Stranger Than Fiction

I am a 28 year old archaeology PhD student studying the Middle Paleolithic of Armenia and I am always looking for adventure. I use a trowel instead of a TARDIS to travel to the past.

[pretendusername-deactivated2021]

Happy plagueiversary

[quantumshade]

[soyalexnajera]

[sirfrogsworth]

Don't threaten us with a good time.

[academicssay]

[cop-disliker69]

[sprachgefuehle]

"That sounds like a good idea......."-"Is there something bothering you with the idea?"-"No, the idea is GOOD.....🙂"

[biteswhenprovoked]

Can someone explain this to me?

[cop-disliker69]

Old people use quotation marks to indicate emphasis, as a substitute for italics (which many of them could not produce on the old typewriters they learned to write on), whereas young people use them to indicate sarcasm or falseness. They’re used as “scare quotes”.

And old people use ellipses simply to indicate a pause, or for some other incomprehensible reason I’m not aware of. But young people use ellipses to indicate passive-aggression.

So an old person could type something like:

how are things going with your “boyfriend”….

and what they mean is

How are things going with your boyfriend? [Im so excited for you, sweetie, and I wanna hear about it]

But a young person would interpret that sentence as

How are things going with your so-called boyfriend…. [I say, while seething with contempt for him and possibly for you too]

[kaispeakshermind]

The linguistic difference across generations is beautifully explained here thank you

[yorickish-deactivated20220112]

there’s nothing worse than getting an email

[official-kircheis]

getting two emails

[yorickish-deactivated20220112]

there’s one thing worse than getting an email

[nightpool]

i’ve got bad news about the cardinality of natural numbers

[academicssay]

[academicssay]

academia is wild because one day you get behind on writing and then you stay that way your entire career

[academicssay]

[kittypath]

STOP the fucking song and back it up to the start we didn't think about the right thing at the right time our head music video is all messed up what the fuck guys come on

[academicssay]

[afloweroutofstone]

The way you know that Covid vaccines work and aren’t just an unethical big pharma ploy is that the US government has been working to keep them away from poor countries. If it was all an unsafe cash grab conspiracy, we would have sold Nigeria like 5 doses per person

[funnytwittertweets]

[chaotic-archaeologist]

It's... It's... It's archAeology

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Someone fixed it

[ansonmount]

#jeff bezos’ flying d*ck AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME (1999) — feat. Blue Origin’s “New Shepard 4”

[qqueenofhades]

Okay, but:

If this man doesn’t look exactly like an Austin Powers supervillain in his giant flying penis, I don’t know what does.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[twentythousandvolts]

i dont think you get it. 1980 was twenty years ago. 1990 was 10 years ago. 2000 was 10 years ago. 2016 was two years ago. 2018 was also two years ago. 2017 was last year. 2014 was four years ago. do you understand me now?????