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20 pretty fond of coffee and bagels I want to die and live at the same time Beginning green witch Sideblog @thelittlestgreenwitch

[aspergersissues]

[saiyanqueenreads]

Yes.  Just yes.

[cameoappearance]

"I wasn't confused, I had a very clear and completely incorrect idea of what you wanted."

[yd12k]

'I did ask for clarification and you got angry at me instead of clarifying' is even worse

[coldswarkids]

im tired of discourse.  im right.  no you may not know my opinions

[daily-garfield]

03/02/79

[m86-deactivated20171116]

garfie baby no!!!!

[hamletthedane]

“There are other forces at work in this world besides the will of evil.”

[mysimpsonsblogisgreaterthanyours]

[pokemonpika77]

Guys, this is season ONE of the Simpsons.

[vilus685-deactivated20200321]

Hidden Figures (2016) dir. Theodore Melfi

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[ithelpstodream]

how to tip

[trekkie-lover]

If you do this get the fuck off my blog

[snowconelostinthesauce]

Please understand that they gave a 33% tip, in cash instead of on a card, to increase the odds that the server could keep all of it.

[fatale-distraction]

What they mean by ‘taxation is theft’ is that servers are taxed on the ASSUMPTION that they will be tipped. If they don’t make those tips, they get taxed on them anyway. It is literally theft. By leaving cash and not writing it on the receipt, they’ve allowed the server the option of quietly slipping that 20 into their pocket and therefore not being taxed on it.

[southern-slayed]

Thank you…i wish more people knew this

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

Y'all I wanna know what you think of something

There's currently an argument happening on Brazilian Twitter and I wanna know your opinions.

So, there's this famous Brazilian artist called Romero Britto who's currently going viral on Twitter because a woman destroyed one of his pieces right in front of him.

Her husband bought her the piece and she owned a restaurant, where Romero Britto happened to be with some friends. He tried bargaining for an R$ 8 coffee (less than 2 dollars!), even though he's a VERY wealthy artist, and was really rude to the woman's employees. So, she told him off for being an asshole and then destroyed the piece in front of Romero Britto himself.

Do you think that's:

A. Queen behaviour

Or B. Disrespectful?

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

I'm in love with this headline

Woman who broke piece by Romero Britto says she doesn't regret it: "I'd do it again"

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

Y'all, sister fuckin SMASHED that shit!

[momo-de-avis]

Missing here is that when she smashed the piece she yelled at this tacky artist: "Treat my people with respect"

The work was paid for. It was her property. He lost 0$. She went there specifically to defend her workers.

Absolute queen behaviour 👑

[spitblossoms]

[libraford]

While out on my adventures the other day, I stopped at the farmers market to get some of their exceptional peach cider and a group of four college age girls all got out of an SUV, dressed somewhat identically (white face mask, gray or white top, dark bottoms, uggs) and headed up to the barn.

One of them shouted 'PUMPKIN' and pointed to one of the 90lb pumpkins they had out front and all of them ran to see it up close, taking turns with their phones to get a selfie each.

They were absolutely overjoyed to see pumpkins, turning every squash they could find over and over and taking pictures of it. They must have taken a hundred photos total.

It is entirely possible that this was their first time visiting a farm.

So I got my gallon of cider, some honey, and some fudge and those girls were in the line, each with a pumpkin held about belly height like they were six months pregnant with it.

Well... sort of.

Three of them were in line like that and the fourth of them ran up with a package of fudge. "Ladies look! Pumpkin Spice Fudge!"

"Oh my god where??"

So two of them went back to the fudge and got more fudge, got back in line.

Then another one went missing and came back with a bag. "Oh my god! Pumpkin Spice Popcorn???"

"I didnt think you could DO that!!"

"Where???

"Girls, we need a cart!"

This happened ad hominem until I think they had every single pumpkin spice item in the barn: soap, candles, taffy, cakes, breads, mixes... it filled a cart and was easily $300 worth of pumpkin spice stuff plus their pumpkins and they were so excited to have it all. It was treasure. It was a bounty. They had hunted well and their stores would be stocked for the winter.

