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Cake day: January 7th, 2024

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  • You don’t need the am or pm 90% of the time because obviously a lunch date is happening sometime around noon, not midnight. A lunar eclipse or meteor shower isn’t visible while the sun is up, or a midnight snack isn’t happening in the middle of the day. Obviously if you are talking trains and flights, you need AM and PM. But people who are used to 12 hour time don’t want to figure out when 16:00 is, so they don’t.



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    4 days ago

    Ben Shapiro cancelled an event he was going to do today. It seems to me like the moment these fascist fucks feel like they could be in danger for the hateful shit they spew they cower in fear. They are keyboard warriors that don’t realize that people can do a lot more than say hurtful things when you do that in public.


  • Why are the 60 minutes in an hour but 24 hours in a day? What functional difference is there between tne 12 and 24 hour clock? Are you showing up to your friend’s dinner party at 6am because you weren’t sure what time they wanted to start dinner? Are you unsure if your picnic is supposed to be right after midday or the middle of the night? Maybe your friend wanted to meet up for coffee and a bagel when you normally go to bed instead of right before you head off for lunch










  • He would have been 92 next month, so my guess would be he is mid 20’s in this picture. I’m not sure what year they got married. Living through the Blitz in a strategically important city will do that to you. Grandpa told me a story about how his dad (on the left) had severe shell shock and would refuse to go into their bomb shelter in the back garden. He would make aure the family was safe in there, and them stand outside and watch the planes. My other great-grandfather on the right got an accomodation for helping a wounded Canadian officer get off some beach in WW2, i wish i remembered which one. Those old Geordies lived through some serious shit.


  • My grandpa died yesterday and so my mom was sending out pictures. She just took a picture of it with her phone, so i cropped out the frame to post it, which definitely makes the quality look poorer. My great grandfather on the left there was an old Geordie dock worker with horrid shell shock from WW1, which you can see in his eyes.

    I have a bunch of photos of my American grandma’s photos that i want to start scanning. I even have video film that says “Christmas 1942” that i am eager to see.