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What it's like to live and work with 6 people of 5 different nationalities and none of you is a native English speaker
- desperately trying to explain to another coworker that your Bangladeshi flatmate is saying "pea shells" and not "bee shells" ("pea pods, du ved, ærte... skræller..? Ærtebælge!“)
- Tunisian guy says a French word. Everyone understands. French guy says "it's the same in English"
- you forget the English word for strainer. You know it in German. Only your Austrian flatmate understands what you're talking about.
- "according to my high school diploma I speak B1 French"
- Austrian forgets the English word for fork, but remembers it in Danish.
- "I don't have the name in English" *tells us what an animal is called in Latin*
- 0 out of 6 people can remember what broom is called in English
- "fucking... she's trying to kill me" – our Frenchman after tripping over the dishwasher
- *accidentally speaks Danish to non-Danish flatmate* *starts to say something in English to my family* *is spoken to in English by Danish flatmate*
- I tell the Frenchman to write leverpostej om the shopping list. He looks at me like he's dead inside and writes pâté
- no one knows how to spell
- "what gender is apple in German?" "is book neuter or common gender in Danish?" *calls an inanimate object he or she* "what's the plural of hus? Huser?"
- What are gendered genitive pronouns? I mean, who really knows? Not the French speakers, that's for sure!
- everyone speaks 2 languages, most at least kind of speak 3.
- my English gets worse for every day that passes
-translating jokes from your native language to English makes for the best anti jokes. "A dwarf walks into a bar and the bartender asks him 'Do you play cards?' 'No, I was born this way,' the dwarf answers"
- Austrian: "ti, tyve..... uhhhh..... fyrre, halvtreds, tres, halvfjerds.... fjers?? ..... ...?????? hundred."
- "can you hand me the... Uhh... You know the, the thingy!" "The what?" "THE BOWL!"
- "You can't name your child Valdemar, that's the guy from Harry Potter!"
- I try to speak German and my Austrian roommate tells me that my accent is cute because I speak the hard German sounds so softly
- Frenchman imitates really bad French accent and it's hilarious
- someone thought the Austrian was Scottish because she rolls her r's
- "Share a coke with... Vendire... Veninerere..." "Veninderne" "Please tell me that's not a name" "It's means female friends"
- Høkeren -> hookeren
- *French speakers forget to pronounce an h*
- there's a heated discussion about whether or not some penguins can fly. The argument immediately dissolves as it is revealed that in French auks are called penguins.
- you learn to never correct people unless they ask you to or you literally do not understand what they're saying
- you translate an idiom from your own language into English. It's the same in one of the other languages, but not in English. No one questions it.
- you borrow a flatmate's Netflix. All the titles are in a language you don't speak. FRIENDS is dubbed in German, so you turn on sous-titres. They're in Bangla.
- "Santa Claus surprise", the Frenchman cheerfully says about secret santa
- you try to talk about knitting with your roommates but you don't know any of the proper terms in English. They try to talk about crotcheing in turn, but they don't even know what that's called.
- you have to disassemble the couch, so you send your roommate to get the tools for doing that. You never talk about the tools of which you don't know the names, but she brings the right ones regardless.
- you say a sentence and someone repeats it back to you, mispronouncing one of the words because they're certain you mispronounced it
- you somehow manage to hold a conversation in two languages at once
#polyglot#langblr#languages#tongueblr#uhhh how to tag idk#general#personal#multilingual#volunteering#European solidarity corps#1k#2.5k#5k#original#10k#15k#20k#seriosly this is getting ridiculous#i cant find anything in my activity feed anymore#35k
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I find it incredibly "interesting" that almost every time @blackoutace and @itrulyamtheultimateooflord reblogs one of my posts it vanishes from their dash, but is still on mine and other followers. What's up with that shit @staff ??
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September is PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) awareness month. And yes it definitely needs a whole month because I can bet most of you have never heard of it. Even when it affects 8-16% of people with ovaries. As someone who’s been diagnosed for years I wanted to do my part in spreading knowledge - so I knitted this teal jumper, teal being the color of PCOS awareness, with two small words on the back: it’s okay.
