Warm Heartworm

a little obsessed with the story of how giacomo casanova was sharing a gondola with this random guy who suddenly started having a seizure, and casanova had some medical training so he stabilized the guy until the guy’s physician could be called. and then the physician bled the guy and put mercury ointment on him, which caused everything to get worse to the point that a priest was called to administer the guy’s last rites, but then casanova stepped in and washed off the mercury ointment despite the doctor yelling at him not to. and the guy recovered and turned out to be super rich and powerful and in gratitude bankrolled casanova’s debauchery for years until casanova got himself sentenced to five years in jail for blasphemy. also at one point he got shot through the hand in a duel and doctors wanted to amputate it but he said no it’ll be fine and it Was

so what i’m saying is a medical procedural show where the main character is giacomo casanova and he doesn’t want to be solving these medical mysteries but goddamn if he isn’t the only fucker in this room who knows how to not kill the patient. so i guess my date with this prussian chick will just have to wait

this pitch would have absolutely killed at the bbc between 1991 and 2005 btw

*trying to seize on a sitewide cultural moment voice* alright tumblypoos its time to do a heckin learn aobut a little something called memphis horrorcore

Customer: PRO COP DMV: COP Verdict: DENIED

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gm_fucking

did steve albini ever apologize for calling tyler the creator the n word with hard r that one time because unfortunately thats the first thing i think of about him

for some reason the translation of "snail" became "beefed cattle"

Beefed Cattle = 肉牛 = Ròu niú = Meat + Cow

Snail = 蝸牛 = Wō + niú = Snail + Cow

While 蝸 basically refers to snails by itself, it's always used with 牛 to refer to the animal specifically. I barely remember my high school Chinese classes anymore, but seeing this post gave me a sudden flashback to when I was delighted to learn that snails used the character for cow.

On a whim I looked it up in Korean where it's 달팽이 = dal + paeng-i = moon + spinning top, which is just delightful.

moontop and beefsteak....the snail brothers....