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in garfield comics, jon arbuckle has canonically put at least one bee in his anus and consumed dog semen

i wish i was making this up

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Today is the 10th Anniversary of the this magical moment  

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But seriously, how interesting is it that the people who make the biggest show about being against authoritarianism in the Middle East are white, American fascists? You’d think these crazy white people would actually admire groups like ISIS to some capacity.

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Liturgical languages are kind of a weird limbo, I think. Ge’ez might be called ‘moribund’ but I doubt that the Orthodox Tewahedo priests who use Ge’ez to write the bible converse with each other in it, they likely use their native language whether that’s Tigriniya or Amharic or whatever. Effectively, it is ‘dead’ much like Latin is ‘dead’ because it isn’t the language that L1 speakers are acquiring and without any L1 community the language can’t really be considered alive, can it? You could wonder the same thing with Coptic, or Manchu. Just because it still has a written tradition doesn’t truly mean it is alive, I would think it would need an L1 community.

This is a question for those who are interested in languages being dormant or dying:

So if the Ge'ez language is indeed used and being transmitted on a second or third language basis (not by the speaker’s parents, though) and being used conversationally, is it actually dead or is it simply not being passed as a first language?

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Dafal was a semi-nomadic trapper in the southern part of the Philippine island of Mindanao. Throughout the 1960s, he had sporadic contact with a group of some two dozen people living in stone-age conditions, who knew Dafal as the only other person in the world. He brought them steel knives, and taught them better hunting techniques. Eventually Dafal alerted the Philippine government, who sent their special representative in charge of national minority groups, Manuel Elizalde, Jr. The people Elizalde found amazed him. They were completely isolated and knew nothing of the outside world. What followed was a media explosion. The Tasaday, an undiscovered stone-age tribe, became worldwide celebrities almost overnight.

That was in 1971. Fifteen years later, the Tasaday story was turned on its head when Swiss and German journalists caught them wearing modern clothes and living in wooden huts, hurriedly changing for the camera. But most damningly, the Tasaday told the film crews that Elizalde had paid them back in 1971 to take their clothes off and pretend to be a stone age tribe. A 1988 anthropology conference brought the question to the firing line, and mountains of evidence were produced, seemingly proving that the entire thing had been a hoax, probably orchestrated by the wealthy Elizalde, who (it was claimed) hoped to create a protected reserve to secure mining and timber rights for himself.

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Jesus man.

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Completely out of context crop of the week.

13th c.(via)

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… and they are more Indebted!

Phroyd

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Lying as institution. #republicans

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Rose is heading for the nearest high bridge now because advertising has made her smell her hands and realize SHE OFFENDS

Really, Jimmy, you don’t have to shout; it’s apparent to all. From the ramrod posture of her swain to Rose’s evident tears, stink-palm has knocked her out of the running and EVERYONE GETS IT. 

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