Doctor Who | The Giggle

my biggest pet peeve wiht the english language is that you don’t have sin/sina

in swedish if u have two people who use the same pronoun u can always tell whos doing what bc its like ‘han tog sin väska’ (he took his[own] bag) and ‘han tog hans väska’ would be that he took the other persons bag

but in english its like if u have 2 ppl w/ the same pronoun:

“she took her bag” whose bag????WHose BAG was it her OWN bag or the other her’s bag??????????????

“he ate his donuts” were the donuts his own???? did he fucking eat someone elses donuts??? YIU DONT KNOW bc english is a bullshit language 

its funny that people are calling this the gay fanfiction dilemma bc thats literally why i made this post. i was writing a gay fanfic. 

I always thought it was like an exaggeration when horse people would talk about how silly it was for anyone to think that riding a horse does not require any particular level of skill or balance or anything, or even that they "drive themselves" (???) but just the tags on the reblogs of that "can you ride a bike and/or horse" post from me alone are demonstrating how overconfident some people are in their (often entirely theoretical!) ability to stay on an alive and moving animal with a will of its own.

like don't get me wrong, I've put young kids on horses & seen younger ride them entirely on their own.

but I've also watched grown-ass adults do things like back a horse straight into a bush because they couldn't follow basic instructions like "stop pulling back on the reins".

and those are just the horses I trust with 8 year olds.

I just think the "horses are scary idiots who eat fingers and break all their legs whenever they see a plastic bag" website was very quick to believe themselves to be the wayward city girl who trauma-bonded with the wild & troubled horse on her family's ranch & won the race & saved the farm all before summer break ended.

is all.

yes Anna May I'm sure riding a horse is much easier than riding a bike. those idiot country folk just don't know what they're talking about. your bond with Serendipity will be strong & you will overcome his troubled heart with the power of fresh apples and transcendant horse empathy.

theoretically, of course.

unfortunately I am beginning to understand why horse girls are so defensive about riding being a "sport".

you're so right besties! I'm rooting for you!!!

Yesterday night a lady came through our drive through and was like “the way the planets are aligning and the fact that we’re getting a blood moon has me worried. I sense severe werewolf activities on the horizon. You better walk your coworker to her car tonight after you’ve closed” and I didn’t even know what to say I was just like “yes ma’am”

You heard that and just went <END DIALOGUE>

‘relationships are work’ means ‘you have to put effort into loving each other intentionally & learning how to love each other and communicating properly’ not ‘your relationship makes you feel stressed and sad most of the time & the other person disrespects you and treats you bad but you stay anyway’

Twitter LGBTs are so sanitized it’s embarrassing

Why are they like this

this was a prophecy

Legit tho if this is your attitude towards sex workers & ppl who engage with us, you are not an ally to us, you’re 1 step removed from SWERFs & I don’t trust you!

I would argue it is no steps removed from a SWERF because this fits very neatly into "end demand", but other than that, I am extremely agreeable and good looking.

i stopped the dental technician while he was applying fluoride to ask what the fuck the flavour was supposed to be. And he was like oh I was wondering that too. It says it's walterberry.

Item: Walterberries, a delicious snack that cleans teeth and freshens breath. HOWEVER for every ten berries a creature eats, roll 2d10; if you roll the same number on both dice, the creature is afflicted by an hour of mild One-Who-Knocks-Ism, a condition marked by grouchiness, snarling catchphrases, and a hunger for blue raspberry rock candy. Creatures unfortunate enough to experience multiple hours of the condition are at risk for hair loss, alignment shifting towards Evil, and +1 on Skill Check (Alchemy) for every hour spent.

As an Australian I love the whole "Australia is a death trap full of vicious deadly animals" cultural myth. Every place has some deadly animals in it who will fuck you over if you don't understand them; we're not more dangerous than anywhere else. BUT we get to look badarse by existing when people pretend we are. No downsides.

