some ppl who grew up with siblings didnt rly Grow Up With Siblings. like if you and your brother are 10 yrs apart u just dont get it… if you had siblings within 3yrs of your age you had the genuine experience of primitive undeveloped human brains pummeling the shit out of each other because none of us have developed frontal cortices and the laws of man don’t apply in the confines of this house
So I’m watching a documentary about Antarctica because why not, and just.
Folks from the English navy kept trying to get there via refusing to learn anything from people who lived in cold climates and just being like “No, no, we’ll just soldier on, sheer grit and will will overcome!”
And then starving and freezing to death because Antarctica doesn’t care a goddamn bit how badly you want to get to the south pole.
And then a Norwegian, who grew up loving cold weather and living with native arctic peoples, goes “Hey bet I can do it” and him and some other fuckin Viking looking dudes from the Nordic countries just saunter on up to the South pole and build a tent there, name it “Polheim,” leave a fuckin letter in it for Scott (the Englishman) saying “LOL beat you” and then saunter out like it ain’t no thing.
And as I’m watching, folks describe Amundsen as having a “one eyed intent on his goal” and I’m just sitting here like “Fuckin really.”
Scott, it should be noted, found the letter, went “WTF”, and starved and froze to death on the trek out because he still hadn’t learned a goddamn thing about surviving in arctic conditions by trying and failing to reach the south pole before.
English exploration in a nutshell.
It should be noted that England and her colonies all were kinda bitchy about this too, sniping that Admunsen had “Unfairly” used dogs to pull sleds of supplies rather than hauling the supplies themselves, like Scott and his men did. Because Admunsen was smart enough to hire a couple expert dogsled drivers from Greenland to manage the dog teams. And Admunsen’s team were all expert cross-country skiers. Because that makes sense when crossing long distances in deep snow.
Scott and his men didn’t know how to run dog teams, of course, and refused to learn. They also weren’t very good skiers. Because you want to learn that while 200 miles from help at the bottom of the world.
When someone is a Christian they are not constantly asked their position on the holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, the extermination of Native Americans or any of the thousands of atrocities committed by Christians.
So why do Muslims get asked about terrorism and Jews about Israel and are grouped in with specific bad people while Christians are not required to explain themselves.
I wish there was a way to tell companies that I dislike an ad so much that I will actively avoid buying anything from them because of it
So slightly unrelated but still relevant, generally when I come across an ad that just really fuckin annoys me for whatever reason I’ll go into Google and just type different variations of “I hate ‘x’ product” like 5 times until googles algorithm picks it up an I never see an ad for that product again. It’s amazing.
