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Me: Alright, brain, we have two tasks to do. One of them is more time sensitive, but working on the other will be more fun. Which should I start on?

My brain: Do fucking nothing for 72 hours

Me: Understandable, have a nice day

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quiet-doll

recently saw ppl discuss whether they put their medicines in a kitchen cabinet or a bathroom cabinet and i was shocked by the fact that many ppl said kitchen cabinet. so now i need you to reblog this and say where you keep yours

#Dailies are in my nightstand drawer to prevent the cats knocking them into oblivion #AND so they're right there so I remember to take them when I get up/go to bed #@balyhane keeps hers in an IKEA basket under the coffee table and sort of 'as-needed' stuff (tylenol etc) is there too #The weird useless kitchen cabinet that's too narrow for much else is where the 'fun' legal not prescribed medication lives

This is why I genealogy (when I can find anything to dig into that is):

My grandmother has an unusual first name.

At 88 years old, if you ask her about it, she'll say "Mum and Dad let Buster (lastname) name me. He was a friend of theirs."

Her father was the youngest child of a couple, Eldridge and Rebecca, who married in their 30s in 1885 (...they were also second cousins, but... uh... *rural Nova Scotia in the 1880s fiddle noises*)

After Eldridge kicked the bucket in 1899, Rebecca married again pretty quickly, to a man named Sylvias; Sylvias was the widower of Rebecca's first cousin once removed, Eunice. Sylvias and Eunice married younger and had kids sooner

This meant that my great-grandfather and his brother had step-siblings (who were also their cousins) who were 10+ years their senior.

tl;dr: "Buster" (real name Stanley) was the son of Great-Granddad Ervin's older step-sister. My grandmother is named after Buster's mum, who'd died when he was 8. Had I not noticed the similar name between my grandmother and Buster's mother and gone looking, I imagine that story would've died out.

#val does a genealogy

whaile

late summer / early fall thoughts

plumknodel

no more catboys. catmen . 28 yr old washed up depressed catman downing his 5th whiskey glass and his cat ears twitch depressedly

lekosis

And then he pushes the empty glass forlornly off the counter

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deslizada

man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great

jame7t

tumblr is like an abandoned space station & you all are the thing in the vents

jame7t

not me though. im girl with tanktop

transmechanicus

we are goig to GET you

deadpowol

tahthetrickster

#cats lol #they just want to be included!

leloupdebout

valtsv

having both anxiety and depression is like that post about washing your meds down with redbull. you’d like to think that the constant fear of failure caused by your anxiety would cancel out the lack of motivation you feel thanks to your depression, but no. they are both working so very much and you cannot stop it.

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joseshin

It’s the duck paddling on the water thing. The mind is going 100 mph, the body is just sitting there.

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indigosfindings

how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english

"miss"

"miz"

other

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

mortalityplays

really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll

3liza

i am losing my fucking mind

avocado-moon

#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)

avocado-moon

"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools

onbearfeet

Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.

squeeful

“Obscure facts” Boo boo I was taught it in elementary school. One with a state standardized curriculum.

Ms. is marriage-neutral and it’s pronounced Miz. It is deliberately different from Miss.

#oh jfc #Do I think it's generally a bit dumb? sure #but it's important #I remember my mum and another mother trying to figure out if my Grade Three teacher was a Miss or a Ms for a card or something

pitviperofdoom

I try not to fall into the "I never liked their work anyway" ditch when an artist/creator reveals themself to be a terrible person

BUT

a feeling I do have and will stand by is "While I enjoyed their work overall I did have some gripes that I overlooked out of affection and whimsy, but now that my loyalty is gone and my affection tainted there is nothing holding me back from enumerating my many grievances, to which the revelations of the creator's shittiness may or may not provide a new and infuriating context."

a-really-bad-decision

Dragon age origins is like…. You’re nineteen, new in town, and it’s your second day at pizza hut. You don’t even know how to work the register yet and you just watched your manager get carted off by the paramedics. You have no contact info for him, his next of kin, or corporate. The only other employee is the guy who’s been here for two weeks and is a bit of a doofus, and neither of you really know what you’re supposed to do now. You both desperately need this job though, and the doofus at least has a drivers license and *kiiinda* knows how to use the oven so you just. Shrug, and start taking orders and making pizzas and praying to god that the bills are on autopay.

And weirdly enough you’re really good at this: making pizzas and dealing with shitty customers and breaking up fights in the parking lot and pretending to be Duncan’s cousin on the phone so the utility company doesn’t cut off the power. But running a store is a lot of work for two dumb kids, so slowly you start accumulating a bunch of competent weirdos to help out, like the nun who left her convent because god told her to help you make pizzas, and the elderly school teacher who just survived a mass shooting, and the guy the papa johns down the street hired to run you over. And really there’s no way any of this should be working as well as it is - you’re absolutely committing fraud of some kind here - but you’ve managed to dodge the landlord every time he’s stopped by, and the health inspector never shows up to tell you to stop letting your dog hang out behind the counter and you’re all still kinda looking at each other and asking ‘are we allowed to just do this?’ before shrugging again and continuing to make pizzas, until somehow, through a series of unlikely technicalities, your doofus coworker ends up on the ballot for governor.

And after like five months of this the regional manager wanders in out of nowhere and you’re sure he’s about to chew your ass out for this mess, but it turns out he’s pretty chill and honestly kind of impressed with how you managed to keep the place up and running all on your own. So now you’re all thinking ‘thank god, there’s someone here who actually knows how to run a Pizza Hut’ only for him to get hit by a car two days later on the night of the Super Bowl.

a-really-bad-decision

Sten is 100% unchanged in this scenario

metroid963

@st-just

sandmandaddy69

get-thee-to-a-shrubbery

cleanedupcorporationprogress

boothyghost

all-save-challenge

I love this post especially the rat part

going on me feed

trolleybusaberrations

what do you mean there are exactly zero rats i. this post

bingle-official

primordialsoupvendor

shower-thoughts-last-responder

definitely-not-a-plant

spectroacha

DOES IT NOT STOP

meatpulp

*opens the groupchat at breakfast to backread like its the morning paper*

everythingcanadian

NEWS FROM BULLSHIT CITY:

Your Friends had a Weird Discussion About Marbles

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Tfw everyone is going on about pride and parades and stuff and you're over here like "...ours isn't until July?"

#shut the fuck up val #has to do with the history; first one was in July of 1988

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