Reblogged danispookypumpkin
reisartjunk-deactivated20181217
trying to explain english to an italian
Just had to add, if you're really jacked, you can also lift a car.
Reblogged slutty-ankylosaurus
So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.
Hmm.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
So . . . the executive order signed that states "'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell." and "'Male' means the person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell." And since we either know from study or simply from watching Jurassic Park that many embryos, human included, start as Female and the gene to make a fetus male expresses in the second month of pregnancy, ALL persons, at conception, are Female.
So . . .
God creates man, God creates woman, man destroys God, man destroyes MAN, woman inherits the earth.
And anyone identifying as a man, according to this order, is a woman identifying as a man, otherwise, a transgender man.
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“Fyp” we don’t do that here. I mean, Tumblr the app and website tries, but we don't do that here.
“But then how will anyone see it?” peer review.
“How do you get engagement?” by talking and engaging with other people. Or making a devastating typo. Either way.
“But—” Listen, you’re not doing solo stand up anymore. This is a group improv class being held in a SAW dungeon. Good luck.
The most accurate I've seen this summed up.
Reblogged flagellant
an ornithologist pointed a microphone at a bird sitting alone on a wire and caught the sound of the bird singing a song at a decibel so low that it would be impossible for another bird to hear it, meaning the bird was singing quietly to itself I love life
Reblogged catnippackets
it’s sooo funny when rude customers encounter employees who can deny them service for the first time.
i was working at a little cafe where I could deny service over bad behavior, harassment etc. & mask mandates had just ended a week before & already people were being weird about me still wearing mine—an N95, the kind shaped kinda like a duckbill.
so this man walked in, looked at me sooo scathingly, laughed at me, and said “damn. never known a woman to choose…practicality over looks.”
And I just said, “oh. you can go, you’re not getting a drink.” And he said, “what???”
I said, “sir, you just walked in at 6 am & called women impractical and me ugly in one sentence.”
And he was so astonished he didn’t even argue he just turned around and left 💀🙏🏻 it was like he suddenly became self aware
One summer I was running ferry rides across a lake so people could see the waterfalls without walking 6 miles when a guy snapped my bra strap as he was boarding the boat. So i immediately threw him off, he started yelling for my manager, my boss cheerfully informed him that, yeah, she’s the captain of the boat and she can kick off anyone she wants. He goes to storm off, looks expectantly at his girlfriend, and she just goes, “Well, I’M not walking six miles, Michael! I’ll meet you back at the car!” and sits right back down!!!!
The expression on his face when he was told that he couldn’t get on the boat, then immediately told that his girlfriend was ditching him? PRICELESS. he just blinked at her and then stormed off like a child. I gave her a free hat and was like maybe rethink this relationship…….
i once had this fucker come up to order a beer. while i pour it he shows me the wanky fucking chemical structure tattoo on his arm and he’s like “hey. you know what this is” i was like “nah sorry” (never cared abt chemistry in school, plus having to look at a some rando’s pretentious tattoo gives me the douche chills). he decides to respond with “heh. you must not read many books”
i immediately stop pouring his beer. i reply: “heh. you must not want this beer.” thirsty boy immediately starts groveling like a worm “please please no i do want the beer im sorry im sorry” believe me when i say it was one of the most pathetic things ive ever witnessed
gotta love people immediately backpedaling when they realise that there are Consequences To Being Mean
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I wasn’t expecting much. Maybe Vader’s baritone with hints of melody. I was *not* expecting it to be a masterpiece, what the fuck, this is a million times better than I was expecting and it’s unironically really good. Turn on that volume button.
I mean, these are the dudes that did Stacy’s Dad, I expect nothing less than brilliance.
Sub-radio is awesome and this is no exception. This one will probably always be my favorite, though.
Source: tiktok.com
Reblogged danispookypumpkin
The biting will continue until morale improves. The biting will also continue after morale improves. The biting will continue, regardless of the state of morale. [biting noises]
Reblogged evilwizard
Happy Crowy Yule! It's a reall whose who of Yuletide.
Nothing quite like the year of the jackdaw last year, but congrats to the still surviving Gävle Goat and Happy Yule to all!!
Reblogged crescent-the-grumpy-bunny
Merry Christmas, You Potatoes :3
Reblogged naryrising
me as a writer
just putting it out there, but-
you don't need "a whole story around it" for it to be a work of art
Reblogged knitmeapony
i just got this comment over on twitter and honestly i think this is one of my favorite things that has ever been said to me about writing
truer words never spoken
Reblogged danispookypumpkin
Blogging this tweet because this explains SO MUCH about the mindset of pretty much all the folks I’ve known who’re against single-payer, it’s not even funny…
robstmartin
This….
This never occurred to me. Not once. That Americans are against Health Care because they think it actually costs tens of thousands of dollars for a broken arm, hundreds of thousands for a complicated birth, millions for cancer treatment.
Because they’ve never known anything different. The idea that a broken arm is only a couple hundred bucks; a complicated birth a couple thousand; cancer treatment only tens of thousands; all easily covered by existing tax structures.
