For anyone who is unclear on the matter or needs to hear this: fictional characters, while awesome, are literally not real. They do not exist and therefore are not worth sending death threats and suicide bait to real people over. There are 0 exceptions to this rule.
i love the implication that just below the lip of the teacup kris is steadily moving their legs to rotate in the opposite direction without bobbing up and down like that russian floating dance
to be a fan of both dracula and sherlock holmes is to have the widest experience possible on the question of “what would the author think of x” because bram stoker would be getting in months long twitter battles defending lucy while arthur conan doyle would come after anyone who asked him any question with a baseball bat
bram stoker: (with tears in his eyes, speaking with joy from the bottom of his heart) dracula is still popular???
acd: (with disgust and frustration so palpable you could spread it on bread) sherlock holmes is still popular???
Restaurants and bars really love to test your sobriety by making the route to their bathrooms as labyrinthine as possible
Me: I’m not that drunk
Me trying to figure out where the Fuck they’ve hidden the restrooms in this bar: So this is how Odysseus felt huh
Everyone tagging this post with their local bars/restaurants that have ridiculous bathroom layouts…..I see u. I am u. We are all Odysseus, and our Ithaca is a toilet covered in stickers.
ok I just HAVE to include this picture from inside the bathroom door of this one bar I went to
only one of these knobs work and it’s not the one that’s a different color from the rest
There’s a tourist trap in NYC called the Jekyll and Hyde Club. It’s kitsch, overpriced, and kinda fun. The elevator is wonky on purpose, there’s animatronic talking heads on the walls, the paintings talk, the waiters are dressed up, and it’s all interactive. I’ve been there a few times.
But the bathroom?
This is the hallway to the bathroom. You have to read the titles of the books to figure it out. And they don’t tell you how to get in.
Riddle me piss!
Okay riddle me piss caught me off guard and now instead of being angry that these bathrooms exist I’m trying not to laugh and wake everyone up
People joke about how flight is effectively the real life equivalent of the half a-press meme, because One Weird Trick with air pressure allows giant hunks of metal to fly. But refrigeration is an equally absurd physics hack. Like, for all of human history, the only real way to cool something besides just allowing the heat to dissipate naturally was to use apply cold stuff to the hot thing, and have it absorb some of the heat. But cold stuff is, by definition, scarce in hot environments, and is used up by this process. And that was how cooling worked for all of history, until some assholes in the 19th century figured out One Weird Trick with vapor compression that can allow you to generate an unlimited amount of cold stuff (well, limited only by your ability to continuously compress and decompress the refrigerant). Like, fuck off…
Not quite! People have been refrigerating things and even freezing things using simple evaporative cooling for a very long time. Like the Persian cooling towers called Yakchal.
You dump water in a pit in the floor in the winter, and the wind blows over the hole at the top and carries the last heat of the water away so it freezes. Then the yakchal stays cold over the summer so you have ice all year round. Sometimes these things had wind towers installed that could use the wind to freeze water even in the middle of summer.
Then there’s this thing –
The Botijo, an old Spanish design that lets enough water bleed through the clay that the wind evaporates it and cools the whole container.
So people have been taking advantage of the wind for a while, and where it works, it works much better than ice, because ice can only get something as cold as itself. If it steals heat from something, it melts in turn. But the wind can carry away as much heat as it wants.
That’s the old cheat code. Refrigerators just automated the process to make it constant and reliable.
