Dude, who even knows.
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clouds-of-wings asked:
Top 10 dumbest people you know?
I don’t really know any top-10 lists, so I’ll try to name some of my favorites
- My roommate’s best friend
- My mother
- A coworker of mine who I thought of as “really, really, really stupid” but he was actually way smarter than I thought he was at the time, and ended up becoming a professor at a very respected and well-funded institution
- A woman in the department I am in who I have some real disagreements with about philosophy
- My girlfriend’s aunt
- My favorite coworker (who also became a professor) who had just been reading The Bell Curve and was very concerned about it (and had not yet realized that the book was mostly full of lies and stereotypes)
- My grandfather
- My grandfather’s friend
- My grandmother
(I’ll stop here, but there are some people that come to mind at this point)
What did your grandfather do that was so stupid?
He was … one of those people (my grandfather) who was really into, like, gardening and stuff, and would sometimes talk to me about how much he loved his garden and how he had this huge garden in his basement full of plants and stuff, and how I should go to his house with him at any time that he was home to look at his garden.
But he actually had, like, three gardens (he did have other hobbies like playing chess and reading). And there was a really weird kind of neoteny to all of it – when I told my father that I was going to take my grandfather on a tour of his gardens so he could see how much effort my grandfather had put into them and how big the gardens were, my father said “that’s not a good idea, you should just go with my grandfather so you can look at his garden” and I said “okay” because I didn’t feel like telling my father that I thought his grandfather was like some kind of weird weirdo (which I did think he was) so I just went on the tour of three gardens with him
Then I went with my grandfather to his house – which is a really big house, but also an apartment building – and we went to the apartment where my grandfather lived, and I saw his garden – there are just these three tiny concrete “patio” gardens at the front of the building next to the door, and that’s where my grandfather lived – and I saw his “gardens,” which actually just look like a bunch of plots of soil and grass which my grandfather was very proud of and also a bunch of plants growing in them (I was actually allowed to touch them and was fascinated by them, but then my grandfather got very upset with me because I wasn’t taking good pictures of them).
Basically, the only way I can think to convey the atmosphere of this experience is like you have to read a book about child psychologists being concerned about neoteny and child-focused therapy and child psychology, and I mean that literally
Wow, that’s a pretty weird story. Your grandfather was really proud of growing some random grass? Doesn’t sound like much of a garden to me either.
And why do you think your grandfather’s friend is stupid?It was, like, some kind of weird mixture of stuff that I don’t know if I would call “stupid” – this stuff was about gardening and he was into it – but he just seemed really, really, really, really really into it. It wasn’t like I disliked it, or was disgusted by it, because it didn’t bother me at all, but it just seemed stupid in a sense that I can’t really put into words and I am also wary of when describing myself.
Okay… and what did your girlfriend’s aunt do that was stupid?
She used to be really, really into some kind of weird “biblical numerology” idea.
Like, you would have to get this from a post-apocalyptic movie: “The Great Flood happened, so the population was really low and was spread out over a wide area and everything was very scattered and people were always moving around to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs and there was a lot of incest and nobody ever built any big things because of the constant threat of a major environmental catastrophe, so everybody’s lives were incredibly boring, and the only exciting thing was to study the stars and figure out which days would best yield good crops or whatever, so people were very religious and thought about numerology and also wrote a bunch of books that had long and convoluted titles about numerology and also wrote a bunch of books that were basically just essays or poetry but were really well written and had really long titles about numerology, and they were very expensive and were all published by people whose name sounded like a made-up language invented for this purpose, like ‘Abraham L. D. Zeba, Theoden the Blind, Moth the Master of All Arts,” and then a bunch of stuff got added on later that basically said ‘The Great Flood happened, so all that stuff was probably false, actually’ and 'There was a little bit of incest, but that was a product of the Flood, not the fact that the population was low, and everybody moved around a lot, and also the people who wrote this stuff were not that into incest and were probably just like 'hey, how about that weird numerology,’ and the numerology part of the stuff wasn’t that weird, so I think that if we pretend that numerology was invented by an alien named Abraham L. D. Zeba, the numerology part was the weird part"
This is an extremely dumb story. I mean, I thought it was dumb before I heard that explanation, but now it’s even dumber.
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Today’s misread: “The Top 10 Worst Things to Ever Do” for “Top 10 Things to Ever Do.”
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I have to make the most important decision of my life, which is whether to join the dark side and be an unregistered sex worker
I could use all the support I can get
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okay but did you know that if you take a photo of a clock, then set that photo as your alarm, it will have time in it, and you will be able to set an alarm that’s like 2.5 years in the future
why the fuck did o actually consider this
(This is a joke. You probably wouldn’t want to actually make an alarm clock out of a photograph.)
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“A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA”
“ttention my fellow americans. i have a annoncmnt to make. my rival, Richard Nixon is a bitch ass motherfucker who pissed on my crops in 68. for this disgrace against the American people we will dig him up and we will all draw on his face with a marker and pee on HIM . to see how HE likes it, which he hopefully will not. the group pissisng startez in 700 hours and will take place in the middle of the grand canyon. God bless the united States of Americunt”
-abriham lonk
This is the kind of shit that’s funny because of how stupid it seems but isn’t funny at all in context. Not that all presidents are like this but I imagine “Richard Nixon is such a pissy little bitch that I have to personally piss on him” is an extremely common presidential worldview
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belladacuti-mf asked:
if you were to summarize your life in a fictional character, who would it be?
