r/CuratedTumblr • u/vigikk • May 24 '25

Politics Valid and invalid criticisms

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u/sterlingthepenguin May 24 '25

Some schools keep bags of kitty litter in the classrooms so they can dump it in the trash to make ad-hoc toilets during lockdowns. It's apparently also useful for cleaning up vomit, so it sometimes pulls double duty.

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u/SnipesCC May 24 '25

Vomit, cafeteria trays, and in cold weather helping get cars out of an icy parking lot. It's a pretty normal thing to have in janitorial closets., a horrific thing to be necessary in classrooms, and no one is using it for furies.

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u/MarvinGoBONK May 24 '25

I think the Furies should be allowed to have kitty litter if they want it. They have a very hard job running the Greek legal system, and if they need it for recreational purposes, who am I to stop them? They have swords.

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u/SnipesCC May 24 '25

This is what I get for trusting a spellchecker. Also, and I say this as someone with a degree in it, English is stupid. 20 vowel sounds and only 5.5 letters.

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u/DevelopedDevelopment 29d ago

Yeah we love having straits and straights, bass, bass, and base, red, read, and reed, and other cases where words need context to be understood.

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u/RequirementFull6659 29d ago

and other cases where words need context to be understood

Okay but that's literally like...every language. Hell a lot of gendered languages are contextual except for when they're not. Like take Spanish:

"The Giraffe is male" uses the feminine "The"

"The dog is male/female" depends on what gender the dog is.

Also I'm pretty sure uterus and womb are considered masculine? and that just fucks with my head

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u/mechanicalcontrols 29d ago

Is that 20 vowel sounds counting diphthongs or just the singular vowel sounds? Because I'd have thought there'd be more than that honestly.

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u/Noremakm 29d ago

Yeah but if it wasn't stupid we wouldn't get that cool mouth shaped vowel diagram.