always imagining dragons

Pronouncing each of these in sequence is a very strange and amusing physical sensation, and I highly recommend it.

haha look it’s where those noises live in your dang FACE, TRY IT

Very helpful actually

since there is such an "english speakers who don't even try to pronounce a foreign mame correctly" epidemic, native english speakers often try to overcorrect and end up thinking they have a moral imperative to pronounce every foreign name correctly at all times. so i'm gonna hold your hand and look into your eyss as i say this: you can't. you can't pronounce every sound in a language you don't speak. and that's fine. it happens to the rest of us too. we won't be mad so long as you try your best.

Well, there's a visual. Eva Stratt gets to properly laugh all of once and turn her back on her problems for a single second and it all literally blows up when she's not looking.

water leak in my flat right as i'm going to bed, gonna liveblog it

intake valve on the toilet blew up right as i was going to bed, thank god it's the intake and not the output!

shut off the water you say? good plan! that was my first idea, unfortunately the stopcock is sealed behind a wooden panel. now that's good design!

building manager said to call an emergency plumber so i did. god bless them, he did arrive within 30 mins in the middle of the night

emergency plumber Ts&Cs be like "you owe us a million pounds an hour and your firstborn child" sure man just fix this toilet or the office workers below me are gonna be very soggy tomorrow morning

I have to pay them with my own money tonight when they're done but I will of course be forwarding the invoice to my landlady and asking her to pay me back. that's not gonna be a nice message to wake up to on monday morning, feel a bit bad - she is nice, i know she'll pay me back

the emergency plumber is here, he's younger than me and he looks like discount Mister Beast. Mister Least

"I know it's clean but I have to suck it." hey man we just met

the girls' group chat is loving all this btw, everyone's suddenly become Professor Plumb

he just sucked all the water out of my toilet, which has gotta be confusing as hell if you're the toilet

he's taken the whole toilet off the wall

i had to put on pants for this, I was fully bedtime pilled and cosymaxxing when this occurred

my least favourite towel is ruined, but hey should have worked harder to be my favourite towel I guess

Yellow-headed blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus)