Alien: You’re telling me that in times of great distress humans have been known to suddenly gain the strength necessary to lift objects more than a dozen times their own weight?!
Human: Yeah, it’s called “hysterical strength” and it usually happens in life-or-death situations, like when someone gets stuck under a car or something and someone lifts the car to get them out. We can’t really test it though, ‘cause it only happens spontaneously.
Alien: Humans have the ability to tap into untold strength and power and you don’t even know how you do it?
Human: Pretty much, yeah. We think it has something to do with temporary analgesia, so we just don’t feel the pain we should when we pick up a 3000-pound car.
Alien: YOUR PAIN RESPONSE JUST SHUTS OFF?
Human: Yeah, it’s like an adrenaline thing? Do you not have that?
Alien: Fuck you and your entire species of tiny juggernauts.
Maybe medieval people happened upon a T-Rex fossil and came to a relatively logical conclusion that dragons existed.
I’ve read a couple books on this actually, thats exactly what happened. Also cyclops are from looking at bones from a certain type of baby elephant. The giant note hole and tiny eyes made it look like a single eye.
Yep, can confirm! And what’s even funnier to me is that back in the dark ages, Greek people used to find a lot of prehistoric bear skeletons – and those look exactly like human skeletons, except they’re like eight feet tall or something – so they naturally assumed those were the heroes of legend, and made armour and clothes for them and reburied them with the most splendid and sacred religious ceremonies they could think of? Fast forward five centuries, Athens’ all modern and rational, philosophers and scientists aren’t taking any shit from anyone – but the problem is, people will randomly find graves containing giant-ass warriors, so that’s something that can’t be explained away and yeah, demigods were a thing and yeah, they used to be eight feet tall and sorry I don’t make the rules.
Some scientists suspect that the origin of the cyclops myths came about because of elephant skulls, which are vaguely human in shape but with a honking big hole in the middle for the trunk but easily mistakable for an eye socket without any flesh
Every mother with trans children should take Cher as an example.
ok i love her but lets not give brownie points because she called him her son. thats like. minimum requirement for a decent human being.
Ok, you know what? No. Brownie points to Cher.
She publicly announced her love and acceptance of her SON and yeah some people would call that “the minimum requirement” of decency, but as someone whose mother gushes about her acceptance in private and sometimes uses gender neutral terms for me (not the male ones I prefer) but aggressively misgenders me in public to keep things from being “awkward”, cher’s public acknowledgement and expression of her love and acceptance for her son is a big deal.
Yes this SHOULD BE the bare minimum of parental decency, but right now it’s not and I’m glad to see Chaz and Cher showing the world that this is the way things are supposed to be.
What is up with the idea that we shouldn’t acknowledge when people do something good/nice/etc. because “everyone should be doing that anyway”? It is BY acknowledging the things we see as good that we tell others how we see the world and enforce what we consider proper behavior. There is literally never a time when it doesn’t make sense to acknowledge something positive. And acknowledging something positive does NOT make some sort of blanket statement about the person like they can do no wrong either. We can acknowledge a positive, and also criticize a negative; there is bo zero-sum game here.
Positive reinforcement is one of the best ways to affirm or alter human behavior. This isn’t even psychology 101; this is ‘existing in the world’ level knowledge. It’s also the easiest possible thing you can do as a person to change the world.
And it is effective as fuck.
When I do a good job at work, my boss says ‘good job’. Yes, it’s my job and I should be good at it, but it’s encouraging and affirming to hear that. When I make a nice dinner, person I am feeding tells me “this is good”; it should be good because who voluntarily makes bad food but hey, it’s nice to hear.
Another way to put it; why the fuck should only shitty people or shitty behavior ever get attention?
september is coming up so here’s your yearly reminder to leave billie joe armstrong the fuck alone
Well of course. We don’t wake him up until October 1st.
His dad is dead, just don’t.
In case anyone reading my blog is unaware, this is a reference to the Green Day song titled “Wake Me Up When September Ends” a song that Billie Joe Armstrong wrote following the death of his father in September of 1982 when Billie Joe was ten years old. The title of the song references his desire to sleep through September in an effort to get some emotional distance from the death of his father.
He’s since been open about the emotional difficulty of having written the song since many people now message him on October 1st to ‘wake him up’ despite the song being a memorial to his departed father.
It’s generally seen as respectful to not try to wake him up. Let him sleep and let him remember his father in peace.
you know there are people in this world who make a career out of being really really good captain jack sparrow impersonators so idk if they really want to keep making more pirates movies it would be really fucking easy to replace johnny depp lol…
I have had this exact thought multiple times, there are -women- I’ve met who could play him and you’d barely notice
Johnny Depp impersonators are like, their own class, like Elvis impersonators
you could replace Depp in all movies that producers wanted his character type in ever and no one would be the wiser
^^^
Pirates of the Carribean
but every scene is an entirely different depp impersonator
no one notices until the credits roll and there are like 1700 names for “Captain Jack Sparrow”
this is the dream
Ten years ago I was at Disney World and the face actor for Jack was spot-the-entire-fuck-on. A little kid in a Jack Sparrow costume walked up to him and he stared a moment and said “Well… you look familiar!” with just perfect comic timing, then leaned down and asked the kid “er, where’s your mum?” When she was pointed out, he stood up, squinted suspiciously at her for a moment, then said “Oh, good, you don’t look familiar.”
He was just so good, we stood there and watched him for like ten minutes. Hire that dude. Shoot Johnny Depp into the sun.
Overdressed & Underappreciated 