The only clinic in Scotland has decided to pre-comply with recommendations set out in the Cass Review ahead of the Scottish Government’s actual assessment of each recommendation.
Management should be hauled over the fucking coals for that.
Typed "IKEA" into google maps and for some reason it decided to show me pretty much every single IKEA location in the nordic countries combined instead of just the one closest to me and ngl I'm kinda obsessed with this review in Sweden
Another great one
Archeologists in 3047 stomping their feet and ripping their hair out over the ruins of an apparent furniture maze
For real, though, not all IKEAs are the same. Most of them you wander into, follow the arrows, wander out, discover you have spent several thousands on unpronounceable things you didn’t really need (normal furniture maze). Then there is the Kungens Kurva IKEA.
The Kungens Kurva IKEA is to a standard IKEA what Daedalus’s Labyrinth is to an ankle-high garden hedge. The first trial is finding the damn thing. Most attempts to drive there result in very pleasant views of the back and side as you carry on down the motorway following signs that never seem to actually lead to the building itself. Once you finally succeed in determining which of the road signs tell you the truth and which ones lie (hint: it’s all of them) you are welcomed by what appears to be a normal IKEA. You think the warning you got about the labyrinthine nature of your friends’ IKEA outing was about the journey there. After all, there is a reason both employees and customers choose to use the IKEA provided shuttle service to enter (and presumably eventually leave) the establishment. The roads outside are a Gordian knot of roundabouts and off ramps that lead only to other roundabouts.
Once you make it to the parking lot and begin to regain your land legs, you think the trial is over. But it is a vain belief. For the interior is a beautiful example of sympathetic infill. Rings inside rings of floors with overlapping arrows that always lead any traveller daring or foolhardy enough to traverse its depths unerringly back to the beginning. Questioning the employees at first seems to yield promising results as you can sometimes see glimpses of folk more successful than you eating their victory hotdogs. But then you realise that they have come back into the maze and when they turn around to point the way from whence they came are all astonishment to see behind them not the cash registers but more loops and swirls of Kallax furnishings and Djurskog stuffed animals leading in a dizzying array ever further from salvation.
It’s like the being who designed the store layout looked upon their first draft and said ‘if only the marvellously simple and easy-to-master game five-dimensional chess could be distilled into an approximation of a department store.’
The hotdogs are pretty good though.
Four stars.
Something about the Cardiff IKEA is powerfully dark and bad, buzzing with uncomfortable vibes. They have a hand carved wooden love spoon up on the wall (cultural!) and a sense of impending apocalypse. Not post-apocalyptic. Pre-apocalyptic, with a sense of something terrible just about to happen. Uncomfortable, unfathomable, simmering with strange tensions. Always out of everything, slightly filthy, and weirdly leaking, yet strangely packed with thousands of people. An hour away from the completely normal Bristol IKEA.
one of my favourite parts of homestuck, aesthetically atleast, is the bit where rose explores her house during act 1
something about that has always stuck with me, i like the setting of the lalonde manor a lot
most annoying thing about researching combinatorial game theory is how every paper on the subject ends with "BUT HEY,
Game Theory is a mathematical and economic discipline regarding how rational actors behave in cooperative and competitive scenarios. Combinatorial Game Theory is a specialized form of Game Theory dealing with only with two player games with one winner and one loser, and no random chance, and no hidden information. Games like checkers, chess, go, tic tac toe, arimaa, connect four, and more are all Combinatorial Games, and the study of these games and of creating programs to play these games is Combinatorial Game Theory.
"Game Theory" is also an early twenty-first century youtube channel that does deep dies into the lore of games, sometimes in a ludicrous manner, sometimes in an earnest attempt to determine authorial intent in intentionally vague stories.
The "Game Theory" youtube channel is known for ending every episode with the catch phrase: "But Hey, that's just a theory! A Game Theory!" which serves as both a send off and an acknowledgement that the entire video is speculative.
