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when I was little, I would go on Nickelodeon.com all the time and they had this game similar to club penguin except it was called Nicktropolis. and if you forgot your password, a security question you could choose was āwhat is your eye color?ā and if you got it right itād tell you your password. so I would go to popular locations in Nicktropolis and write down random usernames who were also in those areas, and then i would log out and type in the username as if it were my own and see which of these usernames had a security question set to āwhat is your eye color?ā (which was most of them, since it was easy and we were all kids). i would then try either brown, blue, or green, and always get in, then I would go to their house and send all of their furniture and decorations to my own accountās. and if it I didnāt want it, i could sell it for money
I love robbery and fraud
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whenever a young kid joins our staff at work im just like huh. guess im a father now.
these kids will be like ācan you drive me home? i donāt have gas money but-ā and im already pullin out my keys and am like. sweetheart, you are a child. i am not charging a child gas money.
i literally almost lunged across the counter to throw hands with some old hag who yelled at and insulted one of our 16 y/o girls but instead i threw her sandwich at her and told her to never fucking come back
old dudes will flirt with our young girls too and iāll be like ay man this is a truck stop, normal customer service rules dont apply here. i can and will call the cops on you.
im the only manager that actively tells them to steal food because these are teenagers and they are HUNGRY
You are the only valid manager
Bagworm Moth caterpillars collect little twigs and cut them off to construct elaborate tiny log houses to live in (photos: Melvyn Yeo, Nick Bay)
I had to look this up because i thought there was no way these little faerie cabin-building caterpillars were real
Theyre magical
hey so, as a man who works with other men, hereās a quick relationship tip: if he doesnāt much likeĀ cats, that might beĀ just a personal preference. if he hates cats, if he tells you he hates cats as soon as he hears that you have a cat and love your cat, heās an asshole. heās telling on himself. Ā
every guy iāve ever worked with that makes a point of telling me how much he hates cats as soon as i mention that i have a cat and love my cat, is alwaysĀ someone who is regularly cruel for fun and who laughs in the breakroom about the mean things they do for fun to their girlfriends and children.Ā
I wish I could articulate all the ways this makes sense and why it makes sense and stuff but itās just like⦠something something misogyny something something resentment of creatures that donāt need you and donāt hang on your attention and approval all their lives.
@anerdyfeminist Where is that article you wrote about misogyny and cat hate?
Here tis! šāļø
dude this is random but like. my mom works at a credit union, and a while ago, this totally domestic, collared dog came up to their door and was like.... barking to get in?? itās a small credit union so they brought the dog inside to keep it safe while they got in contact with the owner
anyway, the owner showed up, looking haggard, and was like āyeah, she keeps managing to get loose. iām surprised she came here, she usually goes to Wells Fargo.ā
and my mom was like.... what?? and the dog owner was like āyeah ever since she started getting loose, she.... always goes to banks. we canāt figure out why.ā
anyway the dog is fine and (theyāre gonna crate train her or something) but how bananas fucking Wild is it that this dog escaped, multiple times, specifically to go to the bank???? what the fuck
They needed to make a depawsit
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We forgot about it
I once signed up to participate in a study on how depression affects memory, forgot I was meant to go do it, and when I emailed to apologise to the PhD student running it she basically told me that a) she was very used to this happening and b) the weird irony of her theoriesā correctness making it very difficult to arrange proving them had by now gone from infuriating to hysterical
PSA: no name is impossible to pronounce. no name is too hard to learn, no name is justifiably butchered. kids with 'different' names should be taught again and again that being called by their name is a right, not a privilege
there are over 2000 uniqueĀ phonemes (individual sounds) in the worldās languages, and each language has anywhere from around 20 to 60. you stop learning new phonemes itās theorized at around age 12. this is where accents come from -- using your own languageās/regionās phonemes to speak
so no name is impossible to pronounce world-wide, but it is very easy to not have the linguistic archive necessary to pronounce a given name entirely correctly. it is a simple case of physically not knowing where to place your tongue, whether or not to vibrate your vocal chords, etc. the only one of the dictators of sound you could be shown is how to position your lips
that being said... obviously you should still try. saying a name as correctly as you physically can goes a long way for making someone feel respected and humanized, and dismissing a name entirely as too hard goes a long way to disrespect and dehumanize people. just also accept that someoneās accent interfering with their pronunciation isnāt a sign of lack of trying, but a sign of physical limits
This is very true. I met a baby at my old store whose name was Navajo. I did my best and actually got a bit frustrated because there was a syllable I could NOT get, and her dad was like āitās very hard if you donāt actually speak DinĆ©, but thank you. Most people wonāt even try.ā
Be the one who tries.
