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International08

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humanjeff

the more I think about it, the more I am convinced that this counts as the most successful military maneuver of all time: they incurred NEGATIVE CASULTIES

“Just give it to me straight-how many did we lose?”

“None but we gained a Kyle.”

As opposed to Poland who conscripted a literal bear

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ki-adi-money

Imagine transferring into a unit and a bear just walks by carrying a case of explosives.

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SMALL KINDNESSES

Danusha Laméris

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk  down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover  from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, have my seat,” “Go ahead--you first,” “I like your hat.”

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acecroft

The night we met There was magic abroad In the air There were angels Dining at the Ritz And a nightingale sang In Berkeley Square

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why the fuck does english have a word for

but not for “the day after tomorrow”

???

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zeplerfer

Because you’re not looking hard enough! ;)

Overmorrow = the day after tomorrow

Ereyesterday = the day before yesterday

Example: I defenestrated my brother ereyesterday. I shall defenestrate my sister overmorrow! Because I hate my family and also windows.

english has some of the best examples of stupidly specific words, tbh

Rhotacism (n): excessive use of the letter “R”

Lingible (adj): meant to be licked

Whipjack (n): a beggar, specifically one who is pretending to have been shipwrecked

Yerd (v): to beat with an object with a stick

Roddikin (n): the fourth stomach of a cow or a deer

Balbriggan (n): a type of fine cotton, most often used in underwear

and my personal favorite

Cornobble (v): to slap or beat another person with a fish

This makes the English nerd in me extremely happy.

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teaboot

So… Theoretically… I could yerd a whipjack for letting my unlingable balbriggan end up in a roddikin

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kitty

*dry food crunches* Ridiculously small kitten: “Myam myam myam. Njam njam njam njam njam njam njam! Myam myam myam nyam nyam myam. Mmmam. Mrrrrram. Meep!”

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nerroart

Oh here it is again. The best video ever

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deanplease

If I don’t reblog this when it appears on my dash, assume I’m dead.

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