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Stop Doing Borders

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name a more iconic thing to happen for the fictional qpr community than Donna Noble quite literally meeting her soulmate and being like hmm. there's no one I've ever wanted to fuck less

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An observation:

In Swansea, when you get on a bus, the driver will literally sit at that bus stop and block the traffic if need be to watch you, hawk-like, on the bus cameras as you make your way to a seat. This is normal service. We must all be seated before the bus takes off. Very occasionally they might start driving while you're still standing in front of your seat, having reached it but not quite sat down, and the sudden inertia makes you instantly hinge 90 degrees at the hips and collapse into the chair like a doll in Toy Story when a human enters. We all have a good laugh. "Quick off the mark, isn't he?" an old lady will say. "Not even sitting, you weren't!" she will cackle. This is high entertainment. Her week is made. Your forced seating is a rare treat, a moment of human connection. You still thank the driver as you get off the bus.

In Edinburgh, the bus drivers have never heard of the very concept of waiting until the passengers are seated. Half a picosecond after your card is tapped the bus driver punches a nitro injection button and stamps on the accelerator. You are instantly hurled to the back of the bus, where you are thinly laminated to the back window. Time unspools into the traffic behind you. A local tuts at you, because you should have known to hold the handrail. After several seconds you manage to unpeel yourself, only for the driver to slam on the brakes for the next stop, flinging you at speed through the windscreen and onto the road in front of the bus. Ashamed, you get up and re-board. It costs nothing extra, because Scottish public transport is cheap and convenient. The driver actually pauses, because a woman with a cane has boarded. You seize your chance. You try to run up the stairs to a seat before she sits and the bus moves again. You are out of luck - at the top step the driver spins out into oncoming traffic at 87 miles an hour from a standstill, and you tumble like a house of cards impacted by a bowling ball, thrown down from the Olympus of the upper deck that you, in your hubris, thought you could reach. You rattle around in the aisle like a discarded can. The woman with the cane laughs at you. Some children kick you towards the back. You lodge under a seat, and cling on until your stop like a terrestrial limpet.

You still thank the driver as you get off the bus.

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Finally, I can take my whole family out on a ride

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Sailor's superstition Australia vs. Northern Europe

This is something I just found at the Australian Sea Museum. Now it's about superstition and you know I love things like that. However, I noticed a few things and I would like to explain them. The following list comes from the museum and my comments are just below it.

Don't put anything upside down - it will capsize the ship

Don't mention specific things or words like ‘drown’.

Don't mention the name of a ship that has been lost

Nail a horseshoe to the mast

Decorating with flowers brings good luck

Place a gold coin under the mast for good luck

Every sailor who sees the Flying Dutchman will die in a shipwreck

Never set sail on a Friday

Swearing on board a ship drives the fish away

Spitting is a protection against misfortune. Fishermen spit on their nets to fish well

I've only come across this with the Bretons and their bread. They say that the wife of a sailor is not allowed to turn over a loaf of bread otherwise his ship will capsize.

Yep, it's the same here in the north. Otherwise someone really will drown.

Here, too, in the form that the lady in question otherwise feels accosted and comes back if you're unlucky.

The same applies here. Should bring luck.

That's very interesting here because in the north it's an absolute bad luck charm, as it symbolises funerals and therefore death.

A coin generally as a lucky charm and, in my opinion, to pay the ferryman after the sinking.

It is generally regarded as a bad omen and the loss of the crew or the death of one or more people.

Not only that, but it also causes stress with the officers if they catch you and then there are penalties up to and including gagging.

I'm not aware of this at the moment, but it's the same for fishermen here in the north.

So that's my five cents on the subject. You realise there are obviously a few differences in the south and the north, let's see what else I can find about the other regions.

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Omg, tiktok really is the place where all the worst Tumblr discourse goes to die, mutate and rot sometimes.

Like seeing people saying "biphobia is bad, ok, but lesbians should be allowed to talk about how bisexual women hurt use and abuse them but we aren't allowed because the entire world prioritizes bi feelings over the actual trauma of lesbians" like holy...,what? Yeah, it is easy to be a victim in a narrative when you make up all the details.

