TheOracleReadsU

[cali4nja]

Listening to music through new headphones after listening through old shitty ones

[officialunitedstates]

this reminds me of the time in 2025 when someone pushed down the leaning tower of pisa and spacex donated $1.6 billion to fix it

[gonereducedtoatoms-deactivated2]

op are you a time traveler

[officialunitedstates]

ooops sorry ignore this post for a few years

[killaavids2-deactivated20190429]

[theyoungblackking]

See what happens when the stroke is deep enough!

[showerthoughtsofficial]

The human body is a miracle in many ways. However, the inability to fall asleep due to anxiety of having to get up early in the morning must be one of its stupidest flaws.

[neverthere12345]

A white woman with zero medical experience, who isn’t a doctor or anything of the sort, went to Africa to play savior and performed medical procedures on Ugandan children. More than 100 children died.

[mojrim]

Yes, this is real and satire is dead. What the actual fuck is wrong with white people?

[belgiandad]

[lickdacake]

shawty cum thru

[litwltch]

[litwltch]

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

[handsometruth]

[csmitty4u]

CHECK!!!

[xswestallen]

When I’m scrolling through a blog and see they reblogged one of my posts

[spookycatbutnotreally]

National museum of Brazil

Ok. So the biggest museum in Latin America just caught fire and here I will rant on this.

First of let’s start with the obvious. A museum this big should have a way bigger protection. But guess what, till april of 2018 they only invested 54 thousand reais, what would translate to approximately 13 thousand dollars.

They never had money to invest because they didn’t really promoted it so people didn’t go because they didn’t know the existence of it. I swear, I lived all my life in Brazil and never once have I seen a commercial about it. Most people know that this museum exists (or existed) but don’t have the minimum idea of what is inside or its history.

And that gets me to my next point. The history. It was funded 200 years ago by Dom João. Was once the house of the royal family.

We didn’t lost just objects we lost a big part of our history.

Oh but I am not finished yet. The worst part is that the firefighters took one hour to get to the place and this is how far they were

So yeah. Thanks to the government giving no fucks to culture and study we lost the work of people who dedicated their entire lives to this.

Oh and just one more thing, this is the week of Brazil’s independence. So congratulations.

[lonniiii-deactivated20170829]

Shoutout to pornhub for acknowledging MLK Day ✊🏽

[donthadon-deactivated20161108]

but tumblr can’t…

[lonniiii-deactivated20170829]

^^^^^^^

[thefandomdropout]

[hedonismbott]

Our “president” didn’t either

[drunp-archive-deactivated201711]

[13th-hokage]

Sneak out?

[queencfthestars]

BLACK PANTHER HAS 7 OSCAR NOMINATIONS.

[renamok]

This woman confronts racism in the funniest way possible.

[randomslasher]

Not all heroes wear capes.

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

Needless to say, I am HORRIFIED.

[thecottageinthedark]

‘All that you need to know about boars can be summed up in the fact that if you wish to hunt them, you must have a specially made boar spear. This spear has a crosspiece on it to prevent the boar from charging the length of the spear, driving it all the way through his own body, to savage the human holding the other end.’

-Boar and Apples, T. Kingfisher

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

fuck OFF

[palindromordnilap-deactivated20]

Note that pigs are also HUGE. So, yes, they ARE slightly larger pigs.

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

So I grew up in the city and have never seen a pig in real life and I just googled it and WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

I thought they were like labrador sized, like, fat labradors, not mini-cows.

[tokensouthernbelle]

every time I see this post there are more people discovering how fuck off huge pigs actually are and I love it I thought this was a thing everyone knew but clearly not and I’m laughing 

[stillwaterseas]

This is me with our Tamworth boar, a heritage breed closer to their wild cousins than the Yorkshire above. I am a fully grown, average sized human. He was a gentle sweetie who, sadly, is no longer with us. His name was Mr. Big. 

