January 2011
Anonymous asked: Who do you know that's famous?
Mind. Fucking. Blown.
I’ve just found out that a friend of a friend is relatively famous. Like, I’ve seen her on TV repeatedly before I met her, but I never made the connection. She’s just someone who shows up every now and again and sits around in grubby jeans and a t-shirt, talking shit and smoking weed.
WHAT THE FUCK!
Anonymous asked: Oh, I see. I just couldn't find you for a few days so I was a little sad, haha.
I sometimes wish my parents didn't give me a unique name either. I just want to blend in sometimes and I don't get to do that with a name that literally no one else has in the class.
I sometimes wish my parents didn't give me a unique name either. I just want to blend in sometimes and I don't get to do that with a name that literally no one else has in the class.
Police use CS spray on tax protesters →
From The Guardian website:
Hundreds of people staged peaceful sit-ins at high street stores around the country as part of the latest UK Uncut day of action, designed to highlight companies it says are avoiding millions of pounds in tax.
In London protesters had successfully closed down Boots in Oxford Street – one of the companies campaigners accuse of tax avoidance – when police tried to...
Anybody know of a free service like rapidshare or mediafire where I can put files online that doesn’t use a flash or java uploader? My laptop refuses to use them, I always had to use the old school uploader designed for slower connections before, but these appear to have been phased out now.
Unfortunate Occurances Of N Words On My Facebook...
A: GET OFF MY MP3 PLAYA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE. HOW DID YOU EVEN GET THERE!!!!!!
B: i put it there
A: you put nelly ft kelly on my ipod? you scummer!
B: hey it ryhmed what can i say
A: i heard it the other evening and everytime i woke up during the night, and in the morning, it was there.... now ive just found it along with a whole heap of crap in the N section of my ipod.... gashbag!
B: and what does this N stand for, thats mad racist [A] ....
krona:
well I’m even reading watchmen but still have no idea how you’re supposed to pronounce Rorschach. You would laugh if you heard me read it out loud.
I don’t know why I’m tumbling this instead of scroogling the answer. halp.
I always pronounced it as Roar-Shoff, but I just looked it up now and it’s Roar-Shock, which makes far more sense.
Anonymous asked: why name redacted?
carnivaloftherandom asked: Just a note: the majority of my teachers when I was in primary school, were nuns. The majority of the nurses in the local Catholic hospital, were nuns. There are nursing homes staffed by nuns, orphanages, etc., etc., etc. The nuns surrender ALL of their income, if they receive any, to the church. So. . .
Yeah. It's still bullshit. Nuns do an awful lot of the actual work of the church,...
Yeah. It's still bullshit. Nuns do an awful lot of the actual work of the church,...
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
imagineifyouwill replied to your post:On Disney: I thought you might find this an interesting addition to The Little Mermaid’s problems. Apparently Ursula’s design was based off the drag performer Divine. I agree that many of the Disney princesses are a bit questionable, but what do you think of the Disney princes?
If Aladdin isn’t a prince, how are Cinderella, or Belle,...
“Let’s not kid ourselves here: men as well as women are limited by gender...”
– Why Men Should Care about Gender Stereotypes
A good read, although I feel the author makes a few too many generalizations. His overall idea, however, is spot on.
(via iwillnotshavemyvagina)
The Top 10 Logical Fallacies in Everyday Arguments
feralnostalgia:
itsthefirstday:
schofio:
Ad hominem
Tries to counter an argument by attacking the person, rather than addressing the argument itself.
Ad ignorantiam
States that a specific belief is true because we don’t know that it isn’t true.
Argument from authority
Argues that something is true because a respected individual (an individual with authority) says it is.
Correlation implies...
I'm Losing Followers
Slowly, very very slowly. I had like 211 a week ago, and now I’m down to 206. But now I’m kind of paranoid, because I don’t know if Tumblr is just acting the maggot or if I keep being accidentally offensive :(
If I see the word "mansplaining" on tumblr one...
atonaldissonance:
girl-non-grata:
autumndae:
…I’m going to break something. Trying to take a punch at sexism by making an equally sexist remark is the dumbest fucking shit. It’s not witty. It’s not even snarky. It’s stupid.
