a motorcycle gang made up of ancient bisexual norse monarchs: the bikings
I JUST REALIZED THAT THIS POST IS 4 PUNS IN ONE OH MY GODDDDD
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#puns
Month: June 2014
slepaulica asked: is there a way i could have tagged that post that would have helped? i covered the options i could think of but if you have something in specific saviored i can try to use that in the future
I don’t have anything relevant saviored. You’d be surprised how rarely it comes up*, and when it does it’s usually people talking about how ill they are under readmores (so I don’t need an add-on to let me skip it). And like I said, all in all I’m glad for the warning.
*On the Internet, I mean. It comes up a lot when grocery shopping and suchlike. (Did you know Canada doesn’t have a consistent date-writing method? Good luck figuring out whether a bar of Cracker Barrel labelled “14 DE 13” is still good. (It is. Cracker Barrel writes the year first. But you can’t generalise that to non-Cracker-Barrel products.))
{{Looks like the linked post has been access-locked, so here is my comment from it:
“You can never have enough pi. There’s always some digits you’re missing.
Besides, Canada doesn’t have a single standard date-writing method. The closest we’ve got is 2013 MR* 14, but a lot of things don’t use it. (Say you have a box of crackers. The current date is October 20th, 2012, your phobia of rotting food prevents you from eating only-just-expired crackers but you have a friend nearby who will eat them, and the expiration date on the box is “11/10/12”. What should you do with it? The correct answer is “It is impossible to say without more information on how this particular brand of crackers writes their dates.”)
*Every month-word shares at least two letters in English and French. Many share more (there’s not really a significant difference between “November” and “novembre”), and if you saw a date written “2013 Fev 03″ you could almost certainly guess what it meant even if the third letter isn’t quite right. But two letters means it can be completely consistently written.”}}
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#tales from the askbox #I hardly ever eat strawberries anyway #I got a rash after eating strawberry baby food #so I spent like fifteen years thinking I was allergic #and when I got up the nerve to try them I found them a bit of a let-down #too crunchy #in which Brin has a food poisoning phobia #our home and cherished land
Scary bugs hiding in fruit is a thing that worried me a lot as a child, because my family had a grapevine and my mom told me once that I had to be careful it I was going to pick any of the grapes and eat them, BECAUSE THERE COULD BE BEES IN THEM.
Yeah, guess who never picked another grape ever again, LOL.
I am generally compelled to cut strawberries in half before eating them, given that I did actually find a worm of some sort living in the middle of one a few years ago!
i have to look for holes in cherries, because if there are little holes in them there are little worms in them too.
It’s always been the possibility of moldy/rotting fruit that worried me (though I do check down the middle of raspberries for bugs), but I think I’ll have to start cutting strawberries open.
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#bugs #bees #food #worms #in which Brin has a food poisoning phobia #and while slightly annoyed at having a new reason for manifestation of this #is mostly glad not to have found out about wormy strawberries the hard way
Missing Asks!
I FOUND IT! I FOUND THE ANSWER!
Okay, maybe not the final answer, but part of the problem! Asks keep getting eaten. Which is a big problem when you’re doing something anon and don’t want to ask the person “did you get it”?
If the ask contains an ellipsis without a trailing space, it gets eaten. It says delivered, but it goes nowhere.
So “Well… then” will get delivered but “Well…then” won’t!
Hopefully this helps in getting your asks actually delivered.
Post I made for my RP account, but very relevant elsewhere.
After discovering this, I tested it. Five different accounts between two people, anon vs not. No matter what, without fail, if the trailing space was missing, the message was not delivered.
I contacted Tumblr staff. They were already fully aware this was happening, but it is not documented anywhere. Nor do they seem keen on giving their users a warning about it in any fashion.
Help me spread the word because the staff won’t!
I just tried this out with a friend and those exact phrases and this post is correct! “Well…then” did not show up. I wasn’t even anon at the time.
Always make sure to put a space after your ellipses, I guess!
… huh.
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#Tumblr: a User’s Guide #The Mystery of the Missing Asks #the more you know #space between ‘…’ and ‘huh’ fully intentional
Have you ever seen a peacock in full flight?
