Enjoy your stay in the ambiguous fray~
A menagerie of absolutely whatever.
Oscar was adopted as a kitten from an animal shelter and grew up in the third-floor end-stage dementia unit at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island. The 41-bed unit treats people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and other illnesses, most of whom are in the end stage of life and are generally unaware of their surroundings. Oscar was one of six cats adopted by Steere House, which bills itself as a “pet friendly” facility.
After about six months, the staff noticed that Oscar, just like the doctors and nurses, would make his own rounds. Oscar would sniff and observe patients, then curl up to sleep with certain ones. The patients he would sleep with often died within several hours of his arrival. One of the first cases involved a patient who had a blood clot in her leg that was ice cold at the time. Oscar wrapped his body around her leg and stayed until the woman died.In another instance, the doctor had made a determination of impending death based on the patient’s condition, while Oscar simply walked away, causing the doctor to believe that Oscar’s streak (12 at the time) had ended. However, it would be later discovered that the doctor’s prognosis was simply 10 hours too early: Oscar later visited the patient, who died two hours later.
Oscar’s accuracy led the staff to institute a new and unusual protocol: once he is discovered sleeping with a patient, staff will call family members to notify them of the patient’s (expected) impending death.
Most of the time the patient’s family has no issue with Oscar being present at the time of death. On those occasions when he is removed from the room at the family’s request, he is known to pace back and forth in front of the door and meow in protest. When present, Oscar will stay by the patient until they die, then after death will quietly leave the room.
OH MY GOD APPARENTLY TAKING AN ARROW TO THE KNEE WAS AN OLD NORDIC SLANG FOR GETTING MARRIED
I THOUGHT THAT ALL THOSE GUYS IN SKYRIM HAD LITERALLY BEEN SHOT IN THEIR KNEES WITH ARROWS BUT I GUESS NOT
And at that moment, the foundation of that entire meme became something like this:
THAT EXPLAINS WHY MEN GO DOWN ON ONE KNEE WHEN THEY PROPOSE
OH MY GOD
take a moment to realize you have never seen your face in person, just reflections and pictures
some scientists agree that if you saw a clone of yourself, you wouldn’t recognise it as you, because our idea of what we look like is so different from what we actually look like
This gave me anxiety
What if oxygen is poisonous and it just takes 75-100 years to kill us?
My science teacher said he thinks that’s true actually
Request: Phoenix Meets DARK Phoenix
wassamattawityucca asked prozdvoices:
Well, since you’ve just done Professor Layton meeting Dark!Layton, I think the logical next step would be to try Phoenix meeting Dark!Phoenix. Thanks in advance, and keep up the great work!
You know, originally, this was going to end up less stupid, but then I thought of that pun and was like you know what, I’m going in THAT direction instead.
I like to imagine Phoenix is just messing with Dark Phoenix and it goes on for an hour.
Amazing time lapse of European History.
Places that need to calm the fuck down: Germany
Holy fuck, Germany. Get your shit together.
can we talk about how Denmark fucking owned the shit out of everyone and then wouldn’t let go of Norway for 400 FUCKING YEARS AFTER
badass
noon:
i dont think you guys understand the level of pain
Flags made out of the foods their nationalities are famous for.
1. Marin. :>
4. None actually, I was never much for posters. But my sister has a couple (we share a room).
9. Hmm… That’s a toughie.. Maybe “kerfluffle”? I have a lot of silly sayings though, but not any that are just one word.
32. Hm, I like a lot of paintings, mostly watercolors and stylized things (even though I can never pull of simplified/stylized myself)
48. The last time I drank milk had to be several years ago (maybe seven..?)! Before I became lactose intolerant. >m<
I FOUND IT I CANT BREATHE
there will never be a time where I will not bring this video back
wtf did i just watch