The life and mind of Amanda

Amanda. 25. Canadian. Basically, what i post is what i like! Enjoy! :)

[danismm]

LIFE 16 aug 1954

[invisiblespoon]

You know you're European when:

They have to defuse a WW2 bomb in your city and nobody is really concerned because that happens from time to time. 

[margotapproves-blog]

WHAT #noteuropean 

[lynnerdo]

dude there’s entire fields in the west part of Belgium that just has a small “Watch out, mine field” on it, and sometimes farmers don’t know and put cows on it and they get blown up. Shit happens. #WW2

[scienceoftheidiot]

Happens because of WW1 (WW2 too but there’s less stuff left) in northern France too. 

Almost walked on a non explosed pair of shells while looking for mushrooms. 

[scyllaya]

I was born in a small town in south Hungary… they didn’t just find one WW2 bomb somewhere around the town… they found 1200 bombs right outside the town in 2014.

Yes, around 1200 German SD-1 fragmentation bombs… only found in 2014!

[wordsformurder]

I love those radio announcements. This part of the city, along with this highway and also, all trains going through, are going to be shut down on Saturday afternoon because bomb.

And all anyone bitches about is the detour they’re forced to take because if it didn’t blow up the past 71 years, they could have waited another week to defuse it, couldn’t they? Eugh.

[pheuthe]

there’s a flood? oh hello forgotten WWII ammunition in large quantities you go take a walk in the forest? oh hey WWII mine! kids play football in a field? good thing they didn’t kick that mine they found. someone actually looks through the old metal parts in a salvage yard? anti-aircraft mines! tbh nobody usually makes a great fuss because it very rarely actually hurts someone. but yeah until now I was always like ‘lol another one’ and never thought about it much XD

[wolfvesinwinter-deactivated2017]

There’s a roadblock in the middle of the city? Oh no worries it’s just a bomb. A whole block gets evacuated? Oh no worries. Bomb.  #LifeinGermany

[duncan-rohanne]

same in czech… we literally have closed forests where no one can go, because mines everywhere and lol, our neighbor was building water well on his garden last year and he is digging and digging and then he hits something solid, surprise it’s a wwii bomb…

[magog83]

Here’s one being detonated in Yorkshire in 2009 (from WW2)

[dshfgwrwfbdwawfuewgsfdbl]

Wtf are you guys ok

[damnit-bones-deactivated2018120]

Yeah it’s fine, this shit is essentially gossip material and nothing more

[elena-cat-empress-of-all-deacti]

We had one in our city recently(ish). If I recall right they evacuated a student accommodation or something, and they watched it get detonated.

It was more like a social event than trouble.

[kakumei-no-tomoshibi]

You all sound so surprised that we still have some bombs around from being LITERALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF TWO WORLD WARS. 

[nestofstraightlines]

I feel like the US - and fair enough - don’t quite get how present and clear the effect of the world wars is in Europe.

Like I was in TK Maxx in Balham today failing to find any decent bras. As I went in I glanced around and noted not for the first time how there’s this really distinct break in the style of buildings along that road. This is why:

At 8.02pm on 14th October 1940 a German bomb was dropped directly on Balham Underground station. The torn-off shopfronts are where the TK Maxx is now.

My other stop before getting home was at the Lidl on the corner of my street. Why was there space to build a supermarket there in the first place? Because it was a bombsite.

London was a bombsite.

That’s every explosion in London during the Blitz.Around 10% of dropped bombs are estimated not to have exploded. They’re still digging them up all the time. Last year London City airport had to be closed down while two unexploded V2s were dealt with

There are areas in northeastern France which are still off-limits to humans because of the huge number of unexploded shells and mines the toxicity of the soil from World War One, called Red Zones.

War really fucks a place up.

[xantissa]

I feel like people really don’t understand the difference between a war some county is waging somewhere else and a war that happen right on top of you.

Any bit of grassland or field you dig in Europe or in my example Poland will yield you some ammo or a piece of a bomb within first 15 min of digging.

There was this American show about treasure hunters working with metal detectors that wanted to shoot an episode here looking for some meteorites. They gave in after the first day because the detectors kept wailing non stop. They found a lot of ammo and rusted out guns.

It’s not just bombs, it’s also things like : oh, bus fell into a hole!

The hole turned out to be a secret ww2 bunker that nobody knew existed that caved in.

[nightwatched]

Happened in my city and someone just picked it up and put on the bin

[that-northern-lad-deactivated20]

On my native part of the of the coast we occasionally get stuff washing up as a load of ammo etc was dumped at sea off Anglesey (the bit on the top left corner of Wales) and the currents just bring them up the coast.

