PAIN-ting

I'm just some guy trying to git gud at art.

[dankmemeuniversity]

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[lesbiancinnabun-deactivated2023]

Y'all should Google the article, it’s actually pretty neat. Basically, the Aldabra Atoll was once inhabited by the Aldabra Rail, a flightless species of bird that had diverged from the flying White-Throated Rail when a section of the population landed there and found they had no natural predators. However, the Atoll occasionally gets completely submerged, and all of the flightless Aldabra rails were wiped out. But then, after the Atoll re-emerged, a bunch of the EXACT SAME species of flying White Throated Rail decided to settle there again, and immediately proceeded to evolve into flightless birds AGAIN.

[captaindibbzy]

Knitters be like “I’m going to tie a knot so elaborate you can wear it as a fashion accessory.”

Everyone else be like “Yes, but will you do it for me for free?”

[feltpool]

In my limited personal experience knitting* is viewed very differently to other crafts.

No one has ever looked at one of my cross stitch or embroidery pieces and asked if they can have it, or if I’ll make them one just like that for free.

But knitting. Knitting is different. It’s seen as being so simple and, presumably, worthless that people feel free to pass unsolicited comment on your work as well as ask if they can have one. You name a price for doing so and they look at you like you should be able to magic free, decent quality, wool out of your arse so how very dare you suggest charging them for a scarf, hat, sweater, whatever (at this point you don’t bother mentioning that labour would have cost extra)

The one thing that knitting and stitching do have in common is the amount of people who will say: “Oh, I could never do that. It looks so complicated.”

.

BUT this isn’t just my experience of it.

My sister used to earn money making clothes when she was between ‘proper’ jobs.  She never had any issues with payment or pricing with a sewn garment.  She’d give them a price, explain how much the various fabrics, notions and labour cost and that was it. She only ever had problems with people wanting knitted items. They’d haggle over the cost, whine about how long it it would take her to make (knitting time was always given in advance), complain about the quality of the cheap ass yarn they’d chosen, etc, etc.

As time passed she just gave up offering to knit items for money.

Why has knitting become such a devalued skill for anyone who isn’t a big name knitwear designer?

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*I assume crochet gets much the same reaction but I don’t crochet so I can’t comment on that.

[geekgirlfibers]

I wonder if it’s so devalued because so many people grew up with a family member who knit as a hobby. That and machine knitting making knitted items so much cheaper.

[arirashkae]

I wore this shawl to my grandmother’s funeral:

Yes, her funeral. My grandmother, who taught me to knit, was in awe of this shawl. It is beaded lace and took me hours upon hours to complete. That is a queen sized bed it was being blocked on. If I were to add up the hours and calculate federal minimum wage (which is much less than the minimum wage here in MA), people just might choke

One of my aunts remarked how lovely it was, and asked if I would ever consider making them for sale

Knowing she was moderately well-off, not rich but comfortably middle / upper-middlr class, I decided to ask what she would pay for it

Keep in mind, hand knit beaded lace, covers a queen sized bed, probably 48-60 hours of work (maybe more; i never counted), took me months and months because it was done in my spare time

Guess what she suggested

Go on, guess

Got that number?

Ok, good

She suggested the grand and exorbitant price ooooofffffff……

$50.00

I laughed in her face and told her the materials cost that much (ok, maybe I exaggerated a bit. I shop sales almost religiously XD)

[geekgirlfibers]

The cluelessness of some people just amazes me.

I tell people now that my knitting is like sex, if I like you and want to you don’t have to pay me, but if neither applies you couldn’t pay me enough.

[kate2kat]

I’ve got to remember that last one

[cricketcat9]

Don’t ask crafters and artists to make you things for free. Just don’t. If they like you and you are lucky, you may get a gift. If you are not getting a gift and you like what they make, just fucking buy it, for the price they are asking. That’s how it works. 

People have a stupid notion that, if you are enjoying doing something, then it’s NOT WORK, therefore it should be free. UGH. 

[zerohouronyavin4-blog]

I had an experience like @arirashkae. I crochet and a woman at the laundry whom I’m friendly with asked me if I could make her daughter an afghan like the one I was washing. It’s a throw that covers the top of a full-size bed with a complicated ripple pattern. Now, I do a lot of crochet and I could have whipped that up in three days, so I wanted to be fair. I totaled up the yarn in my head and doubled it for the labor. $250. Her eyebrows flew up into her hair and she actually said, “you shouldn’t try to rip people off when you’re just doing a bit of crochet.” I told her that it must be pretty good for “a bit of crochet” if she wanted to buy it instead of making it herself.

