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In The Departed (2006), Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg play two different characters— a subtle nod to them being two different actors, despite my wife being unable to tell them apart on the first viewing of the movie.

dunsalien

op this is the funniest post you’ve made yet

rianphin

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bugpumpkin

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uranium

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theladysherlock

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gorgynei

critical role fans are insane. we watch an episode thats as long as a full length movie and go “ahh, a short one tonight”

byjove

“one hundred and fifty years ago people didn’t GET cancer”

no you’re right they just had intense pain and died one day leaving their family to wonder what happened

byjove

people weren’t actually healthier in the past, they just died of what was killing them faster, long term chronic or terminal illnesses are not new

theequeerstrian

They’re only “new” in that we have the science/words to describe them, and we can keep people who have them alive long enough for it to matter. A hundred and fifty years ago people would just suffer and die quickly 🙃

barbeauxbot

Not to mention the fact that cancer-related deaths have been recorded as early as 2500 b.c. Turns out the Egyptians actually noticed when things were wrong with the internal organs during their extensive funerary practices.

mikkeneko

The other thing you see is that as the average life expectancy starts to extend, cancer rates also started to go up; and as more and more lifesaving treatments are discovered, cancer rates also go up, because people are for the first time living for long enough to die of cancer.

as my mother the doctor once put it, “everybody dies of something, and the less they die of other things, the more likely it is to be cancer”

captainlordauditor

So more people die of cancer because they’re not dying of measles

roach-works

it’s not totally down to human stupidity or superstition that so many cultures firmly believe in curses, the evil eye, vengeful possessing spirits, things that sneak into your home at night and suck all your life out, demons, and so on. like yeah humans are very prone to superstition, but also there are so many health conditions where just, one day a guy is alive and fine, the next he’s fucking dead and good luck figuring out why! maybe he had an aneurysm! maybe it was ghosts.

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sleepeys

“caleb, yasha is being shot up a hundred foot geyser” “this aint about her”

doesitsparkjoytho

sindri42

Every cat I have known would immediately climb up through the hole and start stealing everybody’s food.

graycoin

Crime porthole

if-i-was-a-wyrm

this was designed by cats

just-shower-thoughts

Blind people must save a lot on electricity.

cynopansy

They do actually!

mauve-moth

I had a blind professor, last semester, and I swung through his office to make up an exam. It was a while before I knew he was in there because he was sitting with the lights off. I finally went in, apologized, and took the exam by the light of a nearby window (which was fine). Forty-five minutes into dead silence he panicked and yelled in this booming voiced, “WAIT, YOU CAN SEE!!!” before diving across his desk to turn on the lights. I’m sure he was embarrassed but I thought it was endearing and it highlighted a large aspect of disabled life that I hadn’t previously considered.

hotmolasses

Sort of relatedly I once had professor who was deaf, but she had learned to read lips and speak so she could communicate easily with hearing people who didn’t know sign language. One day she had gotten off topic and was talking a little about her personal life, so that one of the students said “Oh, I know, I grew up in Brooklyn too.”

She stared at him for a long time and then said “How do you know I’m from Brooklyn?”

And he said “You have a Brooklyn accent.”

She said “I do?” and the whole class nodded, and then she burst out laughing and said “I had no idea! The school where I learned to speak was in Brooklyn. I learned by moving my mouth and tongue the way my teachers did. So I guess it makes sense that I have their accent, I just never thought about it.”

wrote-my-own-deliverance

My moms a sign language interpreter, and she’s signed with people from all over the US. According to her, when she signs with people from the south they sign with a “drawl.” They have slower hand movements and exaggerate certain parts of the sign. People from the Midwest sign very fast and people from the south sign very slow.

So we were at a restaurant once and my mom started interpreting for someone who was trying to order and she was like “oh you’re from the south!”

And they were like “how did you know that?”

And she said “you sign with a drawl.” And they were really surprised that it came through that much.

It’s really interesting that even when not speaking verbally accents and heritage come through.

urbanfantasyinspiration

Humans are so fucking fascinating

weaver-z

I love predictions of the future that oscillate between "eerily prescient" and "what the hell are you talking about?" Like that description of the year 2,000 written in 1933 where the author predicts flatscreen television, the glass wall trend in the homes of the wealthy, and the obsolescence of stuffed mattresses, but is also convinced that normal showers will be replaced by a device called the VAPOR LANCE that VAPORIZES the DIRT on you

ariabauer

Sometimes Apollo hits writers with prophecy and sometime it’s Hephaestus trying to make a pitch for his new product

tchaikovskaya

i Know antipasto means appetizer but i still like to believe that it refers to pasta’s archnemesis

pancakeke

animators fuck me up. if you asked me to draw something it would take every ounce of my life to complete this task. if you then asked me to draw it again a little to the left I would die