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mostlydndthoughts

@benchwarmerxp

He/him. 28. Aussie. I talk about whatever usually Dungeons & Dragons and video game stuff. twitch.tv/benchwarmerxp

And he’s upset why?

This is a behind the scenes from a TV show. He’s the guy who plays the character whose gravestone it is. He’s mad that people are memeing a behind the scenes photo of a fictional character’s death because he happens to play that character.

I’m not sure if I should laugh or hit my head on the desk over this one.

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sox-in-fox

The face I just made 🙄

My favourite part that this is leaving out is that by the end he and the rest of the cast weren’t getting along and they did a full on photoshoot in front of his grave.

if he doesn’t want us to use THAT photo, it seems like we’ve got three malicious-compliance-ready replacements right here

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I'm in my 20s you sack of dogshit

Hendrix is fucking sick and rocks hard as hell and I was born like 30 years after he died

it’s pretty funny how if you so much as say the words “public sex” on this website inevitably the most annoying kind of repressed losers will show up and (1) assume that “public sex” means “in the middle of the road outside a church in broad daylight” and (2) start talking about the sex offense registry as a way to convince themselves that doing anything illegal immediately lands you in superjail forever no matter what because they’re blatantly afraid of the idea that they might be living their life in an unenjoyable way just because Da Rulez says so

you dont have to be a parent to understand the horror of walking into a room to discover that the baby crawled out of his crib and onto that pottery wheel you forgot to turn off, and while the baby is spinning around and around, the dog is sitting there all calm, like a person, gently using his paws to fashion the babys soft cartilage head into something a little more modern.  it might be the classic tale of bad parenting, but lets see where the dog is going with this

This post is from 2013. It has less than 100 notes. Together we can revive this work of art that tragically ahead of its time. We’re ready for it now

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mitosisisyourtosis

men fabricated the idea that they are the default sex to compensate for their biological inferiority and general superfluousness

this is not just the “natural order” this is the language of a patriarchal culture

Omg no, you are wrong on so many levels and as a linguist this makes me ache something terrible. In my linguistics class in undergrad, we actually made fun of people who think like you along these lines and for good reason, because you are wholly ignorant and are choosing to spin narratives about things and fields which you know completely nothing about yet pretend you do.

  1. She: This word evolved naturally from Old English from seo/heo which were just words to refer to feminine-female people evolving from Proto-Germanic words meaning ‘that/there’. He as a word evolved from the same ideas but Proto-Germanic words for ‘this/here’. Your idea of “patriarchal language” further falls apart when you compare this part of English to other Germanic languages, of which English is related, the words in German for he and she are “er” and “sie”, completely unrelated. So it is by clear happenstance, not some patriarchal conspiracy that the words “he” and “she” in English have similar form. 
  2. Woman: Oh god this one always gets my goat when people go for this one. Man did not used to mean “male”, man used to mean “humanity/human being”, the old words in Old English for male adult person and female adult person were “werman” and “wifman” respectively, we can see this relation in words like werewolf and wife as being the remnants of the base “wer-” and the base “wif-”. Woman evolved phonologically from the word “wifman” by natural processes where the ‘f’ sound dropped and the ‘i’ became lax. Man dropped its “wer” stem for reasons mostly unknown but I can guarantee have nothing to do with “patriarchy” because phonological change has no basis in that.
  3. Female: Male and Female actually come etymologically from two completely different words. Male comes from Old French “masle” which meant masculine, while Female came from Old French as well “femella” which meant young woman. This is another case, just like he and she, where the words coincidentally ended up looking similar without having any direct correlation in historical linguistic processes to make them as such.
  4. Human: This word etymologically derives from Proto-Indo-European “ghomon” which means earthly being as opposed to heavenly being which would refer to gods. You have some small glimmer of hope here in that the word does eventually branch off into the word for “man” in some languages but this is still too small of a precedent to base any conspiratorial thinking like you are doing off of.
  5. Person: This one offends me the most, simply because I love the fuck out of Etruscan language and your continued ignorance just irks me at this point. Person derives from “persona” from Latin which meant the same meaning, which ultimately derived from “phersu” Etruscan for ‘mask’ as Etruscans would often have theatre performers use masks to give identity to the performers. So never once did “person” have any meaning to do with “son”. So yes, this IS the “natural order” or language.

Please never proselytise your faulty ideology and misandrist thinking within speaking about word origins and morphology again, as unless you actually do fact checking, I will school the everloving hell out of you, stay in your lane.

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obsessedwithlanguages

thank god for the explanation above

and the insult pussy is from the word pusillanimous, meaning coward, not the slang term for female genitalia, which comes from the Old German/Norse word for vulva, puse, which is also not the source of calling cats pussy, which comes from the Germanic root word for cat pūs, which is also not where we get the term sourpuss from because that comes from the Irish word for lip or mouth, pus.

The history of words is often more interesting than whatever one can deduce by just looking at the modern words.

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HALT!✋😐

did you remember to express gratitude for not having to subsistence farm today?

Returning to subsistence farming as a society would be better than the capitalist hellscape we live under now. So no.

imma be real with you, thats a dumb as shit thing to say and you dont really believe that

yes it is so much better for us now that we get to subsistence drive for doordash and subsistence amazon warehouse. what could be worse than growing plants that you can eat

profound misunderstanding of all concepts mentioned but i understand your desire to share thoughts on the computer

But do you understand my desire to return to a simpler life where we don't have to worry about things like Natl' Debt, AI, Politics, Global Warming, just gotta plow the field. Pick the food(s). Feed the cows.

/jk but not completely.

holy fucking shit dude

everyone in this thread except the OP and lakevida has assigned reading of every Thomas Hardy novel and also the Cartoon History of the Universe parts i-iii and for extra credit you can find a real and not ai-generated picture of a one-horse ploughing rig and label every part of the horse and the plough and all the tack with the correct terminology and then you will receive your next reading assignments

You can normal farm if you want. You can come out to agricultural regions and work on a farm. No one is stopping you except for the fact that it's hard work that kind of sucks.

I’m really fascinated by the reality that “subsistence amazon warehouse” implies. Presumably that means you would have had to establish the entire infrastructure of Amazon’s supply network, customer interface, and fulfilment centres just so you could work at the warehouse and feed your family. That’s actually just low-wage drudgery. It’s a different thing that is awful in its own way, but Amazon isn’t going to completely collapse after a month or two with no rain.

Wow everbody on this chain is wrong.

I have a better idea

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