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balrus-balrogwalrus t1_jaepoeh wrote
Reply to In a way, many people are living their own version of life that’s much akin to Groundhog’s Day, the same predictable things happening over and over by TIFUstorytime
when you eat nothing but ramen noodles and a boiled egg daily since 2019 it feels that way
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_jae70f5 wrote
Reply to At a certain point in the future, prosthetics will be considered an unfair advantage in sports, rather than a handicap. by Reapers-Shotguns
michael phelps just straight up replaces his legs with a robotic mermaid tail
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_ja96u64 wrote
Reply to There's been tens of thousands of generations of humans, yet even those just 3 generations back are already forgotten by most living humans. by batsofburden
unless you do something very, very noble, something very, very deplorable, or something very, very bizarre
then you are immortalized in legacy, in infamy, or in those "wtf true facts" in tabloids and magazines and internet memes
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_ja8b7fp wrote
Reply to Your brain can remember a random event from 7 years ago, but can easily forget why you walked in a room 10 secs ago. by Living_Psychology_95
or remember the names and time periods of 100 different dinosaurs but not the 100-sentence essay you have to memorize for recital class
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_ja8b6lg wrote
Reply to Your brain can remember a random event from 7 years ago, but can easily forget why you walked in a room 10 secs ago. by Living_Psychology_95
or remember the names and time periods of 100 different dinosaurs but not the 100-sentence essay you have to memorize for recital class
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_j6nnge2 wrote
Reply to comment by BellyScratchFTW in The amount of people that do not know that a cold sore is herpes is surprising. by BellyScratchFTW
a lot more than there should be, which is zero
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_j6nmzmc wrote
Reply to The amount of people that do not know that a cold sore is herpes is surprising. by BellyScratchFTW
same with people who think geese and ducks are males and females of the same bird like with roosters and hens
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_j6irrb1 wrote
Reply to Humans are one of the few species that sees the raising of our arms as a sign of peace rather than aggression. by crookshanks_cat
Also smiling and showing teeth as a sign of happiness. Show teeth to a chimp and you'd be lucky to survive with your skull intact.
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_j6cz8cl wrote
like the dude a batch above in high school who said his greatest fear is "growing old and slowly deteriorating" and that he'd rather "die young and in his prime". heard from some classmates at a reunion that he'd died last year in a car accident while street racing so...wish granted, sort of...?
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_j6cras1 wrote
Reply to Parents sometimes scoff when younger generations don't want to work as hard as they did or have kids, but part of why they don't want that is because they witnessed the misery of their parents. by smugglingkittens
when it's clear your parents became miserable when they had kids, and while loving and caring for you is kind of obvious having kids ruined their happy carefree life, it's not exactly encouraging for you yourself to also want kids
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_j685tu3 wrote
Reply to Having no break from work is depressing, but having no work is very boring. by StringIsNullOrEmpty
three pandemic years of working at home has the same vibe as a tiger pacing back and forth in a small cage at the circus
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_j6839nl wrote
Reply to Jack only jumped over a single lousy candlestick & got his own song; meanwhile, the cow that jumped over the moon has to share the billing with a laughing dog & eloping dish & spoon. by AtlasShrunked
Little Jack Horner, sat in a corner, and said "Tyrannosaurus rex was a scavenger"
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_j634d3d wrote
Reply to In the future, the chance of your body being dug up and put under glass so kids can stare at it is not zero. by LeftOnQuietRoad
at least be posed and fossilized doing something badass, like the protoceratops and the velociraptor
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_j5hj6o5 wrote
Reply to 66% of multi-billion dollar movies have featured Zoe Saldana painted blue or green by Thalesian
We need red Zoe and Yellow Zoe. Uhura from Star Trek wears red but isn't ACTUALLY red so that counts as half a Technicolor Zoe maybe
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_iyf8zbx wrote
"we're having a steak dinner in honor of Uncle George"
"what's the steak made of"
"..."
"what the fuck is the steak made of, Sandra"
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_iyc5vsx wrote
Reply to Tatooine has two suns, yet the objects and inhabitants of the planet do not cast two shadows. by wfezzari
I mean the two suns are close together in tatooine's sky. if the planet orbited one star while the other orbited further out, and they could appear on opposite sides of the sky, that would be a different story.
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_iy5pn0e wrote
Reply to You don’t realize how crazy you are until you install indoor security cameras. by hearsdemons
and end up getting footage of cat-sized rats in the back alley fighting cats and winning
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_iy4pozq wrote
Reply to The fact that Cats are far more dangerous than Wolf Spiders, yet we love them far more and are far less afraid of them, says a lot about how humans value physical appearance in creatures by Run_MCID37
people churn out lots of money to save charismatic endangered animals like pandas or tigers or rhinos or sharks
while the chinese paddlefish just sort of went extinct under the radar since it was just a "boring old fish" and few people cared to protect it
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_iy1183z wrote
for real, like, imagine if everyone just stopped seeing any movie with chris pratt in it and stopped talking about him and just completely ignored and silently boycotted him to the point that casting him in any film is a surefire way for it to fail catastrophically. they might even recast mario to his original voice actor
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_iuhxdg1 wrote
Reply to Happy Halloween! by joshsundquist
Next year should be one of the tripods from War of the Worlds.
It's just too perfect.
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_iuhv0t5 wrote
at least you get to go as a zombie magical girl rather than a usual magical girl
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_iuhuuq5 wrote
Reply to Someone still remembers you as an asshole for something you probably don't even remember doing. by lucius789
"to the krill, it was armageddon. to the whale, it was tuesday." --Sun Tzu
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_iuc0wb0 wrote
rouge from sonic
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_iu4cegh wrote
no they are eating parasites attached to its belly. it's a symbiotic relationship
balrus-balrogwalrus t1_jbw5czn wrote
Reply to Visited a farm in Australia with good sense of humour by sparekh1
do they have an alpaca named Alpacino