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Watch: John Cena continues, “So, let’s try this one more time. Close your eyes.”
I really like that this is the direction pro wrestlers are going with their pr, as opposed to classic pro wrestling from the 80s whose whole personas were like macho xenophobic whackness
I’m confused
It used to be that paper currency was backed by gold and silver for its value. A 10$ paper note would be redeemable for 10$ worth of gold or silver following the gold or silver standard. Currently our bills are fiat money which means they are not backed by any tangible item. They’re just based on the strength of the economy. The economy can fluctuate so it makes the actual value of a bill unstable. These Mcdonalds coins, however, would be a currency that are redeemable for a Big Mac. This would make them a technically more stable currency as they are always have the value of a Big Mac they can be redeemed for.
my granddad just called me to tell me how big his cauliflowers are growing and it was so cute theyre “TWICE as big as the ones you get in the shop”
i told my granddad this post has 3,500 notes and he said ‘who are they? do i know them?’ he wanted me to list everyone and see if he knew anyone
If you don’t reblog cauliflower granddad, then you’re just a mean person.
my cat spilled a whole fucking pot of glitter what the f-
Okay Carrie Fisher officially wins the holder of the biggest Dick Energy, because the woman is so extra she found a way to squeeze her way into Episode 9 even from beyond the grave.
I don’t understand why y’all still feel the need to use the R-word in 2018, especially when our language has evolved to the point where we have much more accurate and concise words for what you’re attempting to express. Stop being lazy and disrespectful and phase that shit out of your vocabulary. It’s really not that hard.
if i was on queer eye
bobby: are you using your dirty clothes as a carpet?
tan: did you just say that you bought this when you were in middle school?
jonathan: the majority of your hair is split ends
antoni: ok so typically peanut m&ms are not a breakfast food
karamo: why are you crying i haven’t said anything yet
“Guns have changed, shouldn’t our gun laws?”
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This may just be my experience as an autistic person, but the kids I’ve nannied whose parent’s complain of ‘bad awful in cooperative selfish autistic behavior’ are… Not like that? At all?
Like, for example, I cared for a kid for a while who was nonverbal and didn’t like being touched. Around six years old? Their parent said that they were fussy and had a strict schedule, and that they had problems getting them to eat. Their last few nannies had quit out of frustration.
So, I showed up. And for the first little while, it was awkward. The kid didn’t know me, I didn’t know them, you know how it is. And for the first… Day and a half, maybe? I fucked up a few times.
I changed their diaper and they screamed at me. I put the TV off and they threw things. Not fun, but regular upset kid stuff.
Next time, I figured, hell, I wouldn’t like being manhandled and ordered around either. Who likes being physically lifted out of whatever it is they’re doing and having their pants yanked off? Fucking few, that’s who.
Next time, I go, ‘hey, kiddo. You need a new diaper?’ and check. ‘I’m gonna go grab a new one and get you clean, okay?’ ‘Wanna find a spot to lay down?’ ‘Alright, almost done. Awesome job, thanks buddy’.
I learned stuff about them. They liked a heads up before I did anything disruptive. They didn’t mind that I rattled of about nothing all day. They didn’t like grass or plastic touching their back. They were okay with carpets and towels. They liked pictionary, and the color yellow, and fish crackers, and painting. They didn’t look me in the face (which was never an issue- I hate that too, it fucking sucks) but I never had reason to believe that they were ignoring me.
Once I learned what I was doing wrong, everything was fine. Did they magically “”“become normal”“” and start talking and laughing and hugging? No, but we had fun and had a good time and found a compromise between what I was comfortable with and what they were comfortable with. (For the record, I didn’t magically sailor-moon transform into a socially adept individual, either. In case anyone was wondering.)
I don’t like eye contact. It’s distracting and painful and stresses me out.
They didn’t like eye contact either.
Is eye contact necessary to communication? No. So we just didn’t do it.
Was there ever a situation where I HAD to force them to drop everything and lay down on the lawn? No. So the thirty second warning came into play, and nobody died.
“But they never talked!”
No, they didn’t. And they didn’t know ASL, and they didn’t like being touched.
So you know what happened?
My third day in, they tugged on my shirt. ‘Hey monkey, what’s up?’ I asked. And they tugged me towards the kitchen. ‘oh, cool. You hungry?’. They raised their hands in an ‘up’ gesture. ‘you want up? Cool.’ and I lifted them up. They pointed to the fridge. I opened it. They grabbed a juice box out of the top shelf, and pushed the door closed again. ‘oh sweet, grape is the best. You are an individual of refined taste.’ I put them down and they went back to their room to play Legos.
