A fun fact I learned today: technically, Queen Elizabeth II claims descent from Odin.
Yes, that Odin.
To elaborate, Queen Elizabeth II’s official family tree goes back to Alfred the Great, King of Wessex from 871-899.
Alfred’s grandfather was probably Egbert of Wessex, who in turn claimed to be descended from Cedric, the First King of Wessex.
And Cedric? Well, depending on which traditional genealogy you consult, Cedric was either five or nine generations down the direct patriline of Odin himself.
(Amusingly, not only would this mean that Queen Elizabeth III is distantly part Aesir, but Thor is technically her great-to-the-nth granduncle. I’d like to see that family reunion.)
The whole reason so many of the king stories and warrior stories from ancient sacred mythology survived when the rest were wiped out by Christianity is that the king and warrior stories were part of the family history of various ruling families and were tied up with their right to rule. Probably every royal family in Europe has some divine connection in their genealogy.
Police in Baltimore are amped and ready to tell you about every detail of damage inflicted upon patrol cars, buildings, exaggerated accounts of assault from ‘mobs’ of ‘threatening’ high schoolers–but can they tell you what Freddie Gray did? Can they explain with the same transparency and vigour what Freddie Gray did to deserve being beaten to the point where his spine was 80% severed from his cervical region? Freddie Gray was carrying a switchblade of legal size, Freddie Gray’s murderers unabashedly failed to provide him proper medical care under their custody, Freddy Gray fell into a coma after an hour of his confrontation with the police. Police officers in Baltimore are ready and prepared to go on CNN and discuss the number of cracks on their windshield but will not and cannot explain to you why Freddie Gray was targeted on April 12th, 2015.
Guys please don’t use inner egg lining on a wound
As someone who’s majoring in medicine, using anything from a egg on a wound is incredibly dangerous.
Eggs are filled to the brim with microbial germs, bacteria and sometimes even parasites or diseases.
Not to even mention that eggs are the perfect habitat for growing formaldehyde, a extremely dangerous and toxic bacteria that kills living cells.
So if you’re bleeding out do what doctors have been telling you for ages; get a clean fabric and hold pressure to the wound as you call 911. Stay safe kiddies.
I didn’t even know that people were even doing this. Furthermore, when and why have they been using eggs in the first place?
Someone made a post saying to use it on cuts and scrapes if you don’t have bandages because it’s a “natural bandaid”.
Please refrain from posting or recirculating images that have Baltimore protestors’ faces clearly visible. The Baltimore Police Department and Baltimore’s mayor are using social media to identify and arrest demonstrators, and having images of these people across social media is incredibly dangerous for them.
Please reblog this or repost it, I really don’t care, just get this message out there.
So in my 3D class there’s another kid named Roy, which is my name.
Also in 3D class, we aren’t allowed to listen to music.
So I was talking to our professor and Roy walked by with earbuds in and the professor said “Roy, take those things out of your ears” and I took my hearing aids out of my ears and said “sorry”.
That is the greatest joke I have ever told and no one laughed and I honestly feel so under appreciated rn.
Honestly that joke made being deaf completely worth it and I am an unappreciated comedic genius of my time.
I’m beginning to wonder if people laughed but I just couldn’t hear them
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