fourthmaninaboat

Current physicist, former quiz writer, and casual naval historian.

[birdluvr1993]

whip cream

[mono-red-menace]

this is, by far, the most impactful imageset on this website

[king-the-pathetic]

Bundled up in his heated blanket

[frretjibber]

Every time I see this creature he looks like if the wind blows on him a bit too strong he'll puff into a million seeds like a dandelion and scatter in the breeze

[lesbianshepard]

fun fact about languages: a linguist who was studying aboriginal languages of Australia finally managed to track down a native speaker of the Mbabaram language in the 60s for his research. they talked a bit and he started by asking for the Mbabaram word for basic nouns. They went back and forth before he asked for the word for “dog” The man replied “dog” They had a bit of a “who’s on first” moment before realizing that, by complete coincidence,  Mbabaram and English both have the exact same word for dog.

[lesbianshepard]

on a similar note, a traditional Ojibwe greeting is “Nanaboozhoo” so when the French first landed in southern Canada they thought that they were saying “Bonjour!” Which is fucking wild to think about. Imagine crossing the ocean and the first people you meet in months somehow speak French. 

[yu-gi-oh-slavia]

[nicolae-carpathia]

my favorite Accessory Fact to this is that we know more about the etymological history of the Mbabaram “dog” than the English “dog”

The etymology for Mbabaram “dog” has been reconstructed back to Proto-Pama-Nyungan, which was spoken “as recently as about 5,000 years ago”:

From *dwog(a) < *udwoga < *gudwaga < Proto-Pama-Nyungan *gudaga. Related to Dyirbal guda, Yidiny gudaga.

While the etymology for English “dog” has been reconstructed confidently only back to Olde English, which was spoken from about the 5th to the 12th centuries:

Inherited from Middle English dogge (akin to Scots dug), from Old English dogga, docga, of uncertain origin.

[ashenmind]

[hardcorewhimsy]

Reddit u/mynameisfreddit 's fish, as seen on @ashenmind 's blog with @lefttobloom 's tag caption

[ayeforscotland]

Freshly baked Scottish wildcat kittens have been spotted in the Cairngorms for the second year running!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎉

[heavensenthousepet]

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

[melonisopod]

[mossworm]

please stop entering my home and getting lost inside

[nuka-rockit]

enchanted by his whimsical aura

[escuerzoresucitado]

[rhube]

I love him, your honour.

[anteatermoment]

she looks like she's giggling

[kropotkindersurprise]

Take a Closer Look at that Snout!

[sweetieboo]

[segamascott]

[pangur-and-grim]

reading with my creatures

[pangur-and-grim]

[eden-eden-eden-eden-eden]

Please please a strawberry for me please

[nettlewildfairy]

quick question why does your cat command you to print something on the printer

he really likes to watch the printer print. It seems like he thinks there’s some kind of creature in there that I have the mysterious power to summon that he can then hunt for sport?

he sticks his entire arm inside the printer and breaks it if I don’t put some kind of physical burrier between him and the printer but like he purrs so loud when it starts printing and will beg harder for people to print things than he will for treats.

he just loves hunting the printer so much. he even tried to climb inside the place the paper comes out of the printer when he was a kitten.

No matter where he is in the apartment if the printer makes a noise he sprints full speed. He also knows which button to press to get the printer to print like the ink levels info and alignment sheet, so you have to make sure it’s off or locked up or he will print nonstop himself and then attack the printer and jam it.

is it inconvenient that my cat is obsessed with the printer? yes, but damn if it’s not also adorable.

I don’t actually have a ton of photos of him sticking his whole arm in there though because stopping him from jamming the printer is usually a task that involves all of my arms and also all of my roommates arms.

[nettlewildfairy]

Thinking about the post because I had to unplug the printer today because he broke into the closet and printed the info sheet 3 times in a row and did bite me when I tried to stop him

The face of a boy who is sulking because I expelled him from the printer closet.

[nettlewildfairy]

the good news is that my cat is so happy, the bad news is that my sticker cutting machine that I got recently instils the same curiosity and lust for violence in my cat that my printer does so no matter what I do I will not know a moments peace.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[wumblr]

they love the closet shelf

[catasters]

[redarmyscreaming]

And 14 minutes later, it is calm again.

[bigbigtruck]

quotes taken from the source

(the 4th one is Bumpus wanting dinner, friends can back me up on this)

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

come back to me most perfect of comics