sports is suffering!

the thing they don't tell you about writing ntbts fanfic is that in order to get to the juicy stuff you low-key almost have to come up with some dumb rivoli plan in order to justify any of it. kinda makes you realize how foundational the rivoli stuff really is to the nirvanna the band universe like it is literally essential and the driving force of everything and there's no real way around it

“my father is a boy and my mother is a girl so i’m mixed” is the funniest possible response to someone asking your gender and it came from 6’5 Viking footballer and notable weird little guy Erling Haaland on a Snapchat

I would take a job pushing the Sisyphus rock if it paid 20 an hour and I could wear my headphones

you're telling me i have one task, minimal oversight, no time pressure, and every time i complete my goal I get to take a break while walking back down the mountain, during which time I am free to be myself and enjoy the pleasure of my own company in brief respite from my labor? Damn, i could imagine myself happy...

i want a perfect buddy i want a perfect bro

I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don't want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they're heading to the funeral, but usually they just don't want to talk about it and that's fine. But I always treat the flight like it's a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that's never enough, that's whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a "Seriously??" And that's my in! Now I can say "Why, what's your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let's see it." And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it's always super funny, so I laugh, and that's where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I'm like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you're going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.

Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said "What did the ghost say to the other ghost?" And I said "What?" "Nothing. Ghosts aren't real."

in a way john watson is a fantasy (what if you had this brilliant enigmatic friend and what if he liked you in particular and what if he offered you the excitement of youth and adventures and a way out of boring society life and all without having to actually give up your status as a gentleman so you could have the best of both worlds) and in a way sherlock holmes is a fantasy (what if someone never got tired of you despite your various strange habits and mood swings and instead of simply tolerating you they genuinely liked you and what if you didn’t have to live alone forever and what if you never had to give up doing the things you love) and of course there’s the most fantastical part of it all (what if you could afford london housing prices)

Well, famously they can't actually afford London housing, that's the whole reason they met.

hikes are very good yes but a deluxe hike is when you are accompanied by a freak with niche nature knowledge. they’re like omg stop there’s a horned valerian varmint beetle here and then you both get to crouch down and look at a bug like :)

That’s why you should never accept the excuse “Well it was a different time.” They knew it was wrong. They always knew.

also to everyon who wants to see the documentary inthe US i’m sorry i have no idea how to find a stream that works outside of canada and how to check even if it did. it’s called the legacy of brendan burke though and you can try googling that.

hey I just uploaded it here non geoblocked