Queen Margherita of Italy. Mids 1870s.

Prince William of Wales warms up before his water polo debut for the Scottish National Universities Squad in the Annual Celtic Nations Tournament against Wales and Ireland in Cardiff, Wales. — 17 April 2004

One of my favorite things is taking someone to the Great Lakes for the first time - or describing how you can fly over them and see only hundreds of miles of glittering blue water and no coasts at all; how they have their own Coast Guard (the only lakes to do so); that the Earth's rotation steers their currents; that they're studied using ocean models; that they have wrecked more than 6000 ships - and watch them realize that the word "lake" is misleading and that they had no idea of the size and majesty of them at all.

Some fun facts about her majesty, Lake Superior:

To all the people in the notes wondering how we got anywhere before GPS: we got lost a lot. Like a lot. If it was a new place we would pull out the maps, we all had local maps in the car and then these huge huge huge books of maps called atlases and we'd have one for every state we'd be driving through

And before a trip we would plot our whole entire route, and go back over it every night at the hotel, and we would write all the directions down on a little note and someone would be in charge of navigation and making sure we didn't miss any turns.

For local stuff all directions would be described in reference to other things. You still see this when older folks give directions. Do you ever get the "do you know where the ruby Tuesday is? No? How about the Buffalo wild wings? Yeah okay so from there go down til you see a Wendy's and turn left..." instead of them just telling u the address so u can plug it into ur GPS? That's why.

I have fond memories of getting helaciously lost in Kentucky because we had to go around a bad accident, and we didn't have a Kentucky map because we hadn't planned on going thru Kentucky and we stopped at a gas station to get a map but they didn't have any and my dad came back to the car swearing up and down about these goddamn Kentucky communists who didn't even sell maps in their gas stations,

honestly the funniest thing about this post is referring to kentuckians as communists.

all the photos of him are like this, I love that this guy understood he had been born with the face of a wizard or axe murderer and just leaned fully into it

he knew EXACTLY what he was doing

he got what he wanted

Also

The Prince of Venice leaving the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli after his wedding with Clotilde Courau, Rome, 2003.

So tonight I joined my parents, and the neighbours, at the local pub quiz. We won, and won the bonus round, much to the annoyance of the other teams. Apparently my parents and their friends win every other week. Nerds. So to prank them the landlord had a special “Super Hard Pub Question” for us for double or nothing on our prize (vouchers for a gallon of beer) to let the rest of the pub feel better because we were “guaranteed to lose” since there was “no way we could know the answer.” I got picked to answer it because I’m the youngest and have less General Knowledge.

The question?

“What is the word for beer in Ancient Egyptian?”

Pub: *loud raucous laughter and cheering*

Landlord: *looks smug*

Me: Do you want that in English or in the original Hieroglyphs?

Landlord: The hieroglyphs of course!

Pub: *more laughter*

Me: *scribbles quickly in the 10 seconds I had to answer*

Landlord: Fuck. Me. 

Pub: *utter silence broken only by someone at the back exclaiming WTF* 

Landlord: How did you even know that?

Me: You picked the one person here who can read them?

Landlord: Oh shit it’s you isn’t it?

Dad yelling from the back: SURPRISEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

It’s safe to say we’re simultaneously fucking legends/not very popular at the local right now.

This is my new favorite post.

Very smiley Prince of Wales and Prince George leave Villa Park following Aston Villa's Europa League win over LOSC Lille || 11 APRIL 2024

The Wall Street Journal reporter goes on to state that he had personally investigated the 40 beheaded babies story by going to Kfar Aza and found it to be untrue.

And then he and his colleague kept silent. They didn't debunk the story, even after Biden lied about seeing the photos.

Anywhere between 33,000 and 50,000 Palestinians have been killed by the IDF since October 7th

Meghan & Prince Harry are cooking up two new projects with Netflix. The duo have two non-fiction projects in production.

Meghan’s show will celebrate the joys of cooking, gardening, entertaining, & friendship while the other project explores the world of polo.

THE SPORTY DUO

the wii is considered a retro console now.

