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Dad’s cremation at the cheapest place we can find is going to cost more than rent. Which I just paid and so have no more rent-sized payments to share or contribute to costs.
Even being dead is expensive in this dumbass country.
Minding your own business and some fucking scarab just rolls a big ball of shit over you
How do you go on with life after that?
Look you thought YOU were having a bad Monday, but please get some perspective. In all likelihood nobody rolled a gigantic orb of shit over your body, compressing you stinkily into the dirt.
SOMEONE has never worked in an office.
…okay but I’m distracted by trying to figure out whether the frogs are that small or the bug is that big…
it’s so bizarre when animated American films are set in a certain location and then only certain characters have the accents of that place. It makes no damn sense!! like
WHY IS SHE MORE FRENCH THAN THE REST OF THEM???
WHY ARE THESE GUYS MORE SCOTTISH THAN THE KIDS??
(also, aren’t they Vikings or something?)
To be fair, almost everyone in Ratatouille does have a French accent. The real question is why Linguini and also all the rats sound intensely American
If it was just the rats I’d say it’s because the movie can be interpreted to mean that the rats understand but don’t necessarily speak human languages so the rat dialog isn’t literally taking place the way we see it but that doesn’t explain why Linguini has a rat accent
LINGUINI HAS A RAT ACCENT
Do we ever hear like
For sure that Linguini grew up in France tho?
It could be possible he’s just an American immigrant
I mean his name is Alfredo Linguini so I always assumed he was Italian
I’m sorry his first name is Alfredo?
What
ALFREDO???
he’s American you guys his mother was American it was mentioned in the beginning
I’m sorry, I’ve moved on to the fact his mother was going through her cupboard for baby names
Alfredo was a name before it was a sauce let’s go over the movie from the top again
This is Alfredo di Lelio (right) the inventor of fettuccine Alfredo, he’d come out to the table and make it in front of you by hand
The chap on the left is an airport
I think you might have your left and right mixed up, my friend
Great post everyone. Hit the showers.
Honestly, though.
It fucks me up that sometimes there’s this deep backstory with carefully researched cultural references for a character who appears in a film for like 23 seconds.
And then you’ve got these series where the show creator never had any idea where they were going with any of it and are just saying each episode “yeah, we’re gonna do freaky stuff and let the viewers obsess over it but none of it makes sense anyway”.
(Plus bonus points for when they totally did have a clear mythos but the network or studio said “Nah, that’s too smart for our VP of marketing to grasp, dumb it down and also we’re making money on this character you can’t kill them off, I don’t care you’ve been setting up that tragic death for three seasons”.)
chipmunks will also hunt birds. there's a chipmunk who hangs out near our bird feeder and mom was like "aww, he likes the nuts!" and then a small bird landed on the feeder and turns out he was just waiting to spring an ambush. he pounced and grabbed it in his forepaws and began chewing away while it was still alive and there were feathers everywhere. we would find his handiwork several times a week, just feathers and bones strewn around the feeder with little nibble marks on them
yeah! chipmunks have pretty heavy predator tendencies across the board, if it’s smaller than them and can’t get away fast enough, they are going to eat it
Classifications like “predator”, “prey”, “herbivore”, and “carnivore” are just labels people apply for convenience. All life is opportunistic.
(It is worth noting that there are significant differences in the dentition and digestive tract of most herbivores compared to carnivores. But this largely just expands the potential diet: if it can digest plants, you better believe it can handle meat.)
Deer will eat bones in the woods. Butterflies will eat meat. On the other side, I’ve had cats who loved melon and peas, and they’re supposed to be obligate carnivores. Creachers gotta eat.
Did you know that peafowl are born with a full set of flight feathers? It only takes them 3-4 days to remove the sheaths and put a little length on them, and then they are capable of flight!
It’s very obnoxious!
glad that came through in text
PERFECT BIRD
She continues to be perfect
For reference, it was 6 months between the first photo and the third photo. She was still a juvenile. She’ll be a sub adult a year from now. She’ll (hopefully, if nothing untoward happens) live 20+ years. She’s not even done growing. Peafowl are big.
jurassic park has a good philosophical message but unfortunately the only thing i ever take away from watching jurassic park is “god i wish i could go to jurassic park.” like yeah it’s a blatantly obvious don’t create the torment nexus scenario, but this torment nexus has DINOSAURS.
You know the thing I took from it?
Fucking disruption culture.
See, I worked in a zoo for a while. And there is so very much institutional knowledge in zoos which would have prevented the animals from escaping. Not to mention how to handle an animal escape, how to keep the collection healthy… there’s a lot.
Ditto on the IT side. Nedry shouldn’t have had all the accesses he had, with so little oversight.
And, I mean, that’s across the board. Everything in JP was run like startup disruption culture. The few times they brought in experienced people who knew how to handle things, Hammond ignored them.
