Hpecker

A riddle by Horatio Walpole:

Before my birth I had a name,
But soon as born I chang’d the same;
And when I’m laid within the tomb,
I shall my father’s name assume.
I change my name three days together
Yet live but one in any weather.

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In 1924, air mail pilots were having trouble finding their way across the featureless American southwest, so the Post Office adopted a brutally low-tech solution: Every 10 miles they built a large concrete arrow illuminated by a beacon. Each arrow pointed the way to the next, so that a pilot could stay on course simply by connecting the dots.

The system was finished by 1929, permitting mail planes to find their way all the way to San Francisco. It was quickly superseded by more sophisticated navigation methods, but today the arrows still dot the American desert, ready to confuse hikers and, probably, future archaeologists.

(Thanks, Ron.)

Red deer still honor the Iron Curtain. During the Cold War, barbed wire and an electric fence divided Eastern Europe from the West, separating the deer population into two groups. Deer follow traditional trails, which are taught to each generation by its forebears. Now that the fence is gone, red deer range on both sides of the border but refuse to cross it.

“In the past, the deer didn’t go to the Czech side because of the fence,” German biologist Marco Heurich told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. “Now the fence is gone but they still stop at the border.” Film producer Tom Synnatzschke added, “The wall in the head is still there.”

As with humans, it’s the young deer who are testing the old ways. “Our data showed that the animals behaved very traditionally,” said zoologist Pavel Sustr. “The former border was in the minds of the animals. But some of the young animals are searching for new territory. They are more and more deleting the border behavior that was there before.”

FYI

Thank you to the always awesome shegetsby

kiggor:

If other planets were at the same distance as our moon

Dogg, I think you might just be watching the end of that one Indiana Jones.

amandaonwriting:

11 Untranslatable Words From Other Cultures

Follow the link for the source

Layin some wisdom on you #laotzu

Can’t be more tiresome than this asshole’s racism.

anonymous asked: I’m going to start a radio station where the tagline is “Today’s hits, without all the middle-aged white dudes singing.” We’ll play “Blurred Lines” with just the weird Pharrell noises and the TI verse

Remember that part in the video where T.I. is just brushing that girl’s hair? WHAT IN THE JAM IS GOING ON THERE???

anonymous asked: Is saying the Civil War wasn’t about slavery or that slavery was a minor factor racist?

I like when racist assholes think that saying the phrase “states’ rights” composes some kind of actual argument, as if that’s some shit that people fight wars over. STATES’ RIGHTS TO DO WHAT EXACTLY YOU DUMBSHIT

buttpoems:

business dog

anonymous asked: I keep mixed nuts in my desk drawer (for that vegan protein, son) and a coworker came over and I offered her some. She was like “what nuts” and I was like, “the nuts over here on my desk.” Fuck.

You should have said DEEZ NUTS.

anonymous asked: Yo! One anagram of Ronald Wilson Reagan is “Insane Anglo Warlord.”

Huh.

Arnold’s Bodybuilding for Men (1981)

livingonabear asked: boom?

HAHA BOOM

anonymous asked: Hey dumb-dumbs: it’s called racISm not racWASm because the shit’s still going on.

Look, I appreciate the sentiment, but that is not why it’s called “racism.”

anonymous asked: So hockey, tennis and golf are all hella wack and traditionally racist, but if you make them smaller (air hockey, table tennis, miniature golf) suddenly they all become kinda dope… TURNS OUT WE CAN END RACISM YOU GUYS, BUT WE’RE GONNA NEED A SHRINK RAY!!!

You know what, fine. If you’re 4 inches tall or smaller, you can be as racist as you want.

d0gbl0g:

Let’s play a game

anonymous asked: Yo, Orson Scott Card claims he isn’t racist because his assertions that Obama is going to become a dictator with the help of a national police force of “urban youth” who will oppress all the white, non-Muslims is just a thought experiment. A thought experiment by a a huge fucking racist.

Bigots of all stripes like to derail conversations about their bigotry by claiming that their expressions of bigotry are “just X” where X is some irrelevant bullshit. Guess what, fuckfaces, no one cares if your racist jokes are “just jokes” or your racist thoughts are “just a thought experiment.” If you think we can’t simply append the adjective “racist” to the front of those, you’re dumber than we already thought.

PS. We think you’re super dumb as it is.