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Picnic Princess posted:
Is there a group this came from? It's gotta be fantastic.
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Picnic Princess posted:"Because gently caress you, that's why" - People who build things This seem true of people who just license their name to builders as well.
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Apr 9, 2016 18:43
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Is there a group this came from? It's gotta be fantastic. If you remove a carrot from the ground, clean it, and slice it with a knife, the resulting circles individually have surface similarities to eyes! That's as good as a 72-point product label in God's Earthly Kingdom.
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Apr 9, 2016 18:46
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 Yo man what this book series for children.....was secretly SUPER DARK AND DEPRESSING?! Joking aside it's been a long time since i've read Harry Potter, didn't the Durselys more or less just pretend Harry didn't exist? I can't remember any straight up abuse that's ever mentioned in the books.
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Apr 9, 2016 22:41
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Is there a group this came from? It's gotta be fantastic. I don't know how true this is, but someone once told me the whole legend of carrots being good for eye site came from WW2 propaganda. The British had invented radar, and 'leaked' to the enemy some bullshit about how they'd discovered that a diet of carrots gave them awesome eyesight. Probably BS, but it's a cute story.
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EvilGenius posted:I don't know how true this is, but someone once told me the whole legend of carrots being good for eye site came from WW2 propaganda. The British had invented radar, and 'leaked' to the enemy some bullshit about how they'd discovered that a diet of carrots gave them awesome eyesight. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-wwii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-that-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark-28812484/ Contains a link to the virtual Carrot Museum, for completeness.
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Apr 9, 2016 22:44
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I love when people post really obvious things as if they're some deep reading of the material.
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Apr 9, 2016 22:48
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:
Adults being incompetent shits is a regular theme in Roald Dahl stories, among others. It's a great way to suspend a child's disbelief, as deep down all children suspect adults are hiding most of the world from them.
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Apr 9, 2016 22:52
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Freddo mighnt not have even got the ring in the bin if Samwell haddn't helped him! the feels this drat owned
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Apr 9, 2016 22:55
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:
Harry Potter does get really dark. But it's not something you should slowly realize with age. It has magic nazis murdering people left and right and hideous creatures that suck the soul out of people and torture curses and all sorts of other poo poo.
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Apr 9, 2016 22:59
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:Joking aside it's been a long time since i've read Harry Potter, didn't the Durselys more or less just pretend Harry didn't exist? I can't remember any straight up abuse that's ever mentioned in the books. There was actually lots. The adults would take swings at Harry but I don't know that they'd connect, including once with a cast iron frying pan. They'd ignore Dudley hitting Harry or encourage him. His room was a tiny broom closet that they'd lock him in. They'd regularly near starve him. They'd have him do grueling chores, starting at a very young age (way beyond just building character or whatever). + heaps load of emotional abuse, like insulting him and his parents, discourage him from doing well at school, and so on. Like Harry's life was pretty hosed up. It's not a deep reading or anything and the series (less so the later ones but the early ones especially) is meant for kids so it's not going to have some traumatized husk for a hero, but yeah, I don't think it's too idiotic to notice that there's some really dark stuff that gets kind of gets glossed over in a children's book although honestly that just carries on the tradition from beyond even Dahl, but like the og brothers grimm. e; the super overdramatic presentation tumblrs often go for kind of undermines their point, though Mazerunner has a new favorite as of 23:08 on Apr 9, 2016 |
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Apr 9, 2016 23:05
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Henchman of Santa posted:Harry Potter does get really dark. But it's not something you should slowly realize with age. It has magic nazis murdering people left and right and hideous creatures that suck the soul out of people and torture curses and all sorts of other poo poo. and don't even get him started on the terrible scoring system of Quidditch.
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Apr 9, 2016 23:11
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Apr 10, 2016 00:53
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The Dursleys were cartoonishly evil, and most villains in the books were just as obvious. I love the HP series, I reread the last one last year, but tumblr needs to understand that some elements of the books were clearly not as well thought out as others.
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Apr 10, 2016 01:48
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BigglesSWE posted:The Dursleys were cartoonishly evil, and most villains in the books were just as obvious. I love the HP series, I reread the last one last year, but tumblr needs to understand that some elements of the books were clearly not as well thought out as others. Harry Potter was a weird set of books because they were amazingly written with zero loving thought behind it. You know that Divination professor who's super incompetent 99% of the time but occasionally produces hyper accurate work? That's JK Rowling.
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Apr 10, 2016 03:56
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I follow a Japanese zoo's fb page because they post lots of cute capybara stuff. This is how fb translated one of their posts: No Facebook, I don't think the zoo is posting about Gundams.
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Apr 10, 2016 04:27
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"And, on the left, we have the new Turn-A exhibit."
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Apr 10, 2016 04:37
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 Didn't feel like screencapping the facebook post, but I'm sure you guys can imagine what the comments were. Stuff along the lines of "lol what a bunch of pussies" and "they just want free government stuff", etc. That's not to mention it's pretty obvious how it would go if large amounts of blacks resorted to vigilantism.
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Apr 10, 2016 08:42
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Blind Pineapple posted:Aaah, the "hide bad replies" option, it does nothing!
