Damei

Humour & Politics

[prime-tiktoks]

[mashable]

[tastefullyoffensive]

Vax chic.

[caroldanversenthusiast]

SOMEONE WRITE QUICKLY

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned that Joseph Bazalgette, the man who designed London’s sewers in the 1860’s, said ‘Well, we’re only going to do this once and there’s always the unforeseen’ and doubled the pipe diameter. If he had not done this, it would have overflowed in the 1960’s (its still in use today) (x)

[hotvampireadjacent]

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

British people will be the most prudish people ever but their address is 69 Rogering Street in Dick-Upon-Bollockshire

[deaththeband]

wasn’t expecting to be doxxed on a friday morning but whatever

[chickennchipsahoy-blog]

“do you ONLY care about your ocs?”

no i also care about my friends’ ocs too

[oldpaintings]

The Whisper by Adam Styka (Polish, 1890–1959)

[mypetufo]

if you plug your headphones into a hole in tree you can hear tree thoughts. stuff like “birds live in my hair” “water is my favorite” “the sun is my boyfriend”

[75orchids]

The weirdest thing about the UK is that they don’t clap at the end of movie trailers. What the fuck.

[mycoins]

not to mention the fact that they don’t pour their pepsis into their buckets of popcorn and eat the resulting mush, known as “pissy shitties” here in the good ol US of A

[okay-chr1s]

What the fuck is “pissy shitties”?

[mycoins]

pissy shitties is when you mix pepsi and popcorn to create a rich and smooth treat, excellent for enjoying a movie with friends

[chaos-has-arrived-deactivated20]

Woah woah woah… slow down there. Canadian joining the party. American’s clap at the end of movie trailers? Like every trailer? Or do you mean just the movie? And is “pissy shitties” an actual thing? How does it not leak onto your pants? Oh and sorr-eh for interrupting!

[75orchids]

Here in the USA, most theaters sell buckets meant specifically for pissy shitties, called piss buckets, which are usually around like $30 - $40. Some Americans like the feeling of leaky buckets on their jeans and consider it a part of the theater experience like post-credit brawls and sticky floors. I agree with the latter tbh.

[furrybubble]

The clapping is a normal show of respect and it occupies our hands so we don’t eat all our pissy shitties before the movie starts

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 21st of january, 2016.

[mysterymeat6649127739816]

[ofallthehappy-deactivated202004]

squad

[bopeep]

we dem b o y z

[floozys-deactivated20180908]

So your blog is mainly about cats and hating men? Sounds like a cliché, old cat lady in a novel. Lonely, sad life

this is me calling the police 

[dillondean]

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[pandariousgooch]

i never realized cuneiform was made with the corner of a cuboid tool, i thought the wedge shapes were carved such that you would press straight down with the tool at a 90° angle to the clay

[kitchenwitchupinthisbitch]

Wow! My mind is super into this new information

[ferret-on-pancakes]

[thestuartkings]

Jane (née Lane), Lady Fisher

by Unknown artist oil on canvas, circa 1660

Jane Lane (c. 1626 – 9 September 1689) played a heroic role in the Escape of Charles II in 1651. 

It is thought to be quite likely that Charles and Jane had a brief romantic relationship during their time together in the 1650’s. 

After the restoration Jane commissioned a portrait of herself. In it she was depicted as holding the royal crown with a veil over it. The symbolism is obvious: it represents her hiding the king from his enemies. But, in the picture’s top left-hand corner she had painted a scroll with a Latin legend upon it - and its meaning is far from obvious to the casual observer. The words are sic sic iuvat ire sub umbra and they are an almost precise quotation from Virgil’s Aeneid. In translation they read "thus, thus, it pleases me to go into the shadows".

Is this the humble affirmation of a loyal servant who having played her part in the kings preservation, was thereafter content to retire into obscurity? Her correspondence with Charles during the 1650’s suggests otherwise. Then it was Jane who took initiatives to keep the relationship alive. Knowing Charles well enough to realise that, once out of sight could well mean out of mind, she obviously feared that, once he had made provision for her in his sisters household, he might forget her. She was determined not to let that happen.

The words Jane chose to quote from the Aeneid come at the dramatic climax of the story of Dido and Aeneas. The Trojan hero arrives in Carthage where Queen Dido falls passionately in love with him. She begs him to stay and share her throne but he secretly makes plans to sail away. She discovers his perfidy and failing to dissuade him, stabs herself and has her body placed on a funeral pyre. Her final words express her own resignation but also her curse upon her inconstant lover. As she plunges in the knife she exclaims, ‘thus thus, it pleases me to go into the shadows. Let the cruel Trojan’s eyes drink in these flames from over the ocean and let him take with him the ill omen of my death". 

It is inconceivable that Jane did not know the context of the words she quoted and that, knowing it, it did not have meaning for her. 

[snoopingasusualisee]