You Could Drown In An Inch Of Water With Me

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[homunculus-argument]

I love browsing cover-up tattoo stuff when every once in a while there's someone asking "how do I cover up this unspeakably idiotic thing" and people are like "please do not cover that up, that's fucking amazing." You just have "shrimps is bugs" written on your leg now. That's your legacy.

[wario-hentai-hobbyist]

Have you seen that one weasel tattoo that someone was asking coverup advice for? One of the best tattoos I've seen.

[wario-hentai-hobbyist]

Found it!

[homunculus-argument]

It's so fucking beautiful I'm in tears. Laughing so hard I'm crying but what difference is that really.

[dailymanners]

Unless it's a serious emergency, always start every interaction with another person by greeting them first no matter how brief the interaction might be.

Going up to, for example, a store employee or a co-worker and just blurting out a question or request you have for them without greeting them first can come across as you just see them as a means for getting what you want instead of seeing them as a human being first. If you just say even a simple little "hi" first (or whatever a standard greeting is in the local language might be) before asking them a question or asking them for help, you are acknowledging that they are a person instead of just a means to an end.

[dailymanners]

Based on my experience working in the tourism industry I should probably also point out that although "excuse me" is considered sufficient in some cultures, this isn't universal and in some cultures just saying "excuse me" first without any greeting word like "hi" or "hello" is considered rude.

So if you are from somewhere "excuse me" alone is sufficient, keep in mind that might not be the case when you're traveling, and you might come across as rude if you only say "excuse me" to get an employee's attention but nothing else while you're traveling.

[scarylullabies]

I hope it's ok to riff on this a bit and add that starting with a greeting is also important on the phone, especially in the dreaded scenario of making a cold-call. I know my generation and forward do not like to make phone calls at all, but sometimes you simply have to, and if you do a good greeting, that's half the battle won. I have to make cold calls a lot at work and I've found that best practice is to begin any outgoing call you make by doing the following in this order:

Greet the person who answered (Hello, good afternoon, etc.)

State your name and your organization or relationship to the business or person you're calling.

If you're feeling friendly, ask the person who answered how they are doing or how their day is going.

Compare these two examples:

Answerer: Hello? Caller: Good afternoon, my name is scarylullabies, I'm a tumblr user, how are you doing today? Answerer: Fine thank you, how are you/how can I help you? Caller: I'm doing well, I'm calling to confirm the colors of the tile you'd like installed in the children's hospital...

vs

Answerer: Hello? Caller: Hi, can you confirm the colors of tile you'd like installed in the children's hospital?

One of these is way more abrupt, and with no context for who you are or why you're asking, it can really throw people off, even if the question is or seems innocuous and inconsequential to you. 

I can't emphasize enough how much stress this greeting method has saved me. Starting calls this way makes the rest of the call a total breeze and has made it so much easier for me to handle my personal outgoing calls (for appointments and whatnot) as well.

[cosmosflurry]

Absolutely.

In my job, I set up phone interviews via text/email where people select what time they want to be called. Even though they set it up and are expecting the call, I've found I will be hung up on if I don't start right away with...

"Hi, this is Cosmo with Company calling Candidate Name for our meet and greet interview, is this still a good time to talk?"

"Hi" followed immediately, without pause, by my information helps make it clear I'm not a robo-call; asking if I've reached Candidate helps in case of a number typo or a shared phone line; "is this still a good time to talk" helps gauge how much time this person has for pleasantries.

Unfortunately, spam calls have made it so if the timing and cadence aren't right, people hang up right away. I've noticed people are less likely to say "hello" first when I call them too now-a-days.

[yadelah]

This is why even when it’s super obvious that you work there someone will still ask “excuse me do you work here?” Because they aren’t asking if you work there, they are trying to start the dialogue option tree with a question they know the answer to.

[depsidase]

[fittingoutjane]

Ebola is still spreading in several countries in central Africa. How did the outbreak manage to spread so far and infect so many people without being detected? This guy!

This guy, in violation of Congressional funding allocation, withdrew tons of international aid. The end of USAID was orchestrated without warning, without a wind-down plan, leaving critical infrastructure to simply collapse.

[trainsinanime]

As @staff further refine the polls while they're rolling them out (still haven't gotten mine sadly), here's a suggestion of mine: Polls with a ten year time limit.

As of right now, it's impossible for polls to turn into long-running legendary posts. You can try, sure (see the bug race), but it's a week and then it's locked, fixed, done, and all that's left is for people to reminisce about that time there was a poll.

On the other hand, if a ten year poll gets popular, it can become part of Tumblr lore while still being updated. People can write passionate appeals for their vote and fight in the notes. Others can make graphs to show how the poll's majorities shift with each different US president or Taylor Swift album. People can make memes about "remember 2025, when option 3 was in the lead? That was a crazy time".

Why ten years, though, instead of a hundred or just no time limit? Because that way, the end becomes an event. People who voted in the poll when it was just a few hours old can watch the final countdown together, and there's a new point in Tumblr history: That day when we finally all agreed on the best option, and presumably also some important political stuff happened.

