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this image is probably the most accurate visual representation of the United States education system
Oh boy.
Do I have a story for you…
So this is the iconic and beloved clock of Moszkva square in Budapest, Hungary. Or more precisely it was.
It was a very popular meeting point for generations.
„2pm on Moszkva, under the clock?” „sure” It was in the middle of the square, so you could see each other pretty easily from anywhere.
When they „renovated” (rebuilt) and renamed the square that is now called Széll Kálmán tér (only by youngsters and tourists who don’t know any better - it will remain for a lot of us „the Moszkva”) the old clock was removed.
So. Removing the clock was very controversial, but it had to go, because someone dreamed about a new shiny one. Here it is. New, and weird and DIGITAL.
The problem is, it stopped working. For days. (you see, fixing it was time-consuming…) And they came and fix it. But it broke down in a couple of days again and again, so the lovely people around helped to fix it. Some of the best solutions:
Graffity: ?Is this a clock? No"and Where is the old clock? Furthermore, on the clock it states that it shows the right time.
An artistic rendition:
But my favorite one is where people got enough of the breaking down abomination, and the heartless people taking down the actually working clocks (it is a very busy square with a lot of public transport connections), and things escalated quickly:
I think this is the most of them we had taped on at once.
The papers state: In memoriam of the unknown time. Rest in Peace
[Video description: A three-minute TikTok from @/teageatty. Chris Fleming talks to the camera and says, gesticulating:
I’m not too eager to go back out to the bars just yet. And I think it’s because the way men interact with me.
One of the most recent times that I went out I was with my friend Brian, who’s an absolute C-section, totally harmless. And then my friend Tommy, who’s more like a non-neutered dog at a dog park. The kind of dog that when he shows up, all the huskies are like “hm… let’s kill this guy!” He’s just got those rock-climbing hormones that he can’t manage, and so men and libertarians, they really- they take issue with him. Meanwhile, [he zooms out slightly] I’m like an American Girl Doll that got left out in the rain. I’m lovely. Men wanna protect me. They wanna be chivalrous to me. I’m 6 foot 2 but I can dry myself off with a hand towel if I must. I wear lavender deodorant. I smell like a Miyazaki film. Men wanna quiz me before they even know me.
[imitating men at bars] “Young man!” [laughs] “What are the two most dangerous predators on earth?”
[back to normal voice] I don’t know. Owls and ferrets?
Anyway, so, if I’m like at a restaurant, it’ll go- with- with a group, it’ll go- the waiter will order, will ask- will ask the women, me, children, then men. That’s- that’s the order of operations, t-to get a sense of my vibe. I got a Gaia thing going on. Mother goose energy.
And so, um, we’re at this- at this bar, and this… middle-aged libertarian man, uh, and Tommy almost immediately get into a physical altercation. I defuse it with- I- a little of my Joni Mitchell- um- charm, and, uh, he then immediately starts, uh, giving me a hard time for drinking from the Mike’s Hard catalog. Just torrentially nagging me. And I tell him that I think that three Mike’s Hard Lemonades are stronger than any psychedelic you can buy and that while he’s drinking whatever he’s drinking, um, I will be- and he’ll be capable of doing email and everything while I will be healing generational trauma. I will be aerating the soil during the Potato Famine.
He starts ordering me more Mike’s Hard Lemonades, starts ordering me- and him! more Mike’s Hard Lemonades as a joke first, then he starts teaching me pool, like Ghost style- like Swayze over my back. At one point I think he starts crying? And then at the end of the night, he does ask me if he can move in with me.
So, I ultimately have to give him my friend Blaine’s phone number, uh, which is something I do- and this is not an uncommon occurrence, folks. This is… I come from New England, so, th-that is a region that is densely populated with closeted alcoholics. And during the summer months, I need to put my phone on airplane mode come 8 PM otherwise I will be up all night from all the Mikes and Johns in my neighborhood that are trying to start a summer tryst. Which- how dare you? What is this, Greece? Talk to me in the dead of winter, okay? Don’t be a coward!
Also, drunk text? No. Give me a caffeine text. That’s- let’s be French. Let’s- let’s turn this nation around. That’s the fu- [he gets cut off]
I’ve thought about her Every minute since I reblogged this yesterday
can they do that? are you allowed to just fuckin… click and drag yourself like that? y’all practitioning the dark arts???? these people are out here defying gravity. moving around like the DVD player screensaver. they hacked reality and started wiggling their bodies back and forth like the Spore creature creator. I’m pretty sure they can clip through walls at will. shit.
nothing compares to the calendar on this site. flat fuck friday. the halloween post that always shows up mid july. you see four anime girls and immediately know what day of the week it is. on the ides of march we all wake up and clown on some guy who got stabbed two thousand years ago. last week we celebrated down with cis day. I can’t wait for ever given and nov 5th anniversary memes. anyways have a lovely neil banging out the tunes day
I was talking about a quilt piece I’d made that has sort of a squished shark on it and I was like “this is for sure a candidate for flat fuck friday” and the people I was talking to gave me a WEIRD look and I had to be like… “Does? Twitter not do flat fuck friday? What about out of touch thursday? REALLY? How do you know what day it is? Is it wednesday my dudes?????”
these seem to be the most widely accepted weekly holidays <3
gotta love the halloween post showing up on my dash literally right before this one. and it is, in fact, mid july.
What is the most responsible and least damaging way to handle a situation in which someone is pretty clearly having a psychotic break and angry or upset with you for something you have absolutely nothing to do with?
Just block and move on. You’ll never convince them.
What if they’re someone you aren’t close to (yet) but still have a personal attachment to and don’t necessarily want to cut off permanently? Friends are one thing, acquaintances seems trickier.
As uncomfortable as it might be, talking to them or asking to talk might be the only way @glumshoe . Using “I feel” statements might seem cliche or even hokey, but they do actually get the job done.
I feel like there might have been a miscommunication.
I feel like you’re angry at me and I want to make sure we clear the air.
I feel like we haven’t spoken in a while and I wanted to make sure everything was alright.
If they’re willing to sit down and talk, these sorts of statements are always good. Acknowledge their feelings, but don’t involve yourself in something you didn’t do.
“I know what you’re talking about and I’m so sorry you’re going through this. It must be so stressful. I wish I had known.”
“I didn’t have anything to do with this, but I wished I’d known about it earlier because I can see it’s upsetting you. If you need to talk I’m here.”
A good closing is also to essentially say, “in the future, let me know when you’re upset with me. I like hanging out with you and I want to make sure we can talk first and sort thing if this happens again.
