Other pet peeves about religion stuff that comes up this time of year…

elfgrove:

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…NO.

It is not a fertility festival. Not all pagan religious observances are fertility related. Pagan is not a synonym for nymphomaniac.

YOU ARE AN UNEDUCATED AND PRESUMPTIVE ASSHOLE.

I’m really sick of the assumption that everything pagan is about sex all the time.

The pagan winter solstice celebrations are near uniformly about the return of light and warmth to the world. They often celebrate the birth/rebirth/return-to-power of a sun or light god. In Celtic tradition, the victory of the Oak King over the Holly King. In Roman tradition there is a a focus on a god of agriculture and in the subset of Mithraism, a light/sun god. Celebrations typically include feasts, burning symbology (yule logs etc), decorating with evergreens to indicate the return of greenery to the land, and some gift exchange.

You want a fertility rite, check back around spring.

If you don’t have any fucking clue what you’re talking about, PLEASE SHUT UP.

velvetyhugs:

teampokepals76:

gservator:

radglawr:

bishopmyles:

Nope.

when your teacher is trying to teach you how to cast fireball

+3 to Intellect

If anybody’s wondering what’s happening here, this clip made it onto Outrageous Acts of Science, and they explained that this teacher was demonstrating the Leidenfrost effect, which is basically when you place a droplet of a liquid on a surface that’s far hotter than its boiling point. The part of the drop touching the hot surface turns into vapor and forms a cushion that the rest of the drop rests on top of, which causes it to skid across the floor so quickly.

The substance the teacher uses in the video is liquid methane. But methane has a really low boiling point. Like, about −160 °C low. So once it touches the comparatively hot floor, the Leidenfrost effect comes into play, and it slides across the floor. The issue is though, methane is colorless, so you can’t normally see it. Thankfully (in this demonstration), methane is also very flammable, so he sets it on fire before dumping it onto the floor so you can see it as it moves.

Definitely a cooler demonstration of the Leidenfrost effect than dropping a little water in a hot pan.

Or hotter, if you like puns.

THANKS FOR EXPLANATION SCIENTIFIC SIDE OF TUMBLR

brainstatic:

The prosecutor who subpoenaed and cross-examined Hitler in 1931 for a murder trial against four brownshirts was a Jewish lawyer named Hans Litten. The three-hour testimony left Hitler so unnerved and humiliated that he forbade anyone speak Litten’s name in his presence, and he was killed in a concentration camp. Today, the German bar association is called the Hans Litten Association, and every year they give out the Hans Litten Award for excellence in the legal profession. That’s how you commemorate history.