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one of the most frustrating things about getting a job is that after you go through the absolute hellscape that is applying and interviewing and you finally prove yourself worthy of having employment, you'll end up in the workforce and realise that 90% of the people with jobs are not actually very good at them. so like why was all of that even so hard

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fave genre of comment on terrible songs

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The term "book of the dead" doesnt really give you perspective to how big a lot of Egyptian funerary texts are.

Imhoteps book of the Dead is 64 feet long.

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A lot of people want a GoT style Silmarillion show, but I feel like I’m the only one who would prefer a sitcom. 

Everybody hates Feanor

King of Doriath

How I Met Your Daughter

Morgoth in the Middle

Frenemies

Golden Haired Girls

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No it's not that I don't appreciate the flirting, I just wish you wouldn't do it while I'm in the middle of vivisecting you. Yes I know that it's really hot when I'm covered in your blood elbow deep in your chest cavity that's why I keep vivisecting you. But I keep getting flustered and dropping your liver and its really slippery so I keep dropping it over and over again leading to very comedic slapstick comedy where I slip on your blood and fall over really funny

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well well well if it isn’t august slipping away

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puts on the evil cursed amulet but my behavior doesn't change at all and i just keep doing exactly what i was doing except i'm much more confident at it now

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Mad scientists will be like "I know a place" and then strap you onto the autopsy table

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As an aroace person I actually never had that feeling of being broken. I thought everyone was the same way and some people were just dramatic 😭

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All I wanna do is draw this horse.

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Lots of speculation on how Galadriel got the Valar to let Gimli into the undying lands, but in my heart of hearts I know the truth, and the truth is that she didn't even get to finish the first sentence of her pitch.

Galadriel: So, one of the Fellowship was a dwarf— Aule: Yes. Our answer is yes. Do they need a boat? I didn't teach them anything about boats, so they'll probably need a boat. Let's go ahead and adjourn the meeting and I'll get to work on that boat. Aule: Don't you give me that look Manwe, Ulmo's got Tuor in his purse right now, you're letting me have this.

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there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy

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Just learned this absolutely delightful bit of etymology:

During the 15th century, the English had an endearing practice of granting common human names to the birds that lived among them. Virtually every bird in that era had a name, and most of them, like Will Wagtail and Philip Sparrow have been long forgotten. Polly Parrot has stuck around, and Tom Tit and Jenny Wren, personable companions of the English countryside, are names still sometimes found in children’s rhymes. Other human names, however, have been incorporated so durably into the common names that still grace birds as to almost entirely obscure their origin. The Magpie, a loquacious black and white bird with a penchant for snatching shiny objects, once bore the simple name “pie,” probably coming from its Roman name, “pica.” The English named these birds Margaret, which was then abbreviated to Maggie, and finally left at Mag Pie. The vocal, crow-like bird called Jackdaw was also once just a “daw” named “Jack.”  The English also gave their ubiquitous and beloved orange-bellied, orb-shaped, wren-sized bird a human name. The first recorded Anglo-Saxon name for the Eurasian Robin was ruddoc, meaning “little red one.” By the medieval period, its name evolved to redbreast (the more accurate term orange only entered the English language when the fruit of the same name reached Great Britain in the 16th century). The English chose the satisfyingly alliterative name Robert for the redbreast, which they then changed to the popular Tudor nickname Robin. Soon enough, the name Robin Redbreast became so identified with the bird that Redbreast was dropped because it seemed so redundant. 

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are you guys gonna wrap it up with the dog motif anytime soon

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Absolutely wild and incredible and amazing that Kpop Demon Hunters is currently #1 at the domestic box office despite only being in limited theaters for one weekend.

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to get a job you have to have 10 years of experience in every possible tool and task that could even tangentially be related to what you'll actually be doing and then you have to prove that you're the smartest person in the world and you're organised and proactive and have great problem solving skills. and then if you beg on your knees like a dog enough and actually get the job, the entire first week will be doing spent reading shit like: 'MANDATORY HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING: if the floor is SLIPPERY or BUMPY, you might TRIP. this is BAD. please take this test to check your knowledge. question 1: is tripping bad? yes/no'

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an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing