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Stop everything.
Look at this picture of an Andean Bear cub eating corn.
You're welcome.
Happy Friday. - - - - - - - "Andean Bear cub 1" by greyloch is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
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3D-printed death masks by Neri Oxman.
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Everyone who uses threads seems like they live on a different plane of reality than everyone else
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Two boys talked on the playground about who was stronger: a kitten or a puppy. "For the sake of fairness, let's say they're both the size of a pea," one boy said. "Agreed," said the other boy. "It's only fair."
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ranking the best things I have had heard surgeons say mid-surgery:
- "Five second rule!" while scrubbed, after dropping a sterile scalpel on the floor (no they did NOT pick it up again but I swear everyone's buttholes puckered)
- (spoken during the closing of a particularly long and difficult case) "Nurse - my tunes." :heavy metal starts blasting:
- Gently to a fretful patient, pre-anaesthesia: "It's going to be okay. I promise, I've dealt with worse." As soon as the patient is unconscious: "This is literally the worst thing I've ever seen."
- [okay this one was a med student] "Wowwww, that's so gross!!" Reg: ""[xxx], "Please remember that the patient is awake for this procedure." Student to patient: "Oh my god. I am so sorry, that was really unprofessional - " Patient, cheerfully, also engrossed with what's happening inside them on the screen: "Nah - it's, like, super gross, right?"
- [another procedure where the patient couldn't be anaesthetised] Patient: *starts singing country roads midway through the procedure* Surgeon: *shrugs and joins in with surprisingly good harmony*
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now that’s what I call a sale
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okay
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1000 year old helical step well with 8 staircases twisting from 8 shrines, hidden for centuries, found in Maharashtra, India
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dusk in the park
Reblogged plasticspaceship
The name "Jane" is a female version of "John", and if Wikipedia is to be believed it developed not out of "John" directly but as a more novel and upper-class version of the then-commonplace "Joan", also a female version of "John", in the manner of the Kayleighs of today.
But "Joan" is still weird, because it's like that for no clear reason -- the original masculine/feminine pair here is like Johannes/Johanna, which explains nothing! It ends up in German as Johann and Johanna, and stress changes can induce vowel changes, but you'd expect that to work the other way round, with the unstressed O becoming shorter, so it seems to just be that "John" and "Joan" appeared at different times and the need to distinguish them kept the latter from drifting as far as the former. You can see the same general thing happening with "Steve" and "Steph", with the opposite gender/vowel length relationship.
So this isn't very systematic, obviously, and it hardly ever happens. But isn't it tempting to imagine us adopting a convention of gendering names by ablaut?
- Bill (m.) -> Beele (f.)
- Jeff (m.) -> Jafe (f.)
- Bob (m.) -> Bobe (f.)
- Dan (m.) -> Dane (f.)
- Mike (m.) -> Make (f.)
- Greg (m.) -> Graygue (f.)
- Keith (m.) -> Kayth (f.)
- Scott (m.) -> Scote (f.)
- James (m.) -> Jymes (f.)
and so forth
as a huge fan of stupid names I thank you for this technological breakthrough