Life, the Universe, and Everything Bagels

[mysharona1987]

[pdlcomics]

Thrilled

[bhujangan]

My favorite method of learning pronunciation in another language is singing. 

I spent the hours I travel on the bus singing reggaeton and have almost no accent when speaking Spanish. 

Bollywood soundtracks helped me master the ड़ sound. 

One of my students struggled with the English w sound and I had him sing the song “I Want It That Way” and he can say it almost perfectly. 

Sing. Even if you suck. Sing.

[iwillbeapolyglot-blog]

Seriously, my pronunciation for French and Danish improved so much just by listening to their versions of Disney songs. Singing is an invaluable language resource!

[jewnieishere]

True story!! This works! I blast Finnish music all day and learn the songs and it helps SO MUCH!

[belleandkurtbastian]

Honestly, this. I’ve found that singing helps not just with pronunciation, but also with various paralinguistic and prosodic aspects of the target language, and recognising and using different registers of the language (formal, casual, etc).

And this works for both translations (say, Disney songs), and original songs. In fact, I think a mix of both would be the best resource of all, because you have the mix of unfamiliarity and familiarity.

[cesario-r]

I’ve definitely found that to be true. I was struggling with grasping the changes in word order in Irish and my pronunciation was embarrassing but listening to songs has helped. 

[strawberryinstantoatmeal-deacti]

i remember being like 11 and asking my dad why he hunts and kills deer and he said “because i think theyre beautiful” and that’s just. that’s just what men are like

[werewolfofsector2814]

Yeah… &?

Is it any different that women seeing cute things & wanting to squish their face?

[genderidentitty]

Is killing different than endearing physical contact? Local man unsure

[weaselle]

I really like … many aspects of hunting. And I think animals are beautiful. may I present

What is the point of mounting something like this sad, gross, proof that you will end a beautiful life for no good reason…. 

when you could frame you up a trophy like the photo below !? 

This takes at least as much skill, and involves all the same wilderness stalking. It proves that you are both brave AND compassionate. There’s no downside to doing this instead. Imagine you go to somebody’s home, and they have a trophy room filled with beautifully composed close up photos of wolves and deer and boar and eagles and things all over the walls, with a couple camera guns mounted up there too - on one wall is a photo of a standing bear who obviously sees the person taking the photo and it’s been blown up so the bear is life size (that’s why you need that gun-barrel lens, so the quality holds up when you enlarge the pic) The person you are visiting is like, “yeah, I took all these.” THAT’s impressive. A room full of dead things just means they are weird and gross and pointlessly cruel and proud of it.

[kingscrown666]

^^^

[patina-millers-biceps]

My dad goes out into the woods and takes pictures all the time. He still calls it “hunting” and when he comes home, he literally says “Hey, look at what i shot!” So doing this allows not only for great photos and time with nature, but also an A+ Dad Joke.

[dantes-infernal-chili]

I’m not against hunting for food, and I’m mostly neutral on making a trophy from an animal you hunted for food, but I completely agree that hunting purely for sport is pretty fucked up.

[curseworm]

im loving this article written by som mycologists who accidentally got high as fuck on fly agaric

[curseworm]

[curseworm]

god same

[vaguely-problematic]

[gendercents]

[ID/ Three tweets by Kivan (@KivaBay) that read, respectively:

“The reason there are so many conservative boomers is the poor ones die sooner”. (A meme of someone pointing at an empty sign that has been edited to read “boomer vs millennial” discourse is no replacement for class analysis. the rich are oppressors, not the elderly.”)

“This isn’t even a joke. If you want to know why an older generation seems like a bunch of out of touch rich bastards, it’s because more of the wealthy than the poor survived”.

“Think of how many boomers we lost to poverty, ableism, the AIDS crisis, racist violence and murder”. /end ID]

[gendercents]

Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Don’t Survive to Become Seniors

Poor people die younger in the U.S. That skews American politics.

[feminismandmedia]

[sapper-in-the-wire-old]

people today with access to more raw information than any other period: the earth is flat

german artilleryman in 1916, who barely washes his own ass: I need to account for the curvature and rotation of the earth when plotting my firing plans

[thefloatingstone]

Eratosthenes, an Egyptian, in 3750 BC when fucking mammoths hadn’t even gone extinct yet: Oh hey I can use these two obelisks to calculate the earth’s entire circumference based on the length of their shadows and the Earth’s curvature. Neat.

[memes-to-show-my-therapist]

[procrastinationasperformanceart]

Let me tell you about my panda mini-washer

As an apartment dweller, this is a game changer. My current apartment doesn’t have a laundry facility and the closest Laundromat about a 30 min bus ride which is just not practical. The mini-washer is a life saver

The panda mini washer hooks up to the sink, is incredibly lightweight (about 28 pounds, so light even I can lift it) and easy to use. 

