@SussexHenryVIII The wife of bath's tale would flip these people's lids
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There are long stretches of history where 1 in 3 women died during childbirth.
Do you realize how insane that is?
Do you realize how afraid women must have been?
🦢@damnidc__
I dislike it very much when writers make characters speak with the snark of a 21st century woman.
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@khalifaa_974 There are two sounds in qatar that don't exist in English, and you practically have to emphazise one syllable or another in English pronunciation
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White people will pronounce McConaughey perfectly and struggle to say ‘Qatar’ properly
Hoops@Hoopss
matthew mcconaughey yearbook photo (1988)
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Similarly, Buzz Aldrin is extremely pro Trump and endorsed him multiple times. Idk why people are surprised astronauts are chuddy.
H-K_47@H_K_8472
@deltaIV9250 Finding out Valentina Tereshkova was alive but a member of the Duma and voted to destroy Ukraine destroyed a piece of my soul.
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@OsoBlanc0 Everyone on earth is either an autistic IT guy or an angry judge
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I abhor most judges but I’ve had some legendary run-ins with prima-donna mean nerd IT guys. Our current IT guy is chill but the guy before him was a useless autist asshole that I angered enough that he wouldn’t speak to me directly, I had to go through HR for requests
Fight With Memes@FightWithMemes
Watch this IT guy handle a tech issue for an arrogant judge. Then watch Karen the judge turn on him and threaten his job. 🤡:"Thanks. Get out of my courtroom..." 🤡: "Find his supervisor!" *torrent of profanity* I wonder if he takes his bad day out on the public, too?
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The last half hour of this movie is so cartoonishly violent that it’s almost slapstick
Beautiful film
The Sting@TheStingisBack
Two Vince Vaughns have a birthday today: 1) the smart-mouthed, rat-a-tat comedy dude from Wedding Crashers 2) the menacing killing machine in Brawl in Cell Block 99 Block 99 is uncompromisingly savage, a brutal throwback to 70s grindhouse. The climax is absolutely insane.
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@jakerattlesnk I don't think pre-literate societies generally had words for colors beyond generic light and dark (Berlin and Kay hypothesis)
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Why does every Judge just seem to be the most evil individual possible
Crime Net@TRIGGERHAPPYV1
Watch this IT guy handle a tech issue in a courtroom just for the judge to turn on him and threaten his job
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@nonregemesse You don't like the 7' tall lanklet or the cute reddit bear?
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Not many people know the first actor was the best
Dhaboy 😎@dhaboy01
Not many people knew Gregor Clegane's "The Mountain" character was played by three different actors..
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It was fully invented by the show but I really love it, its such a distinct custom and cool idea
Jorge@djodjeee_
The Westerosi have such weird customs
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@Johntheduncan I've just now remembered that scour means to clean so Saruman gets scoured rather than the other way around
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@Johntheduncan H Jon Benjamin as Coach McGuirk as Quick Rick as Saruman as Sharky, scourer of the Shire
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Saruman calling himself "Sharky" when he takes over the shire is always fun. Like he's a 50s greaser
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they barely teach nursing
golden state unaliver@tronsgender
Do they not teach how to end a phone call in nursing school
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I am being told that Chappell Roan, after the war, became a bootlegger in Allied-occupied Vienna and stole penicillin from the US army, diluted it, and sold it on the black market, specifically to children's hospitals
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@TheGayChingy Did he do Key Largo? It's the only movie I can honestly classify as a noir western
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Excluding THE MALTESE FALCON and TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, what’s your favorite film directed by John Huston?
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@RhythmDoc01 @HashtagGriswold Even nonplussed is misconstrued by most literate Americans to mean indifferent
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@HashtagGriswold I would consider pretty much everyone I work with to be literate, and it’s not rare that I use a word and people stare at me uncomprehending. Not weird arcane Bill Buckley words, either: something like “epiphenomenon” or “nonplussed”.
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I think what’s getting lost in translation is *sixth* graders are basically fully literate on a technical level.
The last 5-6 years of “English class” are really “literature class” and that’s where a lot of people don’t retain understanding of techniques, high level vocab, etc.
Reuben Rodriguez@ReubenR80027912
I refuse to believe that most Americans can not read at a 7th grade level If this is “true” then it means we are simply measuring literacy incorrectly; 163M Americans are actively employed Can your 6th grader read an employment contract? Read heavy machinery instructions?
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