THE WII IS CONSIDERED A WHAT.

The Princess of Wales❤️

One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse from 08-04-2024.

Via @nasa-official

I see jokes about the Panera lemonade but no guys.. it actually killed someone.

The guy NEVER had caffeine due to health issues. He loved going to that Panera and they did not warn him. He had no way to know where was like a level of 380mg of caffeine in his drink. The equivalent of drinking like 4 redbulls if I remember correctly. The FDA recommends 400mg as the level max per day. (A shot of expresso is 65mg for context)

Panera KILLED this man with what he thought was a simple regular lemonade.

Apparently it ALSO killed a young girl with a heart condition

STOP BUYING THIS DRINK FOR A MEME

That's the thing!! You can REFILL THESE DEATH DRINKS. They're already close to the daily limit with ONE and people can get two or three times that easily???

And people are buying MORE due to the memes caused by the deaths of people instead of holding them accountable.

This will kill more people and encourage other companies to jump on the meme train for profit

Do NOT let them do to these people what they did to the McDonald's coffee woman. Do not let them try and sweep this under the rug

Panera what the fuck.

I need everyone to understand this drink killed 2 people who didn't know how much caffeine was in the drink because no Panera employee warned them and it was only AFTER the deaths that Panera made a sign warning people of the amount of caffeine in the drinks and this is what they look like:

Well, we know what flavors the drink comes in...

A 20 ounce cup of strawberry lemon mint has 260 milligrams of caffeine and a 30 ounce cup has 390 milligrams of caffeine,

a 20 ounce cup of mango yuzu citrus has 260 milligrams of caffeine and a 30 ounce cup has 389 milligrams of caffeine,

a 20 ounce cup of blood orange has 245 milligrams of caffeine and and 30 ounce cup has 368 milligrams of caffeine.

One shot of espresso has 63 milligrams of caffeine.

One 250 milliliter can of Red Bull has 80 milligrams of caffeine.

One 250 milliliter can of Monster has 166 milligrams of caffeine.

Panera's charged lemonade has more caffeine than Red Bull and Monster combined.

I say again, Panera what the fuck.

That’s a lot of caffeine

How and why were they just giving out free refills of the death drink that was literally causing people caffeine poisoning? Like, why is that legal?

Why was the amount of caffeine not listed on the sign until after the deaths? Why is that legal?

Why is it legal to have the number be that small of a font on the sign? I guess Panera just said "fuck people with low vision who need large print to read", huh?

The more you think about it, the more fucked up it is.

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1: tumblr reply by yossdillo: wouldn't be surprised if they tried to use the dinky little signs with the caffeine listed in insultingly tiny font as an argument. nvm that the charged lemonade can be refilled easily by anyone tall enough to reach the spout…

2: a photo of the dispenser of the charged drinks, with 3 containers, labeled with large signs that display the names of the flavors in a larger font and the amount of caffeine in each in a smaller font. At the bottom of the dispenser is a small warning sign saying that children and people with caffeine sensitivity or people with heart problems shouldn't consume the charged lemonade as it contains caffeine.

end ID

This video, like the comments above, are from December. But here's a lawyer and a doctor talking about the case:

And here's a CNN article from late January:

I couldn't find anything offering new information, probably because the lawsuits are still ongoing.

As of today, April 12, 2024, Panera is still selling the caffeine lemonade. Panera reduced the caffeine content slightly, but they're still "NOT RECOMMENDED FOR children, people sensitive to caffeine, pregnant or nursing women."

Despite all this going on, in late February 2024, Dunkin' Donuts introduced their own energy drinks. A large Berry Burst Sparkd' Energy contains 192mg of caffeine. Dunkin' does not have a caffeine warning on their page for this drink.

In conclusion:

Companies are going to put their profit over your health. They'd sell you cocaine smoothies if it'd make them money.

Be careful what you consume.

And anytime you hear, "person is suing company over silly reason," believe the person, and don't fall for the lies that makes the lawsuit look frivolous and the company look pure and innocent.

This is so cute. Look at William’s smile and wave to this young girl. Kindness always ❤️ – jen