aweega:

i avoid printers at all costs but deep down i think i should’ve been a printer. life so easy. i sit there all squarelike and when someone has a minor task for me i goFUCK YOU

cyber-corp:

cyber-corp:

Having your own personal blog is honestly quite a nice change of pace compared to Reddit. I could put a funny GIF of George Bush getting hit by a shoe on here and the worse case scenario is that no one even notices.

You put that on a big subreddit and you get your eyes gouged out and a heap of political discourse underneath your post.

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Originally posted by not-home-no-more

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YOU HEAR THAT EVERYONE??? I’M A LIL GECKO BOY

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dracofidus:

adeterminedloser:

dracofidus:

Needless to say, I am HORRIFIED.

‘All that you need to know about boars can be summed up in the fact that if you wish to hunt them, you must have a specially made boar spear. This spear has a crosspiece on it to prevent the boar from charging the length of the spear, driving it all the way through his own body, to savage the human holding the other end.’

-Boar and Apples, T. Kingfisher

fuck OFF

Note that pigs are also HUGE. So, yes, they ARE slightly larger pigs.

So I grew up in the city and have never seen a pig in real life and I just googled it and WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

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I thought they were like labrador sized, like, fat labradors, not mini-cows.

every time I see this post there are more people discovering how fuck off huge pigs actually are and I love it I thought this was a thing everyone knew but clearly not and I’m laughing 

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This is me with our Tamworth boar, a heritage breed closer to their wild cousins than the Yorkshire above. I am a fully grown, average sized human. He was a gentle sweetie who, sadly, is no longer with us. His name was Mr. Big. 

FUCK OFF

Forever laffin’ at people who don’t understand how enormous, terrifying, and tenacious wild boar are. 

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They’re like if bears had knives protruding from their closed mouths and Didn’t Know When To Quit. Their survival instincts when they’re wounded aren’t “run away and minimize injury” it’s “take the thing that hurt you down with you” They also make sounds like someone crossed a pig with an alligator.

Their head and neck alone can be like the size of an entire human torso.

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Also forever laffin’ at people who think pigs are tiny, ‘cause we designed those things can get in the neighbourhood of a thousand pounds in ideal circumstances. 

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It’s like when people assume Tuna must be small because they’ve only ever experienced them in hockey puck form.

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Like seriously why the fuck y'all think everyone FREAKED THE HELL OUT when Dorothy fell into the pig pen in Wizard of Oz? It’s because pigs are HUGE and weigh a shitton and would crush her in an instant.

also dont they eat like, basically anything?

YUP. Pigs will eat people, if given the chance. They dgaf.

That’s why boar hunters use a team of very tenacious dogs to hold the boar so they can be speared without fucking you up. The dogs wear body armour. 

I’ve heard stories of people shooting boars, and if it didn’t kill them, it just pissed them off. 

how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?

…“how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?

Very carefully, I would imagine.

WIld boar babies are rather cute, like living humbugs…

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…but the adults and their ferocity have been associated with warriors for thousands of years, from Mycenaean Greece (a helmet made from sections of boar tusk)…

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…through Celtic Europe (reconstructed carnyx war-horns and standards)…

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…Ancient Rome (the crest of Legion 20 “Valeria Victrix”). A couple more legions also used a boar as their crest - I wonder did they squabble over which was the “right” one the way a couple of Swiss cantons had a little war over whose bear was best…?

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…then Anglo-Saxon and pre-Viking helmet crests…

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…right up to the late Middle Ages (here the white boar badge of Richard Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III of England)…

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…and the blue boar badge of the Earl of Oxford, more usually represented by the De Vere arms, quarterly gules and or, in the first a molet argent.

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After Richard was defeated at Bosworth in 1485, there was a run on blue paint as inn-signs were changed to reflect new loyalties since Oxford was on the winning side…

And pigs will definitely eat people.

It gets mentioned in the movie “Snatch”, the book/movie “Hannibal” and the webcomic “Lackadaisy Cats”, among numerous other fictional sources, and IRL it’s suspected to be the reason why numerous missing persons have stayed missing.

More here (another comment to this same OP) and here (slightly different).

