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Heres the thing you gotta understand about statistics.Â
âIncreases your chances by 80%â does not mean âthere is now an 80% chanceâ.Â
If your chances were previously 10%, your chances are now 18%, not 90%.Â
if your chances were roughly 1%, theyâre now just slightly less than 2%.Â
thats how that works.Â
Wow I donât understand math at all
âif you have a baby after 35, the chance of deformities goes up by 100%â is a line I hear alot.
It goes up from .5% to 1%
I think my brain just stopped working
100% is just another way of saying twice more likely. So 100% more basically means multiply the number you do have by 2.
Imagine how many woman are scared to have kids because of that statistic
This is why I took stats instead of calc. Because I donât build engineer bridges in my everyday life but I sure do read studies that affect how I might live my life if I misinterpret them.
Iâm terrible at numbers and math but I knew this and I really take it for granted. The average person definitely assumes, quite understandably, that â600% INCREASE!!!â must always mean a whole lot even if it literally only means that one of something is now six of something. Politicians probably take a shitload of advantage of this confusion.
just remember that increased BY and increased TO are very different things.
Oh god I didnât even think about that whole other layer of confusion. Yeah if youâve got 100 people and one of them is sick, thatâs 1% of them who are sick, so if it âincreased BY 100%â then that means now two people are sick. If itâs âincreased TO 100%â then all 100 people are sick.
Reblogging again for that last addition.
mathematically, âX increased by Y%â means multiply X by Y% (ie, multiply X by Y/100) and add the result to X
play this at my wedding or funeral I donât care where but just plAY IT
I reblog this a lot but it gives me chills every time i hear it
Was this Twenty-One Pilots? Definitely sounds like it.
This has cycled through my blog like 4 times now and Iâll continue to reblog it every time
Coming into a fandom late
Coming into a fandom early and watching it become an angry clusterfuck
Being in a dormant fandom that suddenly comes alive again after a new book/movie
Donât forget about those who come in the midst of a fandom war.Â
Accuracy at its best
Being in a fandom and not even knowing thereâs a war going onâŠ
all of this shitâŠlol
When Youâre Not In The Fandom But Youâre Nosy AF
When you get into a fandom only to discover itâs dead
This gets better every time I see it.Â
@fuboos-mess
Being in a dead fandomâŠ
Or being in such a tiny fandom that it feels like youre the only one
The accuracy hurts.
Being in a fandom that had a shit ending.
When youâve been fangirling long enough, youâve experienced all of the above.
Being in a fandom meant for kids.
This just gets better..
@mi-kleos
When you realize that joining the fandom has ruined you
Fandom hell in general
Yes.
This^^^ just⊠ALL OF THIS.
Being in so many fandoms that you donât even know whatâs going on
THIS IS THE SKULDUGGERY FUCKING PLEASANT FANDOM IN ONE POST!!
Trying to recruit people to your fandom
Annnnnnndddd itâs back
Being in a fandom which has so many antis
Iâve probably reblogged this before, but that was before these great additions.
Being in a fandom that actually works together
Why is this so true? All of it.
being in a fanbase but all your mutuals suddenly turn into Kpop blogs
I always enjoy it when a good post comes around again and has been improved by the reblogs like the years for a fine wine.
Being in a fandom when shit goes down and everyone has different opinions
When you are in a fandom and donât care for others people opinionâŠ..even if they are rightâŠ(believe me, I have met several of those)
Being in a fandom you never meant to join
I love this. and itâs gotten better
After abandoning a fandom youâre still a little bit emotionally invested inâŠ.
All of these are me. Lol
Being in a fandom on Tumblr
And it reached its epic conclusion
Wow itâs been a periodically time since Iâve seen this and I must say that the new additions to it just made it 100000000x better.
