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can more people frame this dumbass update as destroying the flow of communication on this platform and not "stealing" notes from people. they're made up numbers on a screen babe nobody's getting paid by the note

madsciencepottery

You have been visited by the twocumber. May you receive twofold luck in the coming days

notahorseindisguise

the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

mysticorset

Peer reviewed tags from @somanyofthekids

notahorseindisguise

NO its a JOKE and YOU DONT GET IT. ITS NOT THAT DEEP

hiveswap

While she was dead he put his memory of her on such a high pedestal that she could never live up to it alive

midnight-revolucion

alternatively‚ she came back perfectly fine but he thinks she came back wrong‚ because the tragic reality is that he never actually knew his wife

notahorseindisguise

im going INSANE thats MY POST.

marlinspirkhall

It's your post but the journey to posting it changed it to such a degree that even its closest intimacies are now foreign to you. Sorry dude.

holy-leapin-splits-batman

electronicgallery

It appears that boredom lies behind the most creative ideas. That's why quarantine has produced some of the most entertaining activities. One of them is the Getty Museum challenge, that so many of you have already seen in our previous article here.

delphinidin4

Narcissus taking a selfie is the ACTUAL best.

simplyclockwork

These are REALLY cool

notallfay

These are art in themselves, in a some of them point out what lockdown was like for us, they’re expressed themselves in a really cool way. But I think these are going to be talked about in the future.

#art #This was a joy to look at

paulfrankjuliusthemonkey

Baby Tiger小脑斧, 2018, Zhelong Xu

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naamahdarling

The gloss glaze on the tigre de cerámica (pequeño y gordo) is FLAWLESS. Just. Drawing attention to that. Beautiful.

modern-politics111

disregardandfelicity

sounds very similar to a radio story i heard in 2014 ago about credit card debt. the debt got sold to a collection company and a couple received a court summons. they knew they had taken on debt, but they were confused about who this new company was and where specifically the number they were supposed to owe came from.

they show up in court and just ask the lawyer for the collection company: can you prove where this number comes from? Do you have a contract showing that you purchased our debt? probably luckily for them, a reporter researching a book on the topic showed up and asked the same questions.

10 minutes later they get in front of the judge and the collection company drops the whole case and theyre free to go. story is below, it has a transcript in the link too

Ira talks to reporter Jake Halpern about a scene he saw take place in a Georgia courtroom where a couple uttered some magic words that seeme

evolutionsbedingt

https://twitter.com/BrianManookian/status/1674963884703088642

Link to the twitter thread for accessibility!

elodieunderglass

While the kids were watching BBC’s Swashbucklers, a very low-stakes and gentle kid’s game show where not-very-menacing pirates gently prod children into completing an obstacle course, Dr Glass said “in MY day (the 1980s) the children would simply be tormented in a dungeon by a menacing, filthy actor who did NOT appear to be joking”

I invited him to continue to explain whatever nightmarish facet of British culture had just occurred to him, and he was like “it was actually called Knightmare. They would put a prototype virtual reality helmet on a child, so they were blind, and a panel of their friends would have to steer them around, and all the adult actors were chewing the scenery - it was mildly stressful! and the adults did NOT want the kids to win.”

I was like, “are you sure this isn’t some mis-remembered dungeons and dragons thing?” Neither of us have played it, and in his wild youth Dr Glass was far more likely to be lying about his age in a pub, but the more elaborate he became (“you had to put food in your knapsack - the dragon puppets were frankly terrifying - the more I think about it, the more alarmingly advanced the CGI must have been”), the more I was convinced, except surely this is the sort of thing everyone would have heard of, right?

No, apparently, he wasn’t making it up.

Knightmare was a OTT, strange, weirdly elaborately costumed 1980s-1990s British medieval fantasy game show, aimed at lightly tormenting a panel of schoolchildren, like this absolute mashed-up fever dream that feels like it would have been forbidden in America for encouraging cult behaviour in children. And the 1980s British schoolchildren who play it are strangely chill about it.

