Plucky Contrarian @pluckycontrarian - Tumblr Blog

Watching “Finding Dory” with my aquarist girlfriend...

“Dead” “Dead” “Dead” “All those fish would be so dead” “They didn’t even acclimate her” “Why would you put a tag like that on a blue tang” “Why is she throwing fish into a whale shark tank she can’t even eat them” “The beluga probably has brain damage because it’s sharing water with a tropical animal”

the-awkward-turt

“Why would quarantine be attached to the rest of the water supply through the pipes?! That defeats the entire purpose of quarantine!” “The aquarists know that the only octopus is supposed to get released, they aren’t going to forget about it because he has an orange tag now” “That’s not at all how echolocation works!”

bettaesthetic

“That’s literally a cup of fresh water… they put a saltwater fish into a cup of fresh water…” “that’s not even remotely how they’d transport fish..”

blackwaterbubbles

“Those fish just went into a coffee bowl, which wasn’t rinsed first! Toxins!” “You can’t have saltwater fish jump from saltwater to freshwater, what about osmosis shock?!”

youngsamberg

me in any inconvenient situation:

thechanelmuse

A Nigerian student has achieved the highest grades at a Japanese university for the past 50 years, while solving a mathematical equation which was unsolvable 30 years ago, in his first semester.

Ufot Ekong achieved a first in electrical engineering at Tokai University in Tokyo, scoring the best marks since 1965, CCTV Africa reported.

Ekong, from Lagos, also plays the saxophone, and runs a retail wears and accessories shop in Japan called Strictly African Japan.

The Nigerian speaks English, French, Japanese and Yoruba, his country’s native language, and paid his way through university himself.

He currently works for Nissan and has already patented two products, as well as making an electric car which reaches up to 128 kmph.

During his time at university, Ekong has won six awards for academic excellence.

Source

fkaprincessmica

itschinyere-deactivated20200201

Naija

twaititi-deactivated20160901

cinegasmic

The Revenant (2015)

jasonmantzoukas

where’s his emmy?

Trump Supporters and apathetic individuals: Why do you talk about Trump so much? He's just trying to do his job. Leave him alone.

Me: I was living my life and this guy comes along and wants to deport my friends, demonize the people I love, degrade women, wreck the climate, destroy the economy, destabilize the world and endanger the life of every living thing on the planet.

Leave him alone?

That asshole should leave me alone.

boyfroend

toolers

You get home from a long day at work and turn on the TV. It’s been a long week, so you think to yourself- maybe i’ll take the family to a movie on Saturday. Maybe we’ll even go on a vacation soon! We could visit museums and go to plays and see all sorts of fun attractions. When you turned the TV on, nothing happened. There are no actors to entertain you. When you went to the movie theater, nothing was showing. There were no advertisements to tell you that anything was showing, so you went to the theater to find out. Nothing playing. There is no one to film and create movies for you. Well at least your vacation will be fun, right? Not like there will be any plays to see and there won’t be anything in the art museums. Well at least you have the shack you are living in that you made out of cardboard and sheets. Not like you could find an architect to build you a house with all the money you’re making as an engineer.

froankie-deactivated20130715

bless

cartoonpolitics

legogradstudent

Purchasing his sixth coffee of the day, the grad student categorically, indisputably, and vehemently does not have a dependence.

chemislife-deactivated20180405

I can stop whenever I want

quotemadness

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

Stanley Kubrick (via quotemadness)

roxannethereader-blog

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway (via allefory)

berniesrevolution

quasi-normalcy

Nationalise the pharmaceutical industry.

blackblocberniebros-deactivated

Publicly execute pharmaceutical industry CEOs.

flowisaconstruct-deactivated202

I’d certainly like it if they had to give *some* justification of why a price increase was necessary, other than “we just want more money, and you fuckers are desperate.”

Trump administration: We're rolling back the protections for trans students because it should be left up to the states. This isn't a one-size-fits-all situation, the states have rights, they should be able to chose whether or not they offer protections to vulnerable children and teens. We're a state's rights party uwu.

Also the Trump administration: We're looking into enforcing the federals laws that deal with recreational marijuana because these stickin' states think that they have rights or something.

jeebus-was-a-liberal-deactivate

official-arnie-nutts

The GOP

prattlings

At every school my daughter has been in (that would be four) I’ve had to argue with school nurses about her being able to keep her inhaler with her in case she needs it. In every school the nurse has argued that they want to keep the inhaler locked in their office, and if my daughter needs it she has to go get it.

And every time I calmly say (to a nurse), “She has asthma. That means sometimes she can’t breathe. That means that when she’s having an asthma attack, she needs her rescue inhaler. And you’re telling me that she’ll just have to hang tight for a couple of minutes, run out of her classroom or in from outside and track you down so that you can go unlock a medication that can potentially save her life?”

And every time they stutter and backtrack and mumble about school policy and what would be best and I tell them there will be no discussion; my daughter will have her inhaler with her at all times, and she’ll take it when she needs it, and when she can breathe again she can walk down to find the nurse, who can check her over and call me if necessary.

And then they get haughty and start talking about how I’ll need a note from the pediatrician, so I calmly unfold that very document and hand it to them and there’s a bit more sputtering on their part and then I leave.

And at some point during the school year, my daughter comes home after having to use her inhaler and visit the nurse and she tells me how the nurse told her that she really shouldn’t be carrying her own medication and that they can keep it for her.

And it takes everything I have not to drive to the school and shake those nurses and scream at them.

Like, have you ever seen anyone having an asthma attack? Have you ever experienced one yourself? My daughter used to have attacks in the middle of the night and sometimes her inhalers didn’t help and I was screaming for her to breathe and throwing her tiny, gasping body into my car to drive to the hospital. I also grew up watching my dad suffer from ludicrous attacks.

Asthma meds are not something people abuse. My 8 y/o isn’t trading inhaler puffs for oreos on the playground because the other third graders are jonesing for a high.

School policies need to change. Life saving medications should not be locked up.