Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Tumblr Thread: Humans Are Weird, Durable Space Orcs


One Tumblr thread leads into another, and they're all focused on honoring the strangeness of human beings. It's a fun shift in perspective to consider an alien fleet arriving, chatting it up with some humans, and ultimately being impressed/baffled over how humans pull off the crazy stuff that they do. Maybe aliens are the normal ones. 

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Text - crazy-pages Alien: "I'm sorry, what did you just say your comfortable temperature range is?" Human: "Honestly we can tolerate anywhere from -40 to 50 Celcius, but we prefer the 0 to 30 range." Alien: I'm sorry, did you just list temperatures below freezing?" Human: "Yeah, but most of us prefer to throw on scarves or jackets at those temperatures it can be a bit nippy." Other human: "Nah mate, I knew this guy in college who refused to wear anything past his knees and elbows until it was -2

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Text - • We invented dogs. We took our one time predators and completely domesticated them. • On a planet full of lions, tigers and bears, we managed to advance further and faster than any other species on the planet. Klingons and Krogan and Orcs ain't got shit on us can we talk about how pursuit predation is fucking terrifying it's one thing to face down a cheetah, which will slam into you at 60 mph and break your neck it's another thing to run very quickly to get away from a thing, only to hav

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Text - WAITING WHEN YOU WAKE UP and you split! again! but it keeps following you. always in the corner of your eye. until you just die we are scary motherfuckers ok

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Guy Seasons Girlfriend's Cooking Without Permission


Backseat cooking can bring on dire consequences. Like the rage of one's significant other. It sounds like this dude got caught up in a moment of blind carelessness, and ended up seasoning his girlfriend's cooking without getting the green light first. People in the comments seem to agree that the girlfriend was not in the wrong for getting mad at the boyfriend's entitled seasoning move. 

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Text - r/AmltheAsshole + JOIN u/throwcovidaway • 8h AITA for getting mad at my boyfriend for seasoning my cooking without my consent? For my partner (30m) and I (24f) cooking is not a together-activity. Usually he's in charge of our meals and he's the type of person who doesn't ask for advice/ want your opinion on how he's cooking. His meals are tasty and generally fit my taste profile so l'm okay with staying out of it. I think our skill levels when it comes to cooking are quite similar.

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Text - Today we agreed l'd be in charge of lunch. l'm in the middle of cooking when he comes in to taste. I tell him don't yet because it's not fully seasoned. He goes in anyway, and tells me the food is bland. Well no wonder, since I just started throwing in spices!? So I tell him to just wait it out. Instead of doing so, without a word, he grabs a spice from the cupboard I wasn't even planning on using and proceeds to dump I good amount of it into my food. At this point I get so mad, I just le

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Text - daedalusleander • 8h • Partassipant [1] NTA that was just plain rude

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Text - WebbieVanderquack • 8h • Prime Ministurd [549] NTA. That's not cool. He should have waited until you were finished, and if he felt it was bland when it was served at the table, he could have added salt or Tabasco or whatever.

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Text - H335 • 8h • Certified Proctologist [21] NTA For some people, cooking can be a shared activity. For others, (like us and you it sounds like) cooking is a one- person in the kitchen activity. Even without that dynamic, coming in and seasoning another person's recipe tacky at best, disrespectful or demeaning at worst. It makes a statement that either the cook is incompetent or their food won't taste good 'without my help'. My wife and I are both excellent cooks, and I spent a lot of time coo

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Text - GalledGiatric • 8h NTA, he clearly didn't respect your abilities or the boundaries you set

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Text - toronto-throw-away • 8h NTA but it sounds like you guys might be going a little stir crazy from quarantine

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Text - Kcbaxter55 • 7h NTA my roommate used to do this to me all the time. She'd take the lid off my rice and stir it, add salt when I hadn't added taco seasoning yetn etc. Its RUDE! I finally had to tell her the next time she touched my food she wasnt gonna get any and could cook for herself.

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Text - sthetic • 6h • Partassipant [1] NTA. He did the easiest and flashiest part, and took credit for how delicious the meal was? How ridiculous. "This meal, which you spent 30 minutes making, only tastes delicious thanks to the 30 seconds I spent throwing paprika and garlic salt onto it! You're welcome!" It's crazy to interrupt someone's creative process when they're at Step 4 and helpfully suggest, "Why don't you do Step 5?"

