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likkyan:

littleselfia:

hawkass-and-stark:

apoeticmindset:

do you ever wonder what like cave women did when they got their periods i think about that like every day

in fact, up until the late 19th century women would rarely have periods often due to poor diet. The fact that these bastards are monthly is a relatively recent thing due to modern developments and our access to better lifestyles.

What if that means that they could eventually be much more frequent? Like, bimonthly to trimonthly?

What kind of crazy nutrient-rich diet would you have to sustain for that to happen? Like a constant IV of ambrosia? Man, maybe that’s why Hera was always such a bitch.

As a side note, does that mean all the references to ‘moon blood’ and lunar cycles being linked to menstrual cycles are all relatively recent as well?

Can anybody get us some sources on this? Because I don’t doubt that there certainly were undernourished people but from what little I’ve studied about world cultural histories I feel like we’re not really getting a whole/accurate story.

I mean I’m no biology major but I think it has to be a pretty drastic thing to cause you to lose your period? Like of the “you are dying and your body can’t handle this” variety, or very nearly? E.g. anorexia and bulimia. I mean, ffs, it certainly couldn’t be that it was a significant percentage of the population not having periods because then humanity never would have ever populated. That’s just, like… not statistically feasible. Okay well not impossible but I feel like VERY UNLIKELY when you think about Darwinian things u feel me

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truthandglory:

assbanditkirk:

whoa canada

someone needs to turn down that sass level

Two things to know about Canada!

1. We are smart enough to know hot things should be hot.
2. We are sorry if you don’t

I’m not dissing the sass, but most people assume the story that originated all of these stories was because the U.S. is prosecution-happy. Sometimes, we are. But this case is actually studied in ethics classes (for example, the one I had to take, which was engineering, but still relevant). The McDonald’s in question was a location that had a lot of seniors that would come in and would order a coffee, sit around and socialize, and not drink it right off the bat. After which time, it was cold, and they’d go get a refill. So this location decided to keep its coffee at willfully negligent temperatures and caused third-degree burns on the woman who spilled her drive-through order.

She only sued them because McDonald’s refused to pay her medical bills. After which point, of course, it blew up in the media and many other people tried to levy similar cases with most often little success, because frivolous cases (IANAL but iirc) don’t really tend to get very far.

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jamieaiken919:

bokchoitv:

Courtesy of Snopes.com

Since people on Tumblr are extremely gullible and reblog anything without finding further evidence.

Here’s a couple of explanations for shit that DIDN’T happen or ISN’T real about the Boston bombings.

THANK YOU HOLY SHIT

(via kookyfan)

get-nerdy:

mewtoot:

garrettgregg:

mewtoot:

for the longest time i thought shoes on a telephone wire was just people getting rid of their old shoes in a cool way

It’s not?…

no it means that someone sells drugs nearby

my life is a lie

depending on where you are it means 

• you hiked a certain camp/trail and finished it
• you’re a drunk asshole who steals your friends’ shoes

idk about the drugs thing but I’m gonna take a stab in the dark and say that’s an urban myth.

(via greenisinnocent)

• Tumblr: we're so smart intellectual not like those idiots on Facebook no were so smart college kids science and big words we read books
• Tumblr: omg did u no u can get infinite chocolate whenu cut it a certain way dd u know girls w/ purple eyes never have to shave or get perids did u know spiders will bite u in te butt on toilets lol it's true I read it on the Internet

That whole 'Andy's coming' thing about Disneyland is FALSE.

raintulgey:

The ‘Andy’s Coming!’ thing about Toy Story characters at Disney parks has gone viral. This is a very bad thing because it IS NOT TRUE. They will NOT collapse/freeze whatever if someone says Andy is coming.

This is becoming a real problem at the parks because now someone yells ‘Andy’s coming’ around the TS characters an average of every 8-10 minutes, nonstop all day. They will not do what that stupid viral post states they will! Why? Not only can it damage the multi-thousand dollar costumes but it’s also unsafe for the performer and the guests around them. They likely wouldn’t even even be able to get back up due to the weight and limits of the costumes. The castmembers can be fired if they actually do this.

