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@trainerdelaney / trainerdelaney.tumblr.com

I don't fucking know anymore
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the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

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mysticorset

Peer reviewed tags from @somanyofthekids

NO its a JOKE and YOU DONT GET IT. ITS NOT THAT DEEP

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hiveswap

While she was dead he put his memory of her on such a high pedestal that she could never live up to it alive

alternatively‚ she came back perfectly fine but he thinks she came back wrong‚ because the tragic reality is that he never actually knew his wife

im going INSANE thats MY POST.

It's your post but the journey to posting it changed it to such a degree that even its closest intimacies are now foreign to you. Sorry dude.

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I have a folder in the notes app on my phone with relevant information on all my petsitting houses (the wifi, garage codes, dog's meds and regular mealtimes, etc). And looking through it yesterday I realized that I haven't updated it in a while, and several of the dogs have passed away in the past year or two. Some of them were multi-pet households, so I would still keep the info written in, but some were also the only pet the people had and I realized that I didn't need all the information anymore. Deleting some of the names had me actually tearing up, seeing them go from "Harley and Fergie" to just "Fergie" or taking the entire section out because there's no pets there for me to watch anymore

Anyway how is everyone else's day going so far? 🥲

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Evey year at tax time, I end up owing more and more instead of getting anything back so I'm convinced that people who get "tax returns" are just lying to the rest of us

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Look, we joke a lot, but really, "you were born evil, wretched, worse than the scum of the earth, and it took killing a god to make you salvageable, so now you'd better be grateful to that god and thank him 10,000 times a day for it and fill your thoughts with him 24/7 and abide by the letter of his every word, lest you suffer unimaginable torture for all of eternity" is a truly horrendous thing to believe about yourself and other people

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shinesurge
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Our DM, checking his monster stats during their combat turn

DM: They have no reactions... I love these guys, they're so stupid. Me, out of character: He's talking about us players, not the monsters.
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One of my long-time petsitting dogs passed away this morning and I got the news from the owner right in the middle of work. Had to clock out and take some time to sob and then collect myself. The week is off to a great start.

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Client, over the phone: "I called earlier this morning and was told that you didn't have any appointments today, but I told you to put me on a cancelation list to call in case you had an opening."

Me: "Yes ma'am, I remember. I have the note and your phone number taped to the monitor right in front of me."

Client, huffing angrily: "WELL. It's been three hours and no one has called me yet."

Me: "Um, that's correct..."

Client: "Well?!"

Me: "Well, you would only get a call if somebody else canceled their appointment and we had an opening."

Client: "I know that!"

Me: "And no one has done that..."

Client: "Really?! You're telling me that not a SINGLE person today has called to change their appointment time? You haven't gotten ANY openings in several hours?!"

Me: "Yes ma'am, that is what I'm telling you."

Client: "Well I just think that's hard to believe."

Me, getting annoyed and losing my customer service filter: "Well I can't help it that you think that way."

Client, aghast: "Excuse me??"

More words are exchanged, but sensing that I made a mistake I was more polite after that. Client still ended up annoyed but finally hung up. I guess she thought I was lying to her or something?? Like she genuinely believed we had openings but for some reason I was choosing to hide it from her?? I don't fucking know man.

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The funniest sword fight scene in the history of cinema. 

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seanfmcguire

BEST. SWORD FIGHT. EVER.

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musicalhell

Let’s be honest, this is how I would sword fight.

@warmageragnar Lewis Vs Otranto, a realistic version.

The Court Jester starring Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone, and the amazing Glynis Johns, and Angela Lansbury and it is all around a fun time.

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spotweld

All kidding aside, watch Basil Rathbone’s foot work. He knows fencing, and sets up the form even though he’s still playing up the stage blows for Danny Kaye to flail at for comedic effect.

Okay, but I need to talk about this because it’s even funnier if you know the context... Basil Rathbone was one of the greatest swordsmen in Hollywood history.  Which is why he almost never won any of his onscreen fights–he was good enough that he knew how to effectively make the other guy look even better.  That’s why the swordfight in The Adventures of Robin Hood looks so awesome even though Errol Flynn is nowhere near Rathbone’s level.

But this fight, right here?  Was one of the only fights where he needed a stunt double.  Because while he was able to keep Danny Kaye from being seriously injured, Rathbone himself nearly got skewered a few times by Kaye’s flailing around.  So in a bizarre way, this is probably the closest to an even match Rathbone had in his career… just not for the reasons you’d expect.

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hamelin-born
“Don’t you know, there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight? Awkwardness and stupidity can. The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn’t do the thing he ought to.”
-Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)

The origin of a saying I’ve seen quoted in various works of fiction - “The best swordsman does not fear the second best, he fears the worst since there’s no telling what that idiot is going to do.”

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nyctoheart

movies where someone hears an important message only once and retains all the details….

girl if that were me, we’d be fucked. I have to reread emails like 4 times.

if it were me having to repeat my dead father’s instructions on destroying the death star:

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cyberphuck

I was in a college psych class, and the teacher was doing some kind of exercise about memory, patterns, and retention. He began with, “for instance, if I asked you what number the first letter of your name is in the alphabet, you wouldn’t be able to tell me right aw–” “Ten,” I said. “What?” “J. J is ten,” I said again. He stared at me. “I happened to learn it while looking at the alphabet when I was five or six, and it just stayed in my brain,” I told him. Then we did an exercise on retention. “I’m going to tell you a story,” he said, “and then I’m going to send you out of the room for five minutes, and when you come back, you have to repeat as much of the story back to me as possible.” He told me a long and meandering story with no plot or structure, just a random series of events, place names, actions, etc. Then he sent me out of the room. I looked at the wall for a while. He called me back in five minutes later, stood me up in front of the class, and asked me to repeat “just as much of the story as you remember.” Apparently while I’d been gone he’d been telling the class about how eyewitness accounts aren’t reliable because people don’t remember things well after a certain period of time. So I told his story back to him– not verbatim, but certain phrases were exact– and watched the consternation in his face as I accidentally blew up his (valid! and extensively studied!) lesson about how bad people’s retention is. “It’s like a song,” I tried to explain to him, and the class. “Or a poem. Every part of the story has a little tag to remember it. I looked at the chalkboard while you were saying this part. My leg itched while you were saying that part. A chair squeaked during the next part. Then I just have to come back and go over all the sensations that I had while you were” “Sit down,” he said. I sat. Turns out I’m Autisms Georg adn should not have been counted

ADHD version: A friend asked, on a field trip, why I knew the scientific name for Caltha palustris, “Well, we did that [one week long] field ID course [three years previously] and we saw it in one of the bogs”.

This, I was informed, is very much not a normal reason to remember the scientific name of a plant for the rest of your life.

It took me five whole years to learn when my partner’s birthday is.

I can remember specific details about games I played over two decades ago that I have not played since.

I once forgot it was my birthday. On my birthday. And when my sister (Who lived several hours away) jumped out of hiding and yelled happy birthday, I looked around to see who she was talking to.

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