Like, what if his name just happens to be Montgomery Scott, so all of his friends started calling him “Scotty,” and then every time he was introduced to a new person, they would be like “Oh, are you Scottish? My uncle was Scottish!”
And finally, he just gets sick of explaining the situation, so he starts replying with “aye, laddie!” But then it turns out that the person he said that to was Captain Kirk, and he doesn’t want to admit that he lied to his new commanding officer, so he has to keep speaking in a ridiculously over-the-top brogue and commenting constantly on how much he loves drinking Scotch, and by the time that he realises that Kirk would have found humour in the situation, he’s in too deep and can’t stop pretending, and it gradually just becomes his normal speech pattern.
Then, years later, the Enterprise is being inspected by a Starfleet engineer who’s actually Scottish, and Scotty takes him on a walking tour of his warp engines and is all like “Auch! Here be me wee bairns!” and the other engineer is just like “what the fuck is wrong with you?”
I take the fact that James Doohan is Canadian as evidence of this theory.
Scotty hacking into his Starfleet personnel file to alter his place of birth.
Scotty soundproofing his quarters on the Enterprise so that no one can hear him teach himself to play the bagpipes from instructional videos.
Scotty making a great show of taking a shuttle down to Aberdeen to “visit his family” every time the Enterprise is in Earth orbit and then, once on the ground, discreetly site-to-site transporting himself to Vancouver or whatever.
None of these things are out of character or beyond his technical ability.
Yeah, but also in character: Jim Kirk has known since Day 1 that Scotty is not, in fact, Scottish, but is just sitting there waiting to see how far Scotty is willing to go to keep the story going. It started out as an “enough rope” situation but now it’s one of Jim’s greatest ongoing sources of entertainment and he wouldn’t admit at gunpoint that he knows.
Honestly, Kirk would actively claim to have met Scotty’s Extremely Scottish Family/visited them in Aberdeen just to keep it going.
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*shows article to cats* *cats ignore, from different rooms*
Fred was orphaned, scared, underweight, a month and a half old “fits in your palm” tiny kitty when he was rescued from the parking lot and introduced to a two-year-old male tabby, Karl.
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What happened next was no short of wonderful…
Fred was tiny, scared, alone and missed his mommy sooo much
Karl, being no less than a gentleman/cat, took him under his own
Became his protector and took upon himself to care of that tiny furball
He gave his best to substitute the love and affection little Fred had lost
Years afterwards, Fred never leaves Karl’s side, and gives him all the love he deserves
And he deserves a lot of love!
They’re always curious about everything
Dynamic duo is inseparable-from assisting in the kitchen while lunch is in the making…
…to lounging afterwards which they are best at!
Reminding us that love you give others always finds its way back to you
Being a biological male i don’t understand abortion. If you got raped yeah I understand but if you sit there and have sex and then get pregnant you deal with the consequences. I don’t understand why you’d want to kill something you made inside your body. Can someone who is pro choice explain this to me?
Abortion is a way to deal with the consequences.
I know, being someone who will never have to deal with pregnancy, it’s difficult to understand why someone might not want to spend nine months throwing up, getting kicked in the ribs and cervix, with an aching back, with round ligament pain, with sciatica, muscle cramps, swollen feet, headaches, insomnia, exhaustion, nausea, frequent urination, aching hips, all while risking future health and maybe even their life.
And I understand, as someone who will never have to experience it, how you might not understand why someone doesn’t want to endure hours of painful labor followed by having another human ripped or cut from your body.
And I know you can’t possibly understand why someone might not want to then spend 6-8 weeks bleeding profusely in huge chunks from their, possibly, torn vagina. Unable to sit properly. Or piss without it burning. Or even shit without bursting into tears. Or, you know, if they had to have their abdomen sliced open, they would have to deal with that. And you might have had abdominal surgery at some point. So maybe you could see why someone might not want to endure that.
And I mean, since you’ll never have to worry about losing your income due to pregnancy and then thousands of dollars worth of bills that start rolling in before you’re even back on your feet, I can see why that doesn’t seem like a big deal to you.
But why don’t we just trust people to make their own medical decisions. And if it’s something you’ll never have to worry about, that’s even MORE reason to just mind your own business.
I was just wondering please calm down
I’m perfectly calm. You were wondering. I told you. If you didn’t want to know, you probably shouldn’t have asked.
Man: asks for information
Woman: here is your information
Man: woah, omg, why are you so angry??
I guess any description of pregnancy and childbirth sounds angry when you have no idea what they actually entail. -V
“people should have to take IQ tests before they vote” ok but what if instead we required privileged rich assholes to take a test to prove they have compassion for their fellow human beings or at least a tenuous grip on right vs. wrong
also like? we literally did this for like a century to stop black people from voting
the concept of intelligence was constructed around a rich white able male conception of what types of thought are important and therefore any intelligence test used to gatekeep the vote will be inherently classist racist ableist and sexist
OK, I still think this entire concept is producinga misbegotten horror for the ages, but YaY for diversity.
