Ketchup & Campbeds

This is Ketchup and Campbeds, a place for Sources and Debunks. It's funnier in my head. If you've been reblogged, it's because I think more things on Tumblr should have the original artist's name and - ideally - website on it, and I knew where to look. It's nothing personal. Well, sometimes it's personal. Anyway. Submissions Welcome. My avatar icon is by http://www.afterglow.ie

[studentofetherium]

i'm not normally one to make jokes about dialect or accent. but the way that British people pronounce "lieutenant" feels like an in-joke i'm not privy to

[aokozaki]

Aww, you're feeling lieut out?

[sources-and-debunks]

We stole the word from the French around the 14th century, and stubbornly kept the old pronunciation in the face of not only basic logic, but even modern French.

Think of it as part of the grand English tradition of paternalisticly preserving other peoples’ history for them, even when they’d rather have it back.

(Adapted from this stackexchange thread)

[anonpolls]

Without looking it up, do you know what a ute is?

australian, yes

australian, no

new zealander, yes

new zealander, no

from elsewhere in oceania, yes

from elsewhere in oceania, no

from somewhere else, yes

from somewhere else, no

my ute is bald / results

Voting ended onDec 20, 2025

Thanks, Anon!

-submit your poll!-

[tafadhali]

[sources-and-debunks]

A "Ute" is an automotive form factor popular almost uniquely in Australia, which takes a standard car engine and front half, and a flatbed rear.

The name derives from Utility Vehicle, and displays the rare form of Australian slang that adopts the first "Take the first syllable" step, and omits the usual '-ooie' suffix.

Car companies do ship their girt-external "Pickup Truck" models to be sold as Utes, but they tend to come across as oversized and somewhat compensatory.

[liberalsarecool]

Elon Musk's teenage hackers have inserted bots into the backend of the federal system so they can spy on government workers and sniff out any disloyalty to Felon47.

This is not only highly illegal but qualifies as an act of espionage and sedition.

Remember when First Felon accused Obama of spying on him through a microwave oven? Always a projection.

[sources-and-debunks]

I’m not saying this isn’t true, but this would imply that Muskrat Team have access to the software deployment of federal desktops, but not the server account to which logs of all Teams chats are stored, which isn’t entirely consistent with what we’ve heard elsewhere. (Also: don’t talk about your place of work’s problems on a system they own. When working on a machine or platform owned by your employers, there is no expected right to privacy in EU and, to the best of my research, US systems).

To be clear: sifting through employees chat logs on work systems isn’t illegal, and while disloyalty to DJT isn’t (yet) either, it may be grounds for at-will dismissal where available, which would be affected by state law and possibly union or employment contracts.

Elon is a government consultant, under (vague) direction from the president, so it’s also probably not sedition, espionage or treason without better sources as to why it would be.

(Also, be careful with screenshots of posts made to social media platforms with no source link. This one is fine, Jennifer’s the CBS Senior Whitehouse Correspondent, and her ‘skeet’ (ugh) is limited, real and accurate, but inventing social media posts is seconds work, and just because it fits your biases doesn’t mean it’s not fake)

[ayeforscotland]

What does Irn-Bru taste like? Is it like orange soda, or is the color not really indicative?

Girders from the Forth Rail Bridge!

[ayeforscotland]

We’re not doing this again. Shove your American bubble gum up your arse.

[sources-and-debunks]

The surgeon general does not recommend taking chewable candy rectally - recreationally or otherrwise - due to the low probability of excreting a balloon of pure shit that will fundermentally confuse all sewage treatment attempts for several generations. Plus, when you look upon it in the bowl, you will also - albeit momentarily - possibly confuse yourself like an unfortuate pocket monster.

[sources-and-debunks]

Peak design rucksacks do not have serial numbers.

They have lot numbers, which indicate when and where they were made, but there is no way to associate a lot number with less specificity of “bags that were made that day”, even if they sold the bag directly from their website, instead of - for example - any other shop that carries these very popular and award winning bags.

The CEO of Peak Design did not hand over details of the Adjuster to the police.

[littlesolo]

Microsoft Word

[boobachu]

For everyone not contractually obligated to use Microsoft Word for some insane, probably corporate, reason... use Libre office

Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, communi

[fullofowls]

Also if you use Word on an iPad or something, it's in the gear icon > advanced > privacy settings > switch all of that stuff off

I believe. Hopefully. I need to ditch Word as soon as possible.

[sources-and-debunks]

This is not true, as per Microsoft's twitter account:

They also have an article about the Connected Experiences feature, which has existed since long before the AI stupidity explosion.

