January 2012
5 posts
How to find textbooks online for free: a post. →
obsessionfull:
Textbooks are fucking expensive, and if your professor doesn’t require a physical copy (most don’t - they just want you to have the book at hand. Or maybe even not. Some professors literally give no fucks about whether you have the book or not) and you don’t mind having your…
December 2011
6 posts
i have a problem
plenilune:
and that problem is that I kind of just don’t believe in villains.
November 2011
15 posts
These were posted on an Australian Tourism Website...
Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia ? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? ( UK ).
A: We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around watching them die.
Q: Will I be able to see kangaroos in the street? ( USA )
A: Depends how much you've been drinking.
Q: I want to walk from Perth to Sydney - can I follow the railroad tracks? ( Sweden)
A: Sure, it's only three thousand miles, take lots of water.
Q: Are there any ATMs (cash machines) in Australia? Can you send me a list of them in Brisbane, Cairns, Townsville and Hervey Bay ? ( UK )
A: What did your last slave die of?
Q: Can you give me some information about hippo racing in Australia ? ( USA )
A: A-Fri-ca is the big triangle shaped continent south of Europe.
Aus-tra-lia is that big island in the middle of the Pacific which does not
... Oh forget it. Sure, the hippo racing is every Tuesday night in Kings Cross. Come naked.
Q: Which direction is North in Australia ? (USA )
A: Face south and then turn 180 degrees. Contact us when you get here and we'll send the rest of the directions.
Q: Can I bring cutlery into Australia ? ( UK )
A: Why? Just use your fingers like we do...
Q: Can I wear high heels in Australia ? ( UK )
A: You are a British politician, right?
Q: Are there supermarkets in Sydney and is milk available all year round? ( Germany )
A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of vegan hunter/gatherers.
Milk is illegal.
Q: I have a question about a famous animal in Australia, but I forget its name. It's a kind of bear and lives in trees. ( USA )
A: It's called a Drop Bear. They are so called because they drop out of Gum trees and eat the brains of anyone walking underneath them.
You can scare them off by spraying yourself with human urine before you go out walking.
Q: Do you celebrate Christmas in Australia ? ( France )
A: Only at Christmas.
“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men...”
– Sophie Scholl (1921-1943). Anti-nazi activist, and one of the members of Die Weisse Rose (The White Rose).
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“The apocalypse starts here.”
“In some parallel universe, hilarity ensues.”
...”
– a sampling of my favorite Jack & Jill reviews (via jason-sudeikis) (via scallawag)
“I’m less concerned that you love my characters than that you recognise them....”
– Excellent piece by Lionel Shriver in defense of unlikable characters.
We Need To Talk About Kevin author Lionel Shriver: Why Literature Requires Unlikable Characters - Slate Magazine
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October 2011
17 posts
Don't Fuck With an English Teacher
fasterwouldbebetter:
YOU CAN BARELY SAY IT NOW.
Dear people who make women's costumes,
elizagolightly:
You
can
go
fuck
yourselves.
Sincerely,
Someone who’s getting seriously fed up with sexualization of women’s costumes
I mean
Come on
A sexy crayon?
I feel sexy Sponge Bob is the worst, but yes. Yes to this.
A SEXY CRAYON.
A SEXY CRAYON.
A SEXY CRAYON.
A SEXY CRAYON.
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding...”
– Sandi Toksvig WILL ALWAYS AND FOREVER REBLOG THIS QUOTE
(via the-madame-hatter)
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I’m taking a class called The Archaeology of Sex and Gender (I’m an anthropology and art history major), and we were studying female figurines from the Neolithic era. Some girl in my class brought up...
September 2011
9 posts
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