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*Insert something funny here*

[daily-lifeprotips]

Your own credit card company has a low interest payback program by law. They don’t advertise these programs. You have to specifically ask. Its called a Hardship Program and you have to qualify to use it.

[beardedmrbean]

Don't think I've seen them all together in one big video like this before

[flavinbagel]

God I love things doing the things that they do

[vixvigil]

“hey it could be worse” well i would like it not to be. how about that

[the-haiku-bot]

“hey it could be worse”

well i would like it not to

be. how about that

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[thethirdromana]

Broke: vampires are vulnerable to the trappings of Christianity only, particularly Catholicism, no matter how dubiously applied. (See: Van Helsing's Communion wafer grouting).

Woke: vampires are vulnerable to sincere faith of all kinds, and atheist vampire-hunters need to believe very strongly in the Power of Friendship or their love of Star Trek to get by.

Bespoke: vampires are vulnerable to the faith that they followed when they were alive, and hunters tracking down an ancient vampire are obliged to learn about Neo-Babylonian theology or Middle Palaeolithic bear cults.

[proxykiwi]

Man, vampires must really hate those modern pagans that revive 4000+ yr old faiths. just as you think you are done with those pesky egyptians and can really start enjoying your undead life, one of those weird young ones comes by with an ankh and a burning belief.

[nonbinarymissingno]

you ever have a

moment with an entire fandom's perception of a character

[nonbinarymissingno]

i hope this one breaches containment. i want to see your blorbo tags. they are welcomed and encouraged

[negamewtwo]

Christianity.

[nonbinarymissingno]

OKAY. THIS ONE WINS. YOU GUYS CAN STOP REBLOGGING THIS NOW

[chongoblog]

Not to be “Princess Bride” on main, but one of the most underrated lines in the movie is when Vizzini is being chased by boat and Inigo says (paraphrased) “He’s catching up!! I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using”

I love it because it’s clear Wesley has to catch up in order for the story to move forward, but it wouldn’t really make sense because that’s not how boats work. The line addresses that fact that you’d find in a nitpickers review (up there with “THE DEATH STAR EXPLOSION WOULD BE SILENT!!!”), but does so in a way that’s almost making light of the discrepancy. Sorta being like “huh, yeah…that doesnt make sense, does it, but hey we’re in this for a light-hearted story, not accuracy”. It’s probably the best example of Lampshade Hanging, since it keeps the tone light-hearted and it draws attention to it without actively saying “this doesn’t make sense” and breaking that sort of immersion.

I just really like The Princess Bride.

[ask-de-writer]

Not to be a wet blanket, but it is perfectly possible and practical for ships to travel at very different speeds using the “same wind.” Underwater design, sail plans, hull fouling and ship management will all play a part in how fast a particular ship will go.

[chongoblog]

You are not considered a wet blanket in this respect, as I learned something new thanks to you. Either way, the line still manages to draw a few chuckles from me due to how it draws attention to the irregularity of the situation and simply because I’m just kind of a Princess Bride Stan. Your knowledge of ships will not go unappreciated, my good friend.

[kiralamouse]

I would like it to be known that almost every time my family goes sailing (and we have some hardcore seasoned sailors in the mix), we wonder aloud whether another boat is using the same wind we are using. This includes the family who have done sailboat racing and are deeply familiar with the way boats differ. It’s a great line and great way to relieve stress when you’re barely moving and that upstart over there is flying along.

[prismatic-bell]

@ask-de-writer I feel it may give you another laugh to know there’s a line almost immediately after that both explains how Westley could catch up even on a boat of the same size, and is ALSO designed to make you laugh (and show what an asshole Vizzini is): when Vizzini tells Fezzik “he’s gaining!” on the Cliffs of Insanity and Fezzik goes “but Vizzini, he got only himself, and I got you three.” Westley’s boat is only carrying a rather trim pirate, but Vizzini’s has a Sicilian, a Spaniard, a giant, and a princess. That’s a lot of weight.

[tilthat]

TIL that Billy Crystal’s character, Miracle Max, in the Princess Bride was so funny that it nearly stopped the production of the movie. One actor bruised a rib from clenching to try not to laugh.

via reddit.com

[nookisms]

Fun fact in addition: Cary Elwes wasn’t allowed to be part of that scene because he kept laughing. The Westley on the table was dummy.

[quill-of-thoth]

This is AFTER he broke a toe riding Andre the Giant’s ATV, and got concussed when he and Christopher Guest tried to make the scene where Count Rugen knocks Wesley out more convincing. Mandy Patinkin busted the rib trying not to laugh, and also accidentally stabbed Guest during their fight scene.  About the only person who didn’t get some form of overenthusiasm-induced injury or illness during filming was Robin Wright, who had to repeatedly get her dress burnt up in the fire swamp scene because Goldman ruined one of the takes by screaming “Oh my god, she’s on fire!”

[sfitty]

i swear the princess bride movie was just a bunch of cast and crew deciding to dick around and film it.

it was Jackass before Jackass

[aphony-cree]

The guy in the giant rodent costume got arrested on his way to the set and they had to delay production to go bail him out

[schrodingers-anarchist]

[daily-lifeprotips]

If you’re going to donate a toy, donate a toy that doesn’t need batteries. If a family cannot afford toys, they probably can’t afford batteries.

[neil-gaiman]

Hello Mr. Gaiman!

What is the sixth word of the sixth line of the sixth page of the script of Good Omens season 2?

