marycp2011:

smol-koala:

ayeforscotland:

Hell. Fucking. Yeah. Well done Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

When I was still in high school I went into the girls toilets one morning before classes started. I could hear this girl crying from one of the cubicles. When I asked her what was wrong she said to me “I just started my period. I don’t know what to do!” I asked her what she meant and she said “My mum can’t afford them. She said if this ever happened I have to go home right away” When I gave her one of the pads from my bag she literally hugged me so tight. she was sobbing while saying to me  "Now I can stay at school thank you" That hit me so hard. I gave her my lunch money so she could buy her own. My cheese toastie means nothing to me at this point if I can give this one girl something she needs. Sanitary Products are not a luxury item. Period poverty is real. I’m so proud of my wee country right now.💙

This needs to be International, starting YESTERDAY.

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thelogicalloganipus:

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randomslasher:

anastasialestina:

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mewsicalmiss:

anti-capitalistlesbianwitch:

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dawsvaws:

getoffmyastroterf:

whatthefuuuuuuccckkkk:

la-ragazza-inglese:

ilovepeppers:

Where to begin with all this

Sometimes I purposely have headphones in with no actual music to stop people from trying to talk to me. Enraging.

I had to stop reading. this made my brain hurt. if she has head phones leave her alone. if she is me leave me alone always and forever

This is rape culture

Lol unless you’re telling her the bus is here, it’s the last stop on a train, or some pertinent information, leave the damn woman and her headphones the fuck alone.

Fixed it.

Thank you I was about to throw my phone at a wall

Okay but… can someone tell me why this is so bad? I mean, all the article told you (as a guy) to do is walk up to a girl with headphones on, motion for her to take them off, and pay her a nice and non-creepy compliment. It then tells you to tell her you have somewhere to go soon, so that the girl in question doesn’t feel crowded or like she’s in a conversation she can’t get out of.

This seems perfectly fine to me… is there some subtext I’m missing or something??

( @booklovertwilight cause I think you’ll find this interesting.)

Women get approached in public a lot.Usually this is unwanted. One of the things women now do to combat this is to make themselves unapproachable, and one of the best ways to do that is to have on headphones. Lots of women wear headphones even if they aren’t listening to music, just to avoid unwanted advances from men they don’t feel like talking to. 

This article is basically saying, “how to get around the physical barrier women have put up so they don’t have to talk to you.” It’s the equivalent of “Oh, she built a moat? well here’s how to build a bridge!” 

It’s assumptive, it’s entitled, and it furthers the idea that men deserve to talk to women no matter what the woman herself actually wants. It’s giving men tools to try to knock down barriers women have put up deliberately to avoid having to interact with them. It’s creepy as fuck, it’s rude, and it’s furthering rape culture–ie the idea that men have a right to a woman’s time, body, etc. 

There are times and places women may wish to be approached. But if they have in headphones, it’s a damn good bet this isn’t one of them, so concocting strategies to approach them anyway is ignoring their wishes in favor of the man’s, and that’s not okay. 

“women love to test guys to see how confident they really are and a favorite test of women is to ignore a guy’s attempts to converse with her and see what he will do next; will he walk away in shame or will he insist on a confident, easy-going manner?”

Y’all think that’s what we’re doing? We are not pretending to ignore you to size you up, we are ignoring you cause we DON’T WANT TO TALK TO YOU. What you see as a “confident, easy-going manner” we see as an entitled and slightly creepy attitude. There are many places a man can go to find a woman who wants to talk to him. A place like the bus, train, or a cafe when the woman is wearing headphones is NOT one of them.

This article is infuriating. The kind of person who is going to follow this advice isn’t the kind of person who can respect personal space. Not the kind of person I want to give my time to, or the kind of person any woman/AFAB owes time to.

Just… you know that stranger danger applies to adults right? Good, now leave people alone.

No, boo, not open to being approached, just trying to pacify you because you’re setting off sociopath alarms.

Laundry is so damn racist you separate your whites from your coloreds and they get separate treatments because if they mix the whites will be tainted and not be so white anymore and I refuse to stand with such segregationist attitudes so that’s why I’m not doing any bloody chores today

lordhellebore:

heroesofscienceandfandoms:

ao-tsuki:

wolfpurplemoon:

magess:

gallifrey-feels:

falsecatalyst:

darkhopesandbrightnightmares:

asyourshadowfalls:

thecrazyfilipino:

just saying

wait…they’re not free?

