tweet of the day – Page 60

Tweet of the Day, Not QUITE The Future We Were Promised edition.

But close.

French inventor Franky Zapata has successfully crossed the Channel on his jet-powered hoverboard for the first time.

He took off from Sangatte in France at 7.15am and landed in Dover around 25 minutes later.

To read the full story, head here: https://t.co/FmCffeleQ7 pic.twitter.com/uojyJteLuY
— SkyNews (@SkyNews) August 4, 2019

Tweet of the Day, This Is Actually Rather Chilling edition.

At least to me.

Ok hunters, let's see how good you are. RT if you see it. pic.twitter.com/4mMk1F2qce
— Mister Koch (@BigFatKoch) July 27, 2019

Tweet of the Day, Yeah Forget The New Top Gun Flick edition.

I didn’t see the point of the new Top Gun remake much, and this both annoys and offends me.

There’s a new Top Gun movie coming out. And Maverick is wearing the same leather jacket – only this time it’s Communist Party of China-approved, so the Japanese and Taiwanese flag patches are gone (screenshot on right is from the new trailer)… pic.twitter.com/gUxFNFNUKX
— Mark MacKinnon (@markmackinnon) July 19, 2019

Tweet of the Day, Don’t Be A Narc edition.

Tweet after the fold because some people read this site at work and the Tweet has bad language words.

Tweet of the Day, Get Away From The Mama Bear With Cubs, Ye Daft Idjit edition.

Sometimes I’m torn.

BACK OFF: This mother bear gave quite a scare to a man who got too close to her cubs at Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee.

Signs posted in the area warn visitors to stay 50 yards away from the animals. https://t.co/4sq3HzV6cI pic.twitter.com/9PRDYiWy6N
— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) July 15, 2019

Tweet of the Day, …Clever. edition.

Took me a moment, and when I did, I almost swore in front of my kid’s bus driver. And it would have been one of the elaborate swears, too. Well done, this one.

A maths meme that is actually funny rather than stupid:
Solve carefully!
230 – 220 x 0.5 =

You probably won’t believe it but the answer is 5!#maths
— KJ Cheetham ❄️🔶 (@kj_cheetham) July 13, 2019

Tweet of the Day, This Texan-German Dialect Thing Is Interesting.

Particularly if one is a reader of Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire series, which of course I am. Texasdeutsch sounds a bit like Amideutsch from the books. Not quite the same — fewer English loan words, and the German is from a different time period — but close enough to make the BBC video at the link worth watching. Nice to see that somebody’s writing the language down, hey?

Germany has been sending linguists to study Texasdeutsch before it dies out. Apparently it’s like Hochdeutsch, fossilized in ~1850 and with a bunch of borrowed words added for spice. https://t.co/creyz2Kh2S
— My name is Doug, I have just met you, & I LOVE YOU (@zamoose) July 13, 2019

Tweet of the Day, …Yeah. Yeah, Just Go With That. Nobody’s Ever Gonna See The Actual Critter Anyway edition.

The whole thread is funny, but this is my favorite.

[It gets better though.]

WRITER: so it's a bear and an ape

ARTIST:what I'm hearing is you want a human face with an eyepatch on a dog pic.twitter.com/YRzUPsRdWy
— Henry Sotheran Ltd (@Sotherans) July 9, 2019

Because sometimes, the artist is right.

Tweet of the Day, Only To Our Enemies edition.

I, personally, have nary a quiver in my heart when I look upon the Evoked Sentinel while it broods over the city that shares with it a name and a mortal avatar. For it is not there to menace me. Quite the contrary.

The Washington Monument during the fireworks is pretty fuckin terrifying pic.twitter.com/FtyMW9rpLO
— Matthew Gaydos (@MatthewGaydos) July 5, 2019

Tweet of the day, …RUN. edition.

This will terrify a lot of people.

**What is your greatest fear?**
ER doc: “The CT scanner being broken”
IM intern: “I’m locked out of UpToDate”
Surgery resident: “My ego isn’t stroked q2h”
Allergy/Immunology fellow: pic.twitter.com/UXCk4M3Vnr
— ScratchpadMD (@scratchpadMD) June 29, 2019