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Everyone’s like “those Germans have a word for everything” but English has a word for tricking someone into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.
English has a lot more words created for very specific phenomena! It’s not just rick-rolling. Language is always evolving and it’s super interesting! Here’s a list of hyper-specific/untranslatable words in English.
Some of these are fucking wild.
I deadass forgot some of these existed
Robespierre guillotining the executioner after having guillotined everyone else in France by Anonymous
“Robespierre was an activist for the libertarians. He died through his own creation.
He went too far with his revolutionary ideas. He killed thousands of people, sending them to the guillotine, just because they still believed in the monarchial system Maximilien Robespierre wanted to get rid of so desperately.
He killed everybody that thought differently than him. He was the creator of the reign of terror and was eventually sent to the guillotine himself in 1794 after the French turned against him when their eyes opened and say what he had done. He didn’t even have a trial, and was beheaded faced upwards.”
Source: Some fucking thing on the always-reliable WikiAnswers
Well… fuck. This sounds exactly like that History Channel documentary where the narrator was rambling on hysterically about how “THE REVOLUTION EATS ITS OWN! MWAHAHAHAHA!” Where do I even begin?
Robespierre did not “create” the revolution. Seriously, guys. He didn’t just turn up to the Estates General one day and say “Hey guys, I was in the shower this morning when I had this really great idea called the French Revolution. We’ll kill the king and establish a republic. How about it?” Robespierre was simply an influential figure in the revolution; he was hardly its creator.
Robespierre never killed anyone just for disagreeing with him. I’m saying this because for a fact, Robespierre personally interceded on the behalf of about 28,000 confessed royalists despite the more radical members of the Committee of Public safety wanting them executed. Remember, these are confessed royalists. They’re not your average Pierre or Louis going around saying “Um, I think we might be taking this revolution thing a bit too far…” No, these people who were essentially traitors to the revolutionary government… and Robespierre saved them. Wait, what?! Robespierre actually saved royalists? Why, that might just be conclusive evidence that HE DIDN’T HAVE PEOPLE EXECUTED FOR SIMPLY DISAGREEING WITH HIM!
Robespierre was not the “supreme dictator of France”. People keep forgetting that France did not actually have a leader at this time. The National Assembly had a couple hundred deputies that collectively made policies. The Committee of Public Safety had about 12 other people in it; it wasn’t just Robespierre calling the shots.
Before we go any further, let me introduce you (a little too late) to a few of the other members: Billaud-Varenne, Collot d’Herbois and Fouché. These were some of the people who were responsible for many of the bloody excesses of the revolution, including the executions of 2,000 Lyonnaise rebels and the massacres in the Vendée. All of them were condemned by Robespierre because, you know, he wasn’t a big fan of genocide, and he wanted them brought to justice for their crimes. However, he couldn’t because Robespierre wasn’t the supreme dictator of France and he couldn’t just throw people in jail.
More evidence of Robespierre not being a dictator is that he proposed a Committee of Clemency in an attempt to curb the amount of innocents being thrown in jail or being executed. However, his proposal was rejected by the Committee of Public Safety because again, Robespierre wasn’t the supreme dictator of France and no one had to listen to him if they didn’t want to.
Seriously, at this point, we could even argue that Robespierre being a dictator would have been a vastly better situation for France to be in since he would have been able to deal with people like Billaud, Collot and Fouché.
Robespierre did not create the Reign of Terror. Similarly to my first point, Robespierre didn’t just turn up to the Committee of Public Safety one day and say “Hey guys, I was bathing in the blood of slain children this morning when I had this really great idea called the Reign of Terror. We’ll kill everyone who disagrees with us. How about it?”
The number of legal executions during the Reign of Terror was at about 17,000 and the number of unsanctioned summary executions was at around 25,000, which would bring the total death toll to about 42,000. That means that through Robespierre’s intervention on behalf of the 28,000 royalists and the other thousands he spared, the numbers add up to him essentially halfing what could have been the death toll of the Reign of Terror. And remember the Committee of Clemency that Robespierre proposed? Last time I checked, people who start reigns of terrors don’t try to prevent the bloodshed of innocents.
Robespierre was not executed because “the people of France opened their eyes”. If you don’t know the even the basics of the events leading up to 9 Thermidor, then you need to shut the fuck up and do some reading.
