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peachnim

when you start getting those “are you okay?” messages after making emo text posts

hogwarty-houses

Hogwarts Houses as: … Houses

Gryffindor: would live in a renovated fire house. Red bricks. Spacious. With an exciting atmosphere.

Ravenclaw: Modern. Simplistic. Beautifully designed and sophisticated.

Hufflepuff: Earthy. Rustic. Wooden walls. Loads of plants. Absolutely cozy and welcoming.

Slytherin: Modern gothic. Bought an old gothic house and renovated it to look amazing.

winterswake

Kristen Stewart in Charlie’s Angels (2019)

denalis

these images are my sexuality

wellwatered-deactivated20200419

friend: why are your hands all messed up?

me: oh i pick at my skin when i’m anxious

friend: well stop

me:

Wow, I’ve Never Thought of That Before

gildedgryphon

That feel when it’s 40°C (104°F) outside and you’re a bird who can’t sweat. Big tubs of ice help a little, though.

justbirdpoop

omg… you don’t understand how happy this video made me

averagefairy

old people really need to learn how to text accurately to the mood they’re trying to represent like my boss texted me wondering when my semester is over so she can start scheduling me more hours and i was like my finals are done the 15th! And she texts back “Yay for you….” how the fuck am i supposed to interpret that besides passive aggressive

runawaymarbles

Someone needs to do a linguistic study on people over 50 and how they use the ellipsis. It’s FASCINATING. I never know the mood they’re trying to convey.

feynites

I actually thought for a long time that texting just made my mother cranky. But then I watched my sister send her a funny text, and my mother was laughing her ass off. But her actual texted response?

“Ha… right.”

Like, she had actual goddamn tears in her eyes, and that was what she considered an appropriate reply to the joke.I just marvelled for a minute like ‘what the actual hell?’ and eventually asked my mom a few questions. I didn’t want to make her feel defensive or self-conscious or anything, it just kind of blew my mind, and I wanted to know what she was thinking.

Turns out that she’s using the ellipsis the same way I would use a dash, and also to create ‘more space between words’ because it ‘just looks better to her’. Also, that I tend to perceive an ellipsis as an innate ‘downswing’, sort of like the opposite of the upswing you get when you ask a question, but she doesn’t. And that she never uses exclamation marks, because all her teachers basically drilled it into her that exclamation marks were horrible things that made you sound stupid and/or aggressive.

So whereas I might sent a response that looked something like:

“Yay! That sounds great - where are we meeting?”

My mother, whilst meaning the exact same thing, would go:

‘Yay. That sounds great… where are we meeting?”

And when I look at both of those texts, mine reads like ‘happy/approval’ to my eye, whereas my mother’s looks flat. Positive phrasing delivered in a completely flat tone of voice is almost always sarcastic when spoken aloud, so written down, it looks sarcastic or passive-aggressive.

On the reverse, my mother thinks my texts look, in her words, ‘ditzy’ and ‘loud’. She actually expressed confusion, because she knows I write and she thinks that I write well when I’m constructing prose, and she, apparently, could never understand why I ‘wrote like an airhead who never learned proper English’ in all my texts. It led to an interesting discussion on conversational text. Texting and text-based chatting are, relatively, still pretty new, and my mother’s generation by and large didn’t grow up writing things down in real-time conversations. The closest equivalent would be passing notes in class, and that almost never went on for as long as a text conversation might. But letters had been largely supplanted by telephones at that point, so ‘conversational writing’ was not a thing she had to master.

So whereas people around my age or younger tend to text like we’re scripting our own dialogue and need to convey the right intonations, my mom writes her texts like she’s expecting her Eighth grade English teacher to come and mark them in red pen. She has learned that proper punctuation and mistakes are more acceptable, but when she considers putting effort into how she’s writing, it’s always the lines of making it more formal or technically correct, and not along the lines of ‘how would this sound if you said it out loud?’

mjalti

when ur parents start talkin shit about ur personality

charlesoberonn

Norwegian prisons are nicer than my apartment.

postmaritalsex-deactivated20210

holy shit dude

firebirdscratches

I was really shocked by this and dubious, so I decided to read further. There’s a great article about this here: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35813470 As it turns out, this is more like a halfway house. Prisoners usually begin their term in a prison more like one we’d typically recognize - bars on the windows, locked in their cells. But the emphasis there is on successful reintegration into society. As their sentence progresses, with good behavior, they can move into a facility more like this, where their freedoms are still restricted, but they can do things like network with people outside of prison, search for employment, cook and clean and look after themselves, and begin making plans for their reintegration into society. As a result, Norway has one of the lowest rates of recidisvism. 20% as opposed to America’s 76%. It seems like a shocking idea to us because of where and how we live, but apparently, Norwegians are addressing the real problem. When you take people who can’t function well in society, and then…help them do that?…they….do. Without the crime-ing.

daxlo-ren

Turns out treating people like human beings makes them more likely to act like human beings….

liquidsodanium

But won’t that incentivize some people to go back there since they get treated so well and get a nice room versus the streets?

kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021

If you read the post above, it says Norway’s recidivism rate - that is, the rate of released criminals who go on to be arrested again - is 20% versus 76% in the United States, so for the most part, no.

theyoungestwhateleydaughter-dea

Isn’t that white-lined black cross on a red field flag a Nazi flag? Are we going to talk about how wonderful it is a Nazi gets a nice halfway house?

charlesoberonn

midnight-defender-deactivated20

fed-durst

THE WORST THING ABOUT PRISON WAS THE DEMENTORS

southernsideofme-deactivated201

missing-merlin

my life is complete

emeraldsage98

I can feel the surprised expression on the duck’s face. It’s like “This is unexpected,”

federalbureauofislam

no offence but do i look like i understand anything

pettycentral

smatter-deactivated20220909

This might be my favorite post hahaha

pdothamman-deactivated20170513

I WAS LAUGHING SO HARD YO BECAUSE DON’T THEY KNOW IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE THERE???

almondkittie

Imagine being mad at women for being nice to each other and tweeting about it:

almondkittie

Then imagine that tweet backfiring! Lmbo

The entire thread is filled with women complimenting each other. I loved it! ☺️☺️

madmaxies

men will be the first people who’ll say that women are too catty and mean to each other for no reason and “women don’t know how to be friends with each other”, but they also hate when women are nice to each other.