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deathly curious how good the average tumblr user is at distinguishing dinosaur skulls from non dinosaur skulls

human teenager danny fenton THROWS HANDS

No, we overthrew him when he was a toddler and he's now in Switzerland I think. Egypt is a semi-presidential republic. For now. We keep switching government systems, historically speaking.

...i would fucking hope so?? I mean I'm pretty sure I'm not a poltergeist

No, Egypt is a floating island nation that orbits the earth.

Most of us do, yeah, and it's the official state language.

Not anymore I don't think. Can't speak for every one of us though.

...depends on the Egyptian in question?

Because that's its fucking name we don't call it Egypt here. It's kinda like how Germany calls itself "Deutschland"

The Arab expansion under Caliph 'Umar Ibn Al-Khattāb sometime in the 7th century. It still took a few centuries for Islam to become the majority religion over Christianity. Also not all of us are Muslim.

*still love, actually.

Also there are two answers

1. Cats are fucking awesome

2. Our prime minister is Satan from hit otome game Obey Me

Preservation of dead bodies because of their beliefs regarding the afterlife

Some god-kings demanded lavish tombs

...ARE we an empire? Cos I thought we're a republic on the verge of collapse

Please refrain from prophecizing the end of our nation. We know.

By breathing.

We actually invented that. Before we came around humans just didn't know what to do with their noses.

....okay I actually don't know enough about stonework to answer this one sorry fellas.

I thought it was pretty well known that the Abrahamic god was unkillable?

If you're referring to what my great^5000000 grandfather Thutmose worshipped though, I have no clue? Probably? I mean Osiris kinda died that one time but he came back.

Yes we're currently floating above it and sending down people in parachutes

Yeah I'm pretty sure the gov did do that. It was probably because of all the predators on there if that one show that came out relatively recently and the timing of it is any indicator

We fucking wish

To those wondering why the stone cutting question was included at all:

ancient aliens bullshit misinformers have taken the whole concept of "copper is too soft, copper tools can't cut granite!!!!" thing and run amok, trying to strip the architectural achievements of the ancient Egyptians from them and instead give the credit to... aliens? And/or some kind of divine ancestor to white folks. Depending on which flavor of racist misinformer you ask.

Anyway. There was certainly some change in methods over the STAGGERING number of centuries Egypt was doing their architecture thing, but if anyone is curious how copper tools can be used to cut granite:

They used abrasives, like sand or (less likely, depending on time/place), emery. Turns out the quartz in sand is harder than granite. So the copper tools basically dragged the sand particles over the surface of the granite, wearing it down in a process similar to how a modern emery board wears down fingernails.

Penn Museum has a nice breakdown on historical theories and investigating ancient Egyptian abrasive and drilling methods here.

I walked into class with a sheepish smile and said, 'Hi! Sorry, but is it okay if I go to the nurse?'

My friend screamed my name in horror and literally shot up, grabbed my uninjured side and was very firmly, (and very speedily) walked me to the nurse's office.

THEN WENT TO BED

Because, and I quote: "I couldn't be bothered to deal with all that."

The only reason he we went to a walk-in the next day was because he was still feeling off, and the walk-in wasn't busy. Whereupon the conversation with the doctor went a little like this:

"Don't panic, but you're actively having a heart attack right now, so we've called an ambulance to take you to the hospital."

"Okay. Should I call my wife to come get the car, then?"

"You drove here? ALONE?"

Anyway turns out that over the course of those two days he had something like 5 minor/intermediate heart attacks in relatively quick succession. Because he's a stubborn ass mule headed man.

Having flashbacks to all the instances in which i or a family member had ignored a health issue cause we're like Its Fineee

Me when my leg got knifed: this is literally fine i have gauze and sports tape to slap on it

My older brother: SIT YOUR ASS DOWN OR WE'LL AMPUTATE YOU

Me with my eyes completelt swollen to the point of blindness: idk man i think i just need a nap my eyes feel kinda heavy

My mother: DOCTOR. GET IN THE CAR

My hand with giant blisters and two missing fingernails: idk its not too bad i can still play my cello probably

My lil sister: Your Hand Looks Like A Prop Used In An Off Brand Zombie Movie

AND MY FAMILY IS SO MUCH WORSE? Like sure they be yelling at me for being stupid about a sprained ankle or smth but literally one time my dad assumed that a terrible pain in his chest and abdomen was just heartburn or acid reflux or smth despite the fact that he's literally never had either of those before, and he REFUSED to leave a concert i was playing until i was done and dragged his ass to the ER, and then after a few weeks we find out it was STAGE FOUR CANCER???

Or the time my little brother got hit by Heavy Construction Machinery and was like 'aight, im ready to rake' as if he didnt get slammed by a five ton machine on tank tracks without dying?? He only had like four breaks and a moderate concussion which is an absolute miracle cause we thought he was DEAD dead but bros just like Alright Start Skreeding girl no. Hospital

Oh god my mother with all of her concussions and multiple skull fractures being like Oh My Niece Wants Me To Go On A Carnival Ride With Her? Just One Wont Hurt. NOT WITH SEVERE HEAD TRAUMA YOU ARENT

Even when the degree of need is as small as "I don't wanna scare anyone", and especially when the degree of need is as great as "we don't have the resources for medical care". It's absolutely something that saved groups in our past and present--enabling superhuman acts like injured mothers lifting cars off of children, or sick shepherds continuing to work in the cold and wet, hell, an injured hunter continuing to help their group take down prey--but it's also absolutely a fatal flaw. And you can imagine this pairs SUPER WELL with the dumpster fire of the American healthcare system.