Long story short, Robespierre was executed because he threatened to bring people like Billaud, Collot and Fouché to justice and fearing for their lives, they plotted his downfall. Admittedly, Robespierre made a tactical blunder in which he threatened to expose them for their crimes but didn’t give the names, which meant that everyone in the National Assembly was shit scared since they didn’t know if they were one of the people to be exposed. That is why members of the Assembly were so “happy” when Robespierre was arrested on the 9 Thermidor and subsequently guillotined. The Thermidorians then went off to ruin Robespierre’s reputation, pinning all of the blame for the revolution’s excesses on him and his supporters in order to save their own skin. This, combined with all of the royalist propaganda and the shock of the French Revolution, has contributed to the totally misinformed opinions of secondary school students today.
So there. I’m too tired and sleepy to continue this post, and I want to eat food. If it’s not too much to ask for, I don’t want to ever see another one of these fucking posts characterizing Robespierre as the love-child of Stalin and Hitler ever again.
THANK YOU.
I am absolutely fed up with people taking misinterpretation of Robespierre from the History Channel and other mainstream history outlets as the ultimate fact. He is, perhaps, one of the most misunderstood people in European history and it’s so incredibly important to tell people the truth about his life and the French Revolution.
maybe it’s because they’re less necessary now that digital photography exists but idk why nobody here ever talks about darkrooms when they’re like, the ultimate liminal space
one time i fell asleep in a darkroom and when i woke up i was genuinely convinced for a second that i’d died and gone to hell
#what a gentleman
flex on em
EXCUSE ME?
That reveal though
the russian commentary is truly the best part though
“He’s huge!! So chubby!”
“Is he gonna goddamn dive already for fuck’s sake?”
“Just let him catch his breath, let him catch his breath!”
@shredsofhappiness please watch this
Everyone tried to straighten Rami Malek’s tie, but…
Mom: *says casual offensive comment with no regard for how it will make me feel*
Me: *sticks up for myself*
Mom: how could you?? Did you even think about how that would make me feel?
Me: *looks into the camera like I'm on the office*
Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
WORKING CLASS SOLIDARITY
My dad told me recently that the most important public health workers are garbage collectors and janitors. So much of our health relies on a clean environment. These people do some of the most important work in society. If we learned in dirty public environments full of garbage, we’d all be sick. I cannot thank these people enough for the valuable work that they do.
Shout out to all garbage collectors, janitors and housekeepers!
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The Marvel Equivalent of Disney Princess Animal Sidekicks
#chris evans #in where he is actually steve rogers
#when is chris evans not steve rogers though
#when casting is perfect I begin to wonder about Marvel #do they secretly grow these people on farms #let them loose on the world for a while to establish lives #and then cast them as the role they were grown for
I have
no idea
what you’re
talking about
i do believe this is my fifth time reblogging this
apart form sebastian though he goes from this to this
seb’s the weird cousin
@justaweirdthoughtstuff
This is amazing oml
Seb’s the fanboy they grew to connect with the audience
@snowyseba This explains everything!
I’ve only seen this post in screenshots on pinterest. I love it.
I think you missed the other fanboy…
Love this
Everybody says Seb isn’t like Bucky… but he IS. He’s Bucky without a mask on. Bucky’s always wearing some sort of mask. Even around Steve. Seb is what Bucky would be like if he’d had the chance to just ~be~.
UH THIS
Um we’re forgetting someone…
ITS FINALLY ON MY DASH YESSS
Not to forget our “Wizard”:
Aldjaksnana
I’ve found it. I’ve found the perfect post.
it’s on my dash jdnckdmd
these dorks lmaoo
I love everyone omg they’re all so amazing???
Don’t forget
Chris looks so hot in that first gif set
Omg I found THE original post! Holy shit I’ve only ever seen screenshots of this!
This post pops up on my dash every few months and I will never not reblog it.
This is too good to not reblog
Everybody see this, this is the quality trash I came to Tumblr in the first place.
so hey who else was taught as a kid that “”””wanting attention”””” in any way was wrong and shameful and has grown up unable ask for help or support even in great distress/suffering
Parent: why do you never come to me for help
(two days later)
Me: I need help with something
Parent: CAN’T YOU SEE I’M BUSY WHY CAN’T YOU DO ANYTHING BY YOURSELF GOD YOU’RE SO-
Me: never mind
And don’t forget the You Can Tell Me Anything (Except Things I Don’t Want to Hear)™.
Bonus round of You Can Tell Me Anything (But If I Don’t Like It You’re In Big Trouble Even If You’re Asking For Help)
I’m Always Here For You! (Until You Upset Me In Any Way)™.
Some more ridiculous outfits on IW folks, this time featuring my favourite senior citizens
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“wow you’re so mature for your age!!?!?!?!!?!!?!?!!!!”
thanks, i raised me myself
Also see: “aren’t you too old now to be acting like this??!?!?!??!?!?!????”
i never had a real childhood
The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.
oh shit
Omg the payoff for this post was incredible
Did the cat just give–