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Text - pyromaniaclegend • 6h NTA. Trainee chef here. Even if one of my fully trained chefs came and did this l'd be furious with them. Your dish, your taste, your responsibility, your seasoning. For all he knows you've already added some and he's just buggered it.

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Text - Beautiful_Flower_Pot • 5h NTA - my older kids (M16 and F15) do this to my youngest (F11). Thave made a rule that they are not allowed in the kitchen when she is cooking, because she doesn't want their help. They still don't get why they are wrong. Your BF was totally out of line.

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Text - Schattentochter • 4h NTA. A few years ago I made a certain dish for dinner and my bf, without asking, added a spice. I took him to the side and said "Listen, when you cook your dishes, you do you. When I cook mine, I want to do it my way. I'm open to discussions and suggestions, but it's not okay to just go and do." He nodded, apologized and ever since we've had a lot of fun trying out spices together. The simple reason is that he respects me and I respect him - what your bf did, however,

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Text - jdd321 • 5h NTA. Bloody hell when he put the seasoning in I expected you to throw the damn dish away out of spite! That would enrage me. So disrespectful.

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Text - dovahshy13 · 8h • Asshole Enthusiast [9] NTA I do get him: when it comes to cooking I hate it when people meddle with my food. But I know I need to extend the same curtesy to other people when they are cooking. You didn't even asked for his opinion. He just barged in and assumed he knows best. I would be hurt as well in your position. Please don't let this slide- sit him down and tell him how he made you feel. See whether he tries to understand or if he dismisses it because he disagrees.

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Text - super-nova-scotian • 4h NAH. If this is your biggest problem you guys have it pretty good :)

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Text - TheLavenderAuthor • 7h • Certified Proctologist [22] NTA. That was plain rude. You do NOT mess with someone else's food unless they ask otherwise.

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Adult Life Equivalents Of Calling A Teacher "Mom"


Sometimes brains fart. Yes, sometimes we get caught up in the middle of a moment where our intentions don't align with the words falling out of our mouths. A severe form of miscommunication where things in the brain are misfiring, and we're just basically speaking a ton of nonsense. It's wonderful. At the very least, it'll inspire some laughter as people realize you had no idea what you were saying for a moment. 

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Text - [deleted] • 1y 3 6 Awards This happened to a coworker years and years ago. We were tellers at a local bank. Every Christmas we had tiny candy canes to give to the kids of customers. One guy came through with his. With his transactions he had cash back. Teller 1 was helping him. She proceeds to give him his cash in a 100 bill and the candy cane for his kid. He looks at her and says, "Can I have that broken up?" She then proceeds to bash the candy cane to a pulp with my stapler and gives it

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Text - Bennnnettttt • 1y Not me, but my mom. She was in a meeting and not paying attention for whatever reason. Then someone asked her a question and she responded with "What's that honey?". Made me crack up for so long.

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Text - [deleted] • 1y I've worked in restaurants since I was 16. When I bring someone to a table I say "enjoy." After any drink or plate of food I put down at a table I do the same. Well I guess it was just inevitable that when a man asked me where the washroom was and I directed him that I told him to "enjoy!"

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Text - ver03255 • 1y I once called an older female coworker "mom" because she kinda looks (and gives off a vibe) like my mom.

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Text - SaysShowUsYourDick • 1y I'm one of those "never save numbers in my phone" kinda guys. When I was in the Army, I was stationed somewhere with a different area code than mine, and got to talking to a local girl. Things were getting heated one night over text, so we were sending raunchy things back and forth. I wasn't paying attention for a moment and sent a message to the wrong person by mistake. My sergeant replied, "Alright, I'm not really into all that, but make sure you show up to forma

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Text - TurnAroundUrMyATeam • 1y I once saw a flustered young lawyer address a judge as "Oh Lord." He was a big church person and had kind of fallen into a prayer cadence as he nervously argued. Everyone pretended it had not happened.

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Text - ImemokidGtav • 1y 3 1 Award I work in a prison where I have occasionally have a inmate say" alright officer emokid have a good night drive home safe" hit him with the thanks you too... multiple life sentences. My first silver :) thanks ya

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Text - ally12321 • 1y 3 1 Award At Dollar Tree the other day my boyfriend walked up to the cashier and she said almost immediately "How was your meal?" and then "Oh! wrong job!"

