January 2011
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“If evolution is true, how come heavy fish, like whales, don’t sink to the bottom...”
– Barry Purcell (via jennymnh)
This is something that genuinely appeared on a creationist forum.
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On Going Back to Vietnam
Jenny: i don't like it either. but i don't have any civil war hate for them since i wasn't there to witness it
Jenny: i'm just not interested in living or visiting there. i did it once and didn't like it
Jenny: maybe i'm just a white person stuck in a vietnamese house
solo1y: It's possible. I know I am.
Jenny: hahahahah
Jenny: it took me a second to start laughing
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Reblog if you're black.
And once again, the white man appropriates your shit.
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Homeland Security will soon replace color-coded US...
I suggest rendering the alert nomenclature in terms of something with which Americans might identify: icons based on characters from popular USA network comedy, Psych. Gus (formerly green): Everything’s fine - http://i55.tinypic.com/28j8pcl.jpg Shawn (formerly blue): Everything’s probably fine - http://i54.tinypic.com/51ukg8.jpg Lassiter (formerly orange): Be alert. This country...
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Olbermann is gone, Hollywood is still asleep or...
I’m not sure why you would expect Hollywood to tell you anything about the political situation in Egypt. But here’s the tl;dr - The president of Egypt is Hosni Mubarak. He is one of a large number of dictators around the world who are shored up by US foreign aid. He rules the country in the fashion beloved by these people, the familiar machinery of a police state. Emboldened by what...
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It's Time We Had a Talk: Facebook Edition
I keep seeing tumblr people complaining about Facebook, about their privacy controls, about their attempts to harvest your internal organs or read your thoughts. I don’t understand what the problem is. Facebook is a business, and they want to make their product as attractive as possible to their customers. Now, as difficult as this may be to hear and understand this, you are not their...
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On Grumpy
Julie: we'll be putting up the christmas tree on thursday too!
solo1y: Yeah. We won't be doing that.
Julie: AW but they're so pretty...
solo1y: They're messy things.
Julie: THEY'RE PRETTY
solo1y: Well, have fun with your tree then.
Julie: YOU'LL SEE, YOU'LL SEE MY TREE AND YOU'LL BE ALL "OH THAT'S KIND OF PRETTY"
solo1y: I'm all like whatever about that.
Julie: no you'll love it
Julie: and i'll show you all the tree ornaments i made when i was a little kid and you'll be like "awww!"
Julie: and then i'll show you the tree skirt my grandma made BY HAND, ALL OF IT and you'll be like "AWWWW!"
solo1y: I'm sure I can manufacture a certain minimum amount of appreciation, if called upon to do so.
Julie: IT'LL BE REAL APPRECIATION
solo1y: It might. You'll never know.
Julie: it will...
Julie: this is what i do! this is how i work!
solo1y: Yeah. Let's call it "real appreciation".
Julie: slowly chiseling away your grumpiness
solo1y: How's that going?
Julie: pretty fucking well so far
solo1y: "Let's have a toast for the douchebags, let's have a toast for the assholes, let's have a toast for the scumbags..."
solo1y: Ah, Kanye. How you speak to me.
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“[Fans will] say, ‘my best friend looks exactly like you. You’ve got to meet...”
– Dave Grohl, when asked what fans say to him (via wintermonthnovelty)
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On Governments
A: I always get confused by this. Right wing is communism is it?
A: Left is dictatorship?
solo1: no...
solo1: Left and right are nothing to do with dictatorship
solo1: Dictatorship just means one guy is in charge.
A: I always tried to relate to leaders I knew
solo1: ok
A: I dunno.
solo1: right wing means that you're in favour of low taxes and fewer public services, the idea being that industry will create employment if impediments are removed.
solo1: left wing means high taxes but more public services, the logic being that you can't trust profit-motivated companies to provide for the public.
solo1: The ultimate expression of right wing politics is fascism, where you pretty much let the corporations run the state.
A: ah ok
solo1: The ultimate expression of left wing politics is communism where the government is, effectively, the national worker's union.
solo1: I smell a LiveJournal post in here somewhere.
solo1: The US at the moment is right wing, because their economy and laws seem to be bending towards the corporations more than the people.
A: ok
solo1: So you can have a left-wing democracy or a right-wing democracy and a left-wing dictatorship or a right-wing dictatorship.
A: Oh okay I think I get it now.
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On Career Options
[N]: so i want to do web authoring and graphic design.
[N]: they go together in a very obvious way.
[N]: which do you think would best compliment them, the journalism or the photography?
[N]: see I'm thinking the photography might compliment them better, but I'm kinda leaning towards journalism.
solo1: The photography would complement them better. There's no doubt about that.
[N]: that's what I thought.
[N]: but the journalism does sound like a laugh.
solo1: A well-researched, neatly-edited laugh.
[N]: hahahahaha
[N]: yes!
[N]: a professionally-laid-out laugh.
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"Don't become so tolerant that you tolerate...
Bill Maher says in one sentence what took me many: http://solo1y.livejournal.com/30909.html
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Robert Downey Jr. is one of us.
ysa41693:
“hugely mean-spirited with mildly sinister undertones”? Or, in other words, Best Golden Globe Awards EVER!
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“… you sit at home, don’t you, watching Michael McIntyre on the...”
