One Time I Brought One Of My Rocks With Me On A Plane To Touch To Calm Me Down During The Flight, But

One time I brought one of my rocks with me on a plane to touch to calm me down during the flight, but it fell out of my pocket on my way back to the bathroom and then as soon as i realized this they actually announced “did anyone lose…… . A rock” over the loudspeaker system.

When I went up to claim it the plane man, clearly unable to throw off the shackles of his training in the procedure of asking for people’s full names and birthdates when they come to claim wallets, said “wait no, first tell me what color it is so I know it’s really yours”

He seemed to realize this was stupid directly after saying it and kind of smiled like to make it a joke but the joke was on him bc I Described the fucking rock to him for like 30 solid seconds

…anyway. that was an interaction I had once

One super funny thing about the French Rev (that Victor Hugo even references in Les Mis) is the way it altered naming conventions, resulting in tons of WILD amazing ridiculous names!

Basically what happened was— during the French Rev the laws around registering names were relaxed, so people started giving extremely revolutionary names to themselves and their babies.

Sadly Napoleon’s government later cracked down on this. When Napoleon came into power he passed a restrictive law mandating that people had to choose among a list of “normal” names, banning the weird revolution ones, because he was a spineless coward afraid of the power these names had. The restrictive naming laws weren’t repealed until late in the 20th century.

But anyway here are some of my favorite French Rev baby names (taken from this list):

Mort Aux Aristocrates -“Death to Aristocrats”

Amour Sacré de la Patrie l’an Trois -“Sacred Love of the Fatherland Year III”

Lagrenade —“The Grenade”

Droit de l’Homme Tricolor “Right of Man Tricolor”

Égalité — “Equality”

Régénérée Vigueur— “Regenerated Strength”

Marat, ami du peuple -“Marat, friend of the people”

Marat, défenseur de la Patrie—“Marat, defender of the Fatherland”

La Loi-“The Law”

Philippe Thomas Ve de bon coeur pour la République — “Philippe Thomas ‘Go with a good heart for the Republic’”

Raison —“Reason”

Simon Liberté ou la Mort —“Simon “Freedom or Death””

Citoyen Français—“French Citizen”

Sans Crainte— “Without Fear”

Unitée Impérissable— “Imperishable Unity”

Victoire Fédérative— “Federal Victory”

Vengeur Constant —“Constant Avenger”

Is anyone else perpetually upset that we could have had a full-blown folk music revival but it just fizzled out after the sea shanties

Pop Culture Victorians:

Actual Victorians:

“If your eyes aren’t bleeding, it’s not historically accurate.”

- Abby Cox

on that note, when someone says stuff like "the first guy to want to drink cow's milk must have been some kind of freak" meaning it in a sexual way they are having some messed up thought processes and I would hate to see how they would treat a breastfeeding human

Please realize that the amount modern "western" culture sexualizes breasts and breastfeeding is really, really unusual, throughout time and space.

Also note that pre-modern medicine, childbirth had a roughly 1/10 chance of killing you and therefore it's very likely that one of the first uses of animal milk, if not THE first use, was to feed infants that otherwise would have died without another lactating human around

The seriousness of a great number of 18th century documents is severely undermined by the prominent use of the long s ngl