alo

Salut

sunt eu

un… haiduc???

SI TE ROG…. IUBIREA MEA PRIMESTE  FERICIEEEEEAAAA  

ALO?

Alo?

sunt eu

PICASSO

ti-am dat beep

Nu mă, nu mă ieei

NU MĂ, NU MĂ IEI

nu mă, nu mă, nu mă iei

I have no idea what happened here

Mya mintesc day oki tay-yay

They’re the lyrics to the song Dragostea Din Tei by Moldovan pop group O-zone. It was a very popular song in the early 2000s

dont you sick fucks make me relive this

For any wretched zoomers…one of the original viral videos aka the finest of vintage memes

We must not despair as long as we are here, we can teach the children about the ancient texts

Okay hold on but we can’t talk about Dragostea Din Tei without talking about Gary Brolsma. Yes, there’s a link above but that doesn’t really explain just how formative a video this was in the relatively early days of the internet.

“The Numa Numa Dance” was posted in December 2004 to Newgrounds.com and was one of the first viral videos.

Estimates on how many times this video has been viewed run somewhere around ¾ of a billion views.

News articles at the time talked about how this video by itself “justified the existence of webcams.” (Though I think the reason for the first webcam was reason enough.)

Let’s go back to the view count, though. If one person wanted to watch the Numa Numa Dance video approximately as many times as it has been watched in the past 19 years, and finish up the watching this year, they would have had to start roughly during the Battle of Piraeus in 403 BCE.

Yeah.

Humanity has, collectively, spent about 2426 years watching Gary Brolsma joyfully dance to Dragostea Din Tei.

The song charted on its own, don’t get me wrong. It’s still something like the 4th best-selling single of all time in France and the most successful Romanian-language pop song of all time. But its memetic longevity? There you can’t skip over “the Numa Numa Dance.” That is the Deep Memetic Magic of long ago.

when i was getting trained as a welder the guys started playing sneaky grabass with each other and with me. i almost hit a few people while holding dangerous tools in my hand because they wouldn’t stop grabbing me from behind, then laughing that i ‘almost’ hit them, so i finally had to go to the instructor and say, look, i’ve had years and years of self defense training due the fact i’m a very small weirdo who is in legitimate danger of getting hatecrimed and at some point one of these guys is going to goose me again and im going to bury a wrench in his eye. get them to stop grabbing me, because i don’t want to get kicked out for hitting people.

the next day i ended up punching someone in the face with a doughnut in my fist because she thought i was being a big fucking buzzkill who tattled to teacher about a harmless game, and, guess what, grabbed my butt. i got icing all over her hair. she complained to teacher...who let everyone know that this was why they weren’t supposed to be playing grabass in the fucking shop.

anyway don’t fucking sneak up on twitchy little queers with hypervigilance, it fucking sucks and you’re lucky if you get a doughnut to a face instead of a hammer.

given that this was a welding class, I was expecting this to end up so much worse

the interview is from June 6th, 2019, it’s one of the first questions asked.

at the very least, there is a trans woman, Hari Nef, in the barbie cast so hopefully the damage this does to young girls is able to be counteracted some.

we should definitely be uplifting Hari Nef in response to this

JK Rowling didn't start sending out overtly transphobic tweets until December of 2019 and didn't publicly come out as a TERF until June 2020. On the other hand, Margot Robbie was the one that invited Hari Nef to filming.

@moonlitlillypop​ You may be on to something here

The first three are literal genetically enhanced space warriors and the last one is just some twitchy nerd who got lucky

Besides Samus would cream them all

your mind

Isaac's first good day

I know most of those following me know this, but just to make it super clear. An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger/the Great Famine) was a deliberate genocide of the Irish people. There was enough food grown in Ireland to make sure everyone was alive and healthy and survived. Instead it was exported, sent to England and elsewhere for profit while men, women, and children starved in the streets. While the English landlords fucked off and evicted starving families who couldn’t afford rent. While babies were too weak to cry and died at the side of the road.

They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. And we owe so much thanks to the other oppressed peoples, in particular the Choctaw Nation and the Masai, who sent money and grain to us.

Let me repeat that. The Choctaw Nation who had just gone through the Trail of Tears sent us money to try save Irish lives. It’s led to an understanding between Irish people and Native American tribes, most recently when we donated to the Navajo and Hopi fundraisers for COVID-19 relief, because while it may be a different tribe, Irish people will never forget those who helped us and we’ll help back.

The entire population of the island is less than seven million people. We’re still a million less on this island than pre famine. And it’s not that long ago. My grandmother’s grandparents lived through it. We’ve told the stories, it literally changed the DNA of the country. We have a national fear of renting, because so many people were evicted. People joke about Irish people always offering loads of food, but it’s because there’s that cultural memory of not being able to.

They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. We will not let them take our lives, we will not let them take our language. We lost so much, but we will not lose it all.

Learning this was an intentional genocide changed me.

It is also important to note that the reason we use the word genocide is that this happened to a certain type of person. Because it wasn’t just Ireland as a whole that went through this–it was the poor Irish. The Irish that were still Gaeilgeoirí, that spoke their native language as their primary or only language. The population of the cities, like Dublin, like Belfast, like Cork, that had a large population of British colonisers and therefore English speakers, continued to increase during the Great Hunger. If you look at the map in the link, you’ll see the biggest drop in population in Ireland is the west and south–places with historically big Gaeilgeoirí regions. It wasn’t just the Irish as a whole that suffered; it was the poor, who were still culturally Irish and still spoke their own language.

Much of Europe went through the failure of the potato crop including Scotland, but in that case, England actually helped and made efforts to stop the starvation of the people. There was an active decision on behalf of the British to not help Ireland during An Gorta Mór and it resulted in the deaths of thousands of Irish, Irish speakers and impoverished Irish. Even today, you can visit and see the mass graves of up to 10,000 unidentified people who were left to die during the Great Hunger.

What happened in Ireland was a genocide. They let us starve and then they put us in mass graves to forget. The whole stereotype of an Irish funeral? The reason that they happen so fast is that so many of us died during the Hunger you had to bury them fast, because there would always be more funerals to attend. In 2013, they even discovered a massive amount of mass graves of CHILDREN buried in a workhouse in County Kilkenny. The trauma of this genocide has not left us and it is so important to remember it and to call it what it was; a genocide of the Irish people.

what the wasp in the corner of my room sees in its final moments

Thank you, that mnemonic will be stuck in my head forever now.

is there a reason for this? like is this part of a strike or something im not aware of? 

i cannot believe im this fucking stupid 

Ralph, pick a number between 1 and 10

four of course because it’s my lucky number

Good cause that’s your IQ

happy anniversary to the post that ruined my life

@wereralph aren’t you the one who posted the “my werewolf boyfriend” reaction to the squeezed pineapple?

honest to god fill my uterus with these, how many will fit? how many until its noticeable? lets make a game out of it! get them big ass balls into me

hi

You should all be beaten like piñatas

dont do that bro the fucking boba r gonna shoot out