February 2012
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Today my 8th grade, who are no longer my sole responsibility thank tiny baby Jesus, begged me to come back because “our new teacher isn’t as nice as you!”.
The fact that the new teacher sheds light on just how good they had it under my rule leadership by way of her own horribleness, which these damn kids fully deserve by the way, can only be described thusly: Schadenfreude,...
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“We must challenge all those who insist that women who act or dress in a feminine...”
– Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity (via sacraments)
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The beginnings of the American Revolution,...
BRITISH EMPIRE: All right, fine, your stupid embargo worked. We won’t levy any more taxes-
AMERICAN COLONIES: Huzzah! Time to get drunk!
BRITISH EMPIRE: Except on tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: What?
BRITISH EMPIRE: Get over it, it’s just tea. Seriously, where do you get this idea that you’re special and should never have to pay taxes? We hope that idea doesn’t go on to infect your political discourse centuries from now.
AMERICAN COLONIES: We’re not buying your stupid tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Are you being serious right now? What are you going to do, just stop drinking tea?
AMERICAN COLONIES: Yes. We’ll drink coffee.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do you even know what that is?
AMERICAN COLONIES: No, but we’ve heard it’s good and we’re feeling surly.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Fine, whatever, we don’t even care what you do anymore.
BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY: Actually, we are pretty much bankrupt, so you need to make them drink the tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Oh, for—just drink the tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: No.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: NO.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: Fuck you.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it or we’ll punch you in the face.
AMERICAN COLONIES: *Boston Tea Party*
BRITISH EMPIRE: What the hell?
AMERICAN COLONIES: We heard it was Indians.
BRITISH EMPIRE: That’s interesting, because we heard it was a bunch of colonists wearing paint and dressed in costumes that were remarkably similar to what a crowd of drunks who wanted to look like Indians would assemble if the only supplies they had were found in an alley behind a bar.
AMERICAN COLONIES: You get all types in Boston.
BRITISH EMPIRE: …*Coercive Acts*
AMERICAN COLONIES: Oh, it is ON.
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“the f On a somewhat serious note today because of a conversation the other...”
– You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face « Views from the Couch (via golden-notebook)
Amazing.
(via gabydunn)
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from tonight's skype call with my parents
Mom: I was reading an article in a travel magazine about Lower Saxony, that’s kind of where you are…
Me: Uh, not really…
Mom: But isn’t that near you? In the black forest?
Me: Mom, you visited me….
Dad: You’re kind of in the best part of Germany, aren’t you? Bavaria’s the best par-
Me: I don’t live in Ba-
Dad: Isn’t that where...
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“Dress suitably in short skirts & strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank...”
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Countess Markievicz, 19th century Irish revolutionary, dispensing eternally relevant fashion advice. (via naomicreys)
COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ GIVES ME ALL THE FEMINIST EMOTIONS, let me tell you about her. Constance Georgine Gore-Booth was born in London, but she was a Dubliner by heart. She...
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“Although the Constitution permits communities to enact most laws they believe to...”
– United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, via Autostraddle — BREAKING: US Circuit Court of Appeals Rules That Prop 8 Is Unconstitutional (via autostraddle)
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Recently a significant amount of people in Mainz and the surrounding suburbs of Frankfurt have been complaining protesting Fluglärm/noise pollution due to airplanes landing at Frankfurt Airport. I find the fact that it bothers them so hugely to be absolutely adorable, either because I grew up in the middle of a triangle of heavily trafficked airports (SFO-OAK-SJC) and am used to it or possibly...
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there are many names in history, and all of them...
shadesofbrixton:
oh-you-better-run:
Hey, guys. This is the post that I promised to make about history, partly as a considered response to this, but as a note of warning: I am not a professional. I am a master’s student of the history of literature, film, and culture, that is true, but I am a long, long way from from being an academic. This is a personal essay; an essay about why I love history,...
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Washington state Senate OKs marriage equality;... →
OLYMPIA, Wash. – The state Senate voted 28-21 Wednesday night to legalize same-sex marriage.
Next up, the House is expected to approve the bill, and Gov. Chris Gregoire has vowed that she will sign it into law.
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Reblog if you're shorter than 5'8.
I usually don’t reblog things like this, but I am sick so humour me because I have to ask: am I the only one who feels like 5’8/172cm is actually quite tall? That’s an entire half foot taller than me!
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likebrightness:
halloem replied to your post: That girl you were drinking with a while back! (I can’t remember her name)
I am only just now seeing this but I think our ship name should be Merily because do I even need a reason?
OT3: Merily + Booze
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