i would want obadiah stane to return to the mcu for approximately 10 seconds of screen time exclusively so that people fucking,,remember that he exists as a concept and stop attributing everything he did and his entire personality to tony and then i would like him to immediately die, with absolutely zero physical contact with my son and he needs to be a minimum of 10 ft away at all times thank you goodbye
Of course, all of te girls that will be represent are a bit “stereoptical”. It’s on purpose. This is a funny post, so please don’t take it too seriously.
As the raging California wildfires encroached upon Roland Handel’s home, he had to make a split-second decision — try to force his dog Odin into the car, or leave him behind.
Odin is one of two great Pyrenees who take turns guarding the family’s eight goats from coyotes and mountain lions, and he was on duty the night the fires broke out.
“I had my 14-year-old daughter and we had to get out,”
Handel
said between sobs.
So he opened the gates so the animals could flee, then drove off with his daughter, their three other dogs and two cats all packed into the family car.
“By the time we were going down the road, you could hear the twisting metal of transmission towers falling and propane tanks exploding,” he said. “I’ll never forget it.”
He returned the next day, circumventing roadblocks to get there.
He discovered that his home and everything else on his property was completely destroyed.
Except for Odin, who was there waiting for him — with all eight goats.
The dogs paw pads were burnt and his bright white fur was singed orange.
“He looked small and he was limping. He was lying down a lot. He was clearly exhausted.”
A group of deer had gathered with Odin and the goats, Handel said, perhaps also taking advantage of the brave pooch’s protection. The deer scattered when Handel approached.
He believes the dog led the other animals to a clearing at the center of a high outcropping of rocks to avoid contact with the flames.
“Its amazing he’s in such good spirits. He doesn’t show signs of being traumatized at all. He’s just really happy,” Handel said.
“He’ll make a full recovery. He’s going to be back with his goats.”
So there’s been some talk in the area of Humans Being Weird about human languages and how they’re bizarre and hard to learn and there’s like a million of them.
Well, one of the reasons languages are weird is because they change all the goddamn time. And I’m not talking huge linguistic changes like the Great Vowel Shift, where everyone in Southern England started pronouncing long vowels differently for no apparent reason. I’m talking "cool” meaning “sophisticated” in the 1920s, meaning “singular/unique” in the 1960s, and meaning everything from “fashionable” to “attractive” to “impressive” now – while also continuing to mean “below average temperature.” I’m talking slang.
A lot of the time, we talk about language developing and changing slowly over time – like the Great Vowel Shift, which happened over the course of 300-600 years. But slang doesn’t develop slowly – it’s not even generational most of the time. Five years ago, “dank” meant musty and cold, now it means “of high quality.” In another five years it might mean “flavorful” or “glamorous.”
One of the hardest things for non-native human speakers of another language is slang, colloquialisms, and idioms. That difficulty would have to be multiplied for an alien without even a basic context for how human language works.
What if there are species without even the concept of slang? What if they only have the one word for the one thing, with no differentiation? It would probably mean that it would take them a while to learn multiple words for the same thing; long enough that by the time they’ve mastered the use of the word “street,” it means something completely different than what they’d initially been taught.
And you know what that means?
It means thatall aliens would be your dad trying to sound cool.
I was watching the last episode ever of Mythbusters today, and I randomly remembered all those “humans are weird” posts I’ve been near-obsessively reading.
So imagine aliens being exposed to the very show itself? I mean humans technically count as “space mythbusters” already (thing doesn’t work? Duct tape. Also we’re always asking ourselves “what if I do this, will that happen?” And trying flat out foolish ideas just because. Things usuallymight blow up when we’re around.) So imagine if aliens, slowly familiarizing themselves with human culture and entertainment came across Mythbusters- a crew of humans literally attaching rockets to a car just to see if it will fly and how fast, blowing cement trucks (and anything else they can get their hands on) up, fooling around with guns, wakeboarding behind a cruiser, messing with gravity by dropping things like human replicas (they call it “Buster”, and someone explained it is a crash test dummy) and elevators down from huge heights, and making ordinary everyday items lethal (usually by the means of Jamie Hyneman building a gun to shoot them as bullets), splitting boats in half, building an actual bridge out of duct tape, etc. All for the sake of science and entertainment.
I imagine they would be so terrified to find out that THIS is essentially what the “for science” exclamation when doing something dangerous, foolish, or lethal (or all of the above,) means to humans.
andtheytoldustotellyouhello 