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who on earth coined the stereotype that girls are obsessed with changing clothes iâve been wearing the same t shirt and pajama pants for two days now and the same bra for like three
OOH OOH I KNOW THIS ONE! so in the elizabethan era queen elizabeth couldnât appear like she was having That Time of the Month in front of the male members of her court, and you bet your ass if she had to remain in the public eye while she was bleeding from the snatch then the rest of the female courtiers did too. because they didnât have handy dandy tampons back in the day, they would basically shove a rag down there and inevitably bleed onto the inner layers of their clothes. she what did they do? changed clothes. about eight times a day to be precise, and they did that all month long, so none of the delicate male constitutions would be offended by unseen yet implied bloody lady parts. this is part of why fashion was such a huuuuuge cultural item (and the secondhand clothing industry was such a huge part of society) because they had to appear like they were just doing it out of vanity/showing off their wealth. this became pretty much the standard mode of behavior for ladies who had to be out and about during shark week, right up until some nurses realized that the specialized gauze pads they used to plug up bullet wounds would work great for other such bleeding holes.
so yeah if you were wondering why dudes think women change their clothes a lot its because they donât understand periods.
It always comes down to men not being able to handle periods
Friendly reminder to check your breasts while youâre just sitting there scrolling the internet, then reblog so your followers do the same. Two people I know were just diagnosed within the same week.
these are the things that need spread. not fucking ribbons and the words âbreast cancer awareness.â we know it exists. just knowing it exists isnât going to help much.
for everyone who has breasts or is rather busty in the chest area (because men can get it too and not everyone who has breasts is a woman)
Quick reminder for my followers with boobs! I checked mine and Iâm all clear.
what do you call a pansexual man named nick who works at a cd store?
pan nick at the disc co.
Get the fuck out
fine, you want me to close the goddamn door too?
oh my god I finally found the post
one of my favorite tropes is when a character is talking in the foreground and something happens in the background that directly contradicts what theyâre saying
foreground: character is talking about how they pride themselves on being a good parent
background: characterâs 3 year old son starts a car and speeds off
also
This will never get old.
Kinda works
wow i love this
One of the truest things Iâve ever heard is that people who say theyâre âbrutally honestâ are more interested in the brutality than the honesty.
when i watch old movies iâm constantly surprised by how much acting has improved. not that the acting in the classics is bad, itâs just often kind of artificial? itâs acting-y. itâs like stage acting.
it took some decades for the arts of acting and filmmaking to catch up to the potential that was in movies all along; stuff like microexpressions and silences and eyes, oh man people are SO much better at acting with their eyes than they were in the 40âČs, or even the 70âČs.
the performances we take for granted in adventure movies and comedies now wouldâve blown the criticsâ socks off in the days of âcasablancaâ.
thereâs a weird period in film where you can see the transition happening. right around the fifties, I think. the example my prof used when i learned about it was marlon brando in âa streetcar named desireâ - he was using stanislavski acting methods and this new hyper-realistic style and most or all of his costars were still using the old, highly-stylized way of acting. it makes it way more obvious how false it is.
i even noticed it in âthe stingâ, which was 1973. i actually think they used it on purpose to get the viewer fished in by the second layer of the con; the grifters at the bookieâs were acting like they were acting, and the grifters playing the feds were acting for reals. if youâre used to setting your suspension of disbelief at the first setâs level, then the second set are gonna blow right past you.
or possibly the guys playing the grifters playing the feds just happened to be using the realistic style for their own reason, and it coincidentally made the plot twist work better. but i like to think it was deliberate.
i was thinking about this again, and when you know what to look for, itâs really obvious: old movies are stage acting, not movie acting. it just didnât really occur to anyone to make the camera bend to the actors, rather than the other way around. just image search old movie screenshots and clips and gifs, youâll see it. the way people march up to their mark and stand there, the way they deliver their lines rather than inhabiting the character. the way theyâre framed in an unmoving center-stage.
this is a charming little tableau, quirky and unexpected, but itâs a tableau. it lives in a box.
