Age-old advice which is more relevant nowadays rather than less. This is the second iteration of it though. The original version is: “Never write anything in a letter you wouldn’t want to see in print.” Advice handed down by my mother from her forbears.
From the IT department. We archive EVERYTHING. And Outlook autosaves every couple seconds.
“Dance like no one is watching. Email and text like it will one day be read in court.”
I write everything with the mind that it will one day be read by archeologists and boy does that make life a little more fun.
Ho-ly mo-ly, is that a welcome return to form! It gives me flashbacks to the first Russell T. Davies era, 2005 to 2010, which in turn gives me hope that we really will see the Doctor Who we know and love restored to its former glory and moving into a brighter future.
Totally!
When the chorus begin..
ok so I saw that post about how 19th century women first reading Pride and Prejudice probably went feral at the scene where Elizabeth rejects Darcy’s proposal, and I thought it was at least Slightly exaggerated for comedic effect like “oh haha emotionally rioting over old literature.” But I just got to that page today and LET ME TELL YOU. MY GOD. The sweet vindication?? the way Elizabeth had no clue darcy even liked her like she thought he hated her just as much as she hated him. and he has the AUDACITY to go on about how he couldn’t help being in love despite how lowly her station was. despite how obnoxious her family was. trying in vain to “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you” OHhoho MUST she??? then when she rejects him n he gets angry and says “that was kinda rude :/” she goes fucningk off the rails. He thinks he just made a lil mistake in the delivery. He’s soooo confident and full of himself. n then. “You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it.” she SHUTS that boy down. Mr Darcy is mortified. Mortified it says it right there on the page. This man with his infamous stony countenance is so visibly uncomfortable that even Elizabeth “didn’t realize the man has been in love with her for 30 chapters” Bennet picked up on it. He fuckin FLEES the scene. “I have never desired your good opinion, and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly” She is EVISCERATING him on the spot.
it’s just. so good.
Got pulled over because he "saw someone flash their lights at me" and it made him "think something was going on". After he ran my paperwork and did multiple full walk-arounds of my car, he decided everything was in order and I was free to go. I just wanted to get home from work.
Living in MD got pulled over when I pulled into my landlady's [100%, rich, suburban] community and questioned what my purpose was there. "I live here" was not an acceptable answer and I ended up needing to call my landlady to talk to the officer and convince them that I really did live there, in her basement inlaw apartment, courtesy of her granddaughter. When he finally let me go he told me he "actually" pulled me over because he "thought [my] headlights were out" but on "second glance" they were just fine. Dunno how you can mistake headlights being on or off.
And I know I've told the story of when one of my elderly white neighbors called the police on me for training my dog in a public use field and how even the cop that showed up thought the call was stupid and racist.
My dad got pulled over when I was still in a carseat because they thought it was "suspicious" that a grown man would have such a young child with him on a school day. He was driving me back to school from a doctor's appointment. They made him get our of the car, lean against it, and searched both him and the car because they "smelled something" while he did his best to keep me calm and tell me that it was going to be okay. I was too young to understand what happened at the time. I just remember he was furious the entire ride back to school, and he was still mad when I got off the bus that afternoon.
It really is just Like This, being black in this country.
Once I spoke with a girl who told me a friend had invited her to a pool party, but she didn't want to go because the friend's mom had HIV.
I told her that this was a common concern, but HIV can't be transmitted by sharing a pool, and in fact HIV is such a weak virus that it can't even survive on a table for more than a few hours, and it can be killed entirely by bleach.
She asked me, "if you can kill HIV with bleach, why haven't we cured it yet?"
I told her, "because we can't put Bleach into people without killing them".
She said that this was interesting, but she still wasn't going to go.
(We did not become friends.)
The other day, I saw a group of teenage boys climbing all over an electrical box in town.
I walked over and asked if they were aware this was an electrocution risk.
One of them asked what I meant. I pointed to the large yellow image of a stick man with a lightning bolt through its chest and repeated, "it has an electrocution warning on it. Don't get blown up."
The kid laughed and said, "hey, play at your own risk, right?" And went back to his buddies.
I went back to what I was doing, but kept an eye out, and did notice that within the next five minutes, the whole group had removed themselves from the box and were now gathered several feet away from it.
I can't make people do things. I can inform, and support, but I cannot make their choices.
This is something that is hard to learn.
HIS DAD IS A DITTO
I AM NOT OKAY
*SOBS*
I DON’T KNOW WHICH IS WORSE THE ONE WHERE IT’S RAISED BY A DITTO OR A VENUSAUR D’:
Pokemon Heritage Post
The mechanics behind it are pretty simple too:
That's how you catch the branch in the state of "plant catching on fire", without advancing to the "plant burnt" state.
The physics and artistry of this are fascinating but I love how they have to cut the molten glass with shears like it’s unruly fondue
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