The above post makes a humorous connection between the mostly two unrelated concepts by asserting that the youtube channel catchphrase is an integral part to general mathematical research. Seeing as the Game Theory youtube channel is a niche subject, but also how it is one of the most popular and well known channels frequently making it to the 'front page' of the website and constantly parodied, it would generally be expected for internet denizens of the early twenty-first century to understand the joke, but it wouldn't be strange if they lacked the specific context.
leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this
Sometimes something fucked up happens to the guy and their melody gets fucked up too. Sometimes the thing that fucked them up also has its own melody and when the first melody gets fucked up the second melody gets mixed in
no fucking way dude. are you serious
Change.org - Petition To Hire 1,000,000 People To Put Their Fingers In The Shoot Hole Of Peoples’ Guns So They Can’t Shoot Them
It’s still gonna shoot… And they’re gonna lose a finger
No. The finger blocks the bullet. We can do this
This is a gun we’re talking about. The projectile is fired using an explosion, not by compressed air of a toy gun or the elastic forces of a sling shot. People would be lucky if they only lost their finger.
The finger blocks it
The finger won’t block it - the shaft is only there for keeping the bullet straight, all the propulsion happens behind the bullet. The bullet would rip through the finger, not that many would actually fit without the victim being a child, and beyond.
The bullet would go forward a little and then hit the finger and stop it’s not that hard to understand
Why the dingleknockers would you even consider sticking your finger in the barrel of a loaded gun?? the amount of force propelling the bullet at that close of range would shatter the finger at the very least; this is a petition for 1,000,000 people to loose the use of their hands. If a bullet explodes the back of a persons skull when they shoot it in their mouth it sure as hell will explode a finger.
No the finger would stop it
I’m loving the idiocy of this post.
Ppl with brains: ummm finger go boom…
Others: no bullet stop. U no kno fisics >:V
no the finger would stop it
You guy who think the bullet would stop at the finger have never shot a gun and can volunteer to it their fingers in the barrel of my 9 mil and I’ll I’ll the trigger and see if it will stop the bullet. Dumdasses
the finger would stop it
date of origin: 28th of december, 2015.
These fuckwits are back again? How’s it going, Nine Finger Nasty? About to turn into an Eight Finger Egghead?
@meatswitch @raptorific this is a US based site. US Americans are known for two things- obsession with guns and incredible stupidity. Had this been anyone else, I’d say they’re trying to fuck with us. But with US Americans, about 70% of them are dead serious about mangling their hands trying to stop a bullet.
I’ve had four years to think about it and now I think the finger would stop it
I just tested it with my buddy. It stops the bullet
and thread #2
indian twitter transfems are currently tearing apart "neither man nor woman: the hijras of india" by serena nanda
and finally a bit of reading:
She's spooky, she's grace, she's the moment~
John is also here, of course he is
Transphobic legislation: it is now illegal to be a "trans woman." All trans women must be reported and added to the State Tranny Registry. Everyone on the State Tranny Registry will be fined and imprisoned and considered a sexual predator.
Cis "allies": this is so awful for cis women with short hair, the real victims of this bill! what about cis women with short hair?? we need to talk about how this will affect cis women with short hair
This accordion version of Darude - Sandstorm is unbelievable
This pisses me off.
Are. Are you fucking kidding me right now.
I am so glad that all of the old memes we once thought dead are coming back in 2015 in a big way.
actually had a normal afternoon with my parents today in which they did zero insane interactions with service workers. perhaps a better world is possible
hello.
we haven't had a true tumblr sexyman in years. Sans was like the last one. I can still see his weird glowing goo ghost dick when I close my eyes. that kind of absolute derangement just doesn't happen anymore. some people just liking Astarion and Senshi a lot is not the same. a true tumblr sexyman makes this website absolutely unusable
oh my god it was the porn ban. the porn ban killed the tumblr sexyman. the horny can't fester and multiply like it used to. the sexymen are killed in their infancy
if you want to actually start to end homelessness, you need to give homeless people unconditional homes, including when we use them to do drugs or sit around drinking. either housing is unconditional or it isn’t
someone sitting at home alone, an active alcoholic, squandering your charity, drinking all day is better situation than a street homeless alcoholic. someone using drugs in your charity house is better than them doing the same w no shelter
most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless, will maybe never be able to live independently. still better than street homelessness, still worth doing. ultimately either you believe that shelter should be universal or you don’t
homeless people actually can’t be rehabilitated if you want to end homelessness. we either affirm the right to shelter for the worst drunken, lying, filthy, cheating, self destructive homeless people that exist, genuinely irredeemable wankers, or we concede that shelter is not a right
This post is the distilled essence of everything I believe in.
Things that work in fiction but not real life
This post breaching containment has taught me that a lot of people seem to think they can accurately profile complete strangers. For the record, no the fuck you can't.