I’ve been asked to explain this a lot recently so I might as well answer for real. My life is mostly boring.
I am a boring person who was born in a boring part of the world; my parents are boring people; my school, the same; the government, the same. I was born in a boring life to boring parents in a boring country in a boring (but not overwhelmingly boring) part of the universe. I grew up in a boring universe and country, a boring life, and in a boring community. I studied boring subjects in boring schools in boring cities (for two years and then didn’t finish a formal degree). I work as a boring white-collar job in a boring company in a boring town. I hang out with boring people and talk about boring things. I can be boring in many different settings because I am mostly “boring” as an agent – I don’t feel very inspired by the idea of something going wrong in some way. I mostly feel good when I am having fun on my own or around people I like. The more stuff that happens to make me aware of my own inner life (which is often boring), the closer I come to finding fulfillment in the world, and the less able I am to be boring.
There are many people in the world who feel like they have more interesting lives than me, and I often envy that, though it is not always an accurate feeling. It makes me think that I might have a boring life, if it were possible to live one.
In fiction, characters often have lives very different from mine and I would envy them greatly. However, my own life is not like a fictional character. I have no superpowers, no mind-control powers, no time loop capabilities, no godhood (well, there might be time travel / retrocognition/etc. stuff that I am not aware of that would be interesting if I were to try to find it. If it existed, it would actually be exciting.) I am not a secret agent working in a secret government organization. I do not have special skills or abilities in the world. I am not a hero or villain and do not have to be, do not have to choose. I’m not a villain and do not have to be, do not have to choose. I’m a person, like everyone else, and to be a character in fiction requires more than just those traits, it requires having a life very different from mine: a life you want to read about.
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The next morning, the woman told her doctor about her husband:
“When he is drunk,” she said, “he sings Ombra mai fu and Canto delle rocce” —the first, “O Shadow of Death,” and the second, “Canto degli infelici.” But when he is sober, he recites Ombra mai fu…"
In a tone of great calm, the German doctor said:
“You must learn to understand him then, since he is no other than you, yourself. Do not speak to him with the sharp tongue of a child.”
what happened next?
The woman’s life became a very monotonous one. She worked, then lay in her room, where she read books and talked with her husband. One evening, the poor woman found herself so sad and broken that she threw herself on her husband’s breast, and he wept like a child at her tears. She kissed him on the eyes and forehead, and lay beside him, as though she were embracing him.
“Now I know,” she murmured, “that you are not so bad as I thought you were, and that I loved you indeed.”
do they get a happy ending?
According to the story itself – the last chapter does not begin with the woman singing the title of the story, but instead with her husband telling her that her singing is so beautiful that he longs to hear it again – she and her husband are reunited, and they remain on good terms.
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mascot3001 asked:
What doesnt turn you on?
All the people I’ve ever slept with in my life
I used to be a very kinky person and then got better at being a person before I got better at being a kinky person, so those memories are mixed with shame about being a bad lover
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fryeshiverbigman-deactivated202 asked:
what the fuck
One of my favorite things to happen was when I made someone angry, because I had some “aw jeez” moment during their rant that made it look like I hadn’t been paying attention
But in reality I just happened to have closed my eyes for a full ten seconds, so when they said “yeah” I just had a blank stare and said, “oh, yeah”
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(This is a transcript of a conversation between Alexi and Martin from two years ago. I’ve changed their character names and a few of the details and put it in first-person for the ease of reading.)
Alexi and Martin (named after a popular pair of video game characters): Martin, you’ve been trying these new anti-aging pills for years. You should let us give you one of the placebo pills and see if it will do any good.
Martin: It’s not that simple, Alexi. Just yesterday I took one and I feel like I was hit with an avalanche. I felt my hair, my skin, my organs, my blood, everything, they all came pouring through me, I can’t even begin to describe it. And now I feel so light and free! I was able to fly around the room for over an hour with nothing holding me back. I could hear everything I ever wanted to hear as clearly as if it was coming over AM radio. And I felt every sensation I want.
Alexi: But that was probably just a placebo.
Martin: But I know I’m not a placebo. I’m different from all the others. All I want to do is sleep, but I can’t sleep. My whole body is awake. I’m awake, and so am my husband, and our cat, and our dog. I’m alive, and at the same time I’m dead. And everything I want to do is make people happy.
Alexi: You have a beautiful voice.
Martin: So do you.
Martin: Alexi?
Alexi: Oh. Martin.
Martin: Why can’t you sleep either?
Alexi: I don’t know. I don’t know who I am anymore. I don’t know where I’m from. I can’t go outside. I don’t like the way I feel or look. Everything I do, I feel like I’m doing it wrong. There are things I want to talk about with other people and I can’t. I don’t think I understand what I know anymore. I feel as if I’m having to relearn the things I thought I knew back when I was a little kid. If I talk about something with you, I only feel better for ten minutes before everything starts making more and more sense.
Martin: No! I’m sorry, I can’t help you.
Alexi: Can you tell me what to do?
Martin: I can’t.
Alexi: I don’t even know who I am.
Martin: I can’t.
Alexi: I think I’ll go ahead and give you some of my pills, then.
Alexi: I’m sorry, it’s not going to change my mind.
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