May 2013
We Are All Princes, Paupers, and Part of the Human... →
madgeneticist:
Chances are, if you have a famous ancestor far enough back that finding out about them is a surprise, you share them with a small city of other people. And the farther back you go, the truer that is. In 2004, statistician Joseph Chang, computer scientist Douglas Rohde, and writer Steve Olson used a computer model of human genetics to show that anyone who was alive 2,000-3,000...
subtlelikeseabrook:
ihateyourfavoriteteam:
Ug No Kings nooooo. And that’s why you shouldn’t let ANYONE who’s not a working employee in the media department have the team Twitter account. MEDIA EMPLOYEES ONLY. Stop letting celebrities tweet during games. It’s not as cool as you think it is. They don’t all have proper filters/working brains and may go and make rape jokes during the game. Jesus...
stopthatimp:
i’m just gonna dance, i guess: One Big Hockey Family
thelosangeleskings:
They say that when you marry a person, you also marry their family – but for goalie Jonathan Quick, it may have happened the other way around.
For some people, in-laws are a necessary evil – the part of the package that gets every other holiday, naming rights for…
alphaqueer:
justaweirdgirlintorandomfandoms:
myothermindpalace:
alphaqueer:
if you go to buy a novel that’s been adapted into a movie and you choose the cover with the actors instead of the original cover, i swear to fucking god i will track you down and hug you so hard for choosing to read a book at all regardless of the fucking cover and the opinions of book elitists
that sentence did...
friendlyangryfeminist:
the brilliant thing about being a woman is that I’m punished for both trusting and distrusting men!
I should magically know which man is going to harm me by having a brief conversation with him. if I trust Bad Men, then, well. I should’ve known.
if I don’t trust Nice Men though, I’m an utter bitch who deserves violence. don’t I know most men are good people?
humandoodad:
mooserrific:
girlpearl:
bemusedlybespectacled:
if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever shit
just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the greek word kerberos, which got changed to cerberus when it went from greek to latin
ḱerberos means...
“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job...”
– When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
“There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do.”
– Amy Poehler (via theknopeway)
jwisser:
thepasta-nerada:
vvrathia:
the sexual tension when u and ur crush are online on fb at the same time and u just stare at their lil green dot
and suddenly you know what gatsby felt like
This is actually the most profound and appropriate literary allusion I’ve encountered so far this week.
brolininthetardis:
sometimes this site makes me forget what bendywick candlebatch’s real name even is and then i remember that you don’t need to know butterburger custardsnack’s real name for people to know you’re talking about bennyjet crumplebunch
jamwingles:
subtlelikeseabrook:
brendenmorrow:
It drives me nuts when people spell it “Sharpy”.
It’s “Sharpie”.
Except Patrick Sharp spells it “Sharpy.”
Because he is a person, not a marker.
Remember that time nailure broke a glass at a bar because I said exactly this (probably with a ‘dumbo’) at the end??
i was loling like crazy over that the other day and couldn’t remember...
