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they sure do
The Beast that Bothers
[video description: an animation of a cat bothering a person who’s asleep in bed. The cat runs around, jumps on top of them, lies on their head, jumps at the walls, and does various other things in time with the music. The person doesn’t react until the cat starts bapping them on the head, when they look at the cat and then go back to sleep. End description]
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my mom’s childhood town
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I love you translator notes I love you translators caring that I fully grasp the meaning of the original text I love you translators adding cultural context and specifics so I can better understand what's going on I love you long rants on why a joke is impossible to translate I love you translators adding their little comments to the scene I love you translators feeling human and involved in the material I love you translating as a form of art I love you little t/n abbreviation
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interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?
me: mhm so that’s called a lacuna. it refers to when manuscripts have missing parts, lost to time. for example, the epic of gilgamesh has
What if I convinced someone to make a gijinka of my thesis paper
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Neil Banged out his tunes today, on a train you have the comfort and relaxation to bang out your own tunes
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(to the tune of working on the railroad) iiive been working on the railrooad
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i love you, Two Catfish as Street Musicians in the Kashina district, ca 1855 of an unidentified artist, you go so hard
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love the word “rapscallion”. like not only are you a rascal but you’re also kind of spring onion about it too
I like this professor so he gets a pass but he is twenty minutes late for a meeting that was meant to last twenty minutes
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american kestrel
tell me your favorite bird of prey :-)
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Dear professor this assignment did not nourish my fundamentally curious soul so i did not do it No penalty full 100 points please Goodbye!
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artworks by hugo grenville
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Babylonian out of office message: my sincerest apologies my wife is giving birth. I will process your clay tablet after lunch
Egyptian out of office message: unfortunately I am out of the temple on pilgrimage to Thebes. Your email will not be forwarded. I will respond to your query after the Nile floods have concluded
#oh to be an ancient egyptian ignoring emails#also very funny that the egyptian gets emails while the babylonian has clay tablets#unless this is juxtaposing a babylonian and a modern egyptian in which case this is even funnier in trying to imagine was possible sequence#of events prompted this comparison