Here’s some boar-hunting armour for dogs, ancient…

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…and modern…

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…and the modern one looks very like a simple style of ancient…

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So when Odysseus’s old nurse recognizes him by the scar he got from the boar-tusk slash that almost killed him… now you get the resonance.

This post…it just really went places on me.

i feel like we didn’t spend long enough on the tuna

mulderscully:

mulderscully:

u ever in such a bad mood u feel urself turning evil?

had an actual meal. not evil anymore

schistcity:

i come from the 8tracks generation where you weren’t allowed to just dump three and a half twee indie folk/tswift records into a fanmix and call it done. on 8tracks you had 8+ handpicked songs in rigid chronological order and an accompanying mission statement and thesis defence detailing exactly why each one applied to your derek x stiles coffee shop au AND cover/track-list art hodgepodged from stolen pinterest/tumblr aesthetic photography, and all of this was done under constant threat of death because it was the DMCA wild west and the site was in a constant state of gradual collapse.

cheeseanonioncrisps:

techno-syndicate:

jame7t:

funniest thing about the “reddit migration” is that I haven’t seen a single post shitting on anyone coming from Reddit. when twitter started bleeding users everyone was firing rent-lowering posts but with redditors skittering about we’ve left the doors open and put out food bowls

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Tags were too good to ignore.

I love the implication in this analogy that Twitter users are wealthy new neighbours here to gentrify the place whereas Redditors are like… hedgehogs.

the-haiku-bot:

artechouse:

darkwingduck:

The /gardening subreddit is actually full of hippie anti-plastic anti-lawn freaks (affectionate) and I find it enjoyable and I saw a nine-word horror story I thought tumblr would enjoy

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The emotion in this photo

IF YOU NEED TO GET RID OF MINT, USE OTHER PLANTS IN THE MINT FAMILY!!!

Related plants like lavender, sage, and thyme are immune to mint’s phytotoxins and will crowd out the mint. Rosemary is my favorite mint-killer since it grows fast and wide (regular pruning helps it cover more area).

These plants are perennials, but they are likely to die after a season since mint can harbor root rot that will affect other Lamiaceae but not mint (or plants outside the family). Leave the plant waste to provide soil cover, the mint rhizomes may still be dormant (but will die out soon). The spring after your mint-killers die, you should get some colonizing vegetation. Once those plants fully take root, you’re good to plant whatever your heart desires in the soil!

IF YOU NEED TO GET

RID OF MINT, USE OTHER PLANTS

IN THE MINT FAMILY!!!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

threemouthedcanine:

Shamelessly poaching someone elses idea, social media poll but the options arent solely geared 2wards 15 year olds

what was your first social media before tumblr??

Tumblr was my first social media ever <3

Amino

DeviantArt

Facebook

Google+

LiveJournal

MySpace

MSN

one of the big three (twitter/tiktok/instagram)

other (add in the tags!)

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Reblog 4 a bigger sample size dadada you know how it is w polls

hangsawoman:

my hobbies? uhh.. peeling back the layers…. uncovering metaphors.. mirroring…..connecting dots…..stuff like that

fluoresensitive:

Homegirl is literally only one of the few people who is being right and normal about this. Form community! Why are yall being so exclusionary and hateful and nasty!

Wait I just saw that post about grace's tokyo beam composition "disaster", what does that mean? I think I must have missed something bc idgi


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viktoriakomova:

darthmelyanna:

viktoriakomova:

just stupid construction, this video has the breakdown:

this whole thing really flew under the radar during the olympics among gym fans because of The Simone Issue sucking all the air out of the room. but like. this is literally worse than kara eaker’s beam structural flaw but eaker’s is an eponymous fuck-up because of the reverse-inquiry kicking her out of EFs lmaooooo

Yeah, this is a case of an athlete not knowing the rules well enough to improvise as needed. McCallum knew she’d broken the connection on the leap+turn and that she needed a leap connection, but didn’t realize/remember that she couldn’t repeat a leap she’d already done and get any kind of credit for it. It’s absolutely something that she and her coach should have discussed and trained in advance so she didn’t have to remember the rules in the middle of the routine.

(And that’s leaving aside the problem of her not connecting the improvised leaps either, because that wouldn’t have gotten credit even if she hadn’t repeated an element.)

well

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