Besides, who defines the parameters of these arguments? Hey, an English person can’t talk about an American thing! Oh yeah, I remember know, from that rulebook that fell out of the sky at the dawn of time! Hey, what is American by the way? Some word people said in relation to a geographical mass a couple of hundred years ago! [laughing]
As long as you know that all of this stuff is arbitrary—that karate is invention, that Catholicism is invention, that America in an invention—but that humanity is an actual thing, we don’t have to all pretend to believe this shit.
What’s actually important? A human being doing a thing that was quite bold—possibly from a position of some personal trauma—but that regardless has brought attention to important stuff. We all know that shit goes on! But he’s brought palpable, tangible evidence of mendacious—oh no, don’t want to use that word again—conduct apparently for the protection or for the furtherment of the American people.
”Russell Brand on Bradley Manning.
This man is cool.
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I sing a lot but I can’t really sing; that hasn’t ever really stopped me from performing on stage before, though. Ha.
Today I discovered that there are people who believe that blowing hot soup will make acid that will kill you.
Holy shit guys. You can’t be for real.
It’s really interesting to see how much a country can change for the worse in a fairly short amount of time.
This playground was always full of children with moms. Now it’s not save to be there anymore.
Comparing with the 50s-60s, fewer women now work outside the home. Besides, they look much more conservative than what you can see in the picture.
More at the site itself.
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I’ve performed on stage a couple of times in school; the first was during my post-PMR concert where I sang Highway to Hell - AC/DC and played bass on Animal - Neon Trees while wearing a neon pink TopMan tee and Joker-esque face paint.
After that there were a couple more (Call Me Maybe, Iris, Imagine, Somebody That I Used To Know, Skinny Love, With or Without You and Sunday Morning off the top of my head— all singing, some acoustic guitar— though the latter two were actually auditions) but I was way too nervous to make any good out of any of them.
Pretty fun though. Nerve-wracking and stressful, but fun.
Damn it. This looks terrible but I have to watch it because Donald Glover and Christopher Mintz-Plasse are in it.
What those PRISM PowerPoint slides should have looked like
Like famed information design guru Edward Tufte, designers everywhere are recoiling in horror from the NSA’s PRISM PowerPoint horrors. Here’s designer Victoria Nece’s take on what they should have looked like. -Stacy
I’m as big of fan as any of making bad design better, but I’ll be the first to admit that there’s a much bigger problem with PRISM besides the PowerPoints. That said, Edward Tufte nails it.
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There was this Yo-Yo craze back when I was 9 and I tried to learn all the cool tricks that everyone was doing. I almost broke a glass door.
I never could do those tricks that the cool kids did :(
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I’ve had two birthday parties that I can fully remember:
- one back when I turned 14; it was a paintball party so I invited a bunch of guys to play paintball.
- one last year when I turned 17; I invited a couple of people for a birthday dinner at a restaurant. Immediately regretted inviting friends from different social groups because I could barely split time between them.
A tiny bit.
Torchwood Series 2: Reset
See, I look at this GIF and realise why I miss ten and nine; their seasons had a huge emotional component that made me feel attached to them, whereas I feel Moffat is wasting a huge part of Matt Smith’s acting skill in seasons 5, 6 and 7 by making the series more ‘spectacular’ and ‘boom explosions’-ey.
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I learnt how to cycle a couple of years ago back at my paternal grandparents’ house. I remember that the first time I cycled on two wheels was when my training wheels bent backwards off the ground without me realising it.
I cycled to college the other day, which means that I cycled through the very hilly area around my house at the peak of my physical unfitness. My thighs burned.
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When I play chess, I have no idea what I’m doing; this is largely due to me never really planning ahead more than 5 moves.
I just put on a poker face and act like everything is going to plan.
Sometimes I win. Hah.