A very incomplete list of animals I find more terrifying than anything from Australia (except crocodiles because fuck crocodiles):

#in fairness. i would take on a dozen snapping turtles naked with a stick before I cross paths with a funnel web spider#Derin. Derin that is one of the most venomous spiders in the world#a snapping turtle could sever a finger but at least it doesn’t have venom#you can hold an alligator’s mouth shut with the same pressure it takes to hold hamburger.#but a box jelly??? a fucking box jelly??? you can’t slap them away from you. you will die

We have these remarkable things called 'antivenoms' and 'do not go swimming in box jellyfish waters you lunatic'. If a snake or spider bites me (which has never happened to me btw, despite being in their vicinity quite regularly; taking basic precautions like 'don't jam your fingers into random dark holes' mean you have to be REALLY unlucky to get bitten by anything) I can go to hospital and wait for a simple puncture wound to heal. If a snapping turtle takes a finger then that finger is just gone.

Some of the ocean life is fucked up but the great thing about that is that it is in the water. You can just not go in the water. Or go to a beach that's not full of box jellyfish. We have many such beaches.

Can you go to a picnic in a forest and take a toddler and let them run around unsupervised

No because that's how a toddler gets lost in the fucking forest and starves. There's uneven ground and holes to fall in and trees that toddlers can climb up but not back down and shit. Do you know how hard it is for a toddler to maintain a sense of direction in unfamiliar woodland? A little kid should always be in earshot if you're in natural areas they're not familiar with wtf.

Uh that's obviously what I meant??? "Unsupervised" as in "within earshot and eyesight and called back if they wander too far", like "not hovered over every step of the way" not "completely ignored"

We call that supervised here. What kind of obsessive helicopter society do you live in where that's unsupervised?

Yeah of course we do that, my family used to take us out bush all the time when we were little. You go out there and show them different mushrooms and trees and see if you can find any animal tracks on the roads so they can guess what animal made them, then you settle down with a cuppa while the kids build the worst 'shelter' you've ever seen and 'animal traps' that don't work at all and pretend they have to survive in the rugged outback. If there's enough of them in one place they'll form into two groups and invent some calvinball version of Capture the Flag that's going to result in at least two of them needing cuts disinfected by the end. I wouldn't let a toddler play in the bush without responsible older kids with them because they can't walk properly and the ground is really uneven, but once they're about five or older, yeah, that's what we did before the internet. Then they come back with some rock or pinecone or whatever and insist on bringing it home as a souvenir so now there's just another random bit of bush junk in your house for years.

This is so interesting to me! Like, I understand fully well that my interpretation of Australia has been a little skewed by the "everything there can kill you" jokes, but there are still absolutely animals there that scare me way more then anything in my home state of Arizona, or even most things in America (With notable exceptions).

Of course I'm not gonna claim to be a wildlife expert, but is there still not a significantly larger population of "f*ck you* animals in Australia then most other places? (<‐ question full of wonder and curiosity) Regardless, I do think a lot of the "no this place is scarier" "no this place is" conversation is dependent on having lived in or grown up in those areas.

I'm not gonna stick my hand in unfamiliar holes of course, but that doesn't mean I'd be able to identify everything dangerous is Australia, but in the same vein someone from Australia might not know whats making all those sounds at night in the forests of Arizona and even knowing myself, they're still freaky. It's just so interesting to me! Like, of course you're not scared of "insert animals of place", you lived there! Fascinating!

I've never been bitten by anything venomous in my life. (I did get stung by a bee when I was a kid but it's because I stepped on the bee without shoes on.) I think my stepdad got bitten by a venomous spider one time in his 80 years of life and had to go to the hospital for a bit but it was less serious than pretty much every other farm injury we had (most of which are a result of machinery). If you're super rural you see a snake occasionally and you leave the snake alone. If you're in a city, you usually don't.

