the GOP’s slumbering marsupial candidate

Can anyone explain to me how these people can decry the federal government while idolising the Constitution that governs its existence?

Saving this gif as ‘john travolta thrusting’.

Google dictionary tells me barratry is “Fraud or gross negligence of a ship’s master or crew at the expense of its owners or users,” which would have made this story much better.

I was five or six, and home sick with chicken pox. My mum comes home from the shops and tells me that she bumped into Queen Elizabeth and told her all about how sick I was, and the Queen gave her some chocolates to give me to make me feel better.

Eva Green nominated for Penny Dreadful, hell yes.

Remember everyone, there’s only one way to do clothes, and you must get the approval of the majority at all times!

Bonus side effect - maybe no more Pirates of the Caribbean?

How about sneezing?

Florida West Australia.

Glasvegas, ‘Fuck you, it’s over’. Play it loud.

Noice!

The very excellent Danger 5. The gif is from the second episode, which conveniently is my favourite.

His instructions to the barber: I’d like a cut that really emphasizes my ears.

(only the Australians will get this one, sorry)

This ‘theory’ is bullshit and the guy promoting it has no qualifications to support it. He’s not a linguist of any sort, he’s a lecturer in public speaking, and his career is about shaming people who don’t speak in the way that he thinks is correct (ie. some Australian version of RP). Don’t promote this.

We had to learn this in primary school, and I still remember how hard it was to get the rhythm of the first two lines right. It’s so evocative, and a hell of a lot more meaningful now I am the adult sitting in my city office.

And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected,