the more you know

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comparativelysuperlative:

kneesbutt:

westfailia:

what if a catholic priest were to just bless the entire ocean would it turn the entire thing into holy water or do priests have an effective blessing range? does that range increase based on your level? can the pope bless the entire ocean?

so technically any priest could, but shouldn’t for pooping reasons. 

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source: my brother is in his 4th year of study at a catholic seminary, and referred to one of his professors.

So if there’s an emergency where you REALLY NEED to bless the entire Earth water cycle, you’d just need to make sure everyone knows about it and has a self-contained recyclable water supply somehow? If humanity ever gets reduced to a few besieged survivors, the vampires aren’t gonna know what hit them.

#this does count as using it as holy water I hope

Well, but there’s also the part about having to see the water, which could get tricky if you’re trying to bless most of the Earth. My first thought was “live satellite video”, but I’m not sure that counts.

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harry2016:

HOLY TRINITY 

 

fannishminded:

MULTIPLE people I am following are asking what these are, why we call them holy when only one has a hole. If they are made by the same company, and what is with us praising these.

I weep for you people, from other countries. WEEP.

Aussies may have Tim Tams.

EU may have Kinder and All sorts of fantastic biscuits.

USA? Has GIRL SCOUT COOKIES.

Not only are these things SINFULLY good, they are only sold for a bit over 1 month of the year, depending on region, that month of the year changes.

That middle one is Chocolate, Caramel Coconut. The left one is Peanut Butter, chocolate and sex on a stick aka crumbly cookie/biscuit.

You can eat em straight from the box, but pros? Pros eat these bad boys frozen.

And thin mints, man. that right one? THIN MINTS. You may have heard of these. Chocolate biscuit infused with mint essence coated in dark chocolate.

Yeah.

Those thin mints.

The Thin Mints for which every grown ass American on a Medical Diet cries for when they see a girlscout.

The Thin Mints with 1000 copycats, and not a one of them successful.

Girl Scouts, regularly boycotted by Fundies and Anti-choice nutters, not only taste amazing, but you get the joy of giving money to a good cause, while subtly flipping the bird at overly wound up fundie groups.

It’s like donating to Planned Parenthood and getting a box of double dark chocolate with fudge filling tim-tams especially made for them.

 

doctorcakeray:

The reason we eat them frozen is that we buy as many boxes of thin mints as we possibly can during that short sale period, and then store them for the dark months, like proud American squirrels.

 

landscapesclothesandfootball:

PROUD AMERICAN SQUIRRELS.

 

pjcalamity:

AMERICAN SQUIRRELS REPRESENT

 

kyliesparks27:

This is the greatest explanation of Girl Scout cookies I’ve ever seen

 

elenabernalt:

Hey… gives us some, haven’t you been told to share?

 

justice-turtle:

NOBODY SHARES THIN MINTS, BUY YOUR OWN ;-)

fuck I missed it again, I hate being broke, SOMEDAY I will have money during February and buy Girl Scout cookies

Are there any late booth sales in your area? I know I looked it up recently and saw that the Girl Scouts of Western New York (my nearest council) had booth sales going well into March.

Unfortunately, my parents have since decided we’re not going to NY again until April. :(

(For the record, Canada has Tim Tams and Kinder. The Girl Guides here sell mint cookies in the autumn, but they have a layer of Oreo-like cream on top, just below the chocolate coating. Since I’ve never been too fond of Oreo cream, I find it renders them inferior to proper Thin Mints.)

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justice-turtle:

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gruntledandhinged:

[image: A tweet by Johanna Fateman (@johannafateman)

people who mispronounce words because they learned them from reading independently are deserving of admiration not scorn

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ALL of this. Encourage people to try new words, to mess them up, to experiment with vocabulary, to learn complicated adjectives and verbs and nouns, because words are fun.

Also, don’t be a jerk.

Like, I learned math from books. So of course the first time I talked about the “Lap-lace transform” I got some weird looks.

I wonder if that Euler guy and that Euclid guy were related? :) Since, you know, their names obviously begin with the same syllable.

(A friend I was hanging with last night learned programming on his own, so he says “ARray” rather than “arRAY,” which is rather charming actually.)

Wait it’s not pronounced “Lap-lace”? How is it pronounced?

Luh-PLOSS. More or less. (I’m from Indiana, even when I’m trying to pronounce French properly there’s a definite… lack of Frenchitude there. ^_^)

…I’m going to have to go look up the pronunciation of Euler now.