Rural kids are trained in snake safety from the time they can walk, but they almost never need it beyond 'if you see a snake leave it alone and tell an adult'. I grew up on a farm and I think I saw 2 wild snakes in my entire childhood. (I saw more when I moved out to the desert.) The only people I've ever heard of dying of snakebite in recent times have been the occasional dumbfuck tourist doing dumbfuck tourist shit.

If you live in bear country, you've seen more wild bears than the average Australian has wild snakes. As for spiders, I couldn't tell you how many venomous ones I deal with because I never bothered to learn to identify different kinds of spiders. There's hunstmans (harmless) and daddy long legs (I think Americans call them cellar spiders; also harmless) and then there's the Dudes Who Live In The Garden and that's it. They've never been any kind of problem.

For people who are worried, here's the

Ultimate Guide To Staying Safe From Wild Animals In Australia

There you go, that's it, now you can survive the wildlife of Australia

Addendum: if you leave your boots outside, knock them out before you put them on again, in case there are any insects, arachnids, small mammals, etc hiding in the toes.

I was bitten by a red-back spider in suburban Canberra (it was in a tissue box) and I was fine - I mean my mum freaked out and made me go to the hospital but they just kept me in overnight for observation, I didn't need antivenine. My father in law (seriously rural) has been bitten so many times he's immune.

Gosh, your rules for "How To Survive In Snake Country" is EXACTLY the SAME as "How To Survive In Snake Country" in the USA!!!!

(I LOVED reading about poisonous animals as a kid.)

perfection

This is so fascinating to me bc I grew up where black bears are just a part of life and if you see one and it's in your business and you can't just leave it alone, mostly what you want to do is yell or bang pots and pans together and they fuck off.

The video that was going around where the guy like... shooed a bear out of his barbecue? That was taken about 15m from where my parents live.

I was truly baffled when my ex-gf, who grew up in the suburbs, was telling me about how scary it was when a black bear was outside the house they rented for a vacation in the county where I grew up. Like... why? You were in the house, right? You didn't need to leave right then? It wasn't acting rabid? The bear wasn't trying to get in, he was just... doing bear things. Existing. If you needed to leave, just... make noise. The bear will fuck off, unless it's rabid, and then, yeah you've got a problem.

I think this is really just about what you're used to. We're so used to our wildlife that it's just ... not scary to us, no matter where we're from. That's not that scary, it's just life. Bears get shooed out of yards, you don't put your trash out overnight unless you want your trash cans to end up down the hill with huge dents in them and Mom giving Dad some I Told You So looks. And y'all don't go swimming in box jelly water. Pretty simple.

The point about rabies is pretty valid though.

Oh no that one is pretty legit.

I’m British and one of my (now former) co-workers is Australian, had a conversation with her once along a similar vein and I just remember her looking at me deadly serious and being like “forget our snakes and spiders, what the fuck is wrong with your seagulls?”

i feel like when some ppl say 'i like animals more than people' it comes with the heavy undertone of seeing humans as inherently bad or impure somehow but. i can recognize human beings are capable of kindness and deserve to be treated kindly/justly too. i just also have autism and hamsters arent going to ask me what my salary is and my cats arent going to call me a faggot even if they probably would if they knew the word

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Yep ! And it sucks to see so many other trans guys just fall for it.

I feel like I should note that what I actually said was “I can’t be openly trans on the internet.”

Because any trans person can tell you that no matter if you’re a trans man, trans woman, nonbinary, or whatever else - if you are openly trans you will get sent shit for being trans online.

additionally! you can't always believe what people say *off* anon either. sockpuppet blogs are A Thing. people can just go on the internet and tell lies.

i really love the bigeneration as an extremely tidy character reset strategy. is the flux/timeless child still canon? sure, whatever. will the doctor be processing it at all onscreen? absolutely not. he has outsourced all that. having to write the new doctor arc as traumatized and recovering from however the last doctor ended is tired. this doctor is fresh this doctor is single and ready to mingle this doctor is ready to pick out an entirely brand new luggage set that doesn't need to match the old stuff