i love that i have to go to menswear to find a shirt a human being in the world would wear and then when i do it takes me .5 seconds to find it. I love that
me: i need a plain black t shirt
target women’s section: would you like to have a giant scoop neck that would definitely like completely show at least one of your boobs. would you, an adult woman, like to wear a crop top? would you like to look like a human piñata. BLACK? I think you mean jewel tones babey!
target men’s section: yeah sure. it’s the first thing you see as you walk into the shirt aisle. have a good one
The reason is because retail managers studied that men, when shopping, tend to go in, get it, and get out while women are more susceptible to waffling around the shop and being attracted to things they didn’t intend to buy.
This causes headaches when you’re an outlier and you avoid stores that sell good products because you don’t want to be harassed by pushy salespeople.
Oh yeah of course there’s like, an actual reason. Women also just straight up wear that kind of clothing. It’s still moderately funny though.
I was looking up pictures of the Airbus a380 for Important Science Reasons just now, and lemme tell you. I was not at ALL prepared for the sheer size of this fucker.
I mean
jesus christ it’s a flying building
shIT.
okay one more but just because I also think it’s really pretty
whee! THE MORE YOU KNOW.
Jesus Fuck it’s big plane!
and if you think THAT’S huge, check out the Stratolaunch, a plane built to carry literal full-sized rockets to the edge of space! it’s brand new and it’s so fucking huge that they’re not actually sure they can land the thing safely.
its wingspan is 385 feet, almost twice that of the Airbus. and it weighs 1.3 million pounds when fully loaded. I know I said the Airbus was a flying building, but I was wrong. THIS. this is a skyscraper with wings glued on.
remember when you were a kid and you used to build ridiculous shit out of legos that never would have worked in real life? THAT’S THE STRATOLAUNCH.
fingers crossed that this ridiculous fucking thing actually flies! they’re doing test flights soon.
And it’s legit good too, given the dude who does ‘em also studies these kinds of things for a living!
this series looks super interesting and entertaining and im gonna check it out but goddam if this isnt the funniest name for a video ive ever seen
I love youtube precisely because it gives ordinary people the outlet for talking about their well-researched opinions on very weird and specific subjects that you would not hear about otherwise.
So I’m watching a Sir David Attenborough (Natural Curiousities on Netflix), to cope withe the crushing lonliness of solo housesitting, and he’s on about Really Weird animals and talks about the origins of the pheonix- a bird that people travelling though Africa only rarely saw shrouded in the streamy mists of volcanic soda lakes (which are literally boiling hot and also extremely caustic).
And all they’d see is the occasional bit of bright red plumage and see these things bobbing in and out of the horrible death clouds coming off the lake, and naturally came up with the myth of a firebird what the fuck ELSE would be living IN A GODDAMN VOLCANO??
The Central Africans told this to the Egyptians who told the Greeks* about this mysterious animal, and they ran hog-wild with it to create the now-famous Pheonix, but-
The bird they were seeing in those volcanic lakes?
*There is significant academic debate about who told who what when (esp as the firebird myth has cropped up multiple times and been culturally exchanged many, MANY times) but the Flamingo>Egyptian Bennu>Greek Pheonix>European Pheonix chain is fairly well agreed upon.
Some of my favorite tags so far:
@asleepinawell “Natural Curiousities” is on netflix and I think the PBS streaming app. BBC streaming keeps crashing on me but probably there too. It’s very much like his usual work, but with 500% more “Look at these funky specimens and the frantic scribbles of early scientific illustrators confronted with a fucking kangaroo” and “I’m Sir David Fucking Attenborough And I’m Going To Snuggle This Cheetah”
@heedra You are correct! According to Wikipedia: “The name “flamingo” comes from Portuguese or Spanish flamengo, “flame-colored”, in turn coming from Provençal flamenc from flama “flame” and Germanic-like suffix -ing, with a possible influence of words like “Fleming” THEY WERE TRYING TO TELL US ALL ALONG!
@melifair You’re in good company- I used to call them “Pimentos” until I was three and finally got the hang of the Letter “F”
Also, Apologies about the spelling. I have a reading disorder and it causes me to mis-read and by turn misspell certain words, especially ones with two nonidentical vowels in the middle of the word like Their and Becuase. Good thing we all know what I’m talking about anyway!
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