[stede-bonnets]

Popular highlights in the Good Omens Script Book

[commodorez]

[mingos-commodorepage]

C64 Graphic (MultiColor + Sprites) - City Noir by Elysium and Wrath Designs, released at Xenium 2021

[chubbycattumbling]

[theyellmanfan]

Shouta Aizawa would wear these unironically. You can't change my mind.

[docresa]

[heardatmedschool]

“Would you still like me if you knew I actually liked cardiology?”

[petermorwood]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[petermorwood]

Another example of Morwood’s Law:

“No matter how stupid doing a thing might be, seeing a warning not to do it confirms the thing has been done often enough to need a warning not to do it.”

Like this one from some cheese I bought last Christmas:

The wax seal under that warning slip was a disc of white paraffin wax a handspan wide and as thick as a pencil. It looked like a candle. With a wick through its middle and a dish to sit it, it BECAME a candle. It certainly didn’t look edible, but clearly somebody - several somebodies - thought it did…

Four words above the barcode suggests that somebody - several somebodies - thought the same about this…

…though it may also suggest that the piddle-powder providers knew the sort of people they might be dealing with. Say after me:

“Hold my beer - now watch this…”

Manufacturers don’t like putting warnings on their products; warnings scare people and scared people won’t buy things that scare them.

On the flip-side, there are people in litigation-happy countries like the USA who decide that if a company didn’t put a minutely specific “Do Not Do Any Of These Obviously Stupid Things” label on their product…

…then some acceptable damage or injury to themselves or other family members…

…will be offset by the compensation payment paid out by a company…

…who might decide that fighting the Obviously Stupid frivolous lawsuit would cost more in legal fees and bad publicity than an out-of-court settlement.

So now products have warnings against, well, everything, and a lot of them aren’t what Google calls “stupid product warnings” - they’re a record that people can and will be stupid, or malicious, or sly.

These long, complex, try-to-cover-everything warnings are defeating their own purpose, by being so long and complex that people don’t read them.

A good example would be the tiny-print multi-page Terms & Conditions of virtually anything computer-related more elaborate than the hammer used when patience finally runs out. When did anyone last read every word of one of these, especially since clicking “Do Not Agree” means the app won’t install anyway?

Just sign on the dotted line provided. And don’t use this…

Accidents of course are accidental, and do happen for real no matter how improbable they might seem.

And sometimes it seems the improbable can take place more than once.

“Fetchez la vache!”

[mingos-commodorepage]

MorphOS build of ScummVM 2.6.0 GIT (12-11-2021)

[cosmictuesdays]

[rakukajas]

list of mundane things that feel like ancient human rituals

• cleaning or wipe your bare feet
• breaking off a piece of bread and handing it to someone
• putting the weight of a basket on your hip or head
• eating nuts or berries while hunched over close to the ground
• seeing something startling just out of your line of sight and very quickly stepping or leaping on to a larger object to get a better view
• cupping your hands into running water to wash your face
• the unanimous protection of a baby or child in a public space where women are present
• when an elderly woman laughs and grips your forearm tightly

[icarus-suraki]

May I add?

• Touching someone’s face with the back of your hand to see if they have a fever
• Stopping to watch animals moving in groups (geese, fish, horses, butterflies, bees)
• Helping an elderly person to walk or sit

[xactodreams]

• telling stories around a fire
• huddling together for warmth when it’s cold
• marveling at sunlight through leaves
• wonderment at the brightness of a full moon
• bringing food to sick or grieving families

[bunjywunjy]

[egalitarian-nature-blog]

Hate when the subway leaves right in front of you 😠

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

THE WORST

[the-timelord-professor]

for a sec I just imagined a whole sandwich restaurant sprouting legs and leaving before I realized you meant the train 

[gregguru453]

i had to draw this… subway

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned that Chili peppers, whose spiciness is now so prominent in Indian, Chinese, Thai, and other Asian cuisines, originated in South America and were unknown in Asia until world-wide sea trade first brought them there the mid 1500’s (x)

[scoutandcowpany]