fuckinprototype:

disclaymore:

msburgundy-but-worser-deactivat:

mythbusters was so good because it wasn’t a killjoy show. they didn’t just say “see, it doesn’t work” and leave it there

whenever they find that the stunt doesn’t work as portrayed in the movie, they immediately ask “what would it take to make this happen?”

“we know it takes this amount of explosives to work, but what if we doubled it anyway?”

Some myths I’ll always remember:

* Are elephants scared of mice? (They only did that because they were in Africa and had access to elephants.)

* Will a bull run amok in a china shop?

* Is it better to run zig-zag or straight when chased by an alligator?

I love these because NONE of them turned out the way they expected. They went into all three with pre-conceived ideas of how it would go, and each time they “failed.” Elephants WILL cower from mice. A bull moves very gingerly through a china shop. It doesn’t matter how you run because ALLIGATORS WON’T CHASE YOU.

And each time, they reacted with just… pure glee. “Holy shit, we were wrong! Oh my god! This is great! We were so wrong!”

And that, to me, is what science is. Being excited about being wrong because either way it’s information.

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titkoks:

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lizardsister:

lizardsister:

a VERY good romance trope is a character (usually some kind of noble) being betrothed to someone and they spend the first half of the story just obsessively trying to return to them, only to realize during the second half of the story that the person theyre betrothed to is actually not a great person and they’ve instead fallen in love with one of the people they’re traveling with 

you’re god damn right this is about shrek

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mysharona1987:

From Everyman Cinema’s twitter.

surullinensaukko:

ailendolin:

Ukraine winning means we get Verka hosting next year, right? 😀

Originally posted by sherlockedshamy-blog

ridgeport:

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poniatowskaja:

In true European spirit and to stop this domination of the English language, I think all participating countries should have to draw their language of performance by lot ahead of the competition out of a selection of participants’ official languages. Montenegro will now perform in Swedish. Latvia will now sing in Romanian. It will be fun. 

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brightwanderer:

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.