March 2012
International Slutty Women's Day: A Story in GIFs →
tylercoates:
This is pretty much the best!
Hipster Logic Problems →
fullcredit:
Train A leaves from a platform that you probably never heard of traveling at 60 mph. Train B leaves one hour later from the same platform going 85 mph. How long will it take train B to catch up with train A, and which is going to a M83 concert?
Theodore heard of Youth Lagoon before Max. Max heard of them after Cindy, but Cindy heard of them before Don. Who’s the bigger asshole?
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“The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb.”
– Rachel Maddow (via palegreenthing)
Sometimes I wonder how people would picture me if...
bobbyfinger:
While my roommates are gone seeing The Hunger...
bobbyfinger:
on repeat for the remainder of the night and danced around in my apartment while getting completely smashed on the bottle of whiskey I bought with the failed intention of becoming one of those People Who Sip Whiskey and then when they get home I’ll be half naked on the couch playing Draw Something and still listening to “Wild Ones” and screaming, “HAVE YOU NOT HEARD THAT I’M ONE OF...
oh my god it's windy and sunny: Who is The Wire's... →
jkottke:
That is the question that Grantland is attempting to answer with a NCAA-style tournament bracket.
Did we mention that our esteemed editor-in-chief hung out with President Obama last week? Because that totally happened. Just two regular guys, discussing Linsanity, Blake…
For women, heart attacks look different. →
elfgrove:
distractedbyshinyobjects:
Follow me down the rabbit hole for a second:
I’ve long wondered if this - that women don’t recognize the symptoms of a heart attack in themselves, and consequently don’t get the fast care that is vital for heart attack survival - is the reason heart disease is the #1 killer in women. Women statistically take better care of themselves health-wise, than men...
Watchthedailywhat:
In Case You Missed It of the Day: Universally recognized as last night’s only worthwhile sketch (due in large part to the fact that it was pre-taped), SNL host Lindsay Lohan stars as Rapunzel in a Disney-fied riff on The Real Housewives franchise.
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“State senator Glenn Grothman, an admitted opponent of the social welfare...”
– Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin Senator, Proposes Law That Declares Single Parenthood Child Abuse (via robot-heart-politics)
“There’s a grotesque irony in declaring that what is portrayed in Bully should be...”
– Linda Holmes, writing about the R rating given to the documentary ‘Bully’.
There’s a second paragraph I wanted to quote as well, but I’m adding it down here as a separate thing due to the change in voice:
The entire point of this film is that kids do not live with the protection we often believe...
Young Women Often Trendsetters in Vocal Patterns →
notemily:
pitselly:
They’re, Like, Way Ahead of the Linguistic Currrrve
From Valley Girls to the Kardashians, young women have long been mocked for the way they talk.
Whether it be uptalk (pronouncing statements as if they were questions? Like this?), creating slang words like “bitchin’ ” and “ridic,” or the incessant use of “like” as a conversation filler, vocal trends associated with...
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