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This is not “a wild woman named Julie Waters.” This is Julie FUCKING WaLters, aka Molly Weasley, aka Ron Weasley’s mom, winner of BAFTAs and an OBE and ranked first in the 2001 Orange Film Survey of Greatest British Films actresses.

I’m so tired of my curly hair not being “nice” or “professional” enough. It’s so ridiculous that curly hair has some kind of weird value attached to it.

Shot through the tongue

Remember kids: Black Lives Matter is a bunch of whiners who are looking for reasons to be offended. The real oppression is a lack of Christmas iconography on your coffee cups.

I don’t know. They may have a point. Those cups don’t look anything like the ones Jesus drank his Gingerbread Lattes out of.

“She pointed out how the change ‘has to start with regular pay, not just for movie stars, but regular pay for the regular woman in the regular job.’”

The people who have that as a dealbreaker tend to come from semi-idyllic families and sheltered backgrounds and genuinely don’t understand those of us who come from shit families. Some have enough empathy to deal, but some, well, we’re better off not dating them anyway.

Uh; this story is from early 2014 from the date on the linked article. I thought it sounded familiar, and thought “Hey are these guys STILL at it, assaulting female joggers?”, but no, it’s the story from Feb. 24/2014.

Apparently in Texas you do not have to identify yourself to the police unless you are under arrest. So if they arrested her for not identifying herself, they got the law backwards.

Stages of me attempting to watch this, illustrated by Prince:

I would have thought Colonel Sanders would be a breast man.

People do it here, too. They’ll describe a 17 year old girl involved with an older man as a “child”, to make the scandal more scandalous. Because the story isn’t bad enough as it is, let’s make it sound like it’s 10 year olds we’re talking about. It doesn’t surprise me that people do it here but i expected a little

This whole situation is fucked up, but the use of the phrase “desirable children” in the Times article, strikes me as being off. Wouldn’t teenagers or young adults been better terms? Just wondering...

I’m so glad, for so many reasons, that social media was in like MySpace infancy when I was in high school.

And much respect to Deadspin for not letting this one go and publishing what they have.

This is beyond horrifying.

I have avoided this phenomenon to a large extent because I had the good fortune to read Andrew Solomon’s excellent “atlas” of depression while yet in my early adulthood. In it, he advises that we never compare our reality to someone else’s social mask. Essentially, he’s saying that comparing yourself to someone else

He was ultimately charged with fifth-degree assault.

Shiba owner here. If you plan on getting a shiba, please read up on the breed. Everything people say about the breed is generally true.