now, i usually watch action movies, and i didnât think it was fair to compare an action movie with what appears to be an indoor sort of story, but i do watch some comedy tv. so i looked for a brooklyn 99 gif with a similar framing, intending to point out that the camera moves, and the characters arenât stuck inside the box. but i couldnât even find the framing. they literally never have all the characters in the same plane, facing the camera, interacting only within the staging area. even when theyâre not traveling, theyâre moving around, and they treat things outside the âstageâ as real and interact with them, even if itâs only to stare in delighted horror.
as for action, it took a while for the movies to figure out what, exactly they wanted to show us, and how to act it. hereâs a comedy punch:
here, also, is a comedy punch:
the first one looks like a stage direction written on a script. the second one looks like your friends horsing around and being jerks to each other. the first one is just not believable. the physics doesnât work. the reaction is fakey. everyoneâs stiff. even the movement of the camera is kind of wooden. the second one looks real right down to the cringe of his shoulder, and the camera feels startled too.
iâm not saying this to dis old movies, iâm just fascinated and impressed by how much the art has advanced!
Iâm going to bed, but I also want to say that I think, without actually bothering to explore it and make sure, that thereâs been a similar shift in comics, probably related to the shift in acting/camera work. And I think you still see remnants of old âstage actingâ comics in the three-panel style set ups (you might still see it in long form comics, but youâd probably call it bad composition)
Now can someone explain why people in old films talked Like That
Yâall, THATâS HOW PEOPLE TALKED.
Seriously, I used to work in a sound studio, and one series of projects required us to listen to LOTS of old audio recordings. Not of anything special - just people talking.
AND THEY TALKED LIKE THAT.
It was so fucking wild to hear just a couple of people being like,
âWELL HI THERE JEANINE, HOW ARE YOU TODAY?â
âOH, NOT TOO BAD, JOE, THOUGH MY HUSBANDâS BEEN AWAY ON BUSINESS FOR A FEW WEEKS AND I MISS HIM SOMETHING TERRIBLE.â
âWELL ITâS A HARD THING, JEANINE, BUT YOUâLL GET THROUGH IT.â
âWELL I SUPPOSE IâVE GOT TO, HAVENâT I JOE?â
All in that piercing, strident, rapid-fire style we associate with the films of the era. If youâve watched lots of old movies you can imagine the above in that speech pattern.
I donât know if people talked like that because it was in movies but I suspect itâs the other way around.
Same goes for the UK - When they made the TV series The Hour, set in the 1950s, they had to tell the very well spoken, privately educated Dominic West to tone down his imitation of a 1950s newsreader because being accurate would have sounded to a 2011 TV audience as if he was doing a parody. When you watch Brief Encounter theyâre not speaking like that because they canât act, theyâre speaking like that because it was the norm on screen. It now sounds unnatural because itâs not the norm any more.
Obviously there were people with regional accents and who didnât speak in a heightened manner, but they didnât get to be on TV or in movies unless they were villains. (And usually the villains were putting it on, like Richard Attenborough in Brighton Rock. Sure, he was Richard Attenborough, but he was brought up in the Midlands, and by the on-screen standards of the time, that was common.)
Even the Queenâs very posh accent has changed over the last 50 years and become âmore common"Â - check out newsreel footage etc for proof - and recordings of her father are almost like someone from a foreign country (well, it is the past).
There is, for many film historians/critics, an actual turning point from mannered, theatrical, or âoverplayedâ acting on screen to naturalistic/American Method realism on screen. It happens in the 1954 movie On the Waterfront, during a traveling shot in which Marlon Brandoâs character and Eva Marie Saintâs character are walking together. Eva Marie Saint accidentally drops her glove in the middle of the scene. Marlon Brando instinctively picks it up as his character, and continues the dialog, all the while playing with the gloveâturning it about, trying it on, etc. Eva Marie Saint stuck with him, never broke, and the director didnât call âcut.âÂ
Before that scene in that movie, if an actor dropped a prop by accident, they would have re-shot the sceneâbecause Brando mostly disappeared out of frame as he bent down to pick up the glove, and (as is explained above) movies were framed to keep the people in the scene in the frame. I
tâs a pretty famous scene in movies because Brandoâs character doesnât give the glove back, but instead uses it to amplify what the two characters are experiencing, naturally and without artifice. It is, for all intents and purposes, the exact moment that screen acting changed.