And on the one hand I'm rolling my eyes because pumpkin spice is just... cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove. But on the other hand.. they were so excited.

Like they were so excited to see pumpkins in a place that grows pumpkins and not at a grocery store and I suppose the takeaway is:

May you find unequaled joy in something as simple as a pumpkin in a place where pumpkins grow.

[graventusk]

does anyone know a single redeeming fact about new hampshire? is anything good about it?

[graventusk]

how tragic that a place so wretched should be blessed

[butchniqabi]

men are so annoying, "women belong at home in the kitchen blah blah" and YOU belong in the workshop making me a fuckin table! why arent you forging steel or working metal? go out to the fields jebediah! the wheat needs to be reaped!

[iwontbequiet]

men sitting on their asses and telling women to assume their traditional roles is laughable. lol go back to work at the coal mine and build me a house

[profetens-apenbaring]

ill make you a sandwich after you go to war and die

[artofjoohei]

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

[wearecelestialwarlock]

@we-are-knight

Feels like this strikes a sweet half-way point! \o/

[hapalopus]

Things that actually happened in Ben 10:

Ben’s cousins are called Gwen and Ken. The only one to ever comment on this is Kevin, son of Devin, father of Devlin, who has no right to make fun of other people’s names.

Other than Ben 10, there’s Gwen 10 and Kevin 11, as well as at least 10 alternate versions of Ben himself, including Ben 23, Bad Ben, Mad Ben, RAT Ben, Nega Ben, two different versions of Ben 10000, and, unfortunately for him, No Watch Ben.

The writers love to play around with time travel, but to avoid paradoxes they have a character called Professor Paradox who just wipes everyone’s memories after every time travel

Ben once gave birth to roughly 10 moths

The entire universe and everything in it was destroyed, except for Ben who had to rebuild it from scratch to the best of his ability. No one remembers this except Ben and it was just a filler episode.

The universe destruction-and-rebuilding basically happened to explain any inconsistencies and design changes in the following seasons

There’s an alien called ‘The Worst’ whose only ability in combat is that he’s indestructible. He still feels all the pain, he just can’t die

When Kevin was 16 he wanted a special motor for his car, but to get it he had to best an alien princess in combat and marry her, so the mad lad just…. did it…. to get a motor…

Kevin, my beautiful, beautiful himbo, can assemble an alien gun in less than 10 seconds, but doesn’t know what TNT is.

There’s an order of medieval knights who captured an alien dragon cartographer and tried for 1000 years to kill him until he finally escaped

The Omnitrix fucked up, so Rath (the tiger alien) is naked for 13 seasons, before they finally fix it

I could honestly write a post like this just about Rath… His species are called Appoplexians (which is supposed to mean ‘overcome with rage’ but happens to also mean ‘internal bleeding’). Instead of shaking hands when they meet, they engage in a wrestling match until one has established dominance. They believe any problem can be solved by hitting it or “hitting it a lot”. They’re beautifully dumb.

There’s a planet called Anur Transyl where vampire, werewolf, ghost, zombie, frankenstein’s monster, and mummy aliens all live together

“The world’s largest rubber-band ball” is actually a prison for electric aliens

One of the recurring villains is a rogue veterinarian who uses his education to create mutant hamsters, frogs, and parakeets.

There are at least three in-universe tv shows about Ben and his aliens

Ben’s grandpa has fucked at least two aliens, one of which is a lizard

X-Men like mutant humans exist. It’s just a thing. One of them is a giant crocodile.

Pluto was destroyed as a throwaway joke in season 5, so it just doesn’t exist in their universe anymore

Ben is addicted to smoothies and he once drank a meat smoothie.

A lot of cryptids and mysteries are real, including Krakken, Mole People, Chupacabra, the Loch Ness Monster, the Jersey Devil, the Bermuda Triangle, and Yeti. Sasquatch also exists, somewhat, but he’s an electric alien. Most of these are never addressed.

