Monday, February 22, 2021

Tumblr Thread: The Summonable Evil Whales of Iceland


What's more on brand for Tumblr than a linguistics discussion that gets hijacked and turned into a report on creepy Icelandic folklore? And what's more on brand for Iceland than bloodthirsty ship-crushing magic whales? It's fun to learn new things. For some more mythological junk, here's tumblr's eye opening thread on mythology as well as tumblr going full mythological scientist on dragons.

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Company Won't Hire Employee Directly, They Live To Regret It


The most mind boggling part about this scenario might be the fact that the boss had the audacity to call and ask questions about something their ex employee used to do for the company before they were asked to leave the company. Like, you burn a bridge, you can't proceed to walk over it. Check out another professional revenge with this customer who flooded an unresponsive ISP company with tickets. 

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History Memes For The Splendiferously Learned


Knowing history doesn't necessarily make you smarter than anyone else, but it sure feels like it. Sure it's cool to know about sweating sickness and emu wars, but it what can one do with that knowledge other than mention it to uninterested bystanders? Well, you can indulge in sweet history memes for for the ages.

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Organism - COPERNICUS: Publishing your book when you write it COPERNICUS: Publishing your book the year of your death so you don't get crushed by the Catholic Church

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Green - How can Ancient people build the pyramids must be Aliens or demons. It Didn't happen over night. There are many prototype pyramids till they were mastered 61

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Human body - a well structured argument to defeat a stranger on the internet a typo

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Forehead - THE MONGOLS Islamic Turkic Russia forming China just ending Turks about world tribes not it's first proper it's civil war to unify in having a golden dying from kingdoms Anatolia the age climate

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Sun hat - Who would attack at the break of dawn on Christmas Day? Oh Boy! The Break of Dawn!

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Clothing - European scientists when they see a disgusting mummified corpse This is some serious gourmet s t.

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Outerwear - In the battle of Pelusium (525 BC) Persian soldiers used cats as shields as Egyptian religion forbade harm towards cats. ANCIENT problems require ANCIENT solutions

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Green - Industrial Revolution Factory Public Owners

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Head - As novels became more prominent during the 1700s, society and the media grew increasingly concerned that young people spent too much time reading books. They even went so far as to call it 'reading rage,' 'reading fever,' 'reading mania,' and 'reading lust.' Parents in 18th century when their kid died of cholera or typhus: Books.

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Hair - FAMILY OF PRODUCTS! ELE Spanish trÄ…ders SEAL 17 FLEX TAPE tomatoes GL Italians

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Outerwear - Fight the Romans wearing your best armour Get naked and cover yourself in woad imgflip.com

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Photograph - Americans making rockets Soviets making satellites Fidel Castro making super cows

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Hair - The Disney movie The German fairy tale The Germanic myth

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Product - Never Ask A Woman Her Age A Man, His Salary Homo Sapiens What happened to the rest of the homo species

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Head - Roman Roman Navy Roman Army Airforce

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Cartoon - Greeks Original mythology Romans

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Bird - Britain in the 18th century imgflip.com Tea from China

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Map - The world if the Ottomans agreed on cheaper pepper: ARCTIC OCEAN Greenland ARCTIC CCEAN pe anc Russia UK rine Kazakhstan Mongolia ATLANTIC OCEAN Porga Iran China PACIFIC Wiste Aigeria Lbya India OCEAN Jergat Vat MaiNgecow Tee Grt Sudan mepones PACIFIC CCEAN See Dos Rec d COMCanl Pau wGunea Gabe Tlands INDIAN Ti Le Madogca OCEAN Bet Australia Cee ATLANTIC OCEAN M New Zesland SOUTHERN OCEAN G reos

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Vertebrate - "Princesses had it so hard. They had to marry a stranger for diplomacy" Medieval peasants:

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Fedora - In movies I will beat the bad guy and get the fair lady The railway is catching up in 2 years tops let's make money For real before real laws are imposed snoonerattlinn

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Cartoon - TRYING TO SWITCH TO THE METRIC SYSTEM US GOVERNMENT IN THE 70S US GOVERNMENT IN THE 70S AMERICANS NOT WANTING IT

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Vertebrate - AJ m New York was founded by the Dutch and used to be called New Amsterdam George Why did they change it? 27 Luke

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Forehead - Norse- and Greek mythology Finnish mythology

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Red Flags Students Noticed With Terrible Classes


Unfortunately, many of us have found ourselves confronted with the daunting predicament that is realizing you're in an absolute nightmare of a class. Sometimes, it's really just the sheer lousiness of the teacher that can end up ruining a class that you'd otherwise love. The following recollections from students that realized they were in terrible classes should be used as some kind of instruction manual to help you avoid the classes that could be your ultimate undoing. 

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Font - clacha14301· 5d 2 Awards Professor starts off the first day with "I don't believe in teaching." Proceeds to explain that we should just teach ourselves advanced physics out of the textbook, and he has office hours if we really need it. Four people (myself included) had signed up for the class. I peaced out of there immediately. Reply 4.1k ...

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Font - BubbhaJebus • 5d 1 Award When the first day's intro is way over your head and includes concepts and terminology you've never heard of, and you look around and realize your classmates seem comfortable and familiar with what the professor is saying. That's when I realized it was not the class for me. Happened to me twice. Reply 2.3k ...

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Font - Suba21547 · 5d O 2 Awards The teacher being proud of having a low passing rate Reply 1 7.3k ...

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Rectangle - Ofvie · 5d A one credit class that has more work then a three credit class. Reply 798 ...

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Font - Rickest127 · 5d Must buy latest version textbook that was written by professor. Or prof who says ask permission to use restroom. Reply 1 2.1k ...

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Rectangle - Billbapawpaw • 5d Textbook is mandatory. Textbook isn't available electronically. Textbook is written by the prof. Reply 1.8k ...

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Font - Took a college course where the teacher printed a name tag for you on cardstock. Had to keep it in good condition the entire semester and got points taken off if it wasn't on display on your desk or if it became damaged. No replacements allowed. Reply 3.3k ...

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Rectangle - No-Association-7984 · 5d I had a professor that pretty much had his students do the work for him. We were put into groups, he gave us a list of topics and each class 2 groups would do a presentation. That dude didn't teach one class himself Reply 766 ...

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Font - WhiskTheSofa · 5d "You'll be competing against one another for your grade," said in lower level classes. Or "This class will be done in all group projects." Reply 1 3.3k ...

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Font - Feature_Agitated · 5d I had a chemistry professor on the first day of class state, "40% of you will fail." Reply 348 ...

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Eye - LeastConversation886 • 5d When the teacher assigns a powerpoint project on the first day. Reply 98 ...

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