The View From My Rock

He/Him Twitter refugee

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND

[tuesdayisfordancing]

I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody: 

zeug·ma ˈzo͞oɡmə/

noun

a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).

ISN’T THAT AWESOME??

[professorsparklepants]

#in english class in high school my teacher had us write our own zeugmas in class#and one guy came up with ‘he fell from her favor… and the window’#i am forever looking for opportunities to use that one

[siesiegirl]

She dropped her dress and inhibitions at the door.

[crumbvulet]

What’s this? My favorite rhetorical device showing up on my dashboard?

[thranduilland]

IT HAS A NAMEEEE!! OH MY GOD!!!

[candiikismet]

I LOVE THIIIIIS!!!

[orriculum]

One I’ve loved was “on their weekend trip they caught three fish and a cold”

I love these they’re like a pun and a metaphor wrapped up into one neat phrase

[jasnakisapa]

@jwlzrulezz rhetorical device of the day

[thatscumbag7]

I LOVE LANGUAGE SO MUCH

[straightboyfriend]

[bogleech]

This is a the funniest fucking post I have seen in a year because first the spelling and backstory makes you think he got a role as one of the beatles, and then after the preposterous reveal she says that isnt actually a problem, and I don't think anything more could be funnier than the actual post cutting it off as she makes it all about the couch. Comedy writers please study this.

[baravaggio]

you. american adult with a drivers license. can you tell me who has the right of way at a 4 way stop

[bill-nye-official-blog]

Me

[risariba]

how to tie a tie in 1 minute lesson by Darius

[shamblingshitpickle-deactivated]

PSA: journalists aren’t supposed to put names in the headlines if the person isn’t a public figure. It’s not a matter of maliciously not giving credit

[orson-bigdaddy-krennic]

^^^as a journalist, this is something that bothers me ALL THE TIME

[thalassarche]

A friend of mine on Twitter explained this the other day, so to elaborate based on what she said: If the name is not instantly recognizable the way a public figure is, then putting the name in the headline isn’t going to bring about any sort of recognition or connection in the reader, and doesn’t do much to draw the reader into the story. But something like “local teen” does create a connection by tying the person into the community, and encourages the reader to learn more about what this local teen has done. The name will be in the article itself, after the headline has done its job at getting the reader to look into it.

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

It’s worth noting too that usually, according to the Inverted Pyramid writing style used for journalism where the most important information is shared first, the person’s name is usually in the first sentence of the first paragraph.

Whenever I see someone get up at arms over a headline that says “Local Teen” and the first comment is “SAY THEIR NAME” I’m always like “hey, thanks for telling every journalist present that you don’t read articles and just skim headlines.” Really makes us feel appreciated.

[zandorv]

I think this Onion headline illustrates the point pretty well

[thatscumbag7]

I’m back, now with even less shame!

[gluetun]

CLEAR SKIN IS SO ATTRACTIVE I’D CHOP A TOE OFF FOR CLEAR SKIN FOREVER

[windows-98]

[boysbooksandbandsohmy]

I swear to fucking god writing a post on this website is like talking to a fucking genie! Better be specific as shit or some smart as is gonna ruin your life

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[crafty-butch]

conspiracy theory: people on other social media sites keep saying tumblr is dead so they can mine us for resources without anyone else going to the source

[crafty-butch]

half the comments on any given tumblr screenshot post are like "wow I miss tumblr, shame it died" and the screenshot is from, like, last tuesday

[spartanlocke]

Inspired

[halflifegifs]

Honest to god I could write entire books on the fucked up little micro societies that exist solely in isolated gmod servers

[spooks-burgerton]

my buddy and I were crawling some servers on gmod one day, just dinking around and being mild nuisances. we found one server where everyone had some ridiculous rank/title–various mythical creatures and wizards and stuff. We bothered someone badly enough (probably made a big mess of barrels or something) that we got put in jail, but we weren’t really interested in playing gmod as much as just goofing off, so we hung around the server for a while. the residents were chatting pretty casually, until someone, in a frantic tone, says “Janus is coming! We need to get this place cleaned up!” Janus logs in, and he has the title of God. Someone sheepishly asks “hey what’s up Janus?” Janus replies with an ear-splittingly loud buzzing static noise that drowns every sound on the server out. me and my buddy absolutely lost our minds

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[d0nn0-deactivated20150125]

Finish this christmas song! Dashing through the

[lorddarkfetus-deactivated201503]

supermarket hurredly, i need to find syrup. i need all the syrup i can buy. enough to fill 4 bathtubs. im going to cover myself in syrup and slide around the ground to acheive maximum velocity. get ready world im coming your way fast

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[whitepeopletwitter]

[solitarelee]

also you CAN just get a new one

[solitarelee]

a FAMILY. you can get a new FAMILY. i must clarify, you can not get a new appendix you can get a new FAMILY, 

[thefuzzydave]

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

[stupidbeecandle]

I lived and worked in a lighthouse at a previous job.  There was a thick line painted in a circle around the shack where the fog signal was kept.  The line represented how close you could get to the fog signal without experiencing physical harm in the form of eardrums shattering or worse.

Even in the house it was LOUD.  Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval.  You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off.  It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.

At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks.  People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.

One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit.  It did.  Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that.  People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.

That said Id do it all again, I really do treasure those days

[glowingghosty]

[crossstitchworld]

my first finished stitch, just needs a frame! by mls2md

[whitepeopletwitter]

[thatscumbag7]

You would assume that the person that gets cucked by the cucker would be the cuckee, but I guess life just can’t be that easy.

[tastefullyoffensive]

[ruubesz-draws]

Godzilla Ultima (aka SP Godzilla) is new here, and he ain’t messing around

I mean, yes, Godzilla vs Kong is less than two weeks away, but the hype for Singular Point is also there!

Also, the date is quite close to the release date of SP… Coincidence? I think not!

*DO NOT REPOST*