Tag: exactly

kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd:

you know what’s always bugged me? when a character is faced with some magical two headed being or some shit and one always lies while the other tells the truth and to figure out which is which the character’s like “which one of you is the liar” or something like bruh literally all you gotta do is be like “what’s two plus two” one of them’s gonna say four and the other one is gonna say 83 or some shit. there you go. answered. go on with your magical quest to defeat david bowie. 

thalassarche:

orson-bigdaddy-krennic:

shamblingshitpickle:

PSA: journalists aren’t supposed to put names in the headlines if the person isn’t a public figure. It’s not a matter of maliciously not giving credit

^^^as a journalist, this is something that bothers me ALL THE TIME

A friend of mine on Twitter explained this the other day, so to elaborate based on what she said: If the name is not instantly recognizable the way a public figure is, then putting the name in the headline isn’t going to bring about any sort of recognition or connection in the reader, and doesn’t do much to draw the reader into the story. But something like “local teen” does create a connection by tying the person into the community, and encourages the reader to learn more about what this local teen has done. The name will be in the article itself, after the headline has done its job at getting the reader to look into it.

bry-hears-music:

I get such a headache at the lengths people go to on this site to convince themselves that real-life people who are clearly straight are actually gay just so they can have their ~cute/trendy gay ship~

I also get a headache at people shipping real-life people and erasing their girlfriends and wives to do so but that’s another story

cacneas:

look i don’t know about yall but queer is literally the go-to slur here in The South. more than the f-slur! i’ve heard it all my life here in mississippi… and i still do… today… AS A SLUR… in 2017.

i don’t care how ya wanna label yourself! im sure most people don’t! what they have a problem with is when you apply the word to them??

i can’t think of any situation where i’d be comfortable with someone calling me queer without flinching. when i was hospitalized for suicidal tendencies a year ago, the nurse admitting me said, in disdain, “what are you, some kind of queer or something?” 

… it’s still a derogatory, Othering word here in this very reality that i live!

so maybe come down from your perspective in the Big Cities and consider what it’s like for rural and southern kids, perhaps? im glad that you have had an experience that allows for queer to be a good and comforting word to you– i really am– and no one can take that away from you… but, like, people who don’t want to hear it probably have reasons that aren’t radfems brainwashed us

theconcealedweapon:

Whenever I say that a social skills test for a job that doesn’t require social skills is unreasonable, people respond by saying “but every job requires social skills”.

Typical abled person response. Social skills come natural to you, so you don’t realize that there are different levels of social skills.

Would it be reasonable to expect job applicants to perform a body builder’s workout just because they’ll sometimes have to lift 20 lbs.?

Would it be reasonable to expect job applicants to solve multivariable calculus problems just because they’ll sometimes have to count things?

If not, then it’s not reasonable to expect job applicants to answer trick questions on the spot and deliver a convincing sales pitch while maintaining perfect body language just because they’ll sometimes have to say hi to their coworkers.