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MildHearingLossProblems #30

Discovering that the rest of your family can actually hear people talking from INSIDE the bathroom. Like. They’ll be in the bathroom and then they walk out and just casually join the conversation and I’m like “????…How????!!!”

#hoh #mildhearingloss #family #mildhearinglossproblems #hardofhearing #mild hearing loss #hard of hearing #life

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reblogging this again because people need to keep this in circulation. :P

Dear hearing aid providers: stop only advertising your hearing aids for old people - from a deaf 19 year old who’s used hearing aids since she was 7

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MildHearingLossProblems #29

You hear a faint sound coming from the other room.

Now it’s time to play a game called, “is someone talking to me or is it just the house creaking?”

#hoh #mildhearingloss #mildhearinglossproblems #hardofhearing #hardofhearingproblems #when you're hard of hearing but you don't wear hearing aids #mild hearing loss

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Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

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Sheesh, AOT songwriters

Okay so I just want to talk about this because I get excited whenever it comes up in my head.

I'm wanting to relisten to a lot of the aot music and recheck lyrics and stuff, because there's a lot of stuff even in the earlier songs that just blew right over everybody's heads until the end of the series when they look back at the lyrics to various aot songs and suddenly go, "wait…waaait…WAAAIIIIIT"

Now, I realize a lot of people who haven’t seen/read Attack On Titan might think I’m exaggerating on this, or just not really know what I mean in the first place, so for any non-aot fan readers out there…Let me…Let me just put this into perspective here.

Imagine you're watching…say…The Hobbit.

Now, this particular version of The Hobbit exists in an alternate universe where not only were the movies made in chronological order, but they also were being developed shortly after the first book came out, before the LOTR novels were written.

So imagine in this hypothetical scenario, one of the songs in the ending credits of that first Hobbit film makes references to a seemingly vague figure that could…potentially be talking about Smaug.

The hypothetical lyrics (I just came up with these on the spot lol) go something like: "Dark Shadow of the East that threatens all our lands, your day of reckoning will come. When the Ringbearer makes his journey, your battle will be over before it has even begun." (But like, in Latin or Elvish or something so that people have to actually translate it to know what it's talking about)

The thing is, at this point in time, all the people watching the movies will automatically assume that the “dark shadow” is referring to Smaug and the “Ringbearer” refers to Bilbo, because as the story plays out, Smaug is supposedly the main obstacle/threat, and Bilbo finds a magic ring, so obviously he must be the Ringbearer.

It's vague enough that it's hard to say for certain whether it's Smaug or not, but since fans of the story in this alternate timeline haven't seen any evidence to the contrary, and Smaug lives in the Eastern half of Arda, everyone just chalks up any discrepancies to artistic license and lets it go at that.

Now, fast forward to the Lord of the Rings books/movies being published. You learn about Sauron, you see Frodo go off on his quest, and then one day you're listening to that song from that first Hobbit film again, only to abruptly realize that- "WAIT A SECOND, THIS IS TALKING ABOUT SAURON???!!!!!! WHAT THE HECK?!?!?! THE LOTR WASN'T EVEN OUT YET???"

… That. That sense of, “WHAT???!!! HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS BEFORE!”- is how Attack On Titan fans feel when, having finally finished the overall story, they're relistening to previous openings, endings, and OST songs and they go to check out the English translation of the lyrics just for fun and then suddenly:

“Foolish indecisiveness, nothing more than an illusion, what even now may be reckless bravery The pawn of liberty. The charge of the assault. Victory to the slave that runs!”

followed by:

“The absurdity in life is the beginning of the onslaught, the stolen lands, the world itself as Eren desires.

As unstoppable rage penetrates him, to the dusk he brings violet skies”

Just. I’m not gonna say anything specific about the lyrics themselves, but… These lyrics make so much more sense now, and I hadn’t even realized there was anything wrong with my previous understanding of them.

#attack on titan #attack on titan openings #music #i can’t even #I mean yes I can but the sentiment is there #Did isayama talk about the ending to the music artists or something? #attack on titan ending

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does superman actually do this? because that’s hilarious

See, I would say that I can’t believe that Clark’s excuse that he gives Lois nearly every single time he needs to go Superman is that he wants to get a bagel, but given that the first time they met she saw him purchasing three dozen doughnuts for breakfast, a constant need for bagels isn’t exactly outside the realm of possibility.