It’s the kind of thing where you’re building a car but put the gear select on a touch screen. Designs a deep sea sub with carbon fiber. Dumb shit that anyone in the industry knows is a bad idea, but to the “disruptors”, that’s just old school thinking.
And while I don’t think it was the intent, that’s what JP demonstrated: not that magical math says you can’t contain life, but that you shouldn’t fucking ignore every piece of institutional knowledge handed to you.
They were def not running it like a zoo. More like a theme park (poorly, the shady kind), that happened to have live animals in it, mashed up with mad scientists without the oversight stopping them from making giant meat eaters.
And as the franchise went on, even moreso with the disruptor nonsense.
So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????
I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.
Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?
Saw a sharp increase in my follower count after posting this. The legitimacy of it is driving me nuts so I also feel the need to say that you can follow anyone on here regardless of whether you’ve interacted with them or not. People like the above mentioned blog are exceptions. Perhaps they themselves think they aren’t and therefore will act like they aren’t, but they are, trust me.
Just follow anyone you wanna follow. The worst thing that can happen is maybe getting soft-blocked by the other person, but if they do soft-block you, then they were never that worth following in the first place.
wow. really hope this isn’t actually a norm taking hold with new users! this isn’t facebook, you don’t need to know people before following them
Follow anyone you think is neat, that’s what the function is for. You’re not like sitting in their house raiding their fridge, you’re listening to them yell out of the window
It’s never overstated to me when people are like “work out bc it makes you feel better” bc it literally does. I think what I used to get hung up on is making the perfect schedule / wanting to know what I was doing right away. But it’s also okay to flounder at first and experiment w things and figure out what works for you and your body. The important thing is you’re starting out bc your body really will thank you for it later down the line. You cannot keep pushing it off it will add up
Yesterday I was so tired after work but I made myself drive to the swimming arena anyway and I only swam for like 15-20 minutes because my left shoulder started to hurt (probably the shingles) and then I almost dozed off in the sauna, but it did make me feel better.
I miss swimming. I should find a pool I’m allowed to use…
Today my plan was to go swimming after work even tho I’m tired, but today I fell asleep on the sofa and slept for three hours so I missed the opening hours. 🤷
I don’t believe in God but I’d like some thoughts and prayers even so.
Dang. Isn’t shingles usually like a 20 years older than us problem?? I hope it heals up fast!
Chronic stress and loneliness is making me age faster.
How’s it going? Are you feeling any better?
From shingles yes, from depression not really. But I have began eating Zoloft and drospirenon. The abysmal anxiety is gone.
That’s good! I’ve been worried! Now that spring is closer maybe things will keep getting better?
I hope so. But today it’s been a full on snowstorm. 😬
Holy crap!
The cold and wet white stuff is still here! 😡 But on Sunday it’s gonna be 15 C, or so they say. I really hope so bc I’m freezing my butt off inside. The housing company apparently thinks winter is over, even tho it’s 0 C outside.
The snow is just winter’s last attempted grasp, and then it’ll pass.. like it always does. Hopefully the Zoloft will help in time. It usually takes a while for it to take effect. If it doesn’t there are always other options. I’m on Effexor and it’s been a life saver (although it’s not without side effects).
The shingles are caused by the same virus as the chicken pox, so there’s not much to do about that..
I am feeling better actually which makes me want to bang my head to the wall because I could have started eating these meds sooner. Or maybe I couldn’t because I haven’t had a psychiatrist until now. But I genuinely believe that it’s not only the Zoloft but the synthetic hormone that takes away my ovulation too. It’s the combo that obviously works for me. It did for 15 years and then I had my hysterectomy and I stopped eating contraceptives because I thought I didn’t need it anymore. That was really stupid. PMD is fucking hell. Ovulation is so overrated. It just messes everything up.
When my Lexapro started working I got So Mad bc I was Fine for a while and I could have been Fine since I was a teen??? And I thought I was pretty obviously unwell, but no one thought to put me on meds? No one noticed?? Yeah, that was unexpected.
I’m glad you’re doing better!
Thanks, I am and I have those feelings exactly but in my case it’s more like 2 or 3 years of missed well-being. On the other hand, I did eat Fluoxetine until last summer, but it just wasn’t helping anymore. So what I should have started sooner was the gestagens.
I am so fucking tired tho, but like my psychiatrist said to me yesterday, is that so strange? No. I’ve been mentally ill as hell and I broke my leg. Go figure. But I’ve been brainwashed into thinking I should just shrug it off so…
I was just talking about that today, sort of. How even just a normal cold, it’s not unusual to be sick for like ten days but we’re basically trained to act normal after like two or three days? And it’s sort of the same for everything.
jurassic park has a good philosophical message but unfortunately the only thing i ever take away from watching jurassic park is “god i wish i could go to jurassic park.” like yeah it’s a blatantly obvious don’t create the torment nexus scenario, but this torment nexus has DINOSAURS.
