there’s nothing purer or better than how much kids enjoy being picked up and then hurled at soft surfaces
anyone who’s ever been around kids for ay meaningful amount of time should know exactly how much kids long to be hefted up and then just fuckin tossed! it’s so good! they’re so excited to get fucking tossed around like a sack of potatoes it’s so pure
I FINALLY FOUND OUT WHY THIS HAPPENS. You see this all the time when thereâs a fight or a scrum and suddenly everyone pairs up with a member of the opposite team and they just sort of âŚhold each other.
Someone on reddit asked about it. And it turns out thereâs a logical-ish reason:
all of the other players pair off with their man to prevent anyone else entering into the fight ⌠so itâs a form of self policing.Â
[âŚ] The players basically want to prevent 2 on 1, etc. fights and by finding a âhuggingâ partner so thereâs no ganging up on one guy, even on accident. They do it because itâs fair. And itâs kind of cute sometimes.
My boyfriend just woke up, mostly still asleep and told me “don’t worry, it’s getting better” in a heavy, American accent, which is unusual for an Australian man.
“Why are you American?” I asked, to which I got:
“Sorry, it’s getting better” in a stereotypical posh English accent.
“Why are you English?” I asked, amused.
“What is he normally?” He managed to ask.
“He? You’re not anyone else, you’re you.”
“Ugh, me” was the last thing he said, in a right proper Aussie accent before he fell back into proper sleep.
Bitch just thwarted a ghost possession by judging his accents
My boyfriend would be gettin’ hit with the baseball bat beside our bed if he ever woke up and said, “What is he normally?” about himself.
Then you would NOT have liked the time he pointed to a corner of our room while he was sleeping and said “they share a dimension with Earth and they take cats to eat them”.
PSA for short trans guys: Wolverine is 5'3" and he will physically fight your dysphoria for 1 can of beer
Another fun fact: In realities where Logan was NOT captured by Weapon X and brainwashed/given adamantium coated bones he is known as James Howlett; an openly gay badass of a man who gallivants about with his lover Hercules.Â
Further fun fact: Loganâs clone, X-23, who is biologically identical to him because Fuck You Jackal That Is How Cloning Works, is AFAB. So. Yeah. Hella Gay Trans Dude Wolverine is a thing.
This is a lie.Â
Wolvie would fight your dysphoria for half a can of beer.Â
Why is this even a problem? If you need more citizens, take in more immigrants or refugees. It’s not like America has a shortage of either wanting to come in. If you can’t make your own citizens, imported is fine.
How Millenials are killing the baby industry
“If you can’t make your own citizens, imported is fine.”
This is Arwen, sheâs a Husky/Kelpie mix and a little Asshole:
âI wonder if she can jump?â my dad asks the first five minutes we have her. She perks up at the word, and clears a six-foot fence form sitting on the ground. âOh.â Says dad. âShit.â
Later that night she got up on the counter and ate three pounds of corned beef in roughtly 68 seconds but this was considered part of the learning curve of having a new dog.
I wake up at 4 AM to the sound of the toilet being flushed repeatedly in the hall bathroom, and assume plumbing is now posessed by angry and wasteful ghosts.  I get up to disconnet it and find her in the Bathroom, standing to flush the bowl, then shoving her head in to drink the running water.  Iâm not totally awake, so I stand there like an idiot trying to understand this, and my sister gets up to see what the noise is, sees the same thing and also stands there. Fiance notices my absence and does the same.  Mom eventually wakes up and finds us standing around like very confused zombies and almost joins the parade of baffled zombies before shreiking âTHE WATER BILL!â We got her a circulating water bowl after that.
My parentâs donât have AC, but they haveone of those âfridge on top, pull-out-freezer belowâ fridges. Last summer, we were remarking that we might need to shave her so she didnât get heatstroke, to which she looked up and made a disgusted noise at us. âŚThen got up, used the dishrag to pull open the freezer and climbed on top of the frozen vegetables, stretching out and sighing contentedly.  âArwen,â Mom began, but was interrupted by a loud âWHAAAaaaaarrr?â from Arwen.  âOk you can stay there for now but weâre getting you a kiddie pool so you have to get out when we get back. Donât eat anything.â She ate a bag of frozen green beans and farted for three days straight.
Took her walking along the lake with the long lead so she could sniff things to her hearts content. She went about shoving her head in the undergrowth, usually coming up with her head covered in leaves and pollen.
Except for the bush where she came back out with a 7-foot Bull Snake wrapping itself around her ehad and neck, trying itâs best to strangle her before she can eat it.  She immediately ran back to me, the parts of her face not occupied with the snake arranged in a gleeful expression of âLook! I found Snacks!â
I screamed, not immediately regognizing that it wasnât a rattler, and fell, splitting my knee on a rock. The screaming made her let go of the snake, but I still had to grab her and wrestle the snake off her because it lacked the sense to just scuttle away. I finaly got it lose from her (Despite her best effort to continue trying to eat it and turned around to fling it off the trail-Â
-And directly into the face of one of my 90-year-old neighbors whoâd come out to see what the screaming and profanity was, making her collapse.
Iâm pretty sure being told âI accidentally threw a snake at my neighbor.â was the highlight of that EMTâs day. Dottie was unharmed but she still doesnât speak to me.
One day, we left her in a Harness and overhead tether in the (at the time) unfanced back yard so she could enjoy some relatively free-range outdoors time. I walked by the window not a minute later to find her completely GONE, and race out to the yard to find her. It took me a good heart-pounding five minutes to realize the overhead tether was goign UP into the ancient silver maple and realized that 1. Arwen can apparently do something really weird with her shoulders where they pop out sideways, allowing her to bear-hug the tree and 2. climb a good 40 feet into the three to fight 3. A porcupine, which i didnât even know LIVED out here.
