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my dad has great musical ear but veryyyy basic English, he learnt French back in the day. imagine my befuddlement when last night he comes up to me (resident Beatles expert) and goes 'what is that Beatles song that goes 'Cumbersome''. now. how the fuck has he learnt the word cumbersome and what the hell is he talking about

he started singing 'Cumbersome' and I swear to god he had devised a version of the 'Here Comes the Sun' chorus with perfectly good English lyrics, and it was all about how some things in life are cumbersome

#It’s Cumbersome! Doodle do dooo!

derinthescarletpescatarian

When I was in uni my housemates had a baby, and we taught them some sign language so they could communicate before all their mouth parts were coordinated yet. None of us knew Auslan but two of us were familiar with the signs that the State Emergency Services used in the field so we worked with those.

The kid learned to request a drink, which is great, because that's like the #1 most important thing for a baby to be able to request, but instead of learning any of the other signs they just used modified versions of the drink sign to ask for all kinds of things. They couldn't actually make the proper drink sign (it requires some level of hand control) and used a modified wave, so they ended up with a whole bunch of subtly different waves to ask for stuff. Which was pretty fun in public because strangers would coo over this adorable baby who kept waving at them when, in practice, the baby wanted their ice cream.

foxgloves-garden

Our kid used the "milk" sign for any and every liquid, including Lake Huron. We went to Mackinac when they were a toddler, they looked over the edge of the ferry and got so hyped up yelling "wa-juice! Wa-juice!" (Everything was either water or juice at this point in their life) and signing about it. Didn't know what to make of the waves.

#ITS WATERJUICE

so much that i put myself in it without really thinking or questioning it was just a fully instinctive 'thats my role thats my representitive' https://t.co/MTKSOGMvMM

#ramble #twitimported

teaboot

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

teaboot

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

#that Is the ability to clock personalities tbf

i lov cult of the lamb so much. its my game made for me

#ramble #twitimported

i love when former hard bosses become regular enemies to you. theres no greater way of really feeling how far youve come

#ramble #twitimported

fighting firstboss Leshy when i starts to turn up again while your all lategame powered up is so funny. “BAUUU WRHA WRHA-” *bonk* 😭 Start racking up boss fights that are under a second long

#ramble #twitimported

either that or just cheese it while using AoE curses to block projectiles, but. where is the honour. and anyway ill need to know the patterns for later

#ramble #twitimported

i Know that the first rule of winning the Kallamar boss fight is to stay calm and move deliberately, but unfortunately aaaaaaaaaaaa, aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! aaaaaaa,

#ramble #twitimported

quasi-normalcy

Every single person I know who did football in high school, without exception, has a chronic injury. Many regret what it's done to their knees and back, even major organs like the brain.

There is no serious legislative push to ban high school football.

quasi-normalcy

Also, like, if you want to talk about social pressure on minors to undertake activities that will result in regrettable, irreversible damage to their bodies:

No one, *ever*, tried to persuade me to transition.

My gym teacher tried to persuade me to try out for the football team almost every single day that I was in junior high.

quasi-normalcy

#i firmly believe that the reason why concussions and brain damage in general#are not taken nearly as seriously as they should be#is because of football#if we take concussions and brain trauma seriously then we have to acknowledge the risks that children are undertaking at even#high school level football#but we can't do that#because the kids need to play football in high school so they can play football in college so they can join the NFL#This time I'm really gonna queue it.

astrologamage

I recently watched this video by hydn called “The Great Concussion Denial” and holy fucking shit. Made me sick to my stomach. The tldr is that it’s all the NFL pushing football on kids but that’s really diluting the story

imjustanotherhater

"Cocaine is the motor of the modern world"

#my favourite Bots Of New York

imsobadatnicknames2

9 out of 10 times I see people on here celebrating a new "landmark piece of anti-AI legislation" the legislation in question is inevitably some variation of "we propose making IP laws more restrictive but presented through the language of opposing AI". But that one from germany about holding google liable for the words of its AI overview feature is legitimately good I think. If they actively choose to shove that thing in everyone's face as the first thing they're going to see when they make a google search then they shouldn't be able to dodge accountability for the information it provides with a little "gemini AI can be inaccurate, please remember to double-check information teeheehee" disclaimer.

kittysneezes

I like this article because it’s not what you think it is.

aprilwitching-deactivated201808

the world is a strange and wonderous place

theglobster

no more media analysis until we agree that all art is a sublimation of the desire to ritually sacrifice the king. yeah all of it. yeah even cars 2 and stuff

theglobster

the writers thinly-disguised [sublimation of the desire to ritually sacrifice the king]

dragon-in-a-fez

one of the funniest conversations I ever had with my ex was when they were still getting used to Celsius and asked me "what's 20 degrees?" and instead of converting it, I said "it's the highest your dad will ever let you set the thermostat and when you say you're cold he tells you to put on another sweater, we're not made of money" and they went "oh, 68"