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Hopping on the Vine compilation bandwagon, part 1/?

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Oh god, I lost it at the Tim Hortons one.

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I never saw the cheating test questions sequel before now and it did not disappoint.

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It was a simpler time

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This comp is a perfect mix of classics and hilarious ones that somehow I’ve never seen before

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mara&adora: “Don’t give up now.”

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museum sign designs submitted and designed by dan of abermor

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Hi!! Would you possibly be able to find designs for bags of flour? or sugar? things like that for a baking/bakery stall or setup? tysm!!

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thejonymyster

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No one:

The Cats movie trailer:

adornedacorn

This might be the best thing I’ve ever seen

seultaro

the mini skirt + over the knee socks look is the best look ever created and no one will ever change my mind

seultaro

fashion will never top this

poison-doll

so, this is our house. we’re on the corner, this is the most visible side. there are six of us, all variously queer, and shortly after we moved in my housemate julian put up the gay pride flag. not to let my dumb trans ass be outdone, i put up the trans pride flag a little while later*. today, julian found this note on our door

being visibly queer fuckin matters. don’t let anyone, esp. any straight people, but especially any queer ppl, tell you that you’re too visible, making a scene, that you shouldn’t wear your pride on your sleeve. this stuff matters; just about all of us are hurt one way or another, and you never know when your flag or your shirt or your pin is gonna be someone else’s lifeline.

Keep reading

powerfulwizard

high school teachers: if you don’t show up with a dress and full makeup or a fitted tuxedo to class everyday to college your professors will execute you

college professors:

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I once had a professor SLAM a thermos down on his desk and say to us “there’s more pressure in my sinuses right now than there is at the bottom of the sea. This thing’s full of NyQuil. I’m going to drink it while I teach, and when your heads are replaced by swirling rainbows, I will cancel the rest of class.” The class ended up being 17 minutes long.

writersarea

Your professor was trying to fight God

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Someone in facebook also posted this too

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Omg

halcyonjester

Mediglyphics

klubbhead

This shit’s infuriating

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Oh, this is a type of shorthand!

There are 3 main types, but from my research, this looks to be American Gregg Shorthand.

As you can see, there are set symbols for every letter.

Let’s break one of the words down:

Using the Gregg Alphabet as reference, we can see most of the letters in “atrophied” are present. But why no “o” vowel, and why is “ph” written as “f”?

Simple. In shorthand, you cut out all vowels in a word when writing it down, with the exception of words that BEGIN or END with a vowel (hence the “a” at the start being present), or like in the “i” in “atrophied”, to make it more readable when the sound could be harder to distinguish if it isn’t written. In “atrophied” if the the “i” isn’t written, it could be hard to tell if the writer meant a “fud”, “fad”, “fod” or “fid” sound, for example.

Also, since Shorthand is a phonetic writing system, you are encouraged to write down the phonetic sounds of words rather than the actual letter blends - in this case, write an “f” instead of a “ph”.

So in actuality, these aren’t just meaningless scribbles - it’s Gregg Shorthand, a writing system developed to take down notes more quickly than when written out in full, which is very useful in a medical or journalistic environment.

Some people can even write over 100 words in a minute! And, it’s been in use since John Robert Gregg invented it in 1888! Wow! So old!

Isn’t language amazing~?