Keeping the Peace while Playing the Game

Team One Hot Call Gear Up! Flashpoint? Check. Sherlock? Check. Free the Children? Check. Castle? Cute Animals? Check. Check. Harry Potter? Check. Travel? Check. Bones? Check. Let's Keep the Peace, The Game is On!

[dailyronweasley]

[buttscentedbreathmints]

I work at Starbucks and yesterday night these two big Italian men come in and order some coffees so I ask for the first guys name and he says in his thick Italian accent that it’s Mario. I’m thinking ok that’s a pretty common name for a middle aged Italian dude. But then his friend orders an when I ask his name he says its Luigi

and I can’t help it

I giggle a little to which Luigi says to his friend Mario “I told you she’d get it” and that’s the story of how I got memed on by two middle aged Italian men on Christmas eve

[veryreblog-muchtumble-wow]

Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy): “My favorite line is actually one of Daniel’s. I was improvising and said, ‘I hope Mr. Potter will always be around to save the day’. He looked around and said, ‘Don’t worry, I will be.’ He was 12 years old! That was pretty impressive.”

[delphinetheeskimopie-deactivate]

X Company cast & Budapest, 2016.

[blue-skies-bright-eyes]

[cbc]

Wishing Warren Brown of CBC’s @x-co a Happy Birthday!

[astrowhat-deactivated20190316]

I often wonder how many more scientists we’d have if we congratulated kids for working hard rather than praising them for being smart. We need to get rid of the myth that science is only accessible to an intellectual elite.

[sciencewithbecky]

Yes yes yes!

Malcolm Gladwell and Matthew Syed have both written books about this and it’s well known phenomenon in psychology. If you tell people they did well because they’re smart they actually under-perform in future, whereas if you tell them they do well because they worked hard they just get better and better. The myth of talent is really harmful and frustratingly persistent.

[mcdyke-deactivated20171112]

it’s kinda cool how our generation has created actual tone in the way we write online. like whether we: write properly with perfect grammar, shrthnd everythin, use capitals to emphasise The Point, use extra letters or characters for emotion!!!!!, and much more - it means we can have casual conversations, effectively make jokes using things like sarcasm that’s usually hard to understand without context and much more. this “incorrect English” has really opened avenues of online conversation that isn’t accessible with “correct English” which is pretty interesting

[maskedlinguist]

#this is why attempts by the media to portray online communication by “’‘millenials”“ really frustrate me #because there are Rules okay #like see that’s different to saying ’'there are rules” (tags via @soaringsparrows)

[dipthong-prime]

My class and I literally taught some of the nuances of this to our english teacher, things such as the difference between “yes” and “yes.” or “..” and “…”. It makes perfect sense linguistically that we would create this complexity to ease communication in a medium without body language and tone, but what my teacher was really floored about was that none of this had ever “learned” it, we’re “native speakers” of a whole new type of english.

[keepthepeacethegameison]

Okay so I my kinship class we read about how lesbian couples can face an imbalance in their relationship when they have children through artificial insemination because one mom actually carries the child while the other doesn't. We've also talked about how TV shows different family forms because of all the drama they can make with them. So why isn't there a show/movie etc. about a lesbian couple who wants kids but wants to avoid the imbalance thing so they both get inseminated at the same time? Can you imagine all the drama and comedy they could make with a situation like that? Mom and Mom both pregnant, hormones raging, fighting over the toilet with morning sickness (or one with terrible morning sickness jealous of one without it), sharing random craving food creations, trying to fight stigma around their choice to start a family that way, worrying about what happens if they both go into labour at the same time because they hadn't thought of that when they came up with their brilliant plan.... the possibilities are endless!

[keepthepeacethegameison]

I called my dad my potato...

Also, relating to me learning Spanish… I was trying to show off my tiny bit of Spanish to my family when I was visiting for Easter and pointed excitedly at my dad yelling “Es mi papa!” I then promptly remembered that while “papa” is dad in my second language (french) it is in fact potato in Spanish. I owned up to my mistake and it became a running joke for the evening that my dad was my potato

[keepthepeacethegameison]

UPDATE! So there’s now more to the story about me, my dad, potatoes and Spanish...

[best-of-memes]

[incorrect-harry-potter-quotes]

Oh, I survived. Brilliant. Love it when I do that.

Harry Potter, probably. (via incorrect-harry-potter-quotes)

[05am]

[somekindafight]

Mood

[supergiraffes-archive-blog]

Your dog sounds amazing, you need to tell us about that door licking story Dumb dogs are the best!

We trained the dog so that when he wants out, he goes to the front door and waits.

Somehow in his little golden retriever brain, he interpreted this to mean “go to the front door, and lick it.”

If he’s at the door, but isn’t licking it, he doesn’t need out, he’s just chilling.

So, this was our routine - when he wants out, he goes to the front door, and licks it. And then we moved house, and he got very, very confused.

He knew he had to go to the front door when he wants out, but this was a new house with obviously a door that was completely new to him.

Despite our condo having only one door that leads outside, and him going out this very same door literally at least five times a day, every day, for about a year…he still has no idea where the front door is in this house. Absolutely no idea at all.

Now whenever he needs out, he will go to any random door and start licking it. And I mean any door - the bathroom door, my bedroom door, my closet, the goddamn door of a kitchen cabinet, even.

I don’t know if he’s really smart or really dumb. Because clearly, he understands conceptually what a door is. I don’t know if he thinks my closet or the kitchen cabinets lead to outside, or if he’s just hoping to find doggy Narnia, or if he’s just hopelessly given up on ever being able to find the door by himself and is just doing the best he can, but every goddamn time he wants out, he’s right there licking the glass door to the shower or something.

He doesn’t alert us he needs out any other way. So if you haven’t seen him in a while, you have to search room by room until you find him with his tongue pressed up against the linen closet because he thinks outside might be that way.

He’s the biggest, dumbest dog I have ever met in my life and I could not love him any more. He’s perfect.

[supergiraffes-archive-blog]

Here he is, patiently licking the door of my wardrobe. 

[revysprite-deactivated20170502]

I love this

[leovaldezdemigod]

I need answers! 😭

[keepthepeacethegameison]

This is why I can't read novels during the school years.

[warmsuggestion001]

I hope u end up ok

[ultrafacts]

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[absorr]

 Some of you are reblogging because you think its funny that programmers would talk to ducks. I’m reblogging because I think its funny picturing a programmer explaining their code, realizing what they did when they explain the bad code, then grabbing the strangling the duck while yelling “WHY WAS THE FIX THAT SIMPLE!? AM I GOING BLIND!”

[wizardshark]

AS A PROGRAMMER I CAN TELL YOU THAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU FUCKING DO WE HAD TO BAN THE DUCKS FROM MY CLASSES BECAUSE EVERYONE WOULD FLIP THE DUCK OR THROW IT AT A WALL OR SOMETHING WHEN THEY FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM IN THEIR CODE

[cosrnos]

I work at a startup and part of the onboarding package you get when you first start working here now includes a rubber duck. We also have a bigger version of the duck for the extra hard problems. Sometimes one duck doesn’t cut it and you need to borrow your neighbors to get more ducks on the problem. One time we couldn’t figure out why something wasn’t working right so we assembled the counsel of ducks and by the grace of the Duck Gods were we able to finally come to a solution. These ducks have saved many lives and should be respected for the heroes they are.

[thelifeofmyferrets]

brokenangelicdreams asked me “Is this ferret going to become a programmer?”

[ineffableaziracrow]

Problem solved Mr. Weasley.