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it costs exactly $0 and zero cents to use “they” instead of “he or she” when talking about a hypothetical person or someone whose pronouns you don’t know

sheneedshislove

beyoncebeytwice

lovellester

Dan: phil come help me with this video

Phil:yeah sure what do I do

Dan:film me as I’m on my knees in front of you with my mouth wide open as you pour stuff on my face

Phil:

Dan:

Phil: ok

indieteen

wenchyfloozymoo

taytiebabe

Maturity

aboutchopsuey

watacco-deactivated20181130

“imagine i had i bowl of skittles and three of them could kill you-”

eva-420

please stop reblogging this post

twlboaj

gno

gifsboom

dr-dendritic-trees

[A large and fluffy dog is sleeping on a porch. A tiny grey bird is bouncing around on the dog, stealing its fur. Its tiny beak is full of dog floof. The dog is totally still and does not appear to have noticed the thief.]

aviculor

a burglar

knightoftaurus

a birbler

nemmica

I met a baby the other day who taught me that kids aren’t learning the thumb-and-pinky-out gesture for “phone” anymore. She puts her flat, open palm up to her ear and babbles into it, simulating a flat and rectangular smartphone.

marzipanandminutiae

It’s so interesting that a lot of seemingly obsolete hand motions still exist, though

very few people wear wristwatches, but tapping one’s wrist is still a nearly universal gesture for “what time is it?” or “hurry up”

I used classic corded phones for only a very brief time in my life (before we got those more rectangular-shaped cordless ones for my parents’ landline) and first saw a car without power windows when I was in college, and yet I’ve always used the pinky-and-thumb gesture for “call me” and the circling-fist gesture for “roll down your window.” I’m 24, so my childhood was the late 90s and early 2000s, but I still use gestures that indicate technology either gone or on its way out when I began forming reliable memories

it also makes me wonder how people indicated time or hurrying before wristwatches. did they somehow pantomime a pocket watch? what gestures have we lost as technology marches on? and since video didn’t exist for most of human history, how might we learn what they were? like the contents of the third Georgian spice jar or the location of Punt, nobody would think to write any of it down

I just love history so much

datasoong47

The ASL sign for phone is based on the pinky-and-thumb gesture. Presumably that will continue on for a while, with future generations seeing it as an arbitrary sign.

And then there are words like “rewind” that no longer make literal sense. Filmmakers still use “cut” long after actual physical film that can be cut fell out of use. We talk about cutting and pasting on computers and use a floppy disc icon for “save”.

Fossilized metaphors are the best.