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nevvymaster: captainhanni: If anyone has a tough year ahead of...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:43:43 -0400

captainhanni:

If anyone has a tough year ahead of them or behind them:

This Japanese fisherman will get you back on your feet, I can guarantee.

I WON’T GIVE UP, JAPANESE FISHERMAN!

This made me smile.

valeria2067: tastefullyoffensive: [ytegg] OMG

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:34:25 -0400

valeria2067:

tastefullyoffensive:

[ytegg]

OMG

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:02:10 -0400

lady-nevada: writeswrongs: cumaeansibyl: peeingisfreeing: cof...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:13:55 -0400

lady-nevada:

writeswrongs:

cumaeansibyl:

peeingisfreeing:

coffeeandconlangs:

Unnecessary “fillers” in our speech. I’d rather have “like” than up-talking, though (if we had to choose one, that is). Ewwww, up-talking. Then again, a combination of the two would render me homicidal maniac.

yes, colloquial speech is stupid

discourse particles are stupid

quotative particles are stupid

fillers are stupid

lower registers of speech = stupid!!!!!!woah aaa/

Like, did you ever notice? That, like, the speech patterns people, like, think are stupid? Are, like, commonly associated with, like, women?

And, like, there’s this thing? Where, like, women aren’t supposed to be, like, assertive? So they, like, qualify their speech? Because, like, we’re not supposed to, like, stand by our opinions?

1) humiliate women so they don’t feel qualified to speak authoritatively about anything

2) humiliate women for speaking in such a way that reflects how you treat her

3) laugh, you are superior because you don’t use words like “like.” It isn’t as if being a huge stupid asshole has ever made you worse than a woman who speaks with verbal tics.

Holy shit

spoookyscary: After succumbing to a fever of some sort in 1705,...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:46:10 -0400

spoookyscary:

After succumbing to a fever of some sort in 1705, Irish woman Margorie McCall was hastily buried to prevent the spread of whatever had done her in. Margorie was buried with a valuable ring, which her husband had been unable to remove due to swelling. This made her an even better target for body snatchers, who could cash in on both the corpse and the ring.

The evening after Margorie was buried, before the soil had even settled, the grave-robbers showed up and started digging. Unable to pry the ring off the finger, they decided to cut the finger off. As soon as blood was drawn, Margorie awoke from her coma, sat straight up and screamed.

The fate of the grave-robbers remains unknown. One story says the men dropped dead on the spot, while another claims they fled and never returned to their chosen profession.

Margorie climbed out of the hole and made her way back to her home.

Her husband John, a doctor, was at home with the children when he heard a knock at the door. He told the children, “If your mother were still alive, I’d swear that was her knock.”

When he opened the door to find his wife standing there, dressed in her burial clothes, blood dripping from her finger but very much alive, he dropped dead to the floor. He was buried in the plot Margorie had vacated.

Margorie went on to re-marry and have several children. When she did finally die, she was returned to Shankill Cemetery in Lurgan, Ireland, where her gravestone still stands. It bears the inscription “Lived Once, Buried Twice.”

janelledinosaurs: acrobattery: Trad <3 Anyone read the...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:41:25 -0400

janelledinosaurs:

acrobattery:

Trad <3

Anyone read the Night Circus?

100% Night Circus.

Rereading the first Harry Potter book (in Dutch,) and was...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:40:42 -0400

Rereading the first Harry Potter book (in Dutch,) and was baffled by this. Like you didn’t even ring the doorbell, Dumbledore? What?

