a german will hear the phrase "he threw the empty beer bottle in the trash" and just stare blankly, their eye twitching, trying to comprehend a world in which you don't bring empty bottles to the pfandautomat, or the glascontainer at the very least
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"Everyone was calling everyone. I was honored to call one of the family members of the 9/11 victims; I called the House Homeland Security Committee and [Secretary of Homeland Security] Janet Napolitano. While I was in the Situation Room, I overheard one of the White House operations, saying [on the phone], 'Oh, I'm so sorry -- I didn't know you didn't work for President Clinton anymore. Do you know where I can reach him?' President Obama was calling his predecessors, George W. Bush and President Clinton. The operator is trying to find President Clinton. I looked at him and I said, 'Hold on one minute.' And I stepped back into the main room, [Secretary of State] Hillary [Clinton] was there, and I said, 'Madam Secretary, I'm really sorry to bother you, but do you have your husband's phone number?'
-- Mike Leiter, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, on the immediate aftermath of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011. President Obama was trying to get in touch with his immediate predecessors to notify them about the successful special forces operation and bin Laden's death, but there was some trouble finding contact information for former President Bill Clinton until Leiter realized he could simply ask Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the former President's phone number.
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I love coming in to work already in a bad mood & seeing that the closers last night skipped a half dozen things that Should have been done to instead do something that is an active waste of time for them AND wastes my time and inconveniences me in the morning
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DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE CLUB
**Major spoilers for Link Click below!**
my apologies…
Observations:
Top two: killed at the start of their season
Bottom two: killed (or revealed to have been killed) at the end of their season
Left side: season 1 characters
Right side: season 2 characters
Top two: killed by falling
Bottom two: shot*
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Recently all the dirty thoughts have been happening about digger and it’s causing me to want to write something EXTREMELY spicy……
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mom, [pulls out another short stock, noodely-armed, dark-skinned character with an inkling of curiosity for knowledge from a horror queer podcast] i have a new baby
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it’s getting to the point where I want to run an event where people write fics where quinlan gets found by the coruscant guard explicitly anywhere but the bin.
like come on quinlan fans he deserves better than this
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Meine Masterarbeit tötet mich so:
Fuck marry kill Spatort Edition. Wir können noch befriend hinzupacken, weil wir haben eine Person zu viel.
Packs in die Tags. (Alles unabhängig von Sexualität obviously. All based on vibes)
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absolute queen and her pathetic meow meow of a bf
i played through all of reborn in the summer but i had no motivation to draw. i remembered it existed again recently so i figured i should at least do something
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