Ben’s canon wife only fell in love with him because one of his aliens is a werewolf and she’s a furry

[call-me-poncho]

Not gonna mention that said himbo Kevin was originally a horrible villain 11 year old who was totally ok with killing an entire subway of people for money and then endangering hundreds of innocent lives just to besmirch one persons name in the first series, and then he just shows up in the second series over it and really nice. Turns into the best character of the show

[hapalopus]

To be fair, it turned out later he was high 24/7 as a kid - he was absorbing energy (mainly electrical energy) which is really really unhealthy for his species. He only overcame this because of an older mentor figure he met while in prison who taught him mindfulness and meditation and to absorb matter instead of energy. Almost went berserk again when the prison guards murdered his mentor, but that’s a longer story. My boy Kevin’s had a rough life.

[magnumpicactus-deactivated20230]

I’m sorry what do you mean by “his species”

[teaboot]

Wait what's a buildings fire evacuation plan if you aren't supposed to use the elevator to get down

[lazodiac]

You go down the stairwell/fire escape. Is that weird?

[teaboot]

But what if you have a walker or a wheelchair??

[durpacerangerrogjro]

in america at least, in this situation, there isnt one. either your loved ones or the firemen can get you out using the emergency fire escapes or stairs, or you die 

[teaboot]

That's fucking horrific, thank you

[official-lucifers-child]

“fun” little story:

last summer my friend who is an amazingly talented artist and i were in this super tall building, and she’s in a wheelchair and i’m pushing her around the room. it’s an art exhibit and some of her art was chosen to be showcased there and so it’s all fine and dandy until suddenly an alarm starts going off

a FIRE ALARM

everyone starts running for the stairs and my friend just looks at me with this forlorn look on her face

“i can’t go down the stairs”

but i’m a stubborn bitch “i’ll carry you”

“what about my chair? it’s too expensive for me to be able to get another one if i can’t get this one back”

“i’ll carry that too”

and i did. we went to the stairs (by then most people from our floor were gone) and i lifted her up in a fireman’s carry over my shoulder and then lifted her chair up and used the ridiculous amount of adrenaline that was coursing through my veins to make it down approximately 20 half-flights of stairs until we met some people exiting lower floors, one of which who kindly took the chair. I changed positions so i was holding my friend bridal-style which was, somehow, easier and the person who took her wheelchair (with her permission to handle it of course) accompanied me to the ground floor and then out the doors

basically there is no real protocol for people who can’t use the stairs in an emergency. it’s up to the people with them, if anyone, to help them or the person to somehow make it down the stairs alone, unassisted

thank fuck that it was just a faulty alarm system, because if i was unable to carry her down those stairs and the building was on fucking fire???? then i don’t know what would have happened to her, but i don’t think it would have been very good.

it’s fucking ridiculous and ableist to the absolute max.

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

I use a cane. When I did a day-long fire safety training at my northeast American university (UMass Amherst), I asked that exact same question: “what am I supposed to do if the fire alarm goes off and I’m in my lab on the twelfth floor?” 

the fire marshal hemmed and hawed for a while and then said to take the elevator- you’re supposed to leave it free for the fire department to use and they want able-bodied people out fast not waiting for elevators. if the fire alarm has just gone off the building probably hasn’t suffered enough structural damage to make using the elevator dangerous, and modern elevator wells are heavily reinforced. many large and high-trafficked buildings on my campus have fire rated elevators that link in with the fire alarm system so they won’t let you off on a floor with a possible fire. 

if the elevator isn’t working, wait in the stairwell and call the fire department to let them know where you are. modern stairwells are also heavily reinforced- it might not be pleasant but modern building code usually requires fire-resistant stairwell doors in office and big residential buildings, also to help firefighters get in and out safely. older buildings’ stairwells may or may not be retrofitted with fire-resistant doors but a stairwell is generally the safest place to wait if you can’t get out. 

what happened to your friend was horrible, and i’m very glad you were there to help her out, but you can absolutely use the elevator to evacuate if it’s not shut down. those don’t-use-the-elevator rules are for abled people.  