Now, granted, most ten year polls would never reach this level of notoriety. But it only takes a few polls like this to be worthwhile. Maybe this shouldn't be an option for users to select, but something the Tumblr website grants/pushes on you at random?

So, yeah. Ten year polls. They should be a thing.

[mediamania63]

Can you imagine the chaos of a 10 year poll with the options

Super

Who

Lock

[the-haiku-bot]

Can you imagine

the chaos of a 10 year

poll with the options

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[poll-sandbox]

Like this?

Super

Who

Lock

Remaining time: 2414 days 13 hours

[blue-cypress]

The Ten Year Post - Year 1 results

As of March 8th, 2024

Super is at 22.9%

Who is at 62.8%

Lock is at 14.4%

I know March 8th isn't when the poll actually started, but it's when I found it and decided to track the percentages. I'm not gonna do any research into why one might be way higher than it was last year, I'm just gonna record how they fluctuate. See all of you next year

[blue-cypress]

Oops I forgot

The Ten Year Post - Year 2 results

As of March 19th, 2025

Super is at 22.9%

Who is at 62.6%

Lock is at 14.5%

See all of you next year

[blessedbrick]

Sewing and wasn't paying attention to which container I was putting the pins in

[misspetbait]

being polyamorous and having no game is so humbling. yeah im poly but i don't have any girlfriends. im just in love with all my friends and nobody wants me

[misspetbait]

well evidently it doesn't work since I don't have any girlfriends

[the-haiku-bot]

well evidently

it doesn’t work since I don’t

have any girlfriends

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[an-atlas-or-other]

Soccer players are the horses of sports. They run around in fields for hours on end. They stub their toe and they die. They fall and they die. They run into each other and

[bold-baddie]

[feralratbitesu]

this grave keeper edible aint shit

[feralratbitesu]

who gors there ,

[cryptotheism]

I gotta say, I really enjoy that hellsite genetics gimmick blog. It's a good capstone to Tumblrs specific brand of half-serious nonsense rants.

A problem with a lot of lesser gimmick blogs is that they end up forming these massive chains of 2/10 RP blogs that don't really add anything but clutter in the notes. But the genetics gimmick has a sense of finality. You can't add any more after that. It would change the genetic code. If you add something, it's a different organism.

I enjoy seeing some impassioned screed about how Yoshi isn't gay, only to see it capped off with the assertion that this post --genetically-- is a Western Ground Finch. There's a sense of individuality there. It's as of the post is receiving some sort of spirit vessel. That post IS The Western Ground Finch. forever and always.

[hellsitegenetics]

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A t a t gc g tat t g t a ca / g tat 't a a atg t ctt t t. t t gtc gc a a at. ca't a a at tat. t cag t gtc c. a tg, t' a t ga.

g a c at 't ga, t t ca t t at tat t t --gtca-- a t G c. T' a at t. t' a t t cg t t . Tat t T t G c. a aa.

Closest match: Cordilura impudica genome assembly, chromosome: 6

[doitforpink]

[mousegirlheart]

[doubleca5t]

[valla-chan]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

bringing a sort of "slavery is still alive and well in US prisons" vibe to the office Juneteenth post that my higher ups don't really like

[wifegideonnav]

the emotion i just experienced is kind of indescribable

[wifegideonnav]

the funniest part of this post to me is that the reblog:like ratio is nearly 1:1. nobody’s just liking everyone who sees this video goes yeah i gotta inflict it on as many people as possible

[midiport]

im going to explode in the kiln

[phantomrose96]

You know the. You know the Femme Fatale "I grew up with 10 brothers so I know how to fight" character?

That's

That's Roy Mustang

Just the opposite.

Roy "I grew up with 10 sisters so I know how to disguise covert information reconnaissance as flirting" Mustang.

"I grew up with 10 sisters so I know how to weaponize my sexual charm to disarm others and win favor."

Roy led every higher-up to believe he was just a fuckboy and a manwhore in this for his own ego and that they shouldn't view him as any kind of violent revolutionary like "no sir I'm just a slut."

Roy Mustang.

[phantomrose96]

I'm surprised I didn't say this in the original post but to specify: Roy Mustang grew up in a brothel, specifically he grew up adopted by a woman running a brothel where, specifically, all the women there are in the business of covert information reconnaissance by playing escort to important politicians.

Which. is an absolutely batshit primary character backstory to mention once, late in the series, and then immediately move on from.

And actually Hiromu Arakawa did it so well that every single fan interpretation of Roy Mustang for the FMA03 anime treated him as an honest to god man-slut. Bought his whole act hook line and sinker.

And you do, in fact, need to get further into the manga/Brotherhood to realize he is just acting like a slut because surely a true and honest hand-to-god slut like this guy wouldn't be overthrowing the government.

[empress-of-dark2005]

[irondive]

[reefsharkivist]

victims of the chupacabra: