LouisandSamson

Us: speak only limited German

Lady: barely speaks English

Us:

Lady:

Lady: Czech? Slovak?

Us: Czech

Lady, to herself: Czech, that's a Slavic language right

Lady: understand Yugoslavian?

Us:

Waiter: Germany?

Me: No, Czechia.

Reminds me of the time when we were in Poland and I tried to order a burger using a truly unholy mix of Slovak, Russian and Ostrava dialect (which in itself is like an unholy mix of Czech and Polish).

*Each of us talking in their mother tongue*

Me: Bla bla bla.

Russian: I don’t know this “bla”.

Czech: Oh, we have “bla”! We also call it “that”!

Russian: Oh I know “that”! It’s a very old version of “this”.

Me: Oh, we have “this” too, but it means something slightly different.

Stupid nicknames usually related to something embarrassing or just the thing they’re most associated with.

“Alright men what’s the problem, I’m missing dinner.” -Anakin. Word for word quoting my uncle.

Random solidarity with the enemy. One pilot for some middle eastern country regularly flew by a a ship solely to ask for his (U.S.)college basketball team’s scores. And he usually got them.

“Everything is fine in the hanger sir”

The hanger: $8,000 of tax dollars in damages

Randomly dissing their commanding officers in front of them but it’s fine because they’re off duty.

“We have a strictly professional relationship.” They’re best friends and have literally forged each other’s signatures so their spouses can give them a surprise vacation.

Covering for each other so they can call their spouses. Even though everyone knows exactly what is going on.

The “totally secret” room of contraband.

Human Beings:

Figured I do a quick quilt top, you know, just throw something together.

And then I made two blocks of the forty eight needed for this Harvest quilt and boy howdy.

And the quilt! She be gorgeous!

Love that fuck-off bright yellow I picked for the cornerstones, they’re perfect for this.

I decided that since the quilt top was so colourful, I’d put plain flat black cotton the back and use up some of these bobbins, making the quilting on the back really stand out.

Holy shit did it work or what! I love it, of course LOL

I used a medium purple on the top so it would fade into the patchwork and not show up too much on the background. The quilting pattern is called Pink Lemonade and it is one of my favourite quilting patterns.

I didn’t have any left over border fabric, so I found a nice blue that matched with that print and made it my binding. I debated using purple, but couldn’t convince myself to do it.

The blue looks good though, from the front and the back.

It's sooo good

Reginald: *meows in distress*

Narrator: Unfortunately for Reggie, there’s one last step. He’s about to learn that getting wet is nothing – compared to getting dry.”

♫ TRIUMPHANT FANTASY MUSIC ♪

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The continued existence of these species is the legacy of so many people whose names we will never know--some of who never lived to see the impacts of their work.

When you count up the flaws of our species, you have to count the good things too--out of the many species throughout Earth's history that have caused the demise or endangerment of other species, we are the only one that tries to fix it out of our fascination and love for other life forms.

And I'll add some other recent good conservation news.

•Green sea turtles are no longer endangered

•Giant pandas are no longer endangered

•Panamanian golden frogs were returned to the wild for the first time since they were wiped out by chytrid 17 years ago

•The Eastern humpback whale population has exceeded pre-whaling numbers and many other whale species are showing strong signs of recovery

•Salmon and bison have been returned to their former habitat in multiple parts of the US through dam removal, habitat restoration, and reintroduction

•The Western monarch migration was up 60% compared to last year

•Galapagos tortoises were reintroduced to Floreana for the first time in 180 years

•Attenborough's long beaked echidna was rediscovered after being though extinct for decades

•Five "lost" island bird species were documented by citizen scientist birders in 2025

there is no safe and effective way to render someone unconscious. The only way you get unconscious from a punch to the head is hitting your head hard enough on the ground to get a major concussion/TBI. This does not result in waking up "a little woozy" some useful minutes to hours later, it results in brain damage. Any drugs which might do this are hard to get the dose correct, so you're as likely to not knock someone out or kill them as you are to send them gently to sleep.

Tasers do not knock you out. Again, the only way you can end up unconscious from a taser is head injury when your muscles all seize up.

The point though is they don’t kill FAST. Like not in seconds or even a minute or two. Not unless you hit the heart or sever the spine or hit an artery well enough to bleed out asap (cutting throats counts).

THAT SAID they do incapacitate somewhat more often than they kill, but it’s relatively unpredictable. Whether or not someone’s entire body freezes up in shock and malfunctions vs their adrenaline making it so they don’t even really NOTICE until they’ve lost enough blood volume to cause a mechanical problem vs being In Pain immediately…. those are all gonna depend on a huge number of inter-applicable factors that you can’t necessarily predict in advance. And even if the adrenaline part works you may still find that limbs or balance or whatever doesn’t work the way you expect, bc the stab wound had actually severed or otherwise impacted a muscle that was crucial for this action.

So while dude stabbed in stomach by Small Knife may - in a world where he will be taken to hospital and treated with modern emergency and ICU care - well survive, and even those who don’t have the above do have a varying chance of survival depending on luck, baseline health, and whether or not their intestines or stomach were kicked by the blade, stabbing someone in the stomach with a small knife is still LIKELY to make him curl up and fall over either immediately or within a short period.

Or he may be so hyped up it takes several minutes for it to slow him down.

Human bodies and injury are wild in a way: we are very fragile except when we aren’t and survive absolute bullshit; and also we are astonishingly hard to kill until we are made of glass.

So yeah, OP is partly right in that a paring knife is unlikely to be an insta kill on a human being of reasonable health and size, but at the same time that doesn’t actually mean being stabbed in the abdomen isn’t a life threatening emergency or that ON THE WHOLE, if you manage to stab someone in the gut even with a “small knife”, you have a good chance of putting them down ie making them no longer a problem for you.

And the fatality rate skyrockets where fast access to a modern Emergency Department isn’t available, so that doesn’t mean your characters can just shrug off a gutstab.

Flexible feather armor