I’m back. Apparently Anglophones generally can’t quite manage the proper pronunciation, but the standard English approximation is “oiler”.

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imreallybad:

PSA did you guys know there’s a female equivalent to the word “phallic” ??

Yonic: resembling of vulva/labia/vagina

Yonic, from from sanskrit word Yoni

flowers are yonic, fruit is yonic, i’m so excited that this word exists i literally have only ever heard the word “phallic” until now. YONIC!!

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therunscape:

Heart attacks symptoms are different for women. I recently learned this. 

 

veggiebaker:

Everyone should know these things.

 

131-di:

thanks to mainstream media and being unable to show breasts on TV, way too few people know about female signs of cardiac distress, and impending heart attacks. they only know about the “pain in the left arm” male symptom.

 

lockrocksandcoke:

i had all these symptoms once and they sent me right to hospital

it was scary bc i didnt know these were the symptoms for female heart issues

 

dewgonair:

Please, please, PLEASE, reblog this. i don’t know if I did save or called false alarm, with my boss’ life tonight. I felt I was being a bit paranoid, overreacting, but I told Mirage my thoughts and he, after reading over the article I showed him, immediately sprung into action and then shooed her off to the hospital. I don’t know if I did or not, but I knew she’d been super stressed. She’d off-handedly commented on her arm tingling and I asked her if she felt queasy on a hunch. I went to look at the symptoms and we went from there.

 

francsforthememories:

Holy shit, I didn’t even think the symptoms would be different between men and women. This is so hugely important and I don’t understand why we aren’t taught this. 

 

moonblossom:

One of the other symptoms that doesn’t get talked about , especially in women, is a “feeling of impending doom”. I am not even kidding, that is a legitimate diagnostic criteria.

Please – if you are feeling any of these symptoms and a sudden onset of “Holy shit the world is ending” do not let anyone tell you it’s “just nerves” or “just heartburn” or something.

 

ursulavernon:

Buddy of mine having a minor cardiac episode DID get eventual left arm pain—but she got jaw pain first and shortness of breath. Pay attention!

Worth noting that even if you focus on cis people, heart attack symptoms don’t divide up neatly into “male” and “female”. These are symptoms disproportionately experienced by women, but be wary of them no matter what your reproductive phenotype. Conversely, be wary of the “male” symptoms regardless of phenotype.

The website listed on the infographic acknowledges this, using phrases like “women are more likely than men to” and “women are twice as likely as men to”, but I figure not everyone will look at the website.

(Does anyone else think they shouldn’t have said “any one of these symptoms” about a list including nausea? It seems like a pretty bad idea to treat every bout of nausea like it could be a heart attack.)

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bogleech:

did-you-kno:

Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets. Insects will eat the burrowing tarantulas’ eggs – so the spiders protect the frogs from predators, and in return the frogs eat the insects. Source

This has blown my mind for years. It’s so unreal. It’s almost the same exact reason humans and cats started living together.

Tiny frogs are tarantula housecats. A science fact seldom gets to sound that much like meaningless word salad.

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wine-loving-vagabond:

A loaf of bread made in the first century AD, which was discovered at Pompeii, preserved for centuries in the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius. The markings visible on the top are made from a Roman bread stamp, which bakeries were required to use in order to mark the source of the loaves, and to prevent fraud. (via Ridiculously Interesting)

 

dduane:

(sigh) I’ve seen these before, but this one’s particularly beautiful.

 

hungrylikethewolfie:

I feel like I’m supposed to be marveling over the fact that this is a loaf of bread that’s been preserved for thousands of years, and don’t get me wrong, that’s hella cool.  But honestly, I’m mostly struck by the unexpected news that “bread fraud” was apparently once a serious concern.

 

ironychan:

Bread Fraud was a huge thing,  Bread was provided to the Roman people by the government – bakers were given grain to make the free bread, but some of them stole the government grain to use in other baked goods and would add various substitutes, like sawdust or even worse things, to the bread instead.  So if people complained that their free bread was not proper bread, the stamp told them exactly whose bakery they ought to burn down.