Not in America

Wait, where are they free?

literally everywhere else

I dunno about the rest of the UK, but it was free to apply to grad school in Scotland.

To apply through UCAS you pay ÂŁ13 for one course choice, and ÂŁ24 for multiple course choices on the same application.

Finland: free to apply, free to study (fees for non-EU students since last year). Annual fee of ~90 E for the student union, which is semi-mandatory. There are many things I dislike about this country, but education isn’t one of them, despite the ceaseless efforts of the current government to make things worse.

It’s almost the same in Germany (free to apply, easy to apply, even the assessment that’s mandatory for a few subjects is free and the fees you have to pay each term are quite low)  which is the only reason why I’m studying at a German university.

@janiedean – did you know? I just…I can’t.

Let’s not even get started on the examination fees for the standardized tests you’re required to have to apply to US institutions in the first place. Some exams, you have to to pay to be allowed into the registration system before you even get to pay for the tests. Financial hurdles to keep us riff-raff in our place.

I love it when dogs roll onto their backs for a good wriggle and roll, and then look at you upside-down with their tongue flapping out the side of their mouth, thinking, “Rub mah belly, hoomin,” at you, but every now and then they go pensive and the face says, “Draw me like one of your French girls,” and I think, fine, dog, but my art skills are nowhere near good enough for that.

linguini17:

haiku-robot:

silver-tongues-blog:

nightguardmod:

tehjai:

aliyamirat:

naamahdarling:

setheverman:

tooquirkytolose:

My 26 yr old sister still says things out loud like ‘ermagerd’ and ’___ ALL the things!’ Like…is that what’s gonna happen to me?am I going to be 30 still saying stupid shit like O shit waddup! Are all the youngins gonna be embarrassed by my use of outdated memes….how long until I myself am not Hip With It….how long until I am no longer a trendy memer…

my greatest fear honestly

Listen, I am 40.  I was around for the early internet of webrings and hamsterdance. Homestarrunner.  Those little cats in the boat singing to Immigrant Song.  Longcat.  Ceiling cat.  Radiskull.  Powerthirst.

So to me anything that is funny on the internet is, and always will be, cutting-edge and hilarious.  If it’s funny the first time, it’s funny the eleven thousandth time.  No exceptions.

I accumulate memes. Social media sites form actual strata in my soul, revealing my geological age in layers: Geocities, Myspace, Livejournal, Tumblr.  Memes encrust me, like jewels, just layer on layer of reaction gifs and shitposts, some of which I barely understand, but I refuse to let go of.  I cling to them, they are ever-relevant, undying.

You callow youths, who think in your innocence that that memes come and go, you are tepid fools who still smell of milk.

I am where memes go to die. I am where memes go to live eternal.

Someday, if you are lucky, you will join me.  Bring your breadsticks meme, your Spiders Georg, your Bode, your big mood, your Supernatural gifs, your oh worm.  Come with me and rejoice in pointless in-jokes and long-forgotten references.  Embrace your encyclopedic knowledge of comedy sites ca 2006 and come share the knowledge with us. Come with me and lik the bred.  

You gotta.

“You callow youths, who think in your innocence that that memes come and go, you are tepid fools who still smell of milk.”

Put this on my headstone, underneath a picture of Ceiling Cat.

all your base are belong to us

It’s almost like nobody expects nearly 50 year old memes

listen, memes never die, they just start getting called quotes and references

listen memes never

die they just start getting called

quotes and references

^Haiku^bot^9. I detect haikus with 5-7-5 format. Sometimes I make mistakes.

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On a recent residential, I taught four dozen 11 year olds “Badger badger badger badger…” and they loved it, even pointing out various fungi on the walks and going “MUSHROOM MUSHROOM” 

dracedomino:

Two things!

The entirety of She-Ra and He-Man are 100% this batshit crazy. They were done on a shoestring budget but fuck’s alive did the studio have fun with them, and they ooze creativity. These days they’re campy and hilarious even when they don’t intend to be, and I HIGHLY recommend checking them out. They’re a pair of shows that will surprise you every other minute and fully encompass the wild creativity of childhood.

Follow-Up: The new She-Ra also sounds great, haters can keep their hate-hole closed. I refuse to accept the “this is ruining my childhood” argument from dorks that weren’t even born until fifteen years after She-Ra and He-Man left the fucking airwaves. If you hate the new She-Ra because she’s not designed for a straight male audience, I got fucking news for ya:

The goddamn original wasn’t, either.