Fortunately, Porcupines weigh considerably less than Awen and she couldnât get a good enough foothold to get all the way up to it, but I still had to climb up there and lower her down, barking dog profanities at the porcupine the whole way.
My parents recently acquired a mechanized recliner which has been instumental inmomâs hip surgery recovery. Execpt that Awen Also likes lounging on the furniture, and is more than capable of hitting a large, elder-friendly button with her paw. So now when she gets back from a walk or the dog park she makes a beeline for the living room, get in the recliner and pushes the button until itâs flat and stretches out in it.Â
My parents didnât have a problem with this because she gets out of the chair when they ask her (Mom even tells her âGo get my chair readyâ in winter because she does a good job pre-warming it), until last winter when Arwen taught my dog Charlie, another devoted couch animal how to do this.
One afternoon there was a tremendous outburst fo barkign and snarling from the living room and we rished in to find both dogs in the recliner, Charlie on the fully-reclined back and Arwen on the elevated seat and foot rest, bellowing at eachother for control of the recliner, thier movments having pitched it back to itâs two hind feet, the device swaying to and fro like a leather covered boat upon the high seas, a furry mutiny on board. Neither dog was willing to yeild the plush throne, nor to listen to the humans yelling at them to knock it the hell off, until Arwen tackled the usurper, kocking him off and managing to cantaleiver the recliner clean over, flipping it into the hall, both dogs and all humand miraculously unharmed.
She still doesnât let him sit in it.
I love her so much.
(If you got a laugh out of this, please consider donating to my Tip Jar or Paypal to get Arwen (and Charlie!) nice treats)
Evening reblog with an additional Shenanigan I just remembered:
One of the regulars at the dog park was an unfixed basset hound with an obnoxiously indifferent owner.  âBradâ shows up pretty much to smoke weed and let âBojanglesâ harass the other dogs, in spite of regular complaints about Bo starting fights and trying to mount every dog, leg, and toddler in sight.Â
One evening, Bo was particularly interested in Arwen, aggressively following her, nipping her heels and trying to mount her, even after her usual wolverine-like SnapânâSnarl, which has tended to discourage unwanted suitors before. Brad was Too Damn High to notice, as usual, but mom knew that if Arwen actually bit Bo, Arwen would be the one in trouble and was trying to call her when Bo made yet another attempt and Arwen finally had it.
Instead of rightfully tearing his face off, Arwen instead did what Mom described as âA Judo-style front-flipâ that pulled Bo clean off the ground and threw him on his back, Arwen landing on her feet like a cat. Boâs stubby little legs didnât allow him to right himself before Arwen jumped on him, front paws slamming into his saggy basset balls, squatted over his face, and peed on him.
âARWEN NO!!â howled my mother as nearly everyone else present laughed, but having made her point, Arwen daintily got off Bo, and trotted to the gate, ready to go home. Bo yelped but got up and skulked away, only moderately bruised, cowering under the bench by Brad, who finally noticed something might be amiss.
Mom remembers hearing âDude, why is my dog all wet?â right as they were leaving. Apparently nobody told him what happened, becuase Brad still brings Bo to the park, but Bo has much better manners now.
I read this whole thing to my mom and upon reading the end part she was like âOH MY GOD! Our dog Lady once flipped another dog and I didnât know it was a thing dogs could do!!âÂ
So thereâs that.
Update: Arwen was at the vetâs office for a check-up and daycare, and decided partway through the afternoon that the other two kelpies were annoying her, but she didnât want to go inside to be kenneled for a nap, so she insteadâŚ
âŚninjaâd her way onto the vetâs roof despite there being three people in the yard watching the dogs and no clear way up there. She had a pleasant hour of watching the vet staff try to figure out how she did that and how they were going to get her down before mom came to pick her up.
âArwen, get your furry butt down here!â
At which point Arwen obidently got down by jumping into a nearby tree thatâs technically inside a neighboring houseâs yard, shimmied down that like a bear, then walked out of their side yard and back around the block to come sit at Momâs feet, putting her paws up like she expected a treat.
That tree is not accessible from the daycare yard. We still have no idea how she got up there.
Shine on you beautiful bitch.
This just gets better and better every time i see it
IâŚ
I have fostered doggos for a good majority of my life and my brain simply cannot process half of the bullshit in this postâŚ
1. Sheâs a mix of two extremely smart breeds 2. Sheâs a mix of two extremely energetic breeds 3. The inmates trained her to do lots of âExtracirricularsâ like veritcal leaps, how to climb chain-link fence, agility courses, physical-comedy type tricks becuase they finished teaching her the regular Service Dog Cirriculum and wanted to keep working with her.  4. Due to said Extrcirriculars, she doesnât have any fear of heights, strangers, animals, or the nonsense of other dogs.
She does do the Professional Service Animal thing when we put her vest on, but then sheâs working and has things to do like teaching social skills to people or being a living stress ball to someone having a bad time, so all that brains, energy and training can be put towards a productive end, but if she hasnât got an active job, Shenanigans Ensue.
I love everything about this omg
Update:
She ate a four inch hole in the carpet because someone dropped a pork chop there. Sheâs completely fine, it all passed without so much as an upset stomach on her part.
-also ate the garden hose because we werenât spraying her with it.
-conned one of the guys that installed the AC out of his sandwich by pretending to bark at something on the other side of the house, and doubling back when he came to investigate.
-is back on the therapy circuit helping kids in a summer school program get better at reading by having them read books to her. Her favorite student right now is a boy from Venezuela who is still learning English who gives her a big hug every morning. She doesnât normally like hugs but she puts a paw on his back to hug him back.
Laughed until I cried more than once before the first part of the post even wrapped up.