“But they didn’t say please or thank you!” “But you should be teaching them communication skills!” “But!” Lalalalala.
1. The entire interaction was entirely considerate and polite. I was never made uncomfortable. I was made aware of the problem so that I could help them solve it. There was no mess, no tears, no bruises, no shouting.
2. Did my brain collapse into a thousand million fragments of shattered diamond dust out of sheer incomprehension? No? Then their communication skills were fine. Goal realized, solution found, objective complete. They found the most simple and painless way to communicate the situation and then did it.
Kids are not stupid. AUTISTIC kids are not stupid.
I’m willing to bet real cash money that the real reason the last few nannies had quit had a million times more to do with their own ability to cope, not the kid’s.
To this day, that was the most relaxed and enjoyable job I’ve ever had.
And I know I don’t speak for everyone. All kids are different. All adults are different. But in my time and experience, pretty much 95% of all my difficulties with children come from ME not being understanding enough. Every single “problem child” I’ve worked with turned out to be a pretty cool person once I started figuring out how to put my ego aside and let them set the pace.
Again, not speaking universally, here. I’m just saying. Sometimes social rules are bullshit, you know? People are people
Have you ever read an article about the study that found that teaching the parents to cope with autistic kids yields better results than other therapies? Because this is exactly what they were talking about.
if u ever find a genie and you’re really craving a dessert that looks like this:
do NOT say “i’d like a lifetime supply of raspberry crowns”
while this is, in fact, the name of the pastry, it’s ALSO the name of a species of wasp for some reason. the genie, being a nasty trickster, will no doubt give you a bunch of wasps.
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this may be the first time he’s understood something that’s happened in the world
If Canada don’t GET THE FUCK …
lmao
There are now more than 90 people dead. You can bitch and whine that’s it’s hotter where you are, but you have to understand that it’s the elderly, homeless and small children who don’t have air conditioning and are susceptible to health problems. How fucking despicable can you be to just laugh at people dying because temperatures are hotter where you are. Our infrastructure was built to withstand -30 C°, not the heat. It’s not about how Canadians are “weak”, it’s literally just shitty circumstances.
Not to mention that people who are accustomed to cold climates have a physically more difficult time coping with temperatures that their bodies aren’t used to. Also a lot of people who have never had to cope with hotter temperatures aren’t as familiar with heat exhaustion or heat stroke, don’t know how to manage the heat safely , etc!
That last point.
Denmark is currently in its hottest summer ever recorded, and the number of people I’ve talked to who have only now discovered what a heat stroke is amazes me, because I grew up in the South of France where summers are hot as fuck every year - my brother-in-law went out for a bike ride without a hat and with a half a liter of water for three hours and came back and was sick because of it.
The idea that he’d get sick because of the sun didn’t even OCCUR to him, because in his 30+ years on this green ball swirling through space, it’s never been an issue for him.
In the South of France, most cafés have mist sprayers and all shops / malls are air-conditioned. In Denmark, most cafés do NOT have mist sprayers (but heat lights!) and the shops are not always air-conditioned.
Most of the warehouses have been out of portable air-conditioners and fans on an off since May because people are hot and have no air-condition installed. The buildings are built to keep heat IN. Not out.
No air con, buildings designed to keep heat in, not even ceiling fans, no drinking fountains, windows that don’t open in buildings, and we expect people to work in those buildings, in their full uniform which has no ‘hot weather’ option - I mean what employer is going to provide short sleeves and shorts for that one week every three years where it gets above 25/80 degrees? - windows that don’t open on public transport, and often no shade while waiting for said public transport, we have heaters and insulation and draft excluders, we buy black cars and dark clothes, we buy sunscreen for our holidays in Spain, then forget where we put it, when we find it and apply it we sweat it off again because we’re not used to the heat, we walk places rather than drive and even if we drove, our cars don’t have proper air con and we don’t have covered parking, school playgrounds and public parks have no shade, people don’t have pools so kids play out all summer in the heat. We don’t have ‘American style’ large fridges or freezers with ice makers and they break down when competing with hotter than usual ambient temperature, most of us don’t even own cool boxes - or if we do it’s at the back of the shed full of spiders.
So yes, we have to be told it’s going to be hot. And we have to be warned to check our elderly neighbours and to help them take the blankets off their bed or to swap to a summer duvet, to suggest they have a cold drink instead of a pot of tea and take off their cardigan.
Because we only know people who got sunstroke on their holidays abroad.
And we have never in our lives known anyone who died from the heat.
To anybody who thinks it’s funny when people die, you can go fuck off a tall bridge.