There’s always been a noticeable lack of unambiguously gay characters in Disney movies, even as the company has moved towards greater diversity in its famous princess characters. That lack is the reason for things like “Give Elsa a Girlfriend.” So, finally, Disney will have a gay character in Josh Gad’s LeFou.
If there’s anything cuter than a seal, it’s a seal with a plush version of itself! This adorable animal at Mombetsu Land, an attraction in Japan’s Hokkaido district, got a special present from the zoo staff – a plushie that looks just like the ‘mini me’ version of the seal.
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Clearly, the seal got smitten with the toy, as he couldn’t stop hugging it, riding it on the back, and squeezing the toy to its heart. We wonder if the seal thinks the toy is its baby. One thing is for sure – this is cuteness overload.
- It was a pack of 15 people driving cars/trucks decked out in confederate flags, banners, and US flags. All 15 are being brought to justice, and this is just the latest news on the whole debaucle. - They did this in a predominately black neighborhood. - The caravan passed a public park, and these two schmucks decided to take a detour over to a group of black people - These people were a family having a birthday party for their kids - The witness concensus of what they did when harassing the party was “yelling racial slurs and displaying a crowbar, a knife and either a rifle or a shotgun". - Threatening the lives of children likely earned some brownie points with the judge and lengthened their sentences. - Georgia has some strict laws regarding gang activity, which applied to a large group of armed individuals actively setting out to harass a community with very openly racist motivation. - On top of the sentence, these two are also banished from the county this incident occurred in. This means they’ll also have to sell or give up property they own. - I’m seeing a lot of people try to argue this is unjust because they have the right to ‘freedom of speech’, but I hope that’s just because these people defending it haven’t read any of the details. This is not freedom of speech, it is domestic terrorism, and was labeled as such by the police.
Whole brandished weapons element has been something of a buried lead, as have the number of perpetrators.
I also didn’t realize that it was even possible to banish someone from a county in the US.
Yeah, headline makes it seem like they just waved a flag and yelled some stuff, not “large group of well-armed people went looking for trouble and are now unhappy that they found it.”
Do you miss Barack and Michelle? It’s okay, I know, me too. Ready yourselves, then for this news: Barack and Michelle Obama have each signed a book deal with Penguin Random House to publish their memoirs for an untold but likely enormous sum of money.
Writer: “Hey, can I show you my new fantasy world?”
Editor: “Sure, let me take a look…”
Writer: “Thanks! I’d love to know what you think.”
Editor: “Wait, I’m confused. Where’s the habitable zone? It looks like you’ve got lifeforms covering the entire planet.”
Writer: “Oh right, so this is cool. The idea is that this world actually rotates as it orbits its nearby star, so instead of having a dark side and a light side with a habitable zone in the middle, both sides go through a constant light/dark cycle, making it so the whole planet is a habitable zone! Neat, huh?”
Editor: “Huh, that’s… an interesting idea. But, it looks like you’ve got animals and cultures in different climates too. How does that work if the whole world is being evenly heated rotisserie-style?”
Writer: “I’m glad you asked! See, the rotation of this world actually spins on a kind of tilted axis that oscillates back and forth. This makes the heating more even towards the middle, while the top and the bottom have more extreme climate fluctuations.”
Editor: “I gotta be honest, this whole climate system seems needlessly complicated. Plus, you’ve got populations living thousands of miles inland. Do you realize that keeping everything hydrated would take an impossible amount of irrigation resources?”
Writer: “Yeah, yeah! I thought of that too! It works because the air on this world is full of invisible dust particles, so when water evaporates there it condensates on the dust and accumulates into these HUGE floating bodies of water, which drift around everywhere and-”
Editor: “Stop, just stop, OK? Look, using one or two of these ideas could be neat, but nobody’s going to take you seriously if you keep cramming in more and more crazy stuff like this. You need to tone it down a bit.”
Writer: “…”
Writer: “So can I tell you about the cool magnetic force field?”
Editor:*sigh*
I can’t believe I posted this one week ago and it already has over 700 notes.
This makes me very happy :)
“What do you mean the inhabitants went through 2 global wars in under a century AND several of the world powers are led my megalomaniacal incompetents? This is not believable at all.”
we need conversion therapy to be illegal. we need parents to go to jail for doing this to their children. we need providers of conversion therapy to go to jail for offering a service that abuses and kills lgbt people. conversion therapy is a hate crime.
i love when games are like “you can become a cyborg and gain all these powers…but are you TRULY HUMAN afterwards???” like i sincerely do not care. give me the robot powers. make me strong
“Your definition of humanity is weak and my robot thighs are strong.”