I’ve been wanting to make this post for years now. Never did it because I was embarrassed. Embarrassed of what? That my body produces too much of a hormone? That it doesn’t always function the way it should? The symptoms aren’t very ”media sexy”; they are what society labels as result of being lazy, unkempt, ugly, ”something wrong with their head”. Sure as hell it feels like there’s something wrong with my head when it feels like I’m the only one in the world with this since it’s so unknown - even when it REALLY AFFECTS ONE IN TEN PEOPLE WITH OVARIES like I said. It is not talked about in school books, if you’re lucky your health ed teacher might briefly mention it and the school nurse definitely won’t talk about it. No one does. It’s usually not diagnosed until you start having difficulties getting pregnant. I was lucky to get diagnosed when I was pretty young, but I had really shitty doctors who didn’t tell me much and didn’t seem to take it seriously - it left a serious mistrust and even fear in doctors (but that’s a whole other story - I’ll post it later!)
The list of symptoms is so long there’s no way it’ll fit here, but the main ones are missing periods, infertility, hirsutism and weight gain. It touches almost everything in life and still gets dismissed as ”not a big deal”. And of course there’s not nearly enough research done on the matter because hey, ”women’s issues!” It pisses me off that all the information about PCOS seems so... vague. I read the same few researches, articles and statistics oven and over again - we simply don’t know enough.
Maybe the worst part for me personally has probably been the anxiety that comes with it - people with PCOS are as much as five times more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression. That paired with the other symptoms it really is tiring and from time to time eats me up really bad.
The worst of the worst is people not taking it seriously. I’ve come across so much underrating and dismissing it’s ridiculous. People not suffering from it really don’t understand how it affects things. And since PCOS among so many other ”invisible” disorders is barely talked about it’s hard to tell people what is going on. A recent study says that PCOS decreases the quality of life as much as other chronic illnesses and should be taken a lot more seriosly than it is now. People need to know more.
I’m done being embarrassed.
As much as I want to I can’t just wish it away so I have to make peace with it and learn to live a full life with it and all the symptoms I didn’t ask for.
This post is living with it. I’m done being embarrassed and I want to spread the awareness so maybe someone wont feel as alone with it as I have.
Sources:
pcosawarenessmonth.org
pcoschallenge.org
https://www.havingbabies.com/blog-list/pcos-by-the-numbers/
https://www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/monirakkulainen-munasarjaoireyhtyma-heikentaa-naisten-elamanlaatua-luultua-pidempaan?publisherId=57858920&releaseId=69881735
#pcos#pcos awareness#polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos)#my stuff#spreading awareness#im posting this here too because i already braved posting it on instagram
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1. This is going to be long but you said things about hs2 tour that i don't understand. Why have you come to the conclusion that not many tickets were sold to fans? You say "where are the rest of the tickets?" and I don't understand? They sold it? lol. Harry is having a special concert. This is the day of his album. Of course the demand would be high. People took screenshots of them having 16k people in from of them in the queue. I saw it on twitter. He isn't gonna want it to be empty.
This is his album release day. He doesn't need to save 10k for industry people or family/freinds. Which industry people btw? And he doesn't have 1k family people to come to his show? I just don't understand. Having a hard time getting tickets does not mean that they don't exist. You are right about people saying 11k tickets on subhub/with scalpers is false tho. I don't know why someone made it up when you can see how many tickets are being sold on their page.