Yes, thereās a big difference between getting as close as you can with your native languageās phonology, and just not even trying
"Be the one who tries."
āoh i love your nameā āthanks i picked it out myselfā is an A+ trans jokeĀ
me, making fun of cis people:Ā ānice name, did your momĀ pick it out for you?ā

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iāve put on the first harry potter movie to keep me company while i draw, and can i just say: the way that harry+co immediately jump to suspecting snape of Nefarious Evildoings simply because heās kind of a dick will never not be funny to me. they donāt even know he used to be a death eater at this point. they know literally NOTHING about him theyāre just like āwell he was mean to me in class the other day, so heās probably a spy for voldemortāĀ āyeah that seems legit. letās set him on fireāĀ
my other take-away from this rewatch is that hogwarts library apparently has a restricted section to ~Protect The Children~ and itās full of like, all the books that are too edgy or too crammed with Arcane Knowledge and you need a fucking permission slip to go in there? what the fuck. i tell you if i went to wizard school i would be in the restricted section every fucking night and if they punished me i simply would not care. expulsion for a good cause
while iām at it: do we ever get any explanation for why the staircases move, or is it purely to create an atmosphere of irrational, random terror?
you know what, iām on a roll now, and iām going to address the elephant in the room: the entire plot of the first book was clearly a calculated ploy by dumbledore, designed to test harryās suitability as future Saviour of the Wizarding World. like⦠we all know this, right? iām not going out on a limb here, am i? letās look at the facts.
step one:Ā bring an artefact capable of bestowing immortality to school, fully aware that this artefact is being coveted by an evil wizard
step two: hire shady guy to work at school, who may or may not be concealing said evil wizard underneath his turban
step three: set up series ofĀ puzzles with a difficulty level appropriate to, say, three eleven-year-old students, and put the artefact right in the middle. sit back. twiddle thumbs. get out popcorn.
step four: when allās said and done, destroy artefact as planned and use this sequence of events as an excuse to award many, many points to own house, thereby winning House Cup and pulling aĀ āhaha gotcha!ā on all the other houses, which you donāt particularly care about
step five: profit
iād also like to point out that quidditch is the most ridiculous game ever invented and makes absolutely no sense. harry potter: a fun series, and a great example of how not to do worldbuilding.
HOW COULD I FORGET TO MENTION the immortal moment of
quirrell: troll! troll in the dungeons!
dumbledore: this is a very serious matter. all students must return to their dormitories at once
slytherins: but professorā¦. our dormitories are in the dungeons
dumbledore:
Why do I understand this
āThe name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Every country thinks their history is the most important, and thatās especially true in the West. But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgiumās King Leopold would come way before Hitler. If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Yes, it was horrific. But I often wonder, with African atrocities like in the Congo, how horrific were they? The thing Africans donāt have that Jewish people do have is documentation. The Nazis kept meticulous records, took pictures, made films. And thatās really what it comes down to. Holocaust victims count because Hitler counted them. Six million people killed. We can all look at that number and be rightly horrified. But when you read through the history of atrocities against Africans, there are no numbers, only guesses. Itās harder to be horrified by a guess. When Portugal and Belgium were plundering Angola and the Congo, they werenāt counting the black people they slaughtered. How many black people died harvesting rubber in the Congo? In the gold and diamond mines of the Transvaal? So in Europe and America, yes, Hitler is the Greatest Madman in History. In Africa heās just another strongman from the history books.ā
ā Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (via christymtidwell)
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