The Big Not Very Wee Hag

You can call me Bee | I post lots of stuff entirely disconnectedly | Put a book quote in my Ask Box and I'll (probably) calligraph it | GNU Terry Pratchett

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[aetherograph]

incredible payoff here. that person who needs the epipen is dead now though. XD

[alloftimeandspaceisours]

Yeah, why the hell would you put an Epi-Pen in there?? Ya know, something you need to have handy and quickly accessible in case of an allergic reaction?? Also, please remember that if you use an Epi-Pen, you need to get your ass to the nearest hospital to get checked out because it's a gap stop measure rather than something you use and you're good to go.

Both of these posts I'm adding below have information on how to safely use an Epi-Pen. I'm guessing the video was supposed to be funny and entertaining, and I hope like hell that they aren't actually keeping an Epi-Pen in that thing, but I still think it's a good idea to share safety information about Epi-Pen usage.

https://www.tumblr.com/alloftimeandspaceisours/810909388115165184/ruby-white-rabbit-glutenfreethings?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/alloftimeandspaceisours/810909524067287040?source=share

[aetherograph]

I appreciate this but that IS the joke, the joke is that this is a very elaborate and secure location, BUT an epi pen is the LAST thing you want to put in THAT particular "safe location".

All safe stash locations have to balance between accessibility and security. Putting something in your sock drawer means you can get to it fast, but it's difficult to secure; put something in this table and it's secure, but it's difficult to get to fast.

The joke is playing on this tension, and on the phrase "keep this safe" and the spectrum of meanings it could have. The epi-pen is not something that needs to be "kept safe" in this sense, but the person is purposely pretending they don't know that to show off their fancy secret compartment-filled table that they seem to have made. It's a sort of shaggy dog story.

::gets in a clown car and cruises away::

[alloftimeandspaceisours]

It's still not funny to joke about it like that and especially him being like, oh, I wasn't paying attention when she was talking about it (allergic reactions and the Epi-Pen) because she was talking too much. That's fucked up, but I guess because people want to say it's just a joke, that's fine. It's not, actually, but nice try. Ableism and downplaying potentially life-threatening health issues aren't funny.

[moniquill]

Today's piss on the poor take: "I don't think this skit is funny" = "This is not a joke skit."

[wizardarchetypes]

theres some people in my Irish class whose first language isn’t English and so when we go over Irish vowels etc. all the comparisons are made to English vowels and they need to ask for clarification on how to pronounce the English vowels to then understand what the teacher is saying about the Irish and I am truly awed by their ability to learn a third language as adults through the context of their second language—especially because some of them are fairly new to speaking English as well. Like the mental math they are engaging in every week in class would kill me.

[strix-alba]

The Quechua mini-class that I took earlier this year was taught by a native Kichwa & Spanish speaker, who was teaching (in English) a class that included a linguistics PhD. student from China who did not speak Spanish - her working out the phonemes with the combo of 'learning a third language via another ESL speaker' and 'multiple years of linguistics studies' was so interesting

[bunjywunjy]

why is lake superior so dangerous? i cant find anything online that will give my access (not american!)

it's the largest freshwater lake on the planet by surface area, you could lose a couple of smaller countries in there and not even notice. (vs Europe)

on top of that, it's a Northern lake, so the water never really gets warmer than 50 F (10 C) even in the heat of summer, and it's famous for sudden violent storms that destroy ships and buildings alike. this thing has a MASSIVE body count because it's also a major shipping thoroughfare.

tldr it wants to eat you so so bad

[kedreeva]

She is also over 1,300ft/400m deep at her deepest. Once she has eaten you, she will not give you back. Lake Superior doesn't give up her dead.

And when Bunjy says "the largest by surface are" what that means is: Lake Superior is a whopping 31,700 square miles (82,103 square km) of water. The only reason she is not an inland sea is because she is freshwater.

She has tides. She has rip currents, like an ocean does. You don't even have to go out on a boat to get got by her, all you have to do is step into her icy waters in the wrong spot. She has ice formations that aren't "icebergs" on the technicality that they didn't calve from glaciers, even though they look and act the same.

