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For everyone who says "nobody thinks about your embarrassing mistakes as much as you yourself do" (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I still sometimes think about the guy in my lower secondary school English class in probably 2016 reading the infobox on the Wikipedia article for Tanzania, and saying out loud, "Official languages: none de jure??", pronouncing it in a heavy singsongy Norwegian accent like "NOO-nuh duh YEW-ruh??", apparently believing "None De Jure" to be the name of some sort of obscure African language rather than just meaning "no official language"

And then I remember that this was around the same time that the teacher asked what New York was named after, and I raised my hand and answered "the Dork of York". And then my soul goes nichijou_pencil_stab.mp4 for a bit

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie, if I was completely new to climate science and had never seen nor heard a photo nor video nor drawing nor audio recording nor impression nor Epic Rap Battles of History costume of Jim Henson in my life; and I didn't know that Jim Henson famously died in 1990 from toxic shock syndrome complete with that little drawing of Mickey Mouse consoling Kermit; and I wasn't the type of person who hears the difference between Henson and Hansen (met-mat merger is real and valid!); and I wasn't the type of person to stop and think about how incredibly unlikely it is for one to inexplicably go from puppeteering to climate research... Yeah, that undergrad is literally me though. I 100% read "[...] teaching a class about it. We had Jim Hansen--extremely famous [...]" and my brain just stopped for a moment thinking, "Wait, is that a typo of the name of the Muppets guy‽‽ That's one Hell of a twist right there..."

We love a bit of "say the first shit that pops into your head" energy sometimes, cheers to that undergrad wherever she is now, and I'm sure Jim Hansen gets things like that all the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I'm sure Jim Hansen gets things like that all the time.

Yeah that's actually what he said! He was super nice about it. Really decent dude.