At least half of all posts where people comment “this website’s userbase is aging” have me going like. Actually I definitely had a favorite stove burner by the time I was eight at the absolute latest. Not sure how you avoided that aspect of the human experience. Did you grow up with a butler or something.
last week i was sitting at a red light and was getting honked at SOOOOOOO MUCH and looked up and this guy was slamming the horn and the girl in the passenger seat was like trying to pull his arms away from the horn. then i remembered i have this bumper sticker
I just had a truly horrible realization. I was talking about the worldbuilding in fma with someone the other day, and they mistakenly said it took place during the Victorian era, or Amestris’s equivilant to it.
I, being a lover of fashion history as well as an insufferable pedant, corrected them by saying that both the year(s) it takes place in as well as many of the technological and cultural influences seen in the world are actually more in line with the subsequent, much shorter era known as the…
tetanus fact: it’s an old wives’ tale that tetanus is caused by rusty metal. it’s actually caused by puncture wounds substantially deeper than they are wide, which introduce ubiquitous anaerobic spores (i.e. the “seeds” of single-celled organisms which cannot grow if exposed to oxygen) into a warm, poorly-oxygenated space in the body. so receiving shallow cuts from a rusty knife is not likely to give you tetanus but puncture wounds from clean but non-sterile objects can. this is great news if you like receiving superficial wounds from rusty knives and blades and swords all over your dumbass body
Stop calling them superficial. All my wounds are passionate and meaningful
The senseless, lawless, and violent world we live in where there can be a video game named “Spider-Man 2.” There are at least four other “Spider-Man 2"s that this video game is not. It’s like naming a book "Fast And Furious 5.” It’s belligerent.
