I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD
Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️
Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.
Love that this is well beyond 7000 people now and still going
@leavescrown Exactly! It’s a beautiful gift. Martin and Bosco out there travelling around the Tumblr community, continually making new friends.
Honda Life Pick-Up, 1973. Honda’s first generation kei pick-up was powered by a 360cc straight 2 cylinder engine, weighing only 550kg to had a payload of 375kg. It was a sales disaster with only 1,132 units produced, it was withdrawn from the market in 1974
My coworker Mike just started cracking up. Informed us someone was trying to make a test Outlook group at work and seems to have accidentally made it a real Outlook group.
Everyone added to the group is named Mike.
Creator of the group isn’t online yet but the Mikes are coming online in droves.
“Why was I added to this group? What do I have in common with all these other Mikes?” -one of the Mikes
“Ah, so this is Mikerosoft” (<- you’re never gonna guess what company I work for)
One Mike has suggested this is an effort by the group-creator to hunt Mikes for sport
2015 - Here are some gifs of Donald Trump being attacked by a bald eagle named Uncle Sam, literally the least patriotic thing that can happen to an American. [video]
I’m reblogging this again because I finally realized why this is so funny to me, as a bird person.
In the first gif, what you’re seeing is a man who has zero idea how to handle a bird. That’s a heavy bird, and he’s got his arm stretched out as far as it will go in an attempt to keep the bird away from his face. What that does is create unstable footing for Uncle Sam. The handler is there trying to hold up Trump’s arm, but the bird has already realized it needs to leave or it will fall. In the first gif the bird is not attacking Trump- it is trying to get away from him so it doesn’t get hurt.
In the second gif, what we see is a bird that remembers what just happened and is blaming Trump for it. Uncle Sam sees Trump reach for its tether, and makes a lunge at Trump’s hand to keep him away. The bird /does not/ want to hang out with Trump because it has learned that Trump has no idea what he is doing.
Uncle Sam is rejecting Trump based on Trump’s proven inability to properly handle Uncle Sam. And that is both hilarious and beautiful.
Good bird.
Always reblog Uncle Sam telling Trump to fuck off
This is a better explanation of these gifs than I could have given!
HOAs sound awful, how do people deal with strangers telling them what color to paint their house and shit I would start throwing rocks
ahhhhh I see I seee
HOAs should all be dismantled violently
I will never stop finding it funny that for all that Americans talk about individual liberty and resisting domination by the state, they immediately organize themselves into thousands of little tyrannies anyways.
HOA’s often stop people from having vegetable gardens 😀<face of person about to end up on the news
Please, just put things on the fucking choo-choo. Please.
An object that can move freight quickly between 2 cities along a set path with minimal input, Now that’s a revolutionary idea. Certainly isn’t what freight trains are fucking supposed to be if it weren’t for the corporate monopolies we have instead
Oh sure, you could do the same thing more efficiently and at less expense and with greater reliability and without any major reorganizing of your infrastructure, but if you did that then how would you make sure your unproven and unsafe technology didn’t endanger hundreds of people?
Your roommate is so bad at pretending to be a human, you’ve started to just automatically back him up in public. Tonight he tells you how nice it is to know the only other alien in the city, and you have to break the bad news
It started pretty simply. “Needs more plutonium,” your roommate said on your third day of university as you ate noodles together. Then he froze, staring at you, the colour draining from his face.
A weird joke to pull out, sure, but not panic-weird. You grew up a nerd. Your in-jokes are weirder. This guy, you decide, is unbelievably shy. Might have had bad experiences. Or social anxiety maybe.
You just give him a reassuring grin. “Definitely needs more plutonium,” you agree, and take a big bite of noodle, and something in him relaxes and he looks at you with a strange kind of understanding that you can’t really interpret, and from then on, you have a new close friend.