This explains a lot. And it’s a good example of what I was talking about in my post on scarcity being used to prop up ableism – always question the idea that a resource is genuinely scarce. Even if it seems obvious that it is, quite often that’s the result of careful manipulation and misconceptions that you’re not even aware of.
And never think you’re too smart to be fooled by that kind of thing, it doesn’t work like that. Similarly, don’t think people who are fooled by something are stupid. Nobody can have all the information about everything, and nobody has the time and energy to investigate and put together conscious conclusions about every piece of information they’re given. It doesn’t take being stupid, or even just gullible, to believe something like this.
I currently live in a country without free medical care and still, it’s enormously cheap compared to the USA. An American expat wrote a piece for our English language paper about how she paid more for parking at the hospital than giving birth to her baby that’s pretty interesting:
Yesterday I had to go to the hospital cause I injured my eye, I’m frankly dreading what the bill is going to be, but what made me balk was being told in the pharmacy that my insurance was denied for the antibiotic eye drops and it’d be over $100 out of pocket. So I didn’t get my eyedrops.
I’ve had these same drops before living in the UK. They cost me seven GBP.
It’s the exact same drug, same steroid, same strain of antibiotic. But somehow the US gets away with charging $100 for a generic non brand version of a drug which is easy to create and widely used. It’s downright robbery, but also a form of eugenics through poverty and class warfare. You keep the poor poor by making sure basic necessities remain unattainable and then you make it seem like the norm so no one fights it.
The rest of the world is not like this.
Eat the rich. Resist.
When I was travelling in Germany once, I seriously hurt my ankle. In a few hours, it had swollen to twice its size, and I went to a little ER in a tiny town. I spoke no German and only one nurse spoke English. They ran an X-ray and an MRI to determine what had happened (turned out I had bruised my peroneus brevis muscle and pulled the tendon), gave me a ton of very regulated meds for the pain and swelling, including some supports so I could walk…and my poor little 22-year-old ass was sat there, knowing all of this would cost thousands, if not tens of thousands, back in the US. I was shaking.
I’m in the exam room, post diagnosis and with pill bottles in hand, and in walks the one nurse I’ve been able to speak to the entire time. She pats my hand and tells me (and this is verbatim—I will never forget this conversation as long as I live), “I’m so sorry. We had to run those tests, and they are expensive. You don’t have insurance so you will have to cover the full cost.”
I start crying.
She continues, softly, as if telling me someone has died, “It’s going to be three hundred.”
I start sobbing, certain I’ve misheard, certain that I would be absolutely fucked, broke and going into debt in a foreign country. “Thousand?” I clarify.
Her entire demeanor changed, and she looked at me as if I had sprouted four extra heads. “No,” she says, “euros.”
That moment radicalised me.
As a Canadian who spent a few years in the states, US healthcare is not just unnecessarily expensive, its unnecessarily confusing and I think that contributes:
In Canada, my big healthcare needs are covered by the provincial government. So when I need care I go to the front desk, I show them my provincial health card and all the money is handled between the provider and the government, I never pay anything. If something is not covered by my healthcare they tell me clearly and up front.
Like most Canadians I carry some supplemental health insurance to fill the gaps because our coverage is unfortunately not as good as most European systems. This insurance also tells me exactly what it covers, often down to the dollar amount. I’ve never been surprised by the amount I have to pay and there’s no complexity either they pay X% of the cost or they pay up to $Y and I cover the rest. I’ve also never had insurance limit which doctors they’ll pay for (although this does happen it just hasn’t happened to me). I have also never encountered a deductible in Canadian health insurance (I do know what that is though, because my tenant’s insurance has one).
Conversely, going to the US here was my experience even though I only got very boring minor or preventative care while I was there. I never needed ongoing chronic care, I was never seriously ill, and nothing I needed was rare or unsual… oh, and I worked at a major teaching hospital.
- The list of things they wouldn’t cover was long and totally random, like, based on super specific types of surgery for the same condition, it was wild and also meant I wouldn’t have been able to read the documents without my biomedical degree, I have no idea how less educated people cope at all.
- They wouldn’t tell me directly if a vaccine would or wouldn’t be covered even when I asked directly on the phone ahead of time I got “probably”.
- In addition to the money I paid every month to have insurance some coverage didn’t kick in until I had paid a certain deductible… but not all of it… just some things on the long list.
- There was like 3 other kinds of weird extra payments I was expected to make, not just a deductible, there was a copayment fee for some things and a coinsurance fee for other things (I still don’t know what the difference is) and I think there were others I didn’t encounter.
- Rather than give me a straight dollar or percentage value I waited literal months to be sent a bill and they literally refused to tell me how much it would be in advance (I was told “somewhere between $0 and $1500 dollars).
- Sometimes they covered certain nurse practitioners in the same office! But you didn’t know which nurse you got in advance and could not ask, so how much you paid would be a surprise!!!
And every American I asked about this said this was actually a normal and pretty positive experience?!?!?!!? While I was there feeling like I was trying to bargain with some sort of eldritch entity that was also drunk.
If I thought I’d have to deal with this level of nonsensical randomness from my provincial government I would be terrified to. I have a lot more empathy for Americans’ concern about it now.
