I have questions…
*heavy breathing* Open the box
When my two favourite special interest blogs combine to make one excellent post
From: Our Cavaliers @OuterSpacePotatoMann
nobody talks about it but like the fact that glasses exist is literally insane
put fucking melted sand in front of your eyeballs and now stuff stops being blurry??? and someone figured this out fuckin hundreds of years ago?
Glass technology evolved because of wine.
Wine used to be stored in clay pots for drinking but then people started blowing glass and realized how pretty wine was in a clear glass bottles. They also realized that glass bottles with curves magnified the image and after decades of experementation they started grinding glass with curves and sand to get that magnification. This is also where the telescope and magnifying glass came from. Eventually after telescopes and looking to the heavens were all the rage people started hand crafting reading glasses which gave their wearers an extra decade of reading with bad eyes. By the mid 1700’s they were common and Ben Franklin figured out how to combine two different magnifications into one lense. By 1900 it was incredibly common to have eyeglasses and actual perscriptions were being developed. Post WWII saw a boom in lense technology filtering down from industrial applications making it cheaper and more affordable. Now days you can typically walk into a dollar store and buy a pair of reading glasses all thanks to some glass blower a thousand years ago that liked to look at his wine.
All of human history comes down to alcohol and horses
Southern Comfort (2001)
A beautiful scene featuring transgender man Robert Eades and his transgender girlfriend Lola.
[TRANSCRIPT:
Robert: – and now she’s coming out, full blown… she is something else.
Lola: Oh, please, stop it.
Robert: What? I’m just telling her how wonderful you are, and how beautiful, and how organised, and…
Lola: Actually, you know, I really should put all of this on tape, you know? For when I’m not feeling so great.
Robert: Sweetheart, it is on tape.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Robert: Just in the last couple of months now, it’s come on real strong, but she just really blushes! I can get her to blush all the way from head to toe. See? And she can’t deal with it! She’s never blushed like that before!
Lola: [SIGHS]
[BOTH LAUGH]
Robert: All my life, I’ve been looking for the perfect woman… and all this time, she’s been right there in front of me, and I didn’t even realise it, ‘cause I never thought I’d have a chance with her.
Lola: Why? You’re like… completely loveable.
Robert: To be loved by you, that’s… that’s…
Lola: I had no notion, to think that we would have this little fling.
Robert: That’s what I feel - we have this nice friendship, we can’t go out, we have fun together, we got no entanglements and stuff and then - bam! Just… all of a sudden, next thing I know, we’re in love with each other and we can’t stop it.
END TRANSCRIPT]
i will always always stop to watch this. it warms my heart so much. t4t love is so beautiful and important.
Hallow reminder
I Wrote a Christmas Carol About Dinosaurs.
Deck the halls with Stegosaurus
(Fa la la la la la la la la)
Gift exchange with Carnotaurus
(Fa la la la la la la la la)
Carol jam with Irritator
(Fa la la la la la la la la!)
Cookies with Sinovenator
(Fa la la la la… la la… la… la)
Wrapping gifts with Utahraptor
(Fa la la la la la la la la)
Laughter with Achillobator
(Fa la la la la la la la la)
Hanging lights with Gallimimus
(Fa la la la la la la la la!)
Storytime with Coelophysis
(Fa la la la la… la la… la… la)
Sledding trip with Maiasaura
(Fa la la la la la la la la)
Snow angels with Gastonia
(Fa la la la la la la la la)
Build a snowman with Tro'odon
(Fa la la la la la la la la!)
Cozy fire with tiny Yulong
(Fa la la la la… la la… la… la)
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