George of the Jungle (1997)

there’s absolutely nothing better than reading a 100k word fanfic, that is until you remember you have a body that is starving, thirsty and incredibly sleep deprived and hasn’t used the bathroom since the sun set 8 hours ago

me cross eyed and seeing double:

god’s favourite princess

A year ago I got black-out drunk at a charity bar crawl. My best friend commissioned a painting of his favorite photo of me from that night.

truth trying to go back into her well after dealing with mankind

This picture i took of hector while i was drunk last night looks like a damn renaissance painting

Hector

Hector

georges de la tour, la madeleine a la hector, 1640

lol love Hector

🤲my angel

we were discussing wills and inheritances in the breakroom today and one of the boys brought up that he heard if you hate someone in your family, you’re supposed to leave them something, literally anything, even if it’s just like 1 penny, so that they can’t sue and say you just forgot them, and one of the other boys said why wouldn’t you just say like “I specifically do not leave anything to this person” and one of the girls piped up “No, leave them 1 penny, it’s a bigger fuck you” and then she paused and goes “No wait, tell them that you leave them everything in the box you’ve buried in the woods and they have to go find it and dig it up and then they can have everything in it, but it’s just 1 penny” and because I am a writer, and thinking up wild things to have happen is part of the writing job description, I (without looking up from my computer where I was currently writing a story) said “or a bomb. I mean, you hate them right” and i looked up and everyone was looking at me and the girl (who FYI is a horror movie enthusiast and I had figured on appreciating the joke) goes “well. I mean, what are they going to do, arrest me? I’m dead.” and I wish I could bottle the looks on the boys’ faces.

When I worked full time as a genealogist a colleague showed me a will that said they left enough rope for their son in law to hang himself and nothing else.

chihuahua apologism forever and ever until the end of time amen

i’ll always repeat that a chihuahuas temperament is a reflection of whether is being treated appropriately or not. They are fragile animals and are VERY aware of this. Aggression is the expected response when they’re being routinely mishandled (rough play from young children or larger animals, being stepped on, outright abuse). Anyways. Angelic chihuahua dump to soothe your soul

People with most mainstream tastes imaginable should not open their mouth on how anti piracy they are btw. Yea no shit you can depend on legal sources to watch Marvel and listen to tswift and Maroon 5. Thank you so much for signing the petition to close that platform that was the only one i could download this 2008 romanian dungeon synth ep from

Cheryl Dunye’s directorial debut, The Watermelon Woman, was out of print between 2000 and 2018. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was only available to watch on a pirate channel on YouTube until last year. There is still no way to watch the X-Files spinoff, The Lone Gunmen except to own a dvd box set that has been out of print since 2005. Or to pirate it. It’s on YouTube.

Piracy is incredibly important to keep media that’s weird, or out there or just embarrassing to someone in power, alive. We need piracy and we need to stop being snitches when someone pirates stuff.

i want elon musk to lose one hundred million dollars for being rude to one person he thought he owned. i want this so bad. i want him to be afraid to speak to anyone for fear of losing one hundred million dollars by being so fucking cruel and stupid

The Dublin spire isn't a bad looking landmark per se but why does it look like it was specifically designed to pop blimps

It looks like whoever designed this hates balloons.

It's a 120 meter tall stainless steel spike. Can't go in it.

this looks like it was designed specifically so you could trip a kaiju and impale them with it

I used to hate it, but it actually makes more sense when you're actually in/moving around Dublin lol.

Most buildings in Dublin are less than 5 storeys high, so you can see the Spire from most of the city centre, and get to the rest of the city from it fairly easily.

The Spire is designed so it works as a landmark you can see from almost anywhere.

Before Google Maps was really a thing, and even now it is, you could use it as a physical reference point to move around the city, and you're kind of drawn to it one way or the other naturally. It's kind of a giant IRL map pin.

That means there's always a group of people at the base; teenagers meeting up with their buddies before setting off for the day, tour groups, folks from out of town just off the bus waiting their friends, and - my perpetual favourite - well dressed people with visible nerves trying to act cool as they wait for their dates.

So rather than a blimp defense system, think of it more like a spawn point.

Also when there's a Star Wars movie they turn it into a lightsaber.

for those interested, this is a good example of how "Major structure you can see from everywhere" is a good thing for cities. The needle, though maybe not loved by everyone, is exactly as EJF says - a navigational reference point.

If you were ever lost, you could look for the needle and identify a major spot in the city. This can help avoid getting turned around (since you can track your direction in reference to a single point) , or provide a known spot to return to if you get disoriented.

This would also mean that if someone was new, they could learn the directions from the needle to where they were staying, and then travel the rest of the city with confidence that they can find their way back when they are done.

Water towers can serve a similar purpose in smaller towns, which is one of the reasons why they're often kept, even when no longer used for storing water.

In conclusion, make fun of how it looks all you want, but this giant needle is now part of vital city infrastructure.