Actually I am curious
Have you sent anon hate?
Yes, including suicide baiting
Yes to Tumblr insult person
Yes, but not suicide baiting
Yes, but I regret it now
No
I don’t actually remember
other (explain in the tags)
I don’t have much hope for it to reach wide audience. But do you magic, Tumblr!
Was explaining to my friend tree law and when I talked about how the trees improper trimmed were immature and he then responded
“Oh my gosh they actually groomed minors.”
The studio executives next statement for the tree cutting:
I hope UNIVERSAL Studios receives the maximum penalty for their cruelty to both the strikers and those trees. No excuse for that behavior.
So considering that it’s the 54 anniversary of the moon landing I thought I’d share one of my favorite bits of trivia about the mission (along with a bit of a shitpost). So the first every liquid to be poured on the moon was actually whine as Buzz Aldrin took communion in the lunar module (the bread and whine were blessed a few days beforehand by a priest). Buzz wanted to broadcast the ceremony back to earth but decided not to at the request of Deke Slayton because of the controversy surrounding the reading of the book of genesis on Apollo 8.
Here’s where the shitposting comes in: According to Catholics (and other religions sects that believe in transubstantiation) believe that during communion the bread and whine literally becomes the body and blood of Christ. Which is why imho (despite not being religious in any way) it is perfectly accurate to say that Jesus Christ has landed on the moon
Hey guys! The WGA is asking for people to sign a petition aimed against Universal. Treegate isn't the first union busting tactic Universal has tried.
They started a construction project that "just so happens" to block some of the sidewalks and forces picketers to walk in the street. The government told Universal they need to install safety rails to replace the sidewalks. A demand Universal has so far ignored.
Please sign the petition for Universal to install the safety rails and reblog.
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White out
Okay that’s what I thot too,
But apparently it’s “Wite out” 😳😳😳 hello??????
Mandela effect *X-file music plays*
Views from an alternate dimension
Wite-Out is a brand of white out/correction fluid/liquid paper. The colloquial ‘white-out’ probably derives from the Wite-Out brand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction_fluid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Paper
More importantly:
Twink????
New Zealand math classroom, circa 2019
this post just shot me in the face like ten times
@petermorwood For your collection of fab, but not easy to use weapons
Backing music is Edith Piaf singing “La Vie en Rose” - very apt. :->
This one’s not easy to use simply because it’s so big. Trimming everything down by making the head actual rose-sized, and mounting it on a hollow not solid haft, would result in quite an effective and strikingly (ouch) pretty weapon.
Since the head would no longer be as massive, realistic-looking petals would need compressed into the more compact, sturdy shape suitable for something meant for thumping things - like, for instance, these…
*****
Maces with flanged heads were fairly common, and the Indian “shishpar” was sometimes even made with with spiral flanges.
I don’t know this one’s exact weight but if it has the usual hollow metal haft then it’s probably about 1 kg / 2.2 lbs or a little (not much) more.
Look at how thin the flanges are compared to the “La Bonk” petals (unusually thin, indeed possibly sharp-edged, though their spiral curve adds strength); between that and the khanda broadsword hilt, I’m betting it’s well-balanced and manoeuverable.
Yet if some Maratha or Rajput warrior had asked the weaponsmith who made it to make one shaped like a rose, the reply would probably have been “Certainly, sahib, would you like a guhlab rose, a paneer rose, a damask rose or a musk rose, and would you like the petal edges sharp or blunt?”
*****
Here are a few more Indian maces, and here’s another reason why Indian warriors liked hollow hafts - it not only saved weight, it made room for a little extra whether the weapon was a tabar (axe):
…zaghnal (”war-pick”)…
…or bhuj (”hatchet-knife”)
Those daggers seem so common that I’ve started think they weren’t actually a “hidden surprise”, more an accepted way to carry an additional backup weapon. Oddly enough Indian maces seem to be the only hafted weapon which didn’t have them - at least I couldn’t find a pic of one - though there were any amount of maces with sword-hilts.
However maces from other countries did. This one is from Germany, ca. 1550; it weighs 1.2kg / 2.6 lbs…
…while this one is from Poland, ca. 1650s, weight
1.07 kg / 2.4 lbs.
A “Petite La Bonk” scaled down to match these (with or without dagger as optional extra) would be quite something.
And easy to use, too. :->
I got very loudly deadnamed and misgendered multiple times at the doctors office today. This new receptionist ignored the preferred name on my profile to deadname and misgender me loudly, louder than she talked about anyone else in the waiting room. My birth certificate says "F" nex to sex, my medical documentation reflects this, and I was still deadnamed and misgendered.
And the saving grace was a woman and her child. I wear cat-ears and the child too young to speak loved them, and kept pointing and looking at me. I'm assuming her mother kept saying "yeah, she's wearing cat-ears", "yeah, that woman has cute cat-ears", and the like. Her child was enamoured with them, and that woman didn't misgender me once. And each time my very obviously masculine deadname name came up, she looked upset at the receptionist, but not once did she give me a bad look.
It doesn't have to be much. You don't need to be a knight in shining armour, or in someones face. Simply a quiet refusal to play along with someone elses bullshit is enough. It was enough to turn a trying and tiring moment into something that put a smile on my face and joy back into my life. It wasn't a lot but it mattered to me.
“A disciple asked of his master: ‘You teach me ways of war yet you often preach of peace, how do these lessons find harmony?’ The master replied: ‘It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.’”
— Sun Tzu
