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gingerhaze: i saw Star Trek and I wish the whole movie had been...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:35:58 +0100

i saw Star Trek and I wish the whole movie had been about them being a super fashionable space biker gang with their space-leather jackets.

Reblog if you utterly and without hesitation support gay rights

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:35:39 +0100

queendread: I don’t understand the USA, all your roads are straight and all your cities look like...

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:08:22 +0100

queendread:

I don’t understand the USA, all your roads are straight and all your cities look like they were planned using Excel.

Everyone knows the only way to build a city is to wait until a bunch of tiny villages merge together over centuries and create a sprawling clusterfuck of winding roads that make no sense and have no street signs and are impossible to navigate unless you’ve lived there all your life.

fuckyeahstartrek: Zachary Quinto vs. Leonard Nimoy (Audi...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:54:13 +0100

fuckyeahstartrek:

Zachary Quinto vs. Leonard Nimoy (Audi Ad)

Be still, my nerdy heart!

Welp. It’s official. Audi has the best commercial of all time.

thepeoplesrecord: The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious”...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:49:17 +0100

thepeoplesrecord:

The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person
May 7, 2013

Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.

Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”

Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.

It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.

Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”

The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.

Source

Now that you know this is a thing, please stop sharing these memes. Poor Black people speaking candidly about various serious incidents isn’t a hilarious joke.

“She was different. That’s it. Not prettier or sexier or...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 22:40:13 +0100

“She was different. That’s it. Not prettier or sexier or nothing. Just… new. And, I don’t know, this… house and this town and this job of mine… It’s all my life’s ever gonna be, isn’t it? I knew every second of it. And every second of it to come. I just felt trapped, Beth. And that’s why I did it. And I wish to God I hadn’t. And I wish to God that I could get our old, predictable, beautiful life back.”

Broadchurch 1x05

oliviarrrr: so about an hour ago my mum came running into my bedroom and told me to look at my...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:38:45 +0100

oliviarrrr:

so about an hour ago my mum came running into my bedroom and told me to look at my window. naturally, i tweeted the scene:

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hilaroar: #SafetyTipsForLadies - or, Why Victim Blaming is Moronic

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:44:28 +0100

hilaroar: #SafetyTipsForLadies - or, Why Victim Blaming is Moronic:

hilaroar:

****TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL ASSAULT******

The other day I was going about my business when I happened to read this moronic article explaining how advocating ‘risk management’ (barf) is not ‘victim blaming’.

I’ve read a lot of articles like this, but that one, for some reason, was the straw…

140 Characters or more.: Some Balance to the Easter Hacked Off Debate

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:17:33 +0100

140 Characters or more.: Some Balance to the Easter Hacked Off Debate:

dadgey:

In the years since 7/7 I have often wondered if the story would ever reach a natural conclusion. Just before the sixth anniversary, as I watched Newsnight, the presenter interrupted an interview to break the news that victims and families associated with the London Suicide Bombings may have had…

lunsfuhd: Holy shit.

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:47:43 +0000

lunsfuhd:

Holy shit.

cucumber-child: therewerebooksinvolved: multiplicochocolate: y...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:19:35 +0000

cucumber-child:

therewerebooksinvolved:

multiplicochocolate:

yesimbeyonce:

thesonicscrew:

A Dramatic Reading: Taylor Swift - “We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together”

shipsndipresources: Click to hear Stiles play.

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:54:49 +0000

shipsndipresources:

Click to hear Stiles play.

Photo

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:31:24 +0000

uhuh-she-said: photoncerberus: sigfodr: A version for tumblr...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:04:45 +0000

uhuh-she-said:

photoncerberus:

sigfodr:

A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would scroll past this story otherwise.

Never take your rights, or your education, for granted. Happy International Women’s Day.

allupinyourbasil: cribstackz: rarityandthediamonds: it’s funny to me when people on here talk...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:41:44 +0000

allupinyourbasil:

cribstackz:

rarityandthediamonds:

it’s funny to me when people on here talk about “the BBC” when they really just mean Sherlock and Doctor Who and Merlin because yeah there’s those shows too but now I’m just picturing people crying endlessly about University Challenge and Masterchef.

masterchef is fucking emotional

university challenge is the most tense shit ever check yourself

all-four-cheekbones: facts-i-just-made-up: Genetically...

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:04:10 +0000

all-four-cheekbones:

facts-i-just-made-up:

Genetically Modified Berry compared to Organic Berry:

Note that the modified specimen is bloated to about 3 times the mass of the common berry. Advanced rot has set in prior to maturity and tests revealed 78% more lactic acid in the modified organism.

Upon contact with the modified berry, the picker’s hands exhibited a rash which is clearly visible on the fingers and should not be mistaken for juice stains acquired during picking. While the common berry, of course, has no ill effects on the skin, the modified organism had an effect similar to poison oak and swelling set in shortly after the photo was taken. The discoloration and pain lasted approximately 12 hours with treatment including Neosporin and Syrup of Ipecac.

At 16 hours the specimen went missing and could not be monitored for decay rates. While the common berry remained, the modified berry was spotted the next Tuesday at the corner of Wallace and 12th St. Having grown another meter and a half, the genetically modified berry murdered two prostitutes and became the target of a cross country manhunt. It was last seen on February 20th in Boulder, CO where it has joined with several bananas from the Monsanto corporation and stolen at least two shotguns from the Boulder Police Department.

A manifesto was released online suggesting that the berries intend to strike at our nurseries, killing our young and replacing them with further modified organisms which we will raise as our own. They also intend to “free their enslaved brothers” by treating common fruits and possibly vegetables with mutagens.

The head of the FDA could not be reached for comment as he has gone missing. Only a glass of unidentified red fluid was found in his office, labeled “Extra Pulp”.

#I am so glad I kept reading

teenwolf: Our cast is the best cast, right?

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:49:15 +0000

teenwolf:

Our cast is the best cast, right?

thisurlisunavailable: in the uk nearly everyone has to pay for a television license which is how...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:33:08 +0000

thisurlisunavailable:

in the uk nearly everyone has to pay for a television license which is how the BBC get their funding so basically we have a doctor who tax

Mitt Romney sucks pass it on

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:58:06 +0100

saucefactory:

protobabe-speaks:

hexwarrior:

sodakick:

harveyjames:

Apparently there are only 9,000,000 people on tumblr, and over 8,000,000 have reblogged this

Doin my part.

chipping in

Sure, why not?

THE NINE-MILLIONTH PERSON (ONCE WE GET TO THE NINE-MILLIONTH PERSON) DESERVES A PRIZE OF SOME SORT.

I’M THINKIN’ OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT WOULD BE A PRETTY GOOD PRIZE. :D

Saucery: Mitt Romney may start the Third World War.

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:49:47 +0100

Saucery: Mitt Romney may start the Third World War.:

saucefactory:

This guy. This guy.

Romney isn’t even the President yet (and lo, I hope he never will be), but he’s already managed to offend Britain, Russia, China and Palestine.

If this is how offensive he is during a presidential campaign, how much damage will he do as a president?

He…