Okay, but hereâs the thing about television specifically: given the size of TV screens when they first came out? Stage acting was the only thing that could be READ. Watch Star Trek: TOS on a modern screen and it looks absurdly overacted. Film of the same era is not, and yet the TV is.
And thatâs not a fault of the actors; they were all very capable of naturalistic film acting (yes, even Shatner) â as the later movies would bear out. Itâs because they were acting for the small screen, not the big one.
Stage acting and stage makeup is what it is because people are far enough away from the stage that you have to cake on the makeup garishly and exaggerate the hell out of your for it to be VISIBLE. And in early television? Yeah, those constraints actually very much applied. You could move the camera, sure, but the quantity of visual information you could send was just damned limited.
Hereâs another example of that.
Watch some Classic Dr Who. You may or may not notice it without watching for it, but every shot of the TARDIS is taken from the same angle.
The TARDIS was, at that time, a stage set. The camera was behind the fourth (Sixth?) wall. It was fixed. And most TV sets were built like this. They had a specific fourth wall and everything was filmed from that angle.
Fast forward to the new series, and youâll see that the TARDIS is being filmed from different angles all the time, including following the actor around.
Three things have changed:
1. Cameras have become much smaller.
2. Set building for TV has developed as an art. Those early sets were built by people who were trained to build stage sets.
3. Overall technological improvement resulting in things being cheaper.
The TARDIS set that was just retired? Each of its walls was designed to slide out. So you could put the camera anywhere you wanted. Presumably this is the case with the new one too. They couldnât imagine doing that back in the day. Nor could they afford the complexities of a set like that.
Itâs actually my opinion that TV has very much matured as an art formâŠthis century. This decade. We are doing and seeing things that couldnât be done ten years ago, twenty. Heck, even five.
Going back to speech patterns for a moment â I was a young child in the 80s, so my memories of the norms of the time period are limited (especially because I was incredibly sheltered), but the books I read at the time and the popular movies of the time all have this kind of â whimsical, sardonic speech pattern going on. Think John Waters dialogue.Â
I always thought it was kind of stylized. But then I ended up in a weird part of YouTube one night and found someoneâs home video of just walking aroud a 7-11 convenience store at midnight talking to people in Orlando, Florida. Just trying out their new camcorder for shits and giggles, talking to other customers, talking to the cashier, etc. And you know what? They all talked like a goddamn John Waters movie. It was the weirdest thing, like I was watching outtakes from The Breakfast Club or Say Anything. I expected one of the Cusacks to walk into frame any second.
Anyway, so I think itâs super cool how human speech and interaction shifts over time, and if youâre living through the shift, you donât really notice it as it happens.
This has happened to me before when I was in college at a frat party. This girl comes squeezing herself in between me and my friend and throws her arms around me. âAmanda, I am so glad you decided to come!â I was so confused and just figured she was drunk and mistaked me for someone else, until I saw the panic on her face. She leaned close and whispered that a guy was following her, was certain that he had put something in her drink and if I would please play along. I looked behind her and sure enough, some creep was watching her like a hawk. We invited her to hang out with us the rest of the night and even waited until her ride showed up just to make sure she was safe. Always look out for each other!
If you ever feel scared like this just come up to me like we have been friends since kindergarten, call me any name u can come up with ill play along.
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Stay together, stay safe
Perfect advice. Iâm reblogging this as a guy, because first of all, if youâre a guy : DONâT DO THAT. Donât be that creep.
