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cherryhatter-deactivated2015072

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

drtanner

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

toomerrymaiden

And mine!

997

this bitch is so iconic fr

toomerrymaiden

And I don't want to eat any of them!

jkottke

The Color Game. “Humans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. We’ll show you five colors, then you’ll try and recreate them.” I scored 39/50 but got a perfect score on one color.

znj

trickstertime

I know I just reblogged this but the idea of recreating art from your ancestors FIFTEEN THOUSAND years later is quite beautiful. Like, imagine someone in the year 17,025 recreating art you did just cuz they like it.

You may have liked your artwork or you may have been like 'meh, not my best work', but literal hundreds of generations after you died, a person speaking a language you cannot understand, living in a future so alien to you that you couldn't possibly imagine it, made a sculpture of your art and shared it with thousands and thousands of people on a communication network that uses lightening inside flattened rocks and invisible waves of light that travels to where the stars live and back. And they all love it. Everyone who sees it is like 'aww, that's nice' or 'holy shit I love this'.

They never knew. They, their kids, and their kid's kids never knew that this would happen to that art.

Much the same as you'll never know if your fun little bits of art may survive a crazy long time and be loved by future people.

jellogram

Benson Boone sounds like the name of a guy in a folk song who gets gunned down for adultery and thrown in a river

jellogram

A cold mist blew through the streets of the town the night they gunned young Benson down. He'd laid with a woman who wasn't his wife and her husband decided he'd pay with his life. By the dark of the night and the light of the moon, into the river went poor Benson Boone.

zashamalkin

everythingfox

My sink is broken too

medievalreligiousfanatic

ursus-arctos-horribilis-chadder

Foul beast ate that adventurer whole, RIP

tastefullyoffensive

20 Pretentious Restaurants Serving Food On Literally Anything Buy A Plate

toomerrymaiden

From the great John Finnemore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX4KuEAYIYY

eatelonmusk-deactivated20231217

hmm no wikipedia i didn't know that. i mean that's pretty high praise tho how impressive could it beOH GODDAMNIT IT'S THE COOLEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE

archouai

[ID: screenshot of a Wikipedia factoid that reads, “Did you know that Script Ohio has been called one of the most impressive examples of American folk art in existence?”

The video shows the Ohio State University Marching Band performing its traditional Script Ohio routine, in which the drum major leads the band single-file to form an enormous cursive Ohio on the field. The crossovers require absolute precision timing. It is a FEAT. At the end, the drum major leads out a sousaphone player, who kind of high-kicks his way to dot the I. (Wikipedia calls it a “bounding goose-step.”) He gives a sweeping bow to each side of the stadium. The band then sings “Buckeye Battle Cry” while accompanied only by the sousaphone. Here’s the Wikipedia article, which has a much better description than mine. ]

madlori

So here's a better video of the OSU marching band's pregame rituals. The Script Ohio is how they start the game, after entering the field. If you watch while they're forming the script, you can spot the one lone sousaphone player who's not with the rest of them - that's the guy who's gonna dot the i. It's an honor to do it, usually given to seniors. Honestly it's a really impressive thing, and this is the LEAST impressive thing the band does during the game. Their halftime shows are legendary, most of them are also on YT.