I feel like I read somewhere that it’s kind of a way to see if you’ll incriminate yourself
That’s exactly what it is. If they’re asking you that question they want you to admit to whatever it was (speeding, etc) so they don’t need evidence and you can’t fight the ticket.
Play dumb, but be polite.
“I’m not sure, could you please tell me what you saw?” Or something like that.
Remember, just like in an accident, don’t admit fault. You can decide later if you want to fight the ticket, but if you admit fault then and there, you lose that option.
I respect and love cops but always answer this way cuz you never know if you’re dealing with a corrupt cop
As fun as it is to imagine yourself meeting famous Christians in heaven, I don’t think there’s going to be celebrity status in heaven. When you get there you realize that all people are equally worth talking to and getting to know, that worldly prestige is petty, and since everyone is fully sanctified at that point, no one there is a role model (except Christ).
What I’m saying is it’s not like Billy Graham gets to heaven and is suddenly mobbed by 5 million people, which is a mathematical problem I worried about for way too long
So you’re saying I’ll be able to at least maybe to say “what is up my Billy Graham crackers?” In relative peace?
What im saying is yes but it might take you about 120,894 years to get around to it
I seem to remember a story wherein someone was taking a tour of heaven, and they came across a big celebration because a great saint had just died and was coming to heaven to receive their eternal reward. “Oh, who’s the party for?” the tourist asked. “Some famous preacher? A great missionary? The head of some charity foundation?” “No, it’s for Mrs. So-and-So. She was a housewife. Her whole life she was kind and generous and forgiving and she was good to the neighborhood children.”
you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?
Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.
This is because there are two parts to memories – their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.
This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.
reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.
I had a very interesting match yesterday. I feel like what I saw doesn’t just reflect on TF2, but somewhat on gaming as whole.
I’ll keep it short to get to my point without too much preamble – basically someone took it upon himself to be as unpleasant as possible to me, calling me every slur he could think of and consistently claiming that he sincerely hated my guts. I’m fairly used to this, so luckily I wasn’t too bothered.
He used the mic for an entire round, and was then autobalanced so he started typing it out instead. (He was almost bottom scoring because he spent so much of his time typing.) He had a couple of friends that joined in with him, and although two people told him to calm down a bit, no-one really said anything.
I said nothing to him throughout all of this, apart from a couple of jokes – when he was autobalanced I said ‘I’ll miss you’, but nothing too sarcastic. I still gave call outs and thanked my medics.
After about 15 minutes, he left the server, calling me a few more names just for good measure.
Instantly, about five people on my team started telling me that I was ‘such a nice player’, ‘I wish there were people like you in Dota’, ‘You’re the best’, someone went medic just to heal me, and someone just straight up said they loved me. The change was.. Astounding.
For the next two matches there was a massive atmosphere of positivity. “I genuinely love this team”, “I wish I could friend all of you!” We all started properly working as a team, and I think we did much better because of it. Just from one person being positive, as soon as these players feel like they don’t have to be unpleasant, they stop.
TL;DR especially in a game like TF2, people are scared to say what they really think. At heart most of us are good people, and that’s equally true in-game. I love this community, it’s brought me so much joy, and I’d happily sit through any amount of bs for it.
Apologies for how cheesy this is but I’m still slightly feels-y, it was just so sweet
Mickey’s turning 90 tomorrow, so what better way to celebrate…than to give his older brother some attention cause clearly no one else will
Oswald is one of my favorite cartoon characters, so I wanna take this moment to focus the spotlight on him for a bit.
Oswald is one year older than Mickey, making his debut in 1927 (he is not, however, Disney’s oldest reoccurring character, that title goes to Pete, surprisingly, who predates both Oswald and Mickey)
Oswald has made a handful of cameos since he appeared in the Epic Mickey Games. He pops up for a second in “Get a Horse!” and is the butt of a rather mean gag in the Mickey Mouse Short “Canned”
If you’re familiar with Epic Mickey, you know Oswald’s girl is Ortensia. However, this was not originally her name. Her name was Sadie, but the game developers wanted to give her an “O” name to match Oswald (like Mickey and Minnie, and Donald and Daisy) and it’s stuck ever since
Speaking of Oswald’s girlfriend, Ortensia was not his first. In the older Oswald shorts, he’s infatuated with a female rabbit named Fanny (I like to think Oswald had his 420 children with her, but when he hooked up with Ortensia, she adopted all of them)
Oh, Oswald has 420 Bunny children.
Charles Muntz, the antagonist of the Pixar film Up, isnamed after Charles Mintz, the person responsible for taking Oswald and several of Walt’s animators away after a contract dispute in 1928
Out of the 27 Oswald cartoons made by Disney and Iwerks, 13 are available in the Walt Disney Treasures collection, 2 are available in Walt Disney Signature Blu-rays as bonus features, 5 are found but are not currently available to the public, and 6 are still lost.
After Oswald went to Universal, he got several voice actors, including Mickey Rooney, June Foray, and Mel Blanc. Currently, he’s voiced by veteran voice actor Frank Welker (known for voicing Fred from Scooby Doo among others)
In order for Disney to get the rights to Oswald from Universal, the company traded a sportscaster from ABC
In the Disney Parks, Oswald has a service station on Buena Vista Street in California Adventure
And that’s all I got. I love this bunny, and I wish he got more credit for laying the groundwork for Mickey. Without him, I don’t think Mickey would be as popular as he is today.
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