nostrich:

staff:

reblog the literally billion photos of these beautiful bloggers!

Hey, Peter, I don’t want to be a dick — really — but literally billions? Literally? I like hyperbole as much as the next guy, but this is literally a lie. I can’t believe that made it past the edit desk. Same mistake on the actual reads page.

I tend to find non-countable uses of this forgivable (“that party was literally off the hook”) but if you’re going to say there are literally billions of photos, there had better be billions of photos.

Sorry, Richard, but there are at least a billion photos on that page.  I mean, no, I haven’t personally counted how many photos are on there, but there are a lot!  And when I see a lot of something and get a little overwhelmed, I think billions is a safe word to use.

“How many people are there on Earth?”, “I dunno, billions.”

“How many hairs are on my head?”, “Billions, probably.  I can’t see all of them in this light.”

“How many times do I have to tell you to keep away from my family?”, “Lemme think, billions?  When do you guys usually eat dinner.”

I wrote billions twice, and I’ll do it a third if I have to. I will literally write it a third time, the same way I literally throw parties that dismount from hooks.