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[game-of-thrones-fans]

[S6E1] Have fun storming the castle! / via

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[fuckingflying]

I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?

Nim Chimpsky.

Fucking monkey pun.

And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But

BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.

[dendritic-trees]

Its not just the linguistic anthropologists.

There’s a group of very important genes that determine if your body develops in the right shape/organization… they are called the hedgehog genes, because fruit fly geneticists are all ridiculous.  The different hedgehog genes are all named after different hedgehogs.  And then someone decided to get clever and name one “sonic hedgehog” because this is just what fruitfly geneticists do.

Well sonic hedgehog controls brain development, and now actual doctors are stuck in the position of explaining to grieving parents that their child’s lethal birth defects or life-threatening tumors are caused by a “sonic hedgehog mutation”.

And this is why no one will invite the fruit fly people to parties.

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Biogeochemical scientists, upon discovering the complex mechanisms that govern the storage and use of molecular iron on our planet, decided to call this cycle “the ferrous wheel”.  We groaned about that for at least five solid minutes.

[callmegallifreya]

The phenomenon of sneezing when exposed to sudden bright light is called an Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio Opthalmic Outburst. ACHOO.

Half a byte of data is a nibble.

[kyraneko]

I LOVE US

[crazyeddieme]

And don’t forget the particle physicists.

While trying to figure out what the hell our universe is almost entirely made out of, one theory they came up with is that it’s a bunch of Weakly-Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs).

So naturally, they followed that up with MAssive Compact Halo Objects (MACHOs) and Robust Associations of Massive Baryonic Objects (RAMBOs).

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[mygayisshowing]

IM LAUGHING SO HARD

[lolsomeone-actually]

“what the hell”

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[warpstar]

goodbye i had to watch this three times to figure out what was going on

[aaliyoh]

i’m the friend

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[weloveshortvideos]

Didn’t expect that.

[samrgarrett]

No you don’t understand okay my husband is in the Navy and he told me stories about doing shit like this. They would just make up their own shit, as long as they were yelling SOMETHING then they didn’t get in trouble, and even the drill instructors would make shit up like this. And they got WEIRD.

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[monsterlets]

but now i’m just picturing a spider hopping along on one leg

[iguanamouth]

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[nathystranger]

“I AM ANGRY, SHORT, AND I HAVE MORE MOVIES THAN YOU. RESPECT ME. STEVE. STEVE. STEVE.”

[the-consulting-timelady]

Oh god, Tony looks so fucking done. “I AM TONY FUCKING STARK. I SHOULD BE TALLER THAN ALL OF YOU. GODAMMIT. PEPPER, GET ME A FOOTSTOOL.”

[cthulhu-with-a-fez]

PEPPER, GET ME A FOOTSTOOL.

[starkindustriesamm]

I’LL GET YOU 12% OF A FOOTSTOOL.

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[captainamerica-in-the-impala]

He and Legolas never had a single conversation, the only words ever spoken between them were, “and my bow”.

[papermulberry]

[sephir-amy]

I need this on a blog, at long last, to look at whenever I want.

[xsnowfallx]

Frodo: I’m so overjoyed to see you all safe. Gimli, Aragorn, and- *discreetly looks at writing on palms*…L'orealas.