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[jt1674]

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[stroebe2]

Boards of Canada - Introit / Prophecy At 1420 MHz

​Directed by Robert Beatty

[typhonbaalhammon]

The effect of practicing my English mainly on the internet is that I can make some pompous arguments about international geopoliticis and forget the fucking word for “light switch”.

[typhonbaalhammon]

I have the same problem with Finnish but a billion times worse

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[sacred-portal]

[typhonbaalhammon]

[disorientation]

Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors

[voyaging-too]

An awkward thing is that Orbán is a fairly common last name in Hungary. Our new foreign minister and deputy prime minister is going to be another Orbán. Her campaign video includes her introducing herself to Donald Tusk, awkwardly saying "Anita Orbán, no relation. The name is just an accident." To which Donald Tusk says, in a sad, very tired voice: "My name is Donald."

[typhonbaalhammon]

Bet he'd never thought he would one day wish for the first association of his name to be the cartoon duck.

[voyaging-too]

An awkward thing is that Orbán is a fairly common last name in Hungary. Our new foreign minister and deputy prime minister is going to be another Orbán. Her campaign video includes her introducing herself to Donald Tusk, awkwardly saying "Anita Orbán, no relation. The name is just an accident." To which Donald Tusk says, in a sad, very tired voice: "My name is Donald."

[phantomleaves]

A STUDY OF DOLLS, 1897, Stanley G. Hall & A. Caswell Lewis

[marzipanandminutiae]

there's a myth that Victorian toy stores sold "kits" for staging doll funerals- perpetuated by no less than Caitlin Doughty, who is usually good at fact-checking, but that was in the early days of her blog -and I feel like this study is good for dispelling the idea

because why would it be studied if it was such a huge cultural phenomenon that the kits were sold in stores?

[mr-deep-downer]

[sailatina3]

[herecomesthementalmeltdown]

[threeninesfine]

The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.

—J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come

[cryptotheism]

I'm fascinated by how the formatting of different social media sites affect how text is read.

For instance, a line break on Tumblr indicates a new idea.

[cryptotheism]

But a reblog break indicates that time has passed.

[cryptotheism]

[neosatsuma]

[oneclickangel]

reblog if you're corny and insufferable

[typhonbaalhammon]

now I'm wondering if I'm corny.

[itmeblog]

So the fun part about GenZ slang being almost 100% AAVE is that I have a dictionary from 2001, from before I was old enough to even know how to use a dictionary, right? And this ain't that abridged shit this is the three columns 8 point font, pages made of tissue paper bound into a book that is 4-5 inches thick shit. You follow?

And there are all these reports on how new slang is and how to understand it and getting it wrong. BUT 2001 GOT ME

TWO THOUSAND AND ONE

[thatlittleegyptologist]

*looks into the camera like she's on the Office* Don't be an Egyptologist kids. The value people place on your years of translating a dead language and knowing a lot of cultural/historical background to ancient texts is basically so low that you will frequently have people who cannot read Hieroglyphs or know any more than the basics of Egyptian history suggest improvements to your translation of an ancient text.

[chongoblog]

*gathers all of the people in the world who write the number 7 with a little dash in the center of it so I can study them like little critters and find out what makes them do that*

[audpaints]

There’s actually a lot of history regarding the development writing systems and why there are different visual representations of numerals, but the short answer is: it’s regional, and you probably picked up how to make your numbers look based on your parents or your primary school teachers

[ruusverd]

I do it out of spite because in grade school a kids detective story identified the culprit by saying NO American wrote their sevens with a line and I thought that was super flimsy evidence and it made me so mad I started putting a line through my sevens so the fictional detective would be wrong and then kept doing it for several decades since.

[mikkeneko]

I do feel one can’t underestimate the “elementary school child taught themselves how to do this Out Of Spite” crowd

[santas-clauze]

every western movie ever made: The wild west is dying. theres no more room left for cowboys anymore…

me everytime: :(

[nem0c]

every samurai movie ever made (both edo and bakamatsu periods): The bushido code is dying. there no more room left for samurai anymore…

me everytime: :(

[rickfuckingdalton]

A lot of westerns are remakes of samurai movies

[bonesawcagematch]

those samurai movies were very often heavily inspired by 50′s and 40′s westerns

[simon-newman]

Cowboys and samurai are brothers separated by time and space.

[eric-coldfire]

Best duo.

[seriousfic]

[breadgunner-deactivated20200418]

I’ve got y’alls new favorite art piece right here.

[phoxxent]

According to Google, Samurai were abolished in 1868.

This means that at the same time that cowboys were reaching their end, so too were samurai.

Cowboys and Samurai were separated not by time, only space.

[shoudesuka-mechadork]

I’ve got something else to add to this: there’s also an extremely specific species of mushroom that can only be found in Texas and Japan. I’m serious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorioactis

[anybodyandsomebody]

The most ambitious crossover

[ghost-cassette]

Fantasy setting but it’s just Texas and Japan together at last

[ladymaplecourt]

Mycelial portal between cowboys and samurai

[superpixie]

@britonell your tags I’m dying xD