Is this thing on?

One time I was in Argentina and I was so tired of trying to speak Spanish because I’m not very good at it lmao so I broke into exasperated English and the retail seller girl quickly understood me and engaged me in conversation. We talked for a while, she introduced me to a makeup brand, and then I decided to buy it. While she was packaging the purchase, she asked me if I were from the US or perhaps the UK and I just said “oh no I’m Brazilian hahah” and she looked me straight in the eyes and said, in clear Portuguese, “I’m Brazilian too”

When my dad went to China on a work trip, his Mandarin speaking wasn’t great but his listening was fine (his first language is Cantonese) and he encountered a German guy who had moved to China to work. My dad knew how to speak German because he studied it in university (but wasn’t great when it came to listening to new vocab he hadn’t studied before), and the German guy knew Mandarin because he lived and worked in China, so they had a conversation where my dad spoke to the German guy in German and the guy responded in Mandarin. I’m sure it confused a lot of their coworkers who just saw the Asian guy speaking German and the white guy speaking Mandarin.

Some years ago, I worked for a manufacturing company that had a service depot in China.  One of the engineers from the main office here in the US spent most of his time at the depot.  The problem was that he didn’t speak *any* of the various Chinese languages, and no one at the depot spoke any English. They all, however, spoke Spanish.

In the before times, I do medieval recreation. At a larger event, I watched someone from a group from Japan speak to a merchant from a group from Norway in English. They were speaking about old Norse costuming. We were in southern Arizona.

lil nas is part of the category of musicians whose music I don’t actively listen to, but every time I see something about them, I’m like “you go you funky little artist”

so at what point does it stop being candy making and start becoming small device machining?

before the video even started, i said aloud ”it’s that fucking chocolate guy again”

As alien species encounters go, this is like the absolute best possible outcome

THANK YOU FOR FINDING VIDEO! IDK WHY I DIDN'T THINK TO CHECK YOUTUBE! THIS VIDEO IS AMAZING!!!

Oh my gosh, thank you for sharing this! This is so precious!!!

lmao all the animals are all like What, In the name of FUCK? Is THAT?

#wish someone would carry me around on a stick to visit other animals for my daily enrichment

you'd think that demons would have a lot more sympathy for the virgin sacrifices and a lot less for the guy holding both of them captive against their will

fake relationship but its a king and his concubine that was once an amazing soldier but he couldn’t go up the ranks for whatever reason so the king was like listen. hear me out. you can be my strategy dude. u just gotta be okay w walking around shirtless a lot. and soldier dude is like man that’s an UPSIDE and yknow they end up falling in love

Boytoy has gone from a top fighter who was well respected but in constant danger to wearing silks and eating grapes on daises. That fucked up rotator cuff was the best thing to ever happen to him

Bonus points: at least half the other concubines are experts in assorted fields, the monarch brings them to relevant meetings to both play up a reputation for frivolity, and make sure at least one person there doesn’t have an outside agenda.

Tag to this - the biggest secret is the Queen who runs the Kingdom’s spy network. It’s the envy of all the other Kingdoms around, and not a few nobles! Not ALL of the Kingdom’s Diplomats are spies. But many of their servants are. The Queen grew up as a neglected child, and she learned how servants are ignored, but who always know everything that goes on. Many of the spies are like the Queen - beautiful and seemingly vacuous. The sp[ies tend to have great fun, and also work closely with the Concubines

One of my fav things about Gandalf is, he can & canonically does Full Name hobbits when he’s angry like he’s their mum or something

I think when Gandalf is pissed with Hobbits he reverts to the extremely formal  Mister Baggins!

you’ve cracked it, that’s absolutely what he does

The scary thing about Gandalf is he’s been around long enough to have met your entire lineage, so the recitation has more oomph.

“I knew your great-great-great-grandfather and he, too, was a bitter disappointment, but not as much as you are in this moment”

…what???

this is a universal experience because education is chronically underfunded across the world

The floors were always a little squishy

squishy? the entire building would shake if someone walked across the wrong part of the floor. which was the whole floor. and they're just squeezed into whatever part of campus the semi can drop it off in.

I don’t understand, what happened? Did they clarify the duration of the class? Did your boss confirm a new schedule? WE NEED DEETS, PHI.

Here in Argentina it’s very common for masters and doctorate classes to happen after 6 PM, because you assume 90% of the people taking the classes work 9 to 5 jobs. It does mean classes can run pretty late (most of them were three hour classes from seven to ten) but it also meant no scheduling conflicts. I’m sorry for the person who was screwed over, hope this didn’t affect their overall goals too much.

class schedules depends on area. i graduated from a four year university that offered post grad during the day and night. however, i was on a branch campus instead of the main campus. the branch shared with the local community college. the campus share was split up that the community college used the campus predominately during the day, and the university after 5 or 6 pm. this did let post grad students take classes after work.

THIS IS FUKING AMAZING WHY CANT I SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE I WANNA SHOW IT TO EVERYONE. LITERAL GOOSEBUMPS

I love this

I never considered baby capybaras were a thing but here I am, d'awstruck but the tiny adorable child

babybara

holy shit

Anyone else seeing what I’m seeing?

This is literally the best video I’ve seen in my entire life

I’ve reblogged the video before. The translation brings it to a new level of niceness.

The cat! Being dragged!! Asdfjsdklfj!!!