TIL “tsundoku” is a Japanese term that refers to the fact of buying books and never reading them.
via reddit.com
Month: October 2018
Star Trek’s James Doohan was a D-Day
hero. At the invasion of Normandy, he
killed two snipers and successfully led
his men through a mine field. He was
also shot four times in the leg, once in
the finger, and once in the chest – but a
cigarette case his brother gave him was
in his front pocket, and it saved his life. Source Source 2 Source 3
Power went out in the middle of service again…
Caused by an instance of NFG (Nifty fried galah….)
A galah apparently flew into one of the transformers in the power station and exploded..
too many fuckn degrees outside
yeah dude fuck those college kids
darknetexclusivetouhouterrorcore:
Cool, I love motionsickness
i would love to live in this, life would be my own little personal nightmare hellworld
when a hurrican hits ur house spins like a god damn beyblade
How to determine if a kids injury is serious or not
offer them “medicinal chocolate” if they stop crying it’s fine if they carry on crying/refuse the chocolate then it’s serious
From age two apparently^^
Oh wow I never heard this one.
German edition: offer the kid to blow away the pain. If it’s better afterwards it’s okay, if they refuse or still screaming it’s serious
Also a lot healthier than giving your kid chocolate everytime they cry tbh
It’s not everytime they cry it’s only if they get injured and you’re unsure if it’s serious because they are screaming but you can’t tell if they are overreacting or not
For things that are clearly a minor bump we give kisses instead
And before anyone thinks if a kid is screaming it’s not an over reaction
My kid fell off their bike and skinned their knee. Just skinned it that’s all and they went into full on scream/crying hysterical because it was bleeding and they hadn’t had an injury where they bled within their memory
It wasn’t so much the pain as the blood that made them hysterical.
In that case we could see it wasn’t serious but the chocolate helped them calm down and then I got them to tell me about Terraria until they were calm and their wound was dressed
It was absolutely an overreaction to a skinned knee but it was also an understandable one
Kids don’t have experience or pain tolerance we do and sometimes it’s hard to tell if it’s something that requires a trip to the hospital or not
Kids don’t have experience or pain tolerance we do
This is important….we’ve had 20+ years of injuries and can compare some pain to other pains and be like this doesn’t hurt nearly as much as this other thing that happened. Pain is an experience that’s new to kids, especially little ones. Some overreactions are to be expected
There is a good chance that whatever just happened is literally the worst thing that has ever happened to them
This also applies to emotional pain.
They have not had the experiences that build emotional resilience yet, so it’s only normal that they will have a hard time with things we consider to be trivial. They may be trivial to us, but, as with physical pain “Whatever just happened is literally the worst thing that has ever happened to them”
Baby snake glamour shot protip #1:
Being tall and slender contributes to an appearance of grace. If you are not very tall and not graceful in the slightest, just stretch your neck out.
Disgruntled NPC: “I have a contract naming me the rightful owner of-“
Dragonborn Barbarian: “I eat the contract.”
Me, DM: “Fuckin’ WHAT?!?”
Barbarian later, out of character: “Look, all I know is that the contract was causing all this trouble. So I figure, if I EAT the contract, then the problem goes away!”