If the government really wanted to actually cut down on vape usage they would force manufacturers to add an unmutable slide whistle sound effect that played every time you take a hit
1. hates donald trump
2. got his ear pierced at claires because why not
3. legit asks people to beat him up in action scenes EVEN NOW AS AN OLD MAN
4. is arguably one of the most iconic star wars characters yet couldnt give less of a crap abt star wars
5. the universe tried to kill him (or at least permanently incapacitate him) twice in 2015 and it only mildly inconvenienced him
6. flies helicopters in search and rescue missions
7. was in his 40s for the majority of the indiana jones series which is insane when you think about all the stunts involved
8. quote “the director yells cut and harrison cracks open a beer and then builds a fucking shed”
9. arguably sexy
10. points angrily and its super effective
11. is just a really sweet person 12. no really my dad worked with him on firewall as the tech advisor and he was just a really swell guy 13. got my mom’s birth date from my dad and sent her flowers 14. he sent my mom flowers for her birthday 15. he didn’t even know her he just wanted to be sweet
this was a beautiful and necessary edition to this post thank you oh my god
When he was asked to be in Jimmy Kimmel’s “I’m Fucking Ben Affleck” video, in which he pulled up alongside them in a car and gave Jimmy a little wink and an air-kiss, when he showed up at the set he looked kind of put out. Kimmel was afraid he wasn’t down with what they were asking. But he just said, “I don’t know, this wardrobe…don’t you have anything mesh that I could wear?”
When he was filming “Witness” he rented a small farm from a friend of mine. At the end of the filming my friend went and checked out the property as usual. He noticed the barn door had been leveled so it no longer would swing open on it’s own. Went into the house and saw the closets had been redone, in the kitchen the cabinets had been replaced and all the drawers now opened really well. Turns out that there were thousands of dollars of work and materials put into fixing up everything at the place.
My friend called Ford and asked him how much he was asking for the work. Ford told him doing that kind of thing helped him relax and stay sane when he was filming. Would not take a dime. Plus he paid for a new water heater and got the sewage system cleaned out.
And he paid rent to live there the entire time.
Local Carpenter Stumbles Into Stardom, Worries This May Interfere With His Carpentry
every single day I think about how american black vultures are known for engaging in allopreening (preening between different species)
and they have a specific relationship with crested caracaras, in which the black vultures assist them by not only preening them after meals but also leading them to food in the first place— due to their superior sense of smell— while the caracaras assist the black vultures by acting as a warning signal in case of danger
and while this is more typical of black vultures, this is not common at all for any member of the falconidae family— it’s a special bond!
yet another post in favor of vultures everyone , hope you enjoy:) and I implore you to do some more research on these incredible birds !!
Imagine, for a moment, you are mad about something. When I am mad, I often use such tactics as “whine to a loved one” or “send tweets that I regret.” What do you do? Do you write down why you are mad on a piece of paper? Do you ball up the paper and throw the paper into the trash? A new scientific paper published in one of the leading peer-reviewed journals in the entire world has found that if you are not writing your feelings onto a piece of paper, crumpling the paper, and throwing the paper into the trash, you are missing out on an effective anger management technique.
The study, by Yuta Kanaya and Nob Kawa of Nagoya University in Japan, is called “Anger is eliminated with the disposal of a paper written because of provocation.” It was published in Scientific Reports, which is the fifth most-cited journal in the world and is part of the Nature family of journals. The study, which is incredible and which you must read, begins with this passage: “The need to control anger has been of importance for a long time in human societies, as inferred by a philosopher in Imperium Romanum who had already explored how to cease being angry. However, it can still be challenging to suppress anger effectively,” which, true. It adds that “failure to reduce anger can lead an individual to think about a provocative event repeatedly.”
The researchers wrote that they “developed a new anger reduction strategy” of destroying an “anger-written paper.” In the study, participants at a university were asked to write an essay about a social problem, and then, to make them mad, were given bad scores on the essay and the specific feedback “I cannot believe an educated person would think like this. I hope this person learns something while at the university.”
After receiving this negative feedback, the participants were then asked to write about how the feedback made them feel. “The participants in the disposal group rolled up the paper into a crumpled ball, stood up, threw the paper into the trash can held by the experimenter, and sat back in the chair.” A control group put their feelings into a clear folder and left them on the desk.
The researchers found what they described as a significant reduction in participants’ “anger experience” when they disposed of the feelings paper. To test if the disposal method mattered, they then did the same experiment but had one group put their feelings through a shredder, and a control group put the paper into a clear cube. They saw a similar reduction in “anger experience,” but the control group did not.
