aphanon_meme | part 353 whalers on the moon

part 353 whalers on the moon

We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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Does anyone else die inside when abuse is put into a APH russia fic.
If Ivan even accidentally hit them he’d be apologizing over and over and insisting them to rest or let him put a bandage on them.

Aaaaaaand unfollowed

I've poked around it and rubbed and checked under the hood and it doesn't look like there's anything that should actually be bothering it. And just touching it myself doesn't hurt, either. I'm guessing it's a nerve, maybe a tiny scratch I can't see.

Sounds like the post insisting he couldn't kill a spider that you-know-who reblogged.

Precious Golden Baby Russia apologists are really something else...

hipsterkiku?

Yep.
And then fuckyeahivan reblogged it, which, last I knew, was run by qichi?
Like, I don't get it, only that I'm glad I knew to be careful. Sigh.

America's birthday is in ONE WEEK. What should we get him?

Firecrackers

China should shit in a box and give it to America

I think it'd be fun.

Non-American memers(or well-travelled/culturally aware Merrycans,) are the hand signal meanings and other cultural gestures and such accurate as far as you know? It seems pretty funny to me that the OK signal would be like a stretched open asshole in some countries.

Every single edition of NOW! That's What I Call Music

toast

what the fuck, in one week? I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THE 4TH OF JULY

how did it come up so fast?!

Is there supposed to be two hands in O or why the hell would that mean ten or surrendering?

As far as I know they seem correct-ish, quite narrow definitions though. Like K definitely is an insult outside the US and ancient Rome.

I should be in bed but I want to share this story of mistaken hand gestures and angry greeks

Letter G is not kidding, putting your hand up, palm out, and pushing it forward indicates to a Greek that you want them to go to hell.

Anyhow: an American friend of my friend was staying in Greece and decided to pop down to the post office. He was shaky on the language so he tried to be clear: He said "I want ten stamps!" while holding up both hands to indicate the number. He even pushed them back and forth for extra clarity and emphasis.

The post office worker vaulted over the desk and nearly attacked him for basically giving him double middle fingers. Be careful with your international rude gestures, people!

It seems pretty funny to me that the stretched asshole signal would be like an OK sign in some countries.

In other words, yes, that's a vulgar gesture in some places. But there are better charts out there than this one.

You know, I keep seeing the "ok sign is actually insulting in Brazil!!" in travel guides all the time, but I have never, ever seen any Brazilians use it as an insult, or take it as an insult for that matter.

When Brazilians want to insult each other they use middle fingers like 99% of the time, the remaining 1% being the "banana" sign.

However, we don't use the "OK" symbol much at all. The most common way to express "OK" is with a thumbs-up.

what would you do with a 3d printer?

I would print an eyes.gif

fake hamburger

Except for the OK sign for money I've literally never come across any of the other hand signs in Japan. In fact I was surprised they didn't attempt to give a Japanese meaning to the V sign, though even I am struggling to come up with a word for it to be fair lol. iirc Japanese count like Europeans too, starting with the thumb for one.

idk even if those other hand signs do or did have those meanings, Japan is not a very gesture heavy country it's entirely possible they're all old fashioned and not used anymore.

the prime minister of belgium wants to make a bet with obama

will obama give him american beer if he loses the bet?

Make buttplugs shaped like people I hate

This weekend it is. How about Saturday night? We can go to a sports bar if you like so we can watch the matches together.

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