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"Yeah but I don't think killing cops is the answer."
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Apr 10, 2016 14:11
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For some reason I doubt the person who posted that has high opinions about the Black Panthers, despite them being the exact thing that meme wants to happen
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Apr 10, 2016 14:38
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:
All the physical abuse stuff posted above aside, as a teacher in England (I assume the same is true in other countries) neglect is one of the four forms of abuse (along with physical, emotional and sexual) that we're trained to recognise in order to report to child protection if necessary. So even just pretending he didn't exist could, at some point, be classified as abuse. Sorry I don't have any actual content! My social media is remarkably free of idiots.
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I'm going to guess this person doesn't realize they should also be asking for higher pay instead of complaining that they no longer make more than other people
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Apr 10, 2016 16:38
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A 15 dollar minimum wage comes out to $28,800 a year before taxes. drat, this guy must really hate being an EMT.
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Apr 10, 2016 16:40
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Apr 10, 2016 16:44
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I'm always impressed when I see the anti-fluoride crowd still has modern proponents
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Apr 10, 2016 16:45
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I like the assumption that all diet products work the way dirt Coke does.
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Apr 10, 2016 16:48
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Mo0 posted:I like the assumption that all diet products work the way dirt Coke does. Ew dirt coke
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Apr 10, 2016 16:49
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change my name posted:A 15 dollar minimum wage comes out to $28,800 a year before taxes. drat, this guy must really hate being an EMT. Holy poo poo of course you loving would. What the gently caress is this.
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Apr 10, 2016 17:00
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goose fleet posted:I'm going to guess this person doesn't realize they should also be asking for higher pay instead of complaining that they no longer make more than other people Or the admission that he's just doing all of the things he mentioned for the money. "gently caress helping people, I could work at Dunkin'" is incredibly childish.
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Apr 10, 2016 17:04
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Brawnfire posted:Ew dirt coke phone posting is fun but Diet Coke sucks anyway leaving that as it lies 
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Apr 10, 2016 17:07
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Mo0 posted:
'Fluoride will give you CANCER and KILL YOU (and also mess up your teeth's appearance I guess)'
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Apr 10, 2016 17:18
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Tram drivers here are campaigning for more money though they currently earn more than junior doctors. Rather than this being a case of people saying doctors should be paid more they've decided it means tram drivers are greedy.
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Apr 10, 2016 17:20
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Someone has clearly never worked customer service if they think it's not high stress.
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Apr 10, 2016 17:23
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Picnic Princess posted:Someone has clearly never worked customer service if they think it's not high stress. And sometimes people will go so far as thanking/appreciating the work EMTs do. My MIL still sends Thank You cards to the EMTs that helped her during her cardiac arrest. When's the last time someone gave the overburdened host a second thought after getting their table? Or the person working the register with a line out the door, once they have their meal comped for a made-up reason? The guy who rang you up with your thousand coupons? The dishwasher? The person gathering carts from the parking lot? The trips into Hell are on the label for jobs in emergency services. You know what's up when you apply for that. Hell just follows you into customer service. It finds you.
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A lot of idiots seem to think that fast food workers spend most of their day lazing around, occasionally slapping a burger together at a rate of one per hour if those "burgers will cost $12" memes are to believed. I find the dumb "soldiers make less than fast food!' memes especially hilarious, as I did both fast food and the military for several years and even if the pay were as similar as these idiots think (which it's not) I'd cheerfully take a year in Afghanistan over a year working full time at a McDonalds, much less the sitting around in garrison most of the Army is going to be doing until the next war.
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This one really pisses me off. For one thing, EMS gets paid poo poo. Like, a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage would give every EMT-B I know a 4 dollar an hour raise, even if there wasn't that whole "ripple effect", where most jobs would see increases above just going to the new minimum wage. Even most medics I know are at 17-18 dollars an hour, so they'd see some pretty substantial raises as well. It'd still pay better than Dunkin, that's for sure. Also, if you're driving a box truck "as fast as the fucker will go", you're doing it wrong. Flooring it saves a minute or two, tops, where getting into an accident delays care indefinitely. Going lights and sirens isn't a license to drive like a maniac. And walking into a "junkie den" at 2 am without PD is some stupid cowboy poo poo. Scene safety is one of the first things they teach you in any sort of EMS training. Don't put yourself or your crew in danger because you're too cool to wait for PD (j/k, whoever wrote this probably doesn't do that, they just want to seem all burned out because they think it's cool). And prices are projected to go up a whopping 4.3 percent with a 15 dollar minimum wage. So your coffee and donut will probably cost an extra fifteen cents, not ten dollars. That's not even getting into that whole burnout attitude. EMS people loving love to post this kind of thing on facebook. The EMT doing some kind of pose in a messy ambulance with the caption "I'm sorry, I tried" is another popular one that makes me roll my eyes.
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"I need a raise, boss. $15/hr is not enough for the responsibility of being an EMS driver." "Howabout if I LOWER EVERYONE ELSE'S PAY?" "That's literally the same thing and just as satisfying to me, because I'm a huge idiot baby."
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