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every time i listen to “you’re a mean one mr. grinch” i can’t help but sit there and think “what did the grinch do to hurt you?” because dude just stands there for 2 minutes and 58 seconds and drags the grinch into the dirt
he stole christmas, kayla! stop with your #notallgrinches propaganda!
you know what if someone told me i was a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce i’d probably be bitter enough to steal christmas too
Interestingly, though The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is narrated by Boris Karloff, the big musical number is sung by the late Thurl Ravenscroft - an American voice actor better known as the voice of Tony the Tiger.
My headcanon is that the Grinch and Tony the Tiger had a bad breakup, and “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” is the resulting breakup song.
Did this really HAVE to be the first thing I see when I opened up Tumblr?
Wafrica’s kimono collections, which heavily feature African designs on the traditional Japanese garment, are fine examples of an artistic fusion of cultures done right. Cameroonian Serge Mouangue and Japanese kimono designer Kururi have successfully blended both culture’s aesthetics in the new line of kimonos by making use of Africa’s striking motifs and colorful patterns. While …
Gorgeous! And an example of true cultural exchange between two artists from two cultures collaborating.
Also - did I mention gorgeous??? Holy heck!
“While the designs retained the robe’s traditional shape, the fabric used in the creations are sourced primarily from Senegal and Nigeria, according to Nigerian site Konbini.“
controversial opinion that shouldn’t be controversial:
ceos of corporations who willingly let people die, along with anyone else involved in the process, should be jailed, not fined.
a preventable industrial disaster that kills workers while the company is aware of the possible damage beforehand should result in prison.
that is murder, plain and simple. a cost-benefit analysis calculating murder. a crime against humanity.
there’s no reason someone stealing food should be jailed while a wealthy individual knowingly killing people is let off the hook with a fine that hardly affects profits at all.
first post i’ve made where everyone agrees.
I disagree. Employers are people and all people should be able to take calculated risks on their own without the government intervening in the even the most mundane tasks to ensure safety.
“mundane tasks” like building a factory designed to collapse because it was less expensive to let thousands of innocent people die than use basic safety standards.
did you just not read half the post or do you genuinely think people should get away with this?
To sum it up, the completed building was a flat-slab structure, without crossbeams or a steel skeleton, which effectively meant that there was no way to transfer the load across the floors. To maximise the floor space, Lee Joon ordered the floor columns to be reduced to be 24 inches (61 cm) thick, instead of the minimum of 31 inches (79 cm) in the original blueprint that was required for the building to stand safely. In addition, columns were spaced 36 feet (11 m) apart to maximize retail space, a decision that also meant that there was more load on each column than there would have been if the columns were closer together.
In April 1995, cracks began to appear in the ceiling of the south wing’s fifth floor. The only response by Lee and his management staff involved moving merchandise and stores from the top floor to the basement.
On the morning of June 29, the number of cracks in the area increased dramatically, prompting managers to close the top floor and shut the air conditioning off. The store management failed to shut the building down or issue formal evacuation orders,[2][3] as the number of customers in the building was unusually high, and it did not want to lose the day’s revenue. However, the executives themselves left the premises as a precaution.
When civil engineering experts were invited to inspect the structure, a cursory check revealed that the building was at risk of collapse; the National Geographic Channel documentary programme Seconds From Disaster indicates that the facility’s manager was examining the slab in one of the restaurants on the fifth floor only hours before the collapse, when, unknown to him, vibration from air conditioning was radiating through the cracks in the concrete columns, and the floor opened up.
Five hours before the collapse, the first of several loud bangs was heard emanating from the top floors, as the vibration of the air conditioning caused the cracks in the slabs to widen further. Amid customer reports of vibration, the air conditioning was turned off, but the cracks in the floors had already grown to 10 cm wide. Around then, it was realized that collapse of the building was inevitable, and an emergency board meeting was held. The directors suggested to Lee that all customers should be evacuated, but Lee angrily refused to do so for fear of revenue losses. However, Lee himself left the building safely before the collapse occurred. Lee did not even inform his own daughter-in-law, Chu Kyung Young, who was one of the employees in the building, of the imminent danger. She became trapped in the rubble and was rescued only days later.
Most behaviors that you see keepers demonstrate at the zoo or aquarium are natural behaviors that the animals do in the wild. When the animals do them, the keepers give them a treat and pair it with a gesture or a word, so that they associate them, and eventually the word or gesture is enough to elicit the behavior because the animal knows that there’s a reward. But here’s the thing: most of those behaviors are encouraged because they help veterinarians and keepers do health checks.
Yeah, its cute when they nose boop the stick, but also keepers need to check their vision and depth perception and mobility. Sea lions are so cute when they wave! But vets and keepers need to check under those flippers to make sure that they’re healthy and that they don’t have any restrictions on their motion or cuts on their skin. Why do they ask animals to jump? Again, to make sure that they’re healthy, and also because its fun and animals LOVE to move around and jump and have fun, its mentally stimulating.
This is the most important thing I will ever reblog and anyone who is still ignorant enough to think zoos are awful can fuck off my blog. Zoos are necessary. If you think otherwise please unfollow me because I don’t want you here.
This is super important for people to see. I have worked at a zoo and I can not tell you how many times I’ve had to defend the zoo for the good they do. People need to learn that zoos are actually helping save endangered species.
Thank you! Sheesh I am tired of zoos getting a bad name. Zoos are not the same as those old ones that were more like side shows. Zoos today are wonderful. Especially with education and conservation programs. Heck the good zoos rescue animals from the bad ones and rehabilitate them. So people stop using blanket terms to cover all zoos. Zoos are wonderful, and if there is a bad one out there, get it stopped and help the good zoos obtain those animals so they can live their life in happiness and comfort.
I took zoology and am very passionate about animals. When I was younger I even thought about working in a zoo. As a project for my class I had to research an animal and create a model of a working zoo enclosure. Keeping in mind both the animal’s needs and the keeper’s needs. We got to visit zoos and aquariums too, so we were well researched on how these things work.
It’s the kind of thinking that “all zoos are bad” which will continue to take good donation money away from zoos. That kind of thinking will prevent zoos from furthering the good that they do. That kind of thinking prevents kids from going and seeing animals they will probably never see otherwise and learning about them. Because you never know, a good experience at a good zoo could inspire the next Steve Irwin, or Jane Goodall.
