED WHATT HEFUCC CK ARE YOU ALL DOIGN

taiey

Living? Sensibly?

Also on what planet does Sprite have lime in it.

romansnow

Sprite, the lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage, is made on Earth.

Earth is the third planet from the Sun, the densest planet in the Solar System, the largest of the Solar System’s four terrestrial planets, and the only astronomical object known to harbor Sprite.

The people of Earth are known as “Earthlings” or “Spriteloids” interchangeably (although not to each other).

elsandifer

At least in the UK, if you order lemonade you’ll sometimes get Sprite, but if it’s proper it’s a lemon soda akin to the Italian gassosa - less sweet than Sprite.

froborr

Oh shit, I’ve had gassosa, it’s AMAZING.

elexuscal

I just want to say that the whole ‘lemonade and Sprite are interchangeable’ is pretty common throughout Asia as well, in my experience

kingkilling-and-stormlight

@bre-e-e-e what madness is this?!?!?!?!

bre-e-e-e-deactivated20170219

@kingkilling-and-stormlight so… what you are all saying is. Lemonade is … not fizzy… in America?

lierdumoa

You guys have orange juice at least, right? Grapefruit juice? In the US, Lemonade is a juice, like orange juice, but made with lemons instead of oranges. You can buy “fresh squeezed lemonade” at many restaurants and fast food venues. Typically it’s diluted a bit with sugar water, so the sour flavor of the raw lemon juice isn’t so overpowering.

In the south, it’s very common for people buy whole lemons and make their own lemonade at home using a citrus juicer.

monanotlisa

In Germany, you’d ask for “Limonade” and yeah, you may get a Sprite or a Fanta; it’ll always be a fizzy nonalcoholic drink and usually come in lemon, lime, orange flavor. Only in healthfood or hipster establishments would it ever be an actual juice drink.

minim-calibre

As a fan of homemade rosewater lemonade, I am twitching at the thought of sickly sweet carbonated beverages that taste like they were invented by someone who may have been in the same room as a citrus fruit once but can’t remember what it actually tastes like being called lemonade.

orcasocks-blog

Wtf did y'all think beyonce was talking about????

scuttleboat

oh wow I hadn’t even considered that. Like millions of people worldwide hearing the album title but not understanding what lemonade means even on the most superficial level.

maramcgregor

This is so epically disturbing. Lemonade is such an integral part of spring and summertime. I just … this breaks my brain and my heart. The cultural references too. Just, all the American shows that reference lemonade and people in other countries are thinking Sprite? There’s a reason kids do freshly squeezed lemonade stands. You can’t buy it like that from a store. And there’s nothing quite like screwing it up and getting the sugar ratio wrong. And parents grinning through the too sour or too sweet mess and praising your efforts. Lemonade Is a Thing.

fastphoridae

Wait does that mean Aussies make Shandies with sprite?????

pandor-pandorkful

Does this mean a significant portion of the global population don’t know what to do when life hands you lemons?

fozmeadows

Yes, Australians make Shandies with our carbonated soft drink lemonade, though if you’re using it as a mixer, you’re less likely to be using Sprite and more likely to be using Schweppes, which looks like this:

Like. We absolutely have a concept of flat, juice-based lemonade, but as an earlier commenter said, it’s a niche hipster speciality rather than the default, and even then, it’s still going to be premade rather than fresh.