prokopetz:

theenbywitch:

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

Me sorting through my key ring: Front door, back door, garage, garden shed, storage locker, head office, server room, battered iron key I’ve possessed for twenty-five years but have absolutely no memory of receiving and no idea what it opens, bike lock, padlock, parents’ house…

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I was not speaking metaphorically.

Why did you blur your keys

They’re very naughty boys.

girlactionfigure:
“ Eugene Lazowski was a Polish doctor who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust by creating a fake epidemic that kept the Germans away from their town.
Eugene received his medical degree before the war started. After Germany...
girlactionfigure:
“ Eugene Lazowski was a Polish doctor who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust by creating a fake epidemic that kept the Germans away from their town.
Eugene received his medical degree before the war started. After Germany...

girlactionfigure:

Eugene Lazowski was a Polish doctor who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust by creating a fake epidemic that kept the Germans away from their town.


Eugene received his medical degree before the war started. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, he became a military doctor with the Polish resistance. He was imprisoned in a German POW camp for his anti-Nazi activities.

After his release in 1942, Eugene moved to a small town, Rozwadow, with his wife and young daughter. There he reunited with a friend from medical school, Stanislaw Matulewicz.

Stanislaw made a medical discovery that seemed minor but proved monumental. He found that healthy people could be injected with a typhoid vaccine that would make them test positive for the deadly disease without actually contracting it.

Eugene hatched a brilliant plan. He knew that Germans tended to be germaphobes and were terrified of typhus, a contagious bacterial disease. When a Polish town was found to be infected with typhus, the German occupiers would quarantine the entire area. Eugene also knew that by implementing his plan, he risked the death penalty, which applied to Poles who helped Jews.

Undeterred by the risk, Eugene injected thousands of people with typhus and sent blood samples to the Germans to report the “epidemic.” He made sure to inject non-Jews as well as Jews, so the Nazis wouldn’t just come in and massacre all the Jews in town. Because it appeared to be a widespread epidemic, the Nazis stayed clear of Rozwadow.

By late 1943, the Gestapo was suspicious. The entire town was supposedly infested with typhus, yet nobody was dying. Eugene learned a German medical team was being sent to the quarantined area.

He frantically approached the oldest and sickest-looking people in town and asked them to wait in a squalid shack. When the visitors arrived, the villagers welcomed them with a party - featuring large quantities of vodka. After the celebration, the German doctors were taken to the “patients.” Eugene said, “I told them to be my guest and examine the patients, but to be careful because the Polish are dirty and full of lice, which transfer typhus.”

The doctors quickly took blood samples without conducting full examinations of the patients. When the samples tested positive for typhus, the German health authorities were satisfied the epidemic was still raging. They never came back.

After the war, Eugene didn’t tell anybody of his heroic acts, not even his wife. It wasn’t until a documentary was produced in 2000 about the fake epidemic that Eugene received the accolades he deserved. He passed away in 2006 at age 92.

For risking his his life to save the Jews of Rozwadow, Poland, we honor Dr. Eugene Lazowski as this week’s Thursday Hero. Accidental Talmudist

yourplayersaidwhat:

The lord of the spider

Druid: and so, I call upon all my powers to summon all the spiders from the forest

Dm: is it a spell, an ability or what?

Druid: no, I just want to call spiders

Dm: ok, I’ll allow it, but they’ll come over time, roll a d10 for the first hoard

Druid: *rolls* 1

Dm: a little unvenomous spider climbs on your shoulder, it greets you

Druid: yay

friggin-ugh:

When the “anime artist” people say they can’t draw poc cuz “anime”, you can show them these.

Cuz 1. share my art, but 2. They are just being stupid and racist.

flamingoslim:

neurotypical-karen:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

how do you respond to miscellaneous men who call you ‘sweetheart’?

When I worked at a bar when at the tender age of 15, I found asking men like that to stop just makes them slither away from blame and act like you’re the bad guy. But what I DID eventually figure out did the trick was making this face:

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like a sort of pained grimace/smile. Hold it for at least three solid seconds while maintaining eye contact.

It’s gonna make them super uncomfortable. Like in the years since I’ve had guys sit there and stare glassily at their drink for a solid five minutes while their friends continued on around them. 100% success rate in keeping men in check so far.

Spent most of my adult life working in predominantly male environments. In my early years, it was long before it was common for women to join some of these fields so I was often the only one. So anytime I got the, “sweetheart,” “honey,” etc. “endearments,” I always responded in kind: Man: “Can you go next door and do [this task], honey?” Me, sweetly: “Sure thing, pumpkin pie.” Or some equally ridiculous endearment. This invariably resulted in the rest of the crew exploding in laughter and have the original “honey” comment maker being called “pumpkin pie” sometimes for days afterwards by everyone on the site (except me, who’d made my point). I only had to do this a few times before everyone understood how much ridicule they’d be subjected to if they tried such “compliments.” This worked equally well on construction sites and professional offices, with workers and supervisors (for whom I would often add their expected honorific: Mr. Pumpkin Pie.)

laralaralara:

cairistiona7:

The McDonald’s french fry is unbelievable. When you bite into it, you think: It’s so tasty, it can’t be real. As soon as it gets cold, it turns to lard and flubble. I mean, have you ever tried to eat a McDonald’s french fry that’s gone cold? That’s one of the circles of hell. The gulf between the warm, fresh, lightly salted McDonald’s french fry and the cold McDonald’s french fry is as great a gulf as any I know. - Viggo Mortensen, Esquire magazine (x)

#this quote gets progressively more interesting all the way until the quote source #it’s just a rollercoaster ride

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