Hi this is absolutely killing me, could someone please point me in the direction of that video of the guy in like a train station who’s pretending to be a street preacher but he’s reading the Very Hungry Caterpillar like it’s the book of Genesis
God bless you
thank you
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #Christianity #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Turns out they sell special reusable earplugs for musicians that decrease volume without muffling sound as much as regular earplugs. They’re real handy to have as a purse item. Mine saved me from having a meltdown at a restaurant composed of 0% sound-absorbing materials like a month ago.
the off-the-shelf etymotic earplugs are good at evenly reducing sound, but in my experience & in some friend’s experience kinda uncomfortable for sustained use; i used to try to wear them for loud music events but would always take them out after a while.
loop earplugs look nice (!?) and also are comfortable! you have to rotate them until they’re comfortable, and then they’re pretty much unnoticeable. i wore them for 8 hours at a loud music event two weeks ago. my voice sounded a little weird in my head at normal volume, but i got used to it after a bit. i’ve also worn them while exercising, which wasn’t amazing but sucked less than disposable earplugs.
my partner has custom-molded earplugs, which they say are 1) very comfortable and 2) don’t make your voice sound as weird in your head as shittier earplugs. they also have replaceable filters, so you can swap them from “just a little quieter” to “someone is shouting directly in my ear from 3 inches away and I can’t hear it” (which are the filters they accidentally had in at the same loud music event… they had to use their backup earplugs, also loops).
for home use (blender, vacuum, fire alarm, etc), i have a couple of sets of children’s earmuffs
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#holy shit #portable? sound blocking?? that isn’t *itself* sensory hell??? #I need to look into this #(I wonder if I’d be able to sleep in them without having nightmares‚ or if that’s just inherent to the concept) #((they were false-awakening nightmares in which I took out the earplugs and found that my ears were still clogged)) #((I was prone to ear clogs as a child‚ and they *were* often triggered by sticking something else in my ear‚ and)) #((I was always worried that one day they would happen to occur in both ears at the same time and I’d end up nearly deaf for ~3 weeks)) #((this did not ever actually happen‚ but it very plausibly could have)) #((and my subconscious is–as of 2015‚ anyway–not over this)) #(((which is honestly valid of it))) #the more you know #recs #transhumanism #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
the new vampire care package has a pamphlet called “The Garble and You!” because of course it does so I need to give a basic rundown of the garble without being infodump-y but also I need to think abt the fact that alex (believes in the garble) and quinn (doesn’t) would have been bickering the whole time while writing it hunched over a laptop together and how that translates to the text……
it also can’t be SCARY bc they want new vampires to feel at ease and there’s not much that makes one feel less at ease than the entire concept of the garble if I’m being honest
#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #A Rental Car Takes a Left Down Rake Street and Disappears #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#X Files #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #food #embarrassment squick? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Threshold Day is the anniversary of the airing of Threshold, one of the, if not THE, most batshit episodes of Star Trek Voyager, and Star Trek in its entirety. (Spoilers for Threshold below.)
In it, Lt. Tom Paris decides that, due to his enormous daddy issues, he will only be redeemed if he lives up to his potential by making it into the history books. In this case, it’s by breaking the transwarp barrier, which does not mean being trans and going into warp, a barrier which I’m sure was broken way before this, but going Warp 10 (in the new scale). Because apparently exploring basically a new section of the galaxy at the helm of the only Starfleet starship to be there is just garbage in terms of history-making, I guess.
So they find out there’s a 2% chance his personal brain will explode if he does this, and they’re going to let Harry Kim do it instead, but Tom is like, “no, Captain. You don’t understand. I have MASSIVE daddy issues. Also, you’d probably have to promote Harry if he succeeded, and nobody wants that.”
And Janeway is like, “Oh shit, I really don’t want to promote Harry. Also, I have some pretty big daddy issues of my own, so I getchu; have at it. Hope your brains stay unexploded.”
So he successfully does his thing, and he’s like, EVERYWHERE AT ONCE, MAN. He sees everything. Past, present, Harry in the shower – I mean, future – in all places at once. Which is why it’s odd that he’s so surprised when he collapses in the Mess Hall after drinking one of Neelix’s truly noxious brews. He should have known how gross it was going to be.
Anyway, the next twenty minutes or so are the EMH trying to stop Tom from turning into a weird gross scaly creature, with limited success. He stops being able to breathe oxygen. He gets super paranoid and rants a lot. He yells about pepperoni (I am not kidding). He asks for a dying kiss from Kes, which leads to a truly marvelous turn-down line: “I’m sorry, Tom. If we let down the forcefield, you’ll suffocate,” which I will now use for any unwanted come-ons. He legit DIES, then comes back to life a pretty long time later. He yells at Janeway, and then, like anyone who dares yell at Janeway would expect, his tongue literally falls out of his mouth.
Finally, he’s getting pretty close to salamander territory, when the last 15 minutes give up on making ANY sense. He busts out of Medbay, kidnaps Janeway, goes to Warp 10 again, turns them both into complete salamanders (I guess the EMH literally did nothing to help Tom, because apparently Janeway makes it through the transformation just fine without medical attention), and then HAS LIZARD BABIES with her.
Which we know, because the Voyager crew manages to find them three days later, and in that time apparently Janeway has changed over and already had the babies. Also, they were able to find a shuttle that literally could have gone anywhere in the entire universe. Chakotay then shoots the salamanders and they take them back, leaving the babies to…I don’t know, sala-meander around or something. Why is Chakotay’s first reaction to phaser the largely-sedentary salamanders? I have no idea.
Cut immediately to the EMH having been able to just roll back their DNA or something and make them entirely human again as if nothing had happened (If this were possible, why didn’t they just Warp 10 home to Earth and then fix everyone while they evolved? It sounds like it would suck, but so would being lost for 70 years). Janeway insinuates she may have initiated the salamating. (Tom should have said salami instead of pepperoni, in salamander solidarity). They laugh off something that should require about 50 years of counseling. Tom says, “cool, I think I have slightly less daddy issues now.”
YOU KNOW WHO HAS MORE DADDY ISSUES NOW? MAYBE YOUR ABANDONED SALAMANDER BABIES.
AND NONE OF THIS IS EVER MENTIONED AGAIN. OR HAS ANY IMPACT ON THE SERIES. EVER.
And so, we commemorate this weird atrocity (which actually has some nice character development and Emmy-winning makeup, but AT WHAT COST) with a day of commiseration and celebration, largely spearheaded by @captaincrusher. Join us next year…posts are already being prepared.
#oh so that’s why somebody reblogged one of my old Threshold reblogs today #Star Trek #Voyager #Threshold Day #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what
#autism #Star Trek #DS9 #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #art #fanart #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #ableism cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
If you think you know what these videos will be like you’re wrong, they must have taken DAYS of careful editing
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#oh my god #music #Sesame Street #juxtaposition #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #I think overall I like the juxtaposition of the first one better #(the second *song* is better‚ but Cookie Monster swearing just feels wrong) #but shoutout to ”left‚ right‚ left” and ”I was a chef” #also‚ what Benedict said #(”incredibly impressive lip syncing job here”) #(”how do you even have the kind of knowledge necessary to pick out scenes with the right timing”) #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#high context jokes #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #A Rental Car Takes a Left Down Rake Street and Disappears #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
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