“Our interpretation is that the act of throwing the paper with ruminated anger into the trash can produces a feeling similar to the psychological existence (anger) being discarded, leading to anger elimination, since the psychological entity (anger) was disposed along with the physical object (anger-written paper),” the researchers wrote.
Kawa, one of the authors of the paper, told me in an email that they believe other mechanisms of destroying the feelings would also work: “Even burning or tearing paper works, I believe. I don’t think it even has to be paper. For example, I suppose it could be emptying a word file by throwing it in the [digital] trash.”
The shredder experiment (left) vs putting the paper in a clear case (right).
Perhaps none of this is terribly surprising to you. And yet, studies that seem very obvious but are tested anyway and published in major journals is one of my favorite genres of scientific paper. Kawa attempts to propose a theory for why this might work, which is called “backward magical contagion” which Kawa said “is the belief that actions taken on an object (e.g. hair) associated with an individual can affect the individuals themselves. Manipulating an object associated with a person is thought to impact the individuals themselves.”
The paper does not acknowledge or guess as to whether this technique would be effective for truly traumatic or major reasons for being angry. I would imagine that being deeply wronged could not be solved by simply transposing yourself onto a piece of paper.
Kawa also told me why they did the experiment in the first place: “We see objects with our feelings and thoughts. When an object overlaid with feelings is broken, we sometimes feel as if our feelings are also broken. If this happens, I thought that by throwing away the paper with the layers of anger on it, I could throw away the feelings as well.”
Once my friend Henry was accused of wearing wireless headphones by a substitute so she said for him to hand them over so he took them off and handed them to her. Then later on she asked him a question and he didn’t respond so she said it louder and he still didn’t respond. She asked why he was not responding and he said “I can’t understand you ma'am, you took my hearing aids.”
HOLY SHIT
one time we had a sub that was handing back papers and called my name. I asked if someone could grab it for me and she started mocking me for not even standing up. taunting me asking why I was not walking up to the front to get the paper myself.
my classmates went dead silent and after the sub’s laughter ended someone informed her that the wheelchair parked nearby belonged to me
I had a sub in English once, on presentation day. And everyone goes up and does their thing, and then its my turn. The whole time im stuttering and mixing up my words, having to stop and re-say my sentences. The rest of the class is used to this and claps. However, by the time its over, the teacher is 100% done.
Starts saying horrible thing about how im going to have to get over my ‘fear of public speaking’ and how she’s heard 8 year olds give better presentations (plus worse things but I don’t really member them). By then im in tears and on the brink of a panic attack, and then she starts telling me off for crying
The rest of the class is horrified. Then this boy stands up. He never been my friend and we never really got along, but he’d never bullied me. He told her in a pissed off, cold voice that in freshmen year I got a concussion and that I never really recovered from it, so all that was medical related and I couldn’t help it. Then he starts telling her off and the rest of the class joins him.
The teacher is mortified and tries to cover her ass, but the whole class walked out and that boy took me by the shoulders and we all walked to the principles office and told him what had happened. Lets just say she isn’t teaching anymore.
Also, turns out that boy had a sister like me, who couldn’t really speak. We’ve been best friends for 8 years and i’ll be his best woman at his wedding next year.
The moral is that Teachers, even subs, and adults shouldn’t scold kids before knowing the whole story, because shit like that can fuck up kids self-esteem for the rest of their life.
When I was thirteen, I had to have spinal surgery. When my doctor said I was allowed to attend school again, he said I had to use a wheelchair when on school grounds. My first day back at school, my special-ed teacher had put up a banner in her classroom that read, “There is no elevator to success. You must take the stairs.” I asked what that meant regarding my wheelchair, and she gave me detention for “disrespecting her authority”. The next week she gave us a homework assignment to design a poster that could potentially be used as a Public Service Advertisement. On the due-date, I handed this in.
My special-ed teacher was fucking OUTRAGED. She wanted me expelled for ridiculing her authority in front of the other students. The principal proclaimed my work to be “a masterpiece of satirical genius” and vetoed the special-ed teacher’s attempt to expel me.
Reblogging this post yet again, this time for the masterpiece of satirical genius. Hope the teacher got in trouble.
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