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Video description: The Quora site is displayed and the narrator, who has a British accent and is speaking quickly and excitedly, opens by reading from it: "My MacBook Air weighs 2.3 pounds. If I download more files on it, will it make it heavier?
"This is Quora," he continues. "A place where once grand intellectual questions would be mused over. But if you recall, 2 years ago we sadly bid farewell to our friend, Yahoo Answers, a place where those sorts of questions didn't happen, and in that time it seems many Yahoo users have made Quora their new home.
"Do chimpanzees get pregnant? Does anyone live on the sun? How high do planes fly when landing? What percentage of people are going to die? Do lesbians get periods?"
(A response to that question is read in a gruff tone:) "Oh, come on! Where the hell are you getting that question?"
"You are sleeping with your partner and suddenly realize that he/she is a ghost. What would you do? Are there werewolves in Texas? Why does the sausage have two ends? What happens to the time it takes to actually time travel into the past/future? Which hole does an actress push out a baby in a birth sense?"
(Another answer is read:) "She doesn't. She acts."
"I heard that in the Middle Ages, nobles used to wipe their butts with ducklings. Is that right?"
(Response, gruffly:) "No!"
"Is it true that pregnant women should not sleep during a lunar or solar eclipse as it may cause harm to the unborn?"
(Response:) "No. That's the dumbest thing I ever heard."
"Can I sue Germany for putting my grandfather in prison for 7 years in the second world war?"
(Response:) "No, no, no, no, no!"
"Can you think of a sentence that contains the words 'book' and 'crabs'?"
(Response:) "Well, yes, I can."
"Why does the 'bros' abbreviation for 'brothers' end in 's' instead of 'th'?"
(Response:) "Because that would spell 'broth'."
"Do rich people get embarrassed that their servants know what their stuff in the toilet looks like?"
(Response:) "This is a very weird question."
"What happens when we wash vessel and use it with water in which a lizard was dead? Is it poisonous? What can we do?"
(Response:) "Uhh..."
"Why does the United States promote homosexuality and not consider what happened in the petrified village of Pompeii?"
(Response:) "Wha…?"
"How can I have sex with Asia?"
(Response:) "Pretty sure you mean an Asian girl."
"Is Israel on the world map? Are the Irish really from Ireland? My son speaks Arabic. (in a panicked, shouting tone:) What do I do? Does India have airports?"
(Response:) "Putin came to India in 2014 swimming in the ocean. I have a photo to prove." (A flash of a picture of Putin swimming can be seen briefly at this point in the video.)
"Where do animals live? Why are things? What is my date of birth? Do you know a microscope? Real mathematicians (in all caps): I have 5 live cows and then I multiply them by 0. How then do you come and tell me that I end up with 0? Where did the 5 go? Which is larger: 0 or 2+7? Math math what is angle?
(Narrator comment: "I do believe this Quora user was intending to ask 'what are the names of the most powerful angels?' but…) What are the names of moist powerful angles? I'm an atheist who believes in God. What should I do? Why do atheists watch fiction movies? During airplane turbulence, how do atheists keep calm?"
(Narrator comment: "This question I could only find an old link for, even Quora went nowhere, not even, that is way too stupid:) How do atheists know what foods are 'sweet' versus 'sour' or 'bitter'?
"I am 11 and stand at 5 foot 2. Am I obese? Do celebrities fart? What's the meaning of a single white egg left at my door? (narrator's comment: that is weird.)
"My mom slapped her own bum in front of me what does that mean? Is this correct, 'similarvgbhujkljhgtyhujk'? Why is Zelda so 'thicc' in Breath of the Wild? Do demons always say 'I am a demon' when they are introduced? Is it possible to balance your entire body on your penis?"
(Response:) " Yes, but I'm scared of heights."
"I saw the cop the gay eating a raw bird in my backyard. What should I do?" (Narrator comment: "I became a bit obsessed with this question, it's so indecipherable and googled it for clues to find apparently there was much debate on the site about whether this was a weird autocorrect from 'cat'. Which word was supposed to be cat?")
"Can deaf people laugh out loud? Can deaf people do surfing? How do def people know what facial expressions look like and how they're used outside of American Sign Language (ASL)? If so, how do they learn about them if there's no way to see someone else make that face?" (Narrator comment: "I mean, I don't think there's any intelligent questions actually left on this site, is there? Who's asking 'Can music cause candle to light?' Obviously, no!")