 

dancingspirals:

Bread stamps continued to be used at least until the Medieval period in Europe. Any commercially sold bread had to be stamped with an official seal to identify the baker to show that it complied with all rules and regulations about size, price, and quality. This way, rotten or undersized loaves could be traced back to the baker. Bakers could be pilloried, sent down the streets in a hurdle cart with the offending loaf tied around their neck, fined, or forbidden to engage in baking commercially ever again in that city. There are records of a baker in London being sent on a hurdle cart because he used an iron rod to increase the weight of his loaves, and another who wrapped rotten dough with fresh who was pilloried. Any baker hurdled three times had to move to a new city if they wanted to continue baking.

If you have made bread, you are probably familiar with a molding board. It’s a flat board used to shape the bread. Clever fraudsters came up with a molding board that had a little hole drilled into it that wasn’t easily noticed. A customer would buy his dough by weight, and then the baker would force some of that dough through the hole, so they could sell and underweight loaf and use the stolen dough to bake new loafs to sell. Molding boards ended up being banned in London after nine different bakers were caught doing this. There were also instances of grain sellers withholding grain to create an artificial scarcity drive up the price of that, and things like bread.

Bread, being one of the main things that literally everyone ate in many parts of the world, ended up with a plethora of rules and regulations. Bakers were probably no more likely to commit fraud than anyone else, but there were so many of them, that we ended up with lots and lots of rules and records of people being shifty.

Check out Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony by Madeleine Pelner Cosman for a whole chapter on food laws as they existed in about 1400. Plus the color plates are fantastic.

 

drtanner:

Holy shit. 

Bread is serious fucking business.

 

lordhayati:

Man the bread fandom don’t put up with shit at all.

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A Practical Guide to Being Homeless

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hyperdelirium:

So as many of you who’ve been following me for a while may know, I’ve been homeless for almost two years now, and spent 7 months of that on an actual sidewalk. Leading up to the start of those two years (and for many years prior; my life has a habit of being unstable), I tried desperately to find any information I could on how to survive if I did end up on the streets. The day came where the concrete was my only option and I still hadn’t found anything useful beyond “get a car and a gym membership” as most “guides” have been written by people who could afford a car. Now, I could just have high standards for lowlife, but if you can afford a car, a gym membership, and a night at a hotel every week, you probably don’t actually need a guide telling you how to use those things. 

Currently one of my close friends is looking at being on the streets, and since I’ve been asked about stuff like this before and genuine resources are so hard to find, I figured I’d put together the best guide I could, informed by and based on my personal experiences actually living through this.

Some of the things I experienced will not happen to everyone— many of them never will. My situation was an extremely lucky one, in one of the safest, richest, and friendliest cities in the entire United States. But much of what I’m going to be talking about should apply to everyone. 

This list assumes that you are not going to be spending your nights in a shelter, for whatever reason you may have. Mine was social anxiety and a lack of queer-friendly options that weren’t already overflowing, and I chose not to put up with the few options I did have. Someone else’s reasoning might be a lack of a choice at all. Maybe you have no local shelters, or don’t have any that you are eligible for. Either way, you’re looking at spending your nights on the actual cold hard sidewalk.

This also assumes that you have virtually no money. You may occasionally wake up with large bills tucked between you and your bag or in the side of your shoe (one of the perks of being in a richer area), but let’s assume you don’t have a job yet. If you do, then you have a huge step up. Don’t let go of it.

So, given all that, here we go!

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This is a good guide.  Thankfully, we had our miserable hole to sleep in, so weren’t stuck on the street, but this is good solid advice.  Libraries are a bum’s best friend.

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swedish idioms painfully literally translated into english

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wordsinswedish:

useless-swedenfacts:

– now you’ve shat in the blue cupboard

– the taste is like the butt

– there’s no cow on the ice

– i sense owls in the marsh

– to walk like a cat around hot porridge

– don’t paint the devil on the wall

– to be out biking

– cake on cake

I’ve taken the liberty to give you the original Swedish versions and their meanings:

– Att skita i det blåa skåpet (to finally cross the line, to go too far)

– Smaken är som baken (no accounting for taste, to each his own)

– Ingen ko på isen (there’s no immediate danger)

– Ana ugglor i mossen (to sense something suspicious)

– Att gå som katten kring het gröt (to beat around the bush, to not speak directly on a topic)

– Att måla fan på väggen (to assume the worst)

– Att vara ute och cykla (to be very confused, to misunderstand something)

– Tårta på tårta / kaka på kaka (too much of a good thing; unnecessary repetition)

zephindles, I found a reblog chain with the meanings if you’re curious.

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