i understand the historical reasons why English is the most common language
but if I was writing a speculative fiction novel
and I said “the language that most people learn as a second language, usually for professional reasons, is also the only one with a spelling system so terrible that spelling words correctly is a broadcasted competition”
you’d be like “extremely unrealistic 0/10”
i never thought of this, do other languages not have spelling bees?
this goddamn hellsite: *rubs hands together* time to dig up some problematic shit that may not even be true and demand everyone boycott it or they’re Bad
according to JKR, lockhart was born in 1964, which would make him 28 at the time of “chamber of secrets”
do you realize what this means
most of lockhart’s coworkers, who all hated him so much, may have had to teach him at one point.
snape would’ve been in school with him, albeit a few years ahead.
imagine teaching/going to school this raging narcissistic dumbass, and then he graduates and from then on, no matter how bad life gets, you think, “at least i’ll never have to deal with gilderoy fucking lockhart ever again”
and then
he gets famous
he’s hailed as a hero
your students and your mum all have crushes on him
and then
he gets hired at your place of work
tl;dr: lockhart is lucky no one in the staffroom stabbed him by midterm season
through their act of deleting the president’s account, this person is the only twitter employee who has ever administered any kind of meaningful customer support from twitter, even if it only lasted 11 minutes.
me: you know that according to schrödinger, anything you put in a box is both dead AND alive
everyone at the funeral: *nervously stares at coffin*
my friend: this is a bad understanding of the “cat state”… when something dies, it is Known to be dead (observed as being in a State). being in the box doesn’t allocate the potential for living. when the cat goes into the box, you fire a laser that has a 50% of killing Said cat (r.i.p in pieces). the cat is both dead + alive bc it’s unobserved. if you’ll notice, this puts the cat in a quantum state; the same state we need for things like quantum computing and - what are u doinG
me, about to be seriously disappointed, halfway through crawling into the coffin along with the Dearly Departed: wait are u saying the box won’t kill me