"Do people still eat mashed potatoes? (Yes!) Can semen travel up your foot? (No,, it cannot.) Is the word 'stay asleep' alwasy spelled 'J'? (I don't even know what that means.) Do lobsters pee from their faces? (Uh, ugh, are you mad? Obviously no!)"
(Response:) "Yes, as others have pointed out, many crustaceans have two different types of excretory organs, both near the head. Usually only one is used, depending on the age of the animal. Lobsters and crabs, etc, use their urine smell like cats, to mark territory, warn rivals, etc." (Uh..oh.)"
The screen goes white and the scene transitions to footage of the narrator walking up to a door. He places an egg on the mat, then runs away.
End video description.
#op#video#humor#youtube#quora#yahoo answers#inane questions#i think something popped from me laughing at this video#please enjoy this i had to share it with the masses#long post
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what would yall name my beverage?
It's a cup of a teabag of the cheapest orange pekoe that dollarstore money can buy with a shake of twinings looseleaf earl grey, about a spoonful of wildflower honey and a bit of milk
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so. there's no way katara believed that sokka and zuko were actually going fishing. she had no idea what they were up to, but she knew it couldn't be that. of course aang fully bought their story without question. sokka would never lie to him, and besides, who wouldn't wanna hang out with his good pal zuko?? toph's reaction here means she also accepted their cover at face value..........or she assumed that sokka was luring zuko into the woods so that he could hunt him for sport and then cook him. one of those.
#id in alt text#aang#toph#katara#her skeptical little face bc shes judging toph so hard for actually buying that completely inane cover story#toph either had no questions abt sokka taking a guy he hates fishing#or she assumed that zuko was gonna be the meat#but there is no in between
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I gained like 300 followers from when I last checked yesterday
Where did you come from
#not reading comprehension questions#extra post#hah i made an actual reading comprehension post and put it in the queue#so i am able to make this post and not feel like i am diluting the quality of this blog with my unrelated inane comments as much
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almost four years in and I think I might finally be getting COVID. we had a good run, lads 🫡
#the lads in question: my immune system#still not testing positive but gf has it and this is a small apartment with no way to effectively quarantine...#and my throat is staring to feel iffy :(#inane personal post
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I'm gonna start a collection of character questions that actually help me when trying to flesh out a character. These'll be for characters you already have standing out in the open in your head, but who need more development before they get mixed into the fray.
If you want to use this as a questionnaire, always remember that you don't have to answer every question to get to know your character. Even just one or two answers to yourself can be enough.
Character Development Questions
Basic-ish:
Do they have any distinguishing features? (the way they look, the sound of their voice, the way they smell?)
About how old are they?
What's their gender? Sexuality? Are they open or closeted?
What is their ethnicity/cultural identity?
What was their socioeconomic class as a child? And as an adult?
What's their role in the story?
What is their primary Want? Do they need it?
Family and Relationships:
What was their parent/guardian situation growing up?
If they're an adult, what is their relationship with their parent/guardian now?
Do they have siblings? If they're adults, how close are they now?
Do they have children? How old were they when they had their first? Who helped raise them?
What kind of influence are their friends on them?
How easily do they make friends and why?
What traits do they find attractive in a friend?
How do they treat strangers/acquaintances? People they like? People they don't like? Coworkers?
Personality:
One word to describe their general/default mood.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how introverted are they? Extroverted? Pessimistic? Optimistic?
How would they describe not liking a food out loud?
And in prose?
How would they describe not liking a person, out loud and in prose?
What is their favorite place and why?
What is something that stresses them out?
What is something that relaxes them?
What truly scares them?
What is something that would make them happy/excited?
How do they react to physical pain?
How do they cope? (comedy, ranting, art?)
What embarrasses them?
What are they proud of?
What's their biggest strength? Their biggest weakness? (they can be the same thing)
Additional History:
What are their most prominent memories?
Have they ever lost a pet, family member, or friend? How old were they?
Did they move around as a kid?
Did their parent/guardian/community support their interests as a kid? Were they taught to hold themselves to a particular standard or expectation?
More Detailed Personality:
How do they react when forced to do something they don't want to? Could be forced physically or by circumstance.
If money, time, and consequences were no object, what would their perfect day be?
How much time do they spend on their appearance every day? Do they spend more or less money on their appearance then "average"? (don't look it up; it's a vibe check)
Who would they turn to for help? Is it always the same person? On a danger/severity scale of 1 to 10, at what point do they start asking for help? At what point do they stop asking for help? Is this one section or do they flip multiple times as the severity increases? Does this scale change depending on who's around/available?
