when i forget to log into ao3 and i have to click proceed to see an adult fic, i actually get a kick out of it. like i am an old timey queen and my bard is apologetic: “gentle lady, dicks doth touch in this next ballad. would you prefer another?” and i give him a gesture of command like, “nay, you may proceed, minstrel. bring forth the tale of dicks”
This post is so old I almost forgot why I think “proceed with the tale of dicks” every time I click on it now
imagine how i felt the other day when i tried to get into ao3 on a new device and blithely thought, “ha, i think i saw a tumblr post about this once.”
100 to 0
IMMA FUCKING KILL YOU
oh wait this is actually pretty good thank you
he attac but then he snac
i was looking through medieval drawings of demons the other day and i found the demons that make you gay
“we’ll marry you, because none of your human clergy will”
“yeah, they’re way worse demons than we’ll ever be, tbh”
@gamefreak please make this a gen 8 pokemon thanks
A c t i v a t e. Clean every leg. Dance a jig.
sheepey-and-flufflepuff-bffs-fan:
If you add two pounds of sugar to literally one ton of concrete it will ruin the concrete and make it unable to set properly which is good to know if you wanna resist something being built, French anarchists used this to resist prison construction in the 80s
I’m just gonna go ahead and reblog this for purely educational purposes.
added bonus is that concrete now taste good
Sugar does not really do that.
What you need is citric acid (you get that to get the hard water residues out of your pots/water boiler/washing machine), looks like sugar granules.
Or concentrated vinegar.
Cement needs a high ph to bind properly.
So if you add acid, it won’t properly set and/or needs 3-4 times longer.Speaking as someone who works in the concrete forming industry: the easiest way to severely fuck up any large concrete pour is to delay it at the wrong moment.
If someone is trying to build a huge fuckoff concrete thing – say, for instance, a giant wall – they’re going to need an obscene quantity of concrete, and that’s all going to have to be transported there from the nearest mixing plant. This means they’ll have multiple trucks coming by to decant concrete in consecutive pours while the workers place it and vibrate it to ensure it all intermixes and sets properly, forming a monolithic mass. If one pour is allowed to set before the next one is added, you get a big, ugly, possibly structurally unsound gap between the two called a “cold joint.” A bad enough cold joint can completely fuck your whole project because the next engineer or inspector who sets foot on that site is going to take one look at that motherfucker and immediately embark on a quest for blood vengeance. You will literally have to cut that whole section of wall out, slap some dowels in the nearest structurally sound bits, and re-form and pour the offending segment from scratch, which represents a fortune in cost overruns and will make everyone involved very upset. This is an especially bad problem in hot climates, because the concrete curing process is exothermic – that stuff sets much faster when it’s really hot out, and its 28-day compressive strength tends to be poorer as well.
So if, hypothetically speaking, you wanted to completely shit up a wannabe dictator’s enormous unfeasible poured concrete vanity project, you could literally just randomly hassle and delay every concrete truck on its way there. Dude’s gonna end up with a giant worthless pile of shitty crumbling concrete and exposed reinforcing steel, and an army of pissed-off contractors to boot.
reblogging for purely educational purposes nothing more
Reblogging this here, since we previously reblogged the inaccurate version.
according to Concrete Construction.net a small amount of sugar is used delibarately to slow setting by 4 hours (but actually increases strength.) Higher amounts of sugar delay setting longer, but we in delibarate use cases we are talking mixtures of 0.1%-0.3% if I understood correctly. So going off of the comment on cold joints, one assumes that if some of the trucks were sugared and some weren’t then they wouldn’t set at the same time causing the crumbling concrete they described.
essentially the point is to make it set at uneven rates so that it crumbles or is at risk of crumbling
Don’t forget to save some sugar for the gas tank of the cars and construction vehicles. It isn’t as damaging as the legends say, but it’ll sure prevent the vehicle from being operable for a while.
good to know
Reblogging for … science I swear.
This is know as the Shigir Idol
“A mysterious wooden idol found in a Russian peat bog has been dated to 11,000 years ago – and contains a code no one can decipher.
The Shigir Idol is twice as old as the Pyramids and Stonehenge – and is by far the oldest wooden structure in the world.
Even more mysteriously, it is covered in what experts describe as ‘encrypted code’ – a message from a lost civilisation.
Professor Mikhail Zhilin of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Archeology said: ‘The ornament is covered with nothing but encrypted information. People were passing on knowledge with the help of the Idol.’
Russian experts think that the strange carvings may contain a belief system, the equivalent of the Bible’s Genesis.
The statue had been dated as being 9,500 years old, after its discovery in a peat bog 125 years ago.
But new research in Mannheim, Germany used Accelerated Mass Spectrometry n small fragments of the sculpture, and found it is at least 11,000 years old.
That means the sculpture dates from the very beginning of the Holocene epoch – the era when man rose to dominate the world.’
“If we don’t know what it is, say it’s for ritual/religious purposes” -archaeology
And also “if we don’t want to admit what it is, say it’s for ritual/religious purposes”. You’d be amazed at the number of obvious dildos that are floating around in museum collections vaguely labelled as “fertility idols”.
(Note: being nine feet tall, the Shigur Idol is probably not a dildo.)
they could have been into that you don’t know their lives
“probably”
Someone 11,000 years ago was practicing carving faces and cool stripe designs, then threw the practice log away, and now we’re trying to decipher it.
stop kinkshaming the 11,000 year old 9-foot-long dildo enthusiasts
I’m actually quite inclined to believe this “practice” thing, those patterns do just look like practice stuff.
*opens pill botttle*
*opens water bottle*
*pours some water out into my hand*
“Wait. No, that’s…no.”
you can take one man’s trash to another man’s treasure but you can’t make it drink
Fun fact: the blending of idioms or cliches is called a malaphor.
My personal favorite is “We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it.”
I’m rather fond of “It’s not rocket surgery” and “not the sharpest egg in the attic,” but my all-time favourite is, “…until the cows freeze over.”
You’ve opened this can of worms, now lie in it,
how weird is that i have to have two pieces of glass sitting in front of my eyeballs so i don’t mistake a small child for a garbage can
A baby
do other people remember when “camel spiders” were like a meme because everyone swore they could scream and leap and eat people’s faces off
instead watch this fluffy chicken lobster get scared of a tinier cricket for long enough that the guy gives up filming her for a while
It’s a shame they don’t live very long in captivity. They believe they live up to a year in the wild, but it could be more! We just don’t know yet.
I’ve heard that a lot of them pass away after six months when kept as pets. It could be they are missing a vital nutrient or environmental aspect that we don’t know or can’t duplicate in captivity. I hope they figure out how to fix that soon.
But yes, here is another amazingly pretty animal. If you encounter them in the wild and they run at you, they aren’t trying to attack you! They just want to rest in your shadow where it’s cooler 🙂
ALL THIS FLUFF.
Some people may have figured it out years back!
http://arachnoboards.com/threads/solifugids-actually-lives-longer-than-we-think.59006/
A hobbyist in Taiwan stumbled onto it first, keeping their solifugid alive for more than two years by feeding it a whole lot LESS than what’s normally advised and giving it a winter dormancy period. There isn’t even scientific documentation that they hibernate, but when allowed to cool off in the winter months, their solifugid stopped eating completely and buried itself until spring!So for all these years, incomplete information on solifugid habits – even from the most professional sources – had hobbyists overfeeding them and just completely running them down in a few months 😦
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