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You know what my favorite thing about the Pokemon TCG is? The attack names:

And my all-time favorite:

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Just watched 'Loving Vincent' 2017,

(Spoiler warning)

So, by the end of the film, Armand believes that Van Gogh's death was not sucide and was instead killed. So I was wondering, is that something that was actually speculated, or was it made up for the film?

And was all the characters' testimonies about Van Gogh real recollection of the real people or also made up?

Basically, how much of this film is true?

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This week's edition

This is how my DM asks us if we're free for the next dnd session

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This is how my DM asks us if we're free for the next dnd session

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It's race week !

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I've been writing down some of the weird things me and my friends say over the past few years and thought I'd share some of the highlights.

"You have a weird skull shape"

"He looks like Walmart Justin Bieber mixed with a penguin"

"I'm so gay but I'm so straight"

"Who's Plato against me? Socrates, eh?"

"Poor guy he's gay"

"Keep my mum out of this, you're gay"

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Omg, I'm not alone

liking someone platonically is so embarrassing like. yeah i admire you. yeah i think about you all the time. yeah i look forward to every time i see you even if it's only for a minute. yeah it's all platonic and yeah i couldn't explain this because it'd sound romantic. fucking hell

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"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess

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you want to be romantically attracted to someone? the thing that killed romeo and juliet?

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Tomorrow? like the thing that killed Macbeth?

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Does anyone else picture mother nature as a cottagecore lesbian?

No, just me?

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What's a cool or random fact you know?

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So when my mum was in college she was taking latin class. One day, a student didn't have anyone to drive him back home, so the teacher volunteered to drop him off on her way home. So this kid sat in the back of her car while she was at the front. They stop to pick up her husband, and they start to talk to each other in Latin. A dead language. Latin. This kid at the back is dumbfounded by this and proceeds to tell the whole class that their teacher talks latin in her daily life.

I find this to be hilarious. They could very well have been talking about him like ppl who talk another language do sometimes. Which, if that's the case, Latin is probably the best language to choose for that since I highly doubt anyone will understand you.

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This is actually a pretty interesting theory.

As I was reading the questions I was thinking "oh and I drew the handle on the rigth because I'm rigth handed, that makes so much sense" and then I read the third question and I just thought "uh? What's this gotta do with any of it" and now I'm genuinely interested in the results of this study.

Also here's my answer to the questions:

1. On the right

2. Rigth-handed

3. Latin alphabet

I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!

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Ok but like a movie filmed in Latin would be pretty cool no?

Or is it just me?

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People who drive yellow cars, do you often see others hitting their friends whenever they see your car?