Just For Funsies:
If they were in a coffee shop AU, would they be the barista, the customer, or the manager?
Do they know any tricks? (juggling, cartwheels, yoyo, dirt bike?)
If they were here with us, what shows/movies/books/games might they like?
What does the inside of their fridge look like? What about their workspace?
#writing#writeblr#character questions#character questionnaire#character development#🕸️#I might add to this later#I'm so tired of opening a character wuestionnaire and it's like#''wHaT's ThEiR fAvOrItE cOlOr?''#like?!#I don't know and even if I did that's not going to help me figure out how they act when their best friend is being forced#to leave them behind in the woods!#''what city were they born in'' same city as every single other character in this book do not ask me again#''who are their parents'' baby I'm not trying to talk about their parents right now I know what their relationship with their father is#please ask me about THEM#*groan*#there's just a DELUGE of totally inane questions that have absolutely no bearing on my character's personality or thought processes#anyway#sorry#hope this helps others too
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Sometimes I’ll interact with my kids and be like. Holy fuck. I really am my father’s child
#they ask an inane question and I sit down and am like well let’s discuss this. I am about to radicalize you#me explaining to a group of 7 year olds the complexities of the term ‘terrorist’ and what#terroism is used to mean in the context of the American fasciast state#versus my dad explaining to me age 7 about bush’s war crimes and why American propaganda was the deadliest thing I was exposed to at school#my dad: I am going to radicalize this child from an early age#me: I am going to RADICALIZE these children from an EARLY AGE#let’s TALK about it!!!#straight up tho my father is one of the most genuinelt radical people I know and I’m super lucky for how he talked to me
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Fortuna culture is seeing shit like this on the local news and being like “yep that’s Nero”
#devil may cry#shitpost#dmc nero#i know he’s basically shunned by Fortunians but I also like to think they simultaneously treat him like the local crazy man#anytime something weird happens? it’s automatically nero’s fault. no questions asked.#by the time DMC5 rolls around Nero has just accepted this and no longer holds back his inane weirdness in public#lmao
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okay but what if i went insane. what if i went insane over a piece of media that doesn't really have a fandom on here or probably at all and is something that i'd never actually subject you guys to but. what if.
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Very tired of this newer trend of asking authors/writers for permission to interpret their work a certain way. Like… why does the author have to be involved in your own personal interpretation of the media?
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Hi Wawa, I have a question. What is the difference you noticed between what the American-dominant demography of tumblr vs what douyin users tend to fixate on?
Nothing specific coming to mind atm in regard to like, general trends. Maybe one thing is like, Tumblr likes to ask unimportant questions? "Why is THIS THING happening", "Why is THAT there?".
Anal-retentive stuff like that.
Tumblr likes to fixate on missing shoes, for example. It's always "where did her shoe goes", "why's he missing a shoe", "omg the missing shoe". Honestly, nobody on douyin noticed the shoe, or if they did, they didn't care to comment on it. Like who cares where the shoe is? This video is not about how someone's foot got busted up because they were only wearing one shoe. Like this is a silly goofy video, officer, why are you asking so many questions. Etc.
Douyin users like to play "yes and" in the comment section is another point of contrast, I guess. That is, if there's something that can be extrapolated and spectated on, it will be. Scenarios WILL be played out. POVs and thought processes of any character in a video (be it subject, passerby, inanimate object, or external reference) WILL be imagined and assumed.
I'm just spitballing here but I sort of feel like tumblr users don't do that because in general the evolution of the culture on this site makes it impolite to presume things about strangers or assert their POV, even jokingly. Or maybe this comes from IRL sensibilities, idk, seems like it could just be a general American thing (I say, speaking as one).
#text#answered ask#i caught like 14 typos typing this up so it could be incoherent but i'm not rereading that word vomit again so sorry anon#also sorry there are only 2 examples and one is just me ranting#but i do think tumblr demo as a whole is not very whimsical and bad at embracing the absurd aspects of comedy despite its self-image#or maybe im wrong and the truth is that tumblr users just share some sort of knee jerk reaction where they have to ask inane questions#which they couldve easily answered for themselves in the time it probably took to type it up in the tags#i don't mean this in a mean way btw. i genuinely ponder this#especially bc i never notice the things so many ppl end up commenting on and i see every video at least 3 times before everyone else
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My favourite part of writing longwinded (re: way too long) posts and character-study fics is when people tell me that I get the characters, that I understand them or wrote them in-character
Because!!! I don’t! Understand! Anybody!