Also why would scalpers have that many tickets but not sell them on resale websites? That doesn't make any sense. They point with their business is buying tickets and selling it for a higher price. There not going to buy it and then not sell it. "the way this was done says to me that his team actually doesn’t care if fans get totally ripped off." I don't agree with you. Like you said, there are 700 tickets on subhub. How is that not caring about fans? Also some people put them there with ridiculous prices just to see if they can sell it. Cause they want to go /plan to go but if someone is seriosly going to offer 1k for it some may sell it and go to his tour instead. It costed 25. He could have made the price higher than his tour prices cause this was a speical night with him and I promise he would still sell out. In fact he made it cheeper. Also there was no fee to pay. So who fixed that? Harry and his team cause Ticketmaster ain't doing anything for free. They made sure that you had to buy from his website to get codes. You could also only buy 2 and ticketmaster said that tickets will bounce back if they find out that someone broke the rule. Anyway nobody has to worry that this will be the same with tour tickets. lol. That's bizarre. Like imagine 1d coming back for one night vs 1d coming back for a tour playing in 80 places. Of course the pressure and ticket demand would be different. Same with Harry. You can't compare this with a full tour.
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Lord almighty that’s long. You’re welcome to see the same data and come to different conclusions, for sure. The only point that I’ll really stick to is that there are NOT 11,000 tickets available on resale sites.
And to your point, 791 out of 17,500 ending up in scalpers' hands isn’t as bad as it could be (4.5%). But I’ve also said that there was more that could be done. Some tickets are actually NOT TRANSFERRABLE via Ticketmaster. Does that mean you can’t work around it? No. But does it cut some of it down? Yes.
But I didn’t say that I think the rest of the tickets went to scalpers. Nor did I say that they all went to friends and family. Just that I don’t believe all 17,500 went on sale. And I’ll stick by that assessment. Look at how many people you know and how many people you’ve seen on Twitter or on Tumblr with tickets. No where NEAR as many as I’d expect. And there are people I know who are veterans in the 1D ticket environment that didn’t get close. Again, you’re free to come to different conclusions. But these are mine. And as this is my blog, I’ll continue to discuss my opinions.
And I realize that you see that One Night Only is way different than tour, which I also know, but it is worth repeating.
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Keeper Group Chat chapter 4
A/N hey guysss I finally finished this oh my gosh im so sorry for the wait. I had a bit of writers block for a bit but I did it I finished woooo!!!!
There is one link to youtube in this, but I swear its safe, just something really stupid. My boyfriend sent it to me whilst I was writing and I couldn't resist XD.
So yeah, as always its under the cut as always!
Linh: hello hello hello
Linh: is no one else up yet
Linh: oh my gosh
~~~~~ two hours later~~~~~~
Biana: linh why were you up at 6 in the morning????????
Linh: I was bored
Linh: and wanted to see if anyone else was up yet
Biana: you know what I need
Linh: sleep
Biana: that too
Keefe: hey guys
Linh: I wanna bake something
Linh: like a cake
Keefe: FOOD
Biana: oooh
Linh: or muffins or something else i dunno
Biana: like tam would be cool with you messing the kitchen up
Sophie: are we gonnA BAKE
Linh: yeah
Sophie: my parents can take you BIana be ready in 10 min
Biana: ok
Keefe: aWWWWWWWWWWWW
Sophie: dont worry well bring you some
Keefe: yay
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1 hour later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dex: you guys aRE BAKING
Dex: i sleep in for once and i miss everything
Keefe: shhh
Keefe: lemme go back to sleep
Dex: ughhhhhhhhhhhh
Dex: nah
Keefe: -_-
Dex: blah
Dex: Blah
Dex: blah
Dex: someBODY ONCE TOLD ME
Dex: the world was gonna roll me
Keefe: STOP
Dex: I aint the sharpest tool in sheeeed
Dex: she was looking kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an l
Dex: on
Dex: her
Dex: forehead
Sophie: seriosly dex stop blowing up my phone
Dex: ugh fine
Sophie: thank you
Dex: how much longer till youre done baking
Sophie: half an hour maybe?
