I’m watching Doomsday Preppers. These people have an unbelievably bleak view of humanity, like, I’m just saying my family survived the complete disintegration of Lebanese civil society without shanking their neighbours for water or stockpiling hand grenades.
If your reaction to a foreseen future economic collapse is to set traps and stockpile guns to kill your neighbours who want some of your huge food stock, you are broken and I have no idea how to fix you.
^^^ The ability to cooperate with others is an evolutionary advantage
My husband and I used to think we were “preppers,” until we discovered that for most people, “prepping” means hoarding guns and ammo and bear traps and nonsense like that, and planning to turn on other survivors in the event of some society-destroying cataclysm. And here we were geeking out about woodworking and first aid and sustainable edibles foraging and water purification and subsistence farming and how best to set up an agrarian community to maximize square footage.
Turns out we’re just prepared solarpunks. I think I’m fine with that. Miss me with the toxic, gun-crazy, neighbor-hating Prepper culture and join me in my garden of native wild edibles.
Captions (finally): Fourteen tweets from Jenny Bann @calluna_
I transcribed a collection of 18thC student disciplinary records once. Let me give a quick overview of the things that generation were doing…
Duelling with swords; getting loudly and raucously drunk and kicked out of taverns; going along to a dancing master’s classes to meet girls, being told not to dance with one of said girls, getting into a fight with the dancing master over it;
Making ‘obscene toasts’ when drunk; hassling the landlady’s daughter when drunk; taking a sedan chair home when drunk and trashing it (Glasgow sedan chairs could be hired like taxis in 18thC, there were even designated sedan-chair pickup ranks)
Getting drunk and damaging somebody else’s lodgings to the point where he was “expelled from his Habitation and deprived of his Body Cloaths and the poor Remainder of his furniture to Satisfy the Landlord for his Rent”;
“having too many Companions always in his room, disturbing the house wt noise & breaking the furniture, as an evidence of which the Chairs in his room have no lefs than three times broke […] the expense whereof he promised to pay but has never yet fulfilled his promise”
Not attending lectures, and claiming when told off for this that ther was a university regulation saying students on his particular bursary only needed to attend 1/3 to pass, leading to two professors combing through rules ofr nonexistant regulation,
Arguing at the university debating society that the university is a “dusty shop of logic and metaphysic” and students would be better off just going to the theater
Suggesting to the ex-military chemistry lecturer that the army only wear red because they are trying to make up for their lack of virility ; getting into a fight with said chemistry lecturer in the university quad that two academic staff had to wade into a d break up;
(the last three were all the same student; he eventually got expelled and went off to seek his fortune with the East India Company)
Something that was bad enough to get two students expelled but is only described (by them) as “having the Misfortune sometime agoe to fall into an unhappy afray with some People of teh Town”;
Trapping a servant girl in their rooms and scaring her; damaging their lodgings again, this time by “some indecent language being painted on the inside of the room door wt a brush & whitening”
Getting drunk and arguing with a lecturer, deciding later that he needed to be taught a lesson, marching out drunkenly into the night with the tavern fireplace poker, beating an innocent passer-by w/it until the Lord Provost arrived to wrench said poker out of student’s hand
A significant proportion of these students were planning to go into the Church, btw.
So while I agree it’s annoying when your undergrads don’t do the reading and plagiarize their essays from SparkNotes, I struggle to believe they’re the Worst Student Generation Ever.
Idk why you’d give a dog fruit but cool! Here’s some safety tips.
“Idk why you’d give a dog fruit” because dogs love fruit and it’s a 100% healthier alternative to baked treats
DOGS ARE ALLOWED TO EAT BLUEBERRIES!! THE SWR FANDOM IS IN UPROAR!! “PROTECT THE BLUEBERRY 2K15″ BECOMES THE BATTLE CRY!!
Okay, but seriously:
Please Reblog, you might Save a Life.
Not just the life of a dog, but also the life of its human(s). Many people have therapy dogs. If they inadvertently lost their dogs because they do not know these facts, they might get into depression and that might not end well.
Time to throw apples in my pups mouth
remember
1) one time i dropped a grape and had to essentially drop-kick my senior doggo to keep him from diving on it
2) there is no consistent threshhold for what amount of raisins or grapes is safe/dangerous/lethal to dogs. Vet techs i’ve chatted with share stories that run the gamut from ‘ate one single grape and died’ to ‘emptied the entire damn fruit bowl and just got some bad farts for a week’.
❤ PROTECT UR FLOOFY PAL ❤
I would not give a doge a lemon though because I do not want them to be freaked out by the sourness it will do them a startle
for me mutuals with doggus! keep your frends safe!
I wish someone had told me all these things when I was a confused, hurting teenager, so I am sharing them now. I hope they help someone the way they could have helped me.
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