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the aquarium said you are NOTHING compared to an eel

remember that time on tos when bones got scotty a prescription prostitute

he literally was like damn bro that sure was a traumatic experience u know what'll fix you? getting laid. that's my professional medical opinion

roboco-san

it didn't it got scotty possessed by the ghost of jack the ripper

keanu-reeves

speechless

heedra

not to oversimplify an extremely complex discipline but if i had to pick one tip to give people on how to have more productive interactions with children, especially in an instructive sense, its that teaching a kid well is a lot more like improv than it is like error correction and you should always work on minimizing the amount of ‘no, wrong’ and maximizing the amount of ‘yes, and?’ for example: we have a species of fish at the aquarium that looks a lot like a tiny pufferfish. children are constantly either asking us if that’s what they are, or confidently telling us that’s what they are. if you rush to correct them, you risk completely severing their interest in the situation, because 1. kids don’t like to engage with adults who make them feel bad and 2. they were excited because pufferfish are interesting, and you have not given them any reason to be invested in non-pufferfish. Instead, if you say something like “It looks a LOT like a tiny pufferfish, you’re right. But these guys are even funnier. Wanna know what they’re called?” you have primed them perfectly for the delightful truth of the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker

hiamigoman

icarus-suraki

Happy Easter.

sleepnoises

i saw a post on here in like. high school? about striking should from your vocabulary, replacing “i should” with “i want to,” “i don’t want to but i’ll feel better if i do,” “someone else wants me to but i have qualms.” whatever the should is plastering over, unearth. chip the obligation off of it and look at the facts.

anyway i’m posting about this because a friend said it was helpful to her and i WOULD beam this advice into every english-speaker’s brain with a mind ray if i had one. no shoulds!!!

sleepnoises

#you can do whatever you want forever (via @olreid)