I Don't Understand

Briannah | She/Her | 19

[plsdonttakemyadvice]

Man human imprinting is crazy. My friend’s roomba zoomed by me and I got this intense urge to reach down and pat it. Like it’s just a machine? But it’s a good boy? It spends all day cleaning and sleeping and exploring the house and never complains and it’s just so good little robot? Pet robot?? Pet the robot????? Why am I like this???

[polysymphonic]

When I bought my roomba the lady at the store told me that if it breaks within warranty and I send it back to the manufacturer, I can request that they fix and send back the same roomba instead of just sending back a new one. I gave her a confused look and she explained that people get attached to Their Roomba and don’t want them to just be replaced because they’re like part of the family. Humans are pretty great.

[stem-stims]

Physics: More pencil tricks

Source

[dexer-von-dexer]

i.e. why when you or someone else gets stabbed or impaled, you should leave the object in the wound until medical help arrives.

[wildlyannoyingdoofus]

THIS. RIGHT HERE. This is an amazing example!!

If you take the thing out, they’re going to bleed a lot more.

SO. DONT.

News Flash from the Medical Help ™ — we don’t touch it either! Unless the object they’re impaled with is literally too big to fit in the ambulance, We. Don’t. Touch. The. Thing.

The only people qualified to Take-The-Thing-Out are surgeons. End of story.

Okay, but for the love of God, please, PLEASE, if you did, if you panicked and took the thing out…. DON’T…. PUT IT BACK IN.

Or else, congratulations, you just stabbed them AGAIN. I reeeeeally shouldn’t have to say this guys, but I do.

[slutty-ankylosaurus]

As the person who IS qualified to take the thing out, please leave all metaphorical pencils in metaphorical water bags unless there seems like a very very good reason to take it out.

And basically the only thing that trumps bleeding to death as an emergency is not breathing, so take a pencil out of a water bag only if it is obstructing one of the water bag’s regular air holes.

[southwest-georgian]

And if it’s a while before ambulance is called or can arrive, dress The Thing with a bulky dressing. Stabilize it with a lot of bandaging (gauze or ace wrap) like a lil donut around it. But DON’T MOVE THE THING.

[recoil-operated-deactivated2021]

@pages-unwritten I’m starting to think sass is a prerequisite to being a first responder or nurse.

[amongst-the-sirens-deactivated2]

[sixpenceee]

Clothing company makes custom shirt for man with Cerebral Palsy. This is what he has to say:

I am the guy in this gif and I wanted to share a few thoughts on this gif and the feedback it has inspired. Though I am glad to see that this has hit most of you square in the feels, I think it is important to keep in mind that for myself and most people in my position, our disabilities are among the least interesting things about us. I am just a normal guy, who is about finish his master’s degree and start a career doing something I love. Now don’t get me wrong, these shirts kick some serious ass, for 5 years I have been trying different methods that allow me to put on a button up shirt on with minimal effort, and these are by far the best I have had. I am happy that the folks at Balani worked with me when I brought them the idea for a magnetic shirt a few months ago, mad props to them. I see a lot of you mention that my disability makes you realize how much you take for granted, but keep in mind that I too take a lot for granted. I often take for granted that I was raised by people who taught me not to use the challenges brought on by my CP as an excuse not to try my best. I take for granted the fact that I am able to afford a life without serious financial struggles, and this has allowed me to seek an education that will propel me through a life that makes any disability completely inconsequential. Just keep in mind, the things that make us all similar dwarf the fleeting and superficial things that make us stand out. 

(Source)

[movietvetc]

AFDDGHKL

[goaliemagics]

me: stutters out fifteen sentence fragments that no-one can make sense of not even me me: you know?

[kasindrarules-deactivated201812]

that one friend who knows you better than you: yeah

[denisvileneuve]

Brooklyn Nine-Nine: adulthood, a saga.

[gfwooyo]

i hate how reward systems never work for me like i can’t just say “if i finish this assignment i can have a cookie” bc my brain is like “…..or u could just have one right now” and i can’t argue with that logic

[hoplite-operator]

[marleyandme]

Stop it. I can’t handle it.

[wearyewe]

I was trying very hard to not be pissed off that the cross guy Greg Zanis put up 17 crosses to represent the victims who were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and was about to post a pissed off post about Christian normativity with a link to Zanis’s outreach (since Columbine, he has built crosses for mass shooting victims and then installed them at the location of the rampage after driving from his home in Illinois). 

But then I found this tweet with these images. 

He nailed Stars of David on the crosses, apparently after finding out that five of sutdents and one of the teachers murdered were Jewish. To make sure they were representated accurately and respectfully.

What does it say that I am truly shocked someone took the time and had this kind of compassion.