It has a surprisingly large capacity. The basket from the first picture represents about one and a half loads. The jeans took up a whole load while the rest filled the bin only half way. 

Here’s the inside. The left is the washer the right is the spin dryer. Yes, it even drys.

Basically you shove your cloths into the washer, fill it up with water and let it go. I use my shower head to fill it up so it goes faster, the sink hook up took about five minutes to fill the whole tub, with the shower head is is down to a minute an a half. I do it in three wash cycles, a five minute rinse with baking soda, a five minute wash with soap and a three minute rinse with water. You have to drain and refill between each cycle so it’s a little more labor intensive than a traditional washer. 

That’s the spin dryer. It’s about half the capacity of the washer so one wash takes about two loads to dry. The spinner is much more effective than I was expecting. A three minute spin gets my cloths about 90% dry. I hang them up to air dry for that last 10%. 

The machine cost me about 150$. When you factor in two dollars for the bus, five for the machines (per week), the mini-washer pays for its self after only about six months worth of laundry. 

I’m not great at expressing emotion, but I’m hoping you can tell how excited I am.  Let me just say that the panda mini-washer is great and I highly recommend it to anyone currently using a Laundromat.  

[ihatethebitchwhorunsthisblog-de]

Read this and immediately bought it on Amazon for $180. I spend $15 a week to have my laundry done so this pays for itself in 3 months for me. THANK YOU JESUS.

[thepushyqueenofsluttown]

OMG

[wasjopara]

@ all my nyc pendejas

[onlyblackgirl]

[pseudocoding]

Oh by the way, they have table top dishwashers that are pretty much the same thing:

[breelandwalker]

This is one of the biggest technological breakthroughs for the everyday homeowner in the current decade: the realization that refrigerators aren’t the only things that can be miniaturized for better affordability and minimal space requirements.

Can you IMAGINE how this is going to change the lives of college students and apartment-dwellers? Or anyone with a lower income who can’t afford a place with “luxury” appliances like dishwashers and laundry machines?

There’s an even cheaper option called the Wonder Wash where you tumble the thing yourself and you’ll have to line-dry the clothes, but it apparently works very well.

[foodffs]

As an apartment dweller, I want to spread this.

[historicblackmark]

Save a life

[macrolit]

$189 at Amazon.

[the-awkward-turt]

There are more species of ladybug than mammals. There are more species of weevil than fish. The average animal is a beetle.

Show me an “animal-lover” who hates insects and I’ll show you a hypocrite.

[mooncustafer]

There’s a saying that goes something like “If you attempt to understand God through His creation, you will soon be forced to conclude He has an inordinate fondness for beetles.”

[ink-the-shitposter]

“the average animal is a beetle” is so profound it opened my fourth eye WOW

[aw-dag]

You know every show that the premise is like “people find out ghosts/monsters/demons are real and are charged with stopping them” appeal to me way more now as a post-graduate not because I believe in ghosts more or whatever but because can you IMAGINE just being handed a job that you don’t even need to apply for? Like just being told “basically there’s this bad thing and all you do is make sure it doesn’t do what it wants” that’s just customer service baby and I worked that for 6 goddamn years! Just TRY getting past “I have a job to offer you” before I can jump down your throat agreeing.

[aw-dag]

some idiot with a dumb ghost-hunting name who joined the Cause because they love the paranormal: oh fuck oh shit this is really scary guys I’m having second thoughts

me, who knows that if we run away I have to apply to like, a real actual Jobbe again: wakey wakey demons it’s this or retail so guess who’s got nothing to lose

[officialrung-deactivated2020010]

you should never date someone for the sake of dating someone. you should be good friends, if not best friends with your partner. if you cant go to your partner for personal advice, if youre afraid to call your partner out on something, if you cant laugh and have fun with your partner, or if your conversations are only ever performative affection, you don’t have a good relationship

[curtains-of-beef]

“if your conversations are only ever performative affection” woah my bones grew more bones and shook 

[left-reminders]

[daily-rage-comics]

yeah that counts as force

[catchymemes]

[sigynpenniman]

as an IT person I would like to sue this screen for emotional damages

[underwaterlookingupatyou]

Millenial: “Don’t say g*psy or r*tard. They are slurs, just like the n-word, which you also shouldn’t say.”

Boomer: “More PC crap? They are not slurs you are just a snowflake.”

Gen Z: “Okay Boomer.”

Boomer: “SLUR! That’s a slur and you can’t say that!”

[aberrantemotion]

thats exactly what happened

[pdlcomics]

A Good Day

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