Speaking from personal experience, growing up chronically ill in a financially unstable family in the US leaves a special kind of worm in your brain. Providing healthcare requires resources: even with state-funding childhood healthcare, there's money for gas to get to doctors/hospitals, there's the psychological impact of a sick kid, there's the stress of managing medications, the stress of managing the kid's mental health, the stress of handling well/unwell siblings and their mental health, just, Jesus. The family has to live through all of this. And the kid sees the drain.

All of this to say: the first time I coughed up blood, I tried to make it into a joke to lighten the fear on my parents' faces, and then apologized for scaring them, and for "making them" drive me to the ER at like 1am.

I don't have a point to this. Lord, I'm glad those new meds came out.

replies are restricted but I feel the need to infodump my old stupid decision so see below

tw: broken right rib 5 tw: broken right rib 6 tw: broken right rib 7 tw: broken right rib 8 tw: broken right rib 9 tw: broken right rib 10 tw: broken right rib 11 tw: broken right rib 12 tw: broken cervical vertebra 1 tw: broken cervical vertebra 2 tw: broken cervical vertebra 3 tw: broken cervical vertebra 4 tw: broken cervical vertebra 5 tw: broken cervical vertebra 6 tw: broken cervical vertebra 7 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 1 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 2 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 3 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 4 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 5 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 6 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 7 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 8 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 9 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 10 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 11 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 12 tw: broken lumbar vertebra 1 tw: broken lumbar vertebra 2 tw: broken lumbar vertebra 3 tw: broken lumbar vertebra 4 tw: broken lumbar vertebra 5 tw: broken sacrum tw: broken coccyx tw: broken left humerus tw: broken right humerus tw: broken left radius tw: broken right radius tw: broken left ulna tw: broken right ulna tw: broken left scaphoid bone tw: broken right scaphoid bone tw: broken left lunate bone tw: broken right lunate bone tw: broken left triquetral bone tw: broken right triquetral bone tw: broken left pisiform bone

tw: broken right pisiform bone tw: broken left trapezium tw: broken right trapezium tw: broken left trapezoid bone tw: broken right trapezoid bone tw: broken left capitate bone tw: broken right capitate bone tw: broken left hamate bone tw: broken right hamate bone tw: broken left metacarpal 1 bone tw: broken left metacarpal 2 bone tw: broken left metacarpal 3 bone tw: broken left metacarpal 4 bone tw: broken left metacarpal 5 bone tw: broken right metacarpal 1 bone tw: broken right metacarpal 2 bone tw: broken right metacarpal 3 bone tw: broken right metacarpal 4 bone tw: broken right metacarpal 5 bone tw: broken left proximal phalanx 1 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 2 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 3 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 4 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 5 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 1 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 2 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 3 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 4 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 5 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 5 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 2 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 3 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 4 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 5 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 2 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 3 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 4 tw: broken left distal phalanx 1 tw: broken left distal phalanx 2 tw: broken left distal phalanx 3 tw: broken left distal phalanx 4 tw: broken left distal phalanx 5 tw: broken right distal phalanx 1 tw: broken right distal phalanx 2 tw: broken right distal phalanx 3 tw: broken right distal phalanx 4 tw: broken right distal phalanx 5 tw: broken left innominate bone tw: broken right innominate bone tw: broken left femur tw: broken right femur

tw: broken left patella tw: broken right patella tw: broken left tibia tw: broken right tibia tw: broken left fibula tw: broken right fibula tw: broken left calcaneus tw: broken right calcaneus tw: broken left talus tw: broken right talus tw: broken left navicular bone tw: broken right navicular bone tw: broken left medial cuneiform bone tw: broken right medial cuneiform bone tw: broken left intermediate cuneiform bone tw: broken right intermediate cuneiform bone tw: broken left lateral cuneiform bone tw: broken right lateral cuneiform bone tw: broken left cuboid bone tw: broken right cuboid bone tw: broken left metatarsal 1 bone tw: broken left metatarsal 2 bone tw: broken left metatarsal 3 bone tw: broken left metatarsal 4 bone tw: broken left metatarsal 5 bone tw: broken right metatarsal 1 bone tw: broken right metatarsal 2 bone tw: broken right metatarsal 3 bone tw: broken right metatarsal 4 bone tw: broken right metatarsal 5 bone tw: broken left proximal phalanx 1 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 2 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 3 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 4 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 5 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 1 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 2 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 3 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 4 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 5 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 1 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 2 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 3 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 4 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 1 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 2 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 3 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 4 tw: broken left distal phalanx 1 tw: broken left distal phalanx 2 tw: broken left distal phalanx 3 tw: broken left distal phalanx 4 tw: broken left distal phalanx 5 tw: broken right distal phalanx 1 tw: broken right distal phalanx 2 tw: broken right distal phalanx 3 tw: broken right distal phalanx 4 tw: broken right distal phalanx 5

tw: bruising

On screen, two Duel Monster cards with writing underneath:

|| (1) Be a Bitch About It | (2) Be Polite About It ||

Contestant a: "...what if I don't wanna play?"

Yuugi: "ah, of course. Can we get Option Three up on the board, please?"

On screen, a new card comes up over the other two:

(3) Angry New Yorker Best Friend Punches You A Lot

Jounouchi walks on stage, knuckles unwrapped and casual stance but with Anger ready in his face. "I really reccamend Door Two," he says idly, with a Brooklyn accent thick enough to have come from a jello mold.

Contestant a: "...option one."

Yuugi: "Oooooh, I'm sorry contestant a! You've activated my trap card."

The 1 card flips and dings like in Family Feud:

(1) Psychopathic Ghost Possessing Me Kills You A Lot