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Today in History: December 14. The Bush shoeing incident

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*They used to “laugh and call him names.”  Now they’re all dead

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THEY LITERALLY HANG THEM UP TO DRY IN CRYING OH MY GOD

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mistaking prey

“They can also mistake small children and pet dogs for prey.”

This phrase has always bothered me. People get offended when a wild animal predates (or attempts to attack and feed on) humans and their pets. Animals can eat each other and humans can eat animals, but we humans are exempt from being eaten. We are animals, too. We’re full of calories – if another living non-human creature has got to eat and they have no other option, I don’t blame it.

I mean, I’d rather people didn’t get hurt or eaten by anyone, human or animal, and yeah I’m going to protect kids and pets as best I can from being preyed upon and I’d be upset if they were injured or killed.  We aren’t special - we’ve simply evolved to be very good at NOT getting eaten by other animals regularly. So we aren’t used to seeing people get eaten by animals. But to say an animal “mistook” someone for prey – no, everything nutritionally valuable and compatible is prey, it’s not a mistake. I may only eat fillet mignon every couple of years but that doesn’t make it less of a snack to me - I’m not mistaking it for a meal.

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“Lightsabears”

This is just about the best gif I’ve ever posted on here

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I’ve done a few of these.

One time I was making a baked potato in the microwave. When it was done, I reached in bare-handed to grab it and burned my finger tips, dropping the potato. So I got an oven mitt, put it on my burned hand, then reached in with the OTHER hand to once again grab the potato bare-handed. >_<

Another story: I work at the front desk of a lodge with lots of international customers. There’s this Russian guy, T,  who used to stay with us every year; he was gruff and hard to read and didn’t seem enthused with people in general. One year, T was trying to help out a camper who spoke no English. They were at my front desk and T was animatedly explaining something to this guy while swooping his hand up and out, in my general direction. I don’t know what came over me but I gave him a high five.

We both kinda froze for a second, then T said, “Ya, ya!” and high-fived the other guy. No idea what they’d been talking about but T was always kind to me after that. o_O

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My little dragon puppet I just made!! Be nice to him he’s only a little boy! 

I have a tutorial up on how to make him if u want check it out 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Hkv6d-Jpg

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THIS IS SO AWESOME

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So, in my art history class today, my professor was talking about something that is so fuckin awesome.

These are warrior shields from the Wahgi people of Papua New Guinea. The warriors paint them with imagery meant to symbolize animals who have traits they wish to embody in battle. These depictions are intended to give the person using it the powers of what they’re depicting.

Now. Look at this Wahgi shield:

Hmm. That looks a bit different from the others.

That looks VERY different. Why, it looks like

The Phantom… American comic book character by Lee Falk. And that’s because it is.

The Wahgi people were isolated from the rest of the “modern” world until 1933. They came into contact with WWII service men who shared some aspects of western culture with the tribesmen. In particular, they showed them the comic books they read while shipped out. The Wahgi loved them. In particular, the Wahgi adored the stories of the Phantom, who wasn’t even particularly popular in its home of America.

He is so popular that the few Wahgi who can read english will read the comics out loud in the village center and hold out the pages for everyone to see, so the whole tripe can enjoy them and marvel at the Phantom’s might in battle.

They identify with the Phantom because he came from a jungle territory, like them, wore a mask to fight, like them, and came from a long line of warriors, which the Wahgi, who worshiped their ancestors, deeply respected. Further, despite not really having superpowers, the Phantom is strong, clever, and incredibly fast. He was so fast that his enemies began to believe that he was impervious to bullets and could not be killed.

Therefore, the Wahgi began painting HIM on their shields to invoke HIS abilities in battle. There are TONS of Phantom-Wahgi shields out there.

So, you might think that you’re huge comic book fan, but the Wahgi have taken their Phantom fandom to the next level and have made the Phantom a fucking talisman to carry into battle for strength.

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This thing still exists!

http://www.peplumtv.com/2011/05/peplum-recycling-statue-from-prodigal.html

1955 The Prodigal  - Lana Turner 

Not a movie poster but too cool not to share. Everytime RPG adventurers have to storm the weekly meeting of an evil cult, wether in sword and sorcery or pulp era adventures, this should be the poster picture.This blog like all the rest are about paintings, but occasionally I share photos or movie stills I really like

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Rape Escape

Easy and very effective

Requires nothing but your body

Includes attack

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That’s it. That’s the best tweet. We can all go home now.

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A Very Serious Review Of Waterholes, by G. G. Dog, esq, Resident Forest Puddle/Really Big Stick Quality Control Officer

Peoplefriends with cars are THE BEST. Forest walks are THE BEST. Puddles are THE BEST. Giant sticks are THE BESTEST

Waterhole 1.

Right at the start of the walk, so BEST because convenient. Could dive in straight away before I got hot. Not very deep though and no good sticks. 3 stars.

Peoplefriends called me away before I could grab the nice straight stick an old man was walking around with. Found a better stick not far from there though. BEST STICK.

Waterhole 2:

Middle of the walk, and this one is always full so I zoom ahead long before the peoplefriends get there so I have extra swimming time. It wasn’t as full as last time but still, nice and big, BEST mudding properties, a good cool place to stop and play with BEST STICK. 4 stars.

Waterhole 3 THE BEST PUDDLE - 5 stars

HUGE and there was an EVEN BETTER BEST STICK

The REALLY EXCELLENT BEST STICK

In conclusion: BEST DAY EVER

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