what-even-is-thiss:
What they don’t tell you about speaking multiple languages is that your brain does not in fact have a box labeled Spanish and another one labeled German. Instead it has a box labeled “Not English” and sometimes when you’re talking or writing in one of the languages you speak it will just start pulling random words from that box.
Fun thing I encountered once.
Okay, so we should really invent a surgical anesthetic which you come out of feeling refreshed and relaxed, like a really good sleep, and not like one of those deep-sea fish being pulled into an environment for which you are wildly unprepared and which makes you feel awful.
However, we do not have that. So coming out of surgery sucks. And your body does not all come back online at the same time. You can get your eyes working well before shape recognition is running. This can include some odd bits of cognition which just don’t boot up with the rest of you.
And that is why I woke up from a hernia surgery unable to remember the English language. It just wasn’t there.
The good news is, I had a backup option! Not-English! Which for me means a fair bit of German, some basic Spanish, and weeaboo-level Japanese. In that particular case, what came out was German.
Good German. Fluent German. Solid enough German that the nurse I spoke to at the time - who was from München - asked me where in Germany I was from.
I do not, however, suggest General Anesthetic to gain full access to all the languages you have learned past your mother tongue.
yuttikkele:
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yuttikkele:
hey gamers I’ve started watching star trek does anyone else see the romantic tension between captain kirk and mr. spock
watching the realization publicly dawn in real time in the comments is fucking amazing
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drchucktingle:
TROMPS 2024 CAMPAIGN: ‘i will literally destroy the united states economy’
TROMP VOTERS WHEN HE LITERALLY DESTROYS THE UNITED STATES ECONOMY:
Okay, but that ties back to something I heard said, oh, eight years ago: that he should be taken seriously but not literally.
When really we should have taken him literally but not seriously. In other words, we should have maintained that he absolutely meant what he said, and we should have mocked him for it constantly.
macbethheadband:
Right click -> save as -> ancient curse
That is basically how WinRAR worked.
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victusinveritas:
How Mexicans feel about duendes too.
True. Most Irish people, as Norwegians do with Trolls, will happily let the ‘fairies’ be a thing to make tours for tourists and idle threats to make children behave. Most Irish people will have a very normal and mature explanation of fairies as a common folk mythology that expresses some dimension of Irish culture but are not, obviously, to be taken literally.
And most Irish people, if you ask them to move a stone from a fairy circle will immoveably, flatly respond with 'absolutely fucking not’.
Construction projects have had to halt and be abandoned for it.
At work me and a couple coworkers (black, white, and mexican) had a fun discussion on whether there are more ghosts at a hospital or a cemetery.
everyone individually took a moment to specify that ghosts probably aren’t REAL real. then weighed in on where and why.
for the record my position was that there’s probably way more ghosts in hospitals because that’s where people die horribly, but since you can only see ghosts in dark, solitary conditions, graveyards at night is where the majority of ghost sightings occur. hospitals are usually well lit and busy, so even if they’re crammed with ghosts the living are too damn busy to see them. meanwhile if a cemetery has even one ghost that followed her corpse there from the hospital, she’ll be spotted because that’s where all the ghost hunters go to look.
this theory was received as extremely sensible, and a coworker drew the conclusion that that’s why abandoned hospitals are even scarier than graveyards. once the place gets abandoned then you can tell how much ghosts got built up.
we all liked this explanation a lot and explained it to everyone else all night. and of course, none of us believe in ghosts.
[ID: Tweet from user Allie [blue checkmark] @/Cluffalo dated December 30, 2024 reading: My Norwegian grandma says “Everyone knows trolls aren’t real, but everyone also knows they aren’t fake” which I think is fair
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Honestly, the bit about ghosts and hospitals makes so much sense.
Graveyards can be a little creepy. Abandoned graveyards are generally less creepy. I mean, it’s all kinds of not cool as the mausoleums start crumbling and such, because sometimes that leads to exposed burials which is bad, but overall an abandoned graveyard is just… kinda sad.
Abandoned hospitals though? Wow, those are a THING. Those are some of the creepiest places you can go.