(photo by Paul Berger)

She LOOKS like an ocean when you are at her shores. This is from a location on the Minnesota side shore.

(photo by George Ilstrup)

She is huge, icy, and hungry. This makes her very dangerous. Not to be fucked around with, because you WILL find out.

[hadespuppy]

Superior doesn't want to kill you in the way that K2 wants to kill you. She doesn't give much thought to you at all, unless you draw her attention. Then, well, might as well start ringing the bell at Mariner's Church yourself, because she is inevitable.

[zmediaoutlet]

[honeyedheartss]

one of my favorite bodies of water

[mornington-the-crescent]

[molabuddy]

when u plug a phone into a computer the comupter always charges the phone even if she has less charge than the phone bc the computer thinks that due to her size she always needs to provide for those smaller than her even when it hurts her more than it helps others. btw

[mariacallous]

[sparkylurkdragon]

[shoezuki]

obsessed with the canadian ghoulmaxxing acecel

[strawberry-crocodile]

Your friend is not Brennan Lee Mulligan. Your friend is not capable of being Brennan Lee Mulligan. They tried to be Brennan Lee Mulligan, and they got burnt out. Your friend. Is not. Brennan Lee Mulligan.

[strawberry-crocodile]

having been talking and thinking about Actual Play podcasts for a few days, I think it's worth noting that the idea of the always-prepared always-witty DM who comes up with these things on the fly is as much a performance as the dragon he's voicing; these are professional products, generally with a team of people to help write scenarios, a lot of off-screen discussion with the players, and also EDITING so when something flops or they play through a scene and it doesn't work out, they can fix it.

the truth is not even Matthew Mercer (real life human being) is really Matthew Mercer (The DM from Critical Role)

[cavegirlpoems]

listen, I fucking love wrestling. I love the theatre of it, the athleticism, the storytelling. I have huge amounts of respect for the work that wrestlers do to put on a show. I do not, however, mistake what happens in the ring for an actual sport. They're putting on a semi-improvised-semi-scripted show under the pretence of doing sport. This is also the proper attitude to take to TTRPG actual-plays.

[l-a-clift]

“That’s why it’s hard to make friends when you’re older,” she said. “Friendship is rude.”

Her friend’s eyes widened. “What?”

“Think about it! When we’re kids we decide who we like and stick by them no matter what. As adults, we’re taught to be polite.

But, friendship is an imposition— at least, I want it to be. Call me after nine o’clock. Don’t think you’ll ever wear out your welcome. Overshare, show up at my door, go to the grocery store with me so we can waste another hour chatting.

We’ll never be friends if we spend all of our energy trying not to bother each other.”

[aubeezz]

thank you australian government from protecting me, a child (21 year old) from the scary hells of the internet

[prokopetz]

YA television show that does the power-scaling thing where each season needs a new villain to keep the stakes commensurate with the heroes' increasing competence – then the final season's villain turns out to be season one's wacky Absent-Minded Professor type again, except they got an ADHD diagnosis and got properly medicated in the interim and are now tremendously dangerous.

[alda-rana]

Yes, I'm a week late, but better late than never. It is a book about time travel, after all. Reasonably-priced love leading the people, after the illustrious model :)

I am no Delacroix, but I wanted to do this for many years and I had fun. It's not as good as I would like it to be, but probably as good as I can make it!

[ceruleanheaven]

month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in

[ceruleanheaven]

yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second

[ceruleanheaven]

many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third

[lurrlonde]

its a heavy burden, having a heart as big as a city. and heavier still when it loves you back

prints

[thecatsmiaowmeow]

Guess what I started reading yesterday!

[blond-shell]

this is how i imagine cishet male montreal and boston fans act on hockeytwt before shane and ilya are outed

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

oh wait just realized i can edit my own posts.

like you can't edit reblogs anymore but you can still edit your own post even after it has a thousand notes or whatever.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

i have the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

[unidentifiedspoon]

part 2 of this. what if instead of be not afraid you said Be Afraid but joke's on you, asshole, it's been afraid its entire life

[skin-slave]

Exclamation marks, but instead of a huge line of them, we do like Roman numerals of them.

You know. To save space.

[lastvalyrian]

Me doing 490 exclamation marks: XD