People who don’t do craft regard it as no better than the crap pipe cleaner decorations that they do for Hallowe’en which is why you just can’t sell craft.

[kittyknowsthings]

there’s an entire group on ravelry dedicated to thwarting these gimmepigs (and ranting about them).

[systlin]

I’ve seen some knit/crocheted objects for sale on Etsy and similar, and am horrified by how little people ask for them.

[emjineer]

So my boss once robbed a museum to prove a point and honestly, I think she is my new role model. 

[emjineer]

If this gets notes I’ll tell the full story

[marry-and-mirthful]

Storu

[emjineer]

Many years ago, my boss was working at this museum and they had these original Churchill documents on display. These documents are worth millions of dollars… The only thing separating the public from these documents was a sheet of glass secured with 4 philips head screws. Seriously. No security guards in the room, no cameras, just an easily removable piece of glass. 

My boss pointed out the security concern, but she wasn’t taken seriously, so she took matters into her own hands. 

She bought a ticket and  pretended to be a guest. She entered through the main entrance with a huge drill clearly visible on her belt, went straight to the documents and opened the case with the drill. (While  wearing gloves,) she removed the documents, put them in a folder, reattached the glass, and walked out the main exit.  Literally no one even questioned her.

 She immediately went around to the back of the museum, entered using the staff entrance and went straight to her boss’s office.  She dropped the folder on his desk and said “I just stole these in 15 minutes“

Once he was done being mad at her, he listened and the museum increased security. 

[hymnofvalefor]

chaotic good

[petermorwood]

Neat. Very neat.

Here’s a historical version.

One theory behind Colonel Blood’s almost successful theft of the Crown Jewels in 1671 was this:

King Charles II wasn’t convinced that keeping the Jewels in a wooden cupboard where the paying public could examine them was secure enough, even if the cupboard was in the Tower of London, and commissioned Blood to prove it.

He was right…

Another theory is that Charles, perpetually strapped for cash, was finding his string of mistresses increasingly expensive and commissioned Blood to swipe the Jewels for crude financial gain.

(Whatever the reason, it’s historical fact that when Blood was arrested before he got away, he demanded to see the King, had a private meeting, and came out of it with a free pardon and a pension of £500 a year…)

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

A universal rule of physical pen testing is that you can go fucking anywhere and get away with fucking anything if you can look/act like you’re asposed to be there

[cranberrybogfrog]

In this house we respect the Fullmetal Alchemist and his younger brother, the angry child in the red coat

[reallycoolsoup]

You're thinking of the Fullmetal alchemist's monster

[iron-kolo]

The Fullmetal Alchemist's monster doesn't like to be reminded of his short stature.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[funnelcloudd]

How come semi trucks in Europe look like “toot toot :)” and in North America they look like “HONK HOOOOOOOONK >:|”

[funnelcloudd]

“Henlo I am big twuck pwease give me wots of woom tank u :)”

“I WILL FUCKING PANCAKE YOUR CUCK ASS”

[rat-knife]

[purple-compromise]

In Case Anyone Wondered Why People Would Fight Over a Gravel Pit...

The short answer is that a gravel pit was and is actually very valuable. The long answer goes something like this:

What's a gravel pit? It's an open ground mining operation used to extract gravel which is then sold to other industries, such as construction.

Okay but how much money does that actually make? It's just rocks! Today, if you want to buy gravel for, say, your driveway, a square foot costs about $.70 (USD) and a ton costs about $50. That doesn't sound like a lot? Well, according to the Resource Development Experts company, if you happen to have a viable deposit of gravel or sand on your property, between 8 and 25 feet deep, you're looking at about $40,000 to upwards of $120,000 in royalties PER ACRE, and that's not even counting profits from the gravel.

What, that still doesn't sound like enough money to start a private war over? What if I told you that in 1960, gravel was even more valuable? How much more valuable? According to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics 1962, gravel exports in 1960 for 540,415 tons was valued at $418,345.

And what does that look like with inflaton? You're looking at the 2018 equivalent of about 3.5 MILLION DOLLARS for 500 tons of gravel. Yes, that's right--3.5 MILLION.