Some kids brought some ammunition that they found on the beach in to our Rangers post/look out tower a few years back, one of the rangers rang the police and they’re just like cool drop in to the police station and we’ll put it in the cupboard for when the armed response guys turn up.

Like this happens, you just kind of shrug and go ‘huh cool’ and get on with your day

[liketheghost-deactivated2015012]

so is it a thing in (american) english to use “texas” as a word for like, something that’s out of control or chaotic, or as like, “crazy”? like “that party last weekend was totally texas!”

because that is a thing people say in norwegian and i just think it’s important for americans to know that?

[galesofnovember]

this is the best thing I’ve ever heard

[minnielikes-deactivated20260215]

i’m sorry wHAT

[copperbadge]

This is like the time I found out that in Israel “Ma po ze, Chicago?” (What is this, CHICAGO?) is a saying for when people are acting unruly. 

[perilegs]

in finland if something is far away or in an unknown place we can say that “se on huitsin nevadassa” (it’s in nevada) you can also politely tell that you’d wish someone to fuck off by wishing that they’d go to nevada

[what-even-is-thiss]

It’s good to know that other languages do the “pardon my French” thing.

[my-slideshow-wmv]

[gayestgen]

@hungwy

[autisticm0b-deactivated20200910]

i was trying to compress this gif to make it a discord emoji but. this happened

[grindbeef]

dance fucker dance

[thebabysittersguidetoexorcisms]

[spectacularuniverse-blog]

I’ve seen this photograph very frequently on tumblr and Facebook, always with the simple caption, “Ghost Heart”. What exactly is a ghost heart?

More than 3,200 people are on the waiting list for a heart transplant in the United States. Some won’t survive the wait. Last year, 340 died before a new heart was found. The solution: Take a pig heart, soak it in an ingredient commonly found in shampoo and wash away the cells until you’re left with a protein scaffold that is to a heart what two-by-four framing is to a house. Then inject that ghost heart, as it’s called, with hundreds of millions of blood or bone-marrow stem cells from a person who needs a heart transplant, place it in a bioreactor - a box with artificial lungs and tubes that pump oxygen and blood into it - and wait as the ghost heart begins to mature into a new, beating human heart. Doris Taylor, director of regenerative medicine research at the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, has been working on this– first using rat hearts, then pig hearts and human hearts - for years. The process is called decellularization and it is a tissue engineering technique designed to strip out the cells from a donor organ, leaving nothing but connective tissue that used to hold the cells in place.  This scaffold of connective tissue - called a “ghost organ” for its pale and almost translucent appearance - can then be reseeded with a patient’s own cells, with the goal of regenerating an organ that can be transplanted into the patient without fear of tissue rejection. This ghost heart is ready to be injected with a transplant recipient’s stem cells so a new heart - one that won’t be rejected - can be grown. (Source)

[wild-nirvana]

THIS IS SO FUCKING COOL. MAN I LOVE SCIENCE. SO MUCH.

[robertmitchum]

Oh, there’s an empty place in my bones that calls out for something unknown

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS dir. Henry Selick

[yourwisehistory]

Jason ‘I like to throw axes at bullseye’ momoa

[linaisbluepancake]

[bextheboo]

[gael-garcia]

Diego Luna dirty dancing in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

[gaelgarcia]

We didn’t know when we would see each other again, but we knew that this wasn’t our last dance.

[aliiiiiiice]

why don't people in zombie apocalypse stories ever just wear suits of armor? you think any zombie is gonna get their shitty rotting jaws through this?

I'm gonna rip and tear my way through the zombie apocalypse completely unharmed because none of the undead hoards will be able to get through my plate mail

[aliiiiiiice]

everyone else is like "oh we gotta stay inside the most secure places possible and never leave" and I'll be storming through the wastelands in my bloodstained suit of armor, blasting the Doom (2016) OST and plowing my way through waves of the undead. one of them tries to bite me but his shitty rotting teeth don't even leave a dent in my armor before I turn his head into paste. I'll be unstoppable until I die of dehydration or something like an idiot

[writhe]

this is legitimately the funniest thing ive ever seen in my life 

[sapphoshands]

…i love her?!?

[trainthief]

QUEEN OF BEING HUMAN 

[bogleech]

[mavisbeaconofficial]

[rustyjnails]

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?!? WHO WROTE IT, WHO DREW IT, WHO ANIMATED IT, WHO VOICED IT, WHO SIGNED OFF ON IT? I NEED THEM ALL GATHERED IN A ROOM CUS I JUST WANNA TALK?!?!?

[rook-the-catechumen]

[pastabot]

[lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223]

WAIT. Not to be controversial but. What if I just enjoy life for what it is right now instead of stressing about what I’ve yet to get out of it. What if I choose to enjoy this time……I know that once it goes, I won’t get it back from anywhere