January 2011
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“They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all...”
– Kate Braverman, The incantation of Frida K (via slychedelic)
Steinbolt1: Celebrities and Science 2010 →
steinbolt1:
They finally released it:
Each year at Sense About Science we review the odd science claims people in the public eye have made. We ask scientists to respond, to help the celebrities realise where they are going wrong and to help the public to make sense of celebrity claims.
Physiology
A diet used by Naomi Campbell, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore this year is the ‘Master...
White girl: I find that women from other races tend to be very, very ugly or very, very hot. There's not much in between. Whereas white women are usually not very hot or very ugly but fall in the middle.
Me (Asian girl): Um. That's because your standards of beauty are normalized around white women. You're taught to think that way through the barrage of media presenting whiteness as normal and color as exotic or repulsive.
White Girl: No, I think I'm right. I've talked to other people and they all agree with me.
Me: ...
A year ago, both of us 19, in a car with other people.
jascollins replied to your post:How can you hate that episode?! It has a fantastic crying scene from Inara, and cute banter between Zoe and Wash! And lasers that don’t work!
I always forget and expect her to shoot him somewhere more painful first. Then I’m frustrated all over again when she doesn’t.
Nandi would’ve! Yet another reason to be sad she didn’t make it. :(
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That awkward moment when Stephanie Meyer and Sarah...
“An infinite number of mathematicians walks into a bar. The first goes up to the...”
– (via fuckyeahmath)
“Gey [the doctor whose laboratory grew Henrietta Lacks’ cells] was annoyed by the...”
– The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The doctor who had another doctor steal part of a woman’s cervix without her knowledge or consent and then used them to create a line of immortal cells didn’t like the fact that the cells got completely out of his control.
ONE MILLION IRONY...
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Do these glasses, Snuggie, plate of cheese +...
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Something Else I Would Never Post On Twitter
davio1962:
Concerning the MTV Snooki Ball-Drop on New Years Eve: I have to admit, she always had the exact opposite effect on me.
Tumblr: A Parable
lazybookreviews:
Relative, glancing over shoulder at my dashboard: WHAT IS THAT?
Lazy, squinting momentarily: That is…explicit gay porn.
Relative: W-why?
Lazy, shrugging: I follow back.
pocapoppins asked: How can you hate that episode?! It has a fantastic crying scene from Inara, and cute banter between Zoe and Wash! And lasers that don't work!
Patients Suing N.Y. Hospitals May Get Bill With... →
abbyjean:
Daniel J. Langevin was 35, mentally ill and broke. He had been living in psychiatric institutions on and off since his early 20s. A friend who visited him at the Rochester Psychiatric Center in February 1995 remembered that Mr. Langevin had pain in his jaw, eye and face that was not getting much attention from the staff. A week later, he was discovered unconscious, with a near-fatal...
pocapoppins asked: How can you hate that episode?! It has a fantastic crying scene from Inara, and cute banter between Zoe and Wash! And lasers that don't work!
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“Look, they got boywhores! Isn’t that thoughtful? I wonder if they service...”
– Kaylee, Firefly, Episode 13 “Heart of Gold”
Also, the madam referred to the gayboys as ‘sly’. I like that moniker.
(via swamibooba)
I kind of hate this episode (and NO IT’S NOT BECAUSE MY FUTURE HUSBAND SEXES UP SOME RANDOM LADY INSTEAD OF MEEEEE) but I will always love ‘sly.’
It's like cabin fever in reverse.
everythinginthesky:
Walking through the small English village, you smile at the farmers, you wave at the twee children and you pat the cows. You think about attending the church fete. And all the while, a small voice in your head whispers, “You could run it. You could rule this whole damn place with a fist of iron.” And so, while you exchange pleasantries with the elderly couple next door,...
“THE HANDY GUIDE TO NOT RAPING PEOPLE IN SEVEN EASY STEPS
1. When you meet a...”
– Ben Pobjie: The Handy Guide to Not Raping People (via monkeytypist)
There is No Obesity Epidemic →
In 1998, more than 30 million people became overweight. And guess what? It happened while they were sleeping.
That’s right. In June of 1998, the number of overweight people in America increased by 50 percent—overnight! How did this happen? Did they all go on a massive potato chip binge? No. In fact, not one of them had gained a pound. Instead, a handful of researchers had decided to decrease...
Three pieces of advice I'm about to give other...
coketalk:
1. You can’t be crippled by an emotion unless you’re the one doing it to yourself.
2. Just because your issues have a name it doesn’t mean you’re aware of them.
3. Assholes are gonna violate the social contract. You can come to expect it. You can even be prepared for it, but don’t ever get used to it.
On the center of the universe.
dearcoketalk:
I’d think that the idea that one is at the center of the universe is a far worse delusion than belief in a supernatural deity.
In a universe as infinitely vast as the one in which we live, the irrational belief that any supernatural deity would give the slightest fuck about your pathetic, meaningless existence is the very essence of putting oneself at the center of it.
“I’m not exactly for the use of drugs, don’t get me wrong, but I just believe...”
– Pat Robertson
It is interesting to see pot become “respectable” at the height of unemployment, as we are all being reminded on a daily (hourly!) basis that we are expendable and shouldn’t expect any sort of stability or security in our lives. Recreational drug use was only evil until white, middle...
There are no gray areas with consent. →
sadydoyle:
“I Bent My Wookie” is now on The Awl talking about the “gray areas” of consent. Like, say, unconsciousness? Or whether a woman can reasonably consent after you’ve physically used force against her? Because if that’s what happened, that’s undeniably rape, dude. That’s what you’re fighting against us for taking seriously.
And, yanno? Allow me to quote one of the many many many many...