I have spent my entire life being so fucking confused by human beings! I don’t understand people! I don’t understand why people do things, I don’t understand why people DON’T do things, I don’t understand these strange, inexplicable creatures, and I try, by God I try so hard to understand, to get it, to comprehend the why behind people. I spent my entire childhood watching people and talking to people and I read books with heavy emphasis on the characters and I just
Someone telling me I get characters is like, meaningful in a way they probably won’t ever even know. It’s like they’re saying “All those years you spent trying desperately to understand the human psyche were worth it.”
I just. Really appreciate it.
#the inane ramblings of a madman#this is also why#if multiple people tell me i’m wrong about something#generally i’ll delete the post#because like#if i’m wrong i’m wrong y’know#of course at certain times#people disagree with me#and i immediately pull up my internal dissertation on the character#my guy i pick these characters apart#i spend literal hours trying to comprehend fake people#because understanding fake people is a direct line to understanding real people#and this is also why i try not to read reviews on cnovels#because every other review i read#is absolutely baffling to me because most of them#question why a character is doing something they said they were going to do#‘why is character doing x’ because she said she would and explained why#literally any comment or review like this drives me up the wall on any type of media#like my guy#anakin skywalker is the least confusing character in terms of why he does things#i swear to god cinemasins if you would just watch the goddamn movie and listen to the goddamn script#anyway#thank you to everyone who sends me these comments#i am sending you a million great days and hope you have the life you always desired with as many pets as you’ve ever wanted
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fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
#vent#through a series of somewhat manipulative questions my mother now knows i’m ace and ID as queer#well actually. she knew before she asked me which just makes it that much more cruel#fuckkkkkk#and she asked when i started identifying as ace and then tried to correlate it to the closest traumatic event i—#and then she started asking me about my religious beliefs which i /blatantly/ lied about#because i was already so goddamn shell shocked and scared#goddammit#god fucking dammit#alex’s inane ramblings
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OKAY i did this to myself. nbd it'll go away.
#ok like a week of laughing at the most inane shit alone in my room it occured to me to consider if something was wrong#i should ask my DOCTOR but i don't have one she dipped#now i cant even tell if it's funny or not that i was just chilling feeling like i was on drugs for multiple days and didn't think to#question it#and i find THAT funny#ok sorry. um. any psych students taking notes right now#dont let your patients be like me
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flounder story, please?
well, in elementary school I went to this nature day camp at the local environmental center that my mother had worked at for years, and at one point, for reasons lost to time, the counselors had us all walking across the sandy tidal flats at the nearby state park. We were slogging through knee-deep saltwater, and I happened to be lagging well behind the group since I was a particularly shrimpy kid and that shit is hard work. I was barefoot, hands full with my shoes and dip-net, and I stepped directly on a large Summer Flounder (Paralichthys dentatus), which, alarmed, shot out from under my foot. This felt like what I can only describe as the tactile equivalent of how one of those metal ‘wobble boards’ sounds. But also slimy. I yelped, jumped, nearly toppled over backwards, dropped my shoes and net and then had to recover them, and by then the flounder was long gone. My groupmates and the counselors were so far ahead of me that they had neither seen nor heard this happen, and when I finally caught up and breathlessly told them all about it, the general consensus was that it must have been a big piece of seaweed and I just got scared.
I was slightly too well-mannered to say ‘bitch my mom is a marine biologist and produced your teaching materials, I know what I stepped on.’ but I was definitely thinking it loudly
#I had been attending programming at the center since I was an actual infant#and as a toddler had the habit of loudly and correctly answering the questions my mother would ask her 4th-6th grade field trip groups#when none of them would raise a hand#yes I was largely a horrid little know-it-all who corrected counselors#I’m sure they were delighted when I eventually moved on to overnight nature camps somewhere else#inane personal post#ecology blogging#fish
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When I read a YJ fic and I see show!Conner constantly be reffered as Kon by both the narrative and non-Clark people I need to take a deep breath and close the fic, cause clearly the author is not writing about cartoon!Conner.
#although this begs the question#why they tag the cartoon in the first place?!#and sometimes the cartoon version of yj is the only one mentioned#it's really a struggle to find fics that are about the show#....in the show's own tag!#truly ridiculous#(can't wait for some comic stan to come and comment something inane on this btw)#like it happened the other *2* times I dared make a post about a show that it's its own thing#young justice#conner kent#yup i am using both tags bc#1. i need to keep my blog in order#and 2. screw everything else
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