February 2012
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Lyrics for the flamenco intro to "Hotel...
Of hospitality A tale I shall tell
Guest retention gone wrong In a desert hotel
Though extended stays Are good business, we know
That you can’t have repeat visitors If you never ever let them go…
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Disease Sleuths Surf For Outbreaks Online →
yukbon:
pretty interesting
It’d be really interesting if someone spent money on billboards in one major city with just the word DENGUE on them, then (after a suitable delay for onset of symptoms after “infection”) started outdoor advertising campaigns with the word DENGUE in cities that have lots of airline flights between them and the first city. Man, the CDC would have a...
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“Then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of...”
– John Green, ‘The Fault in Our Stars’
(via drowningwhispers)
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belting it out, acting it out: John Green, I hate... →
loserlikelittleoldme:
I’m not the kind of person to go running around declaring my hatred for particular people. At all. In fact, I’m a relatively good 16-year old Australian female who spends too much time on YouTube and singing songs than she does writing assignments (which should, evidently, be the primary focus of…
You forgot one:
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You know you work at publix when
dailybagboy:
You go to take a drive and end up in the parking lot of your store.
You greet your friends with “Plastic alright?”
You go to the store to check your schedule even though you could easily pull it up online.
You feel naked without a green vest
You’ve heard of Lakeland, Florida
You realize that there isn’t a photo of Walt Disney at Customer Service
(and I...
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We, the Web kids [My, dzieci sieci]
If you’re over 16, you should probably read this. I was born in 1974 and much of it rings true for me.
Piotr Czerski: “We, the Web Kids” [My, dzieci sieci] (translated by Marta Szreder)
There is probably no other word that would be as overused in the media discourse as ‘generation’. I once tried to count the ‘generations’ that have been proclaimed in the past ten years, since...
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“well, being in a wheelchair would certainly make scissoring easier. one of them...”
– my mom on quinn’s car accident (via tinacohen-who)
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jisusama:
Oh quinn are you okay?
are you okay quinnie?
Quinn are you okay?
are you okay quinnie?
You’ve been hit by!
You’ve been struck by!
A MOTHERFUCKING TRUCK AND NOW I HAVE TO WAIT 2 FUCKING MONTHS TO FIND OUT IF YOU’RE OKAY ARIUFHJHBFASBFHDBSF THE RANNTTTTT!
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With apologies to John Green
I ate my Girl Scout cookies the way you fall in love: slowly, and then all at once.
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from the mouths of babes....
ME: Oh my God! Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina Primary! Now I have to deal with another month or two of hearing that hypocrite on TV!
Kai: Newt Gingrich..what...Dad?
Me: Kai! Don't get me started!
Kai: .....Dad?
Me: Yeah Kai...
Kai: Isn't a Newt a kind of lizard?
Me: Yes.... Yes he is.
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So, I gave my informational speech about the...
mollymoosesays:
And since I go to community college, I know no one in my class understood a single thing I said. I figured I could say anything I wanted to. So I finished my speech with, “Also, the universe has no edge. No. Edge.” Imagine my surprise when my professor yelled, “DUDE. NO. EDGE.” I about wet my pants. Passing grade acquired.
Pure awesome.
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Ceçi n'est pas une pipe...
trowawings:
My professor brought the painting up but couldn’t think of the name so, being the French speaking nerdfighter I am, I reminded him of the name.
La trahison des images, right?
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purdoom:
It’s at a camp for people that are differently-abled. I applied to be a teen mentor for their program “Terrific Teens.”
Woo! I hope you get the job. I remember being in a summer camp where the first day involved karate and archery.
The karate instructor asked me to assume a posture I found anatomically improbable, and I suggested in reply that the karate instructor assume a somewhat...
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what kind of fuckery is this?: As a part of my... →
purdoom:
Then he went to law school because he “actually wanted a good job.”
Pfft. Recent law-school grads are suing their colleges for making it sound like there were actually some law jobs to be had. Maybe he was born before there were too many lawyers already. That just means he’ll be a jerk to his nursing-home attendants soon.
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LOL PUBLIX, REALLY
I can’t help wondering if this is why you didn’t get picked. It’s entirely possible there’s sexism at work here, but…
serialcomma:
Are you really going to train my boyfriend for customer service, and still not me? Fuck you.
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John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 →
At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle.
At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate. To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling résumé, which lately included a career as a professional gambler.
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And NOW I want both of the first two.
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tophatprince:
man this is a stupid post but i keep seeing brs posts and “macaroons”
THIS IS A MACAROON
THIS IS A MACARON
so when i see people talking about macaroons i assume the first picture dfjhsfkhsgfsflsfdgsdkfsdf
this is macaroni
this is maronite
this is marinade
i hope that clears up all...
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“do you ever ask yourself: if I’m not seeing it on tv its probably not...”
– Walter Sebastian Adler
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mattsvintage asked: Patrick Stewart was born in 1940, so his mother might've been earning that in a weaving shed up to the 1960s, I wish there was a date. If his mother had been earning this in 1940, it'd be worth around £100 today or around $170. I don't mean to be snarky, it's just that using the 1971 value is quite misleading as average wages had become fairly high by that point. £3...
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