[penroseparticle]

My favorite thing is that Europe is spooky because it’s old and America is spooky because it’s big

[meduseld]

“The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.” –Earle Hitchner

[burntcopper]

A fave of mine was always the american tales where people freaked out because ‘someone died in this house’ and all the europeans would go ‘…Yes? That would be pretty much every house over 40 years old.’

‘…My school is older than your entire town.’

‘Sorry, you think *how far* is okay to travel for a shopping trip?’

*American looks up at the beams in a country pub* ‘Uh, this place has woodworm, isn’t that a bit unsafe?’ ‘Eh, the woodworm’s 400 years old, it’s holding those beams together.’

[bedlamsbard]

A few years ago when I was in college I did a summer program at Cambridge aimed specifically at Americans and Canadians, and my year it was all Americans and one Australian.  We ended the program with a week in Wessex, and on the last day as we all piled onto the bus in Salisbury (or Bath? I can’t remember), the professors went to the front to warn us that we wouldn’t be making any stops unless absolutely necessary.  We’re headed to Heathrow to drop off anyone flying off the same day, then back to Cambridge.

“All right, it’s going to be a long bus ride, so make sure you’re prepared for that.”

We all brace ourselves.  A long bus ride?  How long?  We’re Americans; a long bus ride for us is a minimum of six hours with the double digits perfectly plausible.  We can handle a twelve hour bus ride as long as we get a bathroom break.

The answer.  “Two hours.”

Oh.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

English people trying to travel around Australia and wildly underestimating distance are my favourite thing

[marzipanandminutiae]

a tour guide in France told my school group that a particular cathedral wouldn’t interest us much because “it’s not very old; only from the early 1600s”

to which we had to respond that it was still older than the oldest surviving European-style buildings in our country

[iguana-sneeze]

China is both old and big. I had some Chinese colleagues over; we were discussing whether they wanted to see the Vasa ship (hugely expensive war ship which sank on it’s maiden voyage after 12 min). They asked if it was old, I said “not THAT old” (bearing in mind they were Chinese) “it’s from the 1500s.” To my surprise they still looked impressed, nodding enthusiatically. Then I realised I’d forgotten something: “…I mean it’s from the 1500s AFTER the birth of Christ” and they went “oh, AFTER…”.

[ceescedasticity]

My dad’s favorite quote from various tours in Italy was “Pay no attention to the tower – it was a [scornful tone] tenth century addition.”

[copperbadge]

My last boss was Chinese, and she said when her parents came to visit her from Beijing they pronounced Chicago “A very nice village.” 

[blondegingersaxon]

This post keeps getting better

[getmad-govegan]

being vegan is so emotionally draining like i can’t even look at someone drinking a milkshake without wanting to cry this is ridiculous if your ‘food’ makes me emotionally distressed that might be a sign that it’s not good 

[carnival-phantasm]

[bairnsidhe]

If I can’t nourish my body without you having a meltdown over it, that may be a sign that you lack healthy emotional boundaries or a strong sense of self, to be honest.

[lynati]

The sight of breastfeeding disturbs me, but that’s my problem, not all the women who shouldn’t get yelled at or shamed for breastfeeding in public. My gut reaction is in no way a sign that what (or how visibly) they are feeding their babies is not good and should not be happening. And neither is yours.  For that matter, the sight of certain color combinations makes me physically nauseated. That doesn’t mean there’s anything inherently wrong with those color combinations or with the people who love how they look. Assuming that your knee-jerk reaction to a thing should be taken by everyone around you as an objective judgement on the nature of that thing is ridiculous. 

[descentts]

[sandandglass]

[boss-hoody]

Was he just born ripped as fuck or something?

[garykingoftheworld-deactivated2]

This is his father.

It’s quite possible Rock was indeed born ripped as fuck.

[ad-hominem-sappies-deactivated2]

Dwayne Johnson comes from a even bigger rock

[kabber]

The Boulder Johnson

[pleatedjeans]

[carolxdanvers]

Let him fight you cowards

[shithowdy]

where do all these retailers get off calling pants that go up to the bellybutton “high-waisted”. no. fuck you. that’s called “mid-rise”. i want to wear a crop top and not have a single inch of belly showing. i want to be able to button my pants over my tits. are you listening? you’re not listening. i want my shirt to feel redundant. i want to feel like i’m being vored by my own pants. bad-end, six pages into the comic,

[fucktheflagandfuckyou]

overalls

[itscolossal]

Artist Walead Beshty Shipped Glass Boxes Inside FedEx Boxes to Produce Shattered Sculptures

[thivus]

cant tell if pretentious or just petty about their experience with fedex

[87-pounds-deactivated20160310]

my sense of humor: getting birthday cards with the wildly incorrect age on it for people

[magicoftelevision]