(nevermind I found the clip and forgot that you can't put a video in the reblogs)

This. This is the funniest thing the McElboys have ever done.

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the knights templar

Facebook loves showing me chicken posts and a good third of the posts are "why is my chicken such a loser?" and the answer is a bunch of people saying "yeah they're just a fucking loser".

There's been one plot twist so far where the question was "why is this chicken so stupid, even by chicken standards?" and instead of the usual answer of "wow yeah that's a stupid chicken" the consensus was "your chicken is not stupid, she is blind."

These kinds of responses are my FAVORITE. Some examples to answers to this question I have heard:

1.

“Okay, and who’s the president?”

“Obama, no wait, shit *vehemently* fuck, I hate him… what’s his name…”

“It’s okay, you know who he is.”

2.

“Who’s the president?”

“*drunkenly angry and confused* ..uhhhhhhh…Orange… damn it what’s the fuck’s name….

“Yup, good enough.”

3.

“And who’s the president,”

“Not fuckin’ Obama!”

“I feel ya.”

4.

“Who’s the president- wait, nevermind you’re from Korea you said, right? So who’s-“

“Everybody knows that Trump-bitch.”

“Oh, well, alright then.”

5. (My personal favorite)

“Who’s the president?”

“Ew.”

“Good enough.”

My roommate is a neurologist and has to do this check all the time. Her all-time favorite so far has been “ay dios mio” during which the woman was vigorously crossing herself.

lol me too , lady

One time I got “that orange fuck” from a very cute little old lady with urosepsis

I have - quite unintentionally - contributed to this phenomenon.

I was waking up from surgery in the post-op observation room, where they kept people before sending them off to the ICU. The nurse was talking to me as I was semi-awake, telling me that as soon as it was ready, I would be sent to room 2008.

I did not hear the word “room”.

I started trying to sit up and get out of bed (entirely unsuccessfully), shouting (mumbling forcefully), “He’s not president yet! I have to warn everyone!”

That’s awesome. Thank you for trying to warn us

i’ve been looking for this post for ages and it finally crossed my dash again

(( *smiles* the post is back))

Paramedics had to stop asking “who’s the prime minister?” in Australia because it changed so often that not knowing the answer wasn’t really all that indicative of anything.

One paramedic reported receiving the answer “I haven’t watched the news today”.

Meanwhile in Germany, the joke goes that a teenager is waking up in a hospital bed, the nurse asks them who the chancellor is and they say, “hang on are you telling me that can change?”

If you comment something stupid and/or unnecessary on this I will reply with critical thinking questions. Or try. I'm getting burnt out with people who are inventing things to argue about.

ID under the cut.

IDs copied from below the cut for accessibility

[ID: art of a person smiling as they think about a show titled: "Show About Women!" The show's represented by a smiling brown-skinned woman, with a rainbow behind her. The person thinks: "Oh boy, I wonder if anyone else is talking about the amazing story and development in "Show About Women!" from the "Shows About Not a White Man Verse!"

The person logs onto social media, goes in the "Show About Women" tag, and gets an exhausted, angry expression. They see the other trending tags are: "#WhiteGuy, #WhiteMan, #FuckWoman, #WhiteGuySpinoff," and variations. Almost all the art is of a white man with no other features and a neutral expression, and there's a text post saying: "I know he's in one scene but..." The only art of the woman shows her with a wildly exaggerated breast size, much more revealing clothing, and a significantly lighter, desaturated skin tone. End ID.]

Thank you for the ID @anistarrose!

[GIF ID: Glittery blue and purple text saying, in all caps, "TERFS FUCK OFF". /end]

Advice I think transmasc people and especially people questioning if they might be transmasc really need but is so difficult to talk about is when thinking that you might not be a cis woman it is so important to do a quick misogyny check before moving forward.

i am by no means saying this to invalidate anyones transness or claim that transmascs are self hating women, there is just a really worrying trend i see in the way a lot of transmasc people talk about women

i am begging you to make sure that you do not allow yourself to project your dysphoria onto women, make sure that you are transitioning because you *want* to realise yourself in a gender that brings you joy, and not because you hate something about womanhood.

and ESPECIALLY do not allow yourself to pit yourself agains trans women, they are your sisters, they are part of your community never ever let anyone make you think or act otherwise

Scooby-Doo is a dog who can talk, which is amazing, and he largely uses his powers of speech to communicate how scared he is of ghosts and monsters, and basically the only thing his owners do is drive him around the country putting him inside various haunted houses and such. I wish I could take Scooby-Doo aside, I want to say to him, these people are not your friends.