I thought about this and, yeah, in some ways dismissing a man as “mansplaining” isn’t that much different than a man who dismisses feminists as being “uppity.” Pretty...
48 hours to save Brenda
afterthecurtain:
http://allout.org/en/brenda/
Brenda Namigadde, a Ugandan lesbian in the UK, faces deportation THIS WEEK (tomorrow, on Friday 28th) back to the life-threatening persecution she fled eight years ago.
With David Bahati, the Ugandan politician and author of the notorious “Kill the Gays” legislation, taking an interest in her case, Brenda faces clear and present danger if she’s...
I Might Have To Take A Little Break
I’m starting to get disassociated. I’ve been confusing real life and TV for the past week or so. Not in a cutesy Abed kind of way. When I watch TV, it feels like I’m watching real people, movies feel like news reels. The news, on the other hand, feels like an exposition in a film, or a spoof like The Onion. Real life stuff feels unreal, whenever I read stuff on tumblr you all...
“Im Offended That Black People Can Call White People Racial Names But Us White...”
– Facebook group (via microaggressions)
I like the wording on this, they’re not even trying to hide the racism. It’s not like “I disagree with the disparity between how seriously racial slurs are taken”, where you could possibly trick some minorities onto your side, it’s...
I need your help
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
I don’t want money or sympathy or advice.
I want the combined reading history of all 3000-some of you.
I am planning on writing my Master’s thesis on the topic of “female sexual dysfunction”. Which i’m putting in inverted commas because it’s a contested and deeply problematic term. What i want to look at are literary presentation of FSD. And i’m specifically talking...
ticket touts are evil idiots
holesintheground:
jumanjigillie:
I hate touts going to venues buying up all the spare tickets and charging people up to 500% more outside venues, utter cunts seems some mp agrees
http://www.sharonhodgson.org/ticket-touting-private-members-bill
YES! Ticket touts are the bane of my life… well… they are INCREDIBLY annoying.
The best touts I’ve encountered were when I went to see Sigur...
holesintheground:
jumanjigillie said: yeah i remember reading about this and seeing it on the news, with rap and gang culture blamed, the media never seems to notice that schools also have stupid reps they keep up with fights, i even remember my school fighting others and knives involv
Yeah exactly. It had nothing to do with rap or hip hop culture; when these rivalries happen, they spiral out...
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Whitepeoplerappingpoorly.tumblr.com →
OMG! THIS SITE IS SOOOOOOO RACIST!
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My flatmate just left me a note about the rent. It just so happens to be a month where electricity and gas are involved, so my rent has been pushed up to around £410 this month, and I have no money.
I’ve gotten 1 job this month, which payed a full £50. The other job I was supposed to be doing would have gotten me another £50, but that got pulled the day before. I have 3 jobs lined up for...
I Was Dicking About With The MC-303
I decided I was going to rearrange one of my older songs, seeing if I could make it sound somewhat bearable if I made it all electronic and stuff. I spent about an hour, working out all the different parts, programming the synths, adding in extra little harmonies that weren’t there originally, and then I realised something.
It sounds like fucking La Roux >:|
Damn it, I already have a...
The RPM Challenge →
atonaldissonance:
batcave:
Signed myself up for this. I probably won’t finish it.
i can’t sleep
but i signed up too. i am disparaissant on thar.
i probably will finish it, but it will be terrible.
Write and record an album in a month. Sounds like fun!
Spent the day dicking about with the MC-303,...
Son Of A Bitch
My friend dropped me back my main sampler, which he “borrowed” to “just see if it’s what he wants” at Halloween, as he’s finally managed to pick up one of his own, having played 4 gigs with my one. The most annoying part about this is that it runs on batteries, but he also borrowed my one and only universal power cable - “for a while” - which has...
one reason why feministe is in a folder in my...
so-treu:
radicallyhottoff:
mewmewfoucault:
transartorialism:
feministe has this post up with about ten comments about a pregnant woman getting kicked out of a bar.
all the comments are something like, “that’s ridiculous!” (which it is)
however earlier last year there was a guest post by a woman named mai’a who blogged about how people don’t have the right to a child-free space and that...
Niagara Balls - If I’m Awake (you’re...
