R E B L O G T H E P I G E O N .
I don’t go to school but i’ll reblog for the money part
Can I exchange passing a test for doing well at work?
reblog to have good concert luck
I’m sorry but I’m addicted to concerts so I’m always going to reblog it
I’ve never been to a concert, and I don’t I’m ever going to make it, but yeah
Timelapse of Europa & Io orbiting Jupiter, shot from Cassini during its flyby of Jupiter
Guys. Guys. Look at how high-definition this is. LOOK AT IT. This isn’t a movie. This isn’t CGI. This is OUR FUCKING SOLAR SYSTEM. A;LSKJFA;WFEW
408 million miles from where you’re sitting right now.
not to get too deep on main but did anyone else have such deeply rooted issues with their self worth for so long that they thought as a kid/teen that their only redeeming feature was being “low maintenance” and now as an adult you give yourself guilt pangs asking for any more than the barest minimum in virtually any relationship because asking for things might negate your only good quality which is just “doesn’t ask for things”
im trying to clean out my school binders and i dont know why but every time i go to throw away schoolwork i always hesitate. ‘what if i want to use this for studying later’ says i, the dumbass, who has not studied, for a single thing, in my entire goddamn life
‘pop’ is pretty heinous but like, I’ll accept it, yknow? it’s just the other half of ‘soda-pop,’ like how ‘cab’ and ‘taxi’ are the two halves of ‘taxicab.’ it’s fine. it’s chill.
but coke? that’s a fucking brand name! of a specific drink with a specific flavor! that shits RUDE, it’s CONFUSING, it’s DOWNRIGHT NONSENSICAL! fuckin misusing the art of language to confound your fellow man! the gall! learn some fucking respect
No it just happens sometimes. Its like jell-o, kleenex, popsicle, scotch tape. It just happens.
But that’s not a good parallel at all. You can’t compare calling Sprite “coke” like a lawless heathen to the classic linguistic phenomenon of generic trademarks / proprietary eponyms, and I’ll tell you why:
- ‘Jell-o’ is a brand name under which multiple flavours of gelatin (and pudding/custard) are produced. There isn’t just “Jell-o” and then special “strawberry Jell-o”; the name has never denoted just one specific flavour.
- ‘Popsicle’ is the same as Jello, it was never a name for just one flavour of popsicle.
- ‘Kleenex’ is a specific brand of tissues, but it’s not inherently that distinct from other tissues. They are all lightweight tissues used to blow your nose.
- ‘Scotch tape’ is used to refer to any tape that is like the original scotch tape, i.e., clear, thin, small, sticky on one side. We don’t call all tape ‘scotch tape’. Electric tape, duct tape, and packing tape are all their own things, and anybody who calls any of them ‘scotch tape’ has no regard for their fellow man and ought to be thrown into the sea.
MEANWHILE, Coca-Cola is a specific kind of soda with its own distinct flavour. When Coca-Cola makes other flavours, they’re called “vanilla Coke,” “cherry Coke,” etc. but “Coke” is still its own standalone flavour, a wholly other Thing apart from the “special” flavours the company produces.
It would make far more sense if people used ‘coke’ the way we use ‘scotch tape’; that is, to denote only those sodas that are similar in appearance and taste to Coca-Cola (Pepsi, RC, Shasta Cola, etc.). I could see all of those being lumped in under a generic term ‘coke’. I could even see it being extended to all brown sodas, even though comparing Root Beer to Coke is like comparing a badger to a zebra just because they’re both black-and-white mammals. You’re on thin fucking ice but at least there’s still some semblance of logic.
But no. You southerners, who bask in your sun and heat and chew upon your wheat stems with the indifference of an armadillo in the face of oncoming traffic, you who revel in lawlessness and chaos, you linguistic delinquents who fear neither God nor man,
you are really going to look at a list of drinks that includes such variety in taste and apperance as Sprite, Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew Code Red, Orange Fanta, and Dr. Pepper, and call it all “Coke.”
You’re going to picture, in your mind, a clear, lemon-lime fizzy drink and request “coke.” And then when asked “what kind?” you will not say “Coke Zero,” “Diet Coke,” or “Cherry Coke,” no. You will answer “Sprite,” like an animal, like a feral possum who knows the ways of right and wrong and chooses wrong just to spite its creator.
And then you have the gall to say it’s an eponym as valid as ‘Jello’. No. You tossed your logic into the dumpster fires of the underworld long ago, you cannot justify it now. You cannot tell me you don’t know your own crimes. “It’s all coke,” you say, and you taste the sin of it on your tongue, and you laugh. Know this, that you are inviting judgment upon yourself and one day you will be devoured by the sun.
As a southerner, this is the funniest damn thing I’ve ever read.
I’m from Alabama. Members of my family have ordered Coke, and when asked, “What kind?” replied, “Sweet tea.” Where is your God now?
“for you, i know i’ll sing you this song anywhere that i go.”
you may not be able to control the plot of your life, or the characters in it, or even the genre, but you can control one thing: the soundtrack. grab some headphones and make it a banger.
I made a difference in the world!
REBLOG TO SAVE YOUR QUEER HEART FROM BREAKING
I’ve seen a bunch of people in the notes concerned (like I was) of comparisons of members of the lgbt to dogs: but upon visiting their website I was reassured that they monitor a variety of content, including (but not limited to):
THIS IS A GOOD SITE
Yeah, this site is literally so people can check for content they don’t want to see…or in some cases content that would make them physically or mentally ill. (I have strobe issues myself…)
It’s highly useful for a lot of people.
I had no idea they warned for strobe effects, that’s awesome! They give me headaches and nausea.
“Okay like I don’t hate cis people or anything (like I have cis friends) but there is no evidence that this character is cis, like it doesn’t even mention it and it doesn’t seem relevant to the plot or anything. The character doesn’t even look cis, y'know? They don’t act like they’re cis (and I would know about that because I have cis friends so like not to be rude or anything).”
“I’m not heterophobic like my friend’s cousin has a mom and a dad but do you have any evidence that this character is straight? I just feel like the writers would make it obvious if they wanted him to be straight, you know? Like he’s looked a girls a lot but he’s just admiring their strength it doesn’t me he’s straight. You’re just saying this because you’re straight and you’re projecting.”
“I actually know a lot about allosexuality and alloromanticism and this is not it. It’s actually allophobic of you to just assume because the character fits some allo stereotypes she is allo. Like yeah, she seems like she experiences sexual and romantic attraction but that’s probably just because that’s what’s important to the plot. Obviously if she was allo she would just say ‘I’m allo,’ but she doesn’t so don’t assume.”
#I’m not crying you are.
*slow clap it the fuck out*
The World Wide Web is only 30 years old. Think about the exponential improvement it’s seen in the last decade, and imagine what it will be like in the next decade.
If a 7 month old baby is born prematurely before a 9 month old baby it will be older even though it has existed less.