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One of my favorite family stories is the one about my…great grandmother? Possibly great-great, I’m not super good at keeping track.

Anyway, apparently my great-grandma occasionally had the tendency to mix things up, (as we all do from time to time) and she also spit.

One day, she was going about her day, doing her thing, and she needs to set a butterknife down as well as spit. So she heads to put the butterknife on the table and spit out the back door.

But what she actually ends up doing is throwing the knife out the door and spitting on the table. Whoops. :P

#life #family #funny #family stories

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A couple weeks ago, I was reading a version of Jack And The Beanstalk to my four-year-old niece.

In this particular one, shortly after Jack has climbed the beanstalk, there’s a part where this fairy pops out and explains to Jack that there’s a giant living on these clouds who “was helped by Jack’s father in his misfortune” and was repaid by being murdered by the giant and having all his stuff stolen (which really explains a lot better than most versions about why Jack just randomly went to this guy’s house and felt it was okay to take his stuff)

So anyway, my niece then points to the picture of the giant’s wife feeding Jack a meal, and asks, “is that Miss Fortune?”

I explained it to her, of course, but I couldn’t help but laugh. :P

#life #family #kids #funnyquestions #funny moments

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one of my favorite parts of the last attack on titan episode is when Mikasa is trying to explain to Annie what titan they need to be following and Annie is eventually like, “…the okapi?” and Mikasa’s like, “the what???”

because I think we needed that little reminder that these people have not grown up in an environment where they have access to information about foreign animals.

#attack on titan ending #attack on titan #mikasa ackerman #annie leonhart

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Yesterday we were going to a restaurant and my almost-9-year-old niece was running along the wall of the outside of the restaurant, but as she went around the corner she completely bypassed the door and so she was genuinely like, “??? Where’s the door???” And we were just like, “it’s right there, you ran past it.”

#life #family #funny #nieces

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Okay so there was something that struck me as funny about this scene when I first saw it but I didn’t realize what it was at the time and I didn’t want to take away from the seriousness of what was going on by giving the funny parts more than a snicker, so I ignored it…

But I just figured it out.

…Zeke looks like a mermaid. Or, well, merman, but whatever.

Humanity's Strongest Soldier kills the Strongest Warrior

#funny #attack on titan ending #zeke jaeger #levi ackerman #shingeki no kyojin #attack on titan final season

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okay so my four year old niece is watching Little Bear, and the characters are picking apples

and this one girl found a worm in an apple she picked and was like, “oh! hello, let me put the apple up to the tree branch so you can crawl out”

and I’m just sitting here thinking, “dude, if I saw a worm in an apple I had picked, it would immediately be ten feet away from me on the ground and I would be obsessively checking all the other apples just to make sure they looked okay.”

#life #family #kids show #little bear #ewwwww

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One thing I would have changed about Levi’s ending. (Spoilers!)

I liked the general concept for how his story ended…but I personally think he should have been handing out teabags instead of lollipops. :P

#attack on titan #attack on titan ending #final episode #levi ackerman

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Skyrim npc’s being dumb

Me: *finishes parameters of a quest* “alright! Time to go check in with the quest giver.” *gets to the house/business the npc lives in, at like 9 in the morning. The door is locked.*

“…guess I’ll walk around a bit and come back.”

*it’s like five to ten irl minutes later. the in-game time is registering as 11 or so. the door has not been unlocked.*

Me: “…well, I didn’t want to do this but you leave me no choice.” *picks the lock in broad daylight.*

NPC: “You’re not supposed to be in here!” Me: “well if you had opened your freaking door in the MIDDLE OF THE DAY, we wouldn’t be having this problem, would we?”

#videogames #skyrim #npcs

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MildHearingLossProblems #28

When you look up the lyrics to a song and then listen to it again, and there’s suddenly whole entire lines that you could swear weren’t in there before

#hoh #mildhearingloss #mild hearing loss #hard of hearing #hardofhearingproblems #mildhearinglossproblems

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MildHearingLossProblems #27

Your family constantly bounces back and forth between thinking you can hear them better than you actually can, and thinking you’re deafer than you actually are. :P

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