who do you question? god? or the bible?

DID THE JOURNAL FACTORY FUCKING EXPLODE???

you said it yourself: you're looking to vent it LITERALLY ANYWHERE

so vent it somewhere private. or at least not literally aimed AT another person, a total stranger at that

Like, this reblogger sounds so insanely self centered in their reblog. notice how both options focus on how being rude would affect THEM. "B has no consequences for me so it's perfectly fine to do"

I was watching a video that had people using whistles in the background and I realized that one of the things I do is teach lifeguards how to use their whistles very effectively. So I would love to share some tips on how to make your whistle as loud as possible, in case anyone wants that.

If you have ever played a wood wind instrument, you may know that you have to block the reed with your tongue; whistles are the same concept. You block the mouthpiece with your tongue to let the air pressure build. So that when you release its REALLY loud. Like, can silence 300 people at a swimming pool loud. For that reason we also tend to use short bursts instead of long blasts, but it works with long blasts too.

Also make sure you aren't wrapping your fist around the whole whistle, the air channels on the top need to be free to get a good sound.

Finally, pealess whistles (industry standard is fox40's) give the best sound, but use what you have

I'm sure you guys will be amazing lifeguards in Minnesota and beyond

Ghost Dad: WE LITERALLY CHANGED OUR VOWS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T LIKE "TILL DEATH DO US PART"

In the nineties, they were struggling. They were competing with a dozen other companies targeting the main demographic at the time: white men ages 18-35, especially after a failed luxury car launch with a new ad agency. “What we need is to focus on niche demographics,” they decided, and then focused on people who enjoyed the outdoors. The Subaru was excellent at driving on dirt roads that many other vehicles couldn’t at the time, so it was perfect for all those off-road campers; they started making all-wheel drive standard in all their cars to help with that. And the people who wanted cars to go do outdoor stuff? Lesbians.

Okay. Of course it wasn’t only lesbians buying Subarus. They’re on the list with educators, health-care professionals, and IT people. But the point is, this Japanese car company interviewed this strange demographic (single, female head of household) and realized one important factor: They were lesbians. They liked to be able to use the cars to go do outdoorsy stuff, and they liked that they could use the cars to haul stuff rather than a big truck or van. Subaru had a choice to make then. They had four other demographics they could market to, after all–the educators, the health-care professionals, IT professionals, and straight outdoorsy couples. Their company didn’t hinge on this one “problematic” demographic.

And they decided “fuck it,” and marketed to lesbians anyway. This included offering benefits to American gay and lesbian employees for their domestic partners, so it didn’t look like a cash grab. (This was not a problem. They already offered those in Canada.)

Yes, there was some backlash. They got letters from a grassroots group accusing them of promoting homosexuality, and every letter said they’d no longer be buying from Subaru. “You didn’t buy from us before, either,” Subaru realized, and ignored them. It helped that the team really cared about the plan, and that they had many straight allies to back them up. There was also some initial backlash when Subaru hired women to play a lesbian couple in the commercial, but they quickly found that lesbians preferred more subtlety; “XENA LVR” on a license plate, or bumper stickers with the names of popular LGBTQ+ destinations, or taglines of “Get out. Stay out.” that could be used for the outdoors–or the closet.

Someone speaking written finnish in casual day-to-day life usually means one of two things - either the speaker is somewhere on the autism spectrum (not a diagnostic criteria, but one of those "I've never seen a neurotypical person do that" things) or they speak finnish as a second language. And I don't know how to say this without sounding condescending, but I love hearing it, it's so charming. Like you stepped straight out of a 19th century play.

Standing in the line to a public bathroom, there's a man talking on the phone, speaking in finnish with a distinct accent, going "I understand, darling. Love. My love. Beloved, I understand. I understand. I will make my way there. Yes, I understand. I will make my way to you. Two hours."

@ozyga fun thing actually! The finnish written language was deliberately intentionally constructed during the 1500s during protestant reformation, in order to translate the bible into the peoples' own language. The concept of finns as a distinct people - not to mention a nation - was not even regarded as a valid thing. Finland wasn't occupied as much as just the isolated eastern half of the Swedish kingdom, whose peasants just happened to speak their own rural peasant language.

The reason why finnish is written so strictly exactly the same way it's pronounced is because the people who wrote it down were men of the church, who spoke the language as their "home language" but were educated in latin. Finnish was written down the way it phonetically sounded to people who could read and write latin.

Jokinly I always say that when the written Finnish was literally made up, Finnish speakers were not really having it and continued to use the spoken language regardless which led us to having two types of Finnish that everyone here understands. In reality it probably was that people just could not read or did not have access to education that would have taught them to read, I'm not sure as I haven't really researched this. Anyhow, all Finns understand both the written and spoken language as well the dialects, but for Finnish learners that can be a challenge. Many have said that they learned Finnish from books and then traveled to here and realized no one speaks whatever they were taught in those books.