dinosaurs are like the coolest thing possible for a child to learn about. it’s like hey i know you were just borned but giant monsters are real and they fought each other in wars for 100000000000 years and then blew up when the sky exploded.
just saw an x-ray of a horse skull. can’t say i’m too happy with it
what the FUCK is this
Fun fact: horses’ teeth take up more space in their skulls than their brains!
Horses: eating is more important than thinking
Anyone whose ever interacted with a horse: sounds about right
@thetrashbagswasteland I’m almost certain you’ve seen this already but if you haven’t, I hereby bestow it upon you
Oh I’ve seen this and love it but honestly I think more horrifying than X-rays is the real thing!
You see, X-rays are great but they don’t give you much of a sense of scale. So this is the lower jaw of an average sized horse - she was about 15.2hh and by best reckoning, a lightweight riding horse (much like a thoroughbred or lighter weight warmblood), likely about 5 or 6 years old when she died. Here’s her head against a decently sized dog-fox to help get a sense of scale.
Now let’s have a look at those teeth!
This is her lower jaw, primarily because I can’t get the upper teeth out without destroying the bone, but as the xray shows you, they’re not that different in size.
This is second molar, against its spot in the bottom jaw for scale. Horrifically large in comparison to the bone, right?
Ah actually it’s even worse with a hand for comparison.
And did I mention that this is quite a small horse’s head? And that some horses have skulls the size of a human torso? With a brain a little smaller than a grapefruit to manage all those very very large teeth (for a draft horse, this skull’s cranial cavity is big enough for a walnut, bless her). It’s no wonder they are the way they are tbh.
And then we looked at these animals and decided to base our civilisation off their backs.
Yeah…
Eating is more important than thinking for most species.
The majority of the body’s daily energy consumption is used for seeking food and digestion.
Few animals use more than 10% of their daily energy consumption on the brain.
… except humans. Humans are weird. We use 30% of our energy on thinking, and have even reduced the energy spend on digestion! Out intestine is short and inefficient compared to other apes. We even lost the large chewing muscles and the skull ridge, just to get more space and energy to the brain. We can do that because we pre-digest food with cooking and consume very energy rich carbohydrates, meat and fat.
Humans are freaks.
Freaks who of course decided to ride horses.
Look.
The horse can out bite us, but we can out think the horse.
So, like the shark, it comes down to who is the better cyclist.
so my friend is studying abroad in germany this semester
My mom is German and told me what the fuck these were actually trying to mean.
“You can me once” is supposed to mean “you can kiss my ass ONCE ” As in like,, you can be a suck up once.
“What must, THAT MUST” is supposed to be “it is what it is”
“Now butter by the fishes is a German saying that is more like ” can I have some butter with the fish?“ Which basically means ” get to he point of the story. “
These are somehow just as confusing as the coasters
Ok, so small German linguistics lesson coming up:
It’s a common meme in Germany to take a German saying or phrase and translate it word for word into English without adapting the grammar.
A very popular one is “My English is not the yellow from the egg but it goes” which comes from “Mein Englisch ist nicht das Gelbe vom Ei aber es geht” and basically means someone’s English skills aren’t very good but it’s alright. “Nicht das Gelbe vom Ei” is a common way to express that something is not great or barely passable. “Es geht” means something like “it’s okay” or “it’s manageable”.
As for the examples above, I find the explanations severely lacking so here goes:
“You can me once” is “Du kannst mich mal” which is in turn is an abbreviation of “Du kannst mich mal am Arsch lecken”. It’s effectively “Kiss my ass” or “Fuck off” in a less vulgar form.
“What must, that must” comes from “Was muss, das muss” and is an abbreviation for “Was getan werden muss, muss getan werden” so something like “what needs to be done, has to be done” or “it is what it is” fits quite well.
“Now, butter by the fishes” is more complicated. It’s an old North-German saying which stems from the tradition that fried fish is traditionally garnished with butter in that region. The butter is added to the dish right before serving, so a fried fish without butter is incomplete. Saying “Jetzt mal Butter bei die Fische” is akin to telling someone to finally get on with it and get to the point so we can finally eat or carry on. The saying itself is actually grammatically wrong. That’s because it comes from Plattdeutsch or Low German and the articles work a bit different there than in standard German and are actually more similar to English.
So yea those are supposed to be almost indecipherable for anyone without a cultural lens.
remembering the time I called american psycho (a satirical film about toxic masculinity) a dark comedy and the overwhelming response was ‘oh so u think men killing sex workers is funny? u think THAT’S funny?’ like no I find a patrick batemen listening to 'i’m walking on sunshine’, killing jared leto while wearing a clear raincoat and giving a dissertation on huey lewis n the news, using 'I need to return some video tapes’ to get out of awkward situations, throwing a hissy fit about business cards, dropping a chainsaw down a flight of stairs, thinking an atm is telling him to feed it cats, and crying hysterically under a desk is funny. but thank u for ur wonderful insight
ICE fucking abandoned the scene in a Minneapolis neighborhood and left their battle plans and designs on the city, fake license plates, and challenge tokens which they reward themselves for arrests. Looney Tunes shit.
“Demonstrators investigating the abandoned ICE vehicles apparently retrieved these “challenge coins” that ICE mercenaries receive when they kidnap people. This “coin” is decorated with a skull wearing a crown. ICE mercenaries serve king death.”
hello whta the everloving fuck is this are ICE just cult members who believe themselves to be some kinda assassin creed shit?
I think every movie regardless of time period or tone should have at least 1 (one) trans person in it. Like at the beginning of The Godfather some Sicilian tgirl should come to Vito and be like “Godfadda, I need money for my breast implants” and Vito should be like “I’ll never forget what you’ve done for this family. I’ll find you the best surgeon in New York”
The standoff with agents happened on Jan.8, one day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis. Wooten’s refusal to comply with ICE was captured on video and posted to Facebook.
The agents tried everything to intimidate the guard.
“You can’t come back here, bro,” Wooten can be heard in the video saying to an agent wearing a mask and sunglasses. “I’m talking to your manager,” the agent said. Wooten responded: “No, you’re talking to security, I’m in charge.”
ICE left empty-handed. Wooten said he just stood his ground, “10 toes down.”
“I was doing my job like I’m supposed to,’’ Wooten said. “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. I just want to make my family safe because I’ve been here three years.”