Keefe: ohhh yeah
Dex: I thought you were adleep
Keefe: not anymore
Keefe: food
Fitz: what is happening
Keefe: yo
Dex: biana sophie n linh are baking
Fitz: so that's why biana wasnt answering me
Sophie: yup
Sophie: gtg
Keefe: tell us whenyour done pls
Fitz: u no what we should do
Fitz: we should have a guys night
Dex: ~_~
Fitz: what does that face even MEAN
Dex: id rather not
Keefe: um up for it
Fitz: well well see what tam thinks
Dex: sigh
Biana: XD
Biana: bro are you serious
Fitz: yeah why
Biana: I dunno about this fitz
Keefe: I think it'llbe fun
Biana: oookay
Dex: fine ill do it
Fitz: yayI
Tam: linh HAS TAKEN OVER THE KITCHEN
Fitz: hey hey hey tam
Tam: what
Fitz: we're gonna have a guys night
Tam: no
Keefe: DANGIT
Fitz: c'mon tam
Tam: nooo
Dex: welp there goes that
Fitz: why not
Biana: taaaam do it g my bro plsssssss
Fitz: yEAH
Tam: ugh fine
Keefe: woot woot
Sophie: you guys are ridiculous
Dex: we try
Sophie: XD
Sophie: the foods almost done
Keefe: awww yeah
Dex: ooh
Keefe: on my way
Dex: I'm coming
Fitz: are you guys ready
Fitz:????
Fitz: helloooko
Fitz: ugh
Tam: ready for what
Fitz: UUUUUUUUUGH
Fitz: the sleepover!!!!!!!!
Tam: oh
Tam: i didnt know it was gonna be now
Fitz: OMG
Dex: whats goin on
Fitz: the Sleepover!!!!
Dex: ohh
Dex: that
Fitz: yes that!
Dex: lemme get dressed
Tam: dude
Tam: its 3 pm
Dex: I KNOW VERY WELL WHAT tME IT IS
Keefe: PFFFT
Sophie: DEEEEX
Dex: i know i know
Fitz: what are we gonna do with you
Dex: ok im ready
Fitz: great!!!
Fitz: you can just walk on in the doors unlocked
Dex: woo
Fitz: what about you tam
Fitz: hellooo
Tam: hi sorry
Tam: im packin
Fitz: cool
Fitz: and where has keefe gone
Biana: can you guys have a different group chat about this
Biana: im getting spammed
Fitz: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sophie: pffft
Keefe: i was taking a nap
Sophie: of course
Keefe: whats going on
Fitz: were having a guys night
Keefe: ohhhh
Keefe: im gonna go back to sleep now
Biana: oh dang
Dex: cmooon keefe
Keefe: ughghghgh
Tam: im on my way
Fitz: yay
Fitz: keeefe itll be funnn
Keefe: fiiine
Dex: woo
Dex: almost there
Linh: i put my phone down to garden
Linh: foR A HALF HOUR
Fitz: sorryyyy
Linh: its okay
Linh: what happened though
Sophie: rambling
Sophie: you didnt miss much tbh
Fitz: hEY
Sophie: :P
Linh: ok then
Fitz: dex
Fitz: hes here gotta goooo
Sophie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsnfYn_ZFdE&t=27s
Biana: im scared to click that link
Sophie: its great
Sophie: i swear
Biana: iTS 15 MINUTES LONG
Sophie: shh
Sophie: just watch
Keefe: um
Sophie: dotto dotto dotto dotto
Sophie: im still not tired of it
Tam: is sophie going insane
Tam: should we eb worried
Sophie: nah
Sophie: im finne
Biana: what is this stupid video
Sophie: just watttch
Dex: sophie im dissapointed in your memes
Keefe: finally on mah way
Sophie: okay biana you can stop
Sophie: it repeats
Biana: oh thank god
Biana: im free
~~~~~~~~Biana to Sophie~~~~~~~~~
Biana: all the guys are here and im suffocating
Sophie: lets go to teh cafe around the corner
Biana: what about linh
Sophie: shes gardening rn i dont think she wants to be interupted
Biana: ahh
Biana: be there in 5
Sophie: coolio
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#keeper#keeper group chat#keeper group chat fic#kotlc fic#wholesome fam#the keeper crew#theyre such a nice friend group#pls read#I beg#<3 That Rude Anon
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lesbianlinkle replied to your post “I haven’t actually beaten vah nabooris yet but here’s my Hot Botw...”
