mythbusters was so good because it wasn’t a killjoy show. they didn’t just say “see, it doesn’t work” and leave it there
whenever they find that the stunt doesn’t work as portrayed in the movie, they immediately ask “what would it take to make this happen?”
“we know it takes this amount of explosives to work, but what if we doubled it anyway?”
Some myths I’ll always remember:
* Are elephants scared of mice? (They only did that because they were in Africa and had access to elephants.)
* Will a bull run amok in a china shop?
* Is it better to run zig-zag or straight when chased by an alligator?
I love these because NONE of them turned out the way they expected. They went into all three with pre-conceived ideas of how it would go, and each time they “failed.” Elephants WILL cower from mice. A bull moves very gingerly through a china shop. It doesn’t matter how you run because ALLIGATORS WON’T CHASE YOU.
And each time, they reacted with just… pure glee. “Holy shit, we were wrong! Oh my god! This is great! We were so wrong!”
And that, to me, is what science is. Being excited about being wrong because either way it’s information.
Sometimes I think abt Billie Joe Armstrong and I get so emotional. Does he know how many kids he gave the courage to come out as bisexual. How many people saw him and realized they were like him. Realized there were people like us and he told us what that was and it was Bisexual loud and proud and fuck you if you’ve got a problem with that
[ID: a series of six images of Billie Joe Armstrong on stage wrapped in or holding the bisexual and rainbow flags on stage at multiple concerts. End ID]
These images changed me
They released a song about dressing in drag and fucking men while dressed in drag in 1997. King For A Day is, was, and always will be an extremely radical song, a revolutionary song, I cannot stress this enough especially to people born in the mid 2000’s how incredibly DANGEROUS it was for this very popular punk band to release a song like this back then. Well into the mid 2010’s it was still incredibly rare for anyone to be out and proud somewhere it wasn’t safe. School, work, queer people hid. But in 1997, Green Day released a song about dressing in drag and fucking men.
Like, American Idiot contains the line “Maybe I’m the faggot, America”. People got ANGRY about it. Back then in 2004 when it was released it was because Green Day was “encouraging kids to be gay”. Now when people get angry it’s because they’re ignoring the history and the raw power behind that line, maybe I AM a faggot, fuck you, I like fucking dudes and I don’t care what you have to say about it. Yet I still see people trying to cancel a band made up of THREE BISEXUAL MEN for saying the word faggot.
I strongly suggest people read more about Green Day’s history in the queer community. Billie Joe Armstrong is the reason I even know what bisexuality IS. And that it’s what I am. They had bands like Pansy Division opening for them in the 90’s, they fucking FOUGHT people in the audience for being homophobic. Billie Joe can and will kick your ass while Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool act as his personal hype men and add sound effects with the bass and drums. It fucks.
It’s 2:30 in the morning idk where I was going with this my heart is full of love everyone say Thank you Billie Thank you Mike Thank you Tré. Blows a kiss for every other bisexual. Including myself. Goodnight
I was high as hell and extremely tired but I was right
seeing a lot of “why would i reblog anything i don’t have something to add” like
sir this is the user-circulated content site
a handful of notes from one post of about half a dozen to cross my dash recently:
and from the notes on this post
Literally if you don’t reblog things you like?
THEY STOP HAPPENING
likes = 0 engagement
Likes is “bookmarked”
Liked is ‘left on read’
I feel like these comments imply that reblogging is more difficult than reblogging? So maybe they just don’t know about quick reblog, in which case, (on mobile anyway) you just need to hold down the reblog button for a second
Just a reblog = YOU SHARE IT! IT GETS SEEN BY MORE PEOPLE WAHOOOO
Reblog plus post-related tag to sort stuff out:l = YOU SHARED IT WAHOO MORE PEOPLE SEE IT! ALSO you can f8nd it on your own blog later! Neat!
Reblog plus nice tags/comments: YOU. SHARED. IT WAHOOOO MORE PPL SEE IT! Also op sees a nice message, nice bonus! :D
“I don’t want to spam my friends”
My guy… This is the spam your friends website what the fuck are you doing having your friends follow you if they can’t get behind your weird niche interests? They can fuck off, this is YOUR blog for YOUR niche interests
Tumblr isn’t a bulletin board with a few gems tacked to it, it’s the drawer in your dresser where you pile all your paperclips, fidget toys, pocket knives, random unopened pieces of candy, and the rubix cube you never learned how to solve
