Remember back when i was just 12thdoctorwhooves on jitter’s livestream. And i was realllly into steampunk so I made a name called Mr.spiritssteampunk god i was so cringey back then.
I know exactly what you mean.
Back when I was new at tumblr, I was gak, the slime prince child of smooze who single handedly destroyed the zombie village and had zecora madly in love with me.
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Researchers "Translate" Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot -
The four most common sounds roosting bats make at each other are apparently:
- Disputes over food
- Disputes over roosting position
- Disputes over “unwanted male advances”
- Disputes over being too close together
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puptimist-deactivated20200311 asked: I work at a pet store, it's a small local place, but the owner is supposedly "GREAT" at running retail businesses. He's written a book and gone to give lectures about it. But if you read book and follow his policies like we do, you end up with the most spoiled customers. Any tiny complaint and we give them what they want. Discount? you got it! you want it free? SURE. returning 5 opened, half eaten cans of cat food? WE'LL TAKE IT. people walk all over me and i still have to smile and agree.
I know exactly how you feel. Especially in the food industry so many people want hand outs if one little thing isn’t perfect. Hell i’ve had a table return a shrimp basket because it had shrimp in it.
my first job was food service
the most memorable moment was when a woman asked for a turkey sandwich, and i asked if she meant our cold sandwich or the panini since they are similar except a few things and that the panini is heated
she kept insisting it was the panini so i rang her up for the panini
she got her sandwich and cut in front of the line to complain that it was not what she ordered at all, that she wanted something else because she was never told it would be heated on the press
so we remade her entire meal how she wanted it, AND gave a refund
The only bad thing that has happened to me when ordering food was. When my food order was completely wrong. I ordered a double meat burger. Double cheese, Ketchup, mustard, pickles and avocado. I got a burger with a torn patty, 1 cheese and avocado spread all over the paper and not in the burger like…literally it was so confusing cause how can you mess up that bad. the torn patty i get but the avocado on the paper?????
Back when I worked at jimmy johns one customer was yelling at us because we wouldn’t use our bread ovens to heat up his sandwich. We cannot nor could we ever use our ovens to heat sanwiches, they are solely for baking the bread. The guy insisted jimmy johns does hot sandwhiches and our manager told him “if you want a hot sandwich, go to firehouse. Because we don’t have any”
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gummy bear song+cartoon perfect loop 70 years [russian] 1080p
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One thing that’s really foreign to me are novels written in present tense.
Like, most if not all the literature I grew up reading was in past tense, from 1984 to Animorphs.
All examples of YA writing I see nowadays however are written in present tense.
What caused the shift? When did the shift take place?
Immediacy. The present tense allows the author to convey a character’s change as it happens, not after the fact. In present tense, we are there with the narrator step by step as he changes, which leads to the story’s climax being both more immediate and intense.
Themeing and characterization. The fact that a character is facing the conflicts in “real time” makes for a situation in which the reader doesn’t have the benefit of knowing there is a future from which the story is being reminisced from. This removes the perceived safety of knowing the story has a favorable outcome and contributes to the immersion, twists are sudden and decisions seem harder.
Simplification. Past tense can employ most of the 12 tenses, while present only has 4 to deal with: the simple present, the present progressive, and a smattering of the simple past and the simple future. Using fewer tenses reduces our ability to convey the full complexity of time relationships, but a simple shift into the simple past when a flashback starts and then return to the present when it’s finished can solve this matter.
Basically, faster pacing and more intense settings… when used right that is, since some authors choose to include trivial events simply to keep the flow of time intact, as opposed to the past tense stories’ ability to skip those and favor the relevant points of the storyline.
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Dick Game Diego
Extinction: avoided
Species: saved
Dick: out
I AM FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST
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