Are you trying to kill your mother? Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Group of us were sitting underneath a staircase in the back of a bar huddled over the only table that would fit all six of us when my friend asks another for something in Spanish.
“A what??” Asks the second friend, Cuban.
First friend, Salvadoreñan, repeats while pointing at a straw. “A pajilla.”
“You mean an ABSORBENTE?” the Cuban says a little too condescendingly, because across from them the Colombian goes “Not a napkin dumbass, a pitillo” to which the Puerto Rican snaps “It’s a fuckin sorbeto, a pitillo is a joint” to which I screamed “Why do your people refer to it as Italian ice cream it’s a god damn popote what is wrong with all y'all” and that’s the night when we realized there’s 11 different ways to say “straw” in Spanish
This reminds me of the time I (a Floridian) was in a voice chat with A New Yorker, A Texan, A Canadian, a Brit, an Aussie, and a Brazilian; and the Brazilian was the only one not having any trouble understanding what anyone was saying.
this is all fantastic and valid but in the movie the reason he’s failing spanish is because he missed like eleven classes due to various minor life inconveniences such as his rebellious nature and the fact that he is spider-man
Keith Webb of Winchester, Hampshire received an unmarked parcel. Upon opening the package, he found this strange painting of an “ugly” old woman in a white head-scarf. There was no explanation or note that came with the painting.
“It’s a painting of such a horrid old crone - my wife won’t have it in the house.”
The couple have no idea who could have sent it to them, or even why. Upon taking it to local auctioneers, he found out that the painting was around 200-300 years old.
It’s not everyday someone sends you a painting of an ugly old lady without any information. Truly unexplained
“Speak not of what men deserve. For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”
— Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed.
(via outlawpoet)
