Heracleum Mantegazzianum

it's such bs that the whole guilt-ridden stoic self-sacrificing martyr thing doesn't work outside of fiction. repressing all your emotions and neglecting your physical wellbeing should make you god's most tragically beautiful morally unassailable little soldier of righteousness but all it does is give you bad skin and gastrointestinal problems

like what do you MEAN the number 1 sexiest character trait of all time is just kind of offputting and bad for you in real life. next you'll tell me smoking has consequences other than looking like a mysterious badass

the idea that predators and abusers are an ontological category of person, rather than everyone having the capacity to be predatory and abusive, leads to people having no regard for boundaries because they think that predation only comes from evil people ™

same reason I hate when people refer to other people who've committed vile acts as 'monsters' or 'animals'. I know you want to distance the thing that you are from the thing that they are, but we are the same type of creature. we're all capable of hurt, and atrocities don't strip anyone from the responsibility of being a human. monsters don't exist, only monstrous acts and ideologies

im imagining the DJ like joyfully bouncing around and they have a button that makes the coin sound and theyre pressing it a bunch of times randomly and they dont even notice anyone leaving until the last persons gone and they get all sad and put their headphones over one ear and cleanly transition it to the game over sound

common advice for social anxiety is to tell yourself "people aren't going to think less of you just because you said something a bit daft" but the thing is. sometimes they will. and you just have to learn to be cool with that and to treat it as a dnd random encounter rather than letting it ruin your whole day

albert is an arabic name meaning The Bert

new nilered is actually one of the best things he's put out in a while. that said i do not care for his horrible-lab spanning carbon monoxide tube. i know chemists are squeamish about open flames in the lab but surely it'd be safer to just burn off the carbon monoxide and hydrogen on the spot than carry it 20 meters over to release in the oxygen-rich fumehood

steal a catalytic converter like a normal person

new nilered is actually one of the best things he's put out in a while. that said i do not care for his horrible-lab spanning carbon monoxide tube. i know chemists are squeamish about open flames in the lab but surely it'd be safer to just burn off the carbon monoxide and hydrogen on the spot than carry it 20 meters over to release in the oxygen-rich fumehood

oh my god he just used the whole distillate at the end and didnt cut the heads or tails. nigel strikes again

do you people also say "sippy"

the fact that cats don't really meow much in the wild and it's largely a noise they make to communicate with us is already delightful, but its much funnier when you realize humans parrot this sound back to cats to communicate with them. no one involved knows what this noise means, we're just chirping at each other. everyone who interacts with cats has basically created their own inter-species pidgin with that specific cat or group of cats.

I was born with the dragon soul. you will not put me on hold

No sorry boss, I didn't get a call back number. She just said something about a dragon soul and hung up

supermarkets should have benches

everywhere should have benches

i have for a while been using stepping on somebody's toes as a metaphor for misgendering. and i genuinely think that it's kind of a good one.

if you give a grovelling begging apology after accidentally stepping on somebody's toes one time you're going to make the whole thing awkward, but not giving a quick "sorry" before moving on is still kind of rude.