What a fever dream.

Knightmare is a British children's adventure game show, created by Tim Child, and broadcast over eight series on CITV from 7 September 1987

warpsbyherself

Asked my English husband and he went “oh yeah, I used to come home from school and watch that all the time as a kid! I remember when they had to make it more child friendly - the player character represented by the child in a helmet had a life bar and it was shown depleting by bits of the helmet coming away, then, bits of the face flaking away and eventually, it would be a skull with glowing red eyes crumbling. They replaced it with a knight just losing bits of his armor.” He seemed very nostalgic.

elodieunderglass

I was like “hi. Hello. What.” But look at this corroboration

shencomix

escuerzoresucitado

eyobis-andthe-bunnycats

[Video Description: a lynx casually walks down a snow covered bank, onto a log and reaches a frozen river. The lynx takes two steps; the ice cracks loudly. Instantly the lynx stands still. It then looks around and then leaps. The lynx makes a landing on the other side of the river, a faint crack can be heard. It continues on its way unfazed. /End VD.]

drtanner

That's a guy who's fallen through the ice before, lmao.

wickedcriminal

IMMACULATE REACTION

molabuddy

recently when im tempted to say 'i'm gonna kill myself' i try to correct it into saying "im gonna walk into the river and become a trout" or some other form of that. this is my new thing

molabuddy

btw this has graduated into me just saying "the trout population will be affected" and then not elaborating

vocabulary-altering-posts

PHRASE ADDED!

"The trout population will be affected."

flowers4therapture

a single andes chocolate mint from the olive garden can fully nourish an adult human for up to 96 hours

elodieunderglass

This is genuinely the idea behind Kendal Mint Cake

hylianengineer

Say what now?

elodieunderglass

Kendal Mint Cake is a sort of highly dense lump of sugar flavoured with peppermint oil. It does not spoil, and somehow contains 2x more sugar and glucose than sugar or glucose. It is a purposeful product intended as an emergency ration to give a boost of energy when mountaineering. It is associated with hikers and mountaineers in the UK and is sold in camping/outdoor stores. Typically you keep a packet permanently in your camping bag or car or emergency kit, and just never move or remove it. If the time comes, it’s there.

I gestured a hand across an explanation of a Scottish field geologist character named Ken(dal Mint Cake) stating that he always has a packet of Kendal mint cake somewhere and received a message from a friend saying “I didn’t know you also knew (guy that Ken could conceivably be based on)”. I didn’t. This is just a portrait of too many extant guys.

There are several species of this man crashing cheerfully around the UK receiving deep spiritual pleasure from crouching in a puddle in a howling gale up a mountain nibbling pieces of violent mint sugar and apparently metabolising sufficient joy from this to polish off Kendal Mint Cake in marketable quantities for over 100 years.

Unless they made too much of it originally and are still selling it.

It isn’t sugar cube. It’s sugar to the fourth power. Nobody sounds reasonable talking about it.

elodieunderglass

Tumblr users rising to the challenge . You’ll note the recurring theme

Step 1: go on an entirely optional adventure

Step 2: get into an unpleasant condition in bad weather

Step 3: become very uncomfortable and hateful

Step 4: Kendal mint cake

Step 5: access stratosphere with tits blown off

Step 6: summit

Step 7: say “that was lovely”

skull-bearer

If only it had been founded 35 years earlier, the Franklin expedition would have found the NW Passage while carrying their boats like a pack of very determined sugar fuelled ants.

so-i-did-this-thing

How have we gotten this far without showing the packaging, oh, you know this stuff has cocaine in its DNA.

onebadnoodle

R.I.P 💀🏝️

bogleech

I just dreamt I was walking down the street in a stupid looking cartoon way without realizing it. I can't quite describe it but part of it was my body sort of dancing and skipping while my head remained perfectly level. Then a man scowled at me, imitated it to show how foolish I looked and he referred to this style of walking as "a hoot-toot hoot-hoot," a statement which made me absolutely livid with blind violent rage until I woke up