And if youâre a guy and you notice some creep is following or stalking a girl, and that sheâs obviously uncomfortable or panicked, go ahead and say hi, long time no see, pretend to be her cousin, and tell her discretly you noticed there was a shady guy. Ask her if somethingâs wrong, if she feels unsafe, if she wants your help (very important - she may not trust you enough, no one could blame her, donât take it personally). (and donât you dare take advantage of the help you offered for a flirt opportunity, that would make you no better than the creep)
We can all stop âwitnessing and do nothingâ, and set an example.
Alternative option for a guy: if you feel safe doing so, go up to the creeper whoâs following her and be like âhey WHATâS UP bud do you like SPORTS? My favourite team is the redsox whatâs YOURS my man? What you DRINKING dude that looks GOOD.â and be friendly and just loud enough to blow his cover. Draw attention to him and see what he does. He wonât feel as safe creeping if he knows people are looking at him, and maybe heâll leave. It also means the woman wonât have to worry that you are *another* creeper she has to be wary of, and you may distract the bad dude enough to give her a chance to lose him.
Reblogging for that last comment.
christmas season is upon us so here are my fav christmas vines
oh my fucking god
When I was 17 my appendix ruptured because I thought I was just having period cramps and didnât go to the hospital so donât tell me PMS symptoms are no big deal
this actually happened to me during my math final and i didnât think anything of it and when i was later admitted to the hospital my math prof was asking me âyou didnât have to take the final! why didnât you tell me it hurt?!?!â and i told him iâve had cramps worse.
he gave me 100
This is actually an extremely common occurrence simply because in sex ed they donât teach you how to tell the difference between menstrual cramps and other more serious pains. The way to tell the difference between cramps and appendicitis is that while menstrual cramps are generalized toward the middle of the stomach below the belly button, pain from a swollen or burst appendix will start in the middle of the stomach and relocate to only the lower right side, even lower than menstrual cramps, and is a very localized pain. It also comes on extremely suddenly and will worsen over time or when you make a sudden movement, like a cough or a sneeze.
Basically, if youâre feeling any sort of pain, even if itâs menstrual cramps, donât hesitate to tell the school nurse or a parent, or if youâre out of school and home even make a doctorâs appointment. Chances are if your cramps are that bad thereâs something they can do to improve that as well.
I am boosting the shit out of that reply, because I am twenty-fucking-five years old and did not know how to tell the two pains apart
Adding another diagnostic tool! This is something we use in the ER called the rebound test. Basically, appendicitis and cramps react differently to certain things. If youâre still not sure if you have cramps or appendicitis, take two fingers and press them into your abdomen where the pain is (try repeating this on the lower right quadrant of the abdomen just to be sure.)
When you press in firmly, it will probably hurt. Hereâs the test: LET GO. Does it get better or get worse? Appendicitis will immediately hurt worse when you let go. Cramps will not. Go to the ER if the rebound test makes it worse!
THE REBOUND TEST IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
My husband got sent home from the ER with a rupturing appendix. When he came back and was rushed into surgery, the surgeon was super angry â âWhy didnât anyone do the rebound test?!â
All great info, but there is another lesson to be learned here: if youâre in major pain, itâs probably important - so donât let anyone tell you itâs not. There is a documented pattern of women who go to the ER with complaints of pain being dismissed as overreactingâŠwhen in reality women have an incredibly high tolerance for pain, to the point that some donât even realize exactly how serious their condition is. These stories only serve to illustrate this point.
Reblog to literally save a life.
Every time I see this..
when millennials were first heading into high school and college there was a huge trend in news stories about how stressed out our kids are, how their backs are getting messed up from carrying so many books, how theyâre sleeping less and doing more school work, and how we should do more to help our kids have the childhoods we had because our kids are falling apart from stress and being forced to be more productive than kids should be. but then once millennials started hitting the workforce all the news was about how millennials are lazy and narcissistic and entitled lmao you were real concerned about us until you found out a 23 year old is more qualified to do your job than you
Omg I forgot about this
reminds me of another post along the lines of âpeople complain about millenials being used to participation trophies, but who was buying those trophies and giving them to us?â
so i made some memes