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I love the Alex Rider tv show and think that they're doing a great job of adapting the books for a tv audience but every time Yassen Gregorovich walks on screen I'm thrown because to this day I still picture Damien Lewis as Yassen and not Thomas Levin.

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Watching Band of Brothers with my Dad while I'm home over break and was shocked to see Yassen Gregorovich (Damien Lewis/ Lt. Winters) so I gasped and my Dad turned to look me dead in the eyes and called me a nerd.

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Curry is the sister of gravy

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Eating while on shift is not permitted, staff are told. “If the system detects no keyboard stroke and mouse click, it will show you as idle for that particular duration, and it will be reported to your supervisor. So please avoid hampering your productivity.”

A training video about the webcam system, seen by the Guardian, says it “monitors and tracks real-time employee behaviour and detects any violations to pre-set business rules, and sends real-time alerts to managers to take corrective actions immediately”.

Capitalism is so exhausting

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God bilingual people are so cool. I'd love to be bilingual someday.

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Marine

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Yeah bitch I guess u could say I dabble in shenanigans. I've been known to engage in some tomfoolery once in a while. Yeah I double majored in antics as well as capers. I've committed a folly or two, not to mention horseplay

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I keep forgetting that shrimp have legs

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I'm watching the 2009 Star Trek with my mother (who was in the Army) and hearing her critique their operational planning is so funny.

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I was taking to the girlfriend of one of my buddies about a book idea I had, and while I was describing how two of the characters (both female) were besties and had been since childhood she interrupted to ask me why they weren't lesbians and got really pissed when I told her one of them was AceAro and that I thought strong female friendships were under represented so they wouldn't be dating. It was wild.

some of u act like people having ace headcanons are somehow taking away the Real Queerness of a character and u need to get well soon

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I love how both corvids and parrots are in general highly intelligent, but where corvids generally have strict hierarchies, solve disagreements in the pecking order by fighting, and have a strong dislike for anything new or foreign until they figure out how to make use of it, parrots are just here to party.

The New Caledonian crow, who knows how to specifically build a tool in order to build another tool, never engages in play. These motherfuckers are smarter than some people with the right to vote, and they are Extremely Serious Birds. They don't have time to play, they got work to do and kids to raise.

And then there's the kea, straight-up titled "clown of the mountains", that has a specific vocalization for "playtime!". Scientists decided to try what happens if they play the Play Call for two fully-grown adult keas that are together in an area and can clearly see there is no other, third kea to make the call, and they just go "great idea, disembodied voice! it's TIME TO FUCKING PARTY!" and start wrestling.

Imagine working really hard in order to make it into a top university to study astrophysics, making it to your first Very Serious Class, sitting down full of serious determination, and the dude next to you is taking notes without using his hands, with a glitter pen he's shoved up his nose. And his notes are good.

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Mistakes were made

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my local library doesn’t have a maximum book checkout limit and I am about to make them regret this

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"Die Hard": Alan Rickman puts so much effort into making fun of American cowboys, he gets killed.

"Quigley Down Under": Alan Rickman puts so much effort into wanting to be an American cowboy, he gets killed.