YEA SAME... i just have 2 much to say but thats p much what im sayin also
myeah this might just be a summary of what u were saying basically but i’m in comprehension hell currently n can’t focus i just knew u were talking abt thme asdfg anyway same hat.
lesbianlinkle replied to your post “seriosly esp windblight it’s just Ridiculous are you really gonna try...”
GFHKGNFJ MOOD its a lot harder in hyrule castle did you know that it can make a tornado of wind that like , well i mean it ohkos me with 3 hearts idk what its actual damage is
Gotdamn that’s cool?? i gotta do a no-divine beast run sometime in the future... i’ll probably Uhhhhhh get some hearts tho bc i’m not a pro like u
#lesbianlinkle#reppplies#im sad abt not having the champion powers tho......... but i cant have them and boss rush sadly
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#hhhh im gonna go talk to our school's psychiatric nurse in a couple hours and i am nervous as fuck#she seemed very nice in the emails but still#this will be the first time i talk to someone else than my parents about how im scared of all sorts of social situations and stuff#and i only told my parents like a few weeks ago#but it feels kinda weird to talk about it?#cause even though i've struggled with it forba few years now#and it's gotten worse over time#i still think that#what if the solution is just to stop being such a fucking baby and just do stuff like phone calls or shopping or whatever the fuck#and i'm just overreacting because eveyone gets nervous about stuff sometimes right?#idk im just rambling now but writing my thoughts down makes me less nervous a lot of time and i can just delete this later#if someone's reading this then hi thanks for listening to my stupid rambling i really appreciate it#also i'm scared that i'll start crying while talking about this#because i cry so easily it's ridiculous#like every time i'm talking about myself other than like small-talk stuff#my brain just goes#hey!! u know what would make this intimate situation that's also kind of awkward even better? tears!!#whats that you'd rather not just start weeping in the middle of a relatively normal conversation? too fucking bad!!#see now you get to talk about personal things AND consentrate on trying to not cry and talking without your voice shaking! isn't that fun!#i'm seriosly such a fucking crybaby i don't even need to be upset or anything sometimes all of a sudden i'll just suddenly feel like crying#eeehhh i don't even know
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What is the most ridiculous thing you've seen SJWs get offended by? For me, it was someone getting offended by a Cards Against Humanity card that they deemed transphobic and burning said card which just left me wondering how the hell that person plays that game without going into a meltdown. Seriosly it's like criticizing South Park for being problematic. Also, "White people speaking Spanish is racist to Mexicans! Spain? What's that?"
Definitely "Painting your face to look like the galaxy is blackface!" Bonus points, because the person WHEE WHEE WHEEing wasn't even black.
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bja waylad many times today. and it was horror lost a foot an eye an arm a leg two legs and kept it up re attach. and finally he was exhausted. stopped. let it out i cant take it anymore this is ridiculous you useme for cover onall thsi stuff due to my job. and i heard wow your smart from him and we kissed in space above the poor boy. he smirked resolved to continue. and wrote this down no matter what you die. and we said it to him and we make sure. for we run the wiild things not you. cork too likes us. not you...your nothing. and we fired one off. and we killed him over and over and said it now you die and we huuck rt him badly he fell no more use as cover and he knew. andhe is judas. lost again he says. beat all the time. so bad too and we fell down and heard it you suck so badly your so huge why not just kill them. and he ran off ranting. and we heard them shut up asshole. you suck thats why thanks brian we said. he alaughed and said your welcome brohter and they killed him stoned him. you suck too. and they all died. and we laughed and said well they were quick huh. to the head of the class. nad American slang drve me nuts all day until i spoke it then said i invented it lots of it. and he said it and i laughed and said bja again. again a nutcase. so we can manage our women we will be ok we laughed and it is true they are nutty....and a nice nutty fun too we get it lol and a force to be rekoned with. yup. seriosly you ahve tnacity and edurance i fal sleepy typing all the time Galactus Galactca we wrote it you and i ok we did and do we attack itnow lets get that American elbow grease in there Sam and Thor ok we will. ok we see. it is time. we do it all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OO2PuGz-H8
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