I do not own these pics. They were sent to me in an email. But I thought I’d share with you all because they’re just AMAZING.
DRAGONS
They look like mythical creatures O:
Peacocks FLY?! The extent of my knowledge of peacocks was seeing them walk around freely at the zoo. Holy crap. Day made.
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#looks like they only fly for short distances #but they do it while looking *magnificent* #bird #pretty things #awesome
Starvation Symptoms – The Effects Of Starvation On Behavior: Implications for Eating Disorders
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I thought I would go ahead and share this separately, because it’s really interesting, based on the Minnesota Starvation Experiment.
Finding this stuff out has helped me understand and deal with some ongoing ED triggers. Just not getting enough to eat (or probably a good enough variety of nutrients) for a while will predictably trigger the kinds of thoughts and behaviors associated with eating disorders. No convoluted psychological explanations required; just starving your brain will do this.
Recognizing the pattern has helped me keep things at the disturbing thoughts level, and take that as an indication that I need to get more to eat. Rather than get triggered into actual disordered eating behavior. :-| (In my case, I stay hungry a lot from diabetes, with higher energy requirements there—and then also have trouble with remembering to eat enough and just standing up to cook, for other disability-related reasons.)
I first ran across this in the context of crash and yo-yo dieting, but it would apply equally well if you are having trouble consistently eating enough or enough variety for disability-related reasons. That can really foul you up in a lot of ways. And I would also not be surprised to see higher rates of clinical eating disorders among people who do have these disability problems with staying adequately fed, just from the complicated physiological responses there.
Reblogging again because I was reminded of it, and this is important stuff.
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#eating disorders #the more you know #interesting #disturbing
“Noun is a playful artist’s book about words and their definitions. It is like an exquisite corpse with words.
Starting with 27 real English words, each word and its definition has been divided into two parts. By turning the pages, you get to mix and match the word halves to create humorous and nonsensical new words and meanings.
With over 700 different combinations, this book is the perfect item for bibiophiles, lexicographers, writers, and any lover of words.
Here are a few examples of words and definitions you can put together:
whisper + umbrella = whisbrella: A low sibilan utterance for sheltering one from rain and sun.
banana + onomatopoeia = bananpoeia: A large herbaceous perennial tropical plant that bears fruit imitating the sound of the thing or action signified.
muffin + tyrant = muffrant: A quick bread made of batter unrestrained by law or constitution.
nomenclature + ancestry = nomencestry: A system or set of names for things derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors.”I’M SORRY BUT
muffin + tyrant = muffrant: A quick bread made of batter unrestrained by law or constitution.
THIS IS THE PINNACLE OF HUMAN INNOVATION ALL OTHER PLAYERS GO HOME.
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#language #neat
I have prosopagnosia, which means “face blindness”. I have had it since birth, and I think it accounts for some of my neuroticism. When I was little, I was often scared that I’d accidentally go home with the wrong parents. Over my lifetime, I’ve learned to identify people in other ways, so it almost comes as naturally to me as someone without facial processing difficulties. I still make mistakes and people get frustrated with me quite often. I’ve also begun to recognize the body language of someone who recognizes me, although I’ve messed that up when someone has just been “checking me out”, which has lead those people to believe that the attraction was mutual… oops. Luckily the bus usually comes in time. xD
However, with movies, I often have difficulty following the plot because I cannot tell the difference between many actors, even if they are of different ages or ethnicities. (It helps a lot if they have different hairstyles.) This is why I prefer cartoons, although I have the same problem with a lot of anime where the characters look similar. I think I would enjoy anime a lot more if I did not have this mental deficit.
Although I haven’t seen this movie, the two men on the left would look identical to me, and I probably would not enjoy this movie due to that.
The first one from the left has brown hair (what’s left of it) and the second one has silver hair (ditto). God help you if they ever wear hoods, though. (And having to rely on a single trait like that would likely make it harder. You’re always having to do “Okay, so it was the brown one that did x and the silver one that did y…I think”.)
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#prosopagnosia #reply via reblog #tales from the prosopagnosia tag
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