as someone who remembers the patriot act and all the conversation surrounding it, it's a bit... of an experience being able to remember how many people pointed out that Terrorist was a politically convenient term which could be used to dehumanise and legally strip the rights from someone and that eventually all this would be used internally. and the response was 'nuh uh only browns with funny headgear are terrorists'. and then two decades of 'fighting age males' being blown to pieces at weddings because they might have, maybe, looked at a terrorist once. A week ago a head of state is black bagged in the middle of the night by the US for being a 'narcoterrorist'. And now an unarmed, random woman - white, citizen - is gunned down by jackboot thugs and before her body is cold she is, of course, a domestic terrorist.

If you are reading this, you need to know that the moment the US state needs to kidnap you, the moment a drone pilot decides you're in the wrong place, the moment you are bleeding to death on the sidewalk, you will be a Terrorist. Because anything can be done to a Terrorist.

sometimes i get home from an event with my family and i just have to sit in my car for a second & read that one sarah schulman quote on familial homophobia

taps the sign.

ahh the ever-iconic duo of cis people and their rabbid desire to out their trans friends intimate details to try to relate to you the moment they learn you're trans

ember is a lovely name. I'm so glad your friend chose to change theirs to it recently. you did not need to give me their deadname to make your point

I've got this one cis friend who is a lovely person but is also like "[friend], who is a nonbinary afab" and I'm like. Weird to spontaneously out a trans friend at all, but weirder still to make sure that I still know what genitals they were born with in one of the few cases where that's not implied by outing them. There was absolutely no reason to include that part.

extremely funny to me that harley quinns real name is apparently harleen quinzel, a name that sounds less real that harley quinn. they should do that with more comic characters. batman real name batthew manning. daredevil real name darius devilson. doctor strange real name. well okay that one doesnt count.

I have some very good news for you about Black Bolt's real name

NOW THATS WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT

If you see the quote "I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't defend it politically" or any variation of it floating around the internet — it was Kat Blaque who originally said it and she would really appreciate it if people gave her proper credit for it but it's gone viral on a lot of different platforms and most of the people sharing it don't know it's from her or choose not to credit her on purpose.

Like I just know terfs are going to be parroting it pretending it wasn't said by a black trans woman about herself & her life.

People are still doing "not like the other girls" as a "complement" I see

Global South is a fun term when you're Australian because I'm always like "oh we're Sou -- oh wait no they don't mean literally"

Like every single time. I'm not in the Global South but if I went far enough on the globe North I would be.

earlier today i told an acquaintance in passing that i'll often be in the middle of a novel and think "man i wish this shit were more ambiguous" and had to reiterate twice that i wasn't being sarcastic before they believed me, so this post is to say: i love when writers don't bother to explain everything, i love when stories end uncertain and unsettling, i love being required to think as a reader, i love when stuff makes no damn sense, no i'm not kidding

If you do this you will get ten thousand messages from readers asking you to give definitive answers on the stuff that was clearly left ambiguous on purpose though.

Been sealing wood with linseed oil today and I am enjoying working with a relatively mild, natural chemical that still carries a good chance of spontaneous combustion if mishandled. Much safer for my lungs and skin, all the spice of a fire risk.

#ok my partner failed to informed me about THAT little quirk of linseed oil what the fuck do you MEAN it spontaneously combusts

Linseed oil produces heat as it solidifies. So if you coat something flammable in it (like cotton fabric, or small pieces of dry wood), or use it in an area where there are flammables around (like wood chips or hay), then your project can heat up and start a fire. You can greatly reduce this risk by using boiled linseed oil, but you can't stop the exothermic reaction entirely, it's just part of how the oil works.

It's a relatively easy problem to deal with; you just have to make sure that your project has adequate ventilation so it can cool down and be careful not to put it anywhere extra flammable until the oil has fully solidified. Hang your fabrics on an outdoor clothes line to dry, don't bunch them up in the corner; lay your wood spread out on a nonflammable table in a large room or outdoors, don't pile it in the corner in a tiny messy shed next to a bottle of turpentine. Once the project has completely dried, there's no further danger (except of course for normal fire danger).

Also don't forget to ventilate your tools. If you're slathering linseed oil on wood and drying off the excess with an old towel, you need to spread out that towel to dry, too.

#reminds me of when i was in art school and the paint dep regularly set on fire.#none of the departments that actually use fire in their processes had this issue#i think about that a lot

That's hilarious. "They're not flammable if they're being used in paint or canvas sealers! That doesn't count!"