Guys everything in the Netherlands will be ok even if my budget is tight because I found out how to...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:21:28 -0400

Guys everything in the Netherlands will be ok even if my budget is tight because I found out how to get Netflix in Europe.

thearcanetheory: fate-testarossa: Toph Bei Fong (Beach Ver.) -...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:07:08 -0400

thearcanetheory:

fate-testarossa:

Toph Bei Fong (Beach Ver.) - me

Photo - Ocean

That is some excellent, spot-on cosplay

edwardspoonhands: BRB….selling my Microsoft stock…

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:13:14 -0400

edwardspoonhands:

BRB….selling my Microsoft stock…

tastefullyoffensive: [@itsbrostinson]

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:10:50 -0400

tastefullyoffensive:

[@itsbrostinson]

Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:02:26 -0400

Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.

morglins: Maisie Williams on Thronecast 3x09, dolls +...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:51:35 -0400

morglins:

Maisie Williams on Thronecast 3x09,

dolls + eyebrows

Top 6 Giles Moments suggested by onegirlinalltheworld

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:06:22 -0400

Top 6 Giles Moments suggested by onegirlinalltheworld

I am stronger within the walls of...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:54:50 -0400

I am stronger within the walls of Winterfell.

hamstergal: witchlette: Princess Khutulun (c1251- ?) The niece of the great Mongol leader,...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:49:17 -0400

hamstergal:

witchlette:

Princess Khutulun (c1251- ?)

The niece of the great Mongol leader, Kubla Khan, Princess Khutulun was described by Marco Polo as the greatest warrior in Khan’s army. She told her uncle she would marry any man who could wrestle her and win. If they lost they had to give her 100 horses. She died unmarried with 10,000 horses.

A princess after my own heart ….

THAT is a princess.

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:36:51 -0400

Book!Robb: Mother, you're the only person I can turn to. I'm hiding behind a mask because everybody expects me to be the King, but I can't do it. I need your help.

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:36:34 -0400

Book!Robb: Mother, you're the only person I can turn to. I'm hiding behind a mask because everybody expects me to be the King, but I can't do it. I need your help.
Show!Robb: Ugh moooooom go away you're so embarassing you're ruining EVERYTHING
Book!Robb: Jeyne, we must marry because I took your virginity and since Westeros culture expects highborn girls to be virgins upon their weddings, you would probably have difficulty finding a high lord to marry. Also I might have gotten you pregnant and I know from growing up with Jon that it's really hard being a bastard, so I don't want to be responsible for bringing one into the world. This is a really hard decision, and I know the Freys won't take it well, but I've made a mistake and I'm doing everything I can to make it right.
Show!Robb: yolo

theoddmentemporium: Trouser Skirts Women’s trousers c.1910s.

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:33:21 -0400

theoddmentemporium:

Trouser Skirts

Women’s trousers c.1910s.

theoddmentemporium: Lord Byron’s Mad, Bad, Fad...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:54:09 -0400

theoddmentemporium:

Lord Byron’s Mad, Bad, Fad Diets

Preoccupation with body image and the desire to emulate one’s favourite celebrity are issues commonly cited to exemplify the materialistic and vain era in which we live today. However, celebrity fad diets are nothing new. Renowned for his poetry, heading the Romantic movement, and living a life of scandalous excess, Lord Byron (1788-1824) is perhaps lesser known for his dieting techniques.

Byron had an unfortunate propensity for gaining weight. At University he fell victim to the ‘Freshman 15’ and, appalled, restricted himself to a diet of biscuits, potatoes drenched in vinegar, and soda water. He would also don thick woolly coats to sweat off the pounds, whilst following any incidents of binging with a glass of milk of magnesia, which has a laxative effect.

Fashionable early 19th century men would get weighed on hanging scales, as bathroom scales were not yet invented, and the London wine merchants Berry bros. and Rudd, have records of Byron dropping from 13st 12lbs in 1806 to under 9st in 1811. In 1816 Byron was living on only a single slice of bread for breakfast, cups of tea, and a vegetable dinner, whilst suppressing hunger pangs by smoking copious amounts of cigars.

Plump and healthy simply did not fit in with the image the pale, gaunt Romantic poets wished to convey, and Byron, being at the time hugely famous and influential, was seen as setting a bad example to young and impressionable of the age. As one doctor wrote: “Our young ladies live all their growing girlhood in semi-starvation [for fear of] “incurring the horror of disciples of Lord Byron”.

[Sources: BBC]