– Stewart Lee, If You Prefer a Milder Comedian
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On Les Miserables
solo1: Hey, yeah. So we should talk more often. Or some shit.
solo1: You're gone again, aren't you?
solo1: On my own
solo1: Pretending he's beside me
solo1: All alone
solo1: I walk with him till morning
solo1: Without him, I feel his arms around me
solo1: And when I lose my way I close my eyes and he has found me
solo1: Without him, the world around me changes
mixiedoll: I'm back! Mom took over the laptop.
mixiedoll: What's that from?
solo1: The trees are bare and everywhere the streets are full of strangers
solo1: oh sorry
solo1: I thought I was going ot have to go through the whole bloody thing.
mixiedoll: Hahaha
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I Will Only Say This Twice and I Don't Give a DAMN... →
a-n-a-r-c-h-a:
I’ve been talking about the shooting since the weekend - the phrase “tear them to shreds” on my blog has a wholly verbal connotation.
I’m sure it does. I don’t think you were actually threatening people. I just found it amusing that you would refuse to accord anyone else the same courtesy. Although in this case, it was just you.
Furthermore, I take ableism pretty...
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I Will Only Say This Once and I Don't Give a DAMN...
a-n-a-r-c-h-a:
In regards to the shooting or any other past and future violent politically-motivated events, stop saying the words “crazy,” “lunatic,” “whackjob” and “psycho” because I swear to GOD the next person I hear saying that shit is going to sorely regret it and I will PERSONALLY tear them to shreds. Is that clear?! Shut the FUCK up.
Apparently it’s perfectly reasonable to...
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Innumerable newspaper stories or television references to the Israeli...”
– The Hidden History of Zionism - Ralph Schenman (via socialisimo)
There are many who will shout you down for saying this sort of thing, and their voices are louder than ours, and they have more money and power and influence than we do. And we will keep saying it anyway.
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Book Wars III →
If you honestly, genuinely, need me to “explain” why Faulkner is quantitatively and qualitatively a better writer than Snooki, I don’t even know where to start. I really don’t. Because a lot of this is going over your head, you’ll probably regard this as some sort of rhetorical victory. You are welcome to do so.
As for evidence, or whatever I said about my amazing...
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Book Wars II →
Who the hell died and made you the king of books?
Spotting the difference between Snooki and William Faulkner doesn’t make me the king of anything.
Are you going to rip a kid’s book out of a four year old’s hands just because it isn’t on this “rules or reading” list? Tell them it’s trash? “Dammit little Suzie! Hemmingway didn’t write any stories about spot running!”
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Book Wars I →
oh-jeez-its-j-pod:
Just because I don’t read the same books you do doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy reading. Everybody has different tastes. I read Harry Potter, Charlotte Bronte, Victor L. Wooten. I read about things that I like. Just because I’m not reading Faulkner or Hemmingway doesn’t mean I can’t love reading.
Yeah it does. That’s exactly what it means. If you don’t like Faulkner...
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Words That Don’t Exist in the English Language II
Iktsuarpok: (Inuit) To go outside to check if anyone is coming.
Toska: (Russian) “At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for...
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“Some people say homosexuality is a sin. It’s not. God is perfectly cool with it,...”
– The problem here isn’t that religious people are taking it upon themselves to interpret God’s wishes. The bible makes it perfectly clear what God’s wishes are; God hates homosexuals.
The problem here is that religion is bullshit. You can’t re-arrange religion so that it...
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On Extreme Advertising
{N}: anyway [STORE] are also looking for someone full time
solo1: ooh [STORE]
{N}: or a job with waterstones
solo1: We frightened the shit out of the guy who runs that one time.
{N}: HAH
{N}: how?
solo1: Do you know [GUY 1] or [GUY 2]?
{N}: no
solo1: They're both on my Facebook.
{N}: oh
solo1: Well they were on the Warpcon committee
solo1: in charge of advertising one year
solo1: And they went to [STORE] to ask about an ad.
{N}: okay
solo1: And you know role playing people. We get a bit INTO IT with everything.
{N}: like a job ad?
solo1: Even ordering a sandwich.
solo1: "I'll have to finest mustard on my breaded snack, good sir."
solo1: That sort of thing
{N}: yeah
solo1: They were asking [STORE] to take out an ad in the Warpcon brochure
solo1: And [GUY 1] accidentally threatened the guys kids.
solo1: As a joke.
{N}: whoops
{N}: lmfao
solo1: But [GUY 2], instead of laughing at it, went along with it like they were mafia, and knocked over something on his desk, saying "Accidents happen".
solo1: Because [GUY 2] is kind of awesome.
solo1: The [GUY 1] didn't know where to go. Because he was stuck in this weird situation he wasn't sure how to get out of.
solo1: I forget the rest of the details, but we got a massive full-page ad from [STORE] that year.
{N}: lmfao
{N}: hahahaha
{N}: that's amazing
solo1: Yes it is.
{N}: well, I don't think I'll get a job if I threaten anyone's kids
{N}: so I'll pass on that bit
solo1: They came back to report and [GUY 1] said that he was worried that he'd call the police.
{N}: unsurprisingly
solo1: And [GUY 2] just says, to the entire committee, with a total straight face: "Don't worry. He won't."
{N}: he might have
{N}: that story would have been even funnier then
solo1: YEAH
solo1: Because it wasn't happening to me.
{N}: exactly
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“As part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza, Israeli officials have...”
– -A recently leaked U.S. diplomatic cable from November 2008.
This is the sort of thing which would lead to accusations of anti-Semitism. But it’s true. It’s also true that the Israelis were pushing for Hamas to win the elections YEARS before they won, presumably so they could be...
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