An aesthetic that first appears to be pure and basic Heterosexuals Are At It Again, but becomes increasingly uncomfortable until you finally understand:
these babygrows (onesies) with parental professions on eBay.
An entrepreneurial sort, eBay user “justtheshirt” realized that for some people, the perfect gift for, say, the baby of a beekeeper is a onesie saying “Daddy’s Little Beekeeper.” In fact, the more obscure the profession, the more excited the customer will feel about the representation! So they took a list of All the Professions, and generated a listing for each one. If someone buys a onesie, they can stamp it with whatever the listing said – and make a rather enormous profit, on a £3 onesie, having made exactly one design and used one script. Genius!
The issue is, they didn’t curate the list. Not a single human appears to have overseen this process. So they have inadvertently created some uncomfortably themed babywear, like “Daddy’s Little Maid,” “Daddy’s Little Nightwalker,” and “Daddy’s Little Courtesan.”
The database also contained a massive proportion of obscure Medieval English professions, like “fulker” and “meader” and “whipcord maker.” (The auto-generated listing enthuses something like, “the perfect gift for a whipcord maker – or just for someone who wishes they were one!”)
There are onesies for babies whose daddies are herbalists, muleteers and sacristans.
I have come full circle in my feelings about this and now I am all in favor of dressing babies in these, as long as the profession is incredibly obscure, and the daddy in question refuses to explain anything.
my wife and i are going to dress our daddyless baby entirely in a revolving wardrobe of these onesies
a lot of people seem to assume that caring about prospective partners’ looks at all means NOT caring about their personalities. i’m here to tell you that’s not true! you can care about both! in fact it’s absolutely, completely normal to care about both. and wanting to be with someone who looks nice to you is not morally impure. it’s fine.
It’s worth noting that a lot of people (especially girls and young women) are pressured into relationships with people they’re not attracted to because they’re afraid of looking shallow, and are made to feel guilty for not giving the other person a chance. Dating for “personality” only is portrayed as more virtuous than caring about looks or other apparently superficial qualities, but it can and is used to manipulate inexperienced people into enduring unhappy relationships. It is impossible to know the full nature of someone’s personality until you’ve spent a lot of time around them on a variety of circumstances anyway! It is okay to reject a date for shallow reasons, because you do not owe anyone a trial period. You are not a bad person for turning down an opportunity that does not actually excite you.
I took a really long time to figure out I was a lesbian, even though I wasn’t attracted to men at all, because I thought that just meant I was a better person for not being shallow.
The Hobbit BTS: Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield
Y’know, I just realized something.
I get that RA’s face is gorgeous, but if these people were going to play with Jewish-coded characters, then they should have given their black-haired character thick BLACK eyebrows. Not that blond shit. We’re a hairy people.
Btw that’s both a visual and a literal Chinese pun and I’m literally laughing so hard right now (my parents say this every year) and I want everyone to understand this.
Here’s the two phrases you’ll need to know:
年年有鱼 (nián nián you yú) – “(I wish you have) fish every year”
年年有余 (nián nián you yú) – “(I wish you have) extra every year” – this is a common blessing used in China
Both the 鱼 and 余 characters sound exactly the same and here’s where the pun comes in.
Every Lunar New Year, as good luck, we eat “fish” so that we can “have fish every year”. In other words, we’re eating fish so that we can have extra every year.
Extra what, you ask? Extra everything! Extra money in the bank, extra food on our tables, extra happiness, etc, etc. It’s like an all-around blessing. Very kind and used often during Lunar New Year.
The cat has already gotten her “extra” (fish) for the year so the blogger is wishing you “fish” (extra) every year ^^
finally someone explained it, thank you<3
I am so delighted to learn that somebody else also has the tradition of eating puns for blessings on the New Year.
In my dad’s neighborhood the public library is having issues because there have been 32 instances this year of people defacing books about the Holocaust.
Sometimes it is just people writing things like “lies!” And “Fuck the Holocaust” or arguing in the margins but some of them are beyond repair because people will obscure the text so horribly or people will paste in printed off articles about Holocaust denial.
That just feels so violent to me.
And maybe it doesn’t seem like a big deal but previously there was only one instance of this, in 2014. And in general while the library circulates over 220,000 books, only about 100 per year come back with writing or highlighting in them at all. So like, yeah, this is a big deal. This isn’t normal.
Death By Catchphrase 