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Text - KnivesForward • 1y 3 1 Award These days I rarely talk on the phone to anyone who isn't family so "love you, bye " is a standard phone call ending. We had some issues at our house last year and I'm pretty sure I told 2 contractors and the insurance adjuster I loved them.

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Text - dbrianmorgan • 1y Mixing up text messages between your wife and boss.

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Text - mssDMA • 1y 3 1 Award I'm a teacher. I unthinkingly scolded my dog the other day with, "Follow the directions!" We kinda just stared at each other for a second while I realized how ridiculous I sounded.

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Text - alison_bee • 1y 3 4 Awards I'm a dental hygienist. my patient was a man who had just turned 91 the day before. instead of saying "happy late birthday!" like a normal fucking human being, I accidentally (and very loudly) said "HAPPY LAST BIRTHDAY!!!!" the look on his face... y'all. this was also my second day at my new job.

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Text - MBH2013 • 1y I had a coworker who would jokingly call our chief "big daddy" behind his back. We were all working a little late one night and she let "hey big daddy!" slip as he walked in. To her credit she owned it and now calls him that in regular conversation. Still weird though.

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Text - parentaccount1143 • ly My old boss, and my husband's names were one letter apart. (I worked in a daycare, so the owner and all the staff often texted one another to update each other on kids, any issues parents had, and general questions.) My husband was working 3rd, and I was working 1st. We didn't get to see each other much, and most of our conversation was done via text. On my very first week, I was in a rush after getting into work, and texted my husband the same thing I always texted

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Text - nice_strada • 1y 3 1 Award Walking up to the wrong car and freaking out when you can't unlock it

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Text - SoapyRibnaut • 1y 3 1 Award I was given a lift home by a colleague from work once, and when he stopped to let me out of the car I leaned in for a kiss as it was what I would do to my wife. Thankfully he was looking the other way at the time.

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Text - Kutzelberg • 1y 3 2 Awards Once I was in the airport and I went to get a sandwich. I stood at the counter to tell the worker to give me a turkey sandwich, which he prepared. He handed it to me and his co-worker noticed he didn't microwave it, so he extended his hand to me over those glass container thingies,which have food displayed in them, so he can take it to microwave it. I didn't understand why he was extending his hand so I smiled and shook it. He laughed and pointed at my food and

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Text - CandacelsHungry • 1y 3 1 Award I alled my housekeeper Daddy instead of Darcy. It was an autocorrect mistake in a text but I didn't notice for 24 hours when I realized she never texted me back. I was absolutely mortified but she thought it was hilarious. When she texted me two weeks later her opening line was "who's your daddy?! 9" - | actually lost my mind in a meeting reading that. She's the sweetest older lady and now my nickname for her is Daddy.

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Text - bingobanggo • 1y 1 Award My boss is old enough to be my dad although his kids are younger than me. Sometimes he reminds me of my dad and I have almost told him "oh okay Chip (my Dad's name)" in a sarcastic I don't agree with you tone. Once when we were having a we don't agree about something conversation that had to do with our other leader he slipped and called me his daughters name while giving me advice. He wasn't telling me I had to do what he was saying but was sharing why he thought

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Text - Oocanada • 1y 1 Award Handed a 20 to the officer instead of my license last night.

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Text - hollymir • 1y 3 1 Award When talking with family we always end our calls with " love you." So l'm on a call with my long time assistant and as the call ends without thinking I say "I lo..." and stop horrified as I couldn't think of how to finish it. Thank God she had a sense of humor. She said, " Aww, come on now, you can say it, go ahead, tell me you love me. So I did and we laughed about for years. п

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Text - gazzaskebab • 1y S 2 Awards I have accidentally said "love you" when hanging up on a work call.

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Text - amoutoujou • 1y My husband has mixed up my and his sister's name more than once. Also, calling your kids the pet's name.

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Text - HHS2019 • 1y Easy: Calling your boss "daddy".

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Text - ilovejackiebot • ly 3 1 Award On the way back from a client meeting with one of the partners, he wasn't paying attention when the light turned green and I said "Hey, babe, you gotta go." And then I died.

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Text - sofia6664 • 1y 3 1 Award My friend was on a toilet, someone knocked and she said: , Come in!"

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Text - Charleroy26 • 1y Calling your wife "Mom" is pretty bad. I did that once almost 20 years ago and the cringe hasn't lessened over time.

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Text - [deleted] • 1y 1 Award Does putting vegies in the washing machine instead of the fridge count?

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