Holy shit what does that mean? That means one ton of gravel was about $70 in today's money--40% more than it's worth now. One pit business, (according to Meredith Corp's "Entrepreneur of the Year article) brought in $1,000,000 during the 2011 year... if we raise that by the 40% increase going back to 1960, that means a gravel pit in that year could make you the equivalent of $1,400,00 per year (in today's money).

IN CONCLUSION: I don't know about you guys, but I'd totally go to war with my estranged brother for $1.5 million/year of potential income. Apparently, TF2's premise isn't quite as silly as it appears.

[in-a-mellow-tone]

Math! Lore! Together they form, coherency!!!

[awfulmidis]

Visit Original Link

[thecollectibles]

Art by LY 炼妖

[gahdamnpunk]

Landlords can choke

[toshio]

my only two moods…..

[ayotofu]

an incomplete list of actual canon characters that exist in the one piece universe

a giant fighting frog

a skeleton with an afro. this is abnormal even within the context of the world

a three-headed judge who is actually three different oddly proportioned men huddled together because they’re best buds

a reindeer who gained the powers of a human

a 139 year old woman who looks and moves like she’s twenty (aside from her wrinkly face)

a man who fights by shooting ramen noodles out of his nose

a starfish who runs a fashion company

a pink and purple polka-dotted horse-owl

a guy whose power is to vore others

a sword that turns into an elephant

a ball-shaped man with a zipper for his mouth who cannot keep a secret to save his life

a pirate crew made up entirely of fanboys for the main characters

a giant pufferfish dude??? who fights a kraken??? idk man who even knows

a woman who. accidentally ate her friends??? oops??

a man who regularly tries to kill himself but fails because he’s too fucking strong to die

a man who regularly forgot to open his eyes. and mouth. and to breathe. and basically do anything

a cyborg fueled by cola who exclusively wears speedos and unbuttoned touristy shirts with light up nipples and more equally weird features

one of the most dangerous villains to date is a man in a pink feather boa and capris

an excessively macho man who dresses up like his dead baby son to make his brain damaged wife smile

a gun that turns into a dog

there’s a bunch of centaurs but like. one of them has an alligator for the bottom half? there’s a leopard in there too or smthn?

a swordsman who fights with three swords, one in his mouth. no one finds this odd

idk man one piece is weird

(thanks to @asexualzoro for help on a couple of these) (luffy) (zoro)

[evvazi]

Don’t forget

a man who throws cannonballs at ships because he’s better at it than actual cannons

a guy that lives inside a whale sometimes and repairs him even tho the whale is an actual live animal

an island full of furries where even the island itself is a furry

a guy whose superpower is turning into a giraffe but he mostly still fights with the power of his blocky nose

a guy who pretended he couldn’t talk and instead made everyone believe his pet pidgeon was talking for him for no fucking reason at all

a guy who’s weak as shit but bullshitted himself into a position of incredible power with a huge group of followers entirely on accident

that same guy also spent a lot of time with just his head, hands and feet while the rest of his body was missing

a guy that lives in a treasure chest that he can’t leave anymore because he’d fall apart without it, protecting weird animals while he’s at it

a couple named King Baum and Lady Tree, who are, as their names suggest, trees

one guy sets his leg on fire to fight and no explanation is given as to why he doesn’t burn himself with this. nobody questions it either.

a group of pirates who use their powers not for anything evil or ambitious they just play rigged games against anyone they meet

[farcryfromhere-moved]

*something funny happens irl* *a line of text saying “wwwwww” in arial font scrolls from right to left in my field of vision*

[logicalman6]

[skinnykooked]

“Hello and welcome to my Tumblr. Here you probably won’t find any basic info about me like my name or what I usually like to do, but you absolutely will find all my deepest darkest secrets and emotions along with my body measurements”

[fuck-philip-banks]

the wise man at the nudist beach, when discovered by an acquaintance, covers not his dick but his face

[swaglexander-the-great]

i feel like diogenes fucking ghostwrote that last bit

[chivalfairy]

If you draw beetlejuice like some kinda twinky human bill cipher lookin motherfucker, you are a coward and will not survive the winter. He’s got the body of a used car salesman and you’re gonna LIKE IT.

[chivalfairy]

SEE YOU GET IT.

[chongoblog]

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