i DO know and i said ILLEGAL

They’re like if bears had knives protruding from their closed mouths and Didn’t Know When To Quit. Their survival instincts when they’re wounded aren’t “run away and minimize injury” it’s “take the thing that hurt you down with you” They also make sounds like someone crossed a pig with an alligator.

Their head and neck alone can be like the size of an entire human torso.

Also forever laffin’ at people who think pigs are tiny, ‘cause we designed those things can get in the neighbourhood of a thousand pounds in ideal circumstances. 

It’s like when people assume Tuna must be small because they’ve only ever experienced them in hockey puck form.

Very carefully, I would imagine.

WIld boar babies are rather cute, like living humbugs…

…but the adults and their ferocity have been associated with warriors for thousands of years, from Mycenaean Greece (a helmet made from sections of boar tusk)…

…through Celtic Europe (reconstructed carnyx war-horns and standards)…

…Ancient Rome (the crest of Legion 20 “Valeria Victrix”). A couple more legions also used a boar as their crest - I wonder did they squabble over which was the “right” one the way a couple of Swiss cantons had a little war over whose bear was best…?

…then Anglo-Saxon and pre-Viking helmet crests…

…right up to the late Middle Ages (here the white boar badge of Richard Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III of England)…

…and the blue boar badge of the Earl of Oxford, more usually represented by the De Vere arms, quarterly gules and or, in the first a molet argent.

After Richard was defeated at Bosworth in 1485, there was a run on blue paint as inn-signs were changed to reflect new loyalties since Oxford was on the winning side…

And pigs will definitely eat people.

It gets mentioned in the movie “Snatch”, the book/movie “Hannibal” and the webcomic “Lackadaisy Cats”, among numerous other fictional sources, and IRL it’s suspected to be the reason why numerous missing persons have stayed missing.

More here (another comment to this same OP) and here (slightly different).

Here’s some boar-hunting armour for dogs, ancient…

…and modern…

…and the modern one looks very like a simple style of ancient…

shopping for someone else's groceries is a fairly intimate thing. i've bought condoms and pregnancy tests, allergy medicine and nyquil, baby benadryl and teething gel, a huge pile of veggies paired with an equally huge pile of junk food, tampons and shampoo and closet organizers and ant traps and deodorizing shoe inserts and a million other little things that tell a million different stories in their endless combinations. one time someone had me buy one single green bean. i messaged them to confirm that's actually what they wanted, and they said yes - neither of them liked green beans very much, but they had a baby they were introducing to solid foods, and they wanted to let him try one to see if he liked them. another time i had someone request 50 fresh roma tomatoes - not for a restaurant, but for a person in an apartment. the kitchen behind them smelled like basil and garlic when they opened the door. another time i brought groceries to three elderly blind women who share a house. that was one of the few times i have ever broken my rule and gone inside a place i've delivered to, because they asked if i could place the grocery bags in a specific location in the kitchen for them to work on unloading and there was no way i was going to refuse helping.

i gripe about the poor tippers, but people can also be incredibly kind. one time i took shelter from a sudden vicious hailstorm inside an older lady's home in a trailer park, while i was in the middle of delivering her groceries. we both huddled just inside the door, watching in shock as golf-ball-sized hail swept through for about five minutes and then disappeared. she handed me an extra $10 bill on my way out the door.

when covid was at its deadliest, people would leave extra (often lysol-scented) cash tips and thank-you notes for me taped to the door or partially under the mat. i especially loved the clearly kid-drawn thank you notes with marker renderings of blobby people in masks, or trees, or rainbows. in summer of 2020 i delivered to a nice older couple who lived outside of town in the hills, and they insisted i take a huge double handful of extra disposable gloves and masks to wear while shopping - those were hard to find in stores at the time, but they wanted me to have some of their supply and wouldn't take no for an answer.

Bones + saying “Jim” in Star Trek Beyond

Bonus:

“I believe that we should make community college free. We should have debt-free college if you got to a public college or university. You should not have to borrow a dime to pay tuition… I disagree with free college for everybody. I don’t think taxpayers should be paying to send Donald Trump’s kids to college.“ [video link]

But that was the point exactly. They posted some real things and a lot of half-truths that would appeal to the kind of politics on here and therefore spread disinformation to discourage us from participating in stopping Trump through the only option we had. I’m glad tumblr left these posts up so we could see for ourselves. 

She was not. There were SO many posts by her that got big numbers and most of them were fine. That was an illusion so that when she posted things like this it might not click like it would if it were loudly pro- Trump.

You see a blog that is leftist but only critical of the more “safe bet” cookie cutter candidate and has very little to say about the obviously right wing, objectively worse for everything you stand for candidate?

voting is useless

Biden is old and useless

Democrats are useless

Biden has achieved nothing

if Biden did achieve anything it’s irrelevant

there’s no difference between Democrats and Republicans

there’s no difference between Biden & Trump

Biden is responsible for things Trump did

it might be better to let Trump win (!!!)

None of that is true or even reasonable to believe. None of it.

•Acting like not voting for Biden will some how solve the Gaza crisis when isreal’s relationship with America is complicated and Congress has more say in what happens and the president is little more than the PR guy right now.

•make any decision Biden makes towards Israel look pro Israel (I see no one talking about the temporary port he’s having be made to bring aide to Gaza or his criticism of Israel from the state of the union, only things from a month prior….strange…also theres the fake not halal MRE meals being dropped story going around. Hmmmmm……)

•publishing stats on how there’s no way Biden can win and the whole country hates him

•statements of the economy getting worse because of him, and not because of corporate inflation in response to wages raising in many parts of the country.

•ignoring the fact that things HAVE gotten better since he took office including there being more jobs and better pay. Its just been very gradual.

•Congress is DELIBERATELY TRYING TO SABOTAGE OUR GOVERNMENT SO TRUMP GETS IN OFFICE AGAIN.

•comments of him having dementia. If you actually listen to the guy talk, especially in comparison to Trump who genuinely sounds like he has dementia, he doesn’t actually forget a lot it’s usually just a slip up of words in a high tension environment which he will then correct or his speech is otherwise eloquent and you understand what he’s trying to say. Like the Mexico-Egypt thing. Yes he meant Egypt no he doesn’t think Mexico is in Africa. It was probably just a slip up from him talking to the president of Mexico a lot recently due to the whole boarder fiasco. He is human and as someone who has done public speaking, he does it pretty well given how much pressure he is under. Dude nearly cried on stage out of rage cause someone accused him of forgetting when his son died and he recovers in seconds as soon as he notices it. I wouldn’t be able to do that.

•acting like Republicans aren’t literally trying to sabotage anything getting done in government in order to make Biden look like he can’t get anything done. Especially with the border issue

•all senators and congressmen cannot be convinced by their voter base to change within party.

•convientiently ignore january 6th

•encourage thought towards a violent revolution