At Disneyland today a guest assaulted Buzz when he did not collapse/freeze when that damnable phrase was yelled yet again. I was informed of this by a friend in the character department. The department is sick of it and it’s quite possible that the TS characters may taken out of commission until the fad passes.

Please repost the ever-lasting shit out of this post so the stupidity can stop.

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gorgonetta:

laughingsquid:

A Timeline of Vintage Vibrators

Prob. a good time to link to Lesley Hall’s Victorian Sex Factoids (and myth-debunking) page, namely the bit on vibrators. 

Source:

newvagabond:

Making a separate post of this because IT’S NOT TRUE, NOOO, STAWP SPREADING ITTTT.

Don’t mean to hijack a post to say NO U R WRONG but I keep seeing this post and that’s not what the song is about.

It’s calling the MEN the dogs because they’re running around panting and woofing at women. 

“I heard a woman shout out—who let the dogs out?”

Then we see women as dog-catchers. 

And a dog jumping up trying to get on a lady. 

“Get back cruffy, back scruffy,

Get back you flea infested mongrel”

Is meant to be a woman telling a dog (a guy) to leave her alone. 

Then there’s “to any girls callin’ them canine”. Clearly the women are calling the men dogs here. 

“Say, a doggy is nuttin’ if he don’ have a bone” HE. Doggy is nuttin’ if HE. 

“Well, if I am a dog, the party is on

I gotta get my groove ‘cause my mind done gone”

Dude’s acknowledging that he may be one of those guys at parties/clubs.

“Me and my white short shorts

And I can’t see color, any color will do

I’ll stick on you, that’s why they call me ‘Pit bull’”

He can’t see color, HE is the dog.

So don’t be crushed. It’s a song about guys acknowledging that other guys can be brazen and annoying when hitting on women when they just wanna have a ball at the club and dance. 

(via cocokat)

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jtotheizzoe:

A Toilet-Like Vortex of Bad Astronomy

Bad is getting science wrong. Worse is getting science wrong because of mystical woo. Worstest is having that bad science go viral. The video discussed below has been featured on big sites like Kottke.org and I Love Charts, which shows how fast this stuff can spread.

In the case of the “solar system as a vortex” videos, we have reached the darkest, worstest timeline. But science is here to help. Phil Plait has debunked this in gloriously gory detail, so please, please go read that. And stop sharing this bad science. Share this instead.

First of all, that’s a helix, not a vortex. But that doesn’t matter. The planets do not trail behind the sun. It’s simply not based in reality. You can easily test this just by keeping track of the planets in the sky, and tens of thousands of people have done this throughout history.

In a second video, the creator shows the planets orbiting a moving sun like a rotating drill bit. This is not the case. The solar system is indeed tipped 60˚ with respect to the galaxy. But sometimes planets are ahead of the sun and sometimes they are behind the sun. Also, the solar system does bob up and down across the galactic plane, but only once every 64 million years (this is due to the disk’s internal gravity, because it’s made of stuff). Much like a wobbling top, the Earth will “wobble” in its rotation around every 26,000 years (Google “procession” for more), but this has nothing to do with the claims of the video (although it is why the North Star won’t always be in the north).

Much like how if I am walking forward at 3 mph on a train going 70 mph, I am not going 73 mph. I am going 3 mph, just in a different frame of reference. The speed of our solar wind pushing outward on intergalactic space is much higher than the speed we are traveling around the galaxy, and there’s no reason to think that all that out there is going to affect us in here.

DJ Sadhu, who sadly spins lies rather than records, explains why someone would want to make all this up on his site. Enter at your own risk. Basically it’s an appeal for a model that doesn’t have us returning to the same place every year. That might sound spiritually superior, but it’s also BS. TIme moves forward, the planets and the sun move in predictable, well-studied patterns, and regardless of our position in the galaxy, the years are ours to make different. And we do a pretty good job of that without videos like this.

It kind of sucks that all it takes to spread BS is a few weeks with 3D animation software and an internet connection, but hey … it can be a force for good as much as it is bad. Now commence getting this post a bazillion notes, or else the vortex will get us all.

I’ve seen the gif going around a lot in the past few days, soooo just… so you know.

(via thescienceofreality)