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Thinking about how Youngwoo joining the firm gives her a big group of friends, she used to sit at the bar and only sit with geurami but now a whole table in the pub is filled with people, she even became closer with mr hairy boss
Youngwoo joining the firm also does that for Jung Myungseok who was probably living a very lonely life before as an overworked divorcee but now he has other people looking out for him who even cook food for his mom and visit him when he's sick
vampires have been drinking human blood for centuries they don't give a fuck about guys on eight different antidepressants. they were sucking on asbestos factory workers
The absolutely hilarity of imagining some older vampires hectoring younger ones. âBack in my day, I had to drink blood with radium in it and I liked it! We glowed in the damn dark for weeks!â
When you are a classical musician and the public asks you to play Queen âŚ
@hieronymus-bush ⌠although Iâm not sure what youâll think of it đ
Holy hell. He has amazing technique AND he didnât just transcribe the piece to piano, he essentially composed classical music (and honestly some neo-classical, lol) based on the melody. Plus, he kind of looks like Freddie.
People in the 1800s would've gone apeshit over this in the concert halls
Reblogging to watch later...
Reblog and put in the tags how often you âcleanâ your tumblr account, deleting old posts.
Love that he also types like an old man
His name is spelled Jonathan.
His birthday is September 4.
His age was estimated at the time he was found in 1882. This species matures at around 50 years old and he was past that age, so he might be older than 189 but we will never know.
He lives on a South Atlantic island, Saint Helena (aka the place Napoleon Bonaparte lived until his death in 1815) where heâs well taken care of by the governor of the island. According to his vet, he likes listening to tennis.
The average lifespan for his species is 150, but heâs super healthy aside from cataracts in both eyes and possible loss of smell.
Jonathan has a mate, Fred, who until recently was thought to be female. Fred is male.
His species (which is a subspecies of Aldabra giant Tortoise) are on the endangered list with only about 80 recorded worldwide. However, many giant Tortoises currently hold the record for longest living land animals with a few othersâ ages ranging between 175-250 years. So Jonathan still has a while to go!
Hereâs Jonathan (on the left) in 1882 upon his arrival to the island:
(photo courtesy of Guinness World Records)
Jonathan has lived through both world wars, the Russian Revolution, 39 U.S. presidents, 7 British monarchs, the creation of the typewriter, the completion of the Eiffel Tower, the coronation of Queen Victoria, the release of the first postage stamp, the building of the first skyscraper, the first photograph of a person, the first lightbulb, and the first powered flight.
happy birthday jonathan!!
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Weâre watching the Return of the King right now, and got to the part where Denethor is introduced. My husband asks me for the context of why Denethor is Like That, since I just finished reading the book. So I explained how Denethor has been using a Palantir for years to get information, and how Sauron has been manipulating him by only letting him see events that give him a worst possible impression of reality.
So my husband replies âOh! So Denethor is basically just like your grandpa after he starts getting all his news from Fox.â  And honestly, yeah pretty much.
More fun facts about ancient Celtic marriage laws: There were no laws against interclass or interracial marriage, no laws against open homosexual relationships (although they werenât considered âmarriagesâ since the definition of a marriage was âcouple with childâ), no requirement for women to take their husbandâs names or give up their property, but comedians couldnât get married
Itâs Adam and Eve not Adam Sandler and Eve
I want to expound upon âcomedians couldnât get marriedâ thing because itâs actually really interesting. Satire was respected in Ancient Ireland. It was thought to have great power, enough to physically maim the subject one was making jokes about. Satirists could bring down kings with a witty enough insult. That was actually their original function. When the king didnât do right by his people, a bard was supposed to compose a poem so scathing it would raise welts on the kingâs skin to oust him (it was illegal for a âblemishedâ king to rule.) Unwarranted satire was considered a form of assault. So what it boils down to is ancient Celts being like âThese people are too dangerous to reproduce. DO NOT TRUST THEM WITH CHILDREN. EVER.â
whats a king to a bard
A target.