I live in Phoenix. It’s going to be 115F/46C degrees today. This is nothing unusual for this time of year. And yet every year we lose people to the heat. I can’t imagine what super temps must be like when you are not used to it. England, Quebec, and most of Europe’s home were designed to keep heat in. Not let it out. So instead of giggling like evil children over someone else’s horror, try being a little more understanding at the very least of what they are going through.
As I write this I’m in my camp bed on the balcony because the apartments here in Sweden cannot cope with venting the heat. It was 30degrees in my office all day, but I had to work.
Fans have been sold out in Stockholm everywhere. I have been grumpy and tired since the heatwave started, and my chronic conditions have aggravated because of the fucking heat.
Let’s not get started on the forest fires either.
FUCK SUMMER
It didn’t rain in Helsinki, Finland, for 6 weeks. We have had 27-32C/81-90F temperatures ongoingly since May. That’s 3 months. Our houses have double windows and thick insulations and like all Nordic country houses, they are built to keep heat in. I can walk around naked in my house when it’s -30C/-22F outside. THAT’S how warm and well insulated these houses are. Nothing’s designed or built here for hotter than 20C/68F and we have heat warnings starting from 25C/77F. All because we have NO WAYS to protect ourselves from the heat or cool down. Fans were sold out pretty much the whole country and still are. I’m lucky the nearby supermarket had managed to order fans from Germany and I managed to get one before they are sold out again. Cost me like hell but this is the first time in 3 months I can get some help for a sauna like apartment. This summer it’s been +32C/90F above Arctic Circle. ABOVE ARCTIC CIRCLE. And over 20C/68F AT THE SHORES OF ARCTIC OCEAN. What do you think, how the houses and infrastructure of the cities is build up there? To what temperatures people are accustomed? To hot or cold? This is exactly the same as when New York hit -9C/16F and whole city was in chaos and people died because it was so cold. People weren’t used to that. Houses or infrastructure is not built or designed for that. While here, in Finland, such temperature is mild and we can take it and we have ways to keep ourselves warm. No one dies here in that temperature, because it is normal. People walk outside with a light clothing on, because it’s still warm. Abnormal temperatures, high or below normal, always kill people. Always.
I would never EVER mock anyone for being hot or for complaining when it’s hot. I’m in Indiana we had a head wave of 105 heat index and 15 elderly people in our town died. Becuase the ac in the retirement centers couldn’t keep up.
I really do think pulling the fucking Monty Python sketch of ‘ha! You call that bad? You’re lucky, we have it worse!’ really needs to stop when it comes to which country has is worse in terms of weather. Being in conditions hotter than normal body temperature is dangerous no matter how much hotter it is, and coming close to it causes horrific damage anyway. My grandad, who last year had a near fatal heat stroke in the last heatwave, told me and my brother a saying he and his friends used when they were in the Navy: “You can drown in a waist deep swimming pool as easily as drowning in the sea.” which basically meant, when you’re in a dangerous situation it really doesn’t matter if it’s just a little risky or if it’s incredibly dangerous, it’s how YOU react to it that decides how well you tolerate it.
So whether it’s 25°C or 50°C, it’s dangerously hot either way, so keep cool as best you can.
By the way, just in case this helps someone -
COOKING - creativity is okay
BAKING - stick to the recipe (you can usually adjust sugar content to taste, though)
BREAD - wait for the right weather conditions (or engineer them), be one assertive and self-confident motherfucker because dough can feel it if you aren’t, a blood sacrifice probably helps, trust the gods
PASTRY - your God is dead, the god of gluten and madness is risen, abandon all hope ye who enter here
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The Texan Revolution formed from the anger of these white settlers in Texas, which was still part of Mexico at this time. They had moved from slave-owning southern part of the US and they became upset because the president of Mexico, Vicente Guerrero, abolished slavery. Mexico actually attempted to restrict American immigration into Mexico-owned Texas! The leaders of the Mexican centralist forces that defeated the Texan revolutionary forces at the Alamo were against slavery. If you ever hear a Texan say “Remember the Alamo!” just remember that the Texan settlers that died there had a vested interest in maintaining control of Texas territory so they could continue to use slave labor.
forget the alamo.
Fuck the alamo
Not only does the alamo suck as a historical monument, but fuck the people who fought there
Remember The Alamo, NOT as a brave battle, but as an important step in maintaining slavery. That may also help understand why the 14th Amendment, did NOT end slavery, it only transferred ownership from private hands to Government ownership.
For the first half of my life I lived in San Antonio. We were taught (from Kindergarten) that the people who fought in the Alamo were the heroes. Mexico the bad guy. It was a WOAH moment when I learned that wasn’t the case.
Also it’s super boring going to the Alamo every school year for field trips.
