January 2011
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take me anywhere
Bright just like the stars above me Proud just like my mother planned it Short on all the things I don’t want I’m full of love and longing Take me by the hand and tell me You would take me anywhere
“I worked in a Chinese restaurant.”
– Barbra Streisand explaining her presence at last night’s state dinner for Chinese president Hu Jintao. (via zuky)
Anyone else think Barbra Streisand is incredibly annoying?
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the giver
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
The Giver
luhh dis book. don’t care whatchya say.
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“Anger will help you survive for a while…but in the end, it’ll eat you alive. So let it go. Living in the past will only fuck you up Frederigo—pardon the Spanish.”
Freddie’s Grandad, Skins
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HILARIOUS
http://www.snacksandshit.com/
best thing ever
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cancer 4 lyffffee
Apparently there are “new” zodiac assignments. I, who has always identified as a Cancer, am now a Gemini. I am extremely and perhaps irrationally upset about this. I DON’T WANT TO BE A GEMINI. I WANT TO BE A CANCER. THAT IS WHAT I AM. I’M MAD.
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If Men Could Menstruate
Read this for my Women’s Voices Through Time class. I dig.
If Men Could Menstruate
by Gloria Steinem
Living in India made me understand that a white minority of the world has spent centuries conning us into thinking a white skin makes people superior, even though the only thing it really does is make them more subject to ultraviolet rays and wrinkles.
Reading Freud made me just as...
expression origins: part 9
The last one!
In the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters carried iron cannons. Those cannons fired round iron cannon balls. It was necessary to keep a good supply near the cannon. However, how to prevent them from rolling about the deck? The best storage method devised was a square-based pyramid with one ball on top, resting on four resting on nine, which rested on...
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expression origins: part 8
Got a short one today.
Ladies wore corsets, which would lace up in the front. A proper and dignified woman, as in ‘straight laced’ wore a tightly tied lace.
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expression origins: part 7
As incredible as it sounds, men and women took baths only twice a year (May and October) Women kept their hair covered, while men shaved their heads (because of lice and bugs) and wore wigs. Wealthy men could afford good wigs made from wool. They couldn’t wash the wigs, so to clean them they would carve out a loaf of bread, put the wig in the shell, and bake it for 30 minutes. The heat...
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expression origins: part 6
At local taverns, pubs, and bars, people drank from pint and quart-sized containers. A bar maid’s job was to keep an eye on the customers and keep the drinks coming. She had to pay close attention and remember who was drinking in ‘pints’ and who was drinking in ‘quarts,’ hence the term minding your ‘P’s and ‘Q’s
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expression origins: part 5
Common entertainment included playing cards. However, there was a tax levied when purchasing playing cards but only applicable to the ‘Ace of Spades.’ To avoid paying the tax, people would purchase 51 cards instead. Yet, since most games require 52 cards, these people were thought to be stupid or dumb because they weren’t ‘playing with a full deck.’
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expression origins: part 4
Gossip!
Early politicians required feedback from the public to determine what the people considered important. Since there were no telephones, TV’s or radios, the politicians sent their assistants to local taverns, pubs, and bars. They were told to ‘go sip some ale’ and listen to people’s conversations and political concerns. Many assistants were dispatched at different...
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expression origins: part 3
THREE IN ONE!
Personal hygiene left much room for improvement. As a result, many women and men had developed acne scars by adulthood. The women would spread bee’s wax over their facial skin to smooth out their complexions. When they were speaking to each other, if a woman began to stare at another woman’s face she was told, ‘mind your own bee’s wax.’ Should the...
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expression origins: part 2
It’s tomorrow so I can post another one!!
In George Washington’s days, there were no cameras. One’s image was either sculpted or painted. Some paintings of George Washington showed him standing behind a desk with one arm behind his back while others showed both legs and both arms. Prices charged by painters were not based on how many people were to be painted, but by how...
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expression origins: pt 1
My uncle sent me a list of these. I might post one a day. I LOVE LANGUAGE EEEEE
In the late 1700’s, many houses consisted of a large room with only one chair. Commonly, a long wide board folded down from the wall, and was used for dining. The ‘head of the household’ always sat in the chair while everyone else ate sitting on the floor. Occasionally a guest, who was usually a...
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I like punk. Y'know, like, the Sex Pistols?
Do you still drum?
Yeah just for fun though…
What kind of musicblahblahblah?
Well, I like punk.
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Like, uhhh, the Sex Pistols. The Dead Kennedys? Like that.
What’s that one band…it’s got the word Pornographer in it?
[random kid interjecting rudely] What the hell are you talking about? You’re so weird
Oh no, yeah, the New Pornographers? I listen to them...
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I've got kin, I've got skin to think of.
I’m inspired—I’m offline, a renegade, disturbing the peace while I’m spitting a serenade. All this tension, miscomprehension. I’m informed and on the level that I might mention that when I scream it’s just passion. I ain’t angry at culture, I ain’t angry at fashion. And I might sound spiteful if I feel shit’s epidemic; I admit that some is soul and...
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