[peoplegettingreallymadatghosts]

fell for the oldest trick in the book

[captious-solarian]

4chan post No. 15689086 (on /his/, now deleted)

>browsing the dark web, looking for something interesting find a very odd TOR site >huge title in the middle says "THE BRONZE AGE COLLAPSE CONSPIRACY" >never heard of this one >start reading >it explains in great lengths how the mediterranean area was once much more developed and interconnected than what you'd assume, people built big ass cities and traded all around, even literacy was spreading, ancient civilizations were flourishing all of this like 3500 years ago >typical "ultra-developed lost civilizations" thing but I'm legit intrigued by this point, wonder where all of this is going >it says it all went to shit because of a combination of impossibly unfortunate apocalyptic events >pandemics, volcanic eruptions, droughts and so on, which lead to great migrations destabilizing entire areas >then literal sea people attacked out of nowhere >fucking Atlantis-tier shit >big cities and civilizations were destroyed, huge areas depopulated and abandoned, centuries of development and accomplishments got erased or lost >now I'm hooked, someone really went all in with the lore of this absurd conspiracy theory >the page cites dozens of small sites and blogs and stuff on the clearnet >each one of them elaborates on fragments of the narrative, going into details about everything (the traits and characteristics of each and every ancient group that got destroyed, the causes of the general collapse, the technologies that got developed and lost, what survived and how, the consequences of it all and so on) >spend a whole evening autistically reading dozens of conspiracy sites that expanded on the lore >10/10 narrative >wonder what the actual internet thinks about his incredibly complex plot >google it >it has a wikipedia page

mfw it wasn't a conspiracy theory at all, some fucker on TOR just tricked me into studying history

[sources-and-debunks]

The wiki page:

The Late Bronze Age Collapse

[thegaymertrainer]

I FINALLY FOUND IT AGAIN

[sources-and-debunks]

The audio from this is from the Mexican comedian Sofia Niño de Rivera. The translation in the tiktok is better than Youtube's autogenerated captions (obviously), but here's the original:

[ecrivainsolitaire]

The whole thing is on Netflix with English subtitles, highly recommended

[thegaymertrainer]

I FINALLY FOUND IT AGAIN

[sources-and-debunks]

The audio from this is from the Mexican comedian Sofia Niño de Rivera. The translation in the tiktok is better than Youtube's autogenerated captions (obviously), but here's the original:

[ithelpstodream]

is it really ok to punch a nazi?

(watch the whole thing)

[seriesofnonsequiturs]

“I would like to defeat Nazis on planet Earth first”

[rashemibabe]

The white liberal part 😂😂

[coneycat]

He makes many cogent points

“Hopefully more Nazis.”

[sources-and-debunks]

This is Aamer Arahman

You can find the original on his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKICKcMU3MU

[warandpeas]

Slutty Witch

[sadgirlsosa]

This dialogue is killing me

[sources-and-debunks]

https://warandpeas.com/

[lolawashere-deactivated20240904]

This is the work of a genius!

[sources-and-debunks]

This playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1231896501/playlist/6IzL095SOzRjANlPt6Sghd

[island-delver-go]

Cursed image of the day

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

this is the worst thing i have ever seen with my own two eyes and i want it removed from reality

[sources-and-debunks]

This is a makeup reference photo for the S5 TNG episode “Violations”, which features a parallel universe where JLP has hair.

[Memory Alpha]

[buckykingofmemes]

it’s only fireproof if you don’t have enough fire

[trappedinavelociraptor]

#life lessons from dioxygen difluoride

[duckbunny]

or to give its chemical structure: FOOF

[sources-and-debunks]

[W]hat happens next is just what you think happens: you run a mixture of oxygen and fluorine through a 700-degree-heating block. “Oh, no you don’t,” is the common reaction of most chemists to that proposal, “. . .not unless I’m at least a mile away, two miles if I’m downwind.” This, folks, is the bracingly direct route to preparing dioxygen difluoride, often referred to in the literature by its evocative formula of FOOF.

Things I Won’t Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride

[retrocatte]

[azcrowleyfell]

Are u shitting me afkgjfndjdjsj

[queerlittlecreature-deactivated]

THIS IS WHAT I SAID WHEN I READ THIS ARTICLE THIS IS JUST BAD FUCKING SCIENCE

[sources-and-debunks]

This caption is true. The above study is bad fucking science.

[skeletoncrimes]

[sources-and-debunks]

http://www.containerhomeplans.org/2015/04/what-i-wish-id-known-before-building-my-shipping-container-home/

This article contains 3 generally applicable answers, and 20 variants of “I did all my research beforehand” or “I wouldn’t have done this specific thing that only affects me”. 

S&D are full supporters of doing your research before hand, but suspect it makes lousy advice articles.

[stressedboyz]

[sources-and-debunks]

This is from the Japanese fashion label “Undercover”, part of their Spring/Summer 2016 collection “Evil Clown”. http://undercoverism.com/collections/detail.php?cat=WOMENS&n=08&c=311