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

FUCK OFF

[coelasquid]

Forever laffin’ at people who don’t understand how enormous, terrifying, and tenacious wild boar are. 

They’re like if bears had knives protruding from their closed mouths and Didn’t Know When To Quit. Their survival instincts when they’re wounded aren’t “run away and minimize injury” it’s “take the thing that hurt you down with you” They also make sounds like someone crossed a pig with an alligator.

Their head and neck alone can be like the size of an entire human torso.

Also forever laffin’ at people who think pigs are tiny, ‘cause we designed those things can get in the neighbourhood of a thousand pounds in ideal circumstances. 

It’s like when people assume Tuna must be small because they’ve only ever experienced them in hockey puck form.

[obstinate-nocturna]

Like seriously why the fuck y'all think everyone FREAKED THE HELL OUT when Dorothy fell into the pig pen in Wizard of Oz? It’s because pigs are HUGE and weigh a shitton and would crush her in an instant.

[proserpine-in-phases]

also dont they eat like, basically anything?

[justabrowncoatedwench]

YUP. Pigs will eat people, if given the chance. They dgaf.

[wolverinequeen]

That’s why boar hunters use a team of very tenacious dogs to hold the boar so they can be speared without fucking you up. The dogs wear body armour. 

I’ve heard stories of people shooting boars, and if it didn’t kill them, it just pissed them off. 

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?

[petermorwood]

…“how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?”

Very carefully, I would imagine.

WIld boar babies are rather cute, like living humbugs…

…but the adults and their ferocity have been associated with warriors for thousands of years, from Mycenaean Greece (a helmet made from sections of boar tusk)…

…through Celtic Europe (reconstructed carnyx war-horns and standards)…

…Ancient Rome (the crest of Legion 20 “Valeria Victrix”). A couple more legions also used a boar as their crest - I wonder did they squabble over which was the “right” one the way a couple of Swiss cantons had a little war over whose bear was best…?

…then Anglo-Saxon and pre-Viking helmet crests…

…right up to the late Middle Ages (here the white boar badge of Richard Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III of England)…

…and the blue boar badge of the Earl of Oxford, more usually represented by the De Vere arms, quarterly gules and or, in the first a molet argent.

After Richard was defeated at Bosworth in 1485, there was a run on blue paint as inn-signs were changed to reflect new loyalties since Oxford was on the winning side…

And pigs will definitely eat people.

It gets mentioned in the movie “Snatch”, the book/movie “Hannibal” and the webcomic “Lackadaisy Cats”, among numerous other fictional sources, and IRL it’s suspected to be the reason why numerous missing persons have stayed missing.

More here (another comment to this same OP) and here (slightly different).

Here’s some boar-hunting armour for dogs, ancient…

…and modern…

…and the modern one looks very like a simple style of ancient…

[dduane]

So when Odysseus’s old nurse recognizes him by the scar he got from the boar-tusk slash that almost killed him… now you get the resonance.

[bookoisseur]

This post…it just really went places on me.

[wilwheaton]

I hope you read this entire post, and that it made your entire day so much better, even if just for a few moments, like it did mine.

[basinke]

giant fuckoff alligator wolves

[foxyteah]

While in Sweden I was warned by the family I stayed with to be careful about not touching any fences, because apparently they’re all electrified to TRY keeping boars off properties. I was also walking the family dog each morning through the forest and was warned to turn the fuck around and walk back speedily if the dog ever stopped and just… wouldn’t budge. At all. Unless it was in the opposite direction.

Fastforward a few months to when I’m back home and hearing about the boar problem a family friend is having. I recommend electric fences, since that obviously works for Swedes. The guy tells me that won’t work for him since it’s a herd of boars, so the boars will just charge the fence enmasse, sacrifice the first few, trample over them and enter orchard to feast.

Welp.

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

Imagine if Obama served Wendy’s lmao

[maybeantonioj]

😂😂😂

[panicforthethiefs]