^ This is Brownie. I’ve had him since I was 1 year old, apparently. I remember insisting that teddy bears were 1 when they are born, so that we would be the same age.
I had a whole bunch of stuffed toys as a kid, but he’s the only one I have left, and the others vanished when my parents moved.
i was present a few months ago when my best friend found out that outlier isn’t pronounced “oot-lee-yay” and i haven’t been the same since
“average person thinks outlier pronounced oot-lee-yay” factoid actualy (sic) just statistical error. No person thinks outlier pronounced oot-lee-yay. French Canadian Georg, who has mispronounced word for 39 years, is an ootleeyay adn should not have been counted
This phenomenon (not this *specific* instance, but in general) is *extremely* common in people who read a lot as kids and know a great many words but haven’t actually heard them said aloud.
“oot-lee-yay” makes perfect sense to me since your friend is French Canadian (not Georg). -ier is a common suffix and I’m sure they’re familiar with oubliette and other such words.
But very few people are willing to admit that they’ve been caught up by this, too, because it’s embarrassing and makes them feel foolish or unintelligent (they’re neither).
(I’m only not confessing to mine because my memory is shit and I cannot for the life of me remember what it was. But my father for years thought hors d’oeuvers was pronounced “Horse d’overs”. )
*raises hand* I also thought that was the pronunciation, and that “ord-erves” was an entirely different concept. I loved reading about Percy-phone and when the God of the Underworld abducted her. And so on and so forth. A previous housemate was greatly entertained by my continuing mispronunciations.
So many people I know originally read ‘misled’ as ‘myzled’. I still like ‘myzled’ as a word, although it has connotations of confused/befuddled to me, which ‘misled’ doesn’t.
‘nostalglia’ is not pronounced like I thought it would and I learned the difference in my 20s
Until I was 9 I pronounced “racism” like “fascism”
I’ll let you all guess how I thought “annals” was pronounced until I got roasted alive for it in college.
I thought it was out-lee-ers for the longest time, and then heard it said aloud and was like, “Oh! Because they LIE OUTside of the normal range.” English pronunciation really does make a lot more sense if you know a word’s etymology.
so i accidentally went down a wikipedia rabbit hole and came across the funniest thing that’s apparently been plaguing scientists for centuries
it’s called “maxwell’s demon” and it’s so easy to learn but difficult to disprove. basically a tiny demon controls a trapdoor, letting some particles through, and eventually it changes the temperature of two gases without applying any work. the fact that actual physicists are fighting over this 💀
but most of all imagine the tiny demon that’s doing all this. all of this impossible effort and for what. why is he doing this. what does he gain
*does a gay little violation of classical thermodynamics that pisses you off*
what the fuck was wrong with people that Labyrinth was originally a flop. How could they take any aspect of it so for granted. How could they fucking do that to Jim Henson. Newspapers were calling it boring and even ugly. I want to go back in time and beat their asses.
A blond has been hiding that she’s a lesbian from her parents for years
She has always been scared that they wouldn’t accept her like many other parents do. She was speaking about it to her best friend, who is familiar with her parents.
Her friend said “Are you serious? I thought they knew already, why wouldn’t they accept you? Just tell them today”.
The blond was nervous but decided to take her friend’s advice.
During dinner that evening, she began to open herself to her parents.
“I have something to say to you 2, I have been a lesbian for years now and I’ve been hiding it from the 2 of you, please accept me.” she began.
Her parents looked at each other in bewilderment.
“Why do you think we won’t accept you?” her mom said.
i cannot believe that since we started using the destiel meme as a breaking news alert there hasn’t been ONE destiel au fic where they’re co-anchors on the morning news.
cas confessed on accident while they’re on air and dean doesn’t know how to respond so he just reads the next thing on the teleprompter
season 4 of leverage is so. some of the most MOST episodes of all time. there is an office episode where the crew is literally filmed like an episode of the office. there’s an episode where a sociopathic white rich boy tortures homeless people for some college thesis project. hardison gets knocked out by sophie. “no one throws hardison off the roof except me.” archie comes back. chaos also comes back. chaos gets tasered (fuckign finally). parker makes everyone cry because she yells about wanting to do the right thing. nate and sophie think they’re being subtle about their funny friends with benefits relationship but the shenanigans happen. “YOU RECRUITED MY WIFE?” “EX-WIFE” parker reveals she has successfully kept a normal friend and everyone is so proud of her. hardison ate eliot’s fuckign sandwich. nate “i love foreplay” ford.
