Yes I Can-t

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
lydia-feuerzopf
waterandsilver

crazy how the printer is the only piece of tech that acts up like that almost every day of its life. and we just accept it

waterandsilver

i don't think i've ever met a printer that actually wanted to be a printer. i think most printers have dreams of being on the stage

in-the-drowning-deep

I met a printer early in my IT career that did not want to be a printer. it sat in a school reprographics room, sullenly chewing any job it was fed - if it deigned to notice them at all.

then one day, a miracle occurred. an exhausted physics teacher, instead of punching in 12 for the number of copies she wanted of the 30-page booklet she had made for her A-level physics class, punched in 1200.

and that printer came to life. this print job was its moment, its magnum opus! it WOULD NOT be parted from it, no matter what we did, until we physically unplugged it from the wall, by which time it had printed almost 200 copies.

moral of the story: no printer wants to be a printer, unless you also do not want it to be a printer for a bit.

waterandsilver

ohhhhh i can picture this so clearly

morphlingunderscore

The best notes written in manuscripts by medieval monks

beggars-opera

Colophon: a statement at the end of a book containing the scribe or owner’s name, date of completion, or bitching about how hard it is to write a book in the dark ages

  • Oh, my hand
  • The parchment is very hairy
  • Thank God it will soon be dark
  • St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing
  • Now I’ve written the whole thing; for Christ’s sake give me a drink
  • Oh d fuckin abbot
  • Massive hangover
  • Whoever translated these Gospels did a very poor job
  • Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night
  • If someone else would like such a handsome book, come and look me up in Paris, across from the Notre Dame cathedral
  • I shall remember, O Christ, that I am writing of Thee, because I am wrecked today
  • Do not reproach me concerning the letters, the ink is bad and the parchment scanty and the day is dark
  • 11 golden letters, 8 shilling each; 700 letters with double shafts, 7 shilling for each hundred; and 35 quires of text, each 16 leaves, at 3 shilling each. For such an amount I won’t write again
  • Here ends the second part of the title work of Brother Thomas Aquinas of the Dominican Order; very long, very verbose; and very tedious for the scribe; thank God, thank God, and again thank God
  • If anyone take away this book, let him die the death, let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen
branewurms

what does oh d fuckin abbot even MEAN

a-spoon-is-born

an abbot is the head of a monastery so it just means “fuck my boss” basically, an abbreviation of “O damned fuckin Abbot”. this is what it looks like:

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Brasenose College MS 7, f.62v 

wisteria-lodge

very important, as is to my knowledge first attested instance of word ‘fuck.’ (it’s older, it’s just usually censored in some way)

morphlingunderscore
byjove

If anyone is wondering why there are/were so many unique breeds of domestic animals in the outlying Scottish & Irish Isles, it is because the Iron Age (and possibly Neolithic) residents of the area would keep their livestock on the islands to graze them and protect them from predators and thieves. It was also a historical custom to leave livestock animals on remote islands so marooned sailors would have something to eat, hence why there were already sheep in the Faroe Islands when Norse settlers arrived there but no sign of previous permanent human residence. Many of these isolated sheep breeds are the descendants of the Iron Age sheep placed there and have had thousands of years to adapt to their environments, with possible genetic influence from later Norse settlers.

Of course, British settlers wanted to replace the ancient local land race breeds with livestock breeds that produced more meat, fur and milk.

byjove

Look at these things, they’re fucking amazing (Soay sheep):

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Like, no, I’m sure their wool output isnt like that of the Merino, nor are they as meaty as a Suffolk but they are so fucking badass. For thousands of years, they’ve been living on an island humans couldn’t survive on.

This is why I’m so passionate about the preservation of heritage and land race breeds.

arueshalaetablebuildingsociety

I'm sorry, their wool was plucked????

byjove

Yes! They naturally shed it, a trait bred out of more modern breeds. You can kind of see it in the photos, you’d just have to pluck the shedded bits of coat instead of entirely shearing.