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curious about the gender breakdown of my followers. just choose what feels right.

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Okay the WEIRDEST THING is going going down right now

So some guy in Michigan in the US has just found a letter in his grandmother’s house; it seems to be a pen pal letter from 1973ish, and it’s from a young Welsh girl. In it, she lists:

Her name, and the names of her brother (Gwynedd) and sister (Catrin)

Their ages

Where she lives in Wales (Denbigh)

Her hobbies, including horse riding and reading pony books.

So this American dude decides to take a photo, whack it on Twitter and ask the only Welsh person he knows if there’s any way to track this Welsh girl down, because you know, ALL WELSH PEOPLE KNOW EACH OTHER, OBVIOUSLY

Except

I am furious to report that it has worked

Welsh person he tags doesn’t know, but takes up the challenge. Someone reckons the Catrin might be a woman who translated a hymn book once, and checks the foreword to see that the dates and ages do seem to be about right. Someone else suddenly has a brainwave - wait, isn’t she the mother of Steff, the comedian?

My husband gets tagged, takes one look at this letter, and is like “That is 1000% my aunt.”

So now it’s 20 to midnight, Steff’s aunt has obviously not yet seen the excited message to put Twitter out of their misery, and my mother-in-law is currently on the phone gleefully telling us that when that letter was written her sister had never sat on a horse in her life before, and she’d lied to an American pen pal for clout before the internet even existed.

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“If it’s about a dad dating other dads, how come some of them have kids???”

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dw if I die I will still haunt the narrative

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Took me a while to realise that "uhh" is the German equivalent to "ooh" and that my German friend was being enthusiastic rather than mildly confused

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E—m—d—a—s—h—N—e—c—k—l—a—c—e

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Pokemon headcanon that once Absol are studied and people realize they prevent disasters instead of causing them, particularly dangerous workplaces get themselves a workplace Absol and it also decreases accidents.

Construction sites and fishing ships and factories will have one that pretty much just lazes about until it just gets up howling one day and knocks a dude down. They almost never figure out what would have happened but they're always like "yes absol thank you absol I am so grateful to be on the floor right now. Can I offer you a treat in this trying time"

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like, okay, consent does literally just mean agree. which is what enables this little rhetorical trick. because there's all this cultural emphasis on sexual consent, which is just expressed as consent, a lot of phrases whose intended meanings are "rape is bad" can be taken literally to mean "i should get to agree to everything that happens in my vicinity."

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An older comic from when I used to work at Build-A-Bear

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Guess what show I started…

[ID: Drawing of Janeway and Tuvok from Star Trek Voyager. Janeway thinks: "Wow, I am so unhinged, good thing I have a responsible and logical sidekick to keep me in check." Next to her, Tuvok is labelled as "most unhinged person you have ever met". /end ID]

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i love the specification of "alive" in the people magazine "sexiest man alive" award. clearly they're worried about ötzi the iceman sweeping the competition. as they should be.

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Alright I'm going to come out and say it; British tourists are so much worse than American tourists. The latter have a stereotype attached about being the most annoying tourists, but oftentimes that's from being just kind of clueless about their surroundings and the place they're visiting. British tourists are just straight up rude most of the time. Come in barging through everyone, acting as though they're the only ones who matter, leaving seats claimed when they leave for lunch

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British people cannot comment on how unhealthy American food is. I have seen what you people eat. You do not have the moral high ground on that one.

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look at this thang

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