To the customers who apologize repeatedly for “bothering” me, or offer to clean up their own spill if I just get them some paper towels, or walk all the way around an aisle so as not to disturb me when I’m blocking their path, I just want to reassure you that you are NOT the annoying customer we complain about in retail. You are very kind and you clearly respect me and my time and I appreciate you. Also I am happy to help you with whatever you need and it is not at all a bother.
To the customer who shouted “EGGS?” at me from twenty feet away because apparently it was just too much trouble to come a few steps closer and use a complete sentence like “where are the eggs, please?”: fuck you.
[Image description: photo of some text (source not given) about Caesar’s last words. Transcription follows.]
Suetonius adds that, according to some reports, he said in Greek: “Kai su, teknon” (which Shakespeare turned into the Latin “Et tu Brute?”). It literally means “You too, child,” but what Caesar may have intended by the words isn’t clear. Tempest cites “an important article” by James Russell (1980) “that has often been overlooked”. Russell points out that the words kai su often appear on curse tablets, and suggests that Caesar’s putative last words were not “the emotional parting declaration of a betrayed man to one he had treated like a son” but more along the lines of “See you in hell, punk.”
phrases like “you don’t owe anyone anything” and “relationships aren’t transactional” have the power to be used in ways that are very backwards and harmful
for example, no you don’t owe anyone anything in that if some creep is trying to get with you, you can block him without feeling bad. you don’t owe kindness to people who are transphobic or racist or bigoted.
but, you can’t use this as an excuse to fuck over people who have helped you. “you don’t owe anyone anything” isn’t an excuse to allow yourself to forget compassion and basic empathy, it isn’t an excuse for you to be an asshole just because you find it easier to be one
relationships aren’t transactional in that if your partner does something nice for you, you are indebted to them. they do these things because they love you; it is their choice to express love through these gestures
but they are transactional in that you both actively need to be putting time and care into the relationship. ignoring the dynamic of one person caring too much (and putting in excessive (emotional an literal) work and labor) while the other does nothing isn’t healthy. one person can’t solely take and the other person can’t solely give- that’s dangerous, and you can’t put the bandaid of “this isn’t transactional” over a relationship that is draining you in all capacities
i’m tired of seeing these things being misconstrued and used as an excuse to hurt people, while framing it as a way of taking care of yourself
castaway key is the private island Disney owns that you go on if you take the cruise. they don’t actually pump in scents on castaway key, it just smells like the ocean cuz it’s in the ocean. apparently this candle just smells like salt water and that’s compelling to me. The #1 thing i want my bedroom to smell like is low tide
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the Avatar (blue guys not airbender) one
ok so disney just opened Pandora and i havent been there because…lmfao…anyways the banshee flight ride is this supposedly amazing simulator of the Avatar universe and im just staring at this candle wondering what the Avatar universe could possibly smell like. weird fruits and dyed hair and musk and imperialism? the options mystify me…..
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churro
it’s just cinnamon it’s just a cinnamon scented candle and it’s 20 dollars
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the bromine one
ok so i saw this one and was puzzled cuz i’ve ridden Pirates of the Carribean maybe a million times and dont remember any imagineered scents….then i was like “oh wait, i guess it kind of smells like bromine cuz thats what they use to disinfect the waters, but there’s no way that’s what this candle smells like…”…guess what. it’s a bromine candle. that’s basically like if you had a candle that smelled like piss and chlorine because you long for your youth at the local YMCA. and i love it.
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rome burning
there’s two reasons why i love this and actually am going to buy it shortly. first of all “rome burning” is an iconic scene in one of my favorite epcot rides, Spaceship Earth, when you pass the ruins of a recently-destroyed Rome and it smells like the fires have just gone out and it’s just really cool. but the second and most important reason why this is amazing is that, like, 85% of people are going to look at this candle burning in my house, smell the telling notes of fresh embers and soot, and think i bought a candle solely to commemerate the firey death of a once great empire. which i did. fuck rome.
![pomrania:
“ narramin:
“what a fucking power move
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