[dankmemeuniversity]

[champagnepuppies-deactivated201]

[caseymeeks]

I never, ever want context for this.

[ambiguitey]

Birdbox (2018) dir. Susanne Bier

[collegiate-confession]

College Confession #52

You can get a free Amazon Prime account if you are in college!!! Sign up with your college email, it is the best thing ever.

Also, if you sign up with our College Confession referral link here you will get a 5 dollar gift card too.  Free 5 dollars and a free account?!?! Yes.

- Collegiate-Confession

[collegiate-confession]

*** UPDATE *** now that the new school year has started Amazon is now giving out 20 dollar gift cards with a new account, not a 5 dollar one! It is so worth it! Honestly saved my butt signing up for Amazon prime freshman year

[schizoauthoress]

Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract.  And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.

So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.

[darkfrog24]

I heard about this on Freakonomics Radio.  Turns out the bit about no brown M&Ms is HUGE, in BIG font, bold, underlined and quotated like they’re on the Group W Bench.

The band was all, “We have fifty-pound lights hanging over our heads and fire being shot out of cannons.  We had to know whether they read our safety regs so we didn’t flamebroil any roadies.”

[gobbochune-deactivated20241018]

interesting how this has become a meme in the music industry about divas. i’ve always heard jokes that amount to “this stuck up celebrity hates the green gummy bears!! they’re refusing to perform just for that???” and its reading stuff like this that i realise how that joke might have come about. people get grumpy that the band refuses to play but cant admit its because THEY’RE incompetent, so they make it all about the M&Ms. another example of artists using a creative method to ensure they have a perfectly reasonable request fulfilled that is then bastardised by lazy people who wanna make money off them. 

[thesylverlining]

…this is like the music industry version of hearing the truth behind the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit

[positive-meme-experience]

For those of you wondering about the McDonald’s thing:

An older woman spilled McDonald’s coffee in her lap while parked and ended up with 3rd degree burns on her thighs and genitals. We’re talking skin grafts and everything. The important thing to note here is that the coffee wasn’t that hot by mistake. McDonald’s policy at the time was to have it made at that (dangerous) temperature because most of their coffee sales came from people who were on their way to work. They figured that of it started off that hot, that by the time people reached their destination it would be closer to the temperature people expected. They knew it was an issue and had received complaints in the past from people who had burned their mouths and such, but chose to maintain their dangerous-yet-profitable business practice. So the woman who brought this lawsuit sued for help with her medical bills, as being hospitalized for a couple of weeks and receiving skin grafts for a fairly large area aren’t cheap. McDonald’s originally tried to settle out for a few hundred dollars, which was much less than her medical bills. During the litigation, when it came out that McDonalds was knowingly using dangerous business practices the court decided that McDonalds needed to learn a lesson and awarded the woman several million dollars.

Sadly, the media ran with a simplified version of the story that villainized the woman and she faced constant ridicule until she passed away a few years later.

[aquardaqua]

Us (2019) dir. Jordan Peele

[shysmitchell]

[merriweatherpostpaviliontshirt]

[demilypyro]

dinosaurs probably wouldnt be half as popular if they still existed cause they’d just be animals and wouldn’t be as mysterious

like. rhinos are right there. they’re super cool in concept but they’re right there and nobody cares

[rikmach]

I care about Rhinos.

[demilypyro]

[verybear]

They are not gonna be here much longer too

[5am-moonlight]

[dustyhobo]

facts

[pancakeke]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[zanabism-deactivated20200529]

stuck up white woman who hates being around people especially people of colour: I should be…a nurse…some kind of…caretaker…a high-empathy based role of sorts…

[killer-snail-deactivated2019112]

Stuck up white man who believes no one is ever right but him: I should be…a doctor…a police man, perhaps..some kind of job where I must listen without bias to solve the problem ..

[dankmemeuniversity]

[oldersistercore]

why are dog lovers so hateful??? like you meet a cat lover and they’re like “oh i love dogs a lot too! i just prefer cats!” but dog lovers are always like “my ENTIRE FAMILY was MURDERED by a CAT, a cat STOLE MY GIRLFRIEND, BURNED MY HOUSE DOWN, TOOK MY JOB AND KEYED UP MY CAR"