My wisdom tooth is erupting. I suddenly have deep, heartfelt understanding of what teething babies go through.

just-shower-thoughts:

Young people will never appreciate what a miracle it is to have a map with your current location marked on it.

I understand just fine 😂 I was tossed into an adventure camp when I was 15 and I was the designated navigator for the jungle trek. Also, Google Maps is a flakey bitch sometimes

lostandunicorny:

dammit-sherlock-its-greg:

ausvetstudent:

kd-zralots:

adventuresofanoverachiever:

vetmedirl:

radioactivekatie:

drownedwednesday:

narceus:

deathbyspookyopen:

ibelieveinthelittletreetopper:

sillyme6:

bakasara:

storyhoard:

puzzling-turnabout:

pas-cal:

prince-bucky:

acemenrah:

hallow-vee-n:

ryttu3k:

fluffmugger:

supernachtkuchen:

cup-of-spoopy:

spookients:

theskaldspeaks:

annieheim:

donesparce:

hellobendykitty:

steampunkforever27:

thefirstmissamerica:

italy-curl:

jessieboooooo:

This one time I tripped

this one time I split my forehead open

This one time a dark wizard tried to kill me when I was a infant but couldn’t

Stab

I tried to hold an angry cat

someone put an iron on my hand

My teammate tried to jump over me and cut the back of my neck open with his hockey skate.

I got a couple left over from chicken pox.

tried to climb a dead tree

as a child I came up behind a sleeping dog with a squeaky toy in my mouth

Twisted up in rusty metal chains.

Learned the hard way:

– Why you don’t pull a cat’s tail (I was two)
– The importance of shoring up roof structures
– Why you don’t use a poorly balanced cinderblock as a support when drilling
– Burny things are hot
– Rotted fence palings make a surprisingly effective flail when they snap in half back along your inner arm as you pull them down.
– Win the fight before your opponent has the chance to hit you in the face with a metal chair

Spider bite that got infected. Doctor informed me, “Oh, it must have bitten you while you were asleep!” and I stayed awake the entire next night in paralytic terror and also pain.

Poorly planned re enactment of 101 Dalmatians.

i was 2 and my mom told me not to do something but i did it anyway

I slipped and cut my arm open

Scalding by water does not do a two year old good. Skin tends to boil and come off.

Tripped on my own feet and split my face open

I punched a mirror and it turns out that doesn’t work out like it usually does in the movies 

accidentally poured scalding-hot chocolate on my thigh, accidentally poured boiling water over half of my hand instead of into my teacup

Got stuck in some barbed wire with my leg. Also a scar from appendectomy surgery.

Parrots are more aggressive than you’d expect.

-Don’t sit inside a canvas inner tube for several miles, and then bathe the burns in bacteria-infested lake water for a week after.

-Don’t set a boat ramp on the wet metal beams so that it falls while you’re walking on it

I was an adventurer like you, then I took a red-tailed hawk to the knee.

The slash on my hand indicates I am not good at cutting drywall

fractious alpaca restraint

same

Surgery

My knee may look like they repaired my acl/meniscus…. But in all reality, I just fall alot.

Can of baked beans and my right pinky.

Don’t yank a penknife when it’s stuck

did a DIY cyst removal myself using nail clippers and a needle cause I thought Doctor Pimple prepared me enough for it

Use a potholder that covers your whole hand when reaching inside an oven. Also, take your vitamins so shit heals cleanly.

aethersea:

teamstopfightingassholes:

feitanswife:

systlin:

ella-raene:

systlin:

beautifultoastdream:

systlin:

GUYS THEY FIGURED OUT THE ROMAN CONCRETE RECIPE THAT MAKES IT IMMUNE TO SEAWATER

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mystery-of-2000-year-old-roman-concrete-solved-by-scientists/ar-BBDO5VC

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I KNOW RIGHT?!???

I can’t help but feel this is one of those things where we had actual documents saying “it was done with this and this”, and some old rich white guys looked at it and went “oh mirth, the ancients were so silly. They probably wrote this basic stuff down and the actual builders had Secret Techniques we need to Discover”

For a long time, archeologists didn’t know how greek women did their high-piled braids and hair. There was a word that translated to “needle” in the descriptions. They went, “seems like we’ll never know.” Then a hairdresser took a fucking needle (big needle) and did the fucking thing you do with needles, which is sew – and by sewing the braids into place, she replicated ancient styles.

The Egyptians had diagrams of construction steps for their pyramids. Archeologists went “oooh, ancient primitive people, how they do this?” LITERALLY MYTHBUSTERS OR THE OLD DISCOVERY CHANNEL or someone went “what if we did the thing the pictures said they did” AND GUESS FUCKING WHAT. GUESS FUCKING WHAT.

Also that thing with native Americans saying squirrels taught them how to get sap for maple syrup, and colonizers going “that’s a myth sweaty”

Sincerely, if the scientists had to do actual analysis like spectroscopy or whatever, kudos, and no flame. But swear to god, if all these years, we’ve had the recipes and there was just this fuckin institutional bias against just TRYING THE THING THEY SAID WOULD WORK, HELLFIRE AND DEMENTIA.

In this case, it was more they had roman writings saying what went into it but figured there was some secret because when they followed roman recipes it never turned out quite right. 

Because the sources left by Romans always just said to mix with water. Because, if you were a Roman??? Obviously you knew that you used seawater for cement. Duh. That’s so obvious that they never really bothered specifying that you use seawater to mix it, because it wasn’t necessary, everyone knew that. 

But then the empire fell, other empires rose and fell, time passed, and by the time we were trying to reconstruct the formula the ‘mix the dry ingredients with seawater’ trick had been forgotten, until chemical analysis finally figured it out again. 

It’s sort of like the land of Punt, a ally of Egypt that’s mentioned all the time, but we don’t actually know where it was located. Because it isn’t written down anywhere. Why would they write it down? It’s Punt. Everyone knew where Punt was back then. It’d be ridiculous to waste the ink and space to specify where it was, every child knows about Punt. 

3000 years later and we have no damned clue where it was, simply because at the time it was so blindingly obvious that it was never written down. 

So moral of story is be specific

I was thinking it was stupid that they didn’t specify seawater but then I had the thought that we don’t specify to use chicken eggs in baking because DUH so we just write eggs

2000 years in the future people are going to be making scrambled fish eggs and crying bc the ancient recipes make no sense

You see this happen even with Tudor history. The household how-to books of the era said ‘change the rushes every few months, and you should use these rushes’.

Thing is, nobody ever thought to specify what to do with the fucking rushes, so 500 years later everyone assumes that the rushes were just scattered loose on the floor (which makes no logical sense – imagine loose rushes + the long, sweeping gowns of the era). It’s only recently that we caught on to the fact that they meant ‘use these rushes to weave the mats that you lay on the floor, and toss out the mats every few months’ because at the time it was so BLINDINGLY FUCKING OBVIOUS that it wasn’t necessary to write it down.