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encores: #this is the most disturbingly normal photo of famous...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:06:23 +0100

#this is the most disturbingly normal photo of famous people i have ever seen #they look like a bunch of cousins at a book shop #stop ruining the illusion of show business guys #you’re supposed to look famous all of the time

valderie: thedailywhat: Say What Now of the Day: IMDb user...

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:19:08 +0100

valderie:

thedailywhat:

Say What Now of the Day: IMDb user (and possible troll?) brian__007 posted a comment yesterday in the message boards for Peter Jackson’s upcoming prequel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey that accused Lord of the Rings of ripping off Harry Potter. Brian’s rant quickly racked up more than 100 comments and was deleted, but not before the Internets captured a screencap.

Here’s the manifesto in full:

Overall, I like Lord of the Rings. However, I do feel that Tolkien kind of rips off Harry Potter in many ways. There are several parallels, such as elves, dwarfs, wizards, goblins, trolls, magic (especially invisibility), etc. Sauron is referred to as “Dark Lord” just like Voldemort is. There is also the elder white-haired bearded wizard who serves as a mentor, Gandalf, who is reminiscent of Dumbledore. Some of the character names are similar, such as Wormtongue as opposed to Wormtail, too. There is even a gigantic spider (Shelob) at the end of “The Two Towers” that reminds one of Aragog from Chamber of Secrets. I even noticed that the plots of both series begin with the protagonists’ birthday. Now I see that Tolkien, this unoriginal bastard, is coming out with The Hobbit in December. This would be fine, but why didn’t he just write this book first to begin with? I still like Lord of the Rings, though–don’t get me wrong–but I wonder if Tolkien has ever said in interviews whether he borrowed elements from Harry Potter. I’ll be watching the extended DVDs later this week and I think he’s featured on the commentary track, so I look forward to that.

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lol but i knew people in middle and high school who actually thought this was true. bitches got schooled.

if ever I stray from the path I follow take me down to the...

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:46:58 +0100

if ever I stray from the path I follow
take me down to the english channel
throw me in where the water is shallow
and then drag out back to shore

-frank turner (x)

rekkka: memorable lines from season 1 of Game of Thrones

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:59:39 +0100

rekkka:

memorable lines from season 1 of Game of Thrones

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Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:44:30 +0100

zackisontumblr: If anybody asks if they know you from somewhere, look them in the eyes and say, “Do...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:01:36 +0100

zackisontumblr:

If anybody asks if they know you from somewhere, look them in the eyes and say, “Do you watch porn?”

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Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:01:01 +0100

"Let’s face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;..."

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:58:48 +0100

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Let’s face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn’t a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

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- (via be-killed)

soundsofmusic: w0lfbait: toyoungtofallinlove: elsapearl: thev...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:53:45 +0100

soundsofmusic:

w0lfbait:

toyoungtofallinlove:

elsapearl:

thevoicecalledcheesecake:

Whoever made this, give them control of the world now.

wow. this has completed my whole existence. There is nothing more i could possibly want from life.

this is actually the best thing I’ve seen on this site

omfg

BEST THING. BEST THING EVER.

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Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:43:56 +0100

thesongofwhatwillbe: now they’re all dead hearts to...

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:12:22 +0100

thesongofwhatwillbe:

now they’re all dead hearts to you.

*cries*

collegehumor: Science is the best.

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:08:27 +0100

collegehumor:

Science is the best.

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Tue, 05 Jun 2012 01:05:30 +0100

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Tue, 05 Jun 2012 01:03:28 +0100

keepcalmandtraveltheworld: London, England

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:57:30 +0100

keepcalmandtraveltheworld:

London, England

- Would you like to stay for dinner?- Would you like to stay...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:18:53 +0100

- Would you like to stay for dinner?
- Would you like to stay forever?

"There is still racism, but its anti-Arab racism which is extreme. Distinguished Harvard professors..."

Thu, 31 May 2012 10:31:04 +0100

“There is still racism, but its anti-Arab racism which is extreme. Distinguished Harvard professors write that Palestinians are people who bleed and breed their misery in order to drive the Jews into the sea, and that’s considered acceptable. If some distinguished Harvard professor were to write that Jews are people who bleed and breed and advertise their misery in order to drive Palestinians into the desert, the cry of outrage would be enormous. When Jewish intellectuals who are regarded as humanist leaders say that Israel ought to settle the underpopulated Galilee—meaning too many Arabs, not enough Jews—that’s considered wonderful. Violent anti-Arab racism is so prevalent that we don’t even notice it. That’s what we should be worried about. It’s in the cinema, advertising, everywhere.”

- Noam Chomsky (via semasahin)

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Thu, 31 May 2012 10:29:18 +0100

"In a lending library you see people’s real tastes, not their pretended ones, and one thing that..."

Mon, 28 May 2012 19:17:03 +0100

“In a lending library you see people’s real tastes, not their pretended ones, and one thing that strikes you is how completely the ‘classical’ English novelists have dropped out of favour. It is simply useless to put Dickens, Thackeray, Jane Austen, Trollope, etc. into the ordinary lending library; nobody takes them out. At the mere sight of a nineteenth-century novel people say, ‘Oh, but that’s OLD!’ and shy away immediately. Yet it is always fairly easy to SELL Dickens, just as it is always easy to sell Shakespeare. Dickens is one of those authors whom people are ‘always meaning to’ read, and, like the Bible, he is widely known at second hand.”

- George Orwell (Bookshop Memories, 1936)

I’m pretty sure i’m in love with you

Mon, 28 May 2012 18:59:58 +0100

I’m pretty sure i’m in love with you