The whole world? Bisexuals being a unique danger to lesbian women? Huh?

Like, sure, if a girl leaves you (which is seemingly what the situation was about) then you would feel bad, that sucks. Of course it does. But it is kind of weird that, based on the comments, all of them feel oppressed and "unable" to speak about it without "being accused of biphobia". I have been around...a while. Where is all this completely unprovoked attacking of your feelings coming from?

Or are you making it up? Or are you leaving out details about how you complained about specifically being left for specifically a man and how this was a specific insult and this specific thing made the woman who left you definitely a "user"? Which was also disturbingly a sentiment that I saw in the comments.

You know how much actual issues I have had with lesbians in real life spaces? Almost fucking none. The absolute majority of all queer issues I have had in queer spaces were about racism and transphobia. Pretty much exclusively. Yes, I have heard biphobic shit from lesbians in the real space, but not anywhere near as much as racism and transphobia.

I felt this years ago and now feel more comfortable in this position....that some bitches online just invent half of this beef and then bisexuals and lesbians take it as truth and go to stupid discourse wars with each other over the most stupid, non-important shit.

Bisexual women, like any other kind of woman, are likely going to have internalised misogyny. We need to make sure that we don't treat lesbian women as inherently disposable because we want to "end up" with a man. No. It is not wrong to want all that man based shit. I find it a little odd and unrelateable because of me not wanting babies and all those trappings anyway. But your call. But there is no excuse to treat women in general an inherently disposable amd if you do...stop it....get some help....respect that other people have feelings and are complex and stop acting like misogyny is progressive when you do it.

Lesbians, like any other person, can sometimes not acknowledge that sometimes you might accidentally exist in a biphohic default where being dumped "for a man" is somehow a bigger hit to the heart and the ego. That you might say shit that is specifically about bisexuals being inherently more untrustworthy. Stop that. Focus on the actual source of your pain, which is human and sucks and hurts but does not exist because men exist.

Like, these things can sometimes be worth being said and being said in a way that is not about drawing some kind of needless cultural line, in some kind of culture war in which I am on the opposite side to lesbians.

I'm not playing that game anymore, and I encourage anyone younger to not play it either, it never fucking ends. Better to just block and move on from gatekeepers and rage baiters who really think spending time deciding who can say what percentage of what slur and whi has it the worst in history and modernity is a way to spend our time.

Rather than fighting against any push-back the LGBTQIA+ community has as a whole, peeping on cute girls and making good-hearted fun of each other. For example, have you told your closest lesbian that *insert lesbian darling* just made an announcement about a clothing line? Please use this one with care, there is a not-zero chance your friend WILL hurl their phone at you after they realise that it is not true and their excited google search lead to nothing. Be safe out there.

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I’m not sure if anyone’s asked this before, but when is a sea fairing vessel a boat and when is it a ship? 

Hi,

One answer is that a ship can carry a boat, but a boat cannot carry a ship. Another is that a ship's captain gets annoyed if you refer to his vessel as a boat, but a boat's captain does not get annoyed if you refer to his vessel as a ship. The other is a vessel with only one deck is a boat, more than one - it's a ship.

But there's no right answer because there are always exceptions. The ship carrying a boat thing works a bit but not for a fishing boat, for example. A ship is generally an ocean going vessel but then that doesn't work for submarines which are always boats. Or over 500t, always exceptions to that too! A sailing ship is one that has 3 or more masts with yards crossing them.

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Got Lenin's inkwell for making wet bread in a fishing game

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The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.

In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.

But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.

"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?

"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.

Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?

It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.

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there has to be at least one priest that's a sadist and gets off on the confessions of guilt right?

hold on they're putting me down apparently

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Hollywood archaeology: Secret treasure! Hidden maps! Ancient tombs!

Actual archaeology:

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becoming a cis-chaser and fetishising boydick and girlpussy

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"Oh ma gah..."

The first half of my next animation is complete!

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when I look at western media depictions of Chinese things I always look for gay lions

so lion statues have a male and female lion pair, male lions have a ball to play with and lionesses have a little baby to take care of (lion patriarchy)

Lot of westerners don't know this so they accidentally draw Gay Lions

look at them. love wins

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