WittyProfileName2

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On that note, I've been reading through an English translation of All Quiet on the Western Front, and it tries to bridge the gap by swapping out German slang from the time for rough English equivalents.

Only it was translated in the 80's, so the people who translated it are operating on, like, media portrayals of ww1 British slang and laying it on way too thick.

It makes for an incredibly weird tone 'cos you have all these German farmers talking like overly stereotypical tommies, asking doctors if their injuries are "blighty ones", etc.

I'm really good at palming coins and doing variations of disappearing coin tricks. Suck at any other form of slight-of-hand but I can make a coin-sized object look like it vanished with remarkable ease and smoothness.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

BTW I went and read through the studies someone sent me in that thread and turns out the graphs from those studies show that trans women are more similar to cis men than to cis women in all metrics.

Which of the studies said that?

Because I've been reading through them myself and all I'm getting is stuff like:

This which says:

Results In this cohort of athletes, TW had similar testosterone concentration (TW 0.7±0.5 nmol/L, CW 0.9±0.4 nmol/), higher oestrogen (TW 742.4±801.9 pmol/L, CW 336.0±266.3 pmol/L, p=0.045), higher absolute handgrip strength (TW 40.7±6.8 kg, CW 34.2±3.7 kg, p=0.01), lower forced expiratory volume in 1 s:forced vital capacity ratio (TW 0.83±0.07, CW 0.88±0.04, p=0.04), lower relative jump height (TW 0.7±0.2 cm/kg; CW 1.0±0.2 cm/kg, p<0.001) and lower relative V̇O2max (TW 45.1±13.3 mL/kg/min/, CW 54.1±6.0 mL/kg/min, p<0.001) compared with CW athletes. TM had similar testosterone concentration (TM 20.5±5.8 nmol/L, CM 24.8±12.3 nmol/L), lower absolute hand grip strength (TM 38.8±7.5 kg, CM 45.7±6.9 kg, p=0.03) and lower absolute V̇O2max (TM 3635±644 mL/min, CM 4467±641 mL/min p=0.002) than CM.

And this Which says:

Key Findings Key Biomedical Findings Biological data are severely limited, and often methodologically flawed. There is limited evidence regarding the impact of testosterone suppression (through, for example, gender-affirming hormone therapy or surgical gonad removal) on transgender women athletes’ performance. Available evidence indicates trans women who have undergone testosterone suppression have no clear biological advantages over cis women in elite sport.

Both of which were cited in the articles OP linked.

This is the exact opposite of your claim.

 

I'm not informed enough about any of these countries to have a stance on them (other than good on them for kicking out imperialists) but this all reads like, erm-this-you .

That there's a type of cucumber bush that makes pathetically small humans?

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

C'mon Wales, score some goals!

Edit: not looking good...

Edit: 43-0? The fuck happened out there? Rugby's the nearest this country has to a state religion and we fucking suck at it!

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

TIL, baby gherkins aren't their own thing but rather gherkin cucumbers that are picked (and then pickled) earlier. All these years I just thought there was a typa cucumber bush that made pathetically small fruit.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oh shit! Does that wizard have a gun?

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Individualist nonsense. If we work together to use one hand to hold the sky aloft, we can use the other to beat the meat.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Easy game, don't bother playing liberal instead prep for the inevitable civil war:

Nab the interior ministry and anything else defence related, militarise the reichsbanner, purge rightists in reichswehr and police, ally with communists, shore up union support, form the iron front (but swerve it away from anti-communism), and just coup Hitler the moment he takes office. The most useful foreign relations thing you can do is training with Austrian socialists (no anarchists nor USSR for some reason). When the civil war popped off I had the police and military helping the communists crush nazi skull while the unions' general strike paralysed the state.

The game seems to treat this as the worst out of potential ways to prevent Nazi Germany which is cringe on its half.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The bluestones in Stonehenge come from West Wales. Instead of quarrying stone from near the monument, they dragged these huge blocks from ~278km away. Likewise, the altar stone comes from ~700km away in North-East Scotland. It must've been very important for the ancient Britons to've used these specific rocks for some reason, but their religious practices were conveyed via a now extinct oral tradition so no-one knows exactly why they did it.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't know what that means.

What I'm saying is that there's insufficient force and direction for a shampoo bottle to penetrate just from falling onto it.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Anything that is inserted into the rectum has to be eased through the rectal sphincter. Now, there are ways to make the insertion easier such as using lubrication or taking poppers but there's still gonna sufficient resistance that it's not gonna happen without the person making it happen.

 

Little green men, greys, spacemen, the reptilians that sneak inside at night to piss your bed. Whatever you call them, for a long time now people have been captivated with tales of travelers from other worlds. Reports of extraterrestrial life exists varying from the unconvincing to the slightly less unconvincing.

With such questions of otherworldly beings plaguing the minds of people for so long, it seems it the mantle has fallen to me once more to smart brain my way through this and solve aliens once and for all.

To this end I have read through a staggering two reported alien sightings, and from my studies have drawn a shocking conclusion. Hang close to me friends, we're in for a wild ride.

Case 1 - The Flatwoods Monster

In 1952 in the town of Flatwoods, West Virginia, USA, Earth, three boys said they saw some object streak down from the sky and crash into a field of a local farm. They told their mother, who accompanied them out this field alongside a member of the West Virginian National Guard. As the group crested a hill, they became aware of movement and a pulsing red light. Turning their torches into the woods they saw something that shocked them to their core.

A creature with a hood-like face, bright yellow eyes, and tiny, taloned hands. Now the obvious answer here is that they saw an owl perching on a tree (see below) and in their panicked minds filled in the blanks for them. Either way, they didn't hang around long enough to find out.

"Oh wise one," you cry, "Even one as intelligent as you cannot solve such a vast mystery on the back of one mere event."

You are correct, which is why ~~skimmed wikipedia~~ read exhaustively about a second sighting.

Case 2 - The Hopkinsville Goblin

In 1955, five adults from a farm just outside Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA, Earth, arrived at a police station requesting help. They claimed they had spent almost four hours fending off a number of yellow eyed, 2ft tall, horned creatures that had been peaking through the windows of their farmhouse. Seventeen police officers arrived at the scene of the battle, but found only evidence of the gunshots the terrified farmers had let off.

The great horned owl, is about 2ft tall, and has head plumage that resembles a pair of horns. They are found all over the Americas, and can get pretty aggressive if disturbed.

"It was owls all along?" you, a fool, ask.

You are blind to something much more sinister afoot.

Owls are not being mistaken for extraterrestrials. Owls are extraterrestrials.

What better way to scout Earth and pry for our weaknesses than to take loftily to the sky and observe from above. Is not a bird's eye view essential for getting the lay of the land.

You worry that I am stretching too far, you worry that I am missing the obvious truth here. You doubt me.

Well I broke into the secretive Area 52 and I have found incontestable proof that I am right, and you are stinky.

I rest my case.

The question now, is what must be done. For all I know, there may be owls amongst us. The invasion may well have already begun. Perhaps by making you aware of this I have placed you all in danger.

Watch your back my friends, but also the sky.

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TFW I'm not applauded as an ally by the transpeople I'm actively misgendering.

 
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Look how sad he is!

Obligatory cum edit.

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