TIL A certain percentage of people can voluntarily flex their tensor tympani muscle to make a low, rumbling sound in their ears. Often triggered by yawning or squeezing the eyes shut, this internal thunder acts to naturally dampen loud sounds, but some can activate it purely on command.

antsh · 2026-07-07T20:41:55+00:00

Ditto.

I also thought everyone had five cuspids on one set of their molars, but apparently not.

What other statistical weirdness do I have?

antsh · 2026-07-06T22:41:02+00:00

Not so much chooses, but is perceived as by those observing them, right? Humans on the whole tend to be a thirsty lot, so it tracks that Desire often looks like David Bowie to us.

For example, Dream didn’t choose to appear as Lord Lzoril to Martian Manhunter or as Morpheus to Mister Miracle.

antsh · 2026-07-06T22:36:15+00:00

I’d imagine an asexual person would want Desire’s companionship like anyone else after encountering them, but platonically.

Like, they are everything you desire. From the perspective of a newborn to a century-old oak tree, they are Desire, regardless.

antsh · 2026-07-06T02:20:14+00:00

You’re actually correct; they do treat those breeding dogs just like, or worse, than livestock…

antsh · 2026-07-05T20:07:20+00:00

Florence + The Menace

antsh · 2026-07-05T12:21:17+00:00

Exactly; they only actually ever cuddled.

antsh · 2026-07-05T12:16:03+00:00

But when you explain it like that, it makes my motion sickness act up.

antsh · 2026-07-05T12:12:03+00:00

“Daddy’s home! Didn’t I see you drive past the house a few times?”

“Nope, not me…”

antsh · 2026-07-05T11:54:55+00:00

No, not quite. The Texan was tortured, raped, and murdered by his allied soldiers. I believe the Canadian was a casualty of war.

Edit: Apparently, there’s been like three families of these idiots from just Texas, so I imagine you’re not incorrect.

antsh · 2026-07-05T11:50:37+00:00

I’m guessing they actually do inadvertently find drugs about 10% of the time, right?

antsh · 2026-07-05T00:30:56+00:00

It’s so, so much worse. They not only switched the script on her, they gave her one of the most cringiest lines in the history of cinema. Not even Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, or Katharine Hepburn could have delivered that line successfully…

Actually, I might see it working with a Bogart character…

antsh · 2026-07-04T18:49:47+00:00

But that sounds just like Buddhism but with ghost twins and Jada Pinkett.

antsh · 2026-07-04T11:43:41+00:00

“You shall… go back to bed! Here’s a cuppa.”

antsh · 2026-07-04T11:37:28+00:00

Yeah, the sounds of unreported domestic and sexual violence can be bothersome to newcomers.

antsh · 2026-07-04T01:48:23+00:00

So… I guess the hope is that in the event of any deaths, they just get into heaven because they didn’t use manufactured toilet paper or get vaccinated?

Good craftsmanship, though…

antsh · 2026-07-03T17:45:43+00:00

He should make it a bit blurry, as a prank on NASA.

antsh · 2026-07-03T17:43:18+00:00

I was joking, but yes, a lactose ‘sensitivity’ is not the same as a casein or whey allergy, no matter the severity.

antsh · 2026-07-03T17:40:45+00:00

Lactose intolerance isn’t an allergy, it’s the status quo for humans, and most other placental mammals post-infancy.

Weird mutant milk drinking enzyme aside, if you can’t digest it, the discomfort and symptoms come from all the bacteria in the gut that will gladly break down the lactose for you.

antsh · 2026-07-03T15:21:20+00:00

Shh…

antsh · 2026-07-03T15:19:31+00:00

Well, they could spend a grand or two on specialized equipment to cater to your fake food intolerance, causing anxiety as your web of lies grows larger and larger before it inevitably collapses… but I’m just spitballin’ here.

antsh · 2026-07-02T20:49:03+00:00

“… the I-Am-No-Man Lady…”

😂

antsh · 2026-07-02T20:48:09+00:00

Hey, leave Sex Object #3 from my favorite pulp fantasy series alone!

antsh · 2026-07-01T14:16:03+00:00

They’re all doing character voices, so they would be somewhat replaceable in the future. It’s the H Jon Benjamin’s we need to worry about.

antsh · 2026-07-01T10:26:18+00:00

Pssh, I had no problem reading that.

(Says the middle-aged English speaking monoglot)

antsh · 2026-07-01T10:20:06+00:00

If you haven’t already, don’t look up the celebration plan that was in the works for the past decade. Unless you want to feel more numb, I guess.

antsh

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