chroniclesofrettek:

erinkyan:

theresarumblyinmytumbly:

Jason Momoa as The Crow x shot by BAM

I literally made a bunch of “ha.. wh… du.. aah… ffuu…” noises out loud.  holy shit.  just.  wow.

Thought that was a topless (and much more buff) Heath Ledger.

secretarialninja:

spyke1985:

asexyrainbow:

castiel-in-a-sherlocked-tardis:

THIS IS AMAZING

I’m about five of these listed above. I’m not sure if that makes me extra weird.

This post. Forget all the posts that try to lift your self esteem or show fluffy kittens because they supposedly will make you happy. THIS POST has made me happier than any other post that was meant to make me happy ever has.

This may be my favorite post ever and I may repost it every time I see it

tastefullyoffensive:

“Helping the princess” by Port Sherry

shlevy:

I didn’t take much Latin, but I always want to say “de gustibus non disputandum est” instead of “de gustibus non est disputandum”, is either acceptable?

ozymandias271

Not Ozy, but Latin is pretty flexible regarding sentence structure, should be fine.

queenshulamit:

221bitssmallerontheoutside:

xeppeli:

It makes me happy knowing that we have an entire subgroup of twitter users that prepare some freshly cut pinapple for their significant other before they visit. This is very sweet.

That caption is the most innocent thing I’ve ever read.

OK I am aware that this must be some kind of innuendo but can someone please explain?

Also no pressure, but pineapple is delicious and anyone who wants sex or cuddles with me should know that giving me pineapple beforehand will make me very happy.

Eating pineapple is supposed to make semen taste better. (Don’t know if it works.)

“Shaming vs acceptance” is a false dichotomy. You can say that obesity is unhealthy without saying “Ew, fat people”.

slatestarscratchpad:

cptsdcarlosdevil:

Observably, the two seem far too correlated for comfort. That said, my point still stands! Is there a single fat person in America today who hasn’t been told ad nauseam that their weight is unhealthy? Have you considered that maybe this tactic doesn’t work?

If you genuinely want people to be thinner, I suspect the correct plan is to figure out why people’s weights have gone up so much in the past few decades and then fix that. If it turns out the problem is that the 1950s had, IDK, people with megaphones standing on every street corner shouting “GAINING WEIGHT IS UNHEALTHY!”, then you may do so with my blessing.

So while I agree that shaming fat people doesn’t work, that studies have shown it doesn’t work, and that it’s a jerk move besides – I notice I am confused based on studies of smoking, drug, and alcohol treatment.

All of these studies show that if a family doctor, during an appointment, spends a minute or two telling patients that Smoking Is Bad For You, then on a population level the percent of their patients who smoke goes way down. It won’t work for everyone, but given the high patient volume it will work for more than enough people to be worth it.

(I wrote a little about this in my Alcoholics Anonymous post, so that would be a good place to find the research).

I’m not sure what the difference is between this and fat-shaming that makes the first work and the second fail. It might be that doctors are more trustworthy than random people. It might be that doctors are usually pretty nice and calm about it and don’t use guilt/shame as a mechanism. It might even be that there’s a difference between overweight and smoking/drinking that makes the latter easier than the former to convince people out of.

But I don’t know if “all overweight people already know their weight is unhealthy” is the right way to think about it. I imagine all smokers already know they’re unhealthy too.

Smoking is something people do (or don’t do), being fat is something people are and can’t just stop or do less of because their doctor tells them so.
There might be an effect similar to the smoking effect for specific behaviors (“Eating chips for dinner is bad for you” or whatever), but what healthy or unhealthy behaviors people engage in is pretty unrelated to their body shape, as far as I know.

:O

stop BELITTLING MY PAIN

danceofthecucumbers:

kai-skai answered your question “How are you today?”

I have an exam and am doing some last-minute studying… but when that’s over, I’ll be FREE! 😀 (except for some homework and stuff)

All the best and good luck and all that! I hate tests. 

Good on you for studying. And treat yourself when it’s done because why not

Hey, thanks! 😀
It went okay – I’m sure I passed, and I might even get a good grade. I’m not a big fan of tests, either 😉

verbivore8642:

Is this little display meant to insinuate that you’re gonna throw me off the roof? Because it’s really not your style, Rogers.

#ok but this reminds me of that one post that’s like if two people are going to take over the world it’s going to be a hufflepuff and a slytherin#and all those posts about hufflepuff and slytherin friendship#BECAUSE THIS IS IT EXACTLY (via tatianathevampireslayer) 

yxoque:

argumate:

yxoque:

stormingtheivory:

jedkight:

yxoque:

yxoque:

yxoque:

Okay brain. Making phonecalls is not terrifying. There’s no evidence for it and all the previous times we made phonecalls and were terrified things turned out great.

And then you finally gather all the courage to actually make the phonecall, dial the…

Worst fetchquest ever.

You know it’s stuff like this that makes me think our aversions to telephones is actually not weird but in fact 100% reasonable…

Did you at least get a good amount of Exp? How far are you from leveling?

I still don’t get why most businesses don’t allow you to make appointments through a web-form.

The interesting thing is, most of the people that panic at the thought of phone calls find it much easier to walk up to the counter and make their request in person. Which is weird, because naively you might think that would be more scary. But it requires less mental preparation, and each step flows naturally to the next, while initiating a phone call has that jumping-off-a-cliff state transition aspect.

Yeah, totally. For me it’s partly what you said but also that I’m afraid I might miss important social queues or that the other party might miss those social queues with me. Like, if I look nervous, they might go easy on me, ask me more questions so I can clarify my wants without needing to be explicit about it, etc.

Yep. Also, you can judge their mood first, approach them more cautiously than just loudly ringing a bell (make eye contact first, or just approach slowly), and understanding them is typically easier – you don’t have to deal with bad reception, and you can see their lips move, which helps (and therefore you have to worry less about missing something and having to ask them to repeat it).