I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog

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systlin:

penfairy:

one thing me n my art loving gf would do is visit galleries and play a game called “root, loot or boot” 

the gist is that you would look at a group of paintings in a room and decide which figure in the painting you’d root (fuck, in Australian slang), which painting you’d loot (steal and put on your wall at home) and which painting you’d boot (punt into the garbage because it’s shit and Not Art)

a couple of things about my experiences:

1. this game is a lot more fun if you’re attracted to women because there’s so many Hot Gals to choose from 

2. if you are attracted to men, you will spend a lot of time going “well, looks like I’ll have to pick jesus again” as my bi gf did

3. it gets more complicated in modern art museums and you find yourself having saying, “I’d fuck the rhombus” “you CAN’T fuck the rhombus” “then I’ll fuck that blue squiggle thing. what’s it called?” “creeping existential dread in blue” “then does that mean I’m fucking the squiggle or am I getting fucked by the existential dread it represents?” “aren’t we all already getting fucked by existential dread?”

4. if you play this with an art history nerd, they may decide to kill you over one of your “boot” choices

5. you will get Disapproving Looks from other patrons who overhear your heated debates

6. it’s also the best fun you’ll ever have in an art gallery

“you CAN’T fuck the rhombus’ sounds like Quitter Talk to me. 

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thepeachfromcmbyn:

calamitys-child:

calamitys-child:

calamitys-child:

I truly am obsessed with how Knives Out was like. Hello Daniel Craig, man who has spent the past two decades of his career being alternately beaten up and objectified playing an action hero with no personality. Would you like to please put on a shirt and an incomprehensible vaguely Texan accent and flex your character acting dark comedy muscles as well as your pecs for a while. And he’s like BOY WOULD I and they made a work of art. Also love that they put Chris Evans in sweaters. Get your beefcakes then dress them nice make them soft and give them some bonkers character work to do it’s what cinema needs more of

I love that several people have responded to this with “op I forgive you cause you’re Scottish but that’s not a Texan accent” which is fair thank you I appreciate it but no two people have agreed on what accent it is which is also Absolutely fair and hilarious as a reaction to this film

Cannot stress enough that I do not know what the fuck a foghorn leghorn is but literally a hundred people have said it to me so far so I’m assuming it’s important to, like, Americans

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rustingbridges:

brin-bellway:

https://brin-bellway.dreamwidth.org/104438.html

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#a bespoke meme? for me? #aww <3 #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #protect your galaxy brain: wear a helmet #(though on a serious note: apparently spiked bike helmets are rather less effective because they can’t deal with skidding well) #(I came across a pro-bike-helmet interest-group website in my research and they were like) #(”look we know that those kids’ bike helmets with the mohawks or dinosaur shapes on them are cute but please don’t”)

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princehfg asked: how smart are you, frank?

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nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

Pretty smart. I was recently reading a book called “A Short History of Nearly Everything” which I liked a lot. I’m always reading and stuff like that makes me feel smarter than I am.

 

princehfg:

alright, what’s 2+2?

 

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

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#the much larger font size of the 3 really takes the joke to the next level #a shame it doesn’t appear in all viewing modes #I will have to make sure it shows up in the archival versions I control #computer generated text #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #(I know this is the second joke about Frank being bad at math I’ve reblogged) #(and it *almost* feels cruel‚ but here’s the thing) #((well‚ the thing *other* than Frank being non-sapient)) #(Frank is optimising for posts that get a lot of notes) #(and being amusingly terrible at basic arithmetic gets a lot more notes than being competent at basic arithmetic) #((see for example the 2001 notes this post has gotten in less than a day)) #(honestly I suspect that #–given the training data– #Frank *does* know what 2 + 2 equals and is essentially giving a wrong answer *on purpose* *as a joke*) #(the sense that Frank is in on the joke prevents a lot of the embarrassment-squicky stuff that would otherwise come up)

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rustingbridges:

nightpool:

one of the disappointing experiences in life is when i see people reblog my matt levine post and tag it #insider trading, but when I go and look at their blog there’s nothing else in that tag. i think that should qualify as false advertising. maybe the FTC should look into this.

broke: one matt levine post

woke: one matt levine post and a mega series about the economics of osmosis jones

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#oh look an update #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #adventures in human capitalism

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epicdndmemes:

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#…I don’t seem to have reblogged this before #(either that or I forgot to put it in the ”moon” tag) #fixing that #moon #music #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #((this amusement not to be taken as expressing an opinion regarding the statement itself))

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outofcontextdnd:

🎶 We need a healer!

We’re holding out for a healer till the end of the fight

And he’s gotta be strong and he’s gotta be pure

And he’s gotta be blessed by the light

 

We need a healer!

We’re holding out for a healer till the morning light

And he’s gotta be fast and he’s gotta cast Cure

And he’s gotta be larger than life

 

Larger than life

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keuhkopussirotta:

A sleight-of-hand magician routine that’s also a stand-up comedy set about ADHD. Like I’m just there complaining about how I always lose or forget stuff, I change subject as I lose your track of thought, then suddenly remember that I was holding a fan in my hand and –

Where the FUCK did it go??

I ask the audience if they saw where it went. Not in my sleeve, there’s just a handkerchief there. Nothing in my pockets. FUck, I don’t even have any pockets. No, wait, was it in the – [a dove emerges from an improbable place] aw fuck I forgot to return that to the vet.

Now distracted by tugging a comical length of handkerchiefs out of my sleeve, I’ll start telling the story of why, exactly, I was borrowing a pigeon from a vet in the first place. The story, which is lengthy, still doesn’t go on as long as the string of handkerchiefs.

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#ADHD #story ideas I will never write #amnesia cw #embarrassment squick? #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #(I particularly like that last line)

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ofthefog:

femmenietzsche:

You don’t hear so much about lesbians wanting to be destroyed by gigantic women these days

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#I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #death tw? #sexuality and lack thereof #(…huh) #(I just double-checked and the dictionary entries I’m seeing claim that ”dead men tell no tales” is purely about) #(secret-keeping and how people can’t betray you if you murder them before they get the chance) #(and while I’m *aware* of that meaning‚ I would have said the *primary* meaning is closer to the bullet-hole thing) #(be wary of bias in the stories you hear about which things are safe‚ for dead men tell no tales) #(I wonder what the dialect determinant is there‚ or if it’s a me thing) #language

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shieldfoss:

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#”may your Wikipedia link turn blue” as an alternate form of ”may you live in interesting times” #Ever Given #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #today in Apocalypse Memes