adsumcirrat:

jumpingjacktrash:

penny-anna:

the-outspoken-introvert:

penny-anna:

filmibaby:

lavenders-bi:

penny-anna:

gandalfsbane:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

Merry: we’ve been conducting an ongoing study to see what Legolas will and will not eat

Pippin: grass? yes!

Merry: moss? yes!!

Pippin: leaves? Ohh, yes!

Merry: bootlaces? Strange but true!

Pippin: worms? Sometimes!

Merry: Rocks? Nah

Pippin: twigs? usually!

Merry: Pippin’s cooking? Inconclusive!

Faramir: how did you… test this

Merry: you just hand him stuff and say ‘this is for you’ and if he eats it, he eats it

Faramir: …….I don’t know how to feel about this

Aragorn: IS THAT WHERE ALL MY SPARE BOOTLACES WENT

Pippin: well what did you need so many spare bootlaces for anyway

Aragorn: in case… the ones in my boots…. break!!!

Pippin: !!!!!ohhh!!!

Merry: aha!

Faramir: how could you not know that

Pippin: pff you expect me to know how boots work? *walks away*

Legolas: when I ate them, I did not know they were your bootlaces. I thought they were leathery and inferior worms.

Aragorn: so you didn’t even enjoy them

Aragorn: why did you eat them ALL if you didn’t enjoy them

Legolas: Merry and Pippin seemed to like it when I ate the gifts they gave me so usually I ate them

Merry: *slamming his fist down upon the table* you’ve COMPROMISED our test results!! 

Gimli, from a distance: 

Merry, yelling back: WHAT WOULD YOU KNOW ABOUT IT ARE YOU A SCIENTIST

Gimli: YES

This is UNFAIR because obviously Merry and Pippin are conducting a Single-Subject research design which is commonly used in fields like psychology where the subject works as its own control. They aren’t testing all elves willingness to eat twigs, they’re testing Legolas’ willingness to eat twigs.

By outing their testing in what is obviously the intervention stage and not allowing for a natural return to the reversal stage, Aragon has possibly ruined months of data. 

In conclusion, Gimli is acting like a second year hard-science major who just took their first statistics course and both he and Aragorn should feel bad

Hell yeah! Tell em my social science sibling! Also it’s clearly a qualitative – observational case study!

I appreciate everyone defending them but Merry and Pippin DEFINITELY ruined their own results by laughing every time Legolas ate one of their ‘gifts’

Did they though? Technically their research question was just “will he eat it” not “does he eat it normally/unprompted”. The fact that he choose to eat it because they had conditioned him to eat things they handed to him doesn’t invalidate the premise, since he did still eat the Thing

That’s fair. I stand corrected, they were doing fine.

possibly their experiment was “can we condition legolas to eat anything we hand him”

@asknotbug heeeey….

@adsumcirrat – I can see them doing this. (I need to get back into the fandom, but my brain tells me it wants me to rewrite the entire damned thing if I do…)

notalwaysright.com is a hell hole that sucks you in. I didn’t need to be sitting here an extra hour when I should have been home in bed. x3 I should have known better than to keep reading them…

retro-leigh:

THEY PUT RAMMSTEIN INTO A BONGO CAT MEME YALL

I confused the fuck out of my friend by hearing the early intro of this song and knowing what it was. It hadn’t even gotten to the beat. She’s like WTF. Why do you know this song? Like, yeah, I know it’s probably been over ten years since I’ve heard it, but it’s pretty unforgettable. (Even remembered the lyrics. Clearly. x’D)

helene-of-flowers:

peoplecallmecarfanatic:

I just love how in English you say “great minds think alike”, which is a completely positive thing since you’re kinda praising yourself, but in German you go like “zwei Dumme, ein Gedanke” = “two fools, one thought” 

German is beautiful, isn’t it

Kind of reminds me when my french teacher explained us the french idiom “L’espoir fait vivre” (Hope makes us live) and he asked me how Germans say it and I was like “Hope dies last” and his legit answer was:

“See, that’s why no one likes you!”

But the whole of the English saying is, “Great minds think alike, but fools rarely differ.”