Sock Knight

Bad jokes and half baked takes on popculture

[raindrop2401]

Having your favourite genre be rpgs suuuuuuucks sometimes. Like "Oh boy I wanna replay Dragon Quest IX. It's been like seven years since I last played it" lol loser. That's like 40 hours of your life when you still got a huge backlog to get around to. Get fucked.

[stackofsnakes]

Been a while since i've last sat down and spend a good couple hours reading. I got work, i got deadlines to keep and at the end of the day i've got finite energy. Made it to page 50 of House of Leaves in days. Teenage me would've gotten halfway through the book day one

[homunculus-argument]

I don't even know whose job it was to teach people this, but did they just stop teaching people what a bicycle bell means?

One would think that hearing a very distinct, clearly audible, reasonably loud and rapidly approaching sound of any kind would make any reasonable mammal turn to look at the direction of the sound, just purely by instinct?? If a deer heard something nearby go DING DING DING DING DING DING at its general direction, it would at least look up to see whether the source of the sound is a threat or not? Just a quick "is that something I need to be concerned about?" type of glance.

The enshittification of pedestrians has reached the point where they have less traffic survival skills than deer.

[homunculus-argument]

How exactly does one slow down and weave around pedestrians who are blocking the entire way in a formation in which it would be impossible to pass them even on foot without elbowing one or two?

[deepestangelcollective]

It is legitimately the drivers sole responsibility to slow down to the speed of the slowest traffic in a mixed traffic scenerio. Thats why parking lots have a 5mph speed limit. If you don't have time to slow down without hitting someone that is your fault.

Turning to look at a bycicle bell so they can see where you are before moving out of the way is normal and expected.

[homunculus-argument]

The fact that they are not turning to look at a bycicle bell so they can see where I am, not to even think of moving out of the way, is the entire problem at hand.

[stackofsnakes]

Pedstrians and bicycles should really have their own respective infrastructures but reality is that they don't. Cars hog all the space and budget and the rest of us just have to make do with what we get. The least we can do is be considerate to each other. Like, get out of each others ways and perhaps stop walking in these stupid bigass formations. You can't have a three, four, five way conversation that way anyway and that shit is annoying even as a somewhat faster walker

[writing-prompt-s]

You and your archenemy would have killed each other by now, but every time, a different threat interrupts your fight and you two have to team up to stop it. This is now at least the fifth time it has happened, and you are both getting really mad.

[stackofsnakes]

It's hate. Genuine hate. As long as the other is still part of this world there's little sense to go on, a world without the only desirable outcome. Unfortunately, god's really into enemies to lovers

[anarchistmemedistro]

[stackofsnakes]

Nice sentiment but no, it is a lie. I get it, the first two decades of your life every adult is hellbent on instilling the idea that lying is always bad, but it ain't in itself. Protecting somebody with a lie is an unambiguously good moral deed.

[stackofsnakes]

Gotta feel sorry for Childerich III. Dude came in at the end of a dying line that had already been ursurped by their mayors, was only briefly on he throne because it was politically convenient for a minute and then they took his crown, shaved his head and locked him into a monestary. And then the son of the guy who took your crown gets to be one of if not the most relevant kings of the early middle ages in europe

[verylostpenguin]

Personally I love books that put the footnotes at the bottom of the page instead of at the end of the book so that I don’t have to keep flipping back and forth like an absolute barbarian

[stackofsnakes]

I'm reading the vita karoli magni right now and it's so annoying

[stackofsnakes]

So, my gfs austrian grandma is going to go on a daytrip to the chiemsee in bavaria but she doesn't know what the weather is going to be like there, so what does she do? Well, she asks me because i just so happen to be the only german she knows. Famously, us germans possess the inate esoteric knowledge of all weather within our borders, entirely incomprehensible to the austrian mind

[femdommunismforthemasses-deacti]

[randomencounters]

Encounter: the Magdeburg Unicorn

[mikkeneko]

[vocabulary-altering-posts]

CHARACTER ADDED TO PARTY!

[stackofsnakes]

I know so many people who are regularly in Magdeburg and none of them ever went to see it. Next time i'm home i gotta correct that

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[crazy-pages]

Sometimes you try to write one research paper and your subjects inform you that you will be writing an entirely different one.

[stackofsnakes]

Probably a bitter pill to swallow when the you're pushed into a new line of research that probably more interesting than the old one but you were already really commited to the subject at hand

[stackofsnakes]

Fuck You. *unsponges your bob*

[stackofsnakes]

Tumblr is such an experience. Nowhere else can you log on after beinggone for weeks and find that a post of yours has gone popular after two years of not being interacted with whatsoever

[picatchu]

[picatchu]

not many know that the d in various acronyms stands for dragon. for example mdd = major dragon dragon. attention! dragon! hyperactive dragon!! i wish there was more awareness as it's often overlooked

[stackofsnakes]

dragon nragon dragon

[anneemay]

[nyancrimew]

this is GREAT two sentence horror actually

[dogrose-sprout]

Fuck I don't get it. And I don't see the explanation in the comments. Can you please tell me what's it about. I love Sumer but I literally can't dig anything out of my mind

[stackofsnakes]

Some sumerian stone tablets have turned out to be a complaint about the quality of the copper of a merchant called Ea Nasir and now he's kind of a meme. It's really more of a joke/reference than a horror story

[stackofsnakes]

It's honestly incredible how useless my left hand is. Tasks that i don't even think about with my right hand become an entire thing with my left. It's equally odd how bad my right hand is at tasks usually delegated to the left hand

[stackofsnakes]

In theory i'm on pain meds. In practive i'm in pain

[saturn-flowr]

slime teacher: I want this essay in 12 point font Slimes New Roman

[koboldening]

Robber teacher: I want this essay in 12 point font Crimes New Roman

[nugget-gender]

wall teacher: i want this essay in 12 point font Climbs New Roman

[mx-m29]

citrus teacher: i want this essay in 12 point font Limes New Roman

[forgotn1]

poetry teacher: I want this essay in 12 point Rhymes New Roman

[loumner]

horology teacher: i want this essay in 12 point times new roman

[cellaspider]

Mime teacher:

[mildlybizarrecorvid]

herb teacher: i want this essay in 12 point Thymes New Roman

[stackofsnakes]

Brewing teacher: i want this essay in 12 point Pints New Roman

[stackofsnakes]

Reflecting on all the things i do, it's remarkable that i have not seen the urgent treatment centre in this city sooner, tho i'm happy to report they're very efficient and well organized and if you're a very brave boy when they stitch you up, they even give you a tetanus shot