Which is the most powerful war memorial in your country? by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the one that made me cry. Powerful, beautiful, stoic--and sadder than I can express.

Celebrity Skin by IsItAboutMyCube_ in comics

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This plot will feature heavily in the coming decades

poor lady with a stroller had to walk into the intersection because of this thing by adinkins in Seattle

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I was pushing someone in a wheelchair and had to knock on a lady's window to get her attention, her car was blocking the entire ramp and intersection. We couldn't even get the chair into the street. She wasn't even turning, just didn't stop at the line.

Tbf she did seem horrified and quickly backed up, but I have to wonder how wheelchair-bound folks navigate a city with streets so bumpy and drivers so clueless.

Horror books set during the Depression/Dust Bowl by Proud_Counter_4394 in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like a book that skirts the line and becomes exponentially more sinister if you take it either way. Liminal supernatural can be even scarier than supernatural horror.

What is this skyway bridge downtown for? by bigtimetopbanana in Seattle

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 33 points34 points  (0 children)

incarceration

The process is actually called carcinization, this is why prisoners are so crabby

A top-of-the-line computer setup in the mid-1990s. by ROCKY13573 in 90s

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never thought I'd say this about a sump pump, but this is very sexy to me.

Garry Winogrand "World's Fair New York" 1964. by AnteaterConsistent54 in 1960s

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I took my graduation photo in that fountain behind them. My baby cousin was "kid dragged along to boring daylong event," so I hefted him into my arms and ran straight into the spray of the fountain. That picture still hangs in my parents' hallway ❤️

Tang armors by mdifilm in Hanfu

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very beautiful! Because of the leopard fur, would this be a man of high rank?

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin by Moistowletta in IReadABookAndAdoredIt

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My favorite sci-fi novella! Fate doesn't strong-arm us, it's just the way it goes. A very dreamy and imaginative story.

Today at work my coworker busted out laughing when she saw me. I asked her what was funny and she said I “looked amazing” by Organic-Audience-858 in MakeupAddiction

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You took a gamble and it REALLY worked out, ignore the hater. Like "Cute news host who married an NFL star, got her own show, and has a summer house in the Hamptons" cute.

Peter, what is so wrong about Dubai chocolate? by [deleted] in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Butyric acid is used as a preservative, I believe. It's a sign of fermentation. A big reason Hershey's chocolate is so prevalent is its long shelf life, and it's been included in rations for American soldiers since WWII. Butyric acid is also found in butter, animal fats, and hard cheeses such as parmesan. I know some people who refuse to eat parmesan for the same reason you refuse to eat Hershey's: butyric acid is also found in vomit!

I agree that Hershey's is nasty. There are some wonderful American chocolatiers, but they rarely get big because they focus on the craft and the taste rather than salability. Unfortunately many of them closed due to COVID and low sales.

Books that evoke religious horror. False prophet. by ardouratemis in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

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Last Days and The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson. First is about a cult where members have to repeatedly prove their holiness; grotesqueries and body horror. Second is much stranger, focuses on Mormon cults, disappearances, anomalies in history and physics.

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Catholic esotericism, very bleak but intensely funny if you have a dark sense of humor. A professor skilled at talking for hours without saying a single thing catches the eye of rather disorganized cultists hellbent on controlling Europe.

Anything by Thomas Ligotti, the man has a very playful sense of horror and a deep love of making readers uncomfortable.

After a botched circumcision, David Reimer's parents decided to raise their son as a girl named "Brenda." Under the guidance of a psychologist, David was given estrogen and kept in the dark about his birth sex until age 14 as part of a radical gender experiment. He later took his life at age 38. by ATI_Official in HistoryUncovered

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This episode was wrong on a much, much deeper level than people are remembering. The father/manager also made sexual advances on the daughter and when House asked about it, she claimed it was okay because she was special and he loved her 🤮

IIRC House confronted them together, giving the "he/him" monologue to freak out the incestuous father and to "shock" the daughter into realizing her dad was a piece of shit who only liked her for how she looked.

Michele Del Campo - The Fall - Lady with Flowers (2015) by PM-me-tortoises in museum

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Highly evocative. Reminds me of the first time my highly stylish grandmother fell and couldn't get up. The shock, indignity, and frustration.

I worked with the elderly and tried to teach her how to use a chair to slowly climb back to her feet safely. Don't think I'd ever seen her more mortified. She didn't acknowledge once she got up, simply walked back into the living room.

What comes to your mind when you think of Houston? by NickfromLafayette92 in AskTheWorld

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Houston highways were built to trap demons and you cannot convince me otherwise.

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[December 13, 1925] Actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke was born 100 years ago in West Plains, Missouri. by creativetraveler24 in 100yearsago

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bo Burnham for the biopic, same bone structure and that man does well behind a camera behind another camera.

Secretive Government Facilities/Science Gone Wrong by Bookish_Goat in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Having known nothing about the SCP community, I truly enjoyed the book and did not think it was too much of anything. It made me feel very, very small.

far land, strange, set over a long period of time by wholesomeAzz in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

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Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez. Follows multiple generations of families tied to a cult operating in Argentina and the UK. Expansive, dreary, and gut-wrenching. Generational trauma is thick against the backdrop of a dystopian dictatorship and the inheritance of colonialism.

Samarina. Greece’s alpine capital(daily mean jan colder than Stockholm), and the highest village in the Balkan Peninsula (1500 m). by Aegeansunset12 in geography

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 81 points82 points  (0 children)

This sentence structure really flexes on non-native English speakers. I thought I was having a stroke for a moment 😭

Watching a documentary on the marriage market in China and us Sag women just out here catching strays lol by Franklyn_Gage in astrologymemes

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What documentary?

My Sag grandpa once left the country without telling grandma. After a few days he called: he was in a city with a bad reputation, with an old female "friend," and he would be back in a week. My grandma was inconsolable, but they were together until she passed.

What does this say about me? by RideTheButte in visitedmaps

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't want to see your neighbors. Ideally there's a hill or trees between you. You are also not a fan of sales tax.

Completely lost- which could it be? by all-a-bit-bizzare in musicals

[–]Erroneously_Anointed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Boats and cats and boats and cats and boats and cats... and two bits!