Currently An Enigma

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alexanderwales

I used the phrase "waiting on tenterhooks" and then thought "what the hell is a tenterhook".

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It's these things! So when you're waiting on tenterhooks, you're stretched tight like a piece of cloth. Very evocative, now that I know what it means.

headspace-hotel

like 40% of english idioms are just Textiles Again

aurlthatyoufindfunny

@aurlworthfightingfor

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don't leave this in the tags

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orpheuslament

if i had a dick i would love to have a disappointing orgasm in the shower while thinking of something or someone that i felt i should not be thinking about & then stand under the water with my forehead against a wall watching the proof of my guilt & shame go down the drain

krippe90

The insight I get into the female mind thanks to this website is amazing.

orpheuslament

not a female 👍

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pause everybody take notes. real trans ally

bogleech
hollowedskin

Seeing a lot of posts like "umm why does everyone love bees and hate wasps, bees are bastards and they sting you why are they the only insect anyone actually cares about, why does everyone hate wasps when they're the same as bees"

Well you see, everyone ALSO used to hate bees. Like. You guys are just too young to remember when everyone who wasn't an apiarist or a gardener or an ecologist was militantly aggressive towards bees Because They Sting You. People would burn their hives and kill them all when they were found, not call a bee guy to relocate them, they'd stomp bees in the clover if they saw them. They actively hunted down and destroyed hives.

The reason "everyone loves bees" isnt an arbitrary whimsical choice because they're cuter than wasps. It's because bee lovers made a HUGE effort to encourage people to see bees as valuable pollinators and friendly little guys that just want to defend their hive. They taught people to see bees as cute and fluffy! There were awareness campaigns about the value of bees, there were advertisements, there were little documentaries and articles teaching people how to readjust their views on bees so that the hatred of them didn't cause complete ecological and agricultural collapse.

Bee lovers used to be in the exact same position that everyone who loves other insects is - you say that you like this creature and everyone in a 10km radius comes crawling over to tell you all the ways they personally would kill them.

The fact that it's so common now for people to think bees are cute fun little guys doing an important job is a fucking monumental victory and it was hard won, and it's as recent as in the last 20 years. When I was a kid in the 90s, everyone hated bees except ecologists and bug guys.

If you want this for wasps too (which i also want) you gotta put the work in to change people's perceptions.

bogleech

True, I remember a kid in my 1991 grade school class even believed bees "steal" pollen from flowers. I also remember lizards, toads, and bats all still being loathed by everyone I met.

waitingforanonshittydayinhell
halles-comet

Today I was trying to chat up this girl standing with her friend at a lesbian bar and said “oh are you two together?” meaning were you friends before being next to each other at this bar and one turns to the other and goes with all the venom of a black mamba snake “I don’t know Cara, are we?” and I was like you know what? not my table

sunnydropsstuff

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tjalexandernyc

Now that gay ice hockey is trending like wild I'm imagining a world where homophobia is over and it would really behoove a small franchise, say, a team that hasn't won a championship in decades, to encourage two of their more conventionally attractive players to pretend to be in a relationship to boost ticket sales. A flawless plan that I'm sure won't result in anyyyyyyone falling in love

tjalexandernyc

imagine the discourse following the end-of-2nd-act reveal that they've been smooching as a contractual obligation. imagine queer baiting as a literal national sport

tjalexandernyc

everyone reblogging this to say "someone needs to write this!" No. We've written enough. It's time for the National Hockey League to start pulling its weight in this house