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When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense...

call that the Ship of Thesaurus

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Any educator who doesn't feel this on a visceral level has never had to experience the psychic pain of reading the phrase "Unused York City."

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A lecturer at Middlesex University in 2014, Chris Sadler, coined the term "Rogetism" for these. Perhaps the best:

Source.

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You would not believe your ass

If ten million largemouth bass.

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The cat is wearing flowery clothes and black sunglasses outside. It’s very domineering.

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fairycosmos

does anyone know how to make a desicion

fairycosmos

never mind i figured it out it's like when tracy chapman said leave tonight or live and die this way

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When one arrow isn't enough...

teaboot

The Victorian Era was shite compared to now obsiously but also titty piercings were popular everyone was on heroin and they thought bad sex made your kids ugly so the zeitgeist must have been wild

deafmangoes

I wish I could remember the source, but I once read a sociologist's take that the Victorian era was a complete abberation of human development. It was uniquely weird, never existed before, will likely never exist again.

I wonder how much of that was on the back of the industrial revolution. Maybe humanity had a similar "weird" moment in the Fertile Crescent when we figured out farming.

But yeah. Victorians were an odd bunch. Delightfully contradictory.

teaboot

I feel like the wild combination of Suddenly Having So Much New Technology We Barely Understand and Suddenly Using So Much New Technology We Barely Understand *May* have resulted in such new and novel situations as:

The baby will stop crying if I give it cocaine

My entire face is covered in arsenic

How Wonderful That I Can Buy Guns And Heroin At The Same Store! I Certainly Hope My Lead Poisoning Does Not Lead To Bouts Of Distemper And Irrational Thinking

There Are Bare Electrified Wires Running Through My House And My Technicolor Dress Is Highly Combustible, Which I Do Not Know Yet

My son, Lead Poisoning Georg,, shall someday inherit my gun powder and lead paint empire,,

NEW! Magical Miracle Substance! Asbestos! WILL NOT catch fire! CANNOT catch fire! YOU WILL NOT die! (From fire)

Impress Your Guests And In-Laws With The Tastiest Bright White Bread Chalk And Wood Shavings Can Produce

NEW! Baby feeding bottles! NEW! Glass baby feeding bottles! How do you clean them??? That isn't important stop asking questions. NEW!

If Heroin And Lead And Cocaine And Arsenic And Typhoid And Tuberculosis And Radiation And Ungrounded Wires And Lead And Chalk And Arsenic And Working In The Coal Mine Are Bad For Me, Then How Am I Moving So Fuckingn Fast

marzipanandminutiae

hi hello it is me Professional Stuff-Knower About Victorians. here to both debunk and Make It Weirder, by turns:

1. Nipple piercings were probably not common. The main “source” on that is a series of borderline fetishistic anonymous letters to like one scientific journal in the 1880s, and while one letter does contain a description of nipple-piercing at a Paris jewelry store, it’s functionally identical to professional ear-percing at the time (just, you know. with nipples). So we really have no idea if the letter was true, or from the same skeezeballs who wrote to the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine pretending to be 17-year-old girls tightlaced by Cruel Headmistresses at boarding school. A few newpapers reported on the alleged trend, but they also claimed like every five years that the Hot New Thing For Ladies in Paris was dyeing one’s hair green. And it never was. Also I have never heard of surviving extant nipple rings, or any known erotic photos showing pierced nipples. So...

2. The baby will stop crying if you give it opiate-laced patent medicines. Your toothache will stop if you take cocaine. Big difference. (Also doctors knew of the dangers of both those things, but like. In the case of cocaine, they just didn’t have anything better in terms of painkillers, so they had to do the best they could. In terms of sketchy patent medicines- you know how hard it is to crack down on Flat Tummy Tea and activated charcoal everything nowadays? Yeah.)

3. The arsenic isn’t on your face. It’s in your stomach. Because one would usually eat arsenical wafers for the complexion rather than applying it externally, as far as I’ve seen. Yep: this one is actually worse than most people think. The saving grace is it was usually a tiny bit of arsenic only- though a mistake in compounding could prove fatal, and also why the fuck are you eating arsenic in the first place oh my god. A lot of people at the time thought this was stupid, too.

3b. The actual answer to Why is fucking bonkers: a medical article written in 1851 by one Johann von Tschudi claimed that the girls in some Alpine town had perfect skin because there was a weird local tradition of eating small quantities of arsenic and gradually building up an immunity. I am not joking. So the Gwyneth Paltrows of the day got hold of that information and went nuts.

4. Yeah no early electricity was the wild west and here is a video about Victorian fabric combustion by dress historian Nicole Rudolph (the latter was less of a risk while wearing a garment and more when the fabric was being stored, though. and if it caught fire, obviously). And to be clear, though, they did know about some of these risks and scramble to mitigate them. “They did in fact know and consider it a problem” is a running theme here.

5. Including lead toxicity. Yeah- they knew about that! I was uncertain, but I dug into it and there are a lot of articles from the Victorian era like Wow It Sure Sucks That We’re So Reliant On Something Deeply Toxic Literally All Around Us. Scientists Are Working On It But [shrug]

6. No notes on the asbestos thing either. That’s. Yep, that’s pretty accurate. The ill effects of asbestos were first noted in 1899, but it took ages for it to actually get taken seriously. As with many things.

7. Food adulteration was considered bad. Food adulteration was also difficult to avoid. People tried, but with regulations still in their infancy and few ways to test things (especially for the poor)... : D

8. Doctors: “hey maybe don’t leave your baby’s bottle nipple unwashed for three weeks like Mrs. Beeton says is okay?” Consumers: “[read 11:30 AM]”

9. Really my final takeaway is that they were aware of a lot more dangers of their world than we give them credit for. They just didn’t often have alternatives, so they had to do their best with what they did have. And sometimes they could avoid things but ignored warnings, because Humans Can Be Illogical.

We wouldn’t know anything about those ideas, now would we?

[cough]microplastics[cough]sketchycelebritydietsupplements[cough]

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imaginedsoldier

This post is like getting punched in the chest four consecutive times and being surprised about it every single time.

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