my sister-in-law, who has no kids and does not spend time around children ever, decided she wanted to take my kids on an âoutingâ yesterday. (she sees them like 4 times a year usually). she took them to some weird historical u.s. military fort museum thing, itâs like a big compound with like 15 buildings enclosed by a fence. anyway my 5-yr-old saw one of those red metal fire alarm boxes on the wall and asked his aunt âwhat does that say?â
now the correct answer to this question, in my opinion, would be âthat is a fire alarm. we only touch fire alarms if there is a fire. if there is a fire, you would pull the handle and it would make a very loud noise so that other people know to get out of the building.â
according to several reliable sources, my sister-in-lawâs answer to the question was, âit says âpull.ââ
so anyway thatâs how they managed to evacuate all 15 buildings at the museum and why this is probably their last âoutingâ for a while.
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'i don't want to see a man wearing exposing clothing and striking a feminine pose' WELL I DOâźď¸âźď¸âźď¸
Oh man did you eat the whole edible? The whole thing? Yeah that's bad bro. No you're gonna be fine. The horse demons don't like that though. Yeah the evil horse demons with fucked up scary human faces that live in the bathroom at night so they can get people who are too high. Those ones. Yeah they can smell when you're scared.
If you can, please donate to the Internet archive, links in the description. The loss of the archive would be devastating for dozens of reasons.
I know the Library of Alexandria comment sounds like an exaggeration. It absolutely is not. As of May 7, 2022, the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 7.9 million movies, videos and TV shows, 842 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 237 thousand concerts, and over 682 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. Itâs been operating since 1996, the loss of knowledge would be impossible to ever completely come back from.
The lawsuit from Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley Sons, and Penguin Random House alleges there have been significant revenue losses because of their controlled digital lending program. For context, most libraries in the US also use CDL to distribute books to their patrons wherever they are but those programs are run through for profit companies and the libraries are often paying a very high fee to so their patrons can have access to digital books. The Internet Archiveâs program is completely free but they have a policy of not digitizing and lending anything less than 5 years old.
The lawsuit goes on to note that authors often own larger shares of their revenue of digital vs. print copies of their books. So the publishing companies, seeing that theyâre underpaying their authors, are essentially blaming a library for being free instead of bumping up what authors earn on print copies. The Internet Archiveâs 5 year policy is designed to protect authors anyway as thatâs when books typically make the most money.
Hey by the way The Internet Archive is also one of the most cited places on Wikipedia. If it goes down a good chunk of Wikipedia will go back to âcitation neededâ or citations will lead to dead links.
As far as ethical materials go you canât really get better than wool.
The sheep need the hair cut.
Nothing dies for it.
Sheep live pretty much wild for most the year.
Placed correctly they maintain a landscape and help the wildlife that live there to thrive.
Doesnât use Vast Quantities of land for little product.
Not draining inland fresh water oceans.
Been spending thousands of years perfecting the genetics for this purpose.
Comes in many different kinds of uses.
And the animal it comes off is fully edible.
My main issue with it is it has fallen so out of fashion that it pays the farmers who make it more to transport it than they get per fleece, and people have really fucking weird hang ups about the ethics of giving a sheep a hair cut.
Sheep can get infested with wool maggots if they are not shorn.
Also an unshorn sheep can drown if it falls into water, just by the sheer weight of the water its wool can absorb, dragging it down.
A Tunis sheep can live in a large doghouse, and staked in a different place every day, will mow your lawn (buy they get lonely. Buy two).
Light shearing nicks heal fast because the sheepâs waxy lanolin coats their skin. Though most sheep farmers wonât Nick the sheep bc it gets blood on the wool.
Sheep farmers MUST treat their sheep with care, because any little thing that upsets sheep affects the quality of their wool.
Even ânaturalâ fibers like bamboo take TONS of water to process and alkaline dyes to color them. You can dye wool with unsweetened koolaid.
People have been raising sheep for close to 10,000 years. And all that time, weâve been breeding them for better wool. Most mammals with thick coats shed naturally in the spring, sheep donât because we bred it out of them.
Sheep and their farmers have an actual symbiotic relationship. Farmers remove their excess wool, keeping them healthy, and then sell that wool to buy what they need.
itâs also naturally antimicrobial and resists odors (unlike polyester, which absorbs them better and makes it harder to wash them out).