I went to all the trouble to find the script and check, and I'm afraid that it's "a".

[freenarnian]

“everything in your story should be there for a reason” well yes the reason my character has an Irish wolfhound is because I’ve always wanted one

[ekjohnston]

put things in your writing because you love them. sometimes your subconscious makes it important later, sometimes you edit it out during revisions, sometimes it stays for no reason at all, other than it made you happy.

[whyactlikeahuman]

[quasikool]

#i literally crack up everytime #at least ten of the notes are from me

[themadmanandhisbox]

[liberalsarecool]

The history of corporate propaganda.

'Nobody wants to work' fails to mention the poverty wages and horrible workplaces.

Reframe the narrative: Capitalists refuse to pay thriving wages.

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

I love this post because the replies are like "for anyone who doesn't know what nestle did, they benefited from [insert human rights violation here]" but nestle has done SO many fucked up things you get a different topic in every comment

[breakingboob]

Nestle has:

Drained water from places suffering from drought for absolute pennies.

Made African mothers dependent on their milk formula, which they gave for free, until their milk dried up. Then they required them to purchase it, mothers could not afford it, mixed in too little to fulfill nutrient needs, and mixed it with polluted water. Children died.

Used slavery to produce their cocoa.

Pushed for water to be considered a “want” not a “need” and is at the forefront of arguments that water is not a human right.

Poisoned Chinese infants with melamine in their milk formula.

Demanded Ethiopia pay a debt owed to Nestle, during a FAMINE.

Price-fixed food items.

Contributed to deforestation for their cocoa farming.

The worst thing is, Nestle owns TONS of other brands, making it difficult to avoid for certain products.

[theeretblr]

Nestlé is LITERALLY the largest food company in the world and have one of the worst track records. Pls avoid their products if you can

[thirtyknives]

This diagram is slightly out of date, The Body Shop was sold to Natura & Co in 2017. Wonka is also no longer a Nestle brand, the Wonka branding was discontinued in 2018 but the individual candy lines were sold to Ferrera. I bring this up not to discredit the OP, but because Nestle knows its being boycotted and makes no attempts to correct outdated info on what brands it owns. Here in Australia it's really common for formerly local Nestle brands (like Allen's Lollies) to have the Nestle logo in very small print or left off the packaging entirely. Nestle buys and sells brands all the time. If you're in on the boycot - like I am - you need to do your best to stay up to date. The current list of Nestle companies can be found here.

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

In high school I was told that "because of the pronouns in some of Shakespeare's sonnets, scholars have suspected that some of them might have been addressed to a male figure." We never encountered any such sonnets. Just comparing to a midsummer's day etc.

I am now reading through Shakespeare's sonnets and laughing hysterically at what a damn dirty lie that was. There is NO doubt or ambiguity here. A bunch of those sonnets are gay as fuck.

Apparently homoerotic sonnet sequences were just a TREND in late 1600s England!

[datasoong47]

Okay, but what does “because of the pronouns in some of Shakespeare's sonnets, scholars have suspected that some of them might have been addressed to a male figure” mean? I can’t think of how any pronoun use could be ambiguous enough to not be definite but also gendered enough to make someone “suspect”. 2nd person pronouns like thou and ye are completely ungendered, so nothing in that usage could imply anything about the gender of the addressee, while 3rd person pronouns like he or him would leave no ambiguity about the referent

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

Oh! It means,

"A major plot element of the sonnet sequence is the poet's very unambiguous love affair with a younger man and his grief that their gay forbidden love cannot be permanent or socially sanctioned, so if he wants his lover to be happy he should be totally thrilled for his fair young man to dump him and go marry a woman,

"BUT,

"It's 2003 and this is a Catholic school and I would get fired for expressing explicitly pro-LGBT messages, and I know some of you little shits are reporting 'anti-Catholic' teachers to the school trustees, so if I'm going to mention this at all, I have to do it AS LIGHTLY AS POSSIBLE."

[gentlesharks]

Baby Blacktip Reef shark!

[autistic-dumbass]

One day that tiny baby will be a big shark able to rip people to shreds

[gentlesharks]

most blacktip reef sharks are no more than 5.5ft long when mature. not only that, blacktip reef sharks are timid and shy, with no fatal human attacks documented. don’t comment stuff like this on my posts, save it for another post and stay off mine. thanks

[one-in-lemillion]

gentlesharks has hAD IT

[caspercryptid]

New sleep style: hitting the snooze button so many times that you sleep two additional hours in ten minute intervals. I call this Horse Sleep

[caspercryptid]

Worse sleep. That was meant to say worse sleep

[caspercryptid]

I Am So Fucking Tired

[caspercryptid]

Literally immediately after reblogging this to correct it I went "wow, it has a reblog already?" And got all the way to checking my notifs before I realized. That it was me.

[caspercryptid]

I actually wasn't that far off you guys

[caspercryptid]

HOLY SHIT THE POST IS SAVED

[caspercryptid]

Anyway horse sleep: sleep, but horse. Worse. Sleep but worse. Definitely one of the two.

[caspercryptid]

We shall have a summer wedding

[nbpsiioniic]

"you can't ship that, it'll never be canon!"

look, when I was your age, we shipped characters who never even met in canon. uphill. both ways. in the snow.

[squishymamasboy]

#shipping is just a more sophisticated way of playing dolls and smashing their doll faces together#we're all clowns and you're no less a clown just bc your dolls are canon