Month: September 2017

types of ‘true’ creepy ghost/creature encounter stories:

aprilwitching:

– that never happened. i mean, good story! you told it well! but it absolutely never happened. i’ve seen the same movies as you, dude, c’mon

– trying valiantly to make unimpressively mundane things sound supernatural; this could be explained by a raccoon knocking over the garbage 

– kind of creepy but there’s like a 90% chance you just met a random homeless, intoxicated, disabled, weird-looking, and/or mentally ill person…AT NIGHT! or a bored goth teenager was fucking with you

– also kind of creepy, but easily explained by the drugs/alcohol you had consumed at the time, like i’ve been So Stoned I Was Seeing Slenderman too, i get it

– super creepy, super obviously textbook sleep paralysis 

– ok maybe you should call agent mulder, damn

– hell it maybe was a real ghost or alien or bigfoot or w/e, but what i love is that you totally TREATED IT like it was on the spookiness/threat level of a raccoon that keeps knocking over the garbage, god bless

The best notes written in manuscripts by medieval monks

beggars-opera:

Colophon: a statement at the end of a book containing the scribe or owner’s name, date of completion, or bitching about how hard it is to write a book in the dark ages

  • Oh, my hand
  • The parchment is very hairy
  • Thank God it will soon be dark
  • St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing
  • Now I’ve written the whole thing; for Christ’s sake give me a drink
  • Oh d fuckin abbot
  • Massive hangover
  • Whoever translated these Gospels did a very poor job
  • Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night
  • If someone else would like such a handsome book, come and look me up in Paris, across from the Notre Dame cathedral
  • I shall remember, O Christ, that I am writing of Thee, because I am wrecked today
  • Do not reproach me concerning the letters, the ink is bad and the parchment scanty and the day is dark
  • 11 golden letters, 8 shilling each; 700 letters with double shafts, 7 shilling for each hundred; and 35 quires of text, each 16 leaves, at 3 shilling each. For such an amount I won’t write again
  • Here ends the second part of the title work of Brother Thomas Aquinas of the Dominican Order; very long, very verbose; and very tedious for the scribe; thank God, thank God, and again thank God
  • If anyone take away this book, let him die the death, let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen

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justsomeantifas:

gnostic-paladin:

justsomeantifas:

boob-a-chu:

justsomeantifas:

sources: x x 

I’m unfamiliar with this, is this saying that it’s strengthening too fast for models to predict, or that it’s going beyond our measurements for hurricanes?

its going beyond our measurements for hurricanes.

That isn’t correct.  What OP is saying is there are models that predict how strong hurricanes can theoretically get based on their environment – sea surface temperature, ambient air pressure, wind shear, that kind of thing – and Irma has gotten stronger than the maximum those models would allow for the current surrounding conditions.

Irma is a powerful, powerful storm, the strongest ever measured in the open Atlantic, but it’s not the strongest storm of all time either in terms of size, wind speed, or central pressure.  It’s just stronger than the models we use to predict such things say should be possible, which indicates our models are flawed.

oh ty.

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