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[thetursithan]

[iamhisgloriouspurpose]

How long did it take them to figure out that it could actually be done? That's staggering.

[beardedmrbean]

[alexanderwales]

I used the phrase "waiting on tenterhooks" and then thought "what the hell is a tenterhook".

It's these things! So when you're waiting on tenterhooks, you're stretched tight like a piece of cloth. Very evocative, now that I know what it means.

[headspace-hotel]

like 40% of english idioms are just Textiles Again

[blanketforcas]

whatever i was gonna say can't possibly be funnier than the mere existence of this draft

[liberatingreality]

Be suspicious of all those who employ the term "we" or "us" without your permission. This is another form of surreptitious conscription, designed to suggest that "we" are all agreed on "our" interests and identity. Always ask who this "we" is; as often as not it's an attempt to smuggle tribalism through the customs.

Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

[darkmaga-returns]

[mightymur]

The final, brilliant word on passive voice.

“She was killed [by zombies.]” <— passive

“Zombies killed [by zombies] her.” <— active

[christinaroseandrews]

This is legit one of the best ways to identify passive voice.

[thesaltofcarthage]

I do this all the time now.

[soleilsplanet]

do you ever just … picture a whole scene, a whole fanfiction in your head, you know how to place every single word of the english dictionary that you need (or your language dictionary), you know how to structure your sentences, you know just what your characters are going to say to each other and then… and then you just open microsoft word.

[the-adults-are-talk1ng]

Its the doc! The blank document steals the ideas from. Your brain!!!! If you want to keep your ideas,, do NOT look at the doc when you open it, look STRAIGHT* AT THE KEYBOARD and write the first words to pop into your head! Once the document isn't empty it, takes away its evil power over you

[rabbitindisguise]

two things:

the mental image of that is hilarious

it might just work

[beardedmrbean]

#had to go overboard

SO DID THE TEA

🦅🇺🇸🎆🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🎆🎆🦅🍔

[karagin22]

[crazyasscountrygirl]

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

Three days every year this is all I see

[prolifeproliberty]

[beardedmrbean]

Describing war to an American

[witch-hattery]

No, wait, seriously. Wasn't there some real conflict where America was running ice cream to the men on the front lines, and it fucked with the morale of the other side, or even intimidated them by having a supply chain so robust it supplied luxuries?

[beardedmrbean]

WW2 Pacific theater, there was different ways of doing it.

Had the refrigerated barge for one,

then we had bomber ice cream.

Source they linked for that here

And another

DIY Ice Cream in Wartime

Take one Corsair, 5 ammo cans, canned milk and circle at 33,000 feet.

[streetmusclecars]

[noodles-07]

god people have always been people. victorian noblewomen stubbed their toes and swore about it. medieval peasants ripped hangnails a little too hard and sucked on it to make it better. cavemen put kids on their shoulders so the kids could get their handprints up on the wall. someone in the 1760s played with their dog and someone in the 1340s dragged themself out of bed at some unholy hour of the morning to soothe a crying baby and someone in the 1550s stuck a flower behind their lovers ear. I'm gonna be sick people have always been people

[gsirvitor]

[beardedmrbean]

A Japanese Illustrated History of America (1861): Features George Washington Punching Tigers, John Adams Slaying Snakes & Other Fantastic Sc

'George Washington (with bow and arrow) pictured alongside the Goddess of America' Though I'm American myself, I always learn the most ab

George Washington punching a tiger is probably my fav

Someone scanned all the illustrations and archived it on the web here

I don't believe I'd seen the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln before