GraniteM @ GraniteM @lemmy.world Posts 73Comments 1,168Joined 2 yr. ago
Privilege is being able to love who you love and not have to keep it a secret almost unto the grave for fear of being destroyed personally or professionally or potentially even facing criminal charges.
The entirety of Holy Grail, for starters. My high school history teacher said that it was one of the most realistic depictions of life in the Middle Ages ever put on film.
After that...
"What have the Romans ever done for us?"
"The roads!"
"Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads--"
...and...
"Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh."
Well
How much does it suck to be the one guy that didn't wear his helmet to work that day?
You ever watch Gabby's Dollhouse?
She stays in her room, full-time. She never interacts with anyone outside of her room. She receives deliveries from an unseen outside force, via a cart and ramp system that makes interaction between inside and outside impossible. She then uses her anomalous abilities to shrink down inside of her dollhouse and have adventures in a pocket universe.
She's happily protected, in a contained, secure area which she never leaves.
Gabby is a comparatively benign SCP.
America First, by Dr Seuss (1941)
Dimethylmercury is an extremely toxic organomercury compound with the formula (CH3)2Hg. A volatile, flammable, dense and colorless liquid, dimethylmercury is one of the strongest known neurotoxins. Less than 0.1 mL is capable of inducing severe mercury poisoning resulting in death.
I remember hearing the story of Karen Wetterhahn, a chemistry professor who specialized in toxic metal exposure and who was using all of the recommended precautions, who got a couple of drops of the stuff on a glove and died less than a year later.
Don't forget mercury!
There's a quote from a Heinlein book where he talks about how Communists can only exist in places where there are real, not imagined, ills that are not being addressed, and I feel like something similar applies for Trumpists. Their lives have gone wrong somehow, likely driven by forces beyond their control, and they've been promised easy answers by a vile con game. I don't appreciate that they got hoodwinked, but I can understand how it happened.
I learned about ribbed condoms from Monty Python and the Meaning of Life, and by God, that's how everyone should learn about them!
[Discussion] Which movie trailers were the most deceptive regarding the actual content of the movie?
The trailer for Dragon Wars promised me scenes of dragons fighting attack helicopters. This scene did appear in the movie... for about thirty seconds. The rest was an incomprehensible mess of flashbacks within flashbacks and Korean folklore that amounted to very little.
Feel like this image would have hit differently back in ~1999 when it was first published.
comfortable, like... like old leather.
There are always copies of The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran. There are always copies of The Two Towers or Return of the King, but frequently no copies of The Fellowship of the Ring. There are always copies of the Chronicles of Narnia books, but never an entire set from the same printing. The staff will always have an author that they will defend their excellent writing while acknowledging that they were horrible human beings, e. g. H. P. Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway, and recently we get to add Neil Gaiman. If you're very lucky, someone came in and sold a first autographed edition that's worth $100+ but the buyer screwed the pooch and priced it at $10.
Edit: Hang out long enough, and you'll get to hear a customer come in and ask "Can you recommend a book for me?" without providing any more helpful details, and you can hear the staffer's soul break just a tiny bit more.
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PocketKNIFE @lemmy.world I just want to watch something less than ten minutes long with a decent camera, mic, and who knows what they're talking about.
Showerthoughts @lemmy.world There were probably people with terminal illnesses holding on so they could catch the finale of their most-beloved TV show, Game of Thrones, and who died horribly disappointed.
Terrible Estate Agent Photos @feddit.uk Haven't you always wanted to live in a castle rendered in early '90s CGI?