[tisfan]

This is GOOD TO KNOW. why do they not tell people this??

[ravynfyre]

Okay, firefighter here. If you are not physically able to use the stairs, and the elevator is NOT compromised, use the elevator. But you MUST be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that the elevator is NOT compromised before you get into it, because there is always the chance that once you get into it, you may not exit it. Power could go out. The elevator may actually BE compromised and you just couldn’t tell from where you were until you were in there, and it suddenly shuts down on you. Something else could happen. 

Understand that once you enter the elevator, you could POTENTIALLY be taking your life into your hands there.

It is NOT LIKELY, to be perfectly honest. It’s only in a pretty catastrophic scenario - think the Twin Towers, USA, on September 11th - that the elevators will be compromised and out of service. But there is a NOT ZERO PERCENT CHANCE and you need to understand that and accept it.

As for leaving the elevators free for the firefighters, okay, here’s the deal. Unless your nearest fire station is literally right next door? Your first on scene fire truck is NOT likely to be there on scene and needing that elevator before you get to the ground. It takes us TIME to find the address, gear up, and drive to the building. Then we need to hoof it into where the elevators even ARE, so YOU HAVE TIME to use the elevator to get down to the ground floor... BUT ONLY IF THERE’S NOT A RUSH ON THE ELEVATOR! And THAT is WHY we don’t tell people this shit. That’s WHY we tell people to NEVER USE THE ELEVATOR... because every self-entitled asshole will use it because they don’t feel like walking, and then put YOU in danger by delaying the elevator’s arrival to you.

IF, however, the elevator IS compromised, or you just can’t get it to come for you, or whatever, and you either don’t have anyone with you who has the adrenaline fueled BALLS to be able to toss you over their shoulder and hoof it down the stairs with you - because, let’s face it, that is RARE AS FUCK, then HERE IS WHAT YOU DO:

You call 911 and tell the call taker that you are in the building that has a fire alarm going off, and you are not able to evacuate because of a physical disability, and you tell them what floor you are on, and EXACTLY what stairwell you are waiting at. And the very FIRST thing that the firefighters are going to do once they arrive, if it is, indeed, a REAL emergency, and not a false alarm, is come get your ass and bring you down. Whether that means carrying you down the stairs, or whether that means locking out the elevators so that no one else can override them and coming to get you themselves, they WILL come get you FIRST THING if it is a real event. And if it is a false alarm? You will probably be the first person who is not involved with the building to know, because the call-taker is going to stay on the line with you until you are under someone’s care and out of danger, or until the scene has been sorted out as real or false, and you are out of danger that way.

These are pretty standard operations in the fire service throughout the United States. There may be some minor variations based on specific municipalities, but, for the most part, this is pretty typical: LIFE BEFORE PROPERTY. So, as long as SOMEONE knows where you are - hence why you call 911 - Firefighters will come get you. You are NOT alone, and you have NOT been abandoned. I PROMISE. It’s like, our whole reason for doing the shit we do: to save lives and to break shit. Sometimes, we get lucky enough to do both at the same time.

High rise fires suck ass, and I always hated them. But the very FIRST thing I asked anytime we got one was if we had “any entrapments” - which is what we call anyone who could not self-evacuate for ANY reason. We ain’t leaving you behind. And yes, your friend who doesn’t have the stamina to carry you down can stay with you, too. Because I would never ask that of someone, honestly. 

Also, just a little FYI... MOST fire alarms are false alarms. Not to make anyone complacent or anything, but, yeah. Most of them are either system malfunctions, someone accidentally hit a pull station, or someone burned popcorn in a break room. So don’t let a fire alarm freak you out until you need it to - by smelling or seeing smoke or flames. 

[gentle--riot]

i have had multiple nightmares about this very thing because NOBODY BOTHERS TO ACTUALLY TELL WHEELCHAIR USERS THIS STUFF

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