"Oh, boy! I just got two asks! Whatever could they be!" The humble inbox:
Okay the WEIRDEST THING is going going down right now
So some guy in Michigan in the US has just found a letter in his grandmother’s house; it seems to be a pen pal letter from 1973ish, and it’s from a young Welsh girl. In it, she lists:
- Her name, and the names of her brother (Gwynedd) and sister (Catrin)
- Their ages
- Where she lives in Wales (Denbigh)
- Her hobbies, including horse riding and reading pony books.
So this American dude decides to take a photo, whack it on Twitter and ask the only Welsh person he knows if there’s any way to track this Welsh girl down, because you know, ALL WELSH PEOPLE KNOW EACH OTHER, OBVIOUSLY
Except
I am furious to report that it has worked
Welsh person he tags doesn’t know, but takes up the challenge. Someone reckons the Catrin might be a woman who translated a hymn book once, and checks the foreword to see that the dates and ages do seem to be about right. Someone else suddenly has a brainwave - wait, isn’t she the mother of Steff, the comedian?
My husband gets tagged, takes one look at this letter, and is like “That is 1000% my aunt.”
So now it’s 20 to midnight, Steff’s aunt has obviously not yet seen the excited message to put Twitter out of their misery, and my mother-in-law is currently on the phone gleefully telling us that when that letter was written her sister had never sat on a horse in her life before, and she’d lied to an American pen pal for clout before the internet even existed.
Post Cymru Swyddogol (Official Wales Post)
official michigan post
A Welsh comedian, Elis James, does a radio show which has a segment called ‘Cymru Connections’ where another Welsh person calls into the show and he has 1 minute to question them about their life until he finds someone the both know. I’ve never seen him fail.
Me remembering halfway through posing hands in a drawing that I HAVE hands and can use them for reference
(attempting to impress a girl at a party) i was in a saw trap. (remembers that girls like strength) and i wasn’t hurt at all. (remembers that girls like sensitivity.) but i was emotionally scarred. (remembers that details are important to a story) because i pushed a guy into a wood chipper.
Nothing prepares you for how ugly a cybertruck is in real life. I've seen seven of them now, I'm still never prepared for how fuckawful this thing looks. "Why is there a moving over-engineered trash bin on the ro-- oh my god." Every single time. I'm not even being a hater, the thing is genuinely ugly, it looks like a seventh grade intro to engineering class project that got maybe a C+. There are no sleek lines, there's nothing but dull gray metal, it's not even that intimidatingly large. It looks like it was made out of scrap pieces welded together. It can sort of appear decent in pictures, somehow. But in real life, I am never prepared for how fucking ugly or dinky it actually is.
Thank god theres Greek tragedies because they're literally the only bitches who understand siblinghood
Last week I asked my dad if he remembers sneaking me into the cinema to see Deep Rising in 1998. He said he thought so but didn't remember which cinema it was. He was stunned that I not only remembered the exact cinema but also the time of day and the shirt I was wearing.
Today I forgot what someone told me over the phone even though the conversation ended 3 seconds ago.
“My memory is like a chalkboard and someone else has the eraser while another someone else writes random things in permanent marker instead of chalk.”
-Actual quote from be before I even imagined I might be ADHD.
Louis XV Ormolu-Mounted Chinese Turquoise-Glazed Porcelain Cat ("Pompadour Cat"). Early 18th century (cat) and second half of 18th century (cushion and stool). Getty Museum.