Nov 1, 2024
Staff reference sheets 🥰
Staff reference sheets 🥰
Fun fact ask:
I work at an airport and thus I have to know and memorize many initials to decode destination - they're called IATA codes.
HND is the code for Haneda (Tokyo)
And I'm reminded of it every time I see it, which is cool!
That's actually really cool! OMG holiday ark to Haneda, everyone get on the plane!
One of the best moments of humanity: Acali Raft
A social experiment set up to see a group of people tear each other apart, and instead they all became best friends.
Some people site this as one of the proofs of humanity's dark nature, but it's way better than that. The dude who set this up lied and exaggerated about the group's behaviour because he expected them to get violent like animals and got pissy when they were just so nice to each other. So when the dude wrote stuff down that was like "they tore the shark apart and dug into it's insides...I hid the axe, fearing for my own safety....it it clear that this is only the beginning...I can see the darkness in their eyes...." and in reality they were just. Eating a shark. For food. Because they were hungry.
He would write about them becoming aggressive when they were defending themselves to him because he was being a massive racist asshole in an attempt to rile them up.
And these were people of different religions, different political beliefs, different backgrounds, different races. They were literally picked to be a mini world (and an additional thing for the women was...uh...nevermind). They became super close!! They said it was like a vacation, and said how disappointed they were because it was over. They stayed in touch and remained best friends until they died!!
Do you understand how cool that is?
They were literally set up to fight! The assole in charge (Santiago) would constantly goad them and make them angry, but they got mad at him! They stayed on good terms with each other, even when Santiago revealed secrets and tried to start rumors. They just got mad at him!
It was a social experiment inspired by ape behaviour seen in the wild.
It was a social experiment that was meant to reveal that humanity can be brutal and depraved, and instead it showed how kind and welcoming it can be!! That shit's cool as fuck!!
Yes they also plotted Santiago's murder but you would have too if you spent that long with the guy
i just learned this so now you have to
you know how if you're listening to music and you yawn it seems like the pitch shifts slightly?
it's not just your imagination. due to the physiology of the inner ear, yawning creates a temporary pressure difference to equalize the inside of the ear and outside air and this affects the cochlear fluid, which is responsible for pitch perception. hence yawn=perceived pitch shift
This is why I love my zoom lens
I heard elk calling across the valley and spotted something moving. The first photo is what I saw and the dot is the elks location. The second photo is my lens max and the last is cropped even closer in. Obviously this length doesn't produce good photos but the reach is cool for observing animals far far away. I have a Nikkor 200-500mm with a Nikon D500 making it actually a 300-750mm due to the crop factor.
Steve is both french and Italian hc let go!!
Okay so I keep seeing steve being part Italian (most likely on his mothers side) which I love. I imagine his mums family moved to the US when she was young, moving out to Indiana where she then started to gain popularity through beauty pageants, catching the eye of Steve's dad.
Now onto the french part! Steve's grandfather was a wealthy American businessman, and on a business trip to france he met a pretty young woman who after finding out hed gotten her pregnant, promptly married and sent back to his home in America before joining the war. Making Steve's father half french.
Since his parents are barely around, his grandparents on his fathers side both having past when he was younger along with his mothers father, his nonna being made to move back to italy when he was 8. Not many people realised steve could speek 3 languages because he didnt have anyone to speek to in them.
Robin (who prides herself on speaking 4 languages fluently and can basically learn the basics in other languages if she tryed) sometimes mutters to herself if French or Italian (also spanish but that one isnt relevant rn)
So imagine her suprise when the party just had an encounter with some bigot, hopper and joyce quickly dealing with the guy (no ones a dick to their kids) and robin from where she stands next to steve, whispers under her breath "Nique ta mère- vattela a piglaire in culo" (fuck your mother- French- and Take it up the ass - Italian- if my Google search is to be correct)
Which makes steve burst out laughing because no way robin planned him understanding her but be could definitely agree with the insults. Everyones really confused but steve cant stop laughing bc everyones bewildered faces just made it alot more funnier to him, (had they seriously not notice his ranting in Italian while he cooked? He swears hes openly flirted in French too!! did they seriously not notice until now??)
Finally he calms down enough to just stare at robin with a massive grin and say, "Robbie did you seriously not know I'm part french and Italian?? I'm fluent in both languages!!" To which Robin's and the others are like "NO????"
"I swear I mentioned it during scoops!! I literally complained about how it could never compare to my Nonnas home made gelato! I flirt with girls in French ALL the time!! Half my cook books are in Italian, how did you guys not know???"
Anyway Robin couldnt believe she had missed such a big thing they had in common, when she had practically been living with steve for months.
got my blood taken and I asked the phlebotomist if she could stick the needle through my scars if she had to (my veins are hard to find and my usual spot had scars on it) she told me she could. WHAT??? I didnt even fucking know that. I thought like that was dangerous or something. I don’t know